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(2162, 3, '2016-06-08 10:34:06', '2016-06-08 14:34:06', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has decided (LE article) the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to ‘buy jobs’ has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and bussing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\nHow any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ metrics (previous article) is anybody’s guess.\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in one room school houses. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a test 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering ‘knowledge on demand’ to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n\r\nFollow the Money\r\n\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\nWho has offered what to whom? Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard that’s pulling the strings.\r\n\r\nWhat Can We Do?\r\n\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the Internet.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. It’s up to you!\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2163, 3, '2016-06-08 10:38:54', '2016-06-08 14:38:54', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to ‘buy jobs’ has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and bussing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\nHow any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ metrics (previous article) is anybody’s guess.\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in one room school houses. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a test 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering ‘knowledge on demand’ to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n\r\nFollow the Money\r\n\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\nWho has offered what to whom? Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard that’s pulling the strings.\r\n\r\nWhat Can We Do?\r\n\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the Internet.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. It’s up to you!\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2136-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-08 10:38:54', '2016-06-08 14:38:54', '', 2136, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2136-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2164, 3, '2016-06-08 10:57:00', '2016-06-08 14:57:00', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and bussing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">metrics</span></a> (previous article) is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering ‘knowledge on demand’ to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n\r\nFollow the Money\r\n\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\nWho has offered what to whom? Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard that’s pulling the strings.\r\n\r\nWhat Can We Do?\r\n\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the Internet.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. It’s up to you!\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2165, 3, '2016-06-08 10:58:34', '2016-06-08 14:58:34', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and bussing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">metrics</span></a> (previous article) is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’</em> to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n\r\nFollow the Money\r\n\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\nWho has offered what to whom? Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard that’s pulling the strings.\r\n\r\nWhat Can We Do?\r\n\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the Internet.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. It’s up to you!\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. 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(2166, 3, '2016-06-08 11:00:36', '2016-06-08 15:00:36', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and bussing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">metrics</span></a> (previous article) is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’</em> to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\n<strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard that’s pulling the strings.\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2136-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-08 11:00:36', '2016-06-08 15:00:36', '', 2136, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2136-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2167, 3, '2016-06-08 11:10:49', '2016-06-08 15:10:49', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">metrics</span></a> is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’</em> to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\n<strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard that’s pulling the strings.\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2136-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-08 11:10:49', '2016-06-08 15:10:49', '', 2136, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2136-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2168, 3, '2016-06-08 11:16:20', '2016-06-08 15:16:20', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">metrics</span></a> is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’</em> to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\n<strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2169, 3, '2016-06-08 11:19:36', '2016-06-08 15:19:36', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">metrics</a></span> is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’</em> to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be abound in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\n<strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/what-happens-when-we-buy-jobs/" target="_blank">What Happens When We Buy Jobs?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/county-considering-tax-rate-reduction/" target="_blank">County Considering Tax Rate Reduction</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2171, 1, '2019-03-24 11:57:48', '2019-03-24 15:57:48', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.</p>\n<p>Scotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.</p>\n<p>Scotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.</p>\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\n<p>Laurinburg''s new Municipal Building, which started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.</p>\n<p>Many believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?</p>\n<p>Politicians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces, nefarious agendas and outside influences.</p>\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\n<p>Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.</p>\n<p>Despite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably everywhere it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!</p>\n<p>Every day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.</p>\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\n<p>Scotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building its new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.</p>\n<p>Remodeling existing schools costs tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities adds millions on top of that.</p>\n<p><strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">metrics</a></span> is anybody’s guess.</strong></p>\n<p>This nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education industry simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>test</strong></a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can today''s ''educators'' pass it? Can You?</p>\n<p>Throughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it was co-opted and is used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even aware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce more milk.</p>\n<p>This social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’ </em>to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.</p>\n<p><em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking the diversion our slave masters suppy through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.</p>\n<p><strong>Today’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be around in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?