Sherrod Brown and the Big Dipper

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown misses the Big Dipper. A news report on local channel 3 tells us that the Senator wrote a letter urging them to keep the roller coaster where it is in the now closed permanently closed Geauga Lake Amusement Park.

So many problems here. Let me say that like the Senator I will miss the park. I had many enjoyable days with my parents and now my kids at this park. Recently it was also the best value in the area for entertainment. That does not preclude the fact that this property belongs to a private entity, Cedar Fair. While Senator Brown did not threaten any kind of legal or legislative action I find his using his official capacity to try to sway a private entity to change their course of action with their property, totally and wholly inappropriate.

Senator it is not you property!!! This gets to the heart of what is ailing our republic today. Politicians see their role as protecting the few over the many. By the few I am not talking about Cedar Fair. I have no love or hate for this corporation. Personally I think amusement parks are too darn expensive. That being said they are private property owners. That means something. Private property rights are at the center of what the founders went to war over, but our modern politicians think they know better what to do with other peoples property than they do. They must not be allowed to stand.

One last point about the roller coaster itself. The company wants to sell it to another park. Senator Brown thinks they should keep it where it is, at a closed amusement park. If it is sold, and refurbished maybe it can give another community enjoyment for another generation, but then there would be no press release if that happened would there?