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(3857, 1, '2019-03-19 14:25:54', '2019-03-19 18:25:54', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1172 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/department-commerce-2016-tier-designations-300x162.png" alt="department-commerce-2016-tier-designations" width="300" height="162" /></p>\r\n<p><strong>Scotland is the most economically distressed county in North Carolina</strong>. That''s not exactly breaking news.</p>\r\n<p>We wholeheartedly agree with sentiments expressed by State Senator Tom McInnes, who stated: "The way it is right now, we can’t make anybody locate a plant in Scotland County if they don’t want to come here. We’ve got to give them a reason to come here. We’re going to have to work in a different way than we’ve been working..."</p>\r\n<p>Despite longstanding and ongoing attempts by County gurus to bring in new industry, the fact is Scotland County will never again be a manufacturing magnet. Mexico''s new and highly automated state of the art plants pay wages of $2 per hour and No benefits. Even Chinese wages are higher, causing factories there to now <a href="http://youtu.be/t487ILVf87k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">relocate</span></a> to cheaper venues like Vietnam in order to compete. Despite often repeated prognostications, even ''The Donald'' won''t be able to reverse this trend.</p>\r\n<p>As Senator McInnis continued: "... we’re going to have to work together... to offer 21st century curricula for <strong>the jobs that we have available and not the jobs that we wish we had.</strong>”</p>\r\n<p>America was founded upon the concept of a largely self regulating and self righting <strong>Free Market Economy</strong>. This was by no means perfect, but a great, prosperous and self governing republic was built upon its foundation. We became ''The Shining Light on the Hill'' that others looked up to and sought to emulate. Unfortunately, that was a long time ago.</p>\r\n<p>There can be no doubt that Scotland County was destined to experience difficult times when mills and manufacturing began fleeing, first to Mexico and then China, but according to Free Market dogma, things would have eventually righted themselves had market forces been allowed to play out.</p>\r\n<p>That didn''t happen, and today, decades later, despite massive state and federal grant programs and tax incentives being thrown at the problem, Scotland County remains mired in a Deep Depression. Worse yet, subtract state and federal welfare programs, along with generous USDA subsidies, supports, loans and grants, and Scotland County''s economy would completely implode.</p>\r\n<p>The reasons the Revival never took hold here are easily identified, straight forward, and well understood... not complicated at all. <strong>The question is: Are we going do anything about it or do we intend to mire in this pig slop until there is absolutely nothing left?</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>End of Part 1. Stay tuned for Part 2</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Source:</p>\r\n<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/ap-wire/3568/county-could-lose-tier-status" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Laurinburg Exchange</a></span></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span></strong></p>\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address>\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/mayor-block-council/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">City Council Should be Open, Honest, Transparent</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<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. 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(3859, 1, '2019-03-19 14:36:08', '2019-03-19 18:36:08', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.</p>\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\n<p>Laurinburg''s new Municipal Building, which started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Before it’s over, this figure can be expected to balloon to around $20 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.</p>\r\n<p>Many believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?</p>\r\n<p>Politicians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces, nefarious agendas and outside influences.</p>\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\n<p>Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably everywhere it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!</p>\r\n<p>Every day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.</p>\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\n<p>Scotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building its new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.</p>\r\n<p>Remodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.</p>\r\n<p><strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">metrics</a></span> is anybody’s guess.</strong></p>\r\n<p>This nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education industry simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can today''s ''educators'' pass it? Can You?</p>\r\n<p>Throughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even aware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce more milk.</p>\r\n<p>This social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’ </em>to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.</p>\r\n<p><em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Today’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be around in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?</strong></p>\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\n<p>What do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?</p>\r\n<p>If you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.</p>\r\n<p><strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are putting us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious outside help.</p>\r\n<p>The question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Architects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.</p>\r\n<p>Government officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.</p>\r\n<p>Have Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?</p>\r\n<p><strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.</p>\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\n<p>If we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.</p>\r\n<p>It’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Cockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/what-happens-when-we-buy-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Happens When We Buy Jobs?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/vote-no-on-scotland-county-referendum-to-increase-sales-use-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vote NO on Scotland County Referendum to Increase Sales &amp; Use Tax</a></span></address>\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. 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 <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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>', 'Scotland County/Laurinburg Fleeced in Huge Financial Scam', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2136-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:36:08', '2019-03-19 18:36:08', '', 2136, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/2136-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3860, 1, '2019-03-19 14:36:51', '2019-03-19 18:36:51', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-2156 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam-300x252.jpg" alt="scotland-county-laurinburg-fleeced-in-huge-financial-scam" width="300" height="252" />Big fish eat little fish, the strong prey upon the weak, and the knowledgeable quarry the ignorant.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County’s dismal economic, education and health metrics are self-imposed, the result of poor choices made over decades. Some say we’ve gone down about as far down as we can go, but we’re here to assure you things can and are about to get much worse.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County and Laurinburg are rapidly headed toward a financial disaster that will be virtually impossible to recover from. Few will be spared. Pain, misery, devastation and suffering will be wide spread.</p>\r\n<h3>1. Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building</h3>\r\n<p>Laurinburg''s new Municipal Building, which started as a $5.5 million boondoggle is now projected to cost $9.7 million. Laurinburg has no money, so taxpayers will foot the bill over the coming 40 years. Think taxes are high now, just wait.</p>\r\n<p>Many believe <strong>City Council is out of touch, not listening to citizen input, defying ‘the will of the people’</strong>. There’s truth here to be sure, but is this the real story?</p>\r\n<p>Politicians have a finely tuned, innate ability to hear and understand exactly what voters want, and don’t. Their political careers depend upon this talent. What they actually do, is of course another matter, often driven by dark, murky forces, nefarious agendas and outside influences.</p>\r\n<h3>2. Scotland County Economic Development</h3>\r\n<p>Economic Development Director, Mark Ward, has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/5442/new-edc-head-ready-to-promote-scotland-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">decided</a></span> the best way to precede forward is by continuing to go backward.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the fact that the old model of taking taxpayer money from one pocket and stuffing in the other to <em>‘buy jobs’</em> has failed miserably everywhere it’s been tried, Ward insists he can pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He can’t!</p>\r\n<p>Every day we spend heading in the present direction translates to lost opportunity and taxpayer money flushed down the toilet.</p>\r\n<h3>3. Scotland County Schools</h3>\r\n<p>Scotland County’s School Board remains committed to consolidating, remodeling and building its new $41 million school. Since the average new school in America now costs $80 million, we’re guessing our new school will cost at least that.</p>\r\n<p>Remodeling existing schools will cost tens of millions more and busing students to outlying facilities will add millions on top of that.</p>\r\n<p><strong>How any of this is supposed to rectify the County’s absolutely horrible ‘educational’ <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">metrics</a></span> is anybody’s guess.</strong></p>\r\n<p>This nation was built in <strong>one room school houses</strong>. Today’s dysfunctional, bloated public education industry simply can’t compete. Here’s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">test</a></span> 8th grade students were required to master over 100 years ago before being permitted to advance to high school. Few of today’s high school or even college graduates could pass this test. Can today''s ''educators'' pass it? Can You?</p>\r\n<p>Throughout human history, ignorance, serfdom and enslavement have been the norm. Education and knowledge were reserved for a privileged few at the top of the food chain. Universal public education promised to ameliorate this condition.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, it was co-opted and used to mold the lower classes into compliant, obedient worker bees that don’t complain, protest, need slave masters or even overseers. Constant brainwashing with trendy political agendas assures victims aren’t even aware of their own enslavement. Talk about progressive! Contented cows really do produce more milk.</p>\r\n<p>This social engineering model worked well until the Internet began offering <em>‘knowledge on demand’ </em>to all who seek it. Ignorance and enslavement would now be strictly by choice.