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(3817, 1, '2019-03-18 07:56:42', '2019-03-18 11:56:42', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are terrorizing the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize those who dare ''get out of line''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing ''select'' 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" /> Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its high personnel turnover rate, 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 unfortunately, they have their own agenda, and in the end it''s 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 gathering, birds, 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 time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, 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 right 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 Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their own debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, 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>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners rewarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has and continues to plague the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall and 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3818, 1, '2019-03-18 08:01:38', '2019-03-18 12:01:38', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are terrorizing the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents on their ''enemies list''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing ''select'' 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" /> Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its high personnel turnover rate, 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 unfortunately, they have their own agenda, and in the end it''s 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 gathering, birds, 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 time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to folks on their ''enemies list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, 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 right 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 Scotland County Social Services have shown any interest in correcting this situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their own debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, 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>.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredible assault is shocked, and disturbed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners rewarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems that a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that has and continues to plague the area. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall and 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3819, 1, '2019-03-18 08:09:49', '2019-03-18 12:09:49', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are terrorizing the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents on their ''enemies list''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing ''select'' 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" /> Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its high personnel turnover rate, 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 unfortunately, they have their own agenda, and in the end it''s 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, spring''s storm clouds, birds, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall and 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3820, 1, '2019-03-18 08:14:27', '2019-03-18 12:14:27', '<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>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are terrorizing the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents on their ''enemies list''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing ''select'' 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" /> Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its high personnel turnover rate, 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 unfortunately, they have their own agenda, and in the end it''s 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, spring''s storm clouds, birds, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash that 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3821, 1, '2019-03-18 08:21:06', '2019-03-18 12:21:06', '<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>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are terrorizing the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents on their ''enemies list''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing ''select'' 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" /> Scotland County''s Sheriff Department is admittedly overwhelmed due to its high personnel turnover rate, 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 unfortunately, they have their own agenda, and in the end it''s 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, spring''s storm clouds, birds, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash, 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3822, 1, '2019-03-18 08:22:17', '2019-03-18 12:22:17', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are terrorizing the community while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents on their ''enemies list''</b>.<b> </b>Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing ''select'' 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 in the end it''s 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, spring''s storm clouds, birds, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash, 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3823, 1, '2019-03-18 08:23:48', '2019-03-18 12:23:48', '<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>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals are terrorizing 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 ''select'' 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 in the end it''s 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, spring''s storm clouds, birds, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash, 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3824, 1, '2019-03-18 08:26:39', '2019-03-18 12:26:39', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals 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 ''select'' 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, who spends much of his time at prayer breakfasts, has brought in the Federal Police to try and get a handle on things, but in the end it''s 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, spring''s storm clouds, birds, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, attempting to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far 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. Unfortunately Ms. Hunsucker: the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite what you and your goons say.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights, 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared complain became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash, 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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, is a sure-fire 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. 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', '', '', '2019-03-18 08:26:39', '2019-03-18 12:26:39', '', 3744, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3744-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(3826, 1, '2019-03-19 12:44:46', '2019-03-19 16:44:46', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals 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 ''select'' 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, nonsensical 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 in the end it''s 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, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, 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 still flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Portier 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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, is a sure-fire 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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(3827, 1, '2019-03-19 12:57:28', '2019-03-19 16:57:28', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals 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 ''select'' 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, nonsensical 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 in the end it''s 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, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, 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 still flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her 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 there doesn''t appear to be much interest in actual enforcement; rather it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has instead been put in place. It''s like being in an old Rod Steiger, Sydney Portier 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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. 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', '', '', '2019-03-19 12:57:28', '2019-03-19 16:57:28', '', 3744, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3744-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3828, 1, '2019-03-19 13:09:23', '2019-03-19 17:09:23', '<p>Many Scotland County North Carolina property owners are opening mailboxes to discover a ''Notice of Real Property Assessed Value'' increase.</p>\r\n<p>The good news is: Your property is growing in value (at least, that''s what the Assessor says).</p>\r\n<p>The bad news is: <i><b>higher property tax bills are on the way</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3583 alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/taxpayer-with-empty-pockets-1.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="348" /></p>\r\n<p>How is it that properties are growing in value when the County''s economy remains in the ditch, population demographics continue heading south, and as anyone who has been trying to sell their property knows, buyers are scarce as hens teeth, causing continued downward pressure on already depressed prices.