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Corporate Media is awful, corrupt, and similarly pathetic in their charge to honor their First Amendment by being honest and worthwhile.

If only by default, who would have thought the ENC NOW platform (formerly beaufortcountynow.com, but now expanded) would become the top Journalistic entity in this immediate region.

When I began this public square idea far more than a decade ago, I just wanted to allow people a chance to profess their opinions on a Freedom of Speech Platform, use BCN as a prototype to create our first Content Management System (CMS), and make money doing it.

So far, I have not made any decent money yet, but we have survived because it was important that we survive to provide Real News, and we are, again by default, the closest anyone will get to real journalism is these parts.

NOW, we are the largest online publication in the history of Beaufort County, employing the top technology to do so, plus, I estimate we have about 60,000 unique viewers a week visiting ENC NOW.

NOW, it is time to make some money, and ENC NOW will NOT be our only product /platform to do so.

There are a bunch of businesses here in eastern North Carolina, and we want to give all of them every opportunity to "Shop Local."

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 12:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, I love my country. Its a great country, warts and all. If you can get enough people to vote for the way you see it, more power to you. I don't give you a chance in hell b because you appeal to a narrow slice, evidently enough to get you elected in Beaufort county. Congratulations.
I support your right to serve and respectfully suggest (insert sarcasm) nobody get any ideas to hang him because you believe jewish space lasers altered the voting machines in a Hardee's basement.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 9:49 pm By: Big Bob

Viewpoint diversity is an important part of freedom, as is free speech, but both are becoming rare birds on college campuses and the self-styled "mainstream media" They are in the process of vanishing in our public schools to be replaced by the radical left narrative alone. How many public schools, for example, tell both sides of the science on climate issues?

However, when it comes to young children there are some lines that have to be drawn. The groomers who want to sexualize them like BB need to be told NO, and that is what Florida has done. Pedophiles and those who support them don't like it, but the important thing is protecting children, not pleasing groomers.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 9:49 am By: Conservative Voter

You are the one without a clue, Bobbie, because all you do is regurgitate the far left narrative in your tunnel vision. You keep deflecting to things that are irrelevant. If you would watch that British TV documentary linked below you would understand the real science involved and how your narrative is nothing but hot air. Learn the relationship between our oceans and the CO2 in our atmosphere and you would grasp why the point you are trying to make is meaningless.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 10:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is an attack on the freedom of elected officials to debate the issues, going down the same slippery slope as Europe. For a functioning democracy, our elected officials as well as citizens need full ability to debate issues. The statements complained of were clearly made in debate and in response to remarks of the thin-skinned Democrats who complained. They are presented by the ultra-leftwing WRAL article above totally stripped of context.

What we have are whiny thin-skinned Democrats with a victim mentality and a grievance mentality. This is something new in politics and Democrats a couple of decades ago would not have been so whiny. Unfortunately, the GOP leadership was wimpy themselves to even respond at all to the Democrat nothingburger. As George Orwell wrote, "freedom of speech is your right to say what I don't want to hear".

The British House of Commons is considered the "mother of parliaments" and a role model for how a democratsic legislative body should function. Throughout the history of that august body, comments about other members have been part of the process, and at periods even quite common. One famous such exchange involved Sir Winston Churchill when he was First Lord of the Admiralty in a Conservative cabinet and was speaking on the floor of the House of Commons. A female Liberal MP interrupted Churchill and exclaimed "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk" to which he replied "Madame, you're ugly, but tommorrow I will be sober".

There were no consequneces when a former Beaufort County legislator, Zeno Edwards made sexually suggestive comments toward a colleague in a House committee meeting. The meeting was in session considering a bill, and a female Democrat legislator who was a chiroprator by profession had just finished substative remarks on the bill when Edwards obtained the floor and rather than discussing anything about the bill, he decided to discuss the prior speaker, saying "I don't like to think of her as a back doctor because her front is not too shabby either." That was a totally graituitous remark that did not have anything to do with the bill or with the other legislators comments on the bill, but there were no consequences for it.

Politics is a rough sport and politicians as thin-skinned as these two whiny Democrats are just pathetic. It is also sad for the functioning of our elected legislators that the GOP House leadership caved in to their whining. That is starting down a slippery slope of restricting the freedom of debate of our elected legislators.

This brings us to the threats to freedom of debate now happening in Europe. In France, a French Senator was charged criminally a couple of months ago with "hate speech" over a social media post that "immigration kills" after an illegal alien migrant brutally murdered a young French woman. Then leftwing members of the EU parliament filed complaints seeking penalties against three conservative colleagues from three different parties from three different countries for remarks in debate on the floor of the parliament. The "offnese" of a Romanian MEP was to say that the safety of women should take precedence over gender ideology. An Italian MEP was targeted over her discussing an "honor killing" in a Muslim migrant family of a young woman who refused an arranged marriage. A Danish MEP was complained over because he mentioned official Danish government statistics on migrants and sex crimes in Denmark.

The left around the world is at war with free speech, and Speaker Tim Moore has just knuckled under to that attack here in our own General Assembly, which is shameful.
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I wish the BO would seek sources other than a notorious far left propaganda organ like WRAL.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 10:01 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Be happy with your political prisoners as your Non Patriot Class does love to collect as the Fascists they have become.

And just know that we patriots that "work through the system," Stan Deatherage being a perfect example of such, will one day exact those changes that will forever weaken your Non Patriot Class that only seeks to subvert the system to their evil will, and thereby destroy that well woven fabric of the former Good Republic, which must be saved.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 8:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Still not a clue. It's simple math. BTW lets not forget, we agree that nuclear energy is an option.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 8:06 pm By: Big Bob

Some places are finding out that electric school busses are a flop. freebeacon.com

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 5:43 pm By: Countrygirl1411

If you had bothered to watch just the opening segment of the British TV documentary "The Great GLobal Warming Swindle" you would know from scientists that 1) the Earth has had as much as 30 times as much CO2 in its atmosphere as we have today, and 2) it did not impact the climate then and it will not today either. These are scientists who do not have their snouts in the pig trough of government grant money tied to promoting the global warming theory like the Climategate rogue secientists. It is easy enough to listen to the scientists who do not have a financial interest in promoting the unfounded manmade global warming theory.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 4:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Anyone who attacks another because of their religion should not be allowed to be in the USA. They need to be deported after they serve their prison sentence.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 3:13 pm By: Coy

Still have no idea of the amount of CO2 we are talking about? How can come to a conclusion to a problem not knowing the scope of the problem? Guess that Hillsdale math isn't all its cracked up to be.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 3:42 pm By: Big Bob