22 October 2014, Vol.1, No.71 > ENOUGH ALREADY! ENOUGH!
The
POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous
succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad
govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
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ENOUGH ALREADY!
ENOUGH!
By now…is there anyone who is not
sick & tired of the HUGH POSTCARDS jamming their mailbox everyday from the
so-called ‘Republican
Party’ and its ersatz-candidates financed by the Billionaire Kansas Koch
Brothers? The Koch Brothers are the
sole-beneficiaries of the proposed Keystone XL
Pipeline that proposes to pipe the dirtiest of all OIL-SLUDGE-TAR-SANDS,
called ‘bitumen’,
from Canada to Texas so the TWO KOCH BROTHERS WILL MAKE
$100 BILLION EACH to add to their already tens-of-billions!
Thanks to the stacking of the U.S.
Supreme Court by the two ‘Bush-regimes’,
CORPORATIONS can now spend as much as they want trying to INFLUENCE LEGISLATION
BY BUYING UP THE VOTES IN ADVANCE VIA ‘CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS’ – and that’s exactly
what they have done in the 2014 General Election! The campaigns of
every single REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for the U.S. Senate & House of
Representatives is being paid for by the Billionaire Koch Brothers & their
cartels!
The Corporate-Billionaires are even spending in excess of $100
Billion to ‘get
out the vote’ in the hope that DEMOCRATS STAY HOME believing ‘they can’t win’
so only Republican votes are counted!
It’s no secret that POLITICS HAS
ALWAYS BEEN A DIRTY-BUSINESS with the rich always trying to get richer off the
blood, sweat & tears of those with less money – but this election may go down in history as
THE WORST EVER before it is over on 04 November! For those that weren’t absent the day they
taught Early American History in school, you may remember the struggle between
the lowland ‘TIDEWATER-PLANTATIONS’
and the mountainous ‘PIEDMONT’ whereby the owners of plantations with
thousands-of-acres fought against those folks who were freed as ‘Indentured-Servants’
after seven years and moved into the ‘Wilderness Areas’ of the Appalachia to carve out
a couple of acres to build a cabin & grow a garden & such. The overwhelming majority of Plantations were
‘granted-title’
via Land Grants issued by the King to Loyalists & such. And as for the workers, the Plantation-Owners
offered ‘free-passage’
from England to America in exchange for SEVEN-YEARS OF SERVITUDE on their
respective plantations – and the workers became known as ‘Indentured Servants’! When the seven-years were up, many ‘servants’ left for the ‘Wilderness Areas’
to start a life of their own-choosing.
Many folks in these hills to this day can trace their Ancestry through
these brave men & women who carved out the wilderness – that is what is
meant by being a ‘MOUNTAINEER’!
BUT – THE PROBLEM BEGAN
WHEN THOSE IN THE ‘PIEDMONT’
went to vote! Only MEN could vote,
and only MEN WHO OWNED PROPERTY could vote! And the Plantation-Owners with
thousands-of-acres were usually educated compared to the Common Folk living in
the ‘PIEDMONT’ – so the Plantation-Owners felt they should have ONE-VOTE
PER/ACRE in stead of ONE-VOTE PER/LANDOWNER regardless of acreage! S0unds a lot like the proposed SNOWSHOE RAD
(Resort Area District) doesn’t it – whereby majority interest, such as that of
Donald Trump, is based on ACREAGE-OWNERSHIP instead of by ‘SQUARE-FEET’? At any rate,
the matter was eventually settled when the U.S. Supreme Court issued the
policy of ‘ONE
MAN, ONE VOTE’ regardless of acreage as long as a male-voter was also
a landowner! The plantation-owners
wanted to establish a ‘two-tier-system’
with a ‘House of
Lords’ here in America as they had in England, while everyone else
was relegated to the ‘House of Commons’ – but Our Forefathers saw it
differently by giving each State regardless of size two-votes in the U.S.
Senate, and establishing representatives in the House of Representatives in
proportion to the size of population!
But now thanks to the stacked U.S.
