Comments by Charles Hickman | Eastern North Carolina Now

We're living in strange times. Dangerous too. In my day to day interactions I'm observing interesting phenomena. It's encouraging that more people are waking up, but it's also discouraging that so many people continue to exist in La La Land. I agree with the sentiments expressed here: 1. Stop voting for the same people that got us in our present situation; 2. Phonies have to go (regardless of party); 3. Demand and work for honest elections.

On a side note, get that new Van Morrison album (Latest Record Project, Volume 1). In this world saturated with lying media fueling the delusional masses into total insanity, it's a relevant breath of fresh air. Van is still the man.

Commented: Friday, October 8th, 2021 @ 8:14 pm By: Charles Hickman

I've heard some say that Critical Race Theory is not being taught in Beaufort County Schools. I believe CRT is not being taught in BCS under that banner. But, I do know the elements of Critical Race Theory are being taught in Beaufort County classrooms and this has been so for a long time.

Schools are all about learning things. Learning about CRT is not necessarily bad in that context. I don't have a problem with CRT being taught in classrooms. Our students need to know what it is and what it is about. I do have problems with this line of thinking being advocated to our young ones. Indoctrination is not good scholarship.

Critical Race Theory is one part of Critical Theory which is a tool of Neo-Marxism. Propaganda is a poor substitute for education. We should be helping students learn to think rather than instructing them in what to think.

Parents in general need to take a more active role in the education of their children and in the things going on in classrooms. The government has no right to take over the role of parents and we cannot allow it to happen.

Commented: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 @ 11:22 am By: Charles Hickman

Your question gets a yes vote from me. In divorces it's called irreconcilable differences. Sometimes it's just best to part ways. The consequences of staying together may be either destructive violence or abusive dominance of one party over the other in these type situations. A big obstacle to a rational solution in issues like this is that one party may be stuck in authoritarian mode (like what we are seeing now). Add in absence of equal justice under the law. All this spells trouble ahead for good ways out of bad situations.

Commented: Sunday, September 26th, 2021 @ 5:25 pm By: Charles Hickman

This is so wrong. So much for following the science. The science says those that have had and recovered from COVID now have natural immunity and in all ways that is superior to any vaccine. Science says that our special forces demographic is not even close to being at risk (kind of like the risk to healthy children being about the same as being struck by lightning - as an aside note to local school boards in love with jumping through the federal hoops to get their grubby hands on federal dollar$ while calling it following the science and keeping the schools open).

Just who are the weak minded fools among us that actually fall for the "follow the science" nonsense notions being served up especially for the consumption of the least informed by the sleaziest of all political liars that have ever sprung up on planet Earth. Our Seals and Special Forces must not be destroyed. Period.

Who with a straight face can argue that those behind the bought stage actor politician saboteurs are not doing everything possible to destroy the United States and Western Civilization? The threat of COVID pales in comparison to the threat of those actively engaged in destroying our civilization itself.

Commented: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 @ 10:01 am By: Charles Hickman

Don't let the "atta boy" medals fool you. I had the pleasure of serving with U.S. Army giants. These men, Lloyd "sensitivity training" Austin and Mark "his wokeness" Milley, are not them.

Commented: Thursday, September 16th, 2021 @ 7:49 am By: Charles Hickman

As a young boy growing up in a family business some of us would ask my grandfather about closing for Labor Day. He said, "Labor Day is for labor." He wasn't referring to organized labor; he was talking about working in general.

Lately, some local fast food managers are telling me they're having a very hard time keeping regular business hours, because it's so difficult putting together a second shift. There are so many people happier taking the steady stream of government money, they're just not interested in working. Our governments have created an environment where the phenomenon of moochers electing looters to steal from producers has run amok.

Moochers and looters have inflicted severe damage on the producers in our society. The American middle class is being attacked from all sides. A shrinking middle class is a serious threat to our civilization. A weak middle class will be the end of the American republic.

In the words of Ayn Rand, "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

Can this trend be reversed? Can America be restored? We sure as heck better hope so and we sure better try.

Commented: Monday, September 6th, 2021 @ 11:35 am By: Charles Hickman

Our "twilight zone" is an Orwellian, Huxley, Rynd, 21st Century Global Reset nightmare. It's a nightmare of the worse kind, because it is real. In my opinion we should approach this like being in a Freddie Kruger movie: We've got to stay awake.

But, we are in no movie. This is a crazy but true world. We can't afford to waste our time in delusional fairy tales. The truths in this article can't be denied, so they must be dealt with.

At this point I'm voting entirely on protecting and defending the Constitution. Lip service and certainly less than that does not win my support. Period. Yes, things have reached a very basic place for us in this world where so much is at stake.

Commented: Friday, September 3rd, 2021 @ 8:52 pm By: Charles Hickman

Honorable men WOULD resign. We're not observing honorable men. Calling the President dementia ridden and the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff incompetent is giving them way too much cover. I consider it more like betrayal and treason. In the context of all the disasters of this administration in such a short time, sabotage is the only thing that makes any sense. Who is writing Puppet Joe's script? U.S. citizens have a right to know.

Commented: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 8:15 am By: Charles Hickman

I'm with "Slow Hand" and Van Morrison. They have the guts to stand up as citizens of England and Ireland - Both under the siege of globalist totalitarians. Where are the American artists with the guts to stand for freedom?

Commented: Sunday, August 29th, 2021 @ 4:22 pm By: Charles Hickman

Yes indeed, hypocrisy abounds. Also, there was former President Obama's recent birthday party. I think the guest list was originally about 700 and they scaled it down to about 400. The pictures and YouTubes that leaked out showed nary a mask while they jammed out on the dance floor face to face. The explanation I heard was along the lines of: Those celebrities, socialites and globetrotter beautiful people are a responsible lot. I suppose that's meant to be in contrast to us irresponsible Beaufort County peons. Maybe I should put on some Pink Floyd 'Us and Them' and contemplate that for awhile.

