The Anti-Sprawl Sprawlers

I just heard that Bambi was spotted in a field near Route 4 which means the chip fab plant has just failed it's environmental impact study. That's right, the Yuppies are feeling guilty about what they have done to the countryside and are ready for Al Gore's anti-sprawl campaign.

But wait, does that mean that they are going back to the city where they can re-commune with each other? I doubt it. It's more likely that each and every one of the anti-exit 8, anti-Van Alstyne Apartments, anti-Home Depot, anti-chip-fab extremists are suffering from one of mankind's most common faults, selfishness. Now that they have their acre, keep everyone else out.

For those of you who constitute D.A.N.A., ask yourself this: "If the people who lived here before me felt the way I do, would I be living here now"? The answer is "No".

If I owned land that I thought would appreciate in value as I approached retirement, and I knew that the new generation of neighbors arriving were interested in being my neighbors because they liked the view of my land, I hope I would have the foresight to realize that they would try to stop me from improving my land as I saw fit. But who would think that there would come a day when our neighbors would trample on our property rights like this.
I thought the brand of activism we are witnessing here was vanquished along with Mario Cuomo. I thought that New York was on a road to economic recovery, and the days of left-wing extremists were over, but alas it wasn't to be. Capitalism is still considered evil in the hills of North Greenbush.

-DRC