The following is a skeletonized version outline of what was said and reported in the Loris Times News Article of 11/10/05. Not all points are gone into because many of them are on this website. The pertinent issues, that I feel were taken out of context or were placed editorially in a hodge podge of words are explained.

Relating to Loris
1. "The Bottom on Maple Street reminds him of a street in Lake City". What I said was "The Bottom in Loris does not relate to a street in Lake City, the Bottom in Loris is creating the same problems that Lake City, South Carolina has been having with the Bottom in their city. Lt. Grahamsly, using the town's resources, after one year of hammering the drug infested area, cleaned and dried it up. They no longer have the drug dealers, transients, and crime emitting from that area. The area is now a normal suburban area."

2. "The ACLU challenged it there" The full complete sentence as what I said was "In a packet that was given to the Loris City Council, it denoted that the ACLU tried to shoot down the ordinance in Kennesaw claiming it was unconstitutional. They (the ACLU) lost and the people of Kennesaw won. This point was brought out to show the council that the Ordinance has stood up under judicial review and was legal to enact."

3. "Loris is becoming a cesspool" the full complete sentence as to what I said was left out. It should read " "Loris is becoming a cesspool because of the drug trading, transients, and the slum mentality and criminal actions seeping out of the Bottom."

4. "I claimed the Mayor did not read the 10 page report submitted to him". What I said was "It is not a claim it was a fact. At the November City Council Meeting the Mayor on public record, stated he did not read the report, which I presented, about the Maple Street Debacle. On public record I said then you had better read it because I will be back for the December meeting to find out why you are not cleaning up the Bottom." The Mayor also received a registered letter which was signed for denoting this problem and the fact that I was going to talk about it at the October Loris City Council Meeting. By the way this letter is posted on this site.

5. "If those people in the businesses don't have the guts to stand up and be counted" sentence never completed and a couple of paragraphs later "this town is dead anyway" should have read what I said which was "If the people who own the businesses and reside in Loris don't have the guts to stand up and be counted to take control of their own town then this town is dead and the crime will kill it".

6. "He they are killing it" What I said was the mayor and the city council are killing this town with their lack of action, their supposed system of containment of crime, and their looking the other way and ignoring the problem.

7. "He said it was a bad day at Block Rock" What I said was that the town is duplicating the movie "A Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy.

8. "Why did the Horry County Police have to come into Loris to conduct the investigation that lead to the arrest of a city councilman? "or "he refused orders from the top and didn't do what he had to do" BS my answer to this question is located in the middle of the paragraph "I don't know". I also guessed that the "rural police force did not have the manpower possibly to enact the action but that strictly was an opinion", the bottom line is "I don't know". My issue was not about Herring.

9. "Chief Blake doesn't believe that Citizens should have guns" I never said that what I said was "that the Chief had information on The Loris Police Website that was anti-gun and the sources for the Chief's info was false science. I had electronically sent the Chief the correct information for his review"

10. "With a statewide gang rise in South Carolina" What I specifically said was "with the statewide rise in crime just last year alone of 300% the rural police forces in towns of less then 200,000 people cannot control this surge."

11. "I am mercury man" what I said specifically was "I am like a mercury man because this fight has become personal. The Horry and Loris City Council's have placed my wife's life at high risk, I am not going away, and like mercury they will squash me in one spot I will appear in another just like mercury."

Relating to Horry County
1. The Horry County Council and the Horry County Public Safety Committee information was mixed in with the Loris info. For full clarification on this issue please visit:
Tracking Horry County Public Safety Committee
Tracking Horry County Council

I could not rewrite the entire article I just tried to clear up some of the important and prominent blatant errors. I should not have to translate an article that was supposedly written for public information and knowledge. Apparently the reporter should have been more attentive and the paper should employ a different proof reader-Neal Seaman