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Dec 20 - Jan 02, 2013 50¢Hilton Head Island • Ridgeland • Beaufort, South Carolina • Hardeeville • Savannah

Hatership vs Black...Bruce A. Dixonpage... 4 (Liberal)

Interesting times...Herman Gaither

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Taxing the...Thomas Sowell

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BEAUFORT -Throughout the HolidaySeason the BeaufortCounty Sheriff's Office isstepping up efforts toreduce drunk driving onlocal roadways.

The enforcement blitz- the Sober or Slammer!DUI crackdown campaign -is spearheaded by the SCDepartment of PublicSafety (SCDPS) and runsnow through January 1,2013. The goal is to curbthe number of crashes andfatalities caused bymotorists driving whileimpaired during the holidayseason.

SCDPS' Sober orSlammer! campaign is partof the national Drive Soberor Get Pulled Over crack-down coordinated by the

National HighwayTraffic SafetyAdministration.

The nationaleffort includesstate and local lawenforcement agen-cies across thecountry. The cam-paign combineshigh-visibilityenforcement withheightened publicawareness throughadvertising andpublicity.

Deputies willbe conductingproactive, targetedpatrols throughoutthe county in search of impaireddrivers. Those who insiston breaking the law whileputting others in dangerwill need to be prepared forthe legal and personal con-sequences, to include aDUI arrest.

Asidefrom a

criminalcharge, a

DUI arrestcarries a

hugefinancialburden.

The following are just afew of the average costsassociated with a firstoffense DUI:

1) Motor vehicleinsurance fees: The cost ofinsurance typically doublesfor at least the first threeyears after a DUI convic-tion. For the average driverin SC, the cost couldincrease more than $3,000.

2) Court fees: Thefines for a DUI in SC rangefrom $1,000 to $2,000.

3) Attorney fees:According to attorneys

throughout the state,$3,500 is the average costto fight a first offense DUI.

4) Alcohol and DrugSafety Action Program(ADSAP): Drivers chargedwith DUI in SC arerequired to go through theADSAP program. The min-imum cost for ADSAP is$500; additional fees couldbe as high as $2,500.

5) Bail bondsman:Bail bondsmen can chargea maximum of 15 percentof the fine. For a DUI, thatequates to at least $150.

6) Vehicle towing:Having the vehicle towedafter a DUI arrest generallycosts about $150.

7) License reinstate-ment fee: The SCDMVcharges a $100 license rein-statement fee.

Costs for subsequentoffenses or a felony DUIcharge would be higher.Other potential DUI costsinclude loss of employmentand/or wages, increase inlife insurance premiumsand/or loss of professionallicense.

BEAUFORT, SC - Councilman HerbertGlaze recently attended his last BeaufortCounty Council meeting after serving the cit-izens of Beaufort County for 20years. Glaze was first elected toBeaufort County Council in1992.

“My tenure on BeaufortCounty Council has been a mostrewarding experience. I thankGod for this opportunity and mostof all I thank my wife and family.I’d like to thank you the voters,the voters who demonstrated sup-port without reservation duringmy terms in office,” Glaze said athis last meeting. “I may not havealways made the most populardecisions but with the help fromGod, I always made decisionsthat I thought would best bene-fit the citizens of BeaufortCounty.”

The 20 year councilmanhas served on several commit-tees including; PublicFacilities, Military Affairs andthe Redistricting Committee. In 2008 Glazealso started the grassroots group CAVE --Citizens Against Violence Everywhere,

which he says he will remain active.Because of redistricting, based on the

2010 Census data, Glaze and CouncilmanGerald Dawon’s districts were consolidated,and they had to face each other this past June.Dawson won that election by 90 votes forcing

Glaze to retire from Council. Glaze will nowgo on to Chair the Lowcountry Council ofGovernment.

BEAUFORT - The Beaufort CountyBlack Chamber of Commerce (BCBCC)in partnership with SCORE will offer asmall business overview class. Therewill be two sessions on Monday, January14; Wednesday, January 16; and Friday,January 18 at 10:00 a.m. and at 6:00 p.m.