Supreme Court in ‘CITIZENS UNITED v. FEC’, 21
January 2010, ANY CORPORATIONS CAN SPEND AS MUCH AS
THEY LIKE TO CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT! And
buying up CONGRESS is what has been happening since 2010, and now includes
buying up as many STATES as possible that still have Natural Resources –
including West Virginia! The late/great Senator
Robert C. Byrd would rollover in his grave if he knew that Joe Manchin was the
FIRST DEMOCRAT TO SELL HIS SOUL TO THE KOCH BROTHERS in favor of making them
richer with the Keystone XL Pipeline!
But then again, dear-ole Joe never did put any COMMON FOLKS before HIMSELF – Joe never placed THE COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF OR ANY SPECIAL
INTERESTS – for after all, Joe spent 16 years running for governor all
the while on the payroll of Massey Coal to the tune in EXCESS OF $50-MILLION
– until he started getting funds from the Kansas Koch Brothers! And
then we wonder what is wrong with this country these days!
COMPARE our current
corrupt system to that found within the European Union whereby NO
PRIVATE FUNDS can be used in any political campaign! That’s right, no matter how
rich anyone is, they are not allowed to spend $1 for either themselves as a
candidate or anyone else as a candidate!
ALL ELECTIONS ARE PUBLICLY-FUNDED meaning that a specific amount of public-funds are allocated
for each position of government requiring a person to be elected by the general
population! Then each candidate
is given THE SAME AMOUNT of public-funds for whatever position they are seeking
– and each candidate only has THREE-MONTHS to campaign! In this manner,
persons are elected on their MERITS & EXPERIENCE and are beholden ONLY to
the VOTERS – not to private-corporations or foreign-interests! But here in America, foreign-interests are also
allowed to influence our elections whereby for example, Israelis are allowed to vote while living anywhere in the world since all
persons born of a so-called ‘jewish-woman’
is considered an ‘Israeli’ citizen. Thus in large metropolitan areas the
so-called ‘jewish-block-vote’ can
sway American elections! And then we wonder why America is bogged-down
in foreign entanglements in the middle-east…in direct violation of the Farewell
Address of George Washington!
LOCALLY
– it’s getting worse also!
Wherever we look, thanks to the never-ending-wars,
it seems that government claims it does not have enough money to function – so
therefore more ‘taxes’ and/or ‘add-on-fees’, etc, are needed, ad nauseam! And the same is
happening to the PRIVATE-CORPORATIONS that already have a MONOPOLY over various
public-services! Look at these
examples:
1.
Thanks to self-serving parasites
such as former county commissioner, Reta Griffith, the cursed Frontier Communications continues its
monopoly over Pocahontas County in which it DOUBLE-CHARGES us for land-line
services, and after two-years of haggling still will
not allow any other communications company to use the very lines & polls
that public-funds have paid for! So THANK RETA for the LOUSY-SERVICE, POOR
CONNECTIONS, and SLOW, VERY SLOW INTERNET SPEED! The good news is that finally a lawsuit has
been filed against Frontier for all
the above & then some – and now we wait some more!
2. For WHO KNOWS HOW LONG – the PRIVATE-ELECTRIC
PROVIDER has been ‘ESTIMATING’
everyone’s monthly use of electricity and making sure that every bill is
between $100 - $160 or more a month! Then
upon thousands of complaints, the PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (PSC) required MON-POWER
to actually read every house-meter each month!
What happened? The monthly electric bills FELL TO LESS THAN $50 per/month
for each household, many to even less than $40 per/month! After a couple of months, MON–POWER requested
a ‘RATE-INCREASE’
and true to form, the PSC gave it to them – so NOW ALL
MONTHLY BILLS ARE AGAIN BETWEEN $100 - $160 or more a month! Does anyone remember when water, gas,
electric & such were PUBLIC CORPORATIONS interested in low-cost-SERVICE – instead of
PRIVATE-CORPORATIONS that PLACE PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE?
