Appreciation expressed for CTS ‘love’ campaign 

Thank you to everyone in Asheville, and our new allies in Elkhart, Indiana, who participated in POWER Action Group’s successful “Show a Little Love” Campaign! 

On Feb. 13th, Elkhart residents delivered a Valentine box to the CTS headquarters there. Community members in both South Asheville and Elkhart (the “City with a Heart”) are calling on CTS Corp. to “Have a Heart” and conduct an expeditious, full-scale cleanup of the CTS of Asheville Site. Toxins, particularly trichloroethylene, migrate off-site poisoning area residents’ ground water, air and soil. 

Wayne Royer, an Elkhart resident who handed off the box, stated that he is concerned because if CTS has this issue in Asheville, it could have a similar one in Elkhart.

POWER’s “Show a Little Love” box by the numbers:

• 1,323 names on a petition calling for a full-scale cleanup

• 146 signed “Road to Cleanup” postcards

• 135 homemade Valentine cards

• One box full of hope

LEE ANN SMITH

Arden 

No sedation needed, despite appearances, dissident says 

My February letter to the editor (in the Daily Planet), “As America morphs into totalitarianism, revolt urged,” made me sound like I’m paranoid, and suffer from anti-government paranoia ... like those fringe crackpots.

My February letter even made me seem like a paranoid schizophrenic needing an injection to quiet and sedate me.

However, the nonfiction (cited in the letter) works — “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State” and “Fortress America.”

Also, The National Geographic article, “You’re Being Watched,” provides irrefutable proof that post-9/11 America is in the final stages of transformation from a constitutional republic and free and open society into an Orwellian “big brother” police and surveillance state, like that depicted in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984.”

That fact should cause any person who loves American freedom to become paranoid, and to develop anti-government paranoia.

Something would have to be wrong with a freedom-loving American if it didn’t.

My February letter — “As America morphs into totalitarianism, revolt urged” — makes me seem schizo, but the true crazies are you people who do nothing to prevent America from shaping into “A Brave New America!”

That’s crazy as well as disloyal! You are disloyal to your country! You are disloyal Americans! You are traitors!

RICHARD D. POPE

Hendersonville