</strong></p>\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\n<p>What do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?</p>\n<p>If you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.</p>\n<p><strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain</p>\n<p>Scotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are putting us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious outside help.</p>\n<p>The question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong></p>\n<p>Architects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.</p>\n<p>Virtually every dollar spent on these projects departs Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades to come. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.</p>\n<p>Government officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.</p>\n<p>Have Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?</p>\n<p><strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.</p>\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\n<p>If we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.</p>\n<p>It’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.</p>\n<p>Cockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/what-happens-when-we-buy-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Happens When We Buy Jobs?</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/vote-no-on-scotland-county-referendum-to-increase-sales-use-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vote NO on Scotland County Referendum to Increase Sales &amp; Use Tax</a></span></address>\n<address> </address>\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2172, 1, '2016-06-08 14:32:39', '2016-06-08 18:32:39', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">metrics</a></span> is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’</em> to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be around in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\n<strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/what-happens-when-we-buy-jobs/" target="_blank">What Happens When We Buy Jobs?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/county-considering-tax-rate-reduction/" target="_blank">County Considering Tax Rate Reduction</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2173, 1, '2016-06-08 14:41:37', '2016-06-08 18:41:37', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value, but only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">metrics</a></span> is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’</em> to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be around in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\n<strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/what-happens-when-we-buy-jobs/" target="_blank">What Happens When We Buy Jobs?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/county-considering-tax-rate-reduction/" target="_blank">County Considering Tax Rate Reduction</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2174, 1, '2016-06-08 14:46:08', '2016-06-08 18:46:08', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.\r\n\r\nScotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\nLaurinburg City Council, along with City Manager Charles Nichols, remains committed to constructing a new Municipal Building. What started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.\r\n\r\nMany believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?\r\n\r\nDespite knowing there’s a good chance three out five could be turned out of office come November 2017, Council continues to pull hard on the reigns, recklessly galloping ahead, dragging Laurinburg into the abyss at full tilt. <strong>Why?</strong>\r\n\r\nPoliticians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces and nefarious agendas.\r\n\r\nMayor Block optimistically opined in a recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5410/laurinburg-council-crosses-the-line" target="_blank">article</a></span>: “It is doubtful that there is enough time to get a new building up in this amount of time”, (meaning before three of Council can be turned out in 2017) and makes reference to ‘concrete slabs’ that are growing weeds over in Bennettsville after officials there got turned out of office for a similar offense.\r\n\r\nEven if the Mayor is right, it will be of little consequence and no consolation, for the disaster that’s about to befall Laurinburg will be profound and long lasting. Everyone standing will be cut down.\r\n\r\nThe speed at which things are proceeding makes it all but certain the new Municipal Building’s construction will be far enough along by the time a new City Council majority could be seated, that it will be all but impossible to halt.\r\n\r\nThe old City Hall will be nothing but a memory, and millions in borrowed money will have been spent. Hefty cancellation fees and penalties endemic to all construction contracts will make it prohibitively expensive to put on the brakes. There won’t be any turning back. Mayor Block is naive to postulate otherwise.\r\n\r\nPresent Council will also no doubt be sure to insert a poison pill into City Manager Charles Nichols’ employment contract, making it financially untenable that a new Council majority could dismiss Nichols without taxpayers having to pony up for an expensive golden parachute.\r\n\r\nIf the new Municipal Building project isn’t halted soon, a full blown disaster will ensue. Every property owner, business and taxpayer will be impacted for decades to come.\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\nFollowing a highly paid get acquainted period, Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably every time it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!\r\n\r\nScotland County is blessed in that it is well positioned to attract the real family wage jobs of tomorrow that we desperately need. We’ve been so far down in the hole for so long that we don’t have the ‘sunk’ and ‘legacy’ costs many other struggling counties face should they decide a change in course is necessary. This clean slate has tremendous value, but only if we have the vision, clarity and courage to grab hold and make it happen.\r\n\r\nEvery day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\nScotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building a new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.\r\n\r\nRemodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.\r\n\r\n<strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">metrics</a></span> is anybody’s guess.</strong>\r\n\r\nThis nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education system simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago, before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can You?\r\n\r\nThroughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even unaware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce better milk.\r\n\r\nThis social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’ </em>to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.\r\n\r\n<em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way too, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.\r\n\r\nToday’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be around in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\nWhat do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?\r\n\r\nIf you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain\r\n\r\nScotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are out to put us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious help.\r\n\r\nThe question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven’t been following the news, thousands of jobs have disappeared in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area when employers skedaddled after exhausting the taxpayer funded incentives that drove them there in the first place.\r\n\r\nArchitects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s proposed new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.\r\n\r\nVirtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.\r\n\r\nGovernment officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.\r\n\r\nHave Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?\r\n\r\n<strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\nIf we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.