</p>\r\n<p><em>‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’</em>. Given a choice, most prefer to remain ignorant, seeking diversion through sports, entertainment, gaming, social media, drugs and porn. Those wanting to keep us enslaved prefer things this way, guaranteeing a never ending smorgasbord of trash, filth and sleaze.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Today’s public education system is going to collapse. Can Scotland County taxpayers afford to support something that won’t even be around in 40 years when the bonds are finally retired?</strong></p>\r\n<h3>Follow the Money</h3>\r\n<p>What do the above schemes, scams, hoaxes and cons all have in common?</p>\r\n<p>If you and we want to advance some pet project, we must invest our own money, if necessary enlisting investors to take the leap into the unknown with us. Politicians on the other hand, don’t need to risk their own money. They spend money collected from us under duress, at gunpoint if necessary, sharing the spoils with kin, cronies and fellow kleptocrats.</p>\r\n<p><strong><em>“Every politician deserves two terms, one in office, the second in prison.</em></strong>” Mark Twain</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County and Laurinburg elected officials are putting us in bonded debt to the tune of about $150 million. It’s a big job, and honestly, this bunch doesn’t appear smart enough to accomplish such a big mission. We’re guessing they’ve got some serious outside help.</p>\r\n<p>The question is: <strong>Who’s pulling the puppet’s strings? Who’s really driving this bus?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Architects, contractors and vendors are hungry for projects like Laurinburg’s new Municipal Building, let alone the County’s new school + expensive re-model of existing facilities.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually every dollar spent on these projects will depart Scotland County as fast as the checks can be cut. Those of us left behind will face a mountain of debt that’s guaranteed to depress business activity and property values for decades. Skyrocketing taxes will kill any hopes of job creation or community revitalization.</p>\r\n<p>Government officials sell out citizens, voters and communities every day without so much as blinking an eye. Lucrative ‘consulting jobs’ for family and kin are just one time tested bait dangled before those hoping to become part of the revolving door’s never ending rotation.</p>\r\n<p>Have Laurinburg Council members, County Commissioners and School Board become so bedazzled by the brilliance thirty pieces of silver casts that they’re blind to their responsibilities and the consequences of reckless, negligent behavior?</p>\r\n<p><strong>Who has offered what to whom?</strong> Answer this question, and our guess is we’ll all be a lot closer to the wizard who’s pulling the strings.</p>\r\n<h3>What Can We Do?</h3>\r\n<p>If we’re going to wake up, now’s the time, before we go over the edge.</p>\r\n<p>It’s time to circle the wagons. We’re armed with a powerful weapon our forefathers could never have dreamed of, the <strong>Internet</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Cockroaches scramble when light shines upon them. It’s your future. <strong>It’s up to you!</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/what-happens-when-we-buy-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Happens When We Buy Jobs?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-mark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/vote-no-on-scotland-county-referendum-to-increase-sales-use-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vote NO on Scotland County Referendum to Increase Sales &amp; Use Tax</a></span></address>\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. 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 <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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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. 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(3861, 1, '2019-03-19 14:38:39', '2019-03-19 18:38:39', '<p><img class=" wp-image-2639 alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mosquito-plague-north-carolina.jpg" alt="" width="352" height="256" /></p>\r\n<p>Following weeks of inaction, Scotland County Commissioners have authorized a limited mosquito spraying program.</p>\r\n<p>As usual however, our Commissioners are a day late and a dollar short. Spraying at this late date is a waste of money and effort since the much cooler fall weather now upon us will quickly kill off mosquitoes naturally along with their eggs.</p>\r\n<p>The very fact that the spraying program will take five weeks means spraying will still be taking place in late November when most of us will be wearing fall jackets and the mosquitoes will be nothing but a distant memory.</p>\r\n<p>County Commissioners have made it clear that budgetary constraints make it impossible to spray the entire county, so wouldn''t it have been a good idea to have thought this whole program through before committing to another expensive boondoggle?</p>\r\n<p>Has there been any thought whatsoever regarding the spraying itself. We know the chemicals used are toxic to mosquitoes, but what about humans, especially vulnerable growing children? Why are County Commissioners silent about possible short and long term health effects to county residents? Should residents be advised to remain indoors along with their children when spraying is occurring?</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County Commissioners once again appear lethargic, poorly informed and not at all budget conscious. Our county is in trouble because those we elect continue to make very poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>This latest fiasco is yet more proof that the last thing voters need is to approve County Commissioners latest call to once again increase Sales and Use Taxes. The sad fact is, the more money we give them, the more they waste.</p>\r\n<p><strong>It''s time we demand better decision making and greater fiscal responsibility.</strong></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><em>"Next week a bug spray truck may come to your neighborhood, invited by Scotland County commissioners who held a second meeting this month to discuss to pressing problem of mosquitoes.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>The county was given $54,000 from the state to deal with the pesky biters, but estimates seemed to exceed that amount — until County Health Director Kristen Patterson reported to the board she had found a company, Mosquito Authority, that fits the budget.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>Aerial sprays started over budget at $70,000, so the board voted to approve the spray by truck route, which will be $6,282 per treatment, including lodging for the workers. The county plans to pay for five treatments after [Hurricane Michael] passes, which will be over a time span of five weeks."</em> <a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/18918/countyto-startspraying" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>Spraying is scheduled to begin next week.</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;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/18918/countyto-startspraying" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Laurinburg Exchange</em></a></span></p>\r\n<p><a href="https://www.wwaytv3.com/2018/09/27/cooper-orders-4m-to-fight-mosquitoes-after-florence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>WWayTV3</em></span></a></p>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/north-carolina-huge-mosquito-plague-descends/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">North Carolina: Huge Mosquito Plague Descends</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/disaster-capitalism-keeps-our-economy-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Disaster Capitalism Keeps our Economy Strong (videos)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/vote-no-on-scotland-county-referendum-to-increase-sales-use-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vote NO on Scotland County Referendum to Increase Sales &amp; Use Tax</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Get Your Free Subscription Today to Carolina Crossroads News. 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(3862, 1, '2019-03-19 14:41:49', '2019-03-19 18:41:49', '<p>There''s growing concern that Law Enforcement has lost its way.</p>\r\n<p>There are two sides to every story. <strong>This is Part 1 of a 2 part series.</strong> To read Part 2, click <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">here</span></a>. You decide where the truth lies.</p>\r\n<h3><strong>What''s Wrong:</strong></h3>\r\n<p>There are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us. Their service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.</p>\r\n<p>The Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with local tax dollars.</p>\r\n<p><em><strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong></em></p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" /></p>\r\n<p>Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer-leading squad to post signs of support?</p>\r\n<p>It''s true, the internet is brimming with <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://youtu.be/g8Kx_bscRMo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">videos</a></span> showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and killing innocent citizens.</p>\r\n<p>Yes, LEOs are using powerful, unlawful means like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''<a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stingrays</a>''</span> to collect private information, conversations and data on <strong>each and every citizen, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of criminal activity or not. Did you know that when an innocent looking white van pulls up next to you at a traffic light, it might in fact be the police using ''Backscatter X-Ray'' to look at everything inside your vehicle? Not only is this an unwarranted invasion of your privacy, it exposes everyone in the vehicle to harmful, cancer causing x-rays.</p>\r\n<p>Sure, LEOs routinely<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://youtu.be/kfzwjd8EWdo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stop citizens</a> </span>going about their normal business, in a ''supposed'' effort to prevent crime.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1601 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/police-shaking-person-upside-down-300x168.png" alt="police-shaking-person-upside-down" width="300" height="168" />FBI statistics disclose that $4.5 billion is <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stolen</a></span> each year from the American people by law enforcement.</p>\r\n<p>Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/041828_cops_innocent_civilians_civil_forfeit ure.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">seized</a></span>, without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing.</p>\r\n<p>In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion is lost due to actual burglaries. <strong><em>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of </em><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/28/the-feds-have-resumed-a-controversial-program-that-lets-cops-take-stuff-and-keep-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thefts</a></em></span> <em>are being committed not by burglars, but by Police</em>. </strong>Many Departments now build <em>''theft''</em> right into budgets so they can accurately plan in advance how much to steal.