Oh what a tangled Web.
Latest twist in the UNC-TV documentary on Alcoa and its North Carolina operations involves a globe-trotting “researcher” getting $3000 from an anti-Alcoa activist (and former best-bud of Jim Black, Richard Morgan.)
That researcher/aspiring filmmaker, Martin Sansone, yesterday told WFAE that the $3000 from Morgan was needed to help get him back in the country following the volcano eruption in Iceland which shut down air travel from Europe earlier this year.
But UNC radio Laura Leslie notes that the eruption did not happen until after Sansone and Morgan worked out the payment plan. Leslie reports:
That would be a great story if it were true. But it isn’t. According to the UNC-TV emails, Sansone and Morgan negotiated the payment on April 7th – a full week before April 14th, when the volcano actually erupted.
Clearly the only logical explanation is that Richard Morgan has perfected time travel and has somehow confused Sansone in process. Morgan knew the volcano would erupt on the 14th and went back in time to make sure that Sansone had the money to get out of Europe ahead of that event.
At the same time Morgan was time traveling, co-conspirator and state Senate leader Marc Basnight was burned up phone lines to UNC-TV, darkly warning that UNC-TV had better not go soft on Alcoa, as was the rumor according to…state Sen. Fletcher Hartsell, ring-leader of the get-Alcoa conspiracy.
In a nutshell then, we have current and former state officials actively using a state-funded agency to produce a piece of propaganda to further their aim of seizing privately owned property for — ultimately — private gain.
And people wonder why North Carolina government is a running joke.