\r\n\r\nIt’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.\r\n\r\nCockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. 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(2179, 1, '2018-10-24 01:00:31', '2018-10-24 05:00:31', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2187 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/black-college-graduates-300x186.jpeg" alt="black-college-graduates" width="300" height="186" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre Scotland County Schools and St. Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African Americans'' chance to receive a quality education? You be the judge.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-countylaurinburg-fleeced-huge-financial-scam/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2180, 3, '2016-06-25 09:13:54', '2016-06-25 13:13:54', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: ____ INSERT LINK\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Something is Wrong, Racism Racket in the Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 09:13:54', '2016-06-25 13:13:54', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2181, 3, '2016-06-25 09:15:04', '2016-06-25 13:15:04', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/\r\n\r\n<center></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Something is Wrong, Racism Racket in the Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 09:15:04', '2016-06-25 13:15:04', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2182, 3, '2016-06-25 09:15:29', '2016-06-25 13:15:29', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Something is Wrong, Racism Racket in the Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 09:15:29', '2016-06-25 13:15:29', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2183, 3, '2016-06-25 09:45:55', '2016-06-25 13:45:55', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Something is Wrong, Racism Racket in the Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 09:45:55', '2016-06-25 13:45:55', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2185, 1, '2016-06-25 10:27:47', '2016-06-25 14:27:47', '(PIC)Are Scotland County Schools and Saint Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African American''s chance to receive a quality education? <span style="color: #0000ff;">\n</span>\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\nThis article: http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a>\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\n\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\n\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\n\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\n\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Racism Racket Plagues Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 10:27:47', '2016-06-25 14:27:47', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2186, 1, '2016-06-25 10:27:52', '2016-06-25 14:27:52', '(PIC)Are Scotland County Schools and Saint Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African American''s chance to receive a quality education? <span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Racism Racket Plagues Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 10:27:52', '2016-06-25 14:27:52', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2187, 3, '2016-06-25 11:31:52', '2016-06-25 15:31:52', '', 'black-college-graduates', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'black-college-graduates', '', '', '2016-06-25 11:31:52', '2016-06-25 15:31:52', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/black-college-graduates.jpeg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(2188, 3, '2016-06-25 11:34:43', '2016-06-25 15:34:43', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2187 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/black-college-graduates-300x186.jpeg" alt="black-college-graduates" width="300" height="186" />Are Scotland County Schools and ST. Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African Americans; chance to receive a quality education? You be the judge.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\n</span>\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a></p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"></p>\n\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-countylaurinburg-fleeced-huge-financial-scam/" target="_blank">Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\n\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\n\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\n\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;">Save</span>', 'DONE - Racism Racket Plagues Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 11:34:43', '2016-06-25 15:34:43', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2189, 3, '2016-06-25 11:32:19', '2016-06-25 15:32:19', '<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2187" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/black-college-graduates-300x186.jpeg" alt="black-college-graduates" width="300" height="186" />(PIC)Are Scotland County Schools and Saint Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African American''s chance to receive a quality education? <span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Racism Racket Plagues Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 11:32:19', '2016-06-25 15:32:19', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2190, 3, '2016-06-25 11:35:36', '2016-06-25 15:35:36', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2187 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/black-college-graduates-300x186.jpeg" alt="black-college-graduates" width="300" height="186" />\r\n\r\nAre Scotland County Schools and St. Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African Americans'' chance to receive a quality education? You be the judge.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"></p>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-countylaurinburg-fleeced-huge-financial-scam/" target="_blank">Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;">Save</span>', 'Racism Racket Plagues Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 11:35:36', '2016-06-25 15:35:36', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2191, 3, '2016-06-25 11:35:51', '2016-06-25 15:35:51', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2187 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/black-college-graduates-300x186.jpeg" alt="black-college-graduates" width="300" height="186" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre Scotland County Schools and St. Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African Americans'' chance to receive a quality education? You be the judge.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-countylaurinburg-fleeced-huge-financial-scam/" target="_blank">Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;">Save</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span>', 'Racism Racket Plagues Schools', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2179-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-25 11:35:51', '2016-06-25 15:35:51', '', 2179, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2179-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2192, 3, '2016-06-25 11:37:23', '2016-06-25 15:37:23', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2187 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/black-college-graduates-300x186.jpeg" alt="black-college-graduates" width="300" height="186" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre Scotland County Schools and St. Andrews College part of a deliberate effort to ensure racism destroys African Americans'' chance to receive a quality education? You be the judge.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>The success of the Catholics pointed up the incompetence of the teacher’s unions and the vacuity of accepted social theory. Whatever nits can be picked with the piece,  whatever one believes about the relative intelligence of blacks, whites, yellows, and ed majors, it is obvious that black kids could do far, far better than they are doing. Something is wrong somewhere.