We’ve heard a lot about “Quality of Place” lately.  A Collectivist term invented by government,
of government, and for government, specifically the” Department of Environment,
Heritage, and Local Government” to improve quality, sustainability, livability,
and design of residential and mixed-use schemes in urban areas.”  Obviously its usage is to be determined by “officials”.

 It belongs in a
lexicon of politically correct, purposely misleading vocabulary, along with
“partnership”, “giving back”, et al.   In
“1984” it would have been created by the “Ministry of Truth” which was tasked
with creating Newspeak to replace the memories of Oldspeak.

The destruction of our Republic is displayed by the
acceptance and utilization of such devices by our “leaders”, when in fact those
concepts are the opposite of our Founding Principles of Freedom.

Notice how our “leaders” have no problem with implementing
unconstitutional programs/buildings/etc.  
If they ever understood the proper function of government, most lost it
in favor of unearned largesse and/or self-aggrandizement.  

In other words, certain elected and appointed officials
shall decide how individuals should live, work, and play…but of course to do that
they must first separate the producers from their earnings.  It’s called taxation, fees, licenses, also
known in Oldspeak as picking pockets or armed robbery.  In Oldspeak perpetrators would be punished,
hence the need to erase and replace. 
Accountability is replaced with counterfeit “compassion”.  Saccharine helps the medicine go down.

Taxpaying citizens must stop quietly allowing the theft of
their hard earned wages and understand that the proper role of government is to
protect citizens’ individual rights and property, not to redistribute as it
pleases.   Expansion and control is the
agenda, not limiting government which is their sworn Constitutional duty.  Righteous indignation(“meaning well”) on the
part of officials, while engaged in such activities is inexcusable to
Constitutionalists, but that’s Oldspeak.

Barbara McCutchen

Fort Smith