All interested persons are invited toattend. The purpose of the businessoverview class is to assists attendees inobtaining information on developing andusing business plans as well as financialand marketing plans.

This business development programis designed to help new and establishedentrepreneurs improve their skills andinfluence the success of their businesses.Classes will be held at the chamberoffice, located at 801 Bladen Street,Beaufort. For additional information:Tele. - (843) 986-1102.

TEXAS - Texas is a state thatis never shy of giving the restof the nation a “shockappeal.” They have thefastest speed limit in thenation (85 mph), they spear-headed the petition to secedefrom the nation followingPresident Obama’s re-elec-tion, and now they will havethe first school district withgun-toting teachers.

Last October, trustees atthe Harrold IndependentSchool District approved adistrict policy change toallow employees to carryconcealed firearms to deterand protect against schoolshootings, as long as the gun-toting teachers follow certainrequirements.

Superintendent David Thweatt said the policy was

initiated because of safetyconcerns. “We have hademployees assaulted beforeby people in the lastseveralyears,”Thweattsaid. “Ithink that safetyis big con-cern. Weare seeing a lot of angerin society.”

He didn’t comment onthe nature of the assaults, butattributes gun-free zones tothe surge of school shootingsin recent years. “When youmake schools gun-free zones,it’s like inviting people tocome in and take advantage,”Thweatt said. Thweatt says the communityis a 30-minute drive from the

sheriff’s office, which leavesstudents and teachers withoutprotection.

He believeshis districtcould be a

target for aschool

shootingbecause its

campus sits500 feet

from heavilyt r a f f i c k e dU.S. 287.

In order to tote aweapon, teachers and staffmust have a Texas license tocarry a concealed handgun;must be authorized to carryby the district; must receivetraining in crisis manage-ment and hostile situations;and must use ammunitionthat is designed to minimizethe risk of ricochet in schoolhalls.

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Councilman Herbert Glaze thankvoters for 20 years on council

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Councilman Glaze with wife Brenda(foreground) and daughter Diarra

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Cumberland County Superior CourtJudge Gregory A. Weeks based his ruling onevidence presented over four weeks of hear-ings that he says showed prosecutors in eachcase made a concerted effort to reduce thenumber of Black jurors.

The three who had their sentences com-muted were among the most notorious killerson North Carolina's death row. Two had killedlaw enforcement officers.

Family members of the victims and morethan 60 uniformed police officers packed thecourtroom. Before Weeks could finish issuinghis ruling, the brother of a murdered statetrooper stood up and yelled an expletive at thejudge.

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National News BriefBanks and ‘Junk Food’ mfgs. make billions off food stamps

every yearWASHINGTON - Republicans often complain aboutthe cost of food subsidization for the poor, but the reali-ty is some of their biggest and most powerful con-stituents are profiting from SNAP, aka Foodstamps, inseveral sinister ways.

Big businesses lobby heavily in Washington, D.C.to keep the food that can be bought through food assis-tance programs unhealthy and cheap, while mega bankslike J.P. Morgan literally skim billions off the top byforming payment processing agreements for all nowelectronic transactions.

Three sectors of big business which profit immense-ly from the general poverty of society. They are foodretailers like Walmart, food manufacturing corporationslike Kraft, and Coca-Cola and the most dubious of all --big banks like J.P. Morgan which profit from every salepaid for with government subsidized money.

Nine Walmarts in Massachusetts received over $33million in revenue from SNAP sales. In OklahomaWalmart received $500 million in sales over two years.

Coca-Cola, Kraft, and other companies are private-ly owned and not legally obligated to disclose how manyproducts they specifically sell, or where. Nor are storesobligated to release what consumers bought which itemswith their SNAP funds. It is however known that Coca-Cola, Kraft, and the Corn Refiners of America all band-ed together to kill a bill in Florida that proposed to dis-allow SNAP purchases for so-called "junk food."