</p>\r\n<p>How did the Tax Assessor determine that things are so rosy as to cause valuation increases?</p>\r\n<p>Let''s see if we can sort this puzzle out.</p>\r\n<p>Licensed, certified real estate appraisers determine property values by analysing ''recent comparable sales''. This metric has long been considered the ''gold standard'' by real estate professionals when it comes to accurate price/valuation discovery.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County appears to be using a different method, that of determining how much money highly paid county officials, hangers-on, grifters, relatives, friends, cronies and other parasites need to continue cushy lifestyles, schemes and scams, and then raising taxes enough to cover this ever growing, seemingly insatiable need.</p>\r\n<p>County Commissioners have options when it comes to matching expenses with revenues:</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Downsize government to match the present reality (just like homeowners and businesses must do to avoid insolvency).</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Reduce waste, fraud, graft and corruption sufficient to balance expenses with revenues.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Sales Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Property Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties sufficient to grab enough money to fund the present bloated, outrageous situation.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>None of these options are perfect, but some are better than others as far as County Commissioners are concerned.</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try downsizing government and every public employee, spouse, child and pet will be at your doorstep screaming bloody murder.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try reducing waste, fraud, graft and corruption and ruling elites will be at your throat.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try increasing the Sales Tax Rate and angry voters could vote it down and you out of office.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase the Property ''Tax Rate'' and you could have a populist rebellion on your hands.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties... <i>this is the one that can be counted on to get the job done without setting off too many alarm bells.</i></p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>Fiddling with individual ''select'' property valuations 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 property values increase, those of wealthy property owners 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 rich from trying.</p>\r\n<p><b>Commissioners</b> refusing to deal with problems, instead, dumping them at the Tax Collector or other agency doorsteps isn''t a new game; it''s tried and true.</p>\r\n<p>Anyone who has stood in line to pay property taxes knows lots of folks are having trouble paying current tax bills, and the last thing needed is to now owe even more. Times are tough, many of our friends and neighbours are hurting.</p>\r\n<p>County officials make tons of money and fantastic benefits, and many don''t even live in the county, so increased property taxes doesn''t mean much to them.</p>\r\n<p>Voters recently told County Commissioners <i><b>they''d had enough</b></i> when they voted down the proposed sales tax increase, but Commissioners didn''t get the message and are now <b>increasing tax collections</b> by going through the ''back door''.</p>\r\n<p>This may seem like an innocent game of cat and mouse, but there are real consequences for us, our county and our future.</p>\r\n<p>Every dollar paid in taxes, fees and licenses means less money in our pockets for house payments, rent, car payments/repairs, insurance, clothing, food, education, medications, utilities, dining out, etc.</p>\r\n<p>Less money spent at local businesses means fewer local jobs and less revenue paid into county, state and federal coffers in the form of taxes.</p>\r\n<p>Trying to hide tax increases by selectively raising property valuations may fool some, but it doesn''t fool most prospective property buyers. When buyers determine property taxes are too high, they simply stay away or adjust the offering price downward to compensate, making it even harder for sellers to receive prices they can live with, prices that will allow them to achieve escape velocity from Scotland County.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Scotland County Commissioners have created and are now perpetuating an extremely dangerous ''negative feedback loop'' that is drowning us in bonded debt, onerous property taxes, sales taxes and fees which discourage shopping in the county.</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Is it any wonder that out of 100 counties in North Carolina, Scotland County comes in dead last in virtually every category?</p>\r\n<p>A County Commissioner''s job isn''t easy, nor was it meant to be. If you don''t have the courage, time or inclination, or if you''re just too lazy or uniformed, then maybe it''s time to move on down the road.</p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Hollowing Out Rural America" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/hollowing-out-rural-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hollowing Out Rural America</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/economic-warning-to-u-s-all-dominoes-fall-the-same-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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 Property Taxes on the Rise', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3581-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:09:23', '2019-03-19 17:09:23', '', 3581, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3581-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3829, 1, '2019-03-19 13:11:40', '2019-03-19 17:11:40', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals 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 ''select'' 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, nonsensical 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 in the end it''s 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, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, 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 still flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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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(3830, 1, '2019-03-19 13:12:18', '2019-03-19 17:12:18', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals 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, nonsensical 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 in the end it''s 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, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, 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 still flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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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(3831, 1, '2019-03-19 13:13:29', '2019-03-19 17:13:29', '<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>Hardened, 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, nonsensical 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 in the end it''s 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, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, 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 still flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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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(3832, 1, '2019-03-19 13:14:24', '2019-03-19 17:14:24', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals 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, nonsensical 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, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, 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 still flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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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(3833, 1, '2019-03-19 13:18:54', '2019-03-19 17:18:54', '<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">crime wave</span></a> </b></span></span> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is committing ''Municipal Suicide'', and so far it''s a rip-roaring success.</p>\r\n<p>Hardened, armed, violent, recidivist criminals 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, 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 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 right 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 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>.</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 think a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables, 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 still flows downhill despite what Ms. Hunsucker and her 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. The Town subsequently removed the gate on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate 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 property. He had not been invited and had no reason 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 a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed robber and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Criminal Conspiracy is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously 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 reputation and a rap sheet to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme troublemaking bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the score, but is frightened and too cowardly to act.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> won''t get the job done.</p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office over at Town Hall 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. 