"In the legal background, public bodies are not required to allow comments on social media pages, but if they do, they cannot engage in viewpoint discrimination by blocking folks or selectively deleting some comments. Additionally, if a public…"
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"I thought shutting down Hide-my-owi- Hand's website also stopped the dam break (negative comments) but still a lot of water got out. How is it that so many public sites (city, police etc.) don't allow comments? Not required by law?"
"Shutting down her Facebook page allows her the defense that she never blocked me, but instead effectively blocked everyone. I'm pretty sure that when I made my complaint to the county, that she had only blocked me at that point, but I…"
"I received notification from the county supervisor this morning that Beth Hand deactivated her page on advisement of the Prosecuting Attorney Association of Michigan. It was one way she could escape legal liability from blocking me and lessen…"
"Are you able to elaborate on settlement or non-settlement issues, Dr. Spock? I'd be interested to hear. The charges are so ridiculous it's hard to believe they are of this world.
Maybe Close-my-website-down-Prosecutor-Hand took a journey…"
"I don’t think you were individually blocked. The entire page appears to deactivated."
"On Wednesday I had a settlement conference for two of the charges against me and fully expected the Hand would be there, but she wasn't; Jason Gerbers the freelance PA was there to represent her. Made little headway, with Hand offering…"
"..and the hit just keep coming...
One good thing about Hand deleting people's comments on the Prosecutor's official website is that she is getting the message that people know now about her own drunk driving coverup, and how she had the…"
Swatting the Constitution with a Sensitive Hand
The county prosecutor has been caught breaking the law again and denying First Amendment protections to at least four people that likely aren't even living in the state. Mason County Prosecutor Beth Hand, perhaps best known over the last week for not prosecuting three Ludington Police Department officers for crimes involving DWI and evidence…See More
"We put it up in the video section on Tuesday night, the link is also up on our Facebook sister page, The Ludington Pitchfork. The conduct of the three officers and the prosecutor in this case has been universally panned by the large number of…"
"The Mendez DUI stop bodycam video is making it to some high-profile YouTubers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uziQMz-0eVI
The Civil Rights Lawyer channel has 1.67 million subscribers and this video has 445K views."
"It should not be overlooked that this department also allowed a probationary police officer To drive while apparently intoxicated on public roads in Ludington placing residents at unnecessary risk the consequences appear to have consisted only of a…"
"Yeah, thanks X. What's the policy on drug usage/OWI at LPD? Maybe Mendez would have been canned cause he seemed quite buzzed and maybe non-Noble recognized that or found it out after he turned off BWC and cancelled the tag request and plotted a…"
"You are always very perceptive, FS, and while I have not highlighted the "cancel that plate" line by Noble, it has always reinforced my position that Noble flipping off the audio on his BWC w/o any sort of contact with Sgt. Babinec was the…"
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Swatting the Constitution with a Sensitive Hand
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The county prosecutor has been caught breaking the law again and denying First Amendment protections to at least four people that likely aren't even living in the state. Mason County Prosecutor Beth…Continue
Ludington City Council, January 12, 2026: Horrible Heather and Marvelous Marco
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The first meeting of Ludington City Council (…Continue
Holding the Losing Hand
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Let's introduce a 'power couple' that we consider among the most corrupt pair of officials we have ever known to live under the same roof (outside of the Tykoski residence in Ludington). To your…Continue
Proposed Protected Bike Lanes on Rath Avenue, Fantasy vs. Reality
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In the video of the Sept. 22, 2025 meeting of the Ludington City Council, City Manager 'Prevaricatin' Kaitlyn…Continue
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The elves of the Ludington Torch were hopeful that we could move from our current Ning 2.0 network to the Ning 3.0 network shortly after our five year anniversary, but we have got news from them back that they are not currently doing any new migrations to the higher platform at this time. We surmise that there has been problems with the migrations of other Ning sites, because some things do not transfer very well or at all, including videos and group modules.
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Over the last couple of months our members have swelled due to an advertising push by those who join, post an ad, provide a link, and possibly send messages to other members advocating some product or action. While these are basically harmless if you ignore them, the Torch tech wizards cannot fully protect against the intruders. I have eradicated about two dozen of these infidels, and will make it a practice to do so in the future.
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Want to download videos for a thread or just to add to our Videos library, but are having a hard time figuring it out? It's not hard once you know how to do it. First you will need the Video's "Embed" code; on a typical video site like Youtube they will have a "share" button you need to click, you will then see an "Embed" button you need to click. You will see the code all in blue, you need to "copy" (as in copy and paste) this code by going to your copy command.
Now go to the…
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