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I know this has been discussed here already but I wanted to share my article about King NC's declaration of a state of emergency and how it exposed how over-reaching the state's emergency powers legislation really is.
1 posted on 02/09/2010 7:24:57 AM PST by JohnPierce
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To: JohnPierce

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Not to worry — I’m sure the ACLU is filing an ex parte writ petition this morning in Federal court.

/s


2 posted on 02/09/2010 7:30:56 AM PST by Touch Not the Cat
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To: JohnPierce

I think it’s time to look at the states and who thinks they have power over the people. Then get rid of them asap.


3 posted on 02/09/2010 7:31:11 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Joe Brower; wardaddy; Travis McGee

ping


4 posted on 02/09/2010 7:35:08 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: Candor7

VERY interesting, over here.


5 posted on 02/09/2010 7:35:33 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: JohnPierce

Obviously the “city fathers” of King, NC are deeply afraid of the potentially devastating impact of an invasion of brain eating zombies.

Apparently this so deeply troubles them, that they need more time to ponder the implications of zombie invasion as private citizens, without the burdens of public office.

While, of course, frequenting local coffee shops and making expressive hand gestures to frighten away the invisible, soul sucking parasites that menace the other coffee imbibers, until they are shooed away by the manager for glaring too intensively at the teenage robotoid baristas from Alpha Centauri, who think they are weird and creepy.


6 posted on 02/09/2010 7:38:45 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: JohnPierce

They don’t sound too upset. I’m sure that will encourage other tyrants and tyranannies. “Sheeple are more sheepish than expected. Push a little harder, a little further.”


7 posted on 02/09/2010 7:39:21 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (STOP the Tyrananny State.)
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To: JohnPierce

King Mayor Jack Warren......perhaps he takes his title waaaay to seriously..................


10 posted on 02/09/2010 7:43:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: JohnPierce

Note: Pronounced “Kang” by the locals. I used to buy cigars there when I worked in Winston. You get off Hy 52, buy gas and a burger and get back on it. Then you kick yourself because there’s a Mayflower in Level Cross where you could have eaten.


12 posted on 02/09/2010 7:56:26 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: JohnPierce

Six inches of snow here in Utah means that we MIGHT exchange our shorts and flipflops for a hoodie, jeans and sneakers :-)


15 posted on 02/09/2010 8:04:45 AM PST by T Minus Four (Donate to Haiti now and sponsor a Haitian child for the long term - Worldvision.com)
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To: JohnPierce

It sounds like a test run for marshal law in the future has started.


16 posted on 02/09/2010 8:11:35 AM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: JohnPierce

Here is how to end this:

The next time a crisis happens... have the state ban all abortion procedures during the emergency!

The left will throw such a fit that never again will any constitutional right be touched during an emergency.


17 posted on 02/09/2010 8:14:17 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (November is coming.)
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To: JohnPierce
The greatest threat to liberties often come from local government. Our nation has already suffered such practices from people like the Confederate gun grabbers who terrorized much of the South during the Civil War. A good contemporary account of one such locality is JS Hurlburt's 1866 History of the Rebellion in Bradley County, East Tennessee.

Hurlburt 1866

18 posted on 02/09/2010 8:49:07 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: JohnPierce
Something to consider: When the Hard liquor companies wished to start advertising on TV, they ran a short ad in an out of the way market in Texas (IIRC), there was big brouhaha or over it and it eventually died down.

Now we see all kinds of those ads on TV and no one blinks and eye.

I'm NOT suggesting any kind of collusion here, but if people don't speak up about this now, consider what happens in the next “Emergency”

Once the Far-left National Socialists get people used to the idea of the government being able to deprive law-abiding citizens the right to self defense in one minor situation, what's going to happen in a real emergency?

26 posted on 02/10/2010 6:45:34 AM PST by BerserkPatriot (There are no 1st Amendment rights without 2nd Amendment Rights)
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