Commissioner Richardson made some good points relating recent policy decisions being disjoint from knowledge of actual academic subjects. For example:
1) History - We have never before reacted this way to a global pandemic. Quarantine of the general population instead of quarantine of the sick is a departure from previous responses (remember the Spanish Flu about 100 years ago).
2) Math - To my knowledge we have never abused numbers toward public policy ends to this degree.
3) Civics - Unconstitutional, unlawful abuse and massive overreach of governmental power using Covid as the excuse.
4) Science - Ignoring the fact that it would take a very special mask to stop a virus from going through it; pretending this vaccine is a cure; ignoring the realities of herd immunity, et cetera.
5) Journalism - Reporting statistics using any statistical context has been completely abandoned.
6) Economics - The evil consequences of choking certain segments of the economy while rewarding the chosen 'essential' and corporate segments. The consequences of paying people not to work and printing worthless money.

Pushing more irrational, illogical, nonsensical methods of operation into places we send our young ones to be educated serves to either hopelessly muddle their young minds or to convince them that there is nothing to be gained by training in such an environment; perpetual mental abuse or a complete waste of time from the student's perspective. School should be a place where our young ones learn to think (to reason, reflect, deliberate, speculate and dream), not where they should be sent to be confused and propagandized into a perplexity plagued state of obedience.

We need to support our parents, teachers, and students; not make things more difficult for them. We do not need to disrespect the minds of students or the authority of parents.

Commented: Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 @ 12:22 am By: Charles Hickman

Certainly the Great Reset has begun and is moving very rapidly. We do not have the luxury of time in preparing for events coming our way. It is here. It is now. If people indeed have a point they will not go beyond, they must soon decide just where that line in the sand is.

Commented: Monday, August 23rd, 2021 @ 8:08 am By: Charles Hickman

Sabotage of the the United States and the free world. This is what you get with a ChiCom Puppet Joe president: Disastrous end to Afgan War; disastrous foreign policy, disastrous border situation - busloads of medically unchecked illegals being transported to all points of our country while masked citizens are under crazy regulations; corporations thrive while small businesses are killed - the destruction of the middle class. All this after almost seven months in with this administration; the rapidity of the wreckage is stunning. Who's worried about tweets on Twitter now?

Commented: Tuesday, August 17th, 2021 @ 9:16 am By: Charles Hickman

People ask me all the time, what's wrong with the Republicans? Explaining the outright treachery that is commonplace within the party at all levels is getting tiresome.

Considering Mitch McConnell: He is a corrupt snake that has betrayed fellow Republicans (as well as the country) repeatedly. I won't bother to write that book now.

His most recent election campaign was on life support until he begged for help from Trump. Trump helped him and he survived in Kentucky because of Trump's support. McConnell gets to survive and immediately goes back to his low life dealings (including betraying Trump) with another six year term cushion to fall back on.

Republicans shouldn't settle for this kind of leadership (at all levels) that is no better than the Democrat serpents in leadership. Look what the senate RINOs have done with the trillion dollar (bi-partisan) infrastructure bill monstrosity. Our country can't survive much more of this.

I have lot's of friends that used to be active Republicans. Many are disillusioned because of the betrayals and corruption. Periodically they ask me if anything is improving. I'm tired of having little good to report.

Commented: Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 @ 9:49 pm By: Charles Hickman

The Supreme Court is a conservative court and grits ain't groceries, eggs ain't poultry and Mona Lisa was a man.

Commented: Sunday, August 8th, 2021 @ 8:05 am By: Charles Hickman

When your leaders are criminal dictators they can place law abiding citizens outside the law while they rob you of everything. We have a situation where we are being abused by a criminal president, criminal governors, criminal appointed department heads, all owned by criminal corporate heads.

Global control madman Klaus Schwab said, "You will own nothing and be happy." Schwab is the Founder and Chairman of the World Economic Forum. When you hear Biden parroting slogans like "Build back better" he gets that stuff from those globalists.

The globalist criminals are on the verge of attaining all their dreams. They like to tell us we will be provided all we need by paying rent. Well, just who do you suppose we are going to be renting our former properties from? This is likely to be the biggest property heist in history.

This mad scheme is an affront to everything held dear to freedom loving people and cannot be allowed to succeed.

Commented: Friday, August 6th, 2021 @ 9:33 am By: Charles Hickman

Herd immunity should be our goal. The narrative now being shoved down our throats is insane.

The only science Governor Cooper is following is fascist science fiction. Now that our population is split into factions including those drunk with power, the true believers, morons, the frightened, and skeptics with unanswered questions, we can now expect the first four groups to be propagandized into a frenzy toward persecuting the last group. This type of behavior is nothing new in how the powerful seek to consolidate their power at the expense of regular folks.

Commented: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 10:25 am By: Charles Hickman

Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be coerced to take it, to be protected from a disease so deadly you have to be tested to even know you have it and is 99.9999% curable for most people.

For this we are expected to surrender all our freedoms? Why the censorship? Our "leaders" don't want herd immunity, they want herd mentality.

It seems like I've heard this ancient totalitarian tale before. Time after time in history and so many examples in the Old Testament. It's no wonder our government schools are "teaching" doctored history these days.

Disturbing things are happening in America. Take a look at the protests and crackdowns in places like France, the UK, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy, South Africa, Finland, Slovakia, and Greece. This is no game.

Commented: Wednesday, July 28th, 2021 @ 8:33 am By: Charles Hickman