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', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:18:54', '2019-03-19 17:18:54', '', 3744, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3744-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(3834, 1, '2019-03-19 13:23:02', '2019-03-19 17:23:02', '<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3496" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dont-talk-to-the-police-300x157.png" alt="" width="506" height="265" /></p>\r\n<p>According to this prominent attorney and legal scholar, whether you are innocent or guilty, here is why you absolutely, positively <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>never</strong></span> ever want to talk to the police:</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials." You can download his article <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1998119" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>. </p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d-7o9xYp7eE" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\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 class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" spellcheck="false" href="https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Regent University School of Law</a></span></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/police-state-is-creating-a-suspect-society/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Police State is Creating a Suspect Society</a></span></address>\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/three-steps-to-get-government-out-of-your-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Three Steps to Get Government Out of Your Life</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<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>', 'Why You Don''t Want to Talk to the Police (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3493-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:23:02', '2019-03-19 17:23:02', '', 3493, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3493-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3835, 1, '2019-03-19 13:35:07', '2019-03-19 17:35:07', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3329 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nc-governor-roy-cooper-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"The NC Media was nowhere to be found. In fact, a Google search shows <em><strong>zero stories</strong></em> from any news outlet in the state save one – an LGBT specific one called Qnotes.</p>\r\n<p>The lack of news coverage is troubling, given that on December 13th, the Charlotte LGBT Chamber’s Facebook page excitedly announced the Governor had accepted their invitation.</p>\r\n<p>Nothing was mentioned about the event on Governor Cooper’s official or campaign-related social media. Nothing was found about it on the governor’s website." <a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" 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="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</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/brianna-nicole-stanley-let-the-punishment-fit-the-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brianna Nicole Stanley – Let the Punishment Fit the Crime</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/soros-funded-group-mailing-absentee-ballot-applications-to-north-carolina-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Soros Funded Group Mailing Absentee Ballot Applications to North Carolina Voters</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-medicaid-moves-forward-with-managed-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NC Medicaid Moves Forward With Managed Care</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. 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>&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>', 'NC Governor Cooper Attends Gala Hosted By Sex Offender', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3326-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:35:07', '2019-03-19 17:35:07', '', 3326, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3326-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3836, 1, '2019-03-19 13:36:20', '2019-03-19 17:36:20', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3329 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nc-governor-roy-cooper-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"North Carolina Media was nowhere to be found. In fact, a Google search shows <em><strong>zero stories</strong></em> from any news outlet in the state save one – an LGBT specific one called Qnotes.</p>\r\n<p>The lack of news coverage is troubling, given that on December 13th, the Charlotte LGBT Chamber’s Facebook page excitedly announced that Governor Roy Cooper had accepted their invitation.</p>\r\n<p>Nothing was mentioned about the event on Governor Cooper’s official or campaign-related social media. Nothing was found about it on the governor’s website." <a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" 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="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</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/brianna-nicole-stanley-let-the-punishment-fit-the-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brianna Nicole Stanley – Let the Punishment Fit the Crime</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/soros-funded-group-mailing-absentee-ballot-applications-to-north-carolina-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Soros Funded Group Mailing Absentee Ballot Applications to North Carolina Voters</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-medicaid-moves-forward-with-managed-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NC Medicaid Moves Forward With Managed Care</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. 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>&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>', 'NC Governor Cooper Attends Gala Hosted By Sex Offender', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3326-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:36:20', '2019-03-19 17:36:20', '', 3326, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3326-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3837, 1, '2019-03-19 13:36:51', '2019-03-19 17:36:51', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3329 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nc-governor-roy-cooper-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"North Carolina Media was nowhere to be found. In fact, a Google search shows <em><strong>zero stories</strong></em> from any news outlet in the state save one – an LGBT specific one called Qnotes.</p>\r\n<p>The lack of news coverage is troubling, given that on December 13th, the Charlotte LGBT Chamber’s Facebook page excitedly announced that Governor Roy Cooper had accepted their invitation.</p>\r\n<p>Nothing was mentioned about the event on Governor Cooper’s official or campaign-related social media. Nothing was found about it on the governor’s website." <a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" 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="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</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/brianna-nicole-stanley-let-the-punishment-fit-the-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brianna Nicole Stanley – Let the Punishment Fit the Crime</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/soros-funded-group-mailing-absentee-ballot-applications-to-north-carolina-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Soros Funded Group Mailing Absentee Ballot Applications to North Carolina Voters</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-medicaid-moves-forward-with-managed-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NC Medicaid Moves Forward With Managed Care</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. 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>&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>', 'North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Attends Gala Hosted By Sex Offender', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3326-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:36:51', '2019-03-19 17:36:51', '', 3326, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3326-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3838, 1, '2019-03-19 13:40:02', '2019-03-19 17:40:02', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3329 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nc-governor-roy-cooper-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"North Carolina Media was nowhere to be found. In fact, a Google search shows <em><strong>zero stories</strong></em> from any news outlet in the state save one – an LGBT specific one called Qnotes.</p>\r\n<p>The lack of news coverage is troubling, given that on December 13th, the Charlotte LGBT Chamber’s Facebook page excitedly announced that Governor Roy Cooper had accepted their invitation.</p>\r\n<p>Nothing was mentioned about the event on Governor Cooper’s official or campaign-related social media. Nothing was found about it on the governor’s website." <a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" 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="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/29/nc-governor-attends-gala-hosted-registered-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</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/brianna-nicole-stanley-let-the-punishment-fit-the-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brianna Nicole Stanley – Let the Punishment Fit the Crime</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/soros-funded-group-mailing-absentee-ballot-applications-to-north-carolina-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Soros Funded Group Mailing Absentee Ballot Applications to North Carolina Voters</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-medicaid-moves-forward-with-managed-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NC Medicaid Moves Forward With Managed Care</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. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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>', 'North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Attends Gala Hosted By Sex Offender', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3326-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:40:02', '2019-03-19 17:40:02', '', 3326, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3326-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3839, 1, '2019-03-19 13:52:14', '2019-03-19 17:52:14', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1163 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/who-is-spying-on-you-300x158.jpg" alt="who-is-spying-on-you" width="300" height="158" />We''re all familiar with Cell Phone Towers, they''re virtually everywhere, but did you know that most towers have little to do with providing legitimate cell communications?<span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>That''s right, these towers use illegal <strong>''Stingray''</strong> and other technologies like <strong>IMSI Catcher, HailStorm, DRT Box</strong> and <strong>PRISM</strong> to track, collect and record <strong>all</strong> cellular and digital communications. They are erected and maintained by a local communications company that leases space to local Law Enforcement which uses Federal grant money to pay the bill.</p>\r\n<p>Still don''t get it? <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/new-rules-create-spying-partnership-between-local-police-nsa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Every</span></a></strong></span> cell and digital communication you participate in is tracked, captured, recorded, saved, stored and analyzed by local and state law enforcement using software driven by AI algos. This information is then shared with the FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, ATF, DHS and the plethora of other Federal agencies through over 100 <strong>Fusion Centers</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>The fact that this is <strong>NOT</strong> lawful isn''t stopping local Police and County Sheriffs from tracking your every move, conversation, text message and keystroke as part of a nationwide effort to ensure Americans remain compliant and ''under control'' while the New World Order Agenda 2030 works its magic to<strong> enslave</strong> mankind. The ''deep state'' uses this information as necessary to <strong>blackmail</strong> politicians and anyone else they need to stay silent and go along with the charade of democracy.</p>\r\n<p>In addition, new utility and street lighting poles are equipped with extremely sensitive microphones that pick up <strong>all </strong>nearby conversations.</p>\r\n<p>Worse yet, Federal Grants now fund <strong>Drone</strong> purchases by local and state law enforcement which allow your every move to be viewed and recorded in real time without you being aware. Drones hover high enough overhead that you can''t see or hear them. Without any Warrant, <strong>Law Enforcement can, in Ultra High Definition, watch your teenage daughter sunbathe in the backyard or lie naked in her bedroom</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>As if all this isn''t bad enough, another even more powerful military grade ''frequency weapon'' is now coming online disguised as a new, faster wireless system called 5G (5th generation wireless).</p>\r\n<p>Is it any wonder Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about our growing Police State?</p>\r\n<p>America''s real struggle isn''t Black, White, Hispanic, Christian, Islam or even Terrorism, it''s about the 99% being enslaved by the 1%.</p>\r\n<p>The world we and our children will live in tomorrow is being decided by the choices we make today.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>The feds sell the technology in the name of “anti-terrorism” efforts. With non-disclosure agreements in place, most police departments refuse to release any information on the use of stingrays. But information obtained from the Tacoma Police Department revealed that it uses the technology primarily for routine criminal investigations.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="https://offnow.org/new-york-bills-would-require-judicial-order-for-the-use-of-stingrays-hinder-federal-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></span></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</a></span></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><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video)</span></a></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<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>', 'Who''s Spying on You?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '932-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:52:14', '2019-03-19 17:52:14', '', 932, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/932-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3840, 1, '2019-03-19 13:55:20', '2019-03-19 17:55:20', '<p>Many Scotland County North Carolina property owners are opening mailboxes to discover a ''Notice of Real Property Assessed Value'' increase.</p>\r\n<p>The good news is: Your property is growing in value (at least, that''s what the Assessor says).</p>\r\n<p>The bad news is: <i><b>higher property tax bills are on the way</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3583 alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/taxpayer-with-empty-pockets-1.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="348" /></p>\r\n<p>How is it that properties are growing in value when the County''s economy remains in the ditch, population demographics continue heading south, and as anyone who has been trying to sell their property knows, buyers are scarce as hens teeth, causing continued downward pressure on already depressed prices.</p>\r\n<p>How did the Tax Assessor determine that things are so rosy as to cause valuation increases?</p>\r\n<p>Let''s see if we can sort this puzzle out.</p>\r\n<p>Licensed, certified real estate appraisers determine property values by analysing ''recent comparable sales''. This metric has long been considered the ''gold standard'' by real estate professionals when it comes to accurate price/valuation discovery.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County appears to be using a different method, that of determining how much money highly paid county officials, hangers-on, grifters, relatives, friends, cronies and other parasites need to continue cushy lifestyles, schemes and scams, and then raising taxes enough to cover this ever growing, seemingly insatiable need.</p>\r\n<p>County Commissioners have options when it comes to matching expenses with revenues:</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Downsize government to match the present reality (just like homeowners and businesses must do to avoid insolvency).</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Reduce waste, fraud, graft and corruption sufficient to balance expenses with revenues.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Sales Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Property Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties sufficient to grab enough money to fund the present bloated, outrageous situation.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>None of these options are perfect, but some are better than others as far as County Commissioners are concerned.</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try downsizing government and every public employee, spouse, child and pet will be at your doorstep screaming bloody murder.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try reducing waste, fraud, graft and corruption and ruling elites will be at your throat.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try increasing the Sales Tax Rate and angry voters could vote it down and you out of office.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase the Property ''Tax Rate'' and you could have a populist rebellion on your hands.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties... <i>this is the one that can be counted on to get the job done without setting off too many alarm bells.</i></p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>Fiddling with individual ''select'' property valuations 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 property values increase, those of wealthy property owners 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 rich from trying.</p>\r\n<p><b>Commissioners</b> refusing to deal with problems, instead, dumping them at the Tax Collector or other agency doorsteps isn''t a new game; it''s tried and true.</p>\r\n<p>Anyone who has stood in line to pay property taxes knows lots of folks are having trouble paying current tax bills, and the last thing needed is to now owe even more. Times are tough, many of our friends and neighbours are hurting.</p>\r\n<p>County officials make tons of money and fantastic benefits, and many don''t even live in the county, so increased property taxes doesn''t mean much to them.</p>\r\n<p>Voters recently told County Commissioners <i><b>they''d had enough</b></i> when they voted down the proposed sales tax increase, but Commissioners didn''t get the message and are now <b>increasing tax collections</b> by going through the ''back door''.</p>\r\n<p>This may seem like an innocent game of cat and mouse, but there are real consequences for us, our county and our future.</p>\r\n<p>Every dollar paid in taxes, fees and licenses means less money in our pockets for house payments, rent, car payments/repairs, insurance, clothing, food, education, medications, utilities, dining out, etc.</p>\r\n<p>Less money spent at local businesses means fewer local jobs and less revenue paid into county, state and federal coffers in the form of taxes.</p>\r\n<p>Trying to hide tax increases by selectively raising property valuations may fool some, but it doesn''t fool most prospective property buyers. When buyers determine property taxes are too high, they simply stay away or adjust the offering price downward to compensate, making it even harder for sellers to receive prices they can live with, prices that will allow them to achieve escape velocity from Scotland County.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Scotland County Commissioners have created and are now perpetuating an extremely dangerous ''negative feedback loop'' that is drowning us in bonded debt, onerous property taxes, sales taxes and fees which discourage shopping in the county.