<strong><br />\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>Is it any wonder Americans increasingly view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?</p>\r\n<p>Police recruits are trained to view the American people as ''the enemy''. Are LEOs increasingly becoming mafia style enforcers who make sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge?</p>\r\n<p>Many LEOs are ex-military, and while there can be valuable synergies between the two positions, there are important and fundamental differences as well.</p>\r\n<p>Those drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> and <strong><em>control,</em></strong> versus <em><strong>freedom</strong></em> and <em><strong>liberty</strong></em>. This might work well in a military setting, but it makes it difficult to strike the <em><strong>right balance</strong></em> needed to ensure peace, security, freedom and liberty in an open society. LEOs must walk a fine line, and theirs has never been an easy mission. In today''s politically charged atmosphere, it''s more challenging than ever.</p>\r\n<p>Departments screen recruits to eliminate those with high IQ''s because intelligent individuals are more likely to question illegal, immoral and unconstitutional orders. This hiring bias robs society of a most valuable and capable human resource at a critical time in our Republic''s history.</p>\r\n<p>As if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out or needed. The legislative process in no way ensures laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutional</em>.</p>\r\n<p>Most legislation is not written by the legislators we elect, but rather by <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://youtu.be/zY5UuWkVq8g" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">professional lobbyists</a> </span>in the employ of large corporations. Legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never even seen, let alone read.</p>\r\n<p>Such <em><strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong></em>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we don''t give them clear and lawful instructions?</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local law enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funded <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/03/federal-law-enforcement-grants-and-crime-rates-no-connection-except-for-waste-and-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">grants</a></span> to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology, ALRs (automatic license plate readers) and the latest in crowd control. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war. <em><strong>This poses a systemic threat to our nation, our freedoms and liberty.</strong></em></p>\r\n<p>Departments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and officers with Body Cams in a ''stated effort'' to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://youtu.be/4J4VR4gFlwU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong><em>on and off</em></strong></a></span> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.</p>\r\n<p>We’ve attended community programs sponsored by Local Law Enforcement, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There''s little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s policing is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime while remaining a free people in an open society.</p>\r\n<p>Officers appear more interested in controlling and manipulating public dialogue and perceptions rather than doing the hard work needed to address genuine criminal activity.</p>\r\n<p>Local Law Enforcement agencies are among those feeding at the <em><strong>Federal</strong></em> taxpayer trough to acquire the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share information (through <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/16942-dhs-creates-new-fusion-centers-taking-control-of-local-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fusion centers</a></span>) with Federal agencies that could not otherwise legally obtain such information.</p>\r\n<p>This innocuous, seemingly innocent exchange <strong><em>is extremely short sighted </em></strong><em><strong>and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time Americans discover the all too real dangers, it could be too late. <em><strong>Once a nationwide Police State is firmly established, there won''t be any going back.</strong></em> 5G is now coming on line and contrary to what you are being told it''s much more than an upgraded, faster wi-fi system. 5G is an extreme health danger and a dangerous crowd control and thought control weapon developed by DARPA and the military. <em><strong><br />\r\n</strong></em></p>\r\n<p>Those who know their history understand that what''s going on today is an <em><strong>exact replay of what happened in Hitler''s Nazi Germany</strong></em>, only with today''s much more advanced technology.</p>\r\n<p>A large and growing number of Law Enforcement officials are extremely concerned and have formed <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://cspoa.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CSPOA.org</a></span> (Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association) in an effort to protect their citizens and our nation. Over 3000 Chiefs and Sheriffs have joined so far. Sadly enough, local officials are not among them.</p>\r\n<p><strong><em>Local Law Enforcement exists to serve and protect u</em>s</strong>, not roll out the red carpet for Washington''s <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://youtu.be/zY5UuWkVq8g" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">schemers, scammers, kleptocrats and psychopaths</a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><em><b>"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". </b></em>Benjamin Franklin<b><br />\r\n</b></p>\r\n<p>Numerous attempts were made to engage Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding the issues raised in this article. No response was received.</p>\r\n<address>Sources:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #333333;">Washington Post</span></address>\r\n<address>Natural News</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/we-support-our-police-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">We Support Our Police</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>', 'Law Enforcement - What''s Wrong?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1258-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:41:49', '2019-03-19 18:41:49', '', 1258, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1258-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3863, 1, '2019-03-19 14:43:32', '2019-03-19 18:43:32', '<p><img class="size-full wp-image-2717 alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/stewartsville-commissioner-candidates.jpg" alt="" width="235" height="206" />As ''Early Voting'' got underway Matthew Block, candidate for one of two open Stewartsville Township seats on the County Board of Commissioners, announced his withdrawal from the race, virtually guaranteeing that Democratic incumbent Carol McCall will be reelected and Republican candidate Tim Ivey will be elected.</p>\r\n<p>Since Block''s name remains on the ballot, there is the possibility that voters could still elect him, although Block is recommending followers no longer vote for him.</p>\r\n<p>Block has stated ''the efforts that he was putting forward weren’t being listened to'', “Ever since [Block''s] effort to have a referendum for consolidation failed, I’ve been thinking about it,” “The wind had been taken out of my sails for the fight.”</p>\r\n<p>Block also appears disappointed with his efforts to dislodge the ''good ole boy system'' which, according to Block, has helped well-connected local land-owners and sub-contractors to benefit from projects like the new city hall, school consolidation, and recently purchased land by county commissioners.</p>\r\n<p>Block has further stated that "citizens money has been taken from them and given to elected official’s close friends for land and services with sweetheart deals”. “I am confident that with the removal of Tommy Parker, J.D. Willis and now Guy McCook, and with the elections of Mary Evans, James Garby Jr. and Tim Ivey, the back-door dealing will be stopped. Progress will not occur for the next year or two, not until the majority of seats on these Boards are occupied by leaders who are open, honest and not controlled by the good ole boys and selfish desires” Block added.</p>\r\n<p>For now, Block remains Mayor of Laurinburg where he will need to stand before voters in the fall of 2019 should he seek reelection.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright wp-image-1146" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mayor-matthew-block_ccn.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="308" />While not unprecedented, Block''s action is nevertheless highly unusual and will without question affect voter decisions in the future.</p>\r\n<p>Block has been a breath of fresh air, a lightening rod for the change Laurinburg and Scotland County politics desperately needs, but we believe this last minute withdrawal, piled on top of earlier controversies will cause voters to re-evaluate his suitability for public office, and their willingness to once again step forward to volunteer the hard work that it takes to get a candidate elected.</p>\r\n<p>We cannot walk in Matt Block''s shoes, and while we most certainly sympathize with his political frustrations and the difficult decision he felt he had to make, we must conclude that his last minute, helter skelter withdrawal may have gravely wounded future political ambitions.</p>\r\n<p>We continue to wish Dr. Matthew Block the very best on his journey through life.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/19045/block-drops-out-of-commissioner-race" 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="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-fall-2018-election-ballot-sample/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Fall 2018 Election – Sample Ballot +More</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/vote-no-on-scotland-county-referendum-to-increase-sales-use-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vote NO on Scotland County Referendum to Increase Sales &amp; Use Tax</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-blocks-crime-spree-continues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mayor Block’s Crime Spree Continues</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Get Your Free Subscription Today to Carolina Crossroads News. We won''t spam you and you can unsubscribe (one click) at any time.</span></p>\r\n<center><script type="text/javascript" src="https://app.mailerlite.com/data/webforms/436451/u7g5s1.js?v1"></script></center>\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. 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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>', 'Matthew Block Unexpectedly Withdraws from County Commission Race!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2713-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:43:32', '2019-03-19 18:43:32', '', 2713, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/2713-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(3864, 1, '2019-03-19 14:53:08', '2019-03-19 18:53:08', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant and easily corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They have chosen to become nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. It''s a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? Some would have us believe these are cell and broadband communication repeaters. That would be a lie. <strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Weapon'' that will, in the not too distant future, be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being launched.