Creating a Monster pt 3: Deconstruction, A PPO without POP

[XLFD]

In the thread Creating a monster pt 1, a process was described that started as early as 2-21-2011, with a letter from Ludington Police Chief Mark Barnett to City Manager John Shay about a reworking of a Letter of Trespass form that was made originally for private establishments.  The next day there was a bit of E-mail traffic between those two and the City Attorney, but there was also something else afoot.  A Personal Protection Order (PPO) was being applied for by Community Development Director Heather Venzke against a certain individual who not only happens to be the creator of this watchblog, but happens to be little ol' me.

I only found out about this because I had asked the prosecutor for an investigation to be conducted into why I was not permitted to vote in the November 8, 2011 City election without threat of arrest.  When the State Police told me the investigation was closed in December, and that they would not pursue any criminal charges in the matter due to the difficulty in showing an actual intent by the City Hallers to deprive me of the right to vote, I was mildly disappointed.  Particularly since I hadn't been asked for any input after my brief E-mail asking Prosecutor Paul for an investigation. 

But when I asked Mason County Prosecutor Paul Spaniola with a FOIA to see the investigation records, I got this bombshell 2012 1-28 FOIA Reply PA PS  where I learned:

1)   "... after numerous non-consenting acts of a stalking nature by the complainant [me] against a City Hall employee"

2)  "Furthermore a personal protection order was entered against the complainant upon application of a City Hall employee due to his actions."

3)  "Complainant subsequently moved to another location..."

4)  "Complainant has furthermore failed to request relief from the no trespass letter for purposes of voting on 11-1-2011.  On four previous occasions he had asked for relief and it was granted to him."

 

All, and more, of which are factually inaccurate.  So I then fired back a FOIA request to inspect the PPO and to view E-mails exchanged between County and City Officials that had my name in them.  This request went ignored for over 5 business days, so I filed an FOIA appeal to the Circuit Court regarding the County's denial to respond to get these records I considered vital.  I wound up being successful in my endeavor-- but more on this later. 

I went with trepidation to see how bad of a monster I was at my appointment to review the PPO application (I had found out incidentally that it had been denied to CDD Venzke).  Here was the Petition for a PPO Against Staking (Non-domestic) signed by her on 2-22-2011, while her fellow City Hall officials were busy with the second prong of this very personal attack, producing the Workplace Safety Policy.  The affidavit she attached was a sworn statement:

 

 

In order, some critiques: 

1) "Malicious" and "anti-government" is assigning evil intent to my website and the people who post here.  Such is not my intent, or any others here-- our intentions are good and we want government to be the same. 

2)  The links she speaks of are links to the City Assessor site, accessible by anyone for free, provided by the very government she works for.  If you own property in Ludington, you can find maps, deeds, specifications of your property, and anyone else's.  If you don't like it, like Ms. Venzke didn't, are you "anti-government"?

3)  Information was posted concerning her relationship to Nick Tykoski, in the context that she was providing unbid, non-contracted payments to him with public funds, while being affianced to him while buying a house together at a great price.  This is public corruption no matter how you look at it, and a violation of several ethics laws, discussed previously.

4)  The rest is more of an indictment of our educational system, with her massacre of the words "insight", when she meant "incite"; "residents", when she meant "residence"; "directly" when she meant "directing", and some other grammatical and spelling gaffes. 

 

Nor am I clear as to me being "the author of the above statements." as I would not make such errors, LOL.  But the application continued with this three page "PPO Questionairre, Stalking"

PPO_QS p1

PPO_QS p2

PPO_QS p3

 

Let's sum it up thusly:  Never spoken to me, only knows me as a past employee of the City, one admitted contact with me involving a request for information [made by me and addressed to her and Shay about DDA Administrative costs jumping from $10,000 to $30,000 without any new programs or rationale], and I only communicate on my website. 

She intimates that she was perhaps targeted by me, but the DDA series I had made up to that point, prior to the fifth episode, was targeted on the use of public resources by public officials to the advantage of private interests, many of which were other members of the DDA.  Furthermore, the fifth episode indicted the full DDA for not recognizing the ethics violations or properly stopping it and/or reporting it.  But the DDA is her livelihood, so I can see her uneasiness.

 

She then included about 40 pages of 'supporting documents', which included the Ludington City Assessor's total website on her property address, part 5 of the above series, and various other entries by me and others that was supposed to display the mob mentality that was insighted {sic}, beginning with this entry by Aquaman where she highlighted the last two sentences, and put in the margin:  "threats they are capable of".  Pretty tame to what I see on Facebook, and not a threat, as I see it.  But the rest of the attachments were even less harmless, and made her point a bit absurd, by the end.

