Macon County Commissioners Meeting 12-06-2010 Full Video

Things are continuing to be ugly in the effort to slide in a steep slope ordinance "under the radar" and part of that is the continued attempt to ostracize Jimmy Goodman and all others who are supporters of private property rights in Macon County. A perfect example of that was the December 2 meeting  of the Macon County Commissioners that was requested by Lewis Penland, the Chairman of the Macon County Planning Board. Click here to watch that meeting and judge for yourself.


The full video of last night's meeting of the Macon County Commissioners for you to watch and judge for yourself:



If you are on dialup and cannot watch the video, here is an audio recording of the meeting:

If you wish to have a copy for your MP3 Player, here is a download link for that. 


There was no agenda nor other supporting documents for this meeting. 

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And They Call Tea Partiers Violent?

In Raleigh, North Carolina, about a 1,000 Lefties gathered to protest a busing system change the Wake County School Board has enacted that they claim would result in schools being resegregated by organizing schools by neighborhood instead of by race. 19 of them, including the head of the North Carolina NAACP were arrested. Most of the arrests occurred when a group violently disrupted the meeting by gathering around the podium, chanting and singing.


Why is it when Lefties gather to protest, there are almost invariably some of them who commit acts of violent disruption and are arrested?


There have been thousands upon thousands of tea parties across the nation over the past two years, and very few people have been arrested. In fact, when arrests occur it is almost always because of Lefty counter-protesters.


Here are the names of those arrested and the charges against them [source for list], note that a good number of them are not even residents, nor (upon further investigation by yours truly) registered voters of Wake County.

Rev. William Barber was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Rev. Nancy Petty was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Gregory Moss was arrested and charged with resisting, delaying or obstructing a law enforcement officer in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Chinedu Collins Ifejika, of 200-202 Tobler Court in Durham, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Michelle Laws, of 3715 Shrewsburt St. in Durham, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Jimmie Ray Hawkins, of 4415 Sun Valley Dr. in Durham, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Erin Dalebyrd, of 605 East South St. in Raleigh, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Marie Alisa Garlock, of 610-325 West Morgan St. in Durham, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Bobby Gray Jones, 308 East Chestnut St. in Goldsboro, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Laurel Anne Ashton, of 505-C North Greesnboro Road in Carrboro, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Anthony Jerome Davis, 6617 Barton Creek Drive in Whitsett, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Madeline Clair Miller, of 231 Hillcrest Circle in Chapel Hill, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


David Zachary Eisenstadt, of 1813 Kenwyck Manor Way in Raleigh, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Timothy Curtis Hodges, of 229 East Stallings St. in Clayton, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Camellia Lee, of 205 Black Tie Lane in Chapel Hill, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Curtis Gatewood, of 413 Kingsbury St. in Oxford, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Samuel Scott Bass, of 2720 Poole Road in Raleigh, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Keith Ausustus Rivers, of 104 Granview Drive in Elizabeth City, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.


Robert Thompson Stephens, of 525 Hedgewood Place in Winston-Salem, was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with a demonstration at the Wake County schools administration building in Raleigh on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.

Trespassing and Disorderly Conduct? Do they sound like peaceful protesters? They sound like people who are willing to commit violence, and break the law, in order to get their way...instead of relying on the tried and true method of acting at the ballot box. 


Here is a challenge for you Lefties out there, find me documentation of a tea party that has disrupted a government meeting, seized control of the podium, and resisted arrest. You can't, because the tea parties are peaceful affairs focused on enacting change via the ballot box. 


The Left seems not to have faith in free and fair elections...and put more stock in violent disruptions and protests. It is a good thing that the Wake County School Board has not bowed to the terroristic acts of the NAACP.

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How the National Football League Supports the Criminalization of Conservative Thought, Part 1 DeMaurice Smith

Unless you've been under a rock for the past few days, I am sure that you've heard something of the controversy started by race-baiters in the Democratic Party over the inclusion of Rush Limbaugh in a group that was bidding for the the purchase of part of the St Louis Rams, a franchise of the NFL. 
[Rush article in WSJ]


Here are a few excerpts from articles about the opposition to Rush Limbaugh, a conservative, as part of this group:


From ESPN:

NFL Players executive director DeMaurice Smith on Saturday made a move to solidify the union against a bid by conservative talk show radio host Rush Limbaugh as part of a group that aims to purchase the St. Louis Rams.

Source: ESPN


Who is DeMaurice Smith, and what part do politics play into his opposition to a nationally known conservative being part of a group seeking to be part owners of an NFL franchise?







DeMaurice Smith has been the NFL Players Executive Director since March of 2009. He was formerly an attorney with Patton Boggs. He was named one of “The Top Fifteen Black White-Collar Criminal Defense Attorneys” by Corporate Crime Reporter in 2007. He has also given a lot of money to Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama.


He gave $2,000 to John F Kerry in 2004 and $3,300 to Barack Obama in 2008.


He has also given $500 to the DC Representative to the House of Representatives, Eleanor Norton Holmes...a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. 


He has also given to the Democratic Party of Virginia and to Senator Evan Bayh.


Don't you think that politics had a little something to do with DeMaurice Smith's opposition to Limbaugh, a conservative, being part of a group that is seeking to be part owners of an NFL Franchise?


I certainly do. 




Tomorrow, I will look at another person who has gone on record opposing the inclusion of Rush Limbaugh as part of a group seeking to be part owners of an NFL Franchise.

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John Armor Article in Human Events

Local author, raconteur, and former primary candidate in the GOP NC-11 race, has an article on Human Events entitled, "Anybody Remember The Red Lion Case?" and here is a snippet to whet your appetite for more:

...What Justice White does not include in his opinion is the relative availability of media when he was writing his opinion. There were slightly more than 4,000 daily newspapers in the United States, then. Most major cities had competing dailies. Some cities like Chicago and New York, had more than six competing newspapers.

At the same time, in 1969, the number of TV licenses were in the hundreds, and there were fewer radio licenses than newspapers.

Today, all of those figures are reversed. The number of daily newspapers is down to about 2,000 and declining. The number of TV stations are above 10,000, and the number of radio stations about five times as many. Given cable and satellite technologies, the average American household now has access to at least 100 TV channels, plus dozens of specialized radio stations. That average household has access to less than two daily newspapers.

It was this change in the facts which led the FCC to end the Fairness Doctrine almost thirty years ago. The disparity, with print media declining and electronic media growing, has continued apace since then. This huge advantage in favor of individual access to broadcast channels that offer what they want, is increased by orders of magnitude when the Internet, plus pod casting, are added to the mix.

Those who are arguing for reestablishment of the Fairness Doctrine have not done their homework....

Source: Human Events

Commentary

You can bet everything you own that the Democrats will get a new Fairness Doctrine in place if Barack Obama is elected President, and that will mean the end of AM Radio.

Fortunately for us, the Internet will be here for the conservative commentators to utilize to side step the ban on conservative talk. That will be good for people who have access to DSL or faster Internet connections, but not for the millions who are on dial up, or listen while on the road, or away from computers.

Will wireless carriers be able to stream Internet radio? Or will people employ a work around like I did while WZNN/WZGM was offering talk radio programming? (I used a transmitter to take the audio from an AM Radio and transmit it on FM so I could hear the faint 1350 kHz signal on my Walkman on an empty slot on the FM Dial, usually 87.9 MHz, up to a mile from my pickup).

I am firm in my belief that if the Fairness Doctrine is passed, we will find a way around it...for the Neo-Stalinist Democrats do not understand the power of freedom, and the utility of Free Markets...that is one reason lefty talk never took hold. They just don't get it, and never will.

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Meet John Kerry...A Useful Idiot

Today in the Opinion Journal, former KGB intelligence officer Ion Mihai Pacepa explained the propaganda tactics of the communists during the Cold War.
Here is a bit of what Pacepa had to say about the Soviet's propaganda campaign in the West:

During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.

Does that remind you of anyone?
Here are the words of future democratic Senator John F. Kerry in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971:

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam...

John F. Kerry- Useful Idiot.

Source: Gateway Pundit

Commentary

Why is it that the left so easily falls in line with our enemies?

The rank and file may be useful idiots, or at least sdound like it, but I believe the thinkers on the left subscribe to Revolutionary Defeatism.

I have a whole section of my right hand sidebar called "Read These Posts" that I should probably rename "Understanding Leftism" because it contains some brilliant essays on the Socialists (i.e. Communists) that have been hiding out in the Democrat Party for some time now.


Their political war with Western Civilization is not over, and we must remain ever vigilant to slow their long march through our institutions. It is my hope that we can stop it, and eventually reverse it.

That process requires waking people up to what is happening. Perhaps that is why they hate Rush Limbaugh (and the medium he sired--Talk Radio), the Fox News Channel, and the Right-Side of the Blogosphere. Look for them to try to shut all three down because their totalitarian ideology will brook no comeptition.

I leave you with this:

"They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the entire world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one subordinate clerk in a bureau, what an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight for!"

----Ludwig von Mises, in "Bureaucracy." p 125

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Local Talk Host Forcibly Removed from Asheville City Council Meeting

My previous post on this subject(mysteriously, or negligently!) disappeared.

So, here goes again:


Hat Tip to Tim Peck for the video, and Sandra for the alert to listen to WWNC.

Background:

The Asheville City Council has been on a tear to change over from non-partisan elections to partisan election. Specifically, Shadow Mayor Brownie Newman has been pimping for this idea.

I have supported it, because I see advantage to the GOP in this situation due to the neo-Stalinists on the City-Council showing their hand too early.

Tim Peck posting on issue.

By a vote of 4-3, Asheville City Council last night
voted to give political parties an unfair advantage and special protected access
to the local electoral process. With Councils' vote, the second largest block of
voters in Asheville, people who register as unaffiliated, will have to meet much
more stringent and restrictive standards to get involved in local politics than
those who are Democrats or Republicans. Council members Brownie Newman, Holly
Jones, Robin Cape and Bryan Freeborn not only voted to turn local elections into
partisan competitions, but they also voted to not allow public comment on the
issue last night. That’s at least consistent isn’t it? An interesting note,
there was a majority in support of having public comment until the city attorney
pointed out that having public comment on the issue last night would have
prevented them from enacting the measure in time to effect this years municiple
election. At that point, Bryan Freeborn changed his vote and denied public
comment to the chamber full of residents waiting to speak by a vote of 4-3.
Bryan Freeborn, by the way, wasn't even elected to City Council - he was
appointed... Interestingly enough - by the very people he voted with to restrict
the election process.After the vote to restrict public comment, the Council
quickly moved to pass the partisan election measure.

Source: Matt Mittan's post on his "removal" from the public square.

I will have more audio links later this afternoon after work, and culled snippets.

The Asheville City-Council Elections just got exciting!

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