Injustice Suspended and Revoked

[XLFD]

In the months prior to the primary elections of 2024, we published at least seven substantive articles critical of the 'incumbent' Mason County Prosecutor Beth Hand and the established record of hers.  Nevertheless, Hand would win the majority of Republican primary votes that August day in a crowded field of four and was guaranteed the position, absent a viable write-in candidate that never showed up. 

No longer hindered by the politics behind keeping the position she was appointed to, she used her newfound mandate to pursue the internet journalist who wrote bad, yet true, things about her.  Within a month, this reporter would receive notice that he was to be arraigned for two crimes (misdemeanors) arising from March 2024, when we were dangerously trapped in Cartier Park on the night of the City's first deer cull, and needed subsequent rescue from the area by the Ludington Police Department (LPD). 

Rather than admit the city was negligent in their protocols to make sure the cull would be conducted safely by securing and clearing the park and that officials had repeatedly lied about the cull happening in the middle of the night, rather than almost an hour before dusk in broad daylight, Hand would float two theories on how to criminalize the victim, and both had major flaws in which a less compromised prosecutor would consider fatal to success.  I would be arraigned for trespassing and driving while license suspended/revoked in early September 2024.  

The charges seemed baseless.  I knew from previous civic engagement, leading to federal court success over the City of Ludington and the top two city officials back in 2013, that public officials (including LPD officers) cannot banish a citizen from a public facility without affording due process for the government's taking of one's basic constitutional rights.  The trespass charge was dismissed by Judge John Middlebrook almost to the day of the anniversary of my arraignment, after a vigorous defense made by my attorney, Nancy Urban, over the course of a Friday afternoon.

But through the 28-month period of time after I was charged with driving while license suspended (DWLS) despite constant notifications from me and my attorney stating the truth (backed by my Secretary of State driving record) that I have never had my license suspended, revoked, or otherwise diminished, this unfounded charge stuck around.  In June 2026 they wanted to take to trial a false accusation rom March 2024, a month where I had a valid driving license and was never part of a traffic stop.

With the prospect of the local court having to seat a jury and try the losing issue on Monday, June 22nd, the prosecutor blinked and decided to not press the inquisition to an irrational conclusion that a man who had never had their license suspended was guilty of DWLS.  

If a prosecutor was true to their oath of office, why would they waste so much public resources for two years and four months pursuing a charge that they should have never taken up in the first place as one of the elements of the crime was absent?  The court has finally been able to close a case whose only purpose seems to be a hill of self-destruction for Beth Hand.

Yet, what if Beth Hand knew her actions all along would never come to success, but would be able to forever sully the reputation of the object of her persecutions?   Local press printed my arraignment and the false crimes, crimes that might prejudice those trying to formulate an opinion on my character or honesty when I write the truth about this cruddy prosecutor.

Consider, anyone reading my arraignment data without any other knowledge would think that I had engaged in behavior that originally had my license suspended/revoked, these would typically be in the realm of DWI or having excessive points on my record.  The assumption that I was reckless and stupid enough to drive during that suspension would follow.  Likewise, trespassing would lead one to think that I have no respect for other people's property, rather than I was unlawfully restricted for being in a public park.  Frivolous unprovable charges were sought in order to besmirch my good name, making my supported criticisms of the prosecutor mean less.  Pretty diaboloical.

These two arraignments from September 2024, based on March 2024 events are finally behind me, but can I exhale yet?  Not quite; two more frivolous prosecutions have followed including another trespassing charge that arises from the same transaction in March 2024 that, coincidentally I'm sure, were filed shortly after the judge threw out the original trespassing charge.  If this one doesn't qualify as double jeopardy and lead to another dismissal, then it should be decided primarily on the lack of merit and lack of elements of a real crime.

What will likely happen on the morning of Monday, June 22nd is a lot of time will be wasted seating a jury to hear about a misdemeanor city code violation allegedly perpetrated by me.  Our LPD captain has suggested that my standing quietly outside of a city hall door amounted to disturbing the peace, specifically of disrupting a lawful meeting.  Morphing the act of quietly minding my own business into disruption of a meeting I wasn't even part of at the time is going to require a lot of skill on the prosecutor's part.  

The point of these pointless prosecutions is, as we have seen, twofold.  First, they portray the primary prosecutor's detractor in a bad light even if they come out as unsuccessful.  The three different arraignments I have suffered come with three different public flogging articles in the local paper and the MCP, with many assuming a degree of guilt if they don't know the main characters involved.  Second, they take away hours of my productivity, especially when my lawyer and I are sometimes waiting hours after a conference was scheduled for a prosecutor to show.  This prosecutor definitely does not worry about costing the county a lot of wasted resources in order to pursue what could very easily be considered a vendetta.

On the positive side of the ledger, however, it does give us some good material to write about.  See you Monday morning if you have the time yourself, jury selection starts at 8:30 AM at the Mason County Courthouse. 

[Golf~6~Romeo]

What you are calling "frivolous prosecutions" I call targeted terrorism. The entire mason county judicial system is tainted and can no longer be trusted to uphold the law. The city council, in it's entirety, is a force that works against local small business, non-profits and citizens to enrich themselves. Why do we pay these humans so much money to cause us so much strife?

[Daniel Jensen]

A couple of years + ago.. I recall sending out a few emails dealing with the 2024 open PA seat. Not to worry.. I belive the Judical System may be experiencing difficulties in the near future.. will they even have funding? I'll start with.. Downloadable H.R. 25 The Fair Tax Act of 2025.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr25ih/pdf/BILLS-119hr...

Next up.. Downloadable H.R. 6315 Requires Penetration testing of voting systems. Starts on page 2 of 9.. 1-18. The Bill requires all counties.. across all states.. to preform Penetration testing as part of the testing and certification of voting systems..

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr6315ih/pdf/BILLS-119...

So.. was that testing even done? Word on the streets of America has it.. no county in the United States preformed that test. And with income tax preparing to disappear will it even matter? Probably.. we'll need the courts for military tribunals.

NCSWIC.. WWG1WGA..

God Bless The Sovereign Rebublic!