CTS asked to show ‘love’ by cleaning up its pollution 

On Valentines Day 2015, we’ll deliver over 1,200 signatures, handwritten letters, post cards, and video testimonials to CTS headquarters in Elkhart, Indiana (nicknamed the “City with a Heart”) asking CTS to “Show a Little Love” and clean up their toxic pollution.

For too long, CTS has shirked their responsibility to Asheville’s residents, it’s time they pay attention and take responsibility.

Help us make sure they get the message!

Attend our event on Feb. 5 at the South Asheville/Skyland Library and make your personal message to send to CTS: bit.ly/ShowLoveCTS

Participate in our Thunderclap social media campaign at thndr.it/1zV8WLj. We need 100 supporters to unleash this message on Valentine’s Day! After you sign up, please share on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to magnify your action.

Share the petition with your networks asking they sign on with this message: Help us reach a goal of 2,000 signatures demanding CTS corp cleanup their mess bit.ly/CleanUpCTS.

Thank you for your continued support.

What kind of a human being would shoot a beloved pet?

On Christmas evening, while my son was at work, his dog escaped from the yard, which is enclosed in a wooden and wire fence. 

Amazing, but the pup found a way out and somebody shot him. This friendly lovable dog was found on the edge of my son’s field.

It would have been less cruel and painful if the shot had killed him instantly, but it did not. It shattered his leg and the dog suffered until he was found.

The vet said amputation was certain, but the injuries extended beyond the leg. As most family pets do, Desoto was wearing his collar and tags.

My son lives in a rural area, but in sight of other homes. He has met some very kind people who live near him as he visited their homes to tell them that somebody in their area is shooting pets.

Not one person had seen his dog on their property. Our hearts are broken, my son’s for the loss of his companion and mine for not only the senseless loss of a lovable creature, but apprehension for the type of person that is living near my son who would do this.

If you know anything of this shooting near Bear Creek and Sluder Branch Roads, Leicester, please call the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office. Thank you for your help.

As America morphs into totalitarianism, revolt urged 

A couple years ago, the Asheville Citizen-Times warned me that, due to the content of my letters to the editor, the government and criminal justice system, medical system, public health system and mental health system seek to detain, deactivate and disengage me.

The Citizen-Times was right.

And several times, the powers that be have sought and failed to detain and deactivate and disengage me.

And I feel like I am living in George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Ray Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451” and Tom Cruise’s “Minority Report” and Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia and East Germany under the Stasi during the Cold War, instead of in America.

The critically acclaimed bestseller “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State” by John W. Whitehead is right on the money. A modern America is in the final stages of transformation from a free and open democratic society into a police and surveillance state.

And this feckless generation of Americans fiddles while Rome burns!

This generation will go down in history as the generation that lost America!!! 

We need a second American revolution, but this generation of Americans isn’t up to it.