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems collapse, ruling elites don''t want and whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, reduce the sovereignty of our municipal corporation and allow the roll-out of dangerous, lethal technologies that will be used against us, all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:53:08', '2019-03-19 18:53:08', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3865, 1, '2019-03-19 14:55:27', '2019-03-19 18:55:27', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant and easily corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They have chosen to become nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. It''s a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? Some would have us believe these are cell and broadband communication antennas and repeaters. That would be a lie. <strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Weapon'' that will, in the not too distant future, be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>. If this sounds crazy, you are either ignorant or stupid. </p>\r\n<p><strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being launched.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems collapse, ruling elites don''t want and whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, reduce the sovereignty of our municipal corporation and allow the roll-out of dangerous, lethal technologies that will be used against us, all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:55:27', '2019-03-19 18:55:27', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3866, 1, '2019-03-19 14:58:22', '2019-03-19 18:58:22', '<p><img class="wp-image-2556 alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/vote-john-martin-for-sheriff.jpg" alt="" width="301" height="225" /></p>\r\n<p>The election between incumbent Scotland County Sheriff <strong>Ralph Kersey</strong> and challenger <strong>John Martin</strong> is upon us.</p>\r\n<p>Kersey began his reign four years ago with good intentions and plenty of forward momentum. His predecessor Shep Jones had left a complete disaster in his wake and much work needed to be done.</p>\r\n<p>Despite getting off to a good start, Kersey got lost along the way, succumbing to the siren song of ''free money'' from the Federal Government.</p>\r\n<p>Kersey reached for a full plate of Federal Grant Funding and the County soon sported shiny new police cruisers, crisp new uniforms, the latest computers and a host of other expensive do-dads, gizmos and toys.</p>\r\n<p>There is however no ''free lunch'' and the price for all the Fed''s ''free stuff'' is turning out to be very expensive for Scotland County. Kersey sold out the County''s sovereignty and interests to Washington DC ruling elites whose agenda is turning the United States into a Police/Surveillance State that serves the international banking interests that have gripped our nation.</p>\r\n<p>In case you''ve been asleep or off-planet, the battle for America isn''t between Dems and Rhinos, Blacks and Whites or Left vs. Right, but rather between Christians (excluding Zionist-Christians) and the satanic International Banking Cabal headed by the <strong>Rothschild Banking Dynasty</strong> headquartered in Basil Switzerland whose goal is to enslave mankind under a New World Order, with them at the top running things and us at the bottom slaving to their every need, whim and desire.</p>\r\n<p>Police State Surveillance/Spying gives government the power to dictate and mold behavior by introducing self-censorship rather than holding people directly at gun point. It is tyranny enforced in a less obvious way; a prison in which the prisoners maintain the locks. Slavery without whips and chains. Individuals dare not do anything outside of collective norms for fear that it could be interpreted as socially negative. Punishments for failure to comply include Employment Blacklisting, Whisper/Smear Campaigns, inclusion onto the No Fly List, loss of access to government programs and even the general economy. At a time when most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, this could quickly translate to joblessness, homelessness and starvation.</p>\r\n<p>Kersey allowed outside private contractors funded by Deep State stooges to come into Scotland County and install their latest spy and surveillance equipment that mops up <strong>every</strong> phone call, keystroke, internet search, email, text, voicemail and other electronic communication regardless of whether you are under suspicion for unlawful activity. This violates the 4th Amendment, the oath of office Kersey swore to uphold and even the most modest standard of ethics and morality. Kersey''s actions represent a clear and present danger to every Scotland County citizen.</p>\r\n<p>Worse yet, Kersey, along with County Commissioners, allowed the installation of ''so called'' 5G equipment throughout our County. While purporting to be nothing more than an upgraded and faster wireless system, 5G (5th Generation Wireless) is actually much, much more.</p>\r\n<p>5G is an incredibly powerful high frequency mind and body control weapon developed and successfully used by our military in Iraq. This system is now being readied to turn against Americans should they dare oppose the satanic international banking cabal''s takeover.</p>\r\n<p>On December 7, 1941 our nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor. This was an attack from without by an external, foreign enemy. Today''s attack is from within our own gates. America''s defenses have been breached. <strong>5G is the biggest threat America has ever faced.</strong> You owe it to yourself, your family and especially your children to become informed. Just type in ''<strong>Dangers of 5G</strong>'' on YouTube or any search engine. It''s a ''life changing'' experience... guaranteed.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Those who we elected to <em>protect and serve</em> us have instead turned on us.</strong></p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Kersey handed our 911 dispatch system over to Federal control and continues to hand over all information collected from his spying efforts to Federal Fusion Centers which fuse this information with medical, employment, purchasing, banking and other records to develop and maintain <strong>Control Files, Blacklists</strong> and <strong>Threat Assessments</strong> on each and every Scotland County resident.</p>\r\n<p>Like other Federal programs, there is no effective oversight or protection to ensure information collected on you is true or accurate. If a member of law enforcement, your doctor or some corporation doesn''t happen to like you, there is absolutely nothing preventing them from entering false and damaging information about you. When your life starts turning to mush you may not have a clue as to the cause. Did your doctor peg you as a ''drug user''? Did some LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) identify you as a ''suspected terrorist''? Did your last employer list you as a ''disgruntled troublemaker''? Chances are, you''ll never know.</p>\r\n<p>Ralph Kersey is a proven <strong>Gun Grabber. </strong>He introduced regulations to the County Commission designed to regulate County firearm use. His excuse was that there are irresponsible gun owners firing guns at random and endangering citizens. While this is certainly true, there are already plenty of laws on the books to deal with irresponsible gun owners, bow &amp; arrow owners, bicycle owners and anyone else who recklessly endangers the public. Why is Kersey not using existing legislation, instead proposing gun grabbing measures? Is it because Gun Grabbing is an essential element of the international banker''s plan to bring America to its knees?</p>\r\n<p>Is Ralph Kersey just uninformed or was there a more sinister motive behind his sell out? As with most corruption stories, it appears <strong>money is the motivating factor</strong>. At least one retired NC state trooper is deeply involved in a company that sells spy/surveillance and other dodgy equipment to law enforcement throughout North Carolina. Since this equipment is mostly funded using Federal Grants there''s lots of money to be made and with virtually no oversight.</p>\r\n<h3><strong>Scotland County''s Sheriff Department has been turned into nothing more than a field office for Satan''s Federal Police/Surveillance State.</strong></h3>\r\n<p>Challenger John Martin, like Kersey, is a retired North Carolina State Trooper. Will he too be quickly co-opted into the Federal Police State once sworn in? Birds of a feather do tend to flock together, and the Feds have many tasty carrots as well as some big nasty sticks to bring county sheriffs into the fold and keep them corralled.</p>\r\n<h3><strong>Scotland County needs a sheriff who can balance the rights of a free people with the need for protection from the ever present and growing criminal element.<br />\r\n</strong></h3>\r\n<p>Achieving this balance requires critical thinking skills, real leadership, and a willingness to summon the courage to stand up against outside influence and manipulation.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County has the right to determine its own destiny.</p>\r\n<h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><em>Around the County:</em></strong></span></h3>\r\n<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2244 " src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/time-to-get-rid-of-the-police.jpg" alt="" width="418" height="197" /></p>\r\n<p>Scotland County is plagued by crime. Folks feel they and their property are at risk. It''s a dangerous and potentially explosive situation.</p>\r\n<p>Official crime statistics don''t portray the actual depth of the problem, as victims often don''t bother to report crimes because they know nothing will be done. Those making insurance claims must of course file a police report.</p>\r\n<p>Communities contract with the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department to provide Law Enforcement Services.</p>\r\n<p>While Kersey started out on a positive note, things stalled out and citizens increasingly sense his department is not committed to or capable of addressing crime.</p>\r\n<p>A Laurinburg Exchange <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/6814/gibson-residents-told-not-to-detain-crooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">article</span></a> highlighted some of the growing concerns. We ourselves have experienced such problems and attended several Sheriff Department events purportedly designed to assist the community.</p>\r\n<p>We came away with the distinct impression that Officers didn''t understand or care, and quite frankly, didn''t appear to be up to the task anyway. Such canned events were right out of the Federal Police State handbook and obviously for public relations purposes only.</p>\r\n<p>Like others, we eventually stopped going, and despite repeated efforts to contact Sheriff Kersey regarding our concerns, we never heard back. We''d met Sheriff Kersey previously, and while he seemed like a nice guy, it appears he''s way out of his league as County Sheriff.</p>\r\n<p>The question before us now is <strong>how do citizens, property owners and taxpayers receive the services they''re already paying for and desperately need but simply not getting?</strong></p>\r\n<p>The following article lays out a solution that towns all across America are now considering and beginning to embrace. It''s a big step, but one that actually appears to work.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State.</em>" <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/imagine-post-police-world.