But I wasn't the only one who thought so.  The judge who received her PPO was one I have had a history with, that isn't good.  He sat in judgment at my bicycle/ stop sign hearing back in 2008 that I requested and promptly lost even though I had shown several points of fact that invalidated the legitimacy of the sign. 

I had requested the district court to show that this probate judge had jurisdiction over the hearing, and they failed to do so, and I was found in civil contempt of the court when I defied his court order, which was effectively illegitimate.  I had reported him to the Judicial Tenure Commission, an act which didn't endear me to him, a fact he made known in the next hearing.  All in all, we have had some differences.  But in spite of that he denied the PPO the next day, citing:  "Respondent has not engaged in conduct that falls within the statutory definition of stalking and/or is Constitutionally protected activity."

 And so Plan A was denied, thus Plan B ( the WSP) needed to be applied.  And even if you, I, or a Judge that has ill-feelings towards me can see that there was not any problems with what content was placed on the Ludington Torch by me and others, the full choir of City Hallers were all for calling my behavior "threatening and intimidating" and having the local paper publish that "fact", they also maintained to a person that it was necessary to do so, and not worth reconsidering.

 

 

This is how the City of Ludington operates; which is why I think the PPO placed on a Grand Rapids native in January who had the audacity to lead a protest against the way the Ludington Police Department conducted their investigation into the Baby Kate case in October, was created to discredit her  (in Re: April Reynolds). 

It worked darn well for me for a year, but I will snatch my good name back from these tyrants if I have to spend all the time, spirit, and money I've got.  And that fact alone, makes me the Most Dangerous Man in Ludington to those who wish to violate their Oath of Office as a public servant, if they even bother to take one, in Ludington.

 

 

[XLFD]

The Tykoski scandal (Signgate) is going to find itself undergoing investigation by real investigators real soon, if Heather Venzke-Tykoski thinks that is intimidating or threatening, maybe she and he should have complied with the laws and ethical practices everyone should expect of their public servants.  Problem was, both were appointed by someone that doesn't mind a little scandal in the background. 

I hope any investigation is handled by female investigators, the batted eyelashes would have little or no effect.

[AQUAMAN]

Larry, the home purchase thread is the one that got that silly WSP/LOT orders from city hall to begin with. READ the PAST THREAD, so you can catch up with the rest, maybe someone can re-post that here for SIR LAR. Just from memory alone, it was a $400K house she bought in foreclosure for about $150K, without anyone but their own persons, (Nick and Heather), getting first dibs on it, before the rest of the public. And Clay Olmstead III held the deed to his grandfathers house at the time, an ex-city council member in good standing with the clan at city hall. Yeah, there are some suspicious implications there imho. Oh yeah, the taxable value was reduced to the new purchase price, with the blessings of the city assessor, as well was the $200 wrought iron gate improvements made right away, which had to cost more in the range of $1,000. Starting to get the picture? Oh yeah I forgot, the ward of that home, had a councilor retiring/not eligible to run again, so Nick took up that coincidental mantel of running for that ward too, convenient and curious at best.

[Sweater Cows!]

I believe these are the main two threads regarding the 201 N washington property

http://ludingtoncitizen.ning.com/forum/topics/the-mysterious-house-...

http://ludingtoncitizen.ning.com/forum/topics/the-development-of-au...

[Sweater Cows!]

And Larry, I agree that it is hard to find old threads and IMO would be nice if we had a thread that was locked for posting but linked to all the threads with part 1-2-3-etc segments, but once someone comments on another thread it pops up to the top of the list for its category  On the NING platform there is no way to "pin" the threads to the top of a topic category like on Pro-boards/php type forums as NING is a 'social network" and not just a forum hosting service,The forums(threads) themselves are only a part of a larger platform that is why you find the separate groups, music, photos, videos and each person having their own profile page which you cannot get on other types of (forum/bulletin board type platforms). BTW there are categories, look to the upper right while looking at the list of threads you can sort by discussion or category albeit I never pay attention to the categories myself I keep mine set on discussions so I see the first page of them which is also the most active/recently commented on threads.

[AQUAMAN]

Ya know, when I hear the youngsters today atrying to make a point with their new cutsie pie analogies/phraseology, that of "it is what it is" and "I've got issues" and "gotta do what you gotta do", it makes me wonder what kind of schooling and depth of mind these people have now, and will into the future. It sounds very shallow and uncaring to me, that of, let the chips fall where they may, I can't control my own life, so I just let it flow without any cares in the world. It's a good thing my generation, after it grew into maturity, finally grasped reality, and made the best of their situations with hard work, continuing educations, and some respect for individual rights and freedoms. I don't see the majority of the new generation grasping nor caring about anything beyond the end of their ipods, cells, and chat rooms. A shallow existence for life, and our USA's future, imho. When I look at a tree, I see wisdom in age if it's an older tree, beauty, and a contribution for a possible new home, furniture, a boat, or even a countertop, it's not a singular object for one purpose, in other words, it has a vast amount of uses and contributions for the human race to me.

