RPC: THE NEW RULING POLITICAL CLASS?
Jeffrey Taylor, a former Regional Planning Commissioner and director of the Office of State Planning, received “grant” money from the Tillotson Trust to prepare the Land Use Regulation and Policy Audit for Lancaster, NH in March 2013. In 1992, he wrote an article titled “Shaping the Future” published by the NH Historical Society and The Society for the Protection of NH Forests.
In the article, Taylor describes how difficult it was for planners to convince citizens at local Town Meetings to adopt planning and zoning in New Hampshire:
“How many have stood before their town meeting and urged, in relative isolation, that the town adopt a zoning ordinance, or join the regional planning commission? I have a friend who has participated as a volunteer on his local and regional planning commissions for many years. One of his first jobs in the 1950’s was to visit towns in the northern part of the state to explain the planning process. Before speaking to a local service club he was approached by a member of the community and advised in no uncertain terms that it would be appropriate for him to catch laryngitis, leave town, and never return to discuss this zoning business. To his credit, my friend gave his speech, and many others.”
The people of northern NH declared themselves an independent nation called the Indian Stream Republic in the early 1800’s. They established a constitution, a bicameral legislature, courts, laws and a militia nearly a century before the Socialist-led workers attained merely the right to vote in so-called advanced “places” like Belgium and Sweden.
Yet, as Robert E. Lee Frost, wrote in his poem, “New Hampshire” the glorious bards of Massachusetts [and, undoubtedly the likes of New York Alecs from the school of the pseudo phallic as Frost described them] want to make New Hampshire people over. Sadly, they are getting help from the current NH legislature with statutes that have a socialist bent such as those that created the Regional Planning Commission with the resulting 5-year ‘Master Plans’ just like in the ex-Soviet Union.
Robert E. Lee Frost was called a “reactionary” by socialists and liberals when he rejected the school of Freud and “New Deal” programs. Frost said they were ‘Sapheads’.
According to Peter Stanlis, Robert E. Lee Frost believed the sweep to collectivism in our time characterized by totalitarian ideologies could destroy the principle of limited political power, even in America, through the growth of the federal bureaucracy. He said his view of the left was that while rejecting religion and Western culture as superstitious, they themselves were superstitiously addicted by the idea of progress through science and revolutionary ideology.
According to Peter J. Stanlis (a leading interpreter of the political philosophy of Edmund Burke) in his article “Rehabilitating Frost”, Frost believed Marxists and secular liberals rejected or were often agnostic about God but they deified the [communist] party or the state; they rejected the traditional religions and concept of heaven, but they believed in an eventual heaven on earth. They rejected religion and much of Western culture, as superstition, but were themselves superstitiously addicted by the idea of progress through science and revolutionary ideologies.
Frost referred to socialists with their ubiquitous Secret police or Cheka, rationing production, an anthill. He commented that in the Sverdlovsk region alone, the party employs 3,328 “inspection commissions” to do what a competitive price system would do much better for nothing. He remarked on Stalins collective farms that ended up being miserable failures and resulted in the Soviets being unable to feed their own people.
Martha Spalding