</em>" <a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://fredoneverything.org/the-racism-racket-in-the-schools/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fred on Everything</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-countylaurinburg-fleeced-huge-financial-scam/" target="_blank">Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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Kersey sold out the County''s sovereignty and interests to Washington DC ruling elites whose agenda is turning the United States into a Police/Surveillance State that serves the Zionist international banking interests that have gripped our nation.</p>\r\n<p>In case you''ve been asleep or off-planet, the battle for America isn''t between Dems and Rhinos, Blacks and Whites or Left vs. Right, but rather between Christians (excluding Zionist-Christians) and the satanic International Banking Cabal headed by the <strong>Rothschild Banking Dynasty</strong> headquartered in Basil Switzerland whose goal is to enslave mankind under a New World Order, with them at the top running things and us at the bottom slaving to their every need, whim and desire.</p>\r\n<p>Police State Surveillance/Spying gives government the power to dictate and mold behavior by introducing self-censorship rather than holding people directly at gun point. It is a tyranny enforced in a less obvious way; a prison in which the prisoners maintain the locks. Slavery without whips and chains. Individuals dare not do anything outside of collective norms for fear that it could be interpreted as socially negative. Punishments for failure to comply include Employment Blacklisting, Whisper/Smear Campaigns, inclusion onto the No Fly List, loss of access to government programs and jobs and even the general economy. At a time when most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, this could quickly translate to joblessness, homelessness and eventual starvation.</p>\r\n<p>Kersey allowed outside private contractors funded by Deep State stooges to come into Scotland County and install their latest spy and surveillance equipment that mops up <strong>every</strong> phone call, keystroke, internet search, email, text, voicemail and other electronic communication regardless of whether you are under suspicion for unlawful activity. This violates the 4th Amendment, the oath of office Kersey swore to uphold and even the most modest standard of ethics and morality. Kersey''s actions represent a clear and present danger to every Scotland County citizen.</p>\r\n<p>Worse yet, Kersey, along with County Commissioners, allowed the installation of ''so called'' 5G equipment throughout our County. While purporting to be nothing more than an upgraded and faster wireless system, 5G (5th Generation Wireless) is actually much more.</p>\r\n<p>5G is an incredibly powerful high frequency mind and body control weapon developed and successfully used by our military. This system is now being readied to turn against Americans should they dare oppose the satanic international banking cabal''s takeover.</p>\r\n<p>On December 7, 1941 our nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor. This was an attack from without by an external, foreign enemy. Today''s attack is from within our own gates. America''s defenses have been breached. <strong>5G is the biggest threat America has ever faced.</strong> You owe it to yourself, your family and especially your children to become informed. Just type in ''<strong>Dangers of 5G</strong>'' on any search engine. It''s a ''life changing'' experience... guaranteed.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Those who we elected to <em>protect and serve</em> us have instead turned on us.</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Kersey handed our 911 dispatch system over to Federal control and continues to hand over all information collected from his spying efforts to Federal Fusion Centers which fuse this information with your medical, employment, purchasing, banking and other records to develop and maintain <strong>Control Files, Blacklists</strong> and <strong>Threat Assessments</strong> on each and every Scotland County resident.</p>\r\n<p>Like other Federal programs, there is no effective oversight or protection to ensure information collected on you is true or accurate. If a member of law enforcement, your doctor or some corporation doesn''t happen to like you, there is absolutely nothing preventing them from entering false and damaging information about you. When your life starts turning to mush you may not have a clue as to the cause. Did your doctor peg you as a ''drug user''? Did some LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) identify you as a ''suspected terrorist''? Did your last employer list you as a ''disgruntled troublemaker''? Chances are, you''ll never know.</p>\r\n<p>Ralph Kersey is a proven <strong>Gun Grabber. </strong>He introduced regulations to the County Commission designed to regulate County firearm use. His excuse was that there are irresponsible gun owners firing guns at random and endangering citizens. While this is certainly true, there are already plenty of laws on the books to deal with irresponsible gun owners, bow &amp; arrow owners, bicycle owners and anyone else who recklessly endangers the public. Why is Kersey not using existing legislation, instead proposing gun grabbing measures? Is it because Gun Grabbing is an essential element of the international banker''s plan to bring America to its knees?</p>\r\n<p>Is Ralph Kersey just uninformed or was there a more sinister motive behind his sell out? As with most corruption stories, it appears <strong>money is the motivating factor</strong>. At least one other retired NC state trooper is deeply involved in a company that sells spy/surveillance and other dodgy equipment to law enforcement throughout North Carolina. Since this equipment is funded using Federal Grants there''s lots of money to be made, and with virtually no oversight.</p>\r\n<h3><strong>Scotland County''s Sheriff Department has been turned into nothing more than a field office for Satan''s Federal Police/Surveillance State.</strong></h3>\r\n<p>Kersey has also been recommending free <strong>FBI</strong> programs to Scotland County residents and parents. One program involves giving your children''s DNA to the FBI so they can help locate children should they go missing. Another program involves property owners smearing their guns with a free FBI supplied hydro gel so ''Law Enforcement can identify them if they are stolen.</p>\r\n<p>While these FBI programs sound great, there are several angles you may want to consider:</p>\r\n<p>The FBI has been identified since its very inception under J. Edgar Hoover as an extremely corrupt, criminal organization. Hundreds of well documented books, articles and reports have been published regarding this subject. They include charges that the FBI was directly involved in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. The FBI has also been identified as being responsible for protecting top Pedophiles and Pedo Rings.</p>\r\n<p>Some believe the FBI program to collect your children''s DNA is not to help return them to you should they go missing, but rather to help identify and track children that may be desirable to Pedophilia rings operating under the FBI''s protection.</p>\r\n<p>Look at how may FBI Directors, Assistant Directors and senior officials have been implicated in major crimes in just the past few years. Is the FBI really an organisation you want yourself and your children involved with? <strong><em>Why is Sheriff Ralph Kersey making these recommendations?</em> </strong>   </p>\r\n<h3><strong>Scotland County needs a sheriff who can balance the rights of a free people with the need for protection from the ever present and growing criminal element.<br />\r\n</strong></h3>\r\n<p>Achieving this balance requires critical thinking skills, real leadership, and a willingness to summon the courage to stand up against outside influence and manipulation.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County has the right to determine its own destiny.</p>\r\n<h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><em>Around the County:</em></strong></span></h3>\r\n<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2244 " src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police.jpg" alt="" width="418" height="197" /></p>\r\n<p>Scotland County is plagued by crime. Folks feel they and their property are at risk. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.