The Measure Of Justice & Journalism In Asheboro: The "Gang" That Attacked Dr. Mary Johnson Wears Suits And Dines/Drinks At The Country Club(s)

I'm still smarting over what went down at First Baptist this past Sunday. 

It's fine to build bridges and encourage folks to pray for the well-being of Asheboro, but to "honor" and feed people who need to be down on their knees asking some of the rest of us for forgiveness is just too much to turn my bruised and scarred cheek away from.

This morning, after ignoring the story of Dr. Mary Johnson for over a decade, the Courier offers its readers a story on a Father who alleges he only became involved in a recent bar fight to protect his son from a gang.

Dear old Dad's a victim, you see.  And we're emphasizing the positive - i.e. his love for his son made him do it.

Perhaps I'm being naive or old-fashioned or too uptight and not progressive enough, but I'm thinking that if the citizens of Asheboro hadn't been snookered by Schmidly-&-"the-rights" into "saving" our town by drenching its every corner in alcohol, we wouldn't be hosting any bar fights at all . . . and maybe twelve-year-olds wouldn't be dying on the sides of our highways after drunk drivers turned automobiles into deadly missiles to be shot through billboard signs.

The Asheboro Police Chief . . . who was honored at FBC on Sunday . . . and "the man" under whose jurisdiction my case-with-no-statute-of-limitations falls (because the lies were sworn and filed within the city limits) . . . the same "man" who could solve many of my problems by simply ceding jurisdiction to the N.C. Attorney General and referring the case for the proper-investigation-it's-never-gotten-because-Bob-Morrison-&-Steven-Eblin-are-simply-too-important to the SBI (yeah, I know, the SBI) . . . states that there's no evidence to support the Dad's claim.

But the Courier will make it front page news anyway.

The "gang" that attacked Dr. Mary Johnson wears suits and dines/drinks at the Country Club(s).  And she has black-&-white-evidence proving her allegations - in the form of sworn discovery documents and IRS 990's.

I cannot think of a more egregious affront to those "high moral standards" our Police Chief espouses on his homepage than allowing two local executives laboring under the pretense of public charity to swear a false Oath to God in a Court proceeding (in doing so, not only SPITTING IN GOD'S FACE but treating the community they supposedly "serve" with CONTEMPT), and TOTALLY GET AWAY WITH IT because they're too important to hold accountable - and are held above the law by those who are charged with enforcing it.

Alas, neither Asheboro's Police Chief nor its newspaper publisher are interested.

There's NOTHING positive to emphasis - except the doctor's determination to persevere against the liars and cheats who've run her hometown into the ground.