The recent headline, “PTC Council declines to vote on road fate,” sums up the appalling nature of Harold Logsdon and the cowardliness of the remaining council. We all know who is responsible for TDK. Hopefully, the voters will not decline to vote the entire council out of office when the time comes.

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My Grandfather John was an old Baptist preacher in Missouri. He didn’t have a formal education, but he had a keen understanding of the ways of the world. As children, we were always reminded, “Evil-doers will bind themselves with their own lies.” Now I’ve read the mayor of Peachtree City, the Chamber’s Jim Pace, Fayette Commissioner Pfeifer and others say they had no idea of what was going to happen with the TDK road and all the big developments. But all of them are still content to pursue the road and its perilous consequences anyway. What I can’t understand is how Steve Brown knew about all of the hazards associated with TDK years ago and the others didn’t. Were the others really that dense? Steve told our Village Park homeowners association just what was going to happen with TDK several years ago. Mayor Logsdon, Joel Cowan, Fred Brown, Bob Lenox, Herb Frady, Jim Pace, Commissioner Pfeifer all labeled Steve a heretic and an obstructionist for his taking a stand and telling what has been proven to be the truth. The evil-doers are being bound by their lies and the light is shining brightly on their true motivations. Steve has always been a friend of the average people in our town. He won’t get any apologies from the evil-doers, but he will always have my admiration.

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The local engineer, Paul Gagliano, who spoke to the city council relative to analyzing the cost benefits of TDK for the city was exactly right. The project doesn’t add up in favor of the city, and the council doesn’t get it. The veterinarian who spoke posed a self-serving argument: Build the road because it would help him personally. Overall, the city is going to take a beating on TDK and the councilmen don’t care.

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What an interesting letter from TDK profiteer Mr. Leslie about Jim Pace. The headline to his letter should have truthfully read: “Former Chamber chairman has no financial interest in controversial East Coweta project — yet.” Group VI is all over Coweta County. Jim Pace lied to us saying that TDK was all about traffic relief. However, even when the cat was out of the bag on the huge developments, Pace told the newspaper that we should build TDK anyway. Now that’s leadership. Funny how the huge development owners come running to defend Jim Pace; wonder why?

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I’m utterly amazed at Mayor Harold Logsdon’s propensity for lying. The man literally has a predisposition for not telling the truth. The mayor emphatically stated that a decision on TDK had to be made at his Sept. 12 meeting because the sale of the Pathway property was definitely closing on Friday, Sept. 15. Logsdon told the city council that there was no more time remaining to examine the TDK situation. The city council decided they could not do anything, and they did not have enough information. Lo and behold, almost two weeks later and the property has still not closed. Logsdon will say anything to get what he wants.

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Mayor Logsdon and his council are sending us to a crash landing with TDK. All of the “bad numbers” are at record highs. The Logsdon era has ushered in the highest violent crime, excessive litter, highest taxes, highest density development and the beginning of the highest traffic counts (TDK/Coweta). The tax-hiking control freak mayor is subsidizing developer pork with our tax dollars. We are footing the bill for our record high traffic problems.

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Jim Pace of City Council and Group VI fame has a history of asking for forgiveness instead of permission. The whole tennis center expansion debacle, which also included Group VI, was coordinated by a Development Authority chairman who was employed by Group VI and was a direct report to Pace himself. Pace’s actions speak louder than his holier-than-thou words. His pursuit of TDK to the detriment of his community is inexcusable. Being a founding member of a Southside church does not give you license to be a double dealer.

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It is truly depressing how the community leaders have given up on the quality of life standards in Peachtree City. All you hear now is excuses as to why we cannot live up to our previous expectations. My family and I recently visited the Reynolds Plantation community near Lake Oconee, and it is what Peachtree City used to be. The developers at Lake Oconee have vision with lots of green space, cart paths and very tight development controls. We are letting developers take advantage of us, and we are losing the excitement of living somewhere special. I just want to scream when our poor excuse for leaders say that the ruin of our quality of life is “inevitable.” They need to get out of the way and let someone else take the reins.

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A Fayetteville resident made a comment that Peachtree City has overpriced homes. He’s right. Four years ago we could have saved $200,000 dollars, had 1,000 extra square footage, an additional acre, and lower property taxes if we had bought in Fayetteville. The school system was the reason we moved to PTC. This was supposed to be a planned development and a model city. Development of the west side is inevitable. One developer of the Peachtree extension is going to set aside a parcel of land for an elementary school; however, since the project is so large, I think land should be set aside for a middle school and a high school. The impact on our existing schools will be enormous. Advertising for new homes in neighboring cities state they are close to Peachtree City. They feel this is a selling point. The Fayette County school district already wants to redraw the school boundaries to distribute students to other areas and perhaps to other cities. How is this going to affect our property values? I have to wonder if the Peachtree extension residents will end up with our choice neighborhood schools if we are moved against our will to other locations. Their area will bring in a lot of short-term property tax revenue for the schools before the full impact is realized. Our PTC schools are quite a selling point for the developers who have positioned themselves to build around us and our city will be left with the consequences of growth.