</p>\r\n<p>Official crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem, as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.</p>\r\n<p>Communities contract with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services.</p>\r\n<p>While Kersey started out on a positive note, things stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.</p>\r\n<p>A Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of the growing concerns. We ourselves have experienced such problems and attended several Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.</p>\r\n<p>We came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were right out of the Federal Police State handbook and obviously for public relations purposes only.</p>\r\n<p>Like others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, we never heard back. We''d met Sheriff Kersey previously, and while he seemed like a nice guy, it appears he''s way out of his league as County Sheriff.</p>\r\n<p>The question before us now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong></p>\r\n<p>The following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that actually appears to work.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2246, 1, '2020-08-16 12:44:21', '2020-08-16 16:44:21', '<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4335" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sheriff-Kersey-1.png" alt="" width="214" height="284" />Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey began his reign with good intentions and plenty of forward momentum. His predecessor Shep Jones had left a complete disaster in his wake and much work needed to be done.</p>\n<p>Despite getting off to a good start, Kersey got lost along the way, succumbing to the siren song of ''free money'' from Federal Law Enforcement agencies.</p>\n<p>Kersey reached for a full plate of Federal Grant Funding and the County soon sported shiny new police cruisers, crisp new uniforms, the latest computers and a host of other expensive do-dads, gizmos and toys.</p>\n<p>There is however no ''free lunch'' and the price for all the Fed''s ''free stuff'' is turning out to be very expensive. Kersey sold out the County''s sovereignty and interests to Washington DC ruling elites whose agenda is turning the United States into a Police/Surveillance State that serves the Zionist international banking interests that have gripped our nation.</p>\n<p>In case you''ve been asleep or off-planet, the battle for America isn''t between Dems and Rhinos, Blacks and Whites or Left vs. Right, but rather between Christians (excluding Zionist-Christians) and the satanic International Banking Cabal headed by the <strong>Rothschild Banking Dynasty</strong> headquartered in Basil Switzerland whose goal is to enslave mankind under a New World Order, with them at the top running things and us at the bottom slaving to their every need, whim and desire.</p>\n<p>Police State Surveillance/Spying gives government the power to dictate and mold behavior by introducing self-censorship rather than holding people directly at gun point. It is a tyranny enforced in a less obvious way; a prison in which the prisoners maintain the locks. Slavery without whips and chains. Individuals dare not do anything outside of collective norms for fear that it could be interpreted as socially negative. Punishments for failure to comply include Employment Blacklisting, Whisper/Smear Campaigns, inclusion onto the No Fly List, loss of access to government programs and jobs and even the general economy. At a time when most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, this could quickly translate to joblessness, homelessness and eventual starvation.</p>\n<p>Kersey allowed outside private contractors funded by Deep State stooges to come into Scotland County and install their latest spy and surveillance equipment that mops up <strong>every</strong> phone call, keystroke, internet search, email, text, voicemail and other electronic communication regardless of whether you are under suspicion for unlawful activity. This violates the 4th Amendment, the oath of office Kersey swore to uphold and even the most modest standard of ethics and morality. Kersey''s actions represent a clear and present danger to every Scotland County citizen.</p>\n<p>Worse yet, Kersey, along with County Commissioners, allowed the installation of ''so called'' 5G equipment throughout our County. While purporting to be nothing more than an upgraded and faster wireless system, 5G (5th Generation Wireless) is actually much more.</p>\n<p>5G is an incredibly powerful high frequency mind and body control weapon developed and successfully used by our military. This system is now being readied to turn against Americans should they dare oppose the satanic international banking cabal''s takeover.</p>\n<p>On December 7, 1941 our nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor. This was an attack from without by an external, foreign enemy. Today''s attack is from within our own gates. America''s defenses have been breached. <strong>5G is the biggest threat America has ever faced.</strong> You owe it to yourself, your family and especially your children to become informed. Just type in ''<strong>Dangers of 5G</strong>'' on any search engine. It''s a ''life changing'' experience... guaranteed.</p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Those who we elected to <em>protect and serve</em> us have instead turned on us.</strong></span></p>\n<p>Sheriff Kersey handed our 911 dispatch system over to Federal control and continues to hand over all information collected from his spying efforts to Federal Fusion Centers which fuse this information with your medical, employment, purchasing, banking and other records to develop and maintain <strong>Control Files, Blacklists</strong> and <strong>Threat Assessments</strong> on each and every Scotland County resident.</p>\n<p>Like other Federal programs, there is no effective oversight or protection to ensure information collected on you is true or accurate. If a member of law enforcement, your doctor or some corporation doesn''t happen to like you, there is absolutely nothing preventing them from entering false and damaging information about you. When your life starts turning to mush you may not have a clue as to the cause. Did your doctor peg you as a ''drug user''? Did some LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) identify you as a ''suspected terrorist''? Did your last employer list you as a ''disgruntled troublemaker''? Chances are, you''ll never know.</p>\n<p>Ralph Kersey is a proven <strong>Gun Grabber. </strong>He introduced regulations to the County Commission designed to regulate County firearm use. His excuse was that there are irresponsible gun owners firing guns at random and endangering citizens. While this is certainly true, there are already plenty of laws on the books to deal with irresponsible gun owners, bow &amp; arrow owners, bicycle owners and anyone else who recklessly endangers the public. Why is Kersey not using existing legislation, instead proposing gun grabbing measures? Is it because Gun Grabbing is an essential element of the international banker''s plan to bring America to its knees?</p>\n<p>Is Ralph Kersey just uninformed or was there a more sinister motive behind his sell out? As with most corruption stories, it appears <strong>money is the motivating factor</strong>. At least one other retired NC state trooper is deeply involved in a company that sells spy/surveillance and other dodgy equipment to law enforcement throughout North Carolina. Since this equipment is funded using Federal Grants there''s lots of money to be made, and with virtually no oversight.</p>\n<h3><strong>Scotland County''s Sheriff Department has been turned into nothing more than a field office for Satan''s Federal Police/Surveillance State.</strong></h3>\n<p>Kersey has also been recommending free <strong>FBI</strong> programs to Scotland County residents and parents. One program involves giving your children''s DNA to the FBI so they can help locate children should they go missing. Another program involves property owners smearing their guns with a free FBI supplied hydro gel so ''Law Enforcement can identify them if they are stolen.