Troubled former candidate Will Breazeale back in the news. Story details here.

*Breazeale stirring up news in SC.

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May 16, 2014

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USA Dot Com is a blog covering politics and government from a conservative Christian perspective. Verne Strickland is a 50-year veteran of investigative journalism. This blog offers a take-no-prisoners style with a modicum of biting satire. Verne and his wife of 52 years, Durrene, live in Wilmington, NC.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Will Breazeale leaves tragic trail of domestic turmoil through decade of court records

Troubled former candidate Will Breazeale back in the news -- this time in South Carolina!

By Verne Strickland / Politics /FEBRUARY 2, 2013

I first broke this story in April 2010 while a reporter for EXAMINER.COM. Politics can be explosive anyway, but Republican candidate Will Breazeale added a particularly volatile character to the 2010 contest pitting Breazeale against former combat Marine Ilario Pantano. This story shattered Breazeale's bid for office that year. His campaign had been rife with false information about Pantano, who went on to win that primary handily. This information proved that Breazeale himself had more to cover up than he could manage.

ARTICLE FIRST POSTED APR. 21, 2010 IN VERNE STRICKLAND'S EXAMINER POLITICAL BLOG 

 

Sometimes I hate my job. I do right at this moment. But if I don’t do my job now, Mike McIntyre will do it for me later, if Will Breazeale wins the GOP primary about two weeks from now.

Will Breazeale is a candidate who is waging a spirited battle in the Republican primary for North Carolina’s Seventh Congressional District. I’ve gotten to know him over the past couple of months and I like him.

But Will is dragging around an anchor which will eventually take him down. He has a rap sheet that winds through a succession of serious scrapes with the law in Georgia and in North Carolina. A personal bankruptcy filing is recorded in South Carolina.

This bulky collection of court records about Will Breazeale weighs over five pounds. It is 2 ½ inches thick. The time line stretches over a decade, and it’s ugly. I’ve seen it. It will not hide or go away.

It’s not exactly common knowledge that this incriminating file exists. But many seem to know about it. It’s a volcano ready to erupt.

These papers are on public file at the Bladen County Courthouse in Elizabethtown, NC. Both civil actions and criminal proceedings are cited there. They chronicle a lurid personal history which includes references to intimidation, aggravated stalking, criminal trespass, larceny, threats of suicide, and even threats of murder directed by Breazeale at members of his own family.

Most of the incidents described are linked to his stormy relationship with his wife, from whom he is now divorced. The couple had one child.

Only one of these entries is offered here. It is the verbatim text of an official police report describing events said to have taken place on January 6, 1995, in Georgia.

The “complainant” is identified as Mr. Breazeale’s former mother-in-law. The “offender” is identified as William James Breazeale. The report was typed in all capital letters:



“COMPLAINANT STATED THAT OFFENDER SAID, ‘I’LL BLOW YOUR FxxxxxG HEAD OFF.’ AND COMPLAINANT STATED THAT ANOTHER STATEMENT THE OFFENDER MADE WAS ‘I’LL SHOOT EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU AND AIN’T NOBODY GOING TO STOP ME.’ COMPLAINANT STATED THAT OFFENDER HAS CALLED HER DAUGHTER AT HER HOME TWO WEEKS AGO AND MADE THREATS TO HER DAUGHER (HIS EX-WIFE CHERYL BREAZEALE). COMPLAINANT ALSO STATED THAT OFFENDER HAS BEEN CALLING HER DAUGHTER (HIS EX-WIFE CHERYL BREAZEALE) AT HER JOB IN BRUNSWICK, GA. AND THAT HER DAUGHTER HAS FILED CHARGES ON OFFENDER WITH THE BRUNSWICK P.D. (on) THIS DATE FOR STALKING AND TERRORISTIC THREATS AND PLAN TO TAKE OUT A RESTRAINING ORDER ON OFFENDER. COMPLAINANT ADVISED THAT SOMEONE HAD CUT THE LOCK TO HER ELECTRICAL BOX OUTSIDE AND CUT HER LIGHTS OFF LAST FRIDAY 01/06/95. AND SHE BELIEVES THAT IT WAS THE OFFENDER. BECAUSE HE WAS ON THE PHONE. SHE STATED TO HIM ‘YOU THINK YOUR FUNNY BY WHAT YOU’VE DONE WITH THE ELECTRICITY AND SCARING YOUR DAUGHER’ AND HE STATED ‘I CAN BE ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME’. COMPLAINANT STATED THAT OFFENDER HAS A PILOTS LICENSE AND FLIES DOWN HERE AND RENTS CARS. SO SHE’S REALLY AFRAID. BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHEN HE’LL BE AROUND OR WHAT HE’S DRIVING IN. COMPLAINANT ALSO ADVISED THAT THERE IS A COURT ORDER STATING THAT OFFENDER IS REFRAIN FROM ANY HARASSMENT OF HER DAUGHTER AND THAT SHE BELIEVES OFFENDER HAS ACTIVE WARRANTS AGAINST HIM IN NORTH CAROLINA.”



There’s more, so much more, but this is more than enough. I don’t care to add anything else to this searing personal litany of despair.

It might be worthy of note that Ilario Pantano, the only other viable candidate in this primary, has been relentlessly taunted by the Breazeale camp, which mocks the exoneration accorded the young Marine officer in official Article 32 proceedings.

