The fact that some judge

(even if he is a Supreme Court judge) somewhere, in some

broad sense, agrees with Mr. Brown, cuts no slack with me

either. My purpose was to defend property rights here and

now and not encourage further erosion.

But let me ask how does

Martin Luther King Jr.'s protest for fundamental rights

have anything to do with property rights in Peachtree

City in 1999? Whose rights are being trampled? Peachtree

City residents?

No one has stopped them

from voting or protesting. Perhaps it is the developer's

rights that are being infringed.

The land has an existing

set of zoning restrictions which Mr. Brown would change

and hence dictate how the land may be used. King George

would, I assume, approve.

Perhaps the reference to

Martin Luther King Jr.'s protest has other purposes. I

can only speculate: Is this reference here to ennoble a

cause that many see as a petty dispute? Or is it here to

infer that my support of property rights is the moral

equivalency of racism?

My letter was narrow and

specific to property rights in Peachtree City in 1999;

Mr. Brown's was not.

David Constans

Peachtree City