</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Is it any wonder that out of 100 counties in North Carolina, Scotland County comes in dead last in virtually every category?</p>\r\n<p>A County Commissioner''s job isn''t easy, nor was it meant to be. If you don''t have the courage, time or inclination, or if you''re just too lazy or uniformed, then maybe it''s time to move on down the road.</p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Hollowing Out Rural America" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/hollowing-out-rural-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hollowing Out Rural America</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/economic-warning-to-u-s-all-dominoes-fall-the-same-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:55:20', '2019-03-19 17:55:20', '', 3581, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3581-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3841, 1, '2019-03-19 13:58:16', '2019-03-19 17:58:16', '<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 a stinking, festering, fetid 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 ''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>Ruling elites consider <strong>Gibson to be 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 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. Pension systems will collapse during the next financial crises and whiny, panicked cry babies could stampede the rest of the Sheeple herd.</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 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 13:58:16', '2019-03-19 17:58:16', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3842, 1, '2019-03-19 13:58:41', '2019-03-19 17:58:41', '<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 a stinking, festering, fetid 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 ''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>Ruling elites consider <strong>Gibson to be 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 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. Pension systems will collapse during the next financial crises and whiny, panicked cry babies could stampede the rest of the Sheeple herd.</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 13:58:41', '2019-03-19 17:58:41', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(3843, 1, '2019-03-19 14:03:18', '2019-03-19 18:03:18', '<p><img class=" wp-image-3009 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/nc-phd-in-social-justice-300x185.jpg" alt="" width="392" height="242" /></p>\r\n<p>Just as you thought things couldn''t get any crazier... <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"NCSU College Republicans chairman Kye Laughter told Campus Reform he views this new Ph.D. program as a way to push social justice on future students.</p>\r\n<p>“I think any person pursuing a degree or a Ph.D. in social justice already has an agenda in mind and this field will only allow bias to grow not only among those in academia but for those being taught this dangerous ideology,” Laughter said." <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-15/nc-state-rolls-out-phd-social-justice-education" 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<span style="color: #0000ff;">Zero Hedge</span></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/homeschooling-part-1-why-you-should-start-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Homeschooling – Part 1 – Why You Should Start Now</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/homeschooling-part-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Homeschooling – Part 2 – Why You Should Start Now</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/automation-equals-fewer-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Automation = Fewer Jobs</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. 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>&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>', 'North Carolina State University to offer Doctorate in Social Justice', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2942-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:03:18', '2019-03-19 18:03:18', '', 2942, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/2942-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3845, 1, '2019-03-19 14:05:10', '2019-03-19 18:05:10', '<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1615 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/healthy-wealthy-and-wise-300x134.jpg" alt="healthy-wealthy-and-wise" width="300" height="134" />''Healthy, Wealthy and Wise'' as the old saying goes. <strong>Without good health, the rest doesn''t really matter.</strong> Scotland County''s 2nd to last placing in North Carolina''s latest Health rankings is but one more sign that we''re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.</p>\r\n<p>Are more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?</p>\r\n<p>The fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.</p>\r\n<p>Between the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship will have traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.</p>\r\n<p>It''s no different for us. We must first desire to become healthy, then we must develop a realistic plan and implement it. Lastly, we must give it time to succeed.</p>\r\n<p>Obesity is the number two cause (behind smoking) of many of life''s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. Fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight; if the same, we will maintain our weight; if less, we will lose weight.</p>\r\n<p>If we are slightly overweight our plan may take just a couple of months to reach its goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more.</p>\r\n<p>Diets, especially fad diets, are rarely successful. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan will shed those extra pounds and keep them off. Slow and steady gets the job done.</p>\r\n<p>Only 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars, including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.</p>\r\n<p>It''s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as bread and pasta turn into sugars during the digestive process.</p>\r\n<p>Diet sodas and other ''diet'' foods don''t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many ''diet'' products could be responsible for the explosion we''re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnosis.</p>\r\n<p>There''s never been a better time to be alive, and it''s never been easier to enjoy good health.</p>\r\n<address>Source:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/sites/default/files/state/downloads/CHR2015_NC_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CountyHealthRankings.org</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/the-one-thing-that-can-save-us-all-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The One Thing that Can Save Us All! 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(3846, 1, '2019-10-16 15:23:24', '2019-10-16 19:23:24', '<h2>Your Government</h2>\n<p><em><strong>Fear knowledge, embrace ignorance</strong></em></p>\n<p><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-3798 " src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="302" height="154" />Town Hall</strong>:</p>\n<p>4681 Main Street<br />\nGibson NC 28343<br />\n910-268-4291<br />\nEmail: towngibson@outlook.com</p>\n<p>Mailing Address:<br />\nPO Box 256<br />\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2209 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum-001-300x176.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum 001" width="300" height="176" />Town Meeting Location:</strong></p>\n<p>Gibson Historical Community<br />\nDepot &amp; Museum<br />\n13620 Oil Mill Road, Gibson, NC 28343</p>\n<p>See meeting dates and times <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Clerk</strong></span>: Angela (''Angie'') Hunsucker</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Mayor</strong></span>:</p>\n<p>Ronnie Hudson<br />\n6101 X-Way Road<br />\nGibson NC 28343<br />\n910-268-4498</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Commissioners</strong></span>:</p>\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Ken Haney<br />\n6080 Main Street<br />\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\n910-268-3305</p>\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Stephen Hudson<br />\n4940 Main Street<br />\nGibson NC 28343<br />\n910-997-5061</p>\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Adam Liles<br />\nPO Box 362<br />\nGibson NC 28343<br />\n910-607-4049</p>\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Randy Pearson<br />\n4940 Main Street<br />\nGibson NC 28343<br />\n910-268-4760<br />\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></p>\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: 360px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 - Town Government', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3348-autosave-v1', '', '', '2019-10-16 15:23:24', '2019-10-16 19:23:24', '', 3348, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3348-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3847, 1, '2019-03-19 14:13:26', '2019-03-19 18:13:26', '<h2>Your Government</h2>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2211 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall-001-300x153.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall 001" width="300" height="153" />Town Hall</strong>:</p>\r\n<p>4681 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4291<br />\r\nEmail: towngibson (at) outlook (dot) com</p>\r\n<p>Mailing Address:<br />\r\nPO Box 256<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2209 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum-001-300x176.