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.

 

 

[Willy]

Aquaman

That's one of the reason I wanted to bury the hatchet with Dale, Larry and Robbie. I think the more folks discussing topics the better. I may disagree with them but on occasion they do make sense and have an interesting perspective on issues. So let's all kiss and make up. xxxxx. And since I'm at it, I want to apologize to Lisa for being so abrupt in some of my post. I like her and she adds a lot to this forum so please accept my apology. I'm sometimes rude and crude but  you have always been a lady.

[XLFD]

That ties a record Aquaman, but it does seem high for mid-Saturday Night, which isn't record-breaking time, in general. 

Are you planning on being a miner for the next 40 years?  If so, can I borrow your boat?  LOL

[Lisa O'Brien]

Willy,

Apology accepted.

[AQUAMAN]

Dale, you sound like a very responsible "environmentalist": now, if you would carry that same measure of thinking/caring for your fellow posters here, you could go a long ways in making new friends. No one insists nor expects total agreement, all we ask is civil and logical debate. I also have had geothermal for about 13 years and love it. I sometimes horse-trade food for fishing trips, like pork and veggies, for those with a green thumb to grow them. I'm also looking more at solar, as it becomes affordable for the homeowner. Irresponsibility is like beauty, it's in the eye of the beholder, everyone is different.

[Willy]

Dale

Remember, stop with the dash in my name. You've got a good start but until your off the grid and live off the land without using any petrolium products you will always be part of the problem. I for one cannot afford all of the technology requred to be energy independent. By the way geothermal still uses a lot of electricity. But, keep up the good work and yes you are being responsible.

[Sweater Cows!]

OH boy, you hippy enviro-freak types really get my goat, lol.

I am going to use every last drop of oil I can, use up every little drop, that way it is gone for good and we can move past it!

Once a person throws out the leftovers it is time to make a new dish, which means get rid of the oil to move on to new things.

[Sweater Cows!]

If you want to know why we should use up all the oil search about Tom Ogle. Very interesting story and suspicious death.

Thing is I don't believe we are running low on oil. But the producers of it sure can make a lot more money via supply-demand if the supply is deteriorating!

[Sweater Cows!]

Also see the movie Gas Hole

[RobbyK]

Hi everyone,

Not a problem being banned, I can come back whenever I choose. He only thinks he owns the site. He learned that day-one when I was back shortly after being banned and he was squealing like the little pig he is “who are you!!” in chat. He and his cronies have no control, but it does make it obvious that they don’t truly believe in free speech. Read fast because they are running to delete.

Been too busy, some people work, unlike XLFD.  Nor do we use other people’s indigence statuses, especially if we’re indigent, we would probably follow the law and make it “legal” and apply, following the law. HEY, Freeloader, it ever occur to you that you would have gotten twice the exemption if you had applied?  He probably uses Toni’s’ kids food stamps the same way. Heck, he thinks he’s “ENTITLED”  and its “MOOT” as he says in his filing with the Court. Here’s a tip X, GET A JOB, your attempt at politics isn’t paying off. Nor is a big settlement from the city.  You should study up on “UNCLEAN HANDS” X, it means if you commit a crime also, your “ENTITLED” to NOTHING, LOL. Fraud is illegal whether you consider it “MOOT” or not. You ever hear of getting things the right way, like NOT stealing or defrauding? It appears to me that, that’s what you did.

 I’ll be back, might be Herman could be Ike or Sally (Aqua needs the company of another woman), ya just never know. Good luck and as you can see, don’t speak “too” freely. My statement included XLFDs’ “complete” paragraph, and it referred to his girl friend “Aqua/Slug of the Sea” being patriotic and MOB/MENTALITY, all in one short paragraph, it didn’t matter what his wife said prior/after, it was about what X said.

I’m surprised none of you noticed how XLFD could be so “CREEPED” out when his address was mentioned – but Heather isn’t supposed to be “CREEPED”, AFTER EVERYTHING HE PUT UP ABOUT HER, (address/links to her home, pictures)! Explain that XLFD? Why were you “CREEPED”?  CHICKEN-SH--ED HYPOCRITE. 

I notice Slug of the Sea likes attacking people when he thinks they can’t reply, what a LOSER quality. Listen up Wench, you can’t stop me.

I knew the time would come when you guys would attack Judge Cooper, you guys are despicable. I feel honored :  )  I’m in good company. Did it ever occur to you Morons that the Judge actually thought he could be totally unbiased/uninfluenced. Until it really sunk in that anytime something doesn’t go your way, you vilify the person on here. Quite possible it could be an indicator where your case is heading, CRIMINALLY.  Cyas soon, maybe later, maybe tomorrow.

[XLFD]

This is the opposition.  I'm rubber, they're glue.

[XLFD]

Though I appreciate your defense of civility Dale, I feel that you are insinuating yourself that there have been potentially defamatory or libelous comments about Judge Cooper and his appearance of impropriety.  Please explain that if you would; I missed it. 

[AQUAMAN]

Same crap, different day! Well, just for the fun of it, will any of you newbies get off your crackpot sermon of destruction and vile attitudes, and tell all of us what makes Nick and Heather "above the law, above ethics in good government, above fair bidding for contracts with the city of Ludington, above having to wait and bid for a foreclosed home in line with the rest of the public, above reproach for all of the above, and so much more hidden from the publics' eyes? When and if you can ever get back to the thread's theme, and answer any/all of those questions, you might have me at goodbye. Slams the door in their faces...lol. Oh yeah, last night I said I think it's important people stop and think before they post a lie or defamation from their keyboards, and say what they would if they were talking to that person in the flesh. Well, since you newbies know me, you should know where to find me, and like it or not, I'm at your disposal to visit and critique in person any day, time, year or whatever. Let me know, I'm curious to see what human scum looks like in the flesh.