[RobbyK]

Dale,

You know why you see a tree when you look at a tree?               ok  waait!!        CUZ "IT IS WHAT IT IS!!" Also, that expression has been around since I was a kid. Google shows back to at least 1949

[AQUAMAN]

Gotcha pal, you lost it big time. Dale, don't blame your own disfunctional family short-comings for a whole generation that has paid for your existence thus far. This totally explains why YOUR GENERATION of EMPTY HEADS/MEAT HEADS exists, because my generation has and still are paying for your daily keep, even into your what? 30's? and inept Hatreds, that of yourselves first, followed by hatred/jealousy for your parents and peers. I've seen some temper tantrums before, but pal, you got the new patent on that now for sure. Dale, get a darn job, your buddies too, and get a life so you don't freak out and kill some innocent bystander. It's called self-esteem, goes with sweat and getting dirty hands. I'm so Glad we got your inner HATREDS and Paranoia's out in the air, now we at least we know what drives your insane posts here newbie. If you got that HATRED bottled up, you could Fly to the Moon, with just the fumes and frothing of your lips alone. Sad, and unbelievably over the edge, imho. How do these freaks find this kind and articulate forum to begin with? Must be more TROLLS sent by the COL now imho.

[Willy]

Dale

The baby boomers have definitely caused a financial problem but they are also the generation that has created a boom  with innovative and creative products and ideas. They help feed the World. They were responsible for the expansion of civil rights. They are good people that unfortunately have raised the biggest do nothing generation to ever walk the Earth. You talk about an entitled generation, how is it that the current generation can only protest "student loans". The Occupy generation is as selfish as they come. A perfect example is the welfare lottery woman. But I blame that on upbringing so I guess the baby boomers are at fault there as well.

[AQUAMAN]

Dale, why are you so full of Hatred for my generation? The real blame for the financial mess we are in today isn't generational at all, it's the corrupt and greedy politicians, no matter the age, see? What should and does worry my generation now, besides all that we don't and can't control in DC and even Ludville, is that your generation seems to turn your backs on all of it, not wanting to deal with any of it, but put more blame on others, instead of getting off your lazy butts, and getting into the action to better the conditions. That doesn't mean your whole generation is dysfunctional and lazy, many are respectable intelligent young people to be proud of. One thing for sure that loudmouths like you need is to get a real life, go to work, find some self-esteem, most of my generation already has accomplished that for well over 35 years now. Our generation had dreams and high hopes, most have accomplished them by now, in good stead. Others are still trying, but they don't throw in the towel because of lack of interest and faith and leeching off their parents. Getting the whole picture now? Or are you not willing to start blaming the guy in the mirror for your own problems? It's up to all of us to get real, day after day, and find a way to make America great again. Btw, this thread has to do with that very thing, a cover-up by youngsters involved in city politics, that have no-bid contracts for over $150K, these are the young and new corruptors of the current society, how about helping in their removal, and being an asset for good, instead of helping it continue? Think about it pal, you're not getting any younger either....lol. Being hateful and bitter will only make you old before your time, think and read the Torch, before you blow your grandstand horn so loudly.

[Willy]

Aquaman

You make a good point about the current generation. It seems they are carrying on the Boomer politicians way of doing business. Isn't Mr. John Shay a member of the current generation?

[Willy]

Dale

Unless you ride a horse, don't use plastic, don't eat any food grown outside of an Amish farm, heat your house and water soley with wood and work at a place that doesn't use or do any of the above mentioned, then  your part of the "oil" problem you commented on. Along with everyone else.

[AQUAMAN]

I see where we have a possible record 8 members on the Torch right now, is that a record X? Dale, methinks you are the confused one, for perhaps you don't know that every day of life above ground is a blessing, and should be used for positive contributions. Positive isn't measured by being hateful, and green with envy, and helping corrupt officials to get away with unethical and possibly illegal conduct. Maybe they are related or friends? Is that Why? My BEST years are still ahead, that's the way I think, cause I haven't accomplished nor done all that I want to achieve. People like you want to point fingers, make flimsy excuses, and hide under their convenient blanket of lies, falsehoods, and failures. I'm glad I won't be around in about 40 years when, if you and your kind are still above ground, can look back at your life accomplishments with the same kind of honor and peace that I do now. If you're this bitter and resentful now, chances are you won't get past 45 or so anyhow.