Interstate 40 was cleared, Asheville City Council retreated, the downtown Bank of America closed up, the role of religion was fiercely debated at the Buncombe County Board of Education, Shuler bowed out, the city looked at restricting newspapers, Council headed to East Asheville, a deal over the Occupy Asheville camp remained out of reach. Whew. It was a busy, busy news week in Asheville.
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False Charges still being pushed.
Since Lynn Fraser could not hug me with a rope around my neck…. http://www.mountainx.com/article/37223/APD-Chief-department-takes-employees-Facebook-comments-on-Occupy-Asheville-very-seriously
She Lied To Me While Collecting Evidence For My Arrest… I WAS Targeted and Falsely Arrested!
This is Lynn Fraser talking to me during the march on November 2, 2011. Hear my compliments to the Asheville police department for working with the people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzlFxXtrdw&list=UUh2UHeK2CJaLI9x3kbEduSg&index=6&feature=plcp
This video is my actions at the march:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dUL90XqKuE&feature=related
This is a video of how I was arrested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-eqXxmkOEE&feature=related
This was another attempt by local Government to deny my Free Speech. Wasting tax payers money on trumped up charges Should Be A Crime!!!
Who Keeps pushing these charges? The DA Ron Moore not releasing the evidence to snare him and many more pretty people in this town?
No Public Access??? I Heard Social Media works better…. LOL
Re: newspaper boxes.
This is how meddling pointy-headed government bureaucrats think: “How dare there be anything in human society that is not regulated to death by us central planning experts?”
Freedom? Oh, the horror.
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Holy cow Batman,
I might agree with Tim Peck for once.
Lets take a ski trip down in hell.