</p>\n<p>While these FBI programs sound great, there are several angles you may want to consider:</p>\n<p>The FBI has been identified since its very inception under J. Edgar Hoover as an extremely corrupt, criminal organization. Hundreds of well documented books, articles and reports have been published regarding this subject. They include charges that the FBI was directly involved in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. The FBI has also been identified as being responsible for protecting top Pedophiles and Pedo Rings.</p>\n<p>Some believe the FBI program to collect your children''s DNA is not to help return them to you should they go missing, but rather to help identify and track children that may be desirable to Pedophilia rings operating under the FBI''s protection.</p>\n<p>Look at how may FBI Directors, Assistant Directors and senior officials have been implicated in major crimes in just the past few years. Is the FBI really an organisation you want yourself and your children involved with? <strong><em>Why is Sheriff Ralph Kersey making these recommendations?</em> </strong>   </p>\n<h3><strong>Scotland County needs a sheriff who can balance the rights of a free people with the need for protection from the ever present and growing criminal element.<br />\n</strong></h3>\n<p>Achieving this balance requires critical thinking skills, real leadership, and a willingness to summon the courage to stand up against outside influence and manipulation.</p>\n<p>Scotland County has the right to determine its own destiny.</p>\n<h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><em>Around the County:</em></strong></span></h3>\n<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2244 " src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police.jpg" alt="" width="418" height="197" /></p>\n<p>Scotland County is plagued by crime. Folks feel they and their property are at risk. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.</p>\n<p>Official crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem, as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.</p>\n<p>Communities contract with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services.</p>\n<p>While Kersey started out on a positive note, things stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.</p>\n<p>A Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of the growing concerns. We ourselves have experienced such problems and attended several Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.</p>\n<p>We came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were right out of the Federal Police State handbook and obviously for public relations purposes only.</p>\n<p>Like others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, we never heard back. We''d met Sheriff Kersey previously, and while he seemed like a nice guy, it appears he''s way out of his league as County Sheriff.</p>\n<p>The question before us now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong></p>\n<p>The following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that actually appears to work.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\n<address> </address>\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\n<address> </address>\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2247, 1, '2016-08-29 11:33:21', '2016-08-29 15:33:21', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Time to Fire the Scotland County Sheriff? ?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2234-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-29 11:33:21', '2016-08-29 15:33:21', '', 2234, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2234-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2248, 1, '2016-08-29 11:33:53', '2016-08-29 15:33:53', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Time to Fire the Scotland County Sheriff?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2234-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-29 11:33:53', '2016-08-29 15:33:53', '', 2234, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2234-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(2249, 1, '2016-08-29 12:17:48', '2016-08-29 16:17:48', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel increasingly threatened and are keeping sidearms handy at home and while about.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the depth of the crises, as many don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those planning on making an insurance claim must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide law enforcement services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey.\r\n\r\nMuch work needed to be done and Sheriff Kersey started out on a positive note. Unfortunately, it''s become apparent that things have stalled out and citizens now sense his department''s inability to turn things around.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange article highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community. We came away with the distinct impression that these programs were canned public relations hype by officers who didn''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task. We eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Time to Fire the Scotland County Sheriff?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2234-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-29 12:17:48', '2016-08-29 16:17:48', '', 2234, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2234-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2250, 1, '2016-08-29 12:23:34', '2016-08-29 16:23:34', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks increasingly feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy at home and while out about.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the depth of the crises, as many don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those planning on making an insurance claim must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide law enforcement services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey.\r\n\r\nMuch work needed to be done and Sheriff Kersey started out on a positive note. Unfortunately, it''s become apparent that things have stalled out and citizens sense his department''s inability to turn things around.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange article highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community. We came away with the distinct impression these programs were canned public relations hype by officers who didn''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task. We eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThis article isn''t however about trying to get Kersey''s department back on track. That would be like beating a dead horse. The question is how do the citizens of Gibson get the service they desperately need.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Time to Fire the Scotland County Sheriff?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2234-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-29 12:23:34', '2016-08-29 16:23:34', '', 2234, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2234-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2251, 1, '2016-08-29 12:35:24', '2016-08-29 16:35:24', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks increasingly feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy, both at home and while out about.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the depth of the problem, as many don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those planning on making an insurance claim must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey.\r\n\r\nMuch work needed to be done and Sheriff Kersey started out on a positive note. Unfortunately, things have stalled out and citizens sense his department''s inability to turn things around.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns, and we ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that deputies didn''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task anyway. We eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThis article isn''t however about getting Kersey''s department back on track. That would be like beating a dead horse. The question before us is how do the citizens of Gibson get the service they desperately need and are already paying for?\r\n\r\nThe following article offers a solution that towns across the land are considering and some even embracing. It''s a big step, but it''s increasingly obvious the present arrangement just isn''t working.