Political Prisoner Sherry Jackson
Stand Up for Sherry Jackson
Tell your Congressman, File Complaints in the Civil Code,
Do NOT Let This Kind of Stuff Happen While you Stand Silent.
Sherry Jackson
12/31/09
Sherry Jackson, IRS Whistleblower, Political Persecution, - We Stand By While They Incarcinate Whistleblowers like Sherry Jackson - WHY?
the IRS is the Biggest Fraud - Sherry Jackson former IRS agent tells the truth about the IRS Scam and Power Trip on YOU !!
IRS Secrets
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People are SO Scared of the IRS
you Earn the Money - they Take it...
they Tax You, and Tax You,
the more you Make the More you Pay
and they do NOT use Your Taxes To Benefit You,
you have No Real Rights, