Asheville Tea Party

Senate vote makes annexation harder

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GroWNC Sustainable Communities Initiative-May 17th, 4:00 – 7:00 pm – Go and learn.

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:44:40 +0000

Land-of-Sky Regional Council (LOSRC) was asked by area local governments to serve as the grant administrator and coordinating agency for GroWNC, the Sustainable Communities Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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May 17, 2012 – Buncombe County – Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, 285 Livingston St, Asheville, NC 28801

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NC Voter Problems

admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:51:53 +0000

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A Pro Agenda 21 Video – Remaking Society – Is this what you want?

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:06:39 +0000

Erik Assadourian Presents at State of the World 2012 Symposium

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Larry Keller’s visit with Special Agents from the EPA

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:36:19 +0000

Larry Keller of Buncombe, GOP member and part of the WNC Objectivist group, had a horrible encounter with Big Brother feds. Below is the story. He will be on Peter Kaliner on Friday at 3 pm WWNC, 570.

Our Government at Work

On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 at about 1:45PM two Special Agents from the EPA and an armed police officer who stood 6’6” tall visited our house in Asheville, NC. Their visit was a total surprise as we had not received any communications requesting an appointment. The agents presented very official looking badges and asked if we could sit and chat awhile. We moved to the back porch and took our seats with the exception of the armed officer who stood by the door to the house the entire time.

Special Agent Michael Woods, who acted as the leader, then asked if I ran a business out of our house and if, what kind of business. What does that have to do with the EPA I thought. I answered yes – I own and run a consulting business focused on data visualization and analysis. After explaining my business to them, he then asked if I had ever sent any emails to anyone in the EPA. I answered no initially and then recalled that I had tried to reach Dr. Al Armendariz, the then EPA Regional Administrator who had made comments about crucifying big oil companies last week. Further, using Google, I had searched for his contact information and landed on his domain which was a subset of Southern Methodist University. There Dr. Armendariz tells visitors to email Dr. David Gray, Director of External Affairs for the EPA. I sent an email to Dr. Gray and stated the following:

“Hello Mr. Gray-Do you have Mr. Armendariz’s contact information so we can say hello?”

At this point Agent Woods reach into a file and from it he pulled out a copy of my email to Dr. Gray. He handed it to me and I asked what was there about the content that justified their driving across the state of NC to visit me with no prior warning. The other agent then stated that my choice of words in the email could be interpreted in many ways. At that point I asked them to be specific as they were wasting my time. I stated that I pay for agents’ salaries and that of the police officer and they have bigger fish to fry. Special Agent Woods then asked if I had ever been arrested – the answer was a swift no. I then asked for a copy of the email they presented and they said that was impossible as the investigation was not yet complete.

At this point I asked for business cards which they said they had when the first entered. Both agents suddenly discovered they were out of business cards. They left via the back staircase and to my shock the agents had parked their car almost blocking my driveway and the police officer parked in my neighbor’s driveway.

Welcome to the new America.

Click here to listen to Larry’s interview on the Pete Kaliner Show.

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