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Letters to the Editor: September 2018
Monday, 03 September 2018 11:06

Voters need to use elections to replace commissioners

The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners has a sacred trust to be accountable, transparent, exercise fiscal restraint, and to respect the hard-earned tax money of the residents it represents.

The Buncombe Commissioners are getting paid the highest salary in North Carolina to miss conspiracy, wire fraud, bribes, kickbacks and embezzlement by a growing list of county officials! (Remember – they produce nothing. They “take” your money.) 

To underscore the lack of respect for Buncombe citizens — on Aug. 1, 2018 in a letter to the NC State Board of Electors — Chairman Brownie Newman took it upon himself to commit county resources for an extra early voting site (another $40,000 of your hard-earned money).

He does not have the authority to commit county resources without an open vote by all of the commissioners. 

Buncombe, YOU deserve better than this.  You need to get to the polls in November and start replacing them. You can start with Glenda Weinert for District 2!
JANE BILELLO
Chair, Asheville Tea Party and ATPAC
Hendersonville

 


Zoning out of homeless shelters? It’s unconstitutional

The zoning out of homeless shelters is a crime against humanity and a crime against property, and is unconstitutional per the Euclid decision of 1926.

It is an abomination according to every consistent ideology on the planet. 

Only by pragmatically taking the worst of both worlds, elite capitalism and socialist collectivism to produce a hybrid elite, capitalist collectivism can such a monstrosity be produced (Hence the “liberal elite”). 

Fascism might come close, but I doubt fascism is a logically consistent ideology. 

Anyway, shelter and charity supporters totally dominated the meeting in attendance, speakers, and attitude, which is not at all clear in the video, only guessable by the number of boos right at the end of the last NIMBY speaker.  http://my40.tv/news/local/community-meeting-about-west-asheville-homeless-camp-gets-heated
                        ALAN DITMORE
Leicester

 

Trump’s fate may be sealed ‘Deep in the Heart of Taxes’

What an exciting year this has been for President Trump.

Fighting to get that Wall built, meeting with (and cozying up to) tyrants Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin, the Russian meddling investigation, battling sexual assault charges, former campaign members going on trial including his former lawyer, all of which must put a strain on our beleaguered president.

To his credit, the economy is strong and getting stronger with unemployment at a record low and his administration arranged for the remains of soldiers who fought in the Korean war be returned to the United States so families could have some sense of closure.

Through all this, I await with great anticipation, the release of President Trump’s tax records that should have been released as soon as he was sworn in back in January 2017.

It could signal the end of his term, but the idea that it is taking so long makes me believe he has had ample time to “cook” the books.

His disastrous policies of hate, fear and mistrust (and he’s very good at it) have made me come to this conclusion.

How much longer must we wait as the IRS, DOJ and the FBI continue to dig “Deep In The Heart Of Taxes” to expose our fake president?
HERB STARK
Mooresville

 

Death penalty advocated for pot-smoking Americans

I support the continued criminalization of marijuana and I would make it a capital crime punishable by the death penalty to use pot!!!

And here’s why!

The nonficition work, “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,” by John A. Whitehead, provides irrefutable and incontestable proof that today’s America is in the final stages of transformation from a libery democracy and free and open democractic society and constitutional republic, into a Big Brother police and serveillance state.

And Americans have a patriotic duty to their country to become American Revolutionaries, and to wage an American Revolution to overthrow tyranny and to restore liberty.

And because using pot would turn Americans into passive and content citizens, and would prevent Americans from being American Revolutionaries, and waging an American Revolution to overthrow Big Brother, and to restore our freedoms, I would consider Americans who smoke weed to be traitors to their country! And they deserve the death of a traitor!!!

In “Brave New World,” the police state supplies its controlled citizens with soma, a marijuana-like drug that produces relaxation and sedation.

I contend most with living in a police state a high, and euphoria, in order to keep its citizens’ passive and under total control.

The same thing is happening here!

Our Big Brother government in Washington is going to legalize marijuana and let the effects of pot on the brain and body of Americans prevent Americans from rising up and becoming American Revolutionaries!!

American pot heads will be content to live in a total control state.

Americans will soon be a nation of pot heads!

And the sedation, and the relaxation, and the tranquilization and the contentment with life as it is, and the high, and the euphoria will make slaves out of Americans’ descended from American Revolutionaries of 1776.

Which is why pot-smoking Americans are traitors to this country, deserving of death as a traitor to their country.
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
 



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