First, a little background:
I am a Husband and Father in a large family. We live in relative luxury in an upscale, gated community which will remain unnamed. I have been fortunate in my life and have made myself fantastically wealthy through industry and the stock market. In addition, my home is equipped with the best security system money can buy. Incidentally, I also keep a large cache of weapons in my garage and pay several bodyguards and security personnel to keep my family and I safe.

Recently, however, I have run into a problem. It seems that the other people in my community have taken offense with some of my business dealings. You see, for the good of my family, I had to make some decisions which would ensure their continued prosperity. Though I am already quite well off and these dealings may do financial harm to some of the neighbors, I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make even more money. Now, because of these business dealings, there have been several threats from the neighbors, vandalism to my home, and my son was jumped and beaten by the children of my belligerent neighbors. Since I am President of the community Board of Directors, I've decided to take action to bring peace back to our community. First off, I have convinced the rest of the Board to evict one of our neighbors on suspicion of harboring weapons in his garage. Of course, as I stated earlier, I also have weapons in my garage, however mine are purely for defensive purposes. Upon this neighbor’s eviction, I offered the home to a friend of mine who I felt fit in better with the community. Hopefully, he will be able to help me monitor the rest of the neighbors and assist me in protecting my family and personal property from further damage. Regardless, my Contracting company did all remodeling and landscaping work on his new home. It brought in a hefty profit, but I felt there wasn't anyone else who could do the work. Next I installed security cameras and listening devices throughout the community in order to catch future attacks in their planning phases. Of course, there was no need to advise the Board or the community members of this plan, since doing so would render it less effective IMO. My next order of business was to install a 10 foot security wall around the perimeter of my property. No illegitimate visitors are allowed on my property. I felt this was essential to ensuring the security of my family even though all of the neighbors opposed it and petitioned the Board of Directors to stop it. Of course, since the President of the community appoints the other board members, they chose to see it my way. That brings me to my real problem.

It seems in attempting to quell the initial vandalism and violence so unjustly perpetrated against me, I have actually stirred up more negative sentiment in the community. The other neighbors have actually stepped up their attacks on my family and property, and left me no choice but to step up my security measures even more. You see, reasoning with these people is out of the question. They simply wouldn't unconditionally accept all of my terms and, on top of that, they are all a bunch of Methodists and Lutherans! I mean, how am I expected to reason with people who are not even intelligent enough to worship the one true God whom I worship? Anyway, things have gotten really tense here over the last few weeks. I’m thinking about breaking out my weapons cache to bring about peace through an increased show of force. Policemen, paid by the office of the President, would occupy every street corner in the community and instantly quell any threats or violence, by force if necessary. I see no other way to keep peace in the community while still furthering my financial interests and maximizing profits.

I mean, why can’t these neighbors just accept that this is what’s best for them? What do you think?