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Activist Post</span></a></p>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-wrong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law Enforcement – What’s Wrong?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/law-enforcement-whats-right/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law Enforcement – What’s Right?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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 <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<p>&nbsp;</p>\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>\r\n<p><span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 20px;">Save</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;">Save</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;">Save</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></p>\r\n<p><span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></p>', 'Time to Fire Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2234-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:58:22', '2019-03-19 18:58:22', '', 2234, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/2234-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3867, 1, '2019-03-19 15:02:24', '2019-03-19 19:02:24', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3369 " src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Strip-Mining-Bucket-Wheel-Part-1-300x201.jpg" alt="" width="467" height="313" /><br />\r\nYou probably think strip mining is reserved for coal, iron ore, copper and other large mineral deposits. You''d be wrong.</p>\r\n<p>Strip mining has and continues to be the largest industry in Scotland County. It''s occurring right under our noses, in broad daylight.</p>\r\n<p>The Laurinburg Exchange (LE) recently <strong><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/19045/block-drops-out-of-commissioner-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">excoriated</span></span></a></strong> Laurinburg Mayor Matthew Block for ''being against virtually everything'':</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><em>"Considering the biggest issues to face Laurinburg and Scotland County over the past couple of years, we have found it incredulous that the city’s mayor would take a stance against each and every one of them, regardless of their potential positives for the future.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>The new Laurinburg City Hall … he fought it.</em><br />\r\n<em>The consolidation of schools … he fought it.</em><br />\r\n<em>The multi-cultural center … he fought it.</em><br />\r\n<em>The quarter-cent sales tax referendum … he fought it".</em></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>Take notice that every item on LE''s list of ''Biggest Issues'' share one thing in common. They all involve <b>Spending lots of </b><u><b>Your</b></u><b> Money,</b> <b>Raising </b><u><b>Your</b></u><b> Taxes and placing </b><u><b>You</b></u><b> in Bonded Debt</b>!</p>\r\n<p>If the items on this list are so important and have so much positive potential why doesn''t LE''s owner, Champion Media, just write a check to fund these projects instead of trying to massage and manipulate us into doing it with our hard earned money?</p>\r\n<p>What exactly are the ''<b>potential positives for the future''</b> that LE talks about when it comes to spending money we don''t have? We''re stumped, but we sure can think of a plenty of negatives.</p>\r\n<p>The thing you can be sure of is, if your reading the LE you''re getting spoon fed the party line of those interests whose agenda includes strip mining our county until there is nothing left.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright wp-image-2759" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mayor-matthew-block-is-no-saint.jpg" alt="" width="177" height="283" />Mayor Matthew Block is no saint, but how would your life look if held up to a microscope? While most area politicos are focused on naming our new (and expensive) school and choosing colour schemes for new Community/Multi-cultural Centers, Matt Block has had the presence of mind and courage to call out the waste, fraud, corruption and abuse behind these efforts.</p>\r\n<p>It''s never easy being out on the point taking flak while fellow politicos duck for cover.</p>\r\n<p>Is Matt Block the only one willing to call out the fact that Scotland County/Laurinburg are being strip mined by some very shady characters and entities?</p>\r\n<p>It''s not often that one can get everything wrong all of the time. Heck, if you simply toss a coin you''ll get things right half the time. That being said, Scotland County/Laurinburg Commissions have a 100% spotless record for spending money we don''t have on expensive, worthless boondoggles we can''t afford.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County/Laurinburg have Zero ability to fund anything, let alone multi-million dollar Community/Multi-Cultural Centers, without borrowing money, raising taxes and fees, or raising tax rates.</p>\r\n<p>We already have far too much Bonded Debt and Sky High Tax Rates; <b>what Scotland County desperately needs is </b><u><b>too much revenue</b></u><b>.</b></p>\r\n<p>Instead of endless gnashing of teeth finding new ways to waste money we don''t have, how about our Commissioners spend a few moments discussing how to grow revenues and get finances on a sustainable path?</p>\r\n<p>Few can argue that Scotland County/Laurinburg are presently headed in a ''positive direction''. The only growth we have going on is an ever expanding cannibalistic government bureaucracy that serves an ever growing list of moochers feeding at the public trough.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-2753" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fleeing-scotland-county.png" alt="" width="162" height="116" />The sad thing is, even with all this ''other people''s money'', we can''t make ends meet and must either borrow money, turning our citizens into bonded debt slaves, or tax them to death. Let''s not forget these are the go-go days with the economy booming as America is being made great again. What''s going to happen when the next financial crisis comes? If we don''t change our ways, we will surely be up a creek without a paddle, as those who have skinned us alive will be long gone, leaving us with a legacy of unpayable debt and taxes so high that those who can, flee.</p>\r\n<p>Here are a few questions regarding proposed Community and Multi-Cultural Centers:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>How many Scotland County/Laurinburg citizens will actually be paying the taxes required to build and maintain these facilities? Do you actually pay taxes or are you a net moocher?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>How many police and sheriff''s deputies will be needed to keep a lid on things so that stabbings, shootings, fights and muggings at the ''Centers'' remain within acceptable community standards? Who is going to pay for this extra policing?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>How much will it cost to clean up grounds, hallways and restrooms everyday that are filled with trash, garbage, needles and other drug paraphernalia? Where is the money going to come from?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>How much will it cost to remove human feces and urine contamination from the swimming pool on an ongoing basis? Public pools all over our nation are struggling with this very issue.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The Laurinburg Exchange is doing a great job of spearheading cheerleading efforts to spend <u><b>Your</b></u> hard earned money under a wave of phony populism that it is largely responsible for generating. Let''s leave it to these Pollyannas to put a smiley face on this disaster. The rest of us will be better off facing the reality that we''re broke and we''re allowing a bunch of corrupt plutocrats to make us even more broke.</p>\r\n<p><b>What would Jesus do?</b></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/matthew-block-unexpectedly-withdraws-from-county-commission-race/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Matthew Block unexpectedly withdraws from County Commission Race!</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/vote-no-on-scotland-county-referendum-to-increase-sales-use-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vote NO on Scotland County Referendum to Increase Sales &amp; Use Tax</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/video-century-enslavement-history-federal-reserve/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Century of Enslavement (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Get Your Free Subscription Today to Carolina Crossroads News. 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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 <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<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]</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>', 'Strip Mining Scotland County - Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2750-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:02:24', '2019-03-19 19:02:24', '', 2750, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/2750-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3868, 1, '2019-03-19 15:03:45', '2019-03-19 19:03:45', '<p><img class="size-full wp-image-2629 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/John-Blue-House.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>For the second time in three years, the John Blue Festival has been cancelled as a result of the rain and resulting mud caused by tropical storm Michael.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"“It’s very important to me that our patrons and everyone know that we are very disappointed by having to cancel the event,” said event chair and John Blue descendant Jim Blue. “I understand that the two days are supposed to be beautiful, but with the rain, we’re unable to set up for the festival and, if we get the two to three inches they’re expecting, it will turn the parking area to mud. We don’t want people getting stuck in the mud and having to walk through it to get to events.”</p>\r\n<p>Blue has been helping with the festival for 33 of its 35 years and said, besides when Hurricane Matthew hit in 2016, he can’t remember any other times when the festival was canceled for both days. Occasionally the Sunday events would be canceled due to rain, but it wasn’t typical both days were canceled." <a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/18916/cotton-festival-cancels-due-to-rain" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>The cancellation announcement and more information can be found on the John Blue Cotton Festival <a href="https://www.facebook.com/johnbluecottonfestival/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook page</span></a>.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/18916/cotton-festival-cancels-due-to-rain" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/disaster-capitalism-keeps-our-economy-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Disaster Capitalism Keeps our Economy Strong (videos)</span></a></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Get Your Free Subscription Today to Carolina Crossroads News. We won''t spam you and you can unsubscribe (one click) at any time.