Mr. Wilson the Menace

[XLFD]

I have found myself banned from going to the local Ludington Police Station and the City Hall for making FOIA requests and using the information provided to show that the City and its officers are violating laws and rules for ethical behavior. 

Do I pose any threat?  I don't think so, I have never committed an act of violence, and have volunteered in the past to help at the local women's shelter.  I have actively rallied to assist two woman in their problems with physically abusive partners, and stood behind several others. 

But someone in the City thought back in February that it would be an excellent idea to besmirch my character by manufacturing a policy that could rob someone of basic civil rights without so much as notifying them after the fact they were accused of being threatening or intimidating to someone whose name has never been divulged.  A policy that demands I contact someone whose professionalism and ethics I detest, just so I can enter either of the two buildings.

 

 

It has been seven months since this policy has robbed me of these basic liberties, to enter public buildings I help pay for, staffed by people whose salary I help pay for.   Yet, I have insisted/asked politely, yet firmly that I should have the right of any citizen to enter these properties in terms that any other citizen has.  I have not been able to attend open meetings, I have not been able to participate in County discussions that happen to take place at Ludington City Hall.  I have not been able to go to inspect FOIA requests under the terms of that act. 

 

But that will change in the future.  And I hope that all of those people in the City Government who have sat on their hands and watched this take place to a citizen will finally speak out against what we have allowed our local City Hall to become these last few years.  My push for justice is just beginning, and this letter to the City's so-called City Attorney Richard Wilson from my personal attorney's (who is not being paid for by tax dollars) desk illustrates the tyrannical aspect of our current regime at City Hall and the undeniable ignorance of the law and ethics that is practiced there.

 

Will Mr. Wilson do what's right and mitigate (fix) the problem?  It would mean doing what's right and within the law.  Will Mr Shay do what's right and publicly apologize for working with Mr. Wilson to create such an onerous and unconstitutional policy and actually invoke it on someone who has only utilized a useful tool in getting to the bottom of what is practiced by the City, usually in a matter contrary to our own City Code?

  Time will tell, but if I am to judge the answers by my past dealings with both of them, I would not bet on it.  John Shay had no problem endorsing the 70% raise of Mr. Wilson last year, and Mr. Wilson doesn't pay income tax on that raise as a person with the job of a City Official who happens to be an independent contractor.  Good luck, and do what's right, sirs.

[Willy]

Shay could not have implemented the "no trespass order" without the consent of the City Council who passed the ordinance allowing him to act as a petty tyrant. As far as I'm concerned it wouldn't be unreasonable to name all of the City Council members, who approved the ordinance, in a law suit. That might make future liberty restricting legislation a little more difficult to create and make the Councilors, that are using their positions to advance their own agendas, to think twice about their actions. It may also cause the bad seeds to vacate the political arena and allow citizens with integrity to oversee City business.

[XLFD]

I am inclined to believe that the whole council may not be complicit in the Letter of Trespass, because as Wanda admits, some of the councilors think the findings and procedures  of the committees have been thoroughly vetted.  I could see that. 

The Public Safety Committee, I think, is very culpable for this policy, and the three current members... are not my friends.