No wonder California and other
states have again taken-over these services as ‘Public-Corporations’! But the real treachery of MON-POWER is that
they know that after 01 November they cannot turn off anyone’s electric since
the ‘winter-season’ is upon us – so
now before the end of the month – they are demanding full payment from everyone
– regardless of amount or those on payment-plans – or they will turn off your
electric before 01 November! And if MON-POWER turns your electric off – then the only
way to get it back on is to PAY-IN-FULL everything owed to this point! THAT’S WHAT IS CALLED
‘PREDATORY-CAPITALISM’ AT ITS WORST
WITHIN ‘CORPORATE-FASCISM’! Remember when they taught that also in
History class? Dictatorship via
CORPORATIONS! This is the end result of what is being called
‘privatization’ – of schools, hospitals, prisons, utilities, and national &
natural resources, etc.! No National or Natural Resource should ever
be allowed in the hands of any individual, family, private-corporation or
cartel – THOSE RESOURCES ARE THE ‘SOVEREIGN PROPERTY’ BELONGING TO ALL THE
PEOPLE AT ALL TIMES…and should be held in ‘PUBLIC-CORPORATIONS’ answerable to
the Public at all times!!
3.
And let us not forget that the
town of Durbin
& Marlinton want to CUT-OFF WATER to any
household which has fallen behind pursuant to all the other financial pressures
facing everyone these days! Yet the United Nations has recently declared WATER IS A
HUMAN RIGHT – like the Right to Breath Air – therefore to cutoff water, or
deny clean water to anyone is a HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION! The folks in Detroit received that ruling from the UN
since their water-rates are twice the national average, and their poverty rate
is 40%! Sound familiar, what’s the ‘POVERTY-RATE’
of this county with only seasonal-employment at Minimum-Wage…and folks on SS,
SSD & such? Meanwhile over 27,000
households in Detroit have been cutoff – but the UN has ORDERED their water
turned-on – especially since two-thirds of those households have children, and the children CAN BE TAKEN AWAY BY THE OXYMORON SO-CALLED ‘FAMILY SERVICES’ if the home has no
water! Now while ‘child-protective-services’ generally
does good work protecting children – we all know stories right here in this
county whereby children have been taken from their parents & grandparents BECAUSE ‘FAMILY
SERVICES’ THEN GETS PAID about $35,000 a year PER/CHILD under their
control – making
the stealing of children a self-serving ‘business’ instead of a ‘SOCIAL
SERVICE’ – and let’s not forget the ‘business’ of the ‘foster-homes’! Thankfully the UN has required the
water turned back on for everyone – and if not done so – then those responsible for the CUTOFF may very well find
themselves CHARGED WITH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY and brought before THE HAGUE,
the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands for Trial!
As clueless as the buffoons in charge of Durbin & Marlinton are
these days – let’s hope they employ a local attorney to represent them at THE HAGUE! This county would then be ‘cleansed’ of its ‘IDIOTA’ almost overnight indeed!
For a full synopsis of the water-problem
in Detroit, see
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THAT’S WHY, as
important as this mid-term election is, ordinarily we’d say VOTE STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT to keep the SOCIAL SAFETY NET
& MEET the SOCIAL NEEDS of everyone – but since the two Democrat candidates
for County Commission are so inept by lacking the knowledge and skills
necessary to govern a county –
COMPARED
TO THE TWO EXPERIENCED REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR COUNTY COMMISSION – we say
Vote
Democrat at every level EXCEPT for County Commission…
For COUNTY COMMISSION: VOTE FOR…
Charles
Wilfong who is perhaps the
most experienced and successful farmer this county has ever seen – besides
working for all farmers in this state in the leadership of the West Virginia
State Farm Bureau…
And,
Norman
Lee Alderman who has never stopped
trying to benefit the folks of this county in all his various efforts as a
school teacher, pastor, former county commissioner, and editor of his powerful
non-subscription Website –
THAT’S
WHY…
On 04
NOVEMBER…there’s no excuse…
IT’S YOUR CHOICE…
TO CHANGE
THINGS FOR THE BETTER!
Just say ‘NO’
to those who want to keep this county in Poverty & Pauperism
– and –
Just say ‘YES’
to real Progress &
Prosperity for the future!
On Election Day –
YOU have a chance to elect two persons that will always put YOU first! They know that:
THE
GREATER COMMON GOOD ALWAYS COMES BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL
INTERESTS!
Keep up to Date –
Stay tuned to these Websites:
On
04 NOVEMBER it doesn’t matter
how you are registered – YOU CAN VOTE for:
CHARLES
WILFONG – ND
&
NORMAN
LEE ALDERMAN - SD
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