Mumpower termed right, but for different reasons

I read with amusement your (June’s Daily Planet) coverage of Mr. (Carl) Mumpower’s speech at the recent Asheville Tea Party rally.

His accusation that President Obama is offering “something for nothing” is actually pretty accurate, but he somehow overlooked just who is getting the “something.”

The biggest recipients of federal give-aways during the Obama administration have been mega-banks and Wall Street investment firms.

Billions of dollars have been handed over to private corporations with no strings attached. Even the loans that have been made (and in some cases repaid) were at ridiculously low interest rates — another de facto “give away.”

Like others in his extreme corner of the American electorate, Mumpower seems unable or unwilling to grasp that Obama sits something to the right of Richard Nixon on the left-right spectrum. He is an entirely centrist, pro-corporate president. 

This shrill name-calling is part of the Koch Brothers/FOX News/Tea Party effort to continue to drag the national debate to the right while the great majority of Americans are hammered in a class war. 

The wealth divide in our country hasn’t been this wide since at least the 1920s, and the fiscal policies of our state and country continue to shift wealth to the wealthy.

I know Mr. Mumpower to be a smart man and must know the facts, so I can only infer that he is a liar.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is Dr. Carl Mumpower’s response to Cecil Bothwell’s aforementioned letter:

I am always grateful when this gentleman illuminates our differences in perspective, method and character.

State’s OK of fracking? Shows corporate rules law

Oh, North Carolina, the short-sighted greed and lust for money that has come to roost on this beautiful state’s lawmakers will be suffered on all without lobbyists.

We, the Earth and non-millionaire humans are left without voice. Our common heritage (assets), such as clean waer in streams, rivers, lakes, clear skies, even the quiet of the woods, have been reduced to the highest bidder. Forget the castle-home notion. That was before.

Fracking bedrock to release methane is now law in North Carolina. The extracting (of) chemical liquids used (in addition to millions of gallons of fresh public water per well) are exempt from disclosure and the Clean Water Act. Nicknamed the Haliburton Loophole, the effect of this exemption means a homeowner can never claim the leaking wells damaged their land, water or health. What a deal for the same old, same old.

The current debilitating scheme, when put in context, has one objective: exploit the present paradigm of energy sources at any cost to our Earth, common property and our future. Suppression of free energy machines and their inventors, war wthout reason, pesticide extremism, pharmacological exploitation, social intolerance, intentional splitting of the family and native people from their cultures: this is planned, folks — a conspiracy, yes; or maybe it is just that we little, simple people don’t know enough to understand. Time will tell.

By the way, if your doctor determines your sickness is from a fracking operation near your home or work she or he cannot tell you, the hospital or anyone else what chemicals are making you sick; corporate rules law.

Death by a thousand pins. If you care, become informed. Films such as “The Ethics of Fracking” or “Gaslands II” at www.topdocumentaryfilm.org will explain much. For me, our Earth is sacred and deserves the love of our mother. Do you wonder why our media does not report on Fukushima.....? Curious that.

Citizens urged to help advocate for CTS cleanup

Both of my children played in the woods and creeks near the CTS of Asheville site and subsequently were diagnosed with cancer (and fortunately survived).

Recent events have shed more light on the urgency of the CTS situation. Three households (13 people) living near the site have been relocated by the EPA due to high levels of the carcinogen trichloroethylene (TCE) in the air in the their homes. And, the EPA has switched gears into “Emergency Response” mode.

I sincerely hope that no other people are found to be in harm’s way as the EPA extends air-quality sampling to more homes this coming week. Too many area families have already suffered. TCE, while dominant, is not the only chemical plaguing the area. Hits of cyanide, hexavalent chromium, and vinyl chloride have also been found.

The latest actions by the EPA demonstrate the immediate need for a removal effort that will address ALL threats, including contaminants in off-site streams near people’s homes, AND the dangerous source material that is unconfined and migrating, threatening the air, water and soil that we all depend upon.

As a founding member of POWER Action Group, a non-profit advocating cleanup of the CTS site, I have recently met with many lawmakers and county officials. The good news is that nearly all of them are supportive of our efforts and agree (no matter what side of the political aisle they’re on) that in the best interest of human health and the environment, NOW is the time for action.

We cannot afford to waste any more time playing the blame game. This is about people’s lives. NOW is the time for cleanup!

Help advocate for justice in South Asheville by visiting POWER’s website at: POWERactiongroup.org, or at facebook.com/CTSAsheville.

Bratt’s win over Cantor called a GOP wake-up call

Death of the Tea Party and revenge of the GOP?? Don’t think so! 

This is what happens when liberty loving Americans are awake and rally around ONE candidate. This is a wake up call — again — for the GOP. 

Dave Bratt (R) from Virginia, (despite being) outspent 20 to 1, beat  GOP establishment House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Amazing moment!

Thanks to Bratt’s victory, we are not one step closer to immigration reform and amnesty. 

Laura Ingram:  “… most significant repudiations of establishment immigration reform ...”

However, this is not the only issue at stake. We have hideous Obamacare, the VA scandal, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS scandal, and now Berghdahl because Congress has ceded their power to nameless, faceless, unelected bureaucrats.

We need  free market, constitutional  candidates dedicated to the principles this country  was founded upon. Bratt is that candidate. Power needs to be restored to the states. Our Founders gave us that power with the 10th Amendment. We need to exercise that right.  

Take note: Chris McDaniel who stunned Thad Cochran in Miss., will probably win that runoff.  Ben Sass, a strong tea party endorsed candidate, won in Nebraska. Jody Ernest won in Iowa  — another Tea Party-  and Senate Conservative Fund-endorsed. 

Unfortunately, last month (in May), North Carolina turned away their best shot to restore our ailing Republic. Shameful!  However, we take solace in knowing Dave Brat in Virginia won. 

We implore other states facing primaries not to make the same mistakes North Carolina has made and rid themselves of those candidates who are in bed with big money with deep roots in establishment ties.

Nothing will change unless WE make it happen. The TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY Party insurgency is alive and well and we are not going away! We will hold our elected accountable. Bet on it!