Teens pose with guns on Facebookafter killing young mom,

over cigarettesBEAVER HILLS, PA - Two 14-year-old boys whoallegedly fatally shot a young mother in an argumentover a packet of cigarettes posted pictures of themselvesbrandishing guns on Facebook hours after the crime.

Police are still searching for Todavia Cleckley andMarcus Velasquez, who will be tried as adults for themurder in Beaver Hills, Pennsylvania. A third boy, 13-year-old Kyle Goosby, is already in custody and hasbeen charged with conspiracy to commit homicide.

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BEAUFORT - Eric Freeman (left), son of Sholanda and EricFreeman, Sr., of Beaufort, won top honors in the SC Farm BureauTalent Contest (Senior 2 Division) held recently in Myrtle Beachduring the organization's 69th Annual Meeting.

Derek Priester of Bamberg County (center) was named first run-ner-up while Daniel Rabon representing Horry-Conway was namedsecond runner-up.

South Carolina Farm Bureau is a membership organization thatworks to promote agriculture and rural lifestyles throughout thestate.

RIDGELAND, SC - A former Town ofRidgeland water and sewer clerk has beenconvicted of embezzlement and sentenced tofive years in prison.

At the conclusion of a two-day trial,jurors convicted 36-year-old Mandy Drew ofone count of embezzlement for siphoningapproximately $118,000 from the town’swater/sewer fund between April 2009 andJanuary 2011.

Drew would take payments made to thetown and fraudulently post them so theywould not appear on the current year’s

ledger or in the daily deposits made tothe bank. She pocketed the moneyand credited the customer’s accounteither after the daily payment log hadbeen printed or in a prior year in orderto make her scheme more difficult todetect.

Town officials began noticing discrep-ancies during their auditing process anduncovered the embezzlement. They assistedthe State Law Enforcement Division withthe investigation and the Fourteenth CircuitSolicitor’s Office with the prosecution.

“Mandy Drew was trusted with the pub-lic’s money and she violated that sacredtrust,” said assistant solicitor Francine Norz,

who prosecuted the case. “The Town ofRidgeland caught the activity through anaudit, assisted the investigation and fullypursued the prosecution. Fortunately, thetown also had insurance, so taxpayers arenot out of the money.”

Judge Carmen Mullen handed down thefive-year prison sentence to be followed byfive years of probation. She also orderedDrew repay $118,036 in restitution.

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Hatership vs Black Leadership inthe age of Obama

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Our Black leadership, ourBlack political class, whom wealso sometimes call the Blackmisleadership class, has nocompelling vision of a bettersociety and a better world tostrive for.

A generation of Black realestate crooks with intimate con-nections to the last three admin-istrations has profited mightilyfrom the destruction of publichousing communities acrossthe country and the privatiza-tion of the land under whatused to be those neighbor-hoods. Our Black political classhas had fifty years --- two gen-erations --- to come up withanswers to urban gentrificationthat might stabilize the commu-nities which made their owncareers possible.

Black preachers and politi-cians helped round up andrecruit Black families for sub-prime mortgages right up untilthe bubble burst, and after adecent interval organizationslike the NAACP have resumedtheir relationship with financialpredators like Wells Fargo.

With more unemployedAfrican-Americans than anytime in seventy years, often dueto vicious discriminationagainst former felons. Whereare the Black leaders calling

meetings, marches, boycottsand civil disobedience demand-ing a massive inner-city jobsprogram building transit, cre-ation of new housing, repairinginfrastructure, and employinggreen technologies to weather-proof the existing housingstock? The answer of course isnowhere. Congressman Al Green nailedit when he said that if Blackunemployment was this highunder a White Republican pres-ident there would be marchesand protests every day.

The prison state and itsassociated police and socialapparatus continues to intrudeon the lives of millions ofBlack families. The Malcolm XGrassroots Movement hasamply documented that oneAfrican-American is put todeath every 36 hours by police,private security forces or vigi-lantes in the US, and prosecu-tions are exceedingly rare.Black leadership is not interest-ed in questioning the expansionof the prison state, and onlysporadically interested inreforms that might ease thelives of the current and former-ly incarcerated, like limitingthe costs of long-distanceprison calls or repealingmandatory sentencing.

