Wild rhetoric doesn't trump our rights

This is a response to Mr. Strauss' Oct. 20 letter, "Beware the Destroyers."

He very eloquently used inflammatory rhetoric and innuendo to say the group Free Us From Campton Hills are the consummate "bad guys" out to destroy our freedoms.

The village was born out of voter apathy, with a 40 percent-plus turnout for the election and it won incorporation by a slim margin. This would be a majority of a minority, so to speak.

Freedom applies to all who live in a democratic society. We who voted against incorporation are exercising our freedom, which we are allowed under the law, to have the full population determine how we are to be governed. We have done so without resorting to name-calling and negativity.

We do not think an additional level of government to be necessary to solve those problems defined by a select group of residents and which have never been clearly defined by the village board. We have been funded by individual contributions from those concerned citizens who do not feel incorporation is the better course of action for their future.

We have been called misguided, naysayers and now, destroyers of freedom. We prefer to be known as a group of concerned citizens exercising our rights and freedoms under the law. We deserve to be respected for that action.

Rich Seehafer

St. Charles