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum 001" width="300" height="176" />Town Meeting Location:</strong></p>\r\n<p>Gibson Historical Community<br />\r\nDepot &amp; Museum<br />\r\n13620 Oil Mill Road, Gibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>See meeting dates and times <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Clerk</strong></span>: Angela (''Angie'') Hunsucker</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Mayor</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p>Ronnie Hudson<br />\r\n6101 X-Way Road<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4498</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Commissioners</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Ken Haney<br />\r\n6080 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-3305</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Stephen Hudson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-997-5061</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Adam Liles<br />\r\nPO Box 362<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-607-4049</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Randy Pearson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4760<br />\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></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: 360px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>', 'Gibson Government', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3348-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:13:26', '2019-03-19 18:13:26', '', 3348, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3348-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3848, 1, '2019-03-19 14:14:16', '2019-03-19 18:14:16', '<h2>Your Government</h2>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2211 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall-001-300x153.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall 001" width="300" height="153" />Town Hall</strong>:</p>\r\n<p>4681 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4291<br />\r\nEmail: towngibson (at) outlook (dot) com</p>\r\n<p>Mailing Address:<br />\r\nPO Box 256<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2209 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum-001-300x176.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum 001" width="300" height="176" />Town Meeting Location:</strong></p>\r\n<p>Gibson Historical Community<br />\r\nDepot &amp; Museum<br />\r\n13620 Oil Mill Road, Gibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>See meeting dates and times <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Clerk</strong></span>: Angela (''Angie'') Hunsucker</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Mayor</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p>Ronnie Hudson<br />\r\n6101 X-Way Road<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4498</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Commissioners</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Ken Haney<br />\r\n6080 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-3305</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Stephen Hudson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-997-5061</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Adam Liles<br />\r\nPO Box 362<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-607-4049</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Randy Pearson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4760<br />\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></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: 360px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Town Government', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3348-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:14:16', '2019-03-19 18:14:16', '', 3348, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3348-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(3851, 1, '2019-03-19 14:18:02', '2019-03-19 18:18:02', '<h2>Your Government</h2>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2211 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall-001-300x153.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall 001" width="300" height="153" />Town Hall</strong>:</p>\r\n<p>4681 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4291<br />\r\nEmail: towngibson (at) outlook (dot) com</p>\r\n<p>Mailing Address:<br />\r\nPO Box 256<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2209 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum-001-300x176.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum 001" width="300" height="176" />Town Meeting Location:</strong></p>\r\n<p>Gibson Historical Community<br />\r\nDepot &amp; Museum<br />\r\n13620 Oil Mill Road, Gibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>See meeting dates and times <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Clerk</strong></span>: Angela (''Angie'') Hunsucker</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Mayor</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p>Ronnie Hudson<br />\r\n6101 X-Way Road<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4498</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Commissioners</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Ken Haney<br />\r\n6080 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-3305</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Stephen Hudson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-997-5061</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Adam Liles<br />\r\nPO Box 362<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-607-4049</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Randy Pearson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4760<br />\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></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: 360px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 - Town Government', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3348-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:18:02', '2019-03-19 18:18:02', '', 3348, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3348-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3852, 1, '2019-03-19 14:18:40', '2019-03-19 18:18:40', '<h2>Your Government</h2>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2211 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall-001-300x153.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Hall 001" width="300" height="153" />Town Hall</strong>:</p>\r\n<p>4681 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4291<br />\r\nEmail: towngibson@outlook.com</p>\r\n<p>Mailing Address:<br />\r\nPO Box 256<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2209 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum-001-300x176.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Town-Depot-Museum 001" width="300" height="176" />Town Meeting Location:</strong></p>\r\n<p>Gibson Historical Community<br />\r\nDepot &amp; Museum<br />\r\n13620 Oil Mill Road, Gibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>See meeting dates and times <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Clerk</strong></span>: Angela (''Angie'') Hunsucker</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Mayor</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p>Ronnie Hudson<br />\r\n6101 X-Way Road<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4498</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Town Commissioners</strong></span>:</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Ken Haney<br />\r\n6080 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-3305</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Stephen Hudson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-997-5061</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Adam Liles<br />\r\nPO Box 362<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-607-4049</p>\r\n<p><em>Commissioner</em>: Randy Pearson<br />\r\n4940 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson NC 28343<br />\r\n910-268-4760<br />\r\n<span style="border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px/20px ''Helvetica Neue'',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% / 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;">Save</span></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: 360px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 - Town Government', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3348-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:18:40', '2019-03-19 18:18:40', '', 3348, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3348-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3853, 1, '2019-03-19 14:20:04', '2019-03-19 18:20:04', '<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2220 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-Baptist-Church-001-300x184.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-Baptist-Church 001" width="300" height="184" />Gibson Baptist Church</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Main St.<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28345<br />\r\n(910) 268-4759</p>\r\n<p>Pastor: Rev. David Benton</p>\r\n<p>Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.</p>\r\n<p>Worship: 11:00 a.m.</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2226 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-United-Methodist-Church-001-300x219.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-United-Methodist-Church 001" width="300" height="219" />Gibson Methodist Church</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Church St.<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28345</p>\r\n<p>Pastors: Revs. Pat &amp; John Butson</p>\r\n<p>Worship: 11:00 a.m.</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>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 - Churches', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3341-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:20:04', '2019-03-19 18:20:04', '', 3341, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3341-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3854, 1, '2019-03-19 14:22:04', '2019-03-19 18:22:04', '<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-2224" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-Bonded-Warehouse-001-300x185.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-Bonded-Warehouse 001" width="190" height="117" />Agricultural: Gibson Bonded Cotton Warehouse</strong></span></p>\n<p>Main St<br />\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-2202" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Mumfords-Service-Center-300x181.