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As for the TDK developers sending in campaign contributions to Seabaugh and Westmoreland, it’s all legal, so stop complaining and acting like they did something wrong. All of the contributions are a matter of public record, which is where Steve Brown got them. When developers, like lawyers and corporations, have specific concerns they want addressed, they fund the candidates that share their interests. The developers needed a road so they could build, and Seabaugh and Westmoreland helped secure the project. They did mislead people about the motivations for the road, but if that’s illegal, you convict everyone in Congress.

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I almost had a new hood ornament this morning behind McIntosh High School, as a student driving his golf cart with his radio in his ear, made a U-turn right in front of me. He did not even look back before he turned. Then to make it worse, he gave me a dirty look instead of smiling and saying sorry. Thank goodness I had good brakes. Just thought you might want to know.

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I read with interest about the retirement of Tyrone Police Chief John Hay. While I appreciate the dangerous, often thankless underpaid job that policemen have (yes, I actually like cops and am usually on their side), I have been recently annoyed with some of their actions. Chief Hay stated that “it used to be that you could run radar during rush hour on Ga. Highway 74. Now you’d get run over just trying to pull people over.” So that must explain why I’ve seen a policeman sitting with a radar gun next to the Dollar General. Or at the bottom of the Tyrone exit on Senoia Road at afternoon rush hour. And last Friday night, a Tyrone policeman frightened me after I turned onto Swanson Road from Senoia Road. As I was nearing the railroad tracks, the gates went down. As a female driving at night, I’m not wild about sitting alone at a train crossing due to the fact that I worry about criminals coming behind to rob or car-jack me. It’s a situation in which I’m all alone, trapped by a noisy train. I actually prepare myself to turn around. A policeman whipped out from the office parking lot on Swanson without headlights, right on my tail. I feel certain he was waiting for someone to try to beat the gates. But I didn’t immediately see that it was a police car. It startled me. While going around crossing gates would be an unsafe traffic offense, as a citizen of Fayette, speeding is my number one concern in my neighborhood and out on Hwy. 74. How about sitting at Hwy. 74 and Carriage Oaks Drive? While I realize Chief Hays’ point that giving chase during rush hour is dangerous for all, just your presence is a deterrent. Of course, that doesn’t make money, does it? Normally, I would have liked to make this a letter-to-the-editor with my name signed, but I fear being pulled over for scratching my nose at a stop sign.

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Starr’s Mill parents: What is going on with your boys and girls? I’m very disappointed with the amount of kids that are already heavy drinkers. Do you have a death wish for your child? It’s so sad to see them driving their golf carts intoxicated. Where are the parents? If you think that kids in the high school need no supervision, think again. Hello: High school parties, slumber parties, etc. Give me a break. Parents should know better, and if you don’t, don’t be surprised when your child gets hurt.

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Hey, Tyrone officials, Shamrock Park has the potential to become a real jewel. First task: Get rid of the out-of-control kudzu that’s smothering the beautiful mature trees around the lake.

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I am shocked at the idea that school taxes should be paid only be people with school-age children. Education does not only benefit children and their parents. Education benefits society. Without education we would not have doctors, nurses or any other medical professionals. We wouldn’t have businesses, community leaders, bankers, lawyers, etc. If we don’t all support a quality system of education, we will all lose. All taxpayers should contribute to school taxes.

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I am appalled that a battle in our legislature and now in our courts is being waged over mandatory voter picture IDs. Only people who want to engage in voter fraud or want to enable voter fraud would be against picture IDs. Now, which political party seems to be fighting picture IDs? That is easy, it is the Democratic Party. Which party has been caught helping comatose nursing home patients to vote? Which party supports voting rights for illegal aliens, for prison inmates, and for the dead? Which party has been caught paying homeless people to vote? Which party tried desperately to make a case for hanging chads? That is easy, it is the Democratic Party. It really is not difficult to understand why the Democrats are so against voter picture IDs.

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I can’t believe it. The Democrats are starting to come out of the closet. Now let’s hope we can get them to the polls come November.