Most of the current crop ofBlack politicians, from big citymayors up to the president arefierce advocates of educational

privatization and a suite of so-called reforms introduced bycorporations and their deeppockets.

And most recently, whenSusan Rice, a corrupt lobbyist,stockholder in the Keystone OilPipeline and functionary in theClinton administration whofacilitated massacres inRwanda and covered up geno-cide in Congo was rumoredunder consideration asSecretary of State before with-drawing, Black leaders in pul-pits, womens organizations,and political office everywhereseized upon the opposition ofWhite racists as their reason fordefending this criminal “diplo-mat.

It's time to face facts.Today's Black leaders willnever hold anybody “account-able” in the interest of mostAfrican-Americans. That's whythe best title for the putativemovement to hold PresidentObama's feet to the fire onBlack unemployment, on mili-tarism, or nuclear power or theenvironment or the prison stateor anything else is the February30th Movement.

The horizons of our Blackleadership are limited to thenext funding cycle, the nextelection, to defending the pres-ident against the next racistassault, to being the Black wallthat surrounds Barack Obama,and their own privileges as

well. It takes a little something,under these conditions, to bewhat they call a hater.

Hatership is not always thegreatest career move; it comeswith costs. You won't be invitedto speak at most Black Historymonth gatherings, where asAdolph Reed points out, Blackelites want to hear validatingsuccess stories, not challengingassessments. But hatershipfrees you from having to bowto gentrifiers, from needing toagree with corporate schoolreformers, or having to pretendthat the prison state is just oneof those things nobody can doanything about, or having tosupport what you hope is a less-er evil every year or two.

Hatership is freedom, andreal freedom is always a mixedbag. But simply being a hater isfar from enough. Leaders areleaders because they lead, orbecause people imagine theydo, and try to follow. The cur-rent crop of leaders will contin-ue to discredit themselves, butthey won't leave the stageunless forced to.

Herman Gaither

In the aftermath of the 2012 national election we are ableto determine what we have, what we almost had, and what isreally behind the screen of conservatism.

What we have first is a decisive win for progressives anda rejection of the politicsof trickle down prosperi-ty. Hopefully what wealso have is recognitionby all the parties that thenations business is inneed of attention. I amsure there will be someposturing and saber rat-tling but I do not thinkeither party can be seen asobstructionist and stillhope for some future elec-toral success.

The second and thirdconclusions are muchmore troubling. What wealmost had is a president that blames his loss on "gifts" by hisopponent to segments of the electorate. The speech where heblames government handouts to minorities, women, andimmigrants is even more telling than 47% speech and illus-trates the core beliefs of the man.

He really thinks that those people working three or morepart time jobs, with no benefits are just moochers who coulddo better if they just worked harder. He thinks that givinghealth care to some will just cause them to be healthier andthus live longer and allow more mooching. He believes thatwomen are in need of masculine guidance and do not havethe ability to make decisions for themselves. He believes thatthose brown people with the accent are just here moochingand do not work.

Sadly he convinced a lot of others that his assessmentwas correct. Although this was not hard to do with the FOXes(FOX NEWS fans), ditto heads (Rush Limbaugh fans), andthe rest of the confederacy waiting to get their human prop-erty back. Just read the letters to the editor in the local mediaand the crazies jump out at you.

A man who lives off his investments stashed in an off-shore account, whose positions on issues can change with thewind, whose disdain for the less fortunate is nonexistent, andwho cannot accept his fate is not much of a man at all. So let'shope that he becomes irrelevant quickly. Perhaps at the nextnational convention he will have the same presence as Mr.Bush had this summer.

This leads to the unmasking of those radicals that callthemselves conservatives. I say radicals because most con-servatives do not share their world view. For example, mostAfrican-Americans and Latinos have conservative views onsocial issues but are compassionate, understanding, religiousand concerned about the welfare of the world.

