According to the police report filed by Deputy Bush, she stood in Ms. Worley’s field and told Ms. Worley the property owner that she was not allowed to be present on her property during the surveying process. This female deputy had absolutely no authority to tell Ms. Worley that she was not able to be on or to move freely about her own property. When Ms. Worley restated her desire to remain on her property she was told by Bush that “She would see about that”. Then later after backup was call Ms. Worley’s was unlawfully arrested and her life altered for ever.
Get the facts, here is a link to the documents pertaining to Ms. Worley’s eminent domain nightmare.
Press Release: http://www.hopeofgeorgia.com/press_releases/press_release_092007.htm
Arrest Documents: http://www.hopeofgeorgia.com/?file=worley/index
These are some of the media links:
Fox Cable News Network aired a story live from the Barrow County Sheriff’s office that ran for about 6 min. long. Then there was another live story on “The Fox Report” that evening with Sheppard Smith
The story has been carried locally by WSBTV Channel 2 video: http://www.wsbtv.com/video/14162266/index.html and online: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14161104/detail.html . Ms. Worley has been a guest on the Martha Zoller show on WDUN radio this week as well.
HOPE of Georgia is working to make further changes to eminent domain law and we need Georgia citizens help! HOPE of Georgia needs people contacting the Governor and their representatives in the legislature. HOPE does not want to stop construction, we just want to make sure people are treated fair and their rights are not violated in this state by the power utilities.
Don’t wait until they come for your land to take stand, it might be to late.
Mike Carter
Chairman
HOPE of Georgia
mike@hopeofgeorgia.com
www.hopeofgeorgia.com
That was only after she was harassing the surveying team for a second day, and after she had tried to scare people by recklessly driving her truck around in the field near them, and speeding by them on the road as well.
This female deputy had absolutely no authority to tell Ms. Worley that she was not able to be on or to move freely about her own property.
She only told her that she couldn't be right were the survey team was, and that was hardly unreasonable considering her actions. She was still free to move about the rest of her property and could have watched from a reasonable distance had she simply not continued to confront them and interfere with them doing their jobs.
When Ms. Worley restated her desire to remain on her property she was told by Bush that “She would see about that”.
It was Ms. Worley that yelled "Well see about that, we'll just see about that", not Deputy Bush.
Actually it is pretty difficult to consolidate your press report on your site with the incident report and the witness reports.
Your press release and statements are very misleading, and just don't match up with the facts very well.
Fighting against abuses of eminent domain is a worthy cause. However, Ms. Worley's actions are not deserving of my support, and I also will not support an organization that tries to gain my support by misleading me about the facts.