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(3753, 1, '2019-03-16 14:00:28', '2019-03-16 18:00:28', '<p>Many Scotland County North Carolina property owners are opening mailboxes to discover a ''Notice of Real Property Assessed Value'' increase.</p>\r\n<p>The good news is: Your property is growing in value (at least, that''s what the Assessor says).</p>\r\n<p>The bad news is: <i><b>higher property tax bills are on the way</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3583 alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/taxpayer-with-empty-pockets-1.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="348" /></p>\r\n<p>How is it that properties are growing in value when the County''s economy remains in the ditch, population demographics continue heading south, and as anyone who has been trying to sell their property knows, buyers are scarce as hens teeth, causing continued downward pressure on already depressed prices.</p>\r\n<p>How did the Tax Assessor determine that things are so rosy as to cause valuation increases?</p>\r\n<p>Let''s see if we can sort this puzzle out.</p>\r\n<p>Licensed, certified real estate appraisers determine property values by analysing ''recent comparable sales''. This metric has long been considered the ''gold standard'' by real estate professionals when it comes to accurate price/valuation discovery.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County appears to be using a different method, that of determining how much money highly paid county officials, hangers-on, grifters, relatives, friends, cronies and other parasites need to continue cushy lifestyles, schemes and scams, and then raising taxes enough to cover this ever growing, seemingly insatiable need.</p>\r\n<p>County Commissioners have options when it comes to matching expenses with revenues:</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Downsize government to match the present reality (just like homeowners and businesses must do to avoid insolvency).</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Reduce waste, fraud, graft and corruption sufficient to balance expenses with revenues.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Sales Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Property Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties sufficient to grab enough money to fund the present bloated, outrageous situation.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>None of these options are perfect, but some are better than others as far as County Commissioners are concerned.</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try downsizing government and every public employee, spouse, child and pet will be at your doorstep screaming bloody murder.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try reducing waste, fraud, graft and corruption and ruling elites will be at your throat.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try increasing the Sales Tax Rate and angry voters could vote it down and you out of office.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase the Property ''Tax Rate'' and you could have a populist rebellion on your hands.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties... <i>this is the one that can be counted on to get the job done without setting off too many alarm bells.</i></p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>Fiddling with individual ''select'' property valuations particularly if done on a ''rotating schedule'' makes it difficult for property owners to figure out what''s happening, and is all but impossible to fight. How many folks know that while their assessed property values increased, those of wealthy property owners somehow stayed the same? </p>\r\n<p>This ''shell game'' effectively transfers the problem from elected politicians (County Commissioners) to individual property owners and to a lesser degree, the Assessor.</p>\r\n<p>Property owner wrath can easily be deflected from Commissioners to the Assessor. All Commissioners need do is express extreme sympathy for your plight while explaining that this wasn''t their doing, but rather the Assessor''s decision, and you''ll need to vent your grievance over at the Tax Collector''s Office. Pretty slick slight of hand, hey?</p>\r\n<p>Property owners can of course dispute increased valuations, but the cumbersome, bureaucratic process and slim odds of success discourage all but the rich from trying.</p>\r\n<p><b>Commissioners</b> refusing to deal with problems, instead, dumping them at the Tax Collector or other agency doorsteps isn''t a new game; it''s tried and true.</p>\r\n<p>Anyone who has stood in line to pay property taxes knows lots of folks are having trouble paying current tax bills, and the last thing needed is to now owe even more. Times are tough, many of our friends and neighbours are hurting.</p>\r\n<p>County officials make tons of money and fantastic benefits, and many don''t even live in the county, so increased property taxes doesn''t mean much to them.</p>\r\n<p>Voters recently told County Commissioners <i><b>they''d had enough</b></i> when they voted down the proposed sales tax increase, but Commissioners didn''t get the message and are now <b>increasing tax collections</b> by going through the ''back door''.</p>\r\n<p>This may seem like an innocent game of cat and mouse, but there are real consequences for us, our county and our future.</p>\r\n<p>Every dollar paid in taxes, fees and licenses means less money in our pockets for house payments, rent, car payments/repairs, insurance, clothing, food, education, medications, utilities, dining out, etc.</p>\r\n<p>Less money spent at local businesses means fewer local jobs and less revenue paid into county, state and federal coffers in the form of taxes.</p>\r\n<p>Trying to hide tax increases by selectively raising property valuations may fool some, but it doesn''t fool most prospective property buyers. When buyers determine property taxes are too high, they simply stay away or adjust the offering price downward to compensate, making it even harder for sellers to receive prices they can live with, prices that will allow them to achieve escape velocity from Scotland County.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Scotland County Commissioners have created and are now perpetuating an extremely dangerous ''negative feedback loop'' that is drowning us in bonded debt, onerous property taxes, sales taxes and fees which discourage shopping in the county.</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Is it any wonder that out of 100 counties in North Carolina, Scotland County comes in dead last in virtually every category?</p>\r\n<p>A County Commissioner''s job isn''t easy, nor was it meant to be. If you don''t have the courage, time or inclination, or if you''re just too lazy or uniformed, then maybe it''s time to move on down the road.</p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Hollowing Out Rural America" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/hollowing-out-rural-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hollowing Out Rural America</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/economic-warning-to-u-s-all-dominoes-fall-the-same-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)</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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(3754, 3, '2019-03-16 14:08:42', '2019-03-16 18:08:42', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> (link: https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks)</b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p>The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>voice mail (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>urces:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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. 