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2252, 1, '2016-08-29 12:39:36', '2016-08-29 16:39:36', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks increasingly feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy, both at home and while out about. It''s a potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the depth of the problem, as many don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those planning on making an insurance claim must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey.\r\n\r\nMuch work needed to be done and Sheriff Kersey started out on a positive note. Unfortunately, things have stalled out and citizens sense his department''s inability to turn things around.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns, and we ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that deputies didn''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task anyway. We eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThis article isn''t however about getting Kersey''s department back on track, that would be like beating a dead horse. The question before us is how do the citizens of Gibson get the service they are already paying for and desperately need?\r\n\r\nThe following article offers a solution that towns across the land are considering and some embracing. It''s a big step, but it''s become increasingly obvious the present arrangement just isn''t working.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2253, 1, '2016-08-29 12:56:56', '2016-08-29 16:56:56', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by crime. Folks increasingly feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy, both at home and while out about. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem either, as many victims don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those planning on making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a bitter race.\r\n\r\nMuch work needed to be done and thankfully Sheriff Kersey started out on a positive note. Unfortunately, things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense that his department is out of touch, unable to understand the issues or turn things around.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community. Like others, we came away with the distinct impression that deputies didn''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task anyway. We eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThis article isn''t however about getting the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department on track, that would be like beating a dead horse. The question before us is how do the citizens of Gibson receive the service they are already paying, desperately need but not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns across America are considering and embracing. It''s a big step, but one that may really work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2254, 1, '2016-08-29 13:06:23', '2016-08-29 17:06:23', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by crime. Folks increasingly feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy, both at home and while out about. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as many victims don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those planning on making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nMany promises had been made and Sheriff Kersey started out on an aggressive and positive note. Unfortunately, things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense he does not understand the issues, nor is he capable of turning things around. Kersey is definitely better at putting on a public relations show, but bottom line, the results are about the same.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community. Like others, we came away with the distinct impression that deputies don''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task anyway.\r\n\r\nWe eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThis article isn''t about getting the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department on track, that would be like beating a dead horse. The question before us is how do the citizens of Gibson receive the service they are already paying, desperately need but not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns across America are considering and embracing. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2255, 1, '2016-08-29 13:08:57', '2016-08-29 17:08:57', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by crime. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy, both at home and while out about. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as many victims don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those planning on making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nMany promises were made and Sheriff Kersey started out on an aggressive and positive note. Unfortunately, things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense that Kersey does not understand the issues, nor is he capable of turning things around.\r\n\r\nKersey is definitely better at putting on a public relations show, but the bottom line is about the same.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community. Like others, we came away with the distinct impression that deputies don''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task anyway.\r\n\r\nWe eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThis article isn''t about getting the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department on track, that would be like beating a dead horse. The question before us is how do the citizens of Gibson receive the service they are already paying, desperately need but not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns across America are considering and embracing. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2256, 1, '2016-08-29 14:11:46', '2016-08-29 18:11:46', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by crime. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy, both at home and while out about. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made many promises, Kersey started out on an aggressive, positive note. Unfortunately, things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense that his department is not capable of addressing the now worsening situation.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have attended numerous Sheriff Department events designed to engage the community. We came away with the distinct impression that deputies didn''t really care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task anyway. These canned events appeared to be for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before us is how do the citizens of Gibson receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns across America are now considering and embracing. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2257, 1, '2016-08-29 14:19:51', '2016-08-29 18:19:51', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by crime. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother reporting crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on an aggressive, positive note. Unfortunately, things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense that his department is not capable of or committed to addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves had attended numerous Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to engage the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that deputies didn''t understand, didn''t care, and quite frankly weren''t up to the task anyway. Such canned events were for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated attempts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns across America are now considering and embracing. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2258, 1, '2016-08-29 14:34:26', '2016-08-29 18:34:26', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by crime. