Feeling the Heat: The City Strikes Back

[XLFD]

You may be wondering after hearing that I was served on March 1st by a LPD LEO with a Notice that prevented me from going to City Hall, the Ludington Police Department, and an address I never went to before, and then having a piece in the local paper broadcast this news to everyone in the area, why I am getting such a sanction and why now.

Besides some E-mails to Torch member and City Councilor Wanda Marrison, I have not contacted anyone connected with the City via mail or phone since January 17. This was a E-Mail request to John Shay to receive an electronic copy of, or to come in and view, the compiled city ordinances, which he replied to in kind. Furthermore, the last time I visited City Hall was January 28th, at the behest of a friend who made a FOIA request and wanted me to come along to help scan the documents.  We wound up just picking up copies with nary a frown on anyone's face.
So why did I receive a  vague Notice of Trespass, and why did the Daily News print its unflattering attack on my character three days later?

Last summer, I retained the services of a lawyer who makes a habit of going after corrupt practices in government. His name is J. Nicholas Bostic, and he has a busy docket nowadays as there is plenty of government depravity going on everywhere. He took my case because he took the time to look at what happened in the aftermath of my simple bicycle traffic stop, and even noted other problems with the process than I did. He is familiar with the area, and with what passes for governance around here. 

I am not going to share the correspondence we’ve had, that would give the other side in this long story an advantage, but I am going to share with you some of Barrister Bostic’s letters to the City requesting some legal relief, as these would be available to all with a properly worded FOIA request on this topic.

After a period of getting extra documents and facts confirmed, Mr. Bostic sent the following 15-point stipulation and order to whom we thought was the City Attorney (and whom tried my case), John Bulger.

JNB letter p1

JNB letter p2

Stipulation p1

Stipulation p2

Stipulation p3

Order

 

For those people in Rio Linda who believe I blew past a stop sign and am just whining about getting caught, consider what the stipulation contends:
1) The City didn’t properly designate or notify me of the charge against me.
2) The City charged me with violating a state law, but the City prosecuted the case.
3) The stop sign involved was not placed according to the Uniform Manual of Traffic Control devices (it was 25 ft. beyond the crosswalk).
4) The City acknowledged there was no Traffic Control Order for the stop sign in question, as required by the Uniform Traffic Code for regulatory value.
5) The County has shown there was no proper assignment orders for Probate Court Judge Raven to serve as judge over my requested formal hearing.
6) The District Court changed the designation of the case without notice, motion, or hearing on my part.

The City violated my rights of due process in the first two, the City violated everyone’s safety by their negligence in the next two, and the County violated my due process rights in the last two.

But the City had quietly changed the ‘Criminal’ City Attorney to former Susan (Kasley) Sniegowski last January. Mr. Bulger apprised me of that fact in a reply, and said he passed it onto her.

Bulger Response

 
Two months had passed with no reply, but a FOIA request found out that Ludington's  Manistee City Attorney, Richard Wilson and his firm, had been given extra powers to try City ‘crimes’    Latest City Attorney Agreement   , so I passed this along. Apparently, CA Wilson did not want to handle it and he passed this assignment on to Susan, who apparently was still hired by the City.
It seems kind of redundant to have two ‘Criminal City Attorneys’ but apparently our City Manager believes we need them and can afford them both, even though we have not had two such attorneys assigned to that task in the past. Here’s her reply:
Sniegowski's Snub

 
I don’t know Mrs. Sniegowski’s informant, but the Attorney General and SCAO have not been contacted by me in regards as to any of the facts presented in the stipulation. Be that as it may, my attorney took her rejection in stride in this letter they received about a week before I got banned from the various places    JNB Lets roll letter   .   It portends a legal fight to set the record straight.

In the past, I seem to remember the former Building Inspector Jack Byers was roundly denigrated by city officials when he filed suit for ethical rule violations by the Ludington Government. I remember how lies were spread, by an agency where confidentiality and accuracy is required, about a bicycle traffic stop and because of that I was told that I would get a written reprimand from the LFD if I did not drop my formal hearing in court and admit responsibility for yielding properly at an intersection with an illegally placed stop sign with no traffic control order backing it up.

Ludington City Hall does not like being challenged, even when wrong, and needs an overhaul desperately so that honest citizens can live freely without fearing their government. Today it’s my rights taken away, my reputation besmirched; tomorrow, it’s yours.

