And he may be a child molester to boot.
http://deceiver.com/2010/01/15/anti-gun-dirty-harry/
You can't make this stuff up....
http://deceiver.com/2010/01/15/anti-gun-dirty-harry/
Stay with me, folks. This one is good.
Last Thursday, North Carolina State Senator R.C. Soles was indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon for the August shooting of 22-year-old Kyle Blackburn, a law client of the senator, outside Soles’s home in Tabor City. According to the Wilmington (NC) Star-News:
SolesA Columbus County grand jury indicted Soles on Thursday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. The charge carries a possible sentence of 15 to 31 months in prison.
Police say Soles shot Kyle Blackburn, 22, in the leg Aug. 23 at the senator’s Tabor City home. Soles has said he was acting in self-defense after Blackburn and another man tried to kick in the door of his home.
So what’s the big deal? The legislator appears to have acted in self defense. And don’t Americans have the much-ballyhooed right to bear arms, and a right to use them to defend ourselves and our homes from violent intruders? Well, apparently only some of us do.
Soles, a top-ranking Democrat and the longest-serving member of the legislature, is a well known gun-control advocate with a weak one-star “Firearms Friendly” rating from Grassroots NC. (And, in the interest of full-disclosure, an “A” rating from the NRA. But who are we to trust on this? The citizens of state where Soles has been Senator for 32 years? Or the gun lobby with a history of giving out “A” grades like candy at Halloween?)
But wait, it gets better.
Not only is Soles have a schizophrenic relationship with firearms, but he may also be — wait for it — a child molester.
Aren’t you glad you stayed with me?
Again, the Star-News reports:
For years, residents say, state Sen. R.C. Soles’ questionable relationships with young men in Tabor City were an open secret in the small Columbus County town.
That changed in August when his private life became public to all.
Residents of Tabor City have reported seeing Soles driving around town with a motorcade of young men trailing him. Some say they have seen him handing out money. Others have seen public arguments unfold.
Soles has admitted giving cash to these young men, which he says is an act of kindness for those in need.
But the senator’s self-proclaimed generosity backfired when one of the young men, Stacey Scott, told a local TV station Soles tried to molest him when he was 15. He later recanted the allegation on another TV station, but an State Bureau of Investigation probe had already begun.
Scott’s accusation was just the beginning of what became a barrage of public exposure revealing thousands of dollars paid by Soles to the young men and disturbances at his home.
One man, Allen Strickland, 18, is awaiting trial on charges that he burned down his home that was paid for at least in part by Soles.
A few weeks after the SBI started looking into Scott’s allegation, police say Soles shot 22-year-old Kyle Blackburn, one of Soles’ law clients, on his property.
Another man, B.J. Wright, was with Blackburn at the time of the shooting. Soles has admitted to giving money to Wright, another law client, while Wright was in prison.
So is the whole anti-gun, gun-toting Senator thing just a smokescreen? In this case, a little surface hypocrisy might be pointing to a much deeper level of depravity.
George Carlin once quipped that a state legislator is someone whose deepest, darkest secret has kept him from seeking higher office. We miss you, George.
You can't make this stuff up....
