HubCityMan1912
07-15-2005, 02:22 AM
On the front page of the Thursday 19 July 2005 edition of the Laurel Leader-Call newspaper is an article reporting the request by the large company Sanderson's Farms to the City of Laurel to ANNEX into the city limits ASAP their massive new corporate headquarters complex just outside the present western city limits of that town... [Go to: www.laureleadercall.com (http://www.laureleadercall.com/) ]
If at least 4 or 5,000 you good folks of "Oak Grove" would do the same--get organised and formally request that your area be annexed by the City of Hattiesburg ASAP, with that one stroke of genius you could help FREE (for many years to come) yourselves and your FELLOW CITIZENS to the east of I-59 from this corrupt and bumbling Third World regime now KILLING our beloved City--and University! Can you do it? (It's perfectly lawful under State Code.) [i]Will you do it? Well, you certainly should, since that territory by well-established and historic growth and expansion patterns (since at least 1910) and by annexation precedent is rightfully part of [western] Hattiesburg! (If not for--among other reasons-the asinne (e.g., I-59 is a "natural" barrier) and politically-motivated ruling of one State Judge Sebe Dale, your section would indeed have become a welcomed--and well deserved--part of the Hub City years ago.
Despite what many in northeast Lamar County apparently have long believed, this would be a short and longterm "win-win" for our entire metro area! Especially since your "Oak Grove" schools would not be affected. (Of course the City would have to bring in parts of Glendale, Eatonville, and Rawls Springs so as to not dilute "minority" voting strength [aka Federal Justice Dept approval via "The Voting Rights Act", but my long observation/opinion is that most of the "minority" folks in those communities are reasonable, non-racist, cooperative, educated/intelligent citizens of Good Faith & Good Will--and NOT "Uncle Toms" either!])...
This would also at least force DuPree & Co. to "show their hand": are they genuinely interested in the betterment of "Greater Hattiesburg" both in quantity and quality, or in just maintaining their non-cross-section "coalition" of power and money with immoral/illogical commercial annexations only?
What say ye my western brethren? (And why?/why not?) Let me have it--I can take it. (I've heard it all before anyway, and I've [i]had to take it lo these many years.)
If at least 4 or 5,000 you good folks of "Oak Grove" would do the same--get organised and formally request that your area be annexed by the City of Hattiesburg ASAP, with that one stroke of genius you could help FREE (for many years to come) yourselves and your FELLOW CITIZENS to the east of I-59 from this corrupt and bumbling Third World regime now KILLING our beloved City--and University! Can you do it? (It's perfectly lawful under State Code.) [i]Will you do it? Well, you certainly should, since that territory by well-established and historic growth and expansion patterns (since at least 1910) and by annexation precedent is rightfully part of [western] Hattiesburg! (If not for--among other reasons-the asinne (e.g., I-59 is a "natural" barrier) and politically-motivated ruling of one State Judge Sebe Dale, your section would indeed have become a welcomed--and well deserved--part of the Hub City years ago.
Despite what many in northeast Lamar County apparently have long believed, this would be a short and longterm "win-win" for our entire metro area! Especially since your "Oak Grove" schools would not be affected. (Of course the City would have to bring in parts of Glendale, Eatonville, and Rawls Springs so as to not dilute "minority" voting strength [aka Federal Justice Dept approval via "The Voting Rights Act", but my long observation/opinion is that most of the "minority" folks in those communities are reasonable, non-racist, cooperative, educated/intelligent citizens of Good Faith & Good Will--and NOT "Uncle Toms" either!])...
This would also at least force DuPree & Co. to "show their hand": are they genuinely interested in the betterment of "Greater Hattiesburg" both in quantity and quality, or in just maintaining their non-cross-section "coalition" of power and money with immoral/illogical commercial annexations only?
What say ye my western brethren? (And why?/why not?) Let me have it--I can take it. (I've heard it all before anyway, and I've [i]had to take it lo these many years.)