The radicals on the other hand are those who cannot tol-erate that a man of color has been re-elected…they thought itwas a fluke the first time, now it's real. They see their placeat the head of the parade being phased out because they areold, out of touch, but yet yearn for the good old days. Theyformed the tea party after the first election and had some suc-cess while the progressives sat on the sideline in 2010. Butnow they have been dismissed and the future is not bright forthem. How they respond will be interesting to watch.

We shall see how far the secession chatter goes, or howlong the children in the US House of Representatives can gowithout adult supervision, or how long before the sensiblecrowd in the GOP gains some courage.

Thomas Sowell

With all the talk about taxing the rich,we hear very little talk about taxing thepoor. Yet the marginal tax rate on someoneliving in poverty can sometimes be higherthan the marginal tax rate on millionaires.

While it is true that nearly half thehouseholds in the country pay no incometax at all, the apparently simple word "tax"has many complications that can be a chal-lenge for even professional economists tountangle.

If you define a tax as only those thingsthat the government chooses to call a tax,you get a radically different picture fromwhat you get when you say, "If it looks likea tax, acts like a tax and takes away yourresources like a tax, then it's a tax."

One of the biggest, and one of the old-est, taxes in this latter sense is inflation.Governments have stolen their people'sresources this way, not just for centuries,but for thousands of years.

Hyperinflation can take virtually yourentire life's savings, without the govern-ment having to bother raising the officialtax rate at all. The Weimar Republic inGermany in the 1920s had thousands ofprinting presses turning out vast amountsof money, which the government couldthen spend to pay for whatever it wanted topay for.

Of course, prices skyrocketed withvastly more money in circulation. Manypeople's life savings would not buy a loaf

of bread. For all practicalpurposes, they had beenrobbed, big time.

A rising demagoguecoined the phrase "starvingbillionaires," because even abillion Deutschmarks was not enough tofeed your family. That demagogue wasAdolf Hitler, and the public's loss of faithin their irresponsible government may wellhave contributed toward his Nazi move-ment's growth.

Most inflation does not reach thatlevel, but the government can quietly steala lot of your wealth with much lower ratesof inflation. For example a $100 bill at theend of the 20th century would buy lessthan a $20 bill would buy in 1960.

If you put $1,000 in your piggy bankin 1960 and took it out to spend in 2000,you would discover that your money had,over time, lost 80 percent of its value.

Despite all the political rhetoric todayabout how nobody's taxes will be raised,except for "the rich," inflation transfers apercentage of everybody's wealth to a gov-ernment that expands the money supply.Moreover, inflation takes the same per-centage from the poorest person in thecountry as it does from the richest.

That's not all. Income taxes only trans-fer money from your current income to thegovernment, but it does not touch whatev-er money you may have saved over theyears. With inflation, the government takesthe same cut out of both.

It is bad enough when the poorest

have to turn over the sameshare of their assets to thegovernment as the richest do,but it is grotesque when thegovernment puts a biggerbite on the poorest. This can

happen because the rich can more easilyconvert their assets from money into thingslike real estate, gold or other assets whosevalue rises with inflation. But a welfaremother is unlikely to be able to buy realestate or gold. She can put a few dollarsaside in a jar somewhere. But wherever shemay hide it, inflation can steal value fromit without having to lay a hand on it.

The biggest and most deadly "tax" rateon the poor comes from a loss of variouswelfare state benefits-- food stamps, hous-ing subsidies and the like-- if their incomegoes up.

Someone who is trying to climb out ofpoverty by working their way up can easi-ly reach a point where a $10,000 increasein pay can cost them $15,000 in lost bene-fits that they no longer qualify for. Thatamounts to a marginal tax rate of 150 per-cent-- far more than millionaires pay.Some government policies help some peo-ple at the expense of other people. Butsome policies can hurt welfare recipients,the taxpayers and others, all at the sametime, even though in different ways.

Why? Because we are too easilyimpressed by lofty political rhetoric andtoo little interested in the reality behind thewords.

