On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Sue Silver wrote: > It's a cemetery. People's loved ones are buried there. It was there first. > Leave it alone. The problem here and the response your going to get is: "Why then did the family sell it." I forget what the law says on old cemeteries on private land, but I know I see many small ones in the middle of farms. I have no idea if the original family still owns the land, but many of them look to be taken care of. When you get someone who purchased land back in the 60s up until now, it should be disclosed and known that family may want to visit. It seems more and more people are into looking at their families past. I for one could careless if I end up buying some land with a cemetery. Depending on how it is, I would do some yard work. At least in most counties, county law says you have to mow your yard at least once during the spring summer seasons. If someone is taking a tax break, the least they could do is allow family to visit and keep the area clean. > Simple....common sense. Give it to a legislator and it comes out sounding > like Martian gibberish. Law enforcement has enough on it's hands with > crimes against the living. Crimes against the defenseless dead just aren't > priorities, even if there are three-fold the victims because of the living > descendants of those dead. THe war on drugs has caused this 'we are too busy' attitude. I don't want to go in on the whole drug debate, but so many departments are taking officers off the street and putting them in school DARE programs. I don't view victimless crime as that important. Getting people for property crime and violent crime should be the priority. NOT giving 5th graders T-shirts and making them Narcs.