(#123) 30 April 2016, Vol.3, No.10 > PART V >
‘ARROGANCE OR STUPIDITY OR BOTH’…just
ask Bob ‘The Malignant-Scarecrow’!
The
POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
PART V
> ‘ARROGANCE OR STUPIDITY OR BOTH’…just
ask Bob ‘The Malignant-Scarecrow’?
When
it comes to arrogance or stupidity or both – OR JUST
A LACK OF BASIC COMMON SENSE – we’d like to tell you a short story about
a wannabe-candidate for county prosecutor…none other than dear-ole Robert ‘Bob’ Martin and let you decide whether
he is a ‘mental
genius’ as he pretends, or is really just a ‘buffoon’ who lacks both ‘Self-control’
and ‘COMMON
SENSE’ that we are all supposed to display in public let alone when
trying to become the ‘chief-law-enforcement’ officer of the county as ‘Bob’ is pretending to become!
One
would think, however, that ‘Bob’
would have learned a thing or two in his ersatz checkered-career and his
personal ‘scrapes’
with law-enforcement officials over his alleged ‘anger-management-issues’ whereby
he reportedly broke the nose of a former ‘girl-friend’,
escaped a charge of ‘Battery’ against a fellow attorney after hitting the
attorney in the chest with a near-full-can-of-beer and then punching him in the
head on WVU property, and again escaping another criminal charge of ‘Obstructing an
Officer’ while admittedly under-the-influence of alcohol!
IF ANYONE
THINKS THAT PUBLIC OFFICIALS CAN ESCAPE PROSECUTION AND NOT BE CHARGED OR DEALT
WITH AS HARSHLY AS APPLIED TO AN AVERAGE CITIZEN – THEN THINK AGAIN – PUBLIC OFFICIALS ARE PRIVILEGED CREATURES
THAT CAN ESCAPE PROSECUTION COMPARED TO RANK & FILE CITIZENS WHO GET ‘THE
BOOK’ THROWN AT THEM!
Just
look at ‘Bob’ Martin, or remember Anthony ‘Tony’
Totano, also a former ‘assistant county
prosecutor’ under the late Walt Weiford? Well Tony lost his license to practice law,
was disbarred in an eighty-plus-page report by the Supreme Court of Appeals of
West Virginia – and charged with around 22 COUNTS OF FRAUD – AND would have to
win all 22 counts in a court-of-law before he could again be reconsidered to
practice law in West Virginia! But not so with ‘Bob’ Martin, he has been able to escape
prosecution whenever he faults ‘impropriety
and the appearance of impropriety’! Meanwhile, IF an average Citizen committed the same acts of
commission & omission…they most likely would still be having ‘sunlight’ pumped into their cells! Such is the HYPOCRISY OF THE CURRENT ‘LEGAL SYSTEM’!
BUT HERE’S ‘BOBs’ SHORT STORY…
Just before ‘Bob’ Martin was ‘FIRED’ by the County Prosecutor, or as the Pokey-Times reported, ‘TERMINATED’, Martin showed up at the
Marlinton Middle School FULLY ARMED and DISPLAYING a FIREARM STRAPPED TO HIS
HIP…AT AN AFTER-SCHOOL EVENING SOCIAL EVENT IN A NON-EMERGENCY &
OFF-THE-JOB SCENARIO!
At
the time of his appearance, the SOCIAL-EVENT taking place in the Marlinton Middle-School
gymnasium was a DANCE for Six & Seventh Graders!
Two
girls at the dance decided to go to the Lady’s Room and left the gymnasium and
went into the hallway to go to the laboratory when they confronted ‘Bob’ Martin in the middle of the
hallway, hands on hips, fully displaying his FIREARM! Martin was dressed in civilian clothing, NOT
IN A UNIFORM, straggly-hair down his back & chest (Martin
only cuts his hair during an election cycle to
try & look ‘normal’), otherwise he seems to portray himself
as a ‘SCARECROW’ IN FROM THE CORNFIELD!
As would any
knowledgeable child these days, the two girls rushed back into the gymnasium
and told the teacher-chaperone in charge that, “THERE IS A CREEPY MAN IN THE HALLWAY WITH
A GUN”!
Needless-to-say,
the teacher-chaperone and her assistant-chaperones immediately ordered all the
students to HIDE behind the bleachers in the gymnasium – and do so as quickly
& quietly as possible – and fortunately ALL THE STUDENTS took shelter as
ordered!
When
the teacher-chaperone went to the hallway – WHAT DID SHE FIND? None other than ‘big-brave’ Bob-Martin still playing the role as a wannabe ‘tuff-guy’ and then Martin indicated
that he was there to pick-up his step-daughter to go home!
Now
the irony of this fiasco is that NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO
BEAR-ARMS ON THE PREMISES OF ANY SCHOOL – unless it is a UNIFORMED LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICER ON
OFFICIAL BUSINESS OR IN A STATE-OF-EMERGENCY!
But not so in this scenario – ‘Bob’ Martin was there to pick-up a
student to take home! Meanwhile ALL OTHER STUDENTS were scared out of their wits
while ‘Bob’ Martin got to play ‘buffoon-of-the-day’ DRESSED LIKE A ‘SCARECROW’ IN FROM THE FIELD!
Take
a look at this picture of ‘Bob’ as he
‘advises’ the THREE-STOOGES ON THE COUNTY COMMISSION! Now just imagine how you or your children would
feel seeing such a sight – LET ALONE SOMEONE LIKE HIM IN A
LOW-LIGHTED HALLWAY COWARDLY SHOWING HE HAD A FIREARM TO SIX & SEVENTH
GRADE STUDENTS? And then ask yourself how much COMMON SENSE –
or the LACK THEREOF – would it take to avoid such a ‘scary-scenario’?
Whenever
law-enforcement officers enter school property in order to TEACH students
Public Safety, Rescue and Emergency Situations, etc. – THEY ALWAYS COME
DRESSED IN POLISHED UNIFORMS – BUT THEY NEVER WEAR NOR CARRY THEIR FIREARMS!
Therefore we can only imagine what the Middle-School students thought
when they saw a ‘SCARECROW’ IN THEIR
HALLWAY SHOWING HE HAD A FIREARM!
Why would
Martin do such a thing to Six & Seventh Grade students? You’ll have to ask him directly – but one
thing is for sure, Martin SHOWED NO RESPECT FOR THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, NO
RESPECT FOR THE TEACHER-CHAPERONES, NO RESPECT FOR THE STUDENTS & NO
RESPECT FOR
COMMON
SENSE & DECENCY!
DO THE PEOPLE OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY REALLY NEED SOMEONE LIKE MARTIN IN
‘PUBLIC OFFICE’ AGAIN – LIVING OFF
TAXPAYERS’ MONEY RISKING ‘IMPROPRIETY
AND THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY’ AND ENGAGED IN ‘MORAL TURPITUDE’?
THIS TIME AROUND WE HERE AT CRIER HQ –BELIEVE THAT WE
CITIZENS CAN DO BETTER SINCE WE ALREADY HAVE EUGENE SIMMONS AS OUR CURRENT
OPTION FOR COUNTY PROSECUTOR OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY INSTEAD OF RECYCLING SOMEONE LIKE
MARTIN WITH SUCH A QUESTIONABLE CHECKERED-CAREER…and is in it to live off
taxpayers’ money!
AND WE THINK THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF NOT VOTING FOR
JERRY DALE…but instead…
VOTE FOR TROY
McCOY for Sheriff!
A new face is always better than recycling someone like
Dale who habitually may make the same mistakes all over again!
SO…LET’S JUST RE-ELECT EUGENE SIMMONS AS OUR COUNTY PROSECUTOR…AT
LEAST HE IS CIVIL & ACTS LIKE A GENTLEMAN & DISPLAYS COMMON SENSE AS
NEEDED!
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…WE ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE
SOWN…& then some!
“The Gray
Riders are now gone, yet they remain asleep in our
soil, and alive in our veins. Untouched by fire, untouched by frost, they
whisper within us: ‘OUR CAUSE IS NOT LOST!’”
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