</span></p>\r\n<center><script type="text/javascript" src="https://app.mailerlite.com/data/webforms/436451/u7g5s1.js?v1"></script></center>\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 <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<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]</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>', 'John Blue Cotton Festival Cancels', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2626-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:03:45', '2019-03-19 19:03:45', '', 2626, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/2626-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3869, 1, '2019-03-19 15:06:04', '2019-03-19 19:06:04', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" /></p>\r\n<p>Laurinburg Police recently <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4543/clerks-charged-with-selling-fake-marijuana" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">arrested</a></span> several subjects following a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">month''s</span> long investigation into a Vance Street convenience store suspected of selling synthetic marijuana, known as Spice.</p>\r\n<p>Dealing in, selling or promoting illegal substances is never wise. Doing so from a convenience store appears just plain stupid. Any perceived value will now flow directly into the pockets of bail-bondsmen, legal professionals and the prison-industrial complex.</p>\r\n<p>Two suspects appear to be of Middle Eastern origin, which given the current climate, cannot be considered a plus when it comes to garnering sympathy.</p>\r\n<p>How does this story fit into the <strong>Big Picture</strong>?</p>\r\n<p>Albert Einstein defined insanity as: ''<em><strong>Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result''.</strong></em> Change is difficult and disconcerting, but if Laurinburg and Scotland County are to get back on their feet, change is essential.</p>\r\n<p>Was selling marijuana (synthetic or otherwise) from a convenience store actually a ''cutting edge'' business proposition? Should suspects be given the ''small business entrepreneur'' of the year award? (just kidding)</p>\r\n<p>A growing list of states  now permit the legal cultivation, sale and consumption of marijuana. Even our federal government has decided to look the other way. An overwhelming majority of Americans favor this trend, and<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/24/top-medical-experts-say-we-should-decriminalize-all-drugs-and-maybe-go-even-further/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">prominent professionals and prestigious organizations</a></span> increasingly call for not only the decriminalization of marijuana, but all drugs.</p>\r\n<p>How can Laurinburg and Scotland County stop our population from declining further? One certain way would be to not put any more people than needed into the already overflowing prison system.</p>\r\n<p>Can we successfully attract potential retirees if we''re busting potheads while allowing violent crime to spin out of control? Millennials, gen Xers and Baby Boomers all favor decriminalizing marijuana and many other drugs. How long can we afford to push against this wave?</p>\r\n<p>When it comes to fighting crime, Law Enforcement complains about its lack of resources. Does it make sense to commit scarce man-power, time and money to busting, prosecuting and jailing potheads? Can we allow Law Enforcement to squander precious, limited resources? Here''s a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://henrymakow.com/2016/03/politicians-up-to-their-ears-i.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">snapshot</a></span> of what our nation''s ''War on Drugs'' is really about. It''s not pretty.</p>\r\n<p>With increasingly negative demographics (depressed economic activity, dismal health ranking, poor educational ranking, rising crime, increasing taxes and declining property values) this is an issue Laurinburg and Scotland County citizens will sooner or later be forced to confront.</p>\r\n<p>There are no easy answers. Here''s a professionally produced <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://youtu.be/wfxaJQVxSA4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">video</a></span> documentary that may help. Let''s choose wisely.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Related Articles:</p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address>\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>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>', 'We Support Our Police', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1198-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:06:04', '2019-03-19 19:06:04', '', 1198, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1198-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(3870, 1, '2019-03-19 15:07:23', '2019-03-19 19:07:23', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-2016 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-point-300x229.jpg" alt="school-consolidation-discussion-misses-the-point" width="300" height="229" />Laurinburg Mayor Matt Block''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/other-opinion/5041/school-consolidation-bad-idea" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">article</a></span> regarding Scotland County School''s consolidation, remodeling and new construction plans was well received by the community, but frankly, we thought it completely missed the mark.<span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Mayor Block is not just a politician, he''s also a doctor of cardiology. Dr Block, like other medical professionals, is trained mostly to respond to symptoms after they have manifested (often severely), rather than focusing on preventing their occurrence in the first place. The fact remains: <strong>''An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure''</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Heart disease, cancer and diabetes share one thing in common: they are for the most part attributable to poor lifestyle choices. Fatty, fried foods, junk food, sodas and beer, along with sitting in front of the TV watching sports and mass entertainment are pretty much guaranteed to cause you a heap of trouble in the end. The choice between chronic, debilitating and often fatal disease or good health is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yours</span>.</p>\r\n<p>The same is true for Scotland County. Our extreme dysfunction is the result of poor choices we''ve made in the past and continue to make to this day.</p>\r\n<p><strong>One of the biggest mistakes anyone can make is allowing others to ''frame the discussion'', essentially boxing it in.</strong></p>\r\n<p>Framing today''s discussion around consolidation, remodeling and new construction allows those in charge to avoid having to discuss the one and only thing that actually matters... <strong>educating our children to become knowledgeable, critical thinkers, capable of responsibly assuming their place in a 21st century economy and self-governing republic. </strong>If they can''t do this, the rest won''t matter. <strong><br />\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>According to the State of North Carolina, Scotland County is doing a terrible job. We''re dead last or almost dead last when it comes to educational performance, individual health and economic achievement. Despite having received tens of millions of dollars in state and federal help, things continue to get worse.</p>\r\n<p>Why is Mayor Block even discussing nonsense like consolidating, remodeling or building expensive new schools?</p>\r\n<p>Why are we allowing Scotland County School Board members and County Commissioner''s to scurry and scamper about as they try and explain that their hands are tied by state and federal rules, regulations, mandates and guidelines? This is disingenuous to say the least.</p>\r\n<p>When our children end up on the dole, addicted to drugs or in prison, who in Raleigh or Washington DC is going to stand up and take responsibility? Scotland County''s problems are ours to solve. <strong><br />\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>If those we hire and elect can''t or won''t perform, it''s time to boot them out and try a different approach.</p>\r\n<p><strong>It''s an established fact that home schooled children perform measurably better academically and socially than children educated in public schools.</strong></p>\r\n<p>Why are we continuing to pay for schools that have consistently failed to provide the one thing they''re paid to do:<strong> Educate our Children?</strong> Is Scotland County happy with a school system that has degenerated into an expensive baby sitting, day care and sports themed warehousing operation? <strong><br />\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>When parents decide to have children, that decision comes with the responsibility to do all within their power to to see that their offspring become responsible, productive citizens, not a burden to society.</p>\r\n<p>Why are Scotland County parents not forming homeschooling co-ops, like parents nationwide are doing every day? Over 10 million students are presently enrolled in home schooling, and that number continues to grow.</p>\r\n<p><strong>It''s time to put the monkey on the backs of those who cause and perpetuate our ills.</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>The Winners: </strong>Administrators, principals, teachers, assistants, counselors, coaches, maintenance personnel, bus drivers, contractors and lazy, sports addicted parents are making out like bandits. School Bus manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are winning the lottery every single day.</p>\r\n<p><strong>The Losers: </strong>Children and Taxpayers.</p>\r\n<p>It''s time to stop the BS, say <strong>NO!</strong> to the parasites and begin the hard, tough work necessary to protect our most precious asset.</p>\r\n<p><em><strong>Scotland County children deserve a fighting chance!</strong></em><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><br />\r\n</span></strong></p>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Mired in Depression (Part 2)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-health-ranks-99th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Health Ranks 99th</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Mired in Depression (Part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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. 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> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\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>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>', 'School Consolidation Discussion Misses the Mark', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1986-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:07:23', '2019-03-19 19:07:23', '', 1986, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1986-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3871, 1, '2019-03-19 15:09:23', '2019-03-19 19:09:23', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1146 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mayor-matthew-block_ccn-187x300.jpg" alt="mayor-matthew-block_ccn" width="187" height="300" />Laurinburg Mayor Matt Block''s crime spree continues unabated, at least according to some media pundits.</p>\r\n<p>Three recent motor vehicle citations for speeding, <span style="color: #000000;">reckless driving and wanton disregard can now be added to Doctor Block''s lengthy Rap Sheet which includes being a cardiologist, a purported federal tax scofflaw and a rumored purveyor of prescription medications.</span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Here''s one crime Mayor Block is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not guilty</span> of: Supporting City Council''s outrageous and extremely suspect plan to spend millions of dollars the City doesn''t have to construct a new ''Colonial Williamsburg'' style City Hall/Police Complex that is not needed and certainly not wanted</p>\r\n<p>Of course, we don''t champion careless, reckless or unlawful behavior, but that being said, we are not so naive as to be unmindful that there''s a lot of taxpayer money involved here and plenty of behind the scenes political shenanigans appear underway.