In my interview with Will Breazeale in the early days of this primary, he said: “Since the Marine general in their version of the grand jury indictment -- I think it’s called an Article 32 hearing -- chose not to prosecute him, he is innocent of criminal wrongdoing. I back him up on that.”

But there has been little evidence of this magnanimous gesture in public debates and other campaign settings. Strange that this lack of compassion and fairness toward a fellow member of the U.S. military should backfire like this.

Meanwhile, Ilario Pantano, who vowed to run a clean and honorable race, has held his tongue when the insults fly, and set an excellent example of how to live one’s beliefs.

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Look for a startling follow-up on Verne Strickland's blog as the Breazeale battleground shifts to Charleston, South Carolina. 

I am getting tired of this Pope. Francis is the Obama of the Vatican. I was at first impressed. Then ambivalent. Then doubtful. Wary. Disappointed. Shocked. And now just plain tired.

Verne Strickland / USA DOT COM / May 16, 2014

Pope Calls for Sweeping Democrat Economic Takeover

Robert Rich

May 12, 2014 6:34am PST

Despite the Pope insisting he is not Marxist on several occasions, it appears as though he does share some similar ideas with the political and economic theory – perhaps the most indicative of this is his desire for a redistribution of wealth.
On Friday, Pope Francis addressed the public and set his sights on making the world better for the poor. He went on to share that society has come to adopt an, “economy of exclusion,” in which the poor have been deemed second class citizens.
(See also: Pope Francis Confronts Rush Limbaugh And Other Conservatives Who Call Him A Marxist)
In order to combat this less than dignified reality, the Pope has called for a, “worldwide ethical mobilization,” in which the world pulls together in the name of charity in order to aide of the poor. Amongst his address, Francis shared, “I do not hesitate to state, as did my predecessors, that equitable economic and social progress can only be attained by joining scientific and technical abilities with an unfailing commitment to solidarity accompanied by a generous and disinterested spirit of gratuitousness at every level.”
He further mentioned, “A contribution to this equitable development will also be made both by international activity aimed at the integral human development of all the world’s peoples and by the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state, as well as indispensable cooperation between the private sector and civil society.”
Although the Pope’s ideals are understandable, they may be more than a little unreasonable. As much of the world is not Catholic, has not promised everything – including their celibacy – unto God, it seems a bit absurd to expect the rest of the world to live in such a way.
(See also: Pope Francis Drops F-Bomb During Weekly Blessing)
In that, Francis had decried the mentality of Capitalism as he suggests that the greed in which drives such an economy is the direct culprit responsible for his aforementioned second class citizenry. There is no doubt the Pope knows of the contradictory nature in his lecture as the world has yet to operate on a standard basis as of this point – so why would they agree to all come together and adopt a worldwide redistribution of wealth to help the poor?
The Pope is making a valid point here – in that we as human kind have a duty to care for those who are less fortunate – but the way in which he’s suggesting we fix our broken society hardly seems a reasonable solution.

Kidnapped Nigerian girls are pawns in a Muslim war against Christianity. US media remain mute

Verne Strickland / RANT BRAZEN / May 11, 2014

 

May 11, 2014

The kidnapped Nigerian girls are Christian. Why doesn’t our media say so?

Nigerian schoolgirls

by: Robin Harris

Gradually but explosively, what Boko Haram, the Islamist terror group, has been doing in North East Nigeria has penetrated the mainstream from the social media. On 14 April Boko Haram (meaning ‘Western Education is Forbidden’) abducted more than 230 girls from a boarding school. Most are still missing. Abubaka Shekau, Boko Haram’s leader, obligingly gave a videoed explanation: ‘I abducted your girls; there is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell – he commands me to sell.’

The fact that these are girls, at least, makes their plight of international political and media interest. Feminism is an easy fall-back position for the foreign policy/human rights community. For that, the girls and their parents may yet have reason to be grateful. It allows the British Foreign Secretary to tweet that ‘using girls as the spoils of war and the spoils of terrorism is immoral’. But what neither the UK nor the US authorities is prepared to draw attention to is that these girls – all or nearly all of them – are Christians.

It is believed that at least 180 of the girls are Christian.

Boko Haram might, indeed, abduct Muslim girls from school because it thought they should be back at home, to be covered up, beaten, and to make the soup. But it would only dare to sell Christians into slavery and prostitution. Not only are they Christian. It is their Christianity which caused them to be victims.

These and other abductees were at schools in the Christian enclave of Chibok in Borno State. The region is the scene of systematic Islamist persecution and intimidation. Chibok, itself, was regarded as safe, until Islamists arrived to burn down the market, destroy houses, steal, kill, and abduct at will. Full, credible, detailed accounts are available through the Christian on-line networks.

Yet commentators still seem content to exercise self-censorship. The religious identity of the girls has not been mentioned in the mainstream US or British media.

The words ‘poverty’, ‘corruption’, and ‘incompetence’ figure largely, and with some justice, in explanations of what is dysfunctional in Nigeria. But the word “Christian’ is notable by its absence in explaining what happened in Chibok.

Nigeria is, in truth, the scene of a brutal religious war being fought by jihadists against Christians. But don’t expect the White House or Downing Street, let alone Foggy Bottom or the FCO, to own up to it.

source: The Spectator