The Monster Unchained

[XLFD]

After 423 days of bondage inflicted by Ludington City Manager John Shay using his police state tactics with his City Police Tic-Tacs, the creator of this website has been permitted to freely utilize the Ludington City Hall and the Ludington Police station just like 300 million of his fellow Americans.  

 

What am I talking about?  If you are new to the site, I was issued a "Letter of Trespass" for the Ludington City Hall and Police Station on March 1, 2011.  Instead of rehashing this old news please follow this link  Creating a Monster 1  which also links to two other in the series which explains what happened.   

Since that time, I have been denied the ability to access the services of both facilities, missed the opportunity to attend and speak at 28 City Council meetings, 14 Downtown Ludington Board meetings, a candidate's forum (where I was a candidate) and was disenfranchised from voting at my legal polling place twice.  I have actually (and my friends and family can attest to this) had to divert my driving south on South Harrison Street (or west on Danaher or east on Foster) past the City Hall in my rational fear that the Ludington cops may arrest me for being on their property in violation of the letter (as each lot in Ludington extends out to the middle of the street.)

But now, some of my liberty has been restored, and though I cant say "Free at last" repeatedly, I can still say "Free at last as long as I don't tick someone off at City Hall again".   Here's why.

 

Out of the blue, less than an hour after Sean Phillips was found guilty, 12:54 PM on 4-27-2012 I received this E-mail:

Dear Mr. Rotta:

 

I have attached a letter from me in which I have rescinded the letter of trespass that was issued against you on March 1, 2011 for the addresses of 400 and 408 South Harrison Street in the City of Ludington.

 

Please contact me if you have any questions.

 

John Shay

City Manager

City of Ludington

400 South Harrison Street 

 

 

What precipitated this letter, and the original "Letter"?  Well, all I know is that last year I had only been publishing stories critical of the DDA's policies of using public money for the benefit of private individuals, and occasional stories dealing with other irregular uses of public money, as in the bloated price of water tower painting and installing marina transient docks. 

The last few months, I've had legal battles with the City in the court involving a FOIA appeal and the dismissal of a 40 month old bicycle traffic ticket (with other implications), two investigations so far into voter disenfranchisement, and at least two more major legal actions in the production stage (one or more related to the letter of trespass).  All this while still going strong in publishing articles here about the DDAs continued use of public money by private persons, and more irregular uses of public money. 

Apparently, this is the basis for an improving relationship.  I don't get it either, but we have both been more civil, even joking around, in our FOIA correspondence lately, so maybe that counts for something. 

As for the letter itself, all citizens really need to take a good look at it, and what it implies.  An unelected City Manager can put this on anyone in an arbitrary and capricious manner, and have the Ludington Daily News write a one-sided hatchet piece to sully your reputation and make you lose your job and your good name.  And feel no remorse for anything over 400 days later.  Betcha I don't see anything nice in the paper about this.

These statements may lose me my liberty-with-conditions when any of the above people read my 'ingratitude' over this 'gift' from the City Manager, but the Workplace Safety Policy does have to be repealed, and the public officials who brought it forth need to be sanctioned.  For the people's safety and security.

[AQUAMAN]

What's done is done on the LOT order, go forward now, and seek to legally banish the WSP that was also unlawfully issued. Exchanging public information on a talk forum does not warrant a threat to anyone in the real physical sense of the word, albeit they are on city council, or a DDA post. You X never made any jesture of physical violence toward Heather, neither did anyone else on the Torch, and as such, talk is cheap, and just talk, not physical harm or intent of harm. You backed up everything with FOIA facts pertaining to her home purchase, the Tye's signage contracts, and much more. If her feelings were hurt, so be it. The truth does hurt some that languish in obvious deviations from ethical conduct while holding office in a municipality, and having it openly exposed as such.  She had every right and opportunity to come here and post her side, instead she sent spies to report back, and then talked CM Shay into going over the deep end too. He was used more as a pawn than anything else, so was Henderson. I guess it's hard to deny those big over-painted batting eyelashes for some, rather than analyze with reason and facts. This is called liberalism at it's worst, emotional reactions to a situation before thinking things out first.

[Willy]

You could also say that she was used as a pawn by Shay to initiate the work place safety ordinance and ban X from City Hall, making his quest for information a much more difficult task. 

[AQUAMAN]

Correct again, it cuts both sides, and 2 bad decisions don't happen to be right either.