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(3755, 3, '2019-03-16 14:09:31', '2019-03-16 18:09:31', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p>The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>voice mail (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>urces:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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. 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(3758, 1, '2019-03-16 14:15:36', '2019-03-16 18:15:36', '<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3394" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/vampire-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" />Is Scotland County''s <strong>Economic Development Corporation</strong> just one more Blood Sucking Vampire?</p>\r\n<p>The article <span style="color: #0000ff;"><b>"<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/20951/edc-to-invest-in-downtown-laurinburg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EDC to invest in downtown Laurinburg</a></span>"</b></span> appeared in the Laurinburg Exchange (LE). Like other LE propaganda, it''s warm &amp; fuzzy and sounds great, but the fact is there''s a very dark underbelly that is being hidden from you.</p>\r\n<p>The big question is: Why was this Taxpayer Funded Government Organization legally structured as a ''Tax Exempt NGO (non-government organization) Corporation''? Is this <b>part of the huge nationwide effort to hide the rampant theft of public assets from the prying eyes of the public?</b></p>\r\n<p>If the EDC was structured as a public entity, we would have the right to audit its operations and finances and examine the cast of characters guiding this Ouija board''s planchette.</p>\r\n<p>Because it''s a private, tax exempt corporation (albeit publicly funded by Taxpayers), the public has no such right. Corporation <b>management, officers, directors and board members </b><img class="wp-image-3363 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Strip-Mining-Bucket-Wheel-Part-2-300x202.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="193" /><b>are free to transfer public assets into the hands of private parties, friends, business associates, political cronies and relatives </b>without <b>Taxpayers</b> being any the wiser.</p>\r\n<p>If you were conducting nefarious, immoral, crooked business, which platform would you prefer to operate from: a public entity that could be audited and your misdeeds discovered, or a private, tax exempt corporation where the public pays the bills but has no right to question your deeds?</p>\r\n<p>What would Jesus do?</p>\r\n<p>The LE article stated:</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #333333;">“<i>Mark Ward, director of Economic Development and president of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation, told the city council Tuesday that his board had agreed to buy two buildings downtown.”</i></span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #800000;"><b><em>Translation</em>: </b></span><span style="color: #000000;">Their </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>Private, Tax Exempt Corporation</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> will be buying buildings for themselves </span><span style="color: #000000;">using </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>Your Taxpayer Dollars</b></span><span style="color: #000000;">. </span></span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #333333;">“<i>Ward says he hopes to close on the buildings in the next 30 days and the first thing that will be done is a new roof put on both the buildings.”</i></span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #800000;"><b><em>Translation</em>:</b></span> New roofs will be put on <b>Their </b>buildings, using <b>Your Taxpayer Dollars</b>. </span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #333333;">“<i>The goal is to make it an incubator or a business that John A Smith wants to run that <b>we decided</b> as Scotland County EDC should be the type of business downtown wants,” Ward said. <b>“We will allow them to go in there at a significantly low rent to build their business up to stimulate that downtown growth. So that will give mom and pop business an opportunity to go in.”</b></i></span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #800000;"><b><em>Translation</em>:</b></span> After fixing up <b>Their </b>buildings, using <b>Your Taxpayer Dollars</b>, <b>they</b> will decide which of their <b>friends, business associates, political cronies and relatives </b>receive significantly reduced rents with which to unfairly compete against existing businesses which must pay ''market'' rents and property taxes as well as federal. state and local taxes. They could even decide to sell the buildings to <b>friends, business associates, political cronies and relatives </b>at below fair market value. Heads they win, tails we lose.<br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #333333;">“<i>We are taking an active role in developing not only industrial sites in the county but also helping the retail and the downtown group as well to make Scotland County a group effort,” Ward said. “Not the city do their thing, Laurel Hill do their thing, Gibson do their thing, main street do their thing, I do my thing. We’re going to do it all together because <b>we’re all going to be partners</b>.”</i></span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #800000;"><b><em>Translation</em>: </b></span>The EDC''s idea of being ''<b>partners''</b> is <b>They</b> use <b>Your Taxpayer Dollars </b>to buy properties for <b>Their Private, Tax Exempt Corporation</b> which then renovates them with <strong>Your Taxpayer Dollars</strong> and then rents them out or sells them to <b>friends, relatives, business associates and political cronies</b> at below market rates.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 20px; color: #800000;"><em>Ever wonder why your property taxes are so high?</em></span><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/20951/edc-to-invest-in-downtown-laurinburg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-countylaurinburg-fleeced-huge-financial-scam/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Small Business on the Brink" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/small-business-on-the-brink/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Small Business on the Brink</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Hollowing Out Rural America" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/hollowing-out-rural-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hollowing Out Rural America</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\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<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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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></p>\r\n<p><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></p>', 'Scotland County EDC - Blood Sucking Vampire?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3359-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-16 14:15:36', '2019-03-16 18:15:36', '', 3359, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3359-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(3761, 3, '2019-03-16 14:26:31', '2019-03-16 18:26:31', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p>The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>voice mail (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>urces:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3762, 3, '2019-03-16 14:29:05', '2019-03-16 18:29:05', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="184" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>voice mail (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>urces:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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. 