Meanwhile my competitors, the Fairfax County golf facilities, have carte blanche from the county to sell beer and pizza. He's been promoted to county attorney and leads the prosecution of my case. The county has petitioned the court to put my wife in jail as well. I've had to move my family out of state for safekeeping. Appealing all this in court would take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Property rights are human rights.
Fairfax County's own George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted in 1776. Imagine a zoning ordinance requiring you to plant a particular type of tree around your house, then the government jailing you and ordering you to vacate your home until you comply. That is what they have done to me and my business. There are many ways to take away property rights. My three children are part Cherokee Indian.