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4 - Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, September 22, 2010 HEAVY HANDED Continued from pg 2 it is because it is deserved. You seem unable to understand that the heavy handed bureaucracy evidenced by these charges is offensive to many Canadians both rural and city dwelling. I would think your municipality should be honoured to have such hard working people as Marta and Lech Jaworski living among you. Your comments that they should move to some lawless republic was offensive. Perhaps you would prefer to move to some heavy handed communist dictatorship. Even Cuba is beginning to realize that the heavy handed state is a bad idea. Perhaps it is time for the Orono Times to realize we live in a liberal democracy. In Canada, freequietly in the dark where our esteemed leaders seem to have wished it to stay, one question comes to mind immediately: where are we going to vote? The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and is certainly a political process. If an all-candidates meeting contravenes the bycomplaints. I happen to be aware of five (possibly six) locations (bed and breakfasts, gardens, farms, etc.) that offer wedding services "illegally" in the Durham Region. And those are just the ones that people have sent me emails about, without my asking anyone to send that information to me. When I spoke with a candidate for the mayoralty, he told me that the Orono Fair is, technically, in violation of Clarington's sign laws. They received an exception to that law, which would have required them to dole out $18,000 for signs that they could only publicly show for dom wears a Crown and freedom is very much a Canadian value. Arbitrary laws enforced in arbitrary ways are antithetical to our history and tradition. The charges against the Jaworskis should be dropped and this sorry episode forgotten. Roy Eappen Montreal law, then so does an election, be it for dog catcher, committee leader, Mayor or Prime Minister. I am assuming that all the schools in Clarington are handicap accessable. Shaking my head in disbellief, Beverly Wakefield 14 days. Should all of these people have to move somewhere else? To the "Jaworski Republic," perhaps, where, as the opinion piece put it, "there are no rules"? Or should the convoluted bylaws be changed to accommodate perfectly harmless uses of people's property that promote economic development and agritourism -- in a municipality that desperately needs it -with no harm whatsoever to the environment, to public health, or to anything else that matters? Should these people move, or should the price for complying with certain bylaws be reduced to some amount that even the non-wealthy can afford? Or are Clarington's politicians satisfied with the idea that only the wealthy -those who can afford to hire a team of lawyers and experts, and who can afford the application fees -- should have the ability to start a business in our municipality? As for the suggestion that the Liberty Summer Seminar DEMOCRACY see page 7 DUMBFOUNDED Continued from pg 2 them a chance to voice opinions that might be shared by a majority of those who hear them? Now that you have brought this farce into the light of public knowledge and not let it lie DEMOCRACY Continued from pg 2 opinion piece that my mother cooked for the attendees of the Liberty Summer Seminar this year. With three days until the Seminar, I was on the phone with the health department. They told me we couldn't cook. We catered the whole event this year, my mother did not touch any food. We received a warning letter about "wedding services" without ever having hosted a single wedding reception. Bylaw followed up on three frivolous and vexatious complaints. None of them yielded anything to substantiate the