</p>\r\n<p>Are the Mayor''s misfortunes something we should all be concerned about? Is Mayor Block spinning out of control, or is this just ''red meat'' laid out on the table for display by political opponents seeking to neutralize a recalcitrant mayor who refuses to ''play ball'' with powerful forces hell bent on pushing this debt laden albatross forward?</p>\r\n<p>There''s a crime being committed here all right, but it has nothing to do with Mayor Matt Block. This fiasco is about an out of control City Council with egos the size of Texas, and their immensely overpaid hireling, City Manager Charles Nichols.</p>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\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/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/county-considering-tax-rate-reduction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">County Considering Tax Rate Reduction</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. 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<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 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>', 'Mayor Block''s Crime Spree Continues', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1720-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:09:23', '2019-03-19 19:09:23', '', 1720, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1720-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3872, 1, '2019-03-19 15:10:59', '2019-03-19 19:10:59', '<p><img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.</p>\r\n<p>With a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.</p>\r\n<p>Turning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs. The time has come to actually ''create'' jobs.</p>\r\n<p>Employers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.</p>\r\n<p>Every city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the very time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.</p>\r\n<p>Add to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.</p>\r\n<p>We''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.</p>\r\n<p>We wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.</p>\r\n<p>It doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a <strong>race to the bottom</strong> and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.</p>\r\n<p>We expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We''ve got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites working behind closed doors, hiding from those who pay the bills.</p>\r\n<p><em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em></p>\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\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/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</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. 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<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>', 'Ward Named Economic Development Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1485-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:10:59', '2019-03-19 19:10:59', '', 1485, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1485-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3873, 1, '2019-03-19 15:11:27', '2019-03-19 19:11:27', '<p><img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.</p>\r\n<p>With a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.</p>\r\n<p>Turning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs. The time has come to actually ''create'' jobs.</p>\r\n<p>Employers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.</p>\r\n<p>Every city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the very time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.</p>\r\n<p>Add to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.</p>\r\n<p>We''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.</p>\r\n<p>We wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.</p>\r\n<p>It doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a <strong>race to the bottom</strong> and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.</p>\r\n<p>We expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We''ve got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites working behind closed doors, hiding from those who pay the bills.</p>\r\n<p><em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em></p>\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\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/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</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. 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<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>', 'Ward Named Scotland County Economic Development Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1485-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:11:27', '2019-03-19 19:11:27', '', 1485, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1485-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3874, 1, '2019-03-20 07:49:25', '2019-03-20 11:49:25', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant and easily corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They have chosen to become nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. It''s a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? Some would have us believe these are cell and broadband communication antennas and repeaters. That would be a lie. <strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Weapon'' that will, in the future be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>. Yes, gentle reader, there are forces beyond your understanding, imagination or comprehension at work. When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and follow me", he wasn''t kidding.  </p>\r\n<p><strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being launched.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems collapse, ruling elites don''t want and whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, reduce the sovereignty of our municipal corporation and allow the roll-out of dangerous, lethal technologies that will be used against us, all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-20 07:49:25', '2019-03-20 11:49:25', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3875, 1, '2019-03-20 07:50:43', '2019-03-20 11:50:43', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant and easily corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They have chosen to become nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. It''s a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? Some would have us believe these are cell and broadband communication antennas and repeaters. That would be a lie. <strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Weapon'' that will, in the future be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>. Yes, gentle reader, there are forces beyond your understanding, imagination or comprehension at work. When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and follow me", he wasn''t kidding. There is much work to be done.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being launched.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems collapse, ruling elites don''t want and whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, reduce the sovereignty of our municipal corporation and allow the roll-out of dangerous, lethal technologies that will be used against us, all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-20 07:50:43', '2019-03-20 11:50:43', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3876, 1, '2019-03-20 07:52:24', '2019-03-20 11:52:24', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant and easily corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They have chosen to become nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. It''s a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? Some would have us believe these are cell and broadband communication antennas and repeaters. This is incorrect. <strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Weapon'' that will in due course be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Yes, gentle reader, there are forces beyond your understanding, imagination or comprehension at work. When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and follow me", he wasn''t kidding. There is much work to be done here.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being launched.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems collapse, ruling elites don''t want and whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, reduce the sovereignty of our municipal corporation and allow the roll-out of dangerous, lethal technologies that will be used against us, all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-20 07:52:24', '2019-03-20 11:52:24', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3877, 1, '2019-03-20 08:07:06', '2019-03-20 12:07:06', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in violating the property owner''s civil rights and conceal illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her platoon of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove it. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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> won''t get the job done. Jesus was what today would be called a troublemaker, albeit one with plenty of courage.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under the circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3878, 1, '2019-03-20 08:15:58', '2019-03-20 12:15:58', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in violating the property owner''s civil rights and conceal illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her platoon of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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> won''t get the job done. Jesus was what today would be called a troublemaker, albeit one with plenty of courage.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under the circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3879, 1, '2019-03-20 08:21:29', '2019-03-20 12:21:29', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in violating the property owner''s civil rights and conceal illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her platoon of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under the circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3880, 1, '2019-03-20 08:24:02', '2019-03-20 12:24:02', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in violating the property owner''s civil rights and conceal illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her platoon of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can however be a recipe for disaster.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3881, 1, '2019-03-20 08:30:11', '2019-03-20 12:30:11', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in violating the property owner''s civil rights and conceal illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her platoon of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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>', 'Gibson''s Crime Wave - One Resident''s Frightening Story!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3744-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-20 08:30:11', '2019-03-20 12:30:11', '', 3744, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3744-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3882, 1, '2019-03-20 12:05:39', '2019-03-20 16:05:39', '<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 toilet, 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 analyzing ''recent comparable sales''. This methodology 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 on the poor 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><strong>this is the one that can be counted on to get the job done without setting off too many alarm bells</strong>.