Protect the treasures of WNC from frackers
To the Editor:
This is my first written word, publicly in 20 years. I pray that it be as in the will of the Father in that I commit this time, for I feel from the depths of my heart that protecting the poor innocent people with property left in the Smokies and this paradise of creation the Father blessed our Native Americans with. As a Marine I was ready, willing and quite capable of fighting to the death to defend my home and my neighbors. That feeling of protecting and serving should never leave a man who has ever served America.
So it is today with the men and women who commit to defend our civil laws, I look at this solidarity with the spirit of protecting those who need protecting the most. I say we are shepherds protecting the sheep. It is with that purpose of thought that I commit myself and the ancient church to defend Western North Carolina, especially. For it has been my home for some time. Yes, as that Marine of Marines to defend my paradise, to await the return, yes, defend the land and the people from the fracker people. Their greed will poison and destroy even to put innocent poorer people in their graves. These fracker kinds of people have a very, very dark but clear record in many other states today.
It is in this regard I would truly thank our county manager and staff, our county commissioners, our Bryson City mayor and his town council. I would also thank all the organizations that swiftly mobilized as a fighting force of purpose, to defend WNC. This defense to me personally is as real as any terrorist threat from anywhere else in the world. I think I have said enough for now. Thank all you again. The men and women of Swain County, Bryson City and the Nation of Cherokee who have committed to protect and serve.
I pray that each and every one of us, as with one spirit would pledge to vote for men and women who will fight the fracker or anyone else who would invade and destroy even one of our citizens, or his land in WNC. Swain County, you are the first to make a unified stand. Thank you from the depths of my heart.
Raymond Judson McGill
Bryson City