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Mumford''s-Service-Center" width="190" height="114" />Automotive: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mumford''s Service Center</span></strong></span></p>\n<p>Gas, general automotive repairs and tire installation and repair.</p>\n<p>4650 Main St<br />\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\n<p>(910) 268-4411</p>\n<p>Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-2198" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience-001-300x153.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience 001" width="190" height="97" />Gas, Convenience, Deli &amp; U-Haul Rentals: Liberty Short Trip - Gibson<br />\n</strong></span></p>\n<p>Deli offering Breakfast and Lunch. Pizza and breadsticks available until 9:00 p.m.</p>\n<p>4380 Main St<br />\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\n<p><img class="alignright wp-image-2200" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience-003-300x225.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience 003" width="190" height="143" />(910) 268-2848</p>\n<p>Hours:</p>\n<p>Mon-Sat: 6:30 am - 10:00 pm<br />\nSun: 8:00 am - 10:00 pm<br />\nU-Haul Dropoff: 24 hr. key drop available</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_0898.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="alignright wp-image-2278 " src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_0898-300x225.jpg" alt="Scotland Recycling Information" width="207" height="155" /></a>Household Recycling: Scotland County Recycling - Gibson Station</strong></span></p>\n<p>Full service recycling and solid waste disposal center.</p>\n<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Click Image to View Details --&gt;</span></strong></p>\n<p><em>Williamson/Livingston Quarters:</em></p>\n<p>16600 St. John''s Church Road<br />\nGibson 28343<br />\nPhone: (910) 462-4387<br />\nHours: Monday, Wednesday and Saturday - 7:00 am - 6:00 pm</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="size-full wp-image-2275 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Excede-Wildblue_Logo.jpg" alt="Excede-Wildblue_Logo" width="201" height="104" />Internet Provider: Exede Wildblue</strong></span></p>\n<p>Website: click <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.satellitebroadbandisp.com/wildblue/north_carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.<br />\nToll Free: (877) 218-9676</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class=" wp-image-2207 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Post-Office-300x171.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Post-Office" width="195" height="111" />Postal Services: US Postal Service</strong></span></p>\n<p>4580 Main Street<br />\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\n(910) 268-4402<br />\nHours: Monday - Friday: 10am to 1pm and 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm (<span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Closed: 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm</em></span>); Saturday: 8:30-11:00</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-1298" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Google-Profile.png" alt="Google Profile" width="190" height="190" />Media Services: Carolina Crossroads News</strong></span></p>\n<p>Email us <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.<br />\nToll Free: (888) 472-7555</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2204 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Oil-Mill-Salvage-Recyclers-002-300x133.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Oil-Mill-Salvage-Recyclers 002" width="300" height="133" />Scrap Metal Salvage &amp; Recycle: Oldmill Salvage &amp; Recycling</strong></span></p>\n<p>13840 Oilmill Road<br />\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\n(910) 268-2111</p>\n<p>Hours:</p>\n<p><img class="alignright wp-image-2205" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Oil-Mill-Salvage-Recyclers-003-300x300.jpg" width="190" height="191" />Monday thru Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.<br />\nSaturday: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.<br />\nSunday: Closed</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class=" wp-image-2277 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Duke-Energy-Logo-300x96.png" alt="Duke Energy Logo" width="197" height="63" />Utilities: Electric - Duke Energy<br />\n</strong></span></p>\n<p>Website: Click <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.progress-energy.com/carolinas/home/index.page?loc=Carolinas" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.<br />\nToll Free: (800) 452-2777</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Utilities: Water, Sewer &amp; Garbage</strong></span></p>\n<p>Contact Town of Gibson <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/town-of-gibson/">here</a></span>.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE</em>: Trash carts must be properly placed at the curb <em>no later than 5:00 a.m.</em> on Wednesday.</p>\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: 1644px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>\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: 188px; left: 757px;">Save</span></p>\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: 1396px; left: 775px;">Save</span></p>\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: 1164px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>\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: 1164px; left: 647px;">Save</span></p>\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: 956px; left: 757px;">Save</span></p>\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: 2284px; left: 757px;">Save</span></p>\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: 1164px; left: 740px;">Save</span></p>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 - Businesses & Services', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3336-autosave-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:22:04', '2019-03-19 18:22:04', '', 3336, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3336-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3855, 1, '2019-03-19 14:22:24', '2019-03-19 18:22:24', '<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-2224" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-Bonded-Warehouse-001-300x185.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Gibson-Bonded-Warehouse 001" width="190" height="117" />Agricultural: Gibson Bonded Cotton Warehouse</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Main St<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-2202" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Mumfords-Service-Center-300x181.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Mumford''s-Service-Center" width="190" height="114" />Automotive: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mumford''s Service Center</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Gas, general automotive repairs and tire installation and repair.</p>\r\n<p>4650 Main St<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p>(910) 268-4411</p>\r\n<p>Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-2198" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience-001-300x153.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience 001" width="190" height="97" />Gas, Convenience, Deli &amp; U-Haul Rentals: Liberty Short Trip - Gibson<br />\r\n</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Deli offering Breakfast and Lunch. Pizza and breadsticks available until 9:00 p.m.</p>\r\n<p>4380 Main St<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright wp-image-2200" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience-003-300x225.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Liberty-Gas-Convenience 003" width="190" height="143" />(910) 268-2848</p>\r\n<p>Hours:</p>\r\n<p>Mon-Sat: 6:30 am - 10:00 pm<br />\r\nSun: 8:00 am - 10:00 pm<br />\r\nU-Haul Dropoff: 24 hr. key drop available</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_0898.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="alignright wp-image-2278 " src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_0898-300x225.jpg" alt="Scotland Recycling Information" width="207" height="155" /></a>Household Recycling: Scotland County Recycling - Gibson Station</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Full service recycling and solid waste disposal center.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Click Image to View Details --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><em>Williamson/Livingston Quarters:</em></p>\r\n<p>16600 St. John''s Church Road<br />\r\nGibson 28343<br />\r\nPhone: (910) 462-4387<br />\r\nHours: Monday, Wednesday and Saturday - 7:00 am - 6:00 pm</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="size-full wp-image-2275 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Excede-Wildblue_Logo.jpg" alt="Excede-Wildblue_Logo" width="201" height="104" />Internet Provider: Exede Wildblue</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Website: click <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.satellitebroadbandisp.com/wildblue/north_carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.<br />\r\nToll Free: (877) 218-9676</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class=" wp-image-2207 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Post-Office-300x171.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Post-Office" width="195" height="111" />Postal Services: US Postal Service</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>4580 Main Street<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\r\n(910) 268-4402<br />\r\nHours: Monday - Friday: 10am to 1pm and 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm (<span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Closed: 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm</em></span>); Saturday: 8:30-11:00</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-1298" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Google-Profile.png" alt="Google Profile" width="190" height="190" />Media Services: Carolina Crossroads News</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Email us <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.