</i></p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>Fiddling with individual ''select'' property valuations especially 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 values increase, those of wealthy ruling elite''s somehow stay the same or even decline? </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 wealthy 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 or investing 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. 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 North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3581-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-20 12:05:39', '2019-03-20 16:05:39', '', 3581, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3581-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3883, 1, '2019-03-20 12:13:51', '2019-03-20 16:13:51', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant and easily manipulated and corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They are nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. While they actually think it''s funny, the truth is it''s a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? Some would have us believe these are cell and broadband communication antennas and repeaters. This is incorrect. <strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Weapon'' that will in due course be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Yes, gentle reader, there are forces beyond your understanding, imagination or comprehension at work. When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and follow me", he wasn''t kidding. There is much work to be done starting right here in Gibson.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being launched as part of Agenda 2030.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems fail, the last thing ruling elites want is a bunch and whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, reduce or eliminate the sovereignty of our municipal corporation (Town of Gibson) and allow the roll-out of dangerous, lethal technologies that will be used against us, all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-20 12:13:51', '2019-03-20 16:13:51', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3884, 1, '2019-03-20 12:14:20', '2019-03-20 16:14:20', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant, easily manipulated and corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They are nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. While they actually think it''s funny, the truth is it''s a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? Some would have us believe these are cell and broadband communication antennas and repeaters. This is incorrect. <strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Weapon'' that will in due course be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Yes, gentle reader, there are forces beyond your understanding, imagination or comprehension at work. When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and follow me", he wasn''t kidding. There is much work to be done starting right here in Gibson.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being launched as part of Agenda 2030.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems fail, the last thing ruling elites want is a bunch and whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, reduce or eliminate the sovereignty of our municipal corporation (Town of Gibson) and allow the roll-out of dangerous, lethal technologies that will be used against us, all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-20 12:14:20', '2019-03-20 16:14:20', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3885, 1, '2019-03-20 12:16:48', '2019-03-20 16:16:48', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but expensive and burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to assist in violating the property owner''s civil rights and conceal illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her platoon of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3886, 1, '2019-03-20 12:22:22', '2019-03-20 16:22:22', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but expensive and burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to confirm that the flooding with raw, untreated Town sewage  and pollution of North and South Carolina watersheds was actually the fault of the property owner, not the Town. Assisting in violating the property owner''s civil rights and concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities is serious business. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her bevy of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3887, 1, '2019-03-20 12:23:31', '2019-03-20 16:23:31', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but expensive and burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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 (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to confirm that the flooding with raw, untreated Town sewage  and pollution of North and South Carolina watersheds was actually the fault of the property owner, not the Town. Assisting in violating the property owner''s civil rights and concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities is serious business. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her bevy of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, not much appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3888, 1, '2019-03-20 12:26:13', '2019-03-20 16:26:13', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but expensive and burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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 (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to confirm that the flooding with raw, untreated Town sewage  and pollution of North and South Carolina watersheds was actually the fault of the property owner, not the Town. Assisting in violating the property owner''s civil rights and concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities is serious business. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her bevy of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, it appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. Living here is like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3889, 1, '2019-03-20 12:28:27', '2019-03-20 16:28:27', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but expensive and burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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 (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to confirm that the flooding with raw, untreated Town sewage and pollution of North and South Carolina watersheds was actually the fault of the property owner, not the Town. Assisting in violating the property owner''s civil rights and concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities is serious business. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her bevy of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, it appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. Living here is like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3890, 1, '2019-03-20 12:34:30', '2019-03-20 16:34:30', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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 (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to confirm that the flooding with raw, untreated Town sewage and pollution of North and South Carolina watersheds was actually the fault of the property owner, not the Town. Assisting in violating the property owner''s civil rights and concealing illegal activities from Federal and North and South Carolina state authorities is serious business. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her bevy of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, it appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. Living here is like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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(3891, 1, '2019-03-20 12:35:30', '2019-03-20 16:35:30', '<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>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals terrorize the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</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="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but they have an agenda all their own, so it''s really going to be up to us.</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 forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</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 precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit 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, likely 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 best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials, their 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 <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> 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 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 was 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, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering 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><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, 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 agree 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 (according to Ms. Hunsucker) as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to confirm that the flooding with raw, untreated Town sewage and pollution of North and South Carolina watersheds was actually the fault of the property owner, not the Town. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her bevy of goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, it appears 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 where is interest in actual enforcement? Rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. Living here is like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie.</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, an issue that continues to plague the community. 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 road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear 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 and threaten to remove the gate. The Town subsequently did remove 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 and calculated provocation, 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 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 plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited and had no cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s illegal trespass onto private property was no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an 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 in the other car 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 intruder 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 injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep 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 and action.  Jesus was what today would be called a big time ''troublemaker'', albeit one with plenty of courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" />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>The ''Rule of Law'' has been replaced by iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></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></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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