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Cookeville's Binge Annexation Disorder
Or, How to recognize a failing police state faced with potential civil rights damages and falling revenue sources when no one wants to move there because of the corrupt government.

Planners OK annex  A tense, standing-room-only crowd saw the Cookeville Planning Commission vote unanimously last night to annex a 1,200-acre area east of Cookeville, the latest and by far the largest of several annexations considered and approved this year. Some in the audience applauded -- but an apparently larger number did not -- and a few left visibly angry, commenting "This is not fair!" and "This is not democracy!" as they exited past the table around which the members of the commission sat. (August 29, 2000 12:15 PM CDT)  See complete story. Iraq's Saddam annexes Kuwait How the government of Germany, with Austria, prepared for the war for world domination Soviet annexations can't save corrupt system  Germany's Hitler annexes Poland

'Without annexation, Germany cannot dominate the world.' Hitler 'Without annexation a city will die or at least it will quit growing. My judgment is that, at the end of the day, this annexation will be a positive thing and positive for all of you.' Cookeville City Councilman Steve Copeland New Putnam Pit poll: Cookeville Planners OK Old Sparta Road annex Planners advance two more city annexations Annexation suddenly becomes an 'in' thing Cookeville annexes two southeast areas