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Congressman Westmoreland: “I voted for torture.” A newspaper headline reads: “Lawmaker says ‘vote for torture’ comment meant as joke.” The article refers to a bill in the U.S. House prohibiting the use of American tax dollars to violate the United Nations convention against torture. Of the 435 members of Congress, only seven reasoned the way Westmoreland did, with no other congressman from Georgia agreeing. The article reports that Westmoreland made the “I voted for torture” comment at two separate speaking engagements, including one with the Georgia Christian Coalition. Given the proximity of Westmoreland’s comments to Pope Benedict’s admonition that violence in the name of religion is particularly offensive to God, one wonders what the position of the Georgia Christian Coalition might be to Westmoreland’s comments. Interestingly, this is the second instant in which Westmoreland has sought to explain his behavior as “a joke.” Before Westmoreland voiced his approval for the use of American tax dollars to torture prisoners of war, did he consult with Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, himself a victim of torture in Viet Cong jails?

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I re-read the Geneva Convention again recently, especially the parts about the treatment of prisoners. I can see why the administration wishes to “clarify” it. Taken as a whole, about all that our CIA or rogue soldiers can do to a prisoner is find out who he or she is, what rank they are, and their identification number. They are to be fed well and housed reasonably. The Red Cross can talk to them occasionally. The theory here is that once a combatant is captured, he becomes your responsibility since he is helpless under your control. If you had shot and killed him on the battlefield, all you had to prove to justify his death was that he was a danger to you or others at that time. The Germans and Japanese taught us much about torture during WWII, and of course technology has improved upon those measures since then. The fact is, if one must go further than verbal questioning of a prisoner to obtain information, then there can be no limit to how far it will go due to the variance in each individual human doing the oppression. We don’t need such tactics once we have them walled up. Kill them on the field if you must to protect yourself and others, but we are not savages.

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Hooray, there is finally a light coming to the hospital entrance. What happened? Did the county finally reach their accident/death quota for that section of roadway?

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What does it take for people like Mr. Boylan to outgrow their naivete? I would think nearly everyone in this nation would know at least one Iraqi that could tell them the horrors of the Saddam reign. Would he give anyone he knew over to that? Do you honestly not believe that if we just stop and leave Iraq that the forces over there would not eventually be here killing Americans in their homes? Yes, I have had relatives in that war, and I hated them having to be there, but I thank them and our President that they are willing to do what it takes to protect the American way. Maybe you should listen to Cal Thomas a little bit; he has it right. The good Lord tells us there will always be wars and rumors of wars and He also tells us to help others. Our President, I believe, went into this war thinking there were WMDs and I believe they were done away with before we got there. I also believe we should have gone anyway, if we had known there were no WMDs anymore, they could always remake them. I also believe we should stop Iran’s move into the nuclear age and help those in Darfur. What other nation has the power to help the world?

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The diatribes of the likes of Ann “the slayer” Coulter and Thomas “the mouthpiece” Sowell never fail to amaze me. These folks, in the vain attempts to canonize our current president, love to spout whatever venom required in an attempt to show that the current course of U.S. policies towards the rest of the world, mainly in place due to a pack of lies far more serious than the denial of an extra-marital affair, is still correct and good (or is it just to get more column space and the riches that follow?). I wish that this good community composed mainly of Christian believers would in clear terms let this paper know that this venom is poison. For the record, Jesus Christ brought forth a new law to mankind: “An eye for an eye” was replaced by “Turn the other cheek.” To ignore the treaties of Geneva simply because our current enemy is fond of performing and videotaping atrocities, serves only to take us down to their level and ultimately down to a much lower place. Jesus Christ endured torture and physical pain far beyond what I would hope upon anyone (even Ann and Thomas), and he of all had the power to drop his prosecutors where they stood and could have done so in a most unpleasant manner. He did not because He is the new law. It is not out of political correctness that we should abstain from these terrible actions, rather it is out of respect for a Saviour who not only spoke of, but showed that only through love can mankind truly survive. His words were “Love your enemy,” which is not to be read as “let them kill your family” but more as “understand their humanity and do not buy into their hate.” These humans believe that there are real and honest reasons for their discontent and such horrific terrorism is their only means of attack. To simply dismiss and ignore those reasons as of no matter only ensures that the current conflict will indeed lead to World War Three. When the “Empire” was toppled, the USA was left with a great responsibility. The current state of affairs shows just how poorly our leaders have dealt with that.

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A company that pursues diversity just for the sake of diversity is practicing discrimination. Discrimination is illegal.

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Silver-spoon elites embrace a massive illegal labor force that makes their payroll and toys cheaper.

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If too much rain causes a flood, Joe Average would laugh at ”experts” opining that his house is not flooded to the rafters. Ditto for “experts” who say that a flood of millions of illegal aliens is good for our nation and doesn’t hurt American workers’ wages or their quality of life. “Stay-forever-guest-workers” is blue-collar America’s Katrina.

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Why would a school with a mission statement to be ”a beacon of hope for a culturally diverse population” celebrate Mexican Independence day with a salute to that nation’s flag? Don’t millions of Mexicans come here because there is no hope in Mexico?

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