Dixon

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Act, on which Thursday's rul-ing was based. Weeks said hisruling applies under both theold and new laws.

He cited evidence thatincluded handwritten notes ofprosecutors indicating theyworked to get Blacks eliminat-ed from the pool of jurors,resulting in panels that wereoverwhelmingly White.

"This conclusion is basedprimarily on the words anddeeds of the prosecutorsinvolved in these cases,"Weeks, who is Black, saidfrom the bench. "Despiteprotestations to the contrary,their words, their deeds, speakvolumes. During presentationof evidence, the court findspowerful and persuasive evi-dence of racial consciousness,race-based decision making inthe writings of prosecutorslong buried in the case filesand brought to light for the firsttime during this hearing."

The cases involve convict-ed murderers Christina"Queen" Walters, TilmonGolphin and QuintelAugustine. Earlier this year,Marcus Reymond Robinsonbecame the first to have his

sentence commuted to lifewithout parole under the provi-sions of the landmark 2009law.

Walters is a LumbeeIndian. Augustine and Golphinare Black. Walters was theleader of a Fayetteville streetgang convicted of killing twowomen and shooting anotherduring an initiation ritual in1998.

Augustine was convictedof killing Fayetteville policeOfficer Roy Turner Jr. inNovember 2001.

Golphin killed N.C.Highway Patrol Trooper EdLowry and CumberlandCounty sheriff's Deputy DavidHathcock during a traffic stopin September 1997. Golphin'syounger brother is also servinga life sentence for the homi-cides.

The surviving familymember who had cursed thejudge was outraged."Judge, you had your mindmade up the first day," said AlLowry, a photo of his brotherpinned to his lapel. He thenturned to lock eyes with hisbrother's killer, who was seatedat the defense table. "Golphin,you'll have me to deal with ifyou ever get your sorry ass outof here," he yelled.As Weeks completed readinghis ruling, the law enforcement

officers filed out of the court-room. A woman in civilianclothes yelled that they shouldall take their badges off andleave them behind, because thejustice system would no longerprotect the officers from crimi-nals.

The original Racial JusticeAct, passed when Democratscontrolled the stateLegislature, allowed death rowinmates to use statistics toshow that racial bias influ-enced their sentences.

Prosecutors indicated theywill petition to have Weeks'ruling overturned by the N.C.Court of Appeals.

James E. Ferguson II, aCharlotte civil rights lawyerwho was a member of the

defense team in the case, saidWeeks made his decision basedon the evidence.

"It's not surprising therewould be a strong emotionalreaction to justice being donein this case," Ferguson said.

"I think Greg Weeks is asbiased and as racist as the peo-ple that have been convicted,"Al Lowry, who is White, saidof the judge. "This was a bunchof crap from day one. I havenothing good to say about thejustice system right now,because it's totally, totallybroke. ... Just give me the twobrothers that killed my brotherand let me take justice in myown hands. Because that'swhere this country needs togo.”

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BRAZIL - Caroline Wozniackimade sure Serena Williams wasthe butt of her jokes during herexhibition match against MariaSharapova, by using towels toimpersonate the ample curves ofher American pal.

The 22-year-old Dane andSharapova were in Brazil to pro-mote the 2016 Olympic Games,but made sure they found time tolark around during the two-setcontest.

Wozniacki, whose boyfriendRory McIlroy was in the crowd,stuffed courtside towels down hertop and in her shorts to mimic thevoluptuous figure of Williams,who was also in Sao Paolo doingher bit for the Games.

Sharapova easily sees offWozniacki

After the match, whichended 6-2 7-6 in Sharapova’sfavour, Wozniacki said: ‘I reallylove the crowd here, they’re openand they have a lot of fun.’

Laughing off Wozniacki’s stunt, Serena tweeted: ‘Dothey make Brazilian bikinis for, um, well, me?’.

The pair have previously met on the court six times withWilliams winning five of the encounters.

CarolineWozniacki mimicsSerena Williams’buns and boobs

on court

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