Letters to the editor: October 2016

I think the IRC (International Rescue Committee) is slipping in refugees who will threaten our pro-choice principles, so (David) Gantt (chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners) is dead wrong.

A common complaint from the establishment left is that district elections is a matter that should be left to the people of Asheville to decide in a referendum. (Although this could have been done before under §160A, Article 5.)

But it seems the progressive ruling elite has only lately come to the idea of popular consent prior to taking actions. This was certainly the case in its attempt to annex Biltmore Lake to the benefit of its general fund.

The self-sufficient residents of Biltmore Lake were resolutely opposed being forcibly annexed. They needed none of the city’s services. Asheville took no vote on the matter yet the annexation proceeded — against the wishes of “the people”. The residents then sued Asheville, at their own expense, and it took legislation from Raleigh to de-annex the properties of Biltmore Lake.

With district elections, we have an opportunity to spread leadership across the expanding reaches of a growing city. Asheville has exhibited a recalcitrant frame of mind in sharing power and this is offensive to justice. It will once again take legislation from Raleigh to give “the people” what they deserve. This time in the form of greater representative democracy in electing its leaders.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a response to a news story headlined “Refugee resettlement in Asheville?” that appeared in August’s Daily Planet.

It is important to understand that one of criteria that the State Department uses is the availability of “affordable housing.”

A study of 400 U.S. cities using a scale of 1 to 400 with No. 1 being the most affordable. Asheville is ranked at No. 394.

So, anyone with a brain should understand that Asheville should not even be consider for resettlement of refugees without means. There should be no government support for refugees.

Many countries have a requirement that an immigrant is able to support themselves from day one.

A refugee is nothing more then an immigrant and should be required to follow the same rules to come here as any other immigrant.

Being able to assimilate into American society and culture and learning English should be a requirement of any immigrant.

Bringing in Islamist refugees is nothing more than spreading the jihadist and jihad throughout the USA.

“Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic Law on non-Muslim states.” So, I ask you WHY would our government wish to bring in those that believe in Islam, a theocracy totalitarian government and is not compatible with the U.S. form of government and wishes to destroy us?

The Islamist wish to KILL us. There are 57 states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. (http://www.oic-oci.org/oicv2/states/.) No one from any of the 57 States of the OIC should be allow into the USA period.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s motto is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

And the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal in the U.S. in their own words is “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging’ its miserable house.”

Did you note that the above Muslim Brotherhoods motto said: The Qur’an is our law. And did not claim it was their religion? Is it sinking in? Do you see the problem?

Following is important information about Islam (based on quotes are from “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (AND THE CRUSADES)”:

• “Muslim persecution of Christians has continued for 13 centuries (1,300 years) – and still goes on.”

• “Muhammad taught his followers that there was nothing better (or holier) than jihad warfare.”

• “Muhammad told his men to offer non-Muslims only three choices: conversion, subjugation, or death.”

• “Islamic law mandates second-class status for Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims in Islamic societies.”

• “The Qur’an and Islamic law treat women as nothing more than possessions of men.”

• “Islam allows for lying, as well as stealing and killing, in certain circumstances.”

• “The Qur’an Describes Paradise in terms that make it clear that it is a place merely to indulge one’s physical appetites”

• “Paradise is guaranteed only to those who “slay and are slain” for Allah.”

As Asheville has a LGBT community — something they should consider is that Islamists like to throw LGBT people off of rooftops.

Please, take the time and watch the video: “Understanding the Threat to America” at https://youtu.be/cAhrD1Tp-sw.

It is time to wake up and demand that all believers of Islam are deported from the USA and none are allowed into the USA.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Brown is chief executive officer of Tarheel Tea Party, LLC.

America, like the rest of the world, continues down the path that will lead to destruction.

Man continues to deny the Creator, the Living God, and worships false idols, or humanistic ideas which leads Man away from God’s Word.

Man’s failure to believe and obey God’s Word, his Just Commandments and Laws, will eventually bring God’s wrath upon Man. Moral corruption and chaos follows when man abandons God and his word.

America has to turn back to God or it will face the same destruction as the rest of the world. Separation from God certainly is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.

Humanist and other unbelievers, have turned America into Sodom and Gomorrah. They have turned America into a murderous country — seekers of pleasure, instead of seekers of God.

The Word of God says that if you break one of God’s commandments you are breaking all of them. The First Commandment says we are to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. The Second Commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Ask yourself, is the present America meeting God’s standards?

Contrary to those who believe the inhabitants of earth are going to die because of global warming, it will be God who will execute judgment.

Through his judgment, Heaven and Earth will pass away in X + 1,000 years (X represents the unknown period of time from now until Jesus Christ descends to rule the Earth).

The thousand years is the time Jesus will rule the nations, “with a rod of iron,” from the earthly Jerusalem.

Before Jesus descends to reign, God, who loves Man and his creation, will pour his wrath upon the world, which Man, in his disobedience, has corrupted. Over 80 percent of the world human population will die, or be killed, as one can read in the Book Of Revelation. During this time, the heavens will pass away at God’s command ... earth at the end of the thousand years.