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Unfortunately, things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have experienced similar problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to engage and assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events appeared to be public relations venues only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2259, 1, '2016-08-29 14:38:44', '2016-08-29 18:38:44', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced similar problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to engage and assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2260, 1, '2016-08-29 14:39:23', '2016-08-29 18:39:23', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced similar problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to engage and assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2261, 1, '2016-08-29 14:41:53', '2016-08-29 18:41:53', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2262, 1, '2016-08-29 14:42:36', '2016-08-29 18:42:36', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2263, 1, '2016-08-29 14:45:27', '2016-08-29 18:45:27', '(PIC) Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. 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(2264, 3, '2016-08-29 15:10:48', '2016-08-29 19:10:48', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. 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(2265, 3, '2016-08-29 15:11:51', '2016-08-29 19:11:51', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(2266, 3, '2016-08-29 15:14:27', '2016-08-29 19:14:27', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(2267, 3, '2016-08-29 15:17:18', '2016-08-29 19:17:18', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. 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(2268, 3, '2016-08-29 15:21:12', '2016-08-29 19:21:12', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 20px;">Save</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;">Save</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;">Save</span>', 'Time to Fire Scotland County''s Sheriff Department', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2234-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-29 15:21:12', '2016-08-29 19:21:12', '', 2234, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/2234-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2269, 3, '2016-08-29 15:25:12', '2016-08-29 19:25:12', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. 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(2271, 3, '2016-08-31 11:33:41', '2016-08-31 15:33:41', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves experienced such problems and attended Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that may actually work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(2272, 1, '2016-08-31 14:13:00', '2016-08-31 18:13:00', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note. Things have since stalled out however and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have experienced such problems and attended several Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, never heard back.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that actually appears to work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address><address> </address><address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at 888.472.7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(2273, 1, '2016-08-31 14:25:10', '2016-08-31 18:25:10', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-2244 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police-300x141.jpg" alt="time-to-get-rid-of-the-police" width="300" height="141" /> Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is plagued by criminal activity. Folks feel threatened and are keeping sidearms handy both at home and while out and about. It''s a dangerous, potentially explosive situation.\r\n\r\nOfficial crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem,  as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.\r\n\r\nGibson contracts with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services. The last Sheriff''s election saw incumbent Shep Jones tossed out in favor of retired State Trooper Ralph Kersey in what can only be described as a spirited race.\r\n\r\nAfter having made numerous promises, Kersey started out on a positive note, but things have since stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.\r\n\r\nA recent Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of Gibson''s growing concerns. We ourselves have experienced such problems and attended several Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.\r\n\r\nWe came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were obviously for public relations purposes only.\r\n\r\nLike others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, we never heard back. We''d met Sheriff Kersey previously, and while he seems like a nice guy, it appears he''s out of his league as County Sheriff.\r\n\r\nThe question before Gibson now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that actually appears to work.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(2310, 1, '2018-09-06 08:21:01', '2018-09-06 12:21:01', '<strong>"Scatter Thou The People That Delight In War"</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-11-11\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxHjSyrmwFI" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Christian Idolatry</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-11-04\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d8sovlY03EU" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n\r\n<strong>"Their Heart Is Divided"</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-10-28\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mL51b4IJQWY?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Stand In The Gap!</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-10-21\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TGmfczN_BjU?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span style="display: inline-block; 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1 Prophet Of God</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-09-02\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AETgrdUnu7g" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n\r\n<strong>The Biblical Duty Of God''s Preachers To A Godless President</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-08-26\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tvbx9rNJu2s" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n\r\n<strong>I Will Curse Them That Bless Thee</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-08-19\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/60XdMyWJj2I" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Hell’s Greatest Hoaxes On America (Part 2)</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2017-05-08\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w-Sqgxb7PjY" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Hell’s Greatest Hoaxes On America (Part 1)</strong>\r\nDr. Chuck Baldwin - 2018-04-30\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2OeYVfd3dnQ" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><img class="size-medium wp-image-2776 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCN_Decorative_text_divider_01-300x12.png" alt="" width="300" height="12" />\r\n<h3><em>Help Support Liberty Fellowship</em></h3>\r\n<em>As a non-501(c)3 church, Liberty Fellowship relies 100% on viewer support. To purchase a copy of these messages or to support the fellowship please visit <a href="https://www.LibertyFellowshipMT.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LibertyFellowshipMT.com</a>.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Liberty Financial is supported entirely by the free-will financial donations and offerings of those who have a heart to give, and it is not organized as a 501c3 non-profit organization, which means financial donations to Liberty Fellowship are NOT tax deductible. Furthermore, LF seeks not "church" designation by the IRS, and neither will it incorporate or organize so as to qualify for "church" status under the IRC. The true Church is a spiritual organism, not a human organization. Under the laws of the United States, should a body of believers (or any other body) seek and obtain tax-exempt status, that body would immediately fall under the dictates of the IRC regulating non-profit organizations. Therefore, LF has chosen to NOT claim tax-exemption.</em>', 'Religious Services With Pastor Chuck Baldwin', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'spirituality', '', '', '2018-11-19 09:53:08', '2018-11-19 14:53:08', '', 0, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/?page_id=2310', 0, 'page', '', 0);
