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The problem with the two tier "justice" system is all about politics, not money. It is about the weaponization of the courts to try to destroy political adversaries. Biden and his allies are trying to make Trump America's Aleksei Navalny and do to Trump what Putin has done to Navalny. Our judicial system is fast becoming like those of Putin's Russia or of banana republics. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently made that comparison and it is unfortunately very accurate.

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 12:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

If the Washington's city manager is pulling the strings, they keep it better hidden than the school board. Washington keeps its city manager down where he belongs with the staff during city council meetings. The school board seats their puppet master, Cheeseberger, err Cheesemold, err Cheeseman with the elected officials right beside the board chairman. Indeed, at meetings, one often sees Cheeseman whispering in chairman T.W. Allen's ear, telling him what to do.

Allen is a pathetically weak and ineffective chairman who is nothing but a rubber stamp for Cheeseman, but that is true of all five of the school board members up for election this year. Only Carolyn Walker puts on a show of having a mind of her own, but even that is only a show because she always toes the Cheeseman party line in the end. We need more school board members like the three new ones we elected last election.

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 10:46 am By: Rino Hunter

Its true, rich white billionaire just can't get a break. Bhahahahahahaha

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 9:23 am By: Big Bob

Elon Musk, considered one of the most innovated African - Americans in modern World history, was at one time a media darling, and once considered by Liberal and Leftist activists to be a bright light unto the future.

What happened to change all that? Read here - www.beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 8:54 am By: Stan Deatherage

America's current two-tier "justice" system which has different standards for different people depending on their politics is the opposite of the Rule of Law. Under the Rule of Law, everyong is treated the same, and that is no longer the way it works in America, thanks to the Democrats. The Democrats are destroying democracy as we have known it while trying to blame it on others.

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 8:17 am By: Rino Hunter

Big Bob: You're a Leftist.

Leftists do not understand "Rule of Law." Leftists do not even understand MAGA, so how could they possibly perceive the Constitution, and its consequence - the "Rule of Law."

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 8:10 am By: Stan Deatherage

Because if you disagree with MAGA leaders you're sick. I hope the voters have enough sense to see where that leads. Remember folks, over time, MAGA will turn on anyone and everyone.

I prefer the rule of law.

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 8:04 am By: Big Bob

Washingtonian, the way Sadler's wife pulls his puppet strings, it is hard to imagine the City Manager competing with that. Heck, you can watch in city council meetings where she is furiously texting on her phone in the middle of the meeting and he is up front looking down at his phone taking instruction. But they each may have their controls on different levels.

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 6:58 am By: Conservative Voter

No, "Firebrand" is an alias, a fake entity, and that is the real of it.

I have never heard of you /your alias, and therefore you are inconsequential as whatever you believe yourself to be - the self-obsessed "Firebrand."

Furthermore, attacking real Conservatives (which is your only purpose proven), beneath the guise of an alias, on behalf of those who are NOT real Republicans - the Center /Left Coalition - does not make you special, it makes you a sad character, a meat-puppet-for-the-pathetic, and absolutely not real, and never consequential.

Think about it for a long moment and consider: What act of relative good do your render, as an alias in the shadows, pretending to be relevant, as an alias no one of consequence knows of except those nefarious interlopers that only use you?

Hood Richardson and myself are real people, with real jobs helping real people, who also provide a valuable service as the only two Conservatives on the Beaufort County Commission for about two decades now, which is also what is very real. Your fake words, under a fake persona will never change that piece of truth as a modern history within the fabric of this county.

And now, to that end, at my sole discretion, I will cut off your speech here, as an alias, as "Firebrand," unless you learn to speak in a consequential manner; which stipulates that you at least try to be thoughtful in your words, find a real subject and stick with its truth, but not as the idiotic meat-puppet-currently-known-as-the-alias-"Firebrand."

Otherwise, you are done here.

Commented: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024 @ 10:52 pm By: Stan Deatherage

My son lives in Smallwood and they have never seen police out issuing traffic citations in the neighborhood until this morning but this morning there were several of them out doing it. Very unusual. It begs the questoni of what's up?

Commented: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024 @ 9:44 pm By: Victoria

Firebrand: You are an alias. You have very little standing to pontificate anything here of value.

You do understand that ... right?

Saying you are a "Lifelong Republican" means absolutely nothing, especially when one considers that Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump were once Democrats, and if you despise Stan and Hood to such a magnificent extent, yet still you find a way to vote for a local "Republican," then you are a supporter of the long standing Center - Left Coalition, and its nominal "Republican" members, which means, once again, your standing is very limited here, especially as an alias.

And "Firebrand," one more thing, as I pull obvious Real Republican rank on you: If you were a "Strong Conservative," you would NOT be hiding under the cover of an alias, parroting RINO talking points.

This is just common sense, and that is the real world that I deal in.

Commented: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024 @ 3:33 pm By: Stan Deatherage