[AQUAMAN]

Wonders never cease to amaze me Rom, you actually know about the Black's Law Dictionary, yes, I've had one since 1977, same with the ROT-AmJur, thanks, didn't think you had this in your quaint noggin yet, check, and counter check. So, while you quoted the law correctly, the fact is "the wrong Judge and wrong court overheard this case, along with the wrong prosecutor". The traffic code was also not adhered to, and other DOT problems arise in the case. Reread the earlier posts and law X cited some weeks ago, Dig? Now, digest that and tell me it's still not false imprisonment. Like the law states, doesn't have to be prejudicial nor malicious, just plain wrong is enough. Thanks, and good reading, good try though, credit ya for that pal, you're not the usual lazy uninformed troll that passes our way, there may be hope yet. Kinda remind me of Disarm when he's firing on all pistons, good show.

[AQUAMAN]

Rom, it's obvious you have some knowledge of law, so, why get insulting? That's troll talk, just stick to the facts. Sidebar: your points of law were checked and well said as such, but you haven't proven it applies as to X's case yet. Btw, I'm well aware of the dif. between Jurisprudence, it's "jurisdiction" here that you are confronted with, and somewhat confused about I do think pal. Check again. But nice try.

[Dave]

As long as you don't post any porn, threats against other members or anything else that would violate Ning TOS, your post will be kept in place to be enjoyed by anyone and everyone. If your up to it, you might even post using your own name as it would be obvious your not posting with it at the moment.

Have a nice day :-)

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

But see?? that's where you are the ignorant one here dude. If you spent any time reading the threads contained in this forum none of our identities are a secret here. The fact one or two of you are too drive-by to have actually bothered to read the posts here are the reasons you seem to believe any of us are (secret).

Several are business owners and really do not want your smearing identities just because you feel personally offended by true threads with true sources. The fact it seems to eat you up so badly that you don't know is evidence of what you would do if you did manage to use intelligence, and read for a while instead of blindly posting. The fact not only do you like using the name of someone of this forum as your chosen screen name shows how much of a deviant you would be if you did figure it out. But I think its a man crush thing personally.

I tend to not post too much pertaining to the current leadership in Ludington because I no longer live in the area myself. I just support those who if I were they would be very interested.

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

If you had a life you would not be here at all man. And if you read all of the facts and documents posted and linked too here you couldn't sanely come up with your position.

[Dave]

I know this will probably be lost of ya but I'll give it a shot anyway. Sometimes, people do things because its the right thing, regardless of if its just for themselves, a few people or many people, and regardless of how many, if any, people support it.

Mr Rotta has been able to provide after hours and hours of research plenty of questionable things being done within the city of Ludington. The hatchet job provided by the local newspaper is only further proof of this... I mean seriously, how can you take that newspaper at all serious when they don't even bother to get the other side of the story?

By the way, your probably right, you probably don't have 8 hours a day to do some fact checking... its probably more like 12 to 14 hours :-) Have a nice night!

[Willy]

Rom

My goodness Your reply has got to be one of the silliest ever posted. You say you can't afford to spend 8 hours fact checking details, then you say your only doing what a concerned citizen would, raise questions as to the validity of all the ranting and raving. Your final comment is that there seems to be no support for XLFS's positon. Do you understand what you have posted? You claimed to have not researched any of the conclusions you have stated. Do you realize that you would make a great representative at the Democratic National Convention or a speech writer for Obama.

[XLFD]

Brilliant conclusion, RJE.  Very logically arrived at.  Rom could be one of those public service union people that have a lot of extra time recently.

[Sweater Cows!]

Wow, as I first read this(new posters comments and reply from guido) I had the odd, odd, odd, thought that my kid really is in her room on my laptop not watching cartoons and intead coming on here being a contrarian just to give us all a laugh. I mean, she is ten and all but it was quite plausible for a split second. lol

[Dave]

They are not here trolling though... they don't go to other forum's that are so afraid of anything and everything that they don't agree with that they won't let any opposing opinion in. Anyone here that cares already knows who's who here anyway.

If you want to troll, man up or shut up :-)

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

damn you must have another day off ehh??

[AQUAMAN]

Most of us are just normals here Rom, not crossdressers that "reveal themselves on the web and public"........yeah, X found it and posted it long ago hon...lol. But, if that tickles your fancy...............?  Names are for tombstones, ideas are for thinking adults and the future, can you dig that? Probably waaaaaaaaaaaay over your little head and small mind imho.