<br />\r\nToll Free: (888) 472-7555</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-2204 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Oil-Mill-Salvage-Recyclers-002-300x133.jpg" alt="CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Oil-Mill-Salvage-Recyclers 002" width="300" height="133" />Scrap Metal Salvage &amp; Recycle: Oldmill Salvage &amp; Recycling</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>13840 Oilmill Road<br />\r\nGibson, NC 28343<br />\r\n(910) 268-2111</p>\r\n<p>Hours:</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright wp-image-2205" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CC_MEDIA_Pic_Gibson_2016-06-20_Oil-Mill-Salvage-Recyclers-003-300x300.jpg" width="190" height="191" />Monday thru Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.<br />\r\nSaturday: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.<br />\r\nSunday: Closed</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img class=" wp-image-2277 alignright" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Duke-Energy-Logo-300x96.png" alt="Duke Energy Logo" width="197" height="63" />Utilities: Electric - Duke Energy<br />\r\n</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>Website: Click <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.progress-energy.com/carolinas/home/index.page?loc=Carolinas" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></span>.<br />\r\nToll Free: (800) 452-2777</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Utilities: Water, Sewer &amp; 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(3856, 1, '2019-03-19 14:24:22', '2019-03-19 18:24:22', '<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><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">Click <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here</a></span> to read</span> <span style="color: #000000;">Part 1</span></span><br />\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>Scotland County remains mired in a <strong>Deep Depression</strong>. We''re the most economically depressed county in all North Carolina.</p>\r\n<p>Mill and manufacturing operations fled heavily unionized, high tax, highly regulated northern states during the 1940''s and 50''s. Later, when those same companies discovered that NAFTA made it even cheaper to move operations to Mexico, they once again skedaddled.</p>\r\n<p>Many with marketable skills left Scotland County seeking employment elsewhere. Others stayed, hunkering down, hoping for a comeback. Still others attached themselves to County, School District and City of Laurinburg governments. This may have been a good move from an individual perspective, but it''s been a disaster for our economy.</p>\r\n<p>Today, <strong>Government Employment</strong> stands as the cornerstone of Scotland County''s economy. This would be fantastic except that government doesn''t actually produce anything; rather it consumes (through the miracle of taxation and fees) that which others have toiled to produce.</p>\r\n<p>Sure, government provides some vital services, but the fact is its inefficiency and corruption places a parasitic drag on otherwise productive economic activity. For the most part, government is a conduit via which the fruits of others'' labor gets redistributed to favored friends, political cronies and valuable vote generating demographic constituencies. This time tested <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/zY5UuWkVq8g" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">model</span></a></strong> has been with mankind throughout history.</p>\r\n<p>Government employee pensions deserve special mention. When employees become ''vested'', they often earn the right to move to new government positions where they begin qualifying for yet more pensions. <em>''Rinse and repeat''</em> several times, and you can see that by the time actual retirement age is reached, many government workers retire with two, three or even four pension checks coming in each month. Talk about striking gold!</p>\r\n<p>It gets even better (except for taxpayers), as today''s liberal policies encourage the use of ''disability'' as a means of further enrichment. How many able bodied ex-military and government workers do you know who receive disability checks each month?</p>\r\n<p>Government also sees to it that everything you''ve worked and saved for is slowly and systematically stolen through <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://youtu.be/UrJGlXEs8nI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">inflation</a></span></strong>. This, like other scams, works so well that most folks aren''t even aware a thief in the night is robbing them little by little.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright wp-image-1858" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/single-role-toilet-paper.jpg" alt="single-role-toilet-paper" width="96" height="96" />Politicians feverishly maintain <span style="color: #000000;">that</span> there is a ''free lunch'' and we can continue spending money we don''t have without consequences, by creating endless deficits and outright money printing. The facts show otherwise, as inflation has destroyed purchasing power to the point where some can only afford to buy toilet paper in single rolls, one at a time. How many ever expected that wiping their butts would become such a cause for concern?</p>\r\n<p>Government workers don''t share inflation''s burden, as they receive regular pay increases and ''cost of living adjustments'' (COLAs) regardless of performance or economic circumstances. The rest of us get to pay for problems they''ve created.</p>\r\n<p>This sweet deal for some has unfortunately destroyed public finances, as skyrocketing salary, pension, benefit and disability costs now eat up an enormous share of public budgets. Is it any wonder County, Municipal and School coffers are running on empty?</p>\r\n<p>As dire as the situation is, it''s <em>''baked into the cake''</em> that things will get demonstrably worse unless we radically change course.</p>\r\n<p><strong>BLUEPRINT for PROSPERITY</strong></p>\r\n<p>Fortunately, <strong>the key to success is in our pocket</strong>. It''s up to us to reach in, grab it and turn the lock that opens the door.</p>\r\n<p>We must:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dramatically reduce expenditures</span> of Scotland County Government, Laurinburg City Government and Scotland County Schools.</li>\r\n	<li>Organically grow ''real'' 21st century employment opportunities that provide living wage, family friendly jobs. We have the ability, but do we have the will?</li>\r\n	<li>Deliver ''cutting edge'' public education, freeing our children from the shackles imposed by today''s burdensome rules, regulations, curriculum''s, policies and politically driven agendas.</li>\r\n	<li>Banish slavery once and for all, ridding ourselves from cruel and unjust dependence on <em>''institutionalized poverty''</em> designed to ensure that we and future generations remain in bondage.</li>\r\n	<li>Eliminate the County''s regressive, corrosive, business killing ''Personal Property Tax''. Until this is done, there will be no economic rebirth.</li>\r\n	<li>Get government out of the way, allow ''market forces'' to re-balance. The effects won''t be immediately apparent, and many currently feeding at the taxpayer''s trough will surely have their feathers ruffled, but we either implement positive, rational, logical and necessary change in an orderly, planned manner while we still have options, or risk waiting until financial crisis overtakes us, guaranteeing extreme pain and an unpredictable outcome.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><strong>Here''s what we don''t need:</strong></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>More taxpayer funded grants, commissions, boards, blue ribbon panels, study groups, pedigreed intellectuals, bureaucrats, seminars or retreats.</li>\r\n	<li>More highly compensated Economic Development gurus trying to bring back the ''good ole days'' by taking money from one taxpayer''s pocket and putting it in another, calling it ''job creation''.</li>\r\n	<li>More nonsense like our ''Certified Retirement Community'' program.</li>\r\n	<li>More commercial properties bulldozed to make way for additional taxpayer funded ''sculpture'' parks.</li>\r\n	<li>More multi-million dollar boondoggles like Laurinburg City Council''s new ''Colonial Williamsburg'' City Hall/Police Department.</li>\r\n	<li>More arrests of potheads (following ''months long'' intensive, expensive investigations) so we can build and fill yet more prisons, jails and lockups.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><strong>Rebuilding prosperity will be challenging, but it''s fully achievable if we want it bad enough. </strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Carolina Crossroads News</strong> understands the mission, knows what it takes to reach the goal and is willing to carry its share of the water. What we can''t do is carry your share too.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Your future is up to YOU!</strong></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act</em>" Dietrich Bonhoeffer</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span></strong>.</address>\r\n<address> </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/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><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/lack-of-decorum-at-laurinburg-city-council-meeting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘Lack of Decorum’ at Laurinburg City Council Meeting</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/ward-named-economic-development-director/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ward Named Economic Development Direc</a><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/ward-named-economic-development-director/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tor</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>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>', 'Scotland County North Carolina Mired in Depression (Part 2)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1177-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-03-19 14:24:22', '2019-03-19 18:24:22', '', 1177, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/1177-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
