<p>(PIC)</p>
<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing 'Municipal Suicide'. So far it's a rip-roaring success.</p>
<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare 'get out of line'</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm's way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It's like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>
<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>
<p>The Scotland County Sheriff's Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>
<p><i><b>Here's one resident's frightening story:</b></i></p>
<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>
<p>Today, she's terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson's dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to 'jam it' to folks on their 'enemies list'.</p>
<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town's raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson's go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>
<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it's infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven't been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn't help but upset the apple cart.</p>
<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children's toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>
<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>
<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn't take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner's property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>
<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn't panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>
<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner's assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>
<p>A <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>
<p>A second <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>
<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>
<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>voice mail (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard's abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>
<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard's assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard 'for cause' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>
<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">'s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>
<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner's civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>
<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the 'Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn't appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive 'cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>
<p>The Town's retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>'</i><i><b>Their Gate'</b></i>.</p>
<p>A standard 'farm style gate' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>
<p><b>The Town's claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn't be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town's willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now 'former' forest products facility.</p>
<p><b>An 'easement' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black's Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>
<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any 'due process', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>
<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road 'open' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner's property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate's removal</b>.</p>
<p><i>'Won't you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.'</i> Fies must be careful around a spider's web.</p>
<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner's private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>
<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>
<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider's web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>
<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>
<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider's web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>
<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>
<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>
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<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>
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<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson's faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>
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<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>
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<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>
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<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>
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<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>'Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa'</i> doesn't get the job done.</p>
<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you're on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let's pray it's not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>
<p>Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The 'Rule of Law' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>
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