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(3764, 3, '2019-03-16 14:37:17', '2019-03-16 18:37:17', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="184" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>voice mail (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3765, 1, '2019-03-16 14:40:39', '2019-03-16 18:40:39', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1615 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/healthy-wealthy-and-wise-300x134.jpg" alt="healthy-wealthy-and-wise" width="300" height="134" />''Healthy, Wealthy and Wise'' as the old saying goes. <strong>Without good health, the rest doesn''t really matter.</strong> Scotland County''s 2nd to last placing in North Carolina''s latest Health rankings is but one more sign that we''re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.</p>\r\n<p>Are more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?</p>\r\n<p>The fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.</p>\r\n<p>Between the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship will have traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.</p>\r\n<p>It''s no different for us. We must first desire to become healthy, then we must develop a realistic plan and implement it. Lastly, we must give it time to succeed.</p>\r\n<p>Obesity is the number two cause (behind smoking) of many of life''s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. Fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight; if the same, we will maintain our weight; if less, we will lose weight.</p>\r\n<p>If we are slightly overweight our plan may take just a couple of months to reach its goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more.</p>\r\n<p>Diets, especially fad diets, are rarely successful. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan will shed those extra pounds and keep them off. Slow and steady gets the job done.</p>\r\n<p>Only 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars, including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.</p>\r\n<p>It''s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as bread and pasta turn into sugars during the digestive process.</p>\r\n<p>Diet sodas and other ''diet'' foods don''t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many ''diet'' products could be responsible for the explosion we''re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnosis.</p>\r\n<p>There''s never been a better time to be alive, and it''s never been easier to enjoy good health.</p>\r\n<address>Source:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/sites/default/files/state/downloads/CHR2015_NC_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CountyHealthRankings.org</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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/the-one-thing-that-can-save-us-all-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The One Thing that Can Save Us All! (Video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/hormones-matter-for-all-of-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hormones Matter for All of Us</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or via <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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></p>\r\n<p><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></p>', 'Scotland County Health Ranks 99th', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1118-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-16 14:40:39', '2019-03-16 18:40:39', '', 1118, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1118-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3766, 3, '2019-03-17 07:04:47', '2019-03-17 11:04:47', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="184" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>voice mail (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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. 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(3767, 3, '2019-03-17 07:10:49', '2019-03-17 11:10:49', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crime wave</a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="184" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <a href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span></a> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>letter</b></span></a> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <a href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span></a> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <a href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>text message</b></span></a> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a> (Link: </b></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack)</b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>email</b></span></a>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>easement</b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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></p>\r\n<p><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></p>', 'DRAFT - Gibson''s Crime Wave - One Resident''s Frightening Story!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3744-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-17 07:10:49', '2019-03-17 11:10:49', '', 3744, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3744-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3768, 3, '2019-03-17 07:14:06', '2019-03-17 11:14:06', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="184" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;">letter</span></b></span></a> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <a href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b>emailed</b></span></a> <span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>text message</b></a></span> and <span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner "<b>Yankee Fucking Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>email</b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;">easement</span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3769, 3, '2019-03-17 07:28:56', '2019-03-17 11:28:56', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="184" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;">letter</span></b></span></a> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>. </p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3770, 3, '2019-03-17 07:33:00', '2019-03-17 11:33:00', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="184" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3771, 3, '2019-03-17 07:36:44', '2019-03-17 11:36:44', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="156" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3772, 3, '2019-03-17 07:40:32', '2019-03-17 11:40:32', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="140" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3773, 3, '2019-03-17 07:42:02', '2019-03-17 11:42:02', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\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. 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(3774, 3, '2019-03-17 07:48:41', '2019-03-17 11:48:41', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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(3775, 3, '2019-03-17 08:29:39', '2019-03-17 12:29:39', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (Black''s Law Dictionary, https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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(3776, 3, '2019-03-17 08:30:58', '2019-03-17 12:30:58', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its incredibly high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and the people of Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient financial resources or brain power to address all issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b> farmed by T.G. Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney for possible action.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full discourse </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill) violating the property owner''s civil rights, and conceal illegal activities from federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>It appears that not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it appears that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the street and gate (the gate was not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was indeed vandalized and a break-in attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><i>''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</i> Fies must be careful around a spider''s web.</p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered this owner''s private property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. This fly had been caught in the spider''s web. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</p>\r\n<p>Other trespassers have also become ensnared in the spider''s web and learned that it can be an expensive, dangerous, stressful trip.</p>\r\n<p>A criminal conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt or killed. Here are the players making this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handlers say.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>ree Speech has never been free</b>. It takes courage to effect change. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire formula for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident where someone is seriously injured or killed. Let''s pray it''s not an innocent resident, property owner or officer of the law.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings are in severe jeopardy here. </b>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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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></p>\r\n<p><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></p>', 'DRAFT - Gibson''s Crime Wave - One Resident''s Frightening Story!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3744-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-17 08:30:58', '2019-03-17 12:30:58', '', 3744, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3744-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3777, 1, '2019-03-17 10:41:51', '2019-03-17 14:41:51', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its high personnel turnover rate, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill), not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was going to be being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered the property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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(3778, 1, '2019-03-17 11:31:56', '2019-03-17 15:31:56', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hell-bent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''. So far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize residents who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due excessive personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Kersey, who''s main function is to attend prayer breakfasts, has brought in Federal Police to take charge and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, the Federal Police Force has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill), not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was going to be being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered the property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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. 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(3779, 1, '2019-03-17 11:34:00', '2019-03-17 15:34:00', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize anyone who dares ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due excessive personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Kersey, who''s main function is to attend prayer breakfasts, has brought in Federal Police to take charge and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, the Federal Police have their own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill), not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was going to be being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered the property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><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></p>\r\n<p><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></p>', 'DRAFT - Gibson''s Crime Wave - One Resident''s Frightening Story!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3744-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-17 11:34:00', '2019-03-17 15:34:00', '', 3744, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3744-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3780, 1, '2019-03-17 11:38:57', '2019-03-17 15:38:57', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize anyone who dares ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due excessive personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Kersey, who''s main function is attending prayer breakfasts, has brought in Federal Police to take charge and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, Federal Law Enforcement has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, butterflies, bees, dragonflies and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend their time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners awarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, morphing her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill), not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was going to be being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered the property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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(3781, 1, '2019-03-17 11:46:02', '2019-03-17 15:46:02', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize anyone who dares ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due excessive personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Kersey, who''s main function is attending prayer breakfasts, has brought in Federal Police to take charge and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, Federal Law Enforcement has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, butterflies, bees, dragonflies and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long before this stinking, festering, fetid mess backed up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">the property owner on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners rewarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables in their attempt to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill), not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was going to be being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered the property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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(3782, 1, '2019-03-17 11:49:31', '2019-03-17 15:49:31', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize anyone who dares ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due excessive personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in Federal Police to take charge and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, Federal Law Enforcement has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, butterflies, bees, dragonflies and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers, garbage and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long before this stinking, festering, fetid mess backed up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">the property owner on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners rewarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables in their attempt to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in rewriting the laws of physics (unfortunately Angie, shit still flows downhill), not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was going to be being constructed. The easement articulated that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM a vehicle entered the property. No one had been invited, nor was there reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location.