A Tea Party group objects to to the way a private property owner is using it, and they want [View All]

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the help of the government to stop him.

From 'Southern Beale':
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Nashville car dealer Lee Beaman has donated land he owns out by Hickory Hollow Mall to serve as a temporary “Tent City” for the homeless. It replaces the one down by the river that got washed away in the flood.

Lee Beaman is someone I’ve picked on a lot here, so this is probably the only time you will ever see me write something nice about him, but props to Beaman for at least giving the homeless a place to live.

But Beaman’s action, while temporary, has sparked the usual NIMBYism, including this:
"But all is not well in Hickory Hollow. As word leaked out early Wednesday that a new Tent City had emerged near the Target on Bell Road, some neighbors took to mass emails with their complaints. A tea party-affiliated group appeared ready to mobilize against the landowner who donated the plot (no word as of press time on the lasting effects of the cognitive dissonance in self-proclaimed libertarians telling a private landowner what to do with his property). Worries of increased crime and concerns about safety swirled."

That’s so priceless. A Tea Party-affiliated group going after Lee Beaman, the Tennessee GOP's big moneybags? Oh, my.
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So just to recap: a Tea Party group objects to what a private property owner is doing on his own property and they are calling on the help of the government? Wait a minute. I thought you people hated the government? I thought you wanted the government off the backs of private property owners?

http://sobeale.blogspot.com/

Have a another big cup of Hypocritea.