My name is Bill Wright and I live in Gainesville. I oppose the Prince William Digital Gateway.
I am still trying to figure out how you do things here in Prince William County. I lived in a number of places during my time in the Navy, but this place has me stumped.
This is the first place I’ve known where the government seems to have declared war on its own citizens. Normally you’d think that wasn’t a good long-term strategy, especially since elected officials depend on popular support to sustain them. There must be some masochistic expectation that the people appreciate punishment. More likely, some appreciate others being punished.
How else can you justify the odd phenomenon practiced here, which I’ll call “revenge zoning”? As it’s been explained to me, every so often those in power get to choose which region is due for a measure of civic vandalism. Should the political tide shift, another region gets its turn in the barrel as though to affect some type of warped restitution. Primitive and immature.
Wouldn’t you know that I would have the bad luck to move here just as it was time for the region I chose to take it on the chin. And what an uppercut it is. Our penalty is not just to be saddled with a few unsightly and inhospitable necessities, but to bear the brunt of gratuitous industrial blight and environmental devastation of unprecedented magnitude. I’m not sure what horrible crime the Gainesville District committed before I moved here, but sentencing us to the 2,139-acre Prince William Digital Gateway is cruel and unusual.
Resentment can serve as motivation, but your response should at least be constructive, not vindictive. It’s time to stop this strange custom of juvenile payback before you lay waste to the entire county. Next time somebody may fix your wagon with a football stadium.
Plans for the Prince William Digital Gateway are reminiscent of the Roman plunder of ancient Carthage following the third Punic war. This was the first recorded use of “revenge zoning”. Today, the word punic is a synonym for treacherous, which is quite fitting for the architects of the Prince William Digital Gateway and their accomplices. Its devastation will render Pageland Lane as lifeless, toxic and irrevocably destroyed as post-war Carthage.
Do you really believe this is a good idea or has somebody put you up to it? Have you surrendered your principles and your soul in the process? Is that something to be proud of?
Pull back from the brink or you will forever be associated with the Carthaginian demise of Prince William County.
Thank you.
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