Dear Editor:

How filled with hate  do you have to be, to not care what happens to you and destroy a sign with a notice on it, stating there is a $500 reward to anyone catching the vandal?

I have “adopted” a couple corners on Bells Ferry in Woodstock and when I went to pick up the signs announcing our tea party meeting, three signs were torn to shreds and two were stolen.

The bad news is we had 3 signs damaged and 2 stolen.  The good news is, it’s only a matter of time before someone catches the vandal/thief.   There is a $500 reward for their arrest and conviction, we have alerted our 1800 plus members, thousands of people have driven by the signs and read the notice and the Sheriff’s Office has taken note.

After our meeting Sunday,  when I pulled over to pick up one of the damaged signs, I noticed the blue lights of a patrol car behind me.  Two sheriff’s deputies approached my car and said, we saw you pull over and thought you might have car trouble, but now that we see the sign on your back window, we figure you were just picking up your tea party signs.

That’s when one officer astounded me and said; “I see they are still defacing your signs, we try to watch out for them”   Then he identified himself as the deputy that wrote up my complaint about the damage to the large 4×4 sign on exit 8.    I thanked them both for what they do every day and said I would not want, or expect them to “stake out” our signs, but appreciate the fact that they take notice of them when they drive by….What a great Sheriff’s Department!
Conrad Quagliaroli,  Cherokee Tea Party Patriots,  the voice of the Everyday Americans-Not Racist, Not Violent, Not Silent Anymore.