</p>\r\n<p>Put simply, this plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. His illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance and a tow truck. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, this day, such tragedy was avoided.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster and sooner or later there is going to be a major incident.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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(3783, 1, '2019-03-17 12:06:42', '2019-03-17 16:06:42', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize anyone who dares ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due excessive personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in Federal Police to take charge and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, Federal Law Enforcement has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, butterflies, bees, dragonflies and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials, now bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their own debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long before this stinking, festering, fetid mess backed up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, left a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">the property owner on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners rewarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables in an attempt to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, and law of physics, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Unfortunately Angie, shit flows downhill, no matter what you say.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much seems to have changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the property''s farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM, despite no one having been invited, a vehicle entered the property. </p>\r\n<p>The plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. There was no reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. The officer''s illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall or wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster, a disaster that could have been avoided.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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(3784, 1, '2019-03-17 12:12:00', '2019-03-17 16:12:00', '<p>(PIC)</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are having their way, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly to further terrorize anyone who dares ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even murdered. It''s like the Keystone Cops only this time with disastrous, possibly lethal results.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="153" />Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due excessive personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs. Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in Federal Police to take charge and get a handle on things, but unfortunately for Ralph and Scotland County, Federal Law Enforcement has its own agenda.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forest, storm clouds gathering, birds, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, butterflies, bees, dragonflies and hoot owls.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the right thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, Town officials, now bent on revenge, dark hearts filled with malice, couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss beer, wine and liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their own debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long before this stinking, festering, fetid mess backed up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, leaving a detailed message describing the situation, offered to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggested a possible course of action and even offered to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">the property owner on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners rewarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables in an attempt to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist (according to Town clerk Angela Hunsucker) <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist not only violating the property owner''s civil rights, and law of physics, but concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Unfortunately Angie, shit flows downhill, no matter what you say.</p>\r\n<p><b>Not much seems to have changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the property''s farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has plagued the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the street and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement articulated the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership of the underlying land.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate (not mentioned in the easement). The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate, calculated provocation and an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and a break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM, despite no one having been invited, a vehicle entered the property.</p>\r\n<p>The plain clothes officer in an unmarked car had no cause to be at this location. There was no reason to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. The officer''s illegal trespass on private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments the Officer called for assistance. <em>It seems this fly had carelessly ventured in a spider''s web</em>. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in another unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The Officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3760 size-medium" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-nc-28343-281x300.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="300" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> doesn''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When many of the criminals are actually holding public office over at Town Hall or wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>This is of course a sure-fire recipe for disaster, a disaster that could have been avoided.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="123" />Gibson, like the rest of Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here. </b>''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism.</p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\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. 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