Tuesday, July 7, 2009 — To my fellow citizens of Stanly County and these United States; I, like you, am a common individual. I bear no titles of nobility, officialdom, nor errantry.
I am by no means a wealthy man, nor feign that I ever shall become such. I aspire no political office, reign of rule, nor position portending towards demagoguery. I desire, as you, to be a fearless citizen of simplicity, bettering the lives of family, friends and countrymen, willingly being of ready spirit to sacrifice to defend future generations, God willing, that same luxury.
By grace I’ve been born into this nation, as many of you, to come to know that desire and believe in its utmost preservation.
However, my close kindred in common goals and agenda, the burgeoning of freedom against all qualms brought by tyranny within or without a wondrous land such as is given us: That desire to be a member of free populace cannot survive if apathy be mine, be our, weak but brief assenting nod at tyranny cloaked as necessity. Freedom, that precious and God-given design by sacred intuition within us all, no matter what our lot or latitude in life, is now threatened by the ideology that idiocy can save by means that even children know as madness.
Government has reneged its divine duties: to engender at all costs, individual liberties of its masses under the mandate of protecting citizenry, not only against crusaders of amoralism that beguile and seduce with the cries of tolerance unto absurdity, but of its own self, which has become parasitical as representatives forget those represented. But there is more than governmental avarices at stake.
The poor have lost their true voice. Our children are slain before they enjoy life. Our adolescents know not the deeds of great heroes and heroines. We are filled with loss of virtue as we rationalize away our lives to vices now called virtues.
Apathy had led to what we are experiencing. Our slumbering souls have resisted the desire. We have reaped what we have sown. We have allowed our liberties to evolve into shackles. We have slept, as vagabonds sung treasonous lullabies. My fellow countrymen, you know of what I speak.
It is the passion within you that something is dreadfully wrong. It is the feeling not of a visible enemy upon defensible horizons, but an insidious serpent lurking in the shadowy future waiting to strike without warning.
It is a firm emotion, deep within your immortal soul to become as those who became, when this country arose to its destiny.
It is a call to great words, faith and national repentance. It is a rallying song of more than mere patriotism, comradeship, or national pride.
It is Independence. Can you hear it? Independence is that desire. It is the end of apathy and it’s longing to rise again within those who would call themselves countrymen.
In these befuddling and dark days may we remember this desire and so live as to never be forgotten for it.
Daniel J. Poole
Oakboro
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Gingrich a front runner?
A year ago not many people gave Newt Gingrich much chance of being president.
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An exciting year so far at WSMS
I am an eighth grade teacher at West Stanly Middle and wanted to take the opportunity to share some of the highlights of our year.
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Clean Tech has right to choose location
I am writing in reference to Huck Huckabee’s letter to the editor.
First of all, I don’t think the working population has enough time in the day to wait around for an investigation on why Clean Tech did not take the offer of the Wiscassett Mills property. -
Let them make the decisions they are being paid to make
I am not being critical of our school board or individuals who sit upon it. I am not advocating that redistricting is the best option nor am I opposed to it.
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The company was never about creating jobs
I think Mayor Whitley’s offer of the Wiscassett Mills property to Clean Tech was a brilliant move. The Jan. 5 SNAP article noted that Steve Strickler of Clean Tech said the Wiscassett Mills property “… would not fit Clean Tech’s needs in terms of size and available infrastructure.”
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It's Past Time To Look At Redistricting
Question: Where does the West Stanly School District start? Answer: Just past the little bridge on West Main Street in Albemarle just before Hinks Grill. Handi-Mart and Stanly Community College are also in the West District. The South District starts somewhere around Rock Creek Park.
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Questions to Stanly County
Over the past few months there has been a lot of public discussion concerning the ALCOA relicensing, the effort to locate CleanTech in Stanly County and the dollars spent by the Stanly County Commissioners on these two items
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Postal Service needs greater flexibility for the new year
As we look forward to the beginning of a new year, the Postal Service still needs Congress to make a basic choice: to permit USPS to function more as a business or to continue the constraints.
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ALCOA and their available jobs were not run out of Stanly County
It is my opinion that ALCOA made the choice to leave Stanly County which eliminated good paying jobs and benefits for its citizens after enjoying years of profitable business here. I am also very appreciative of the jobs ALCOA provided in the past.
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Alcoa has been a great giver to Stanly County
Stanly County
I would like to inform the Stanly County manager and the commissioners that no one person owns the Yadkin-Pee Dee River. It is owned by the God of Heaven. And Alcoa’s dams have provided a great source of water to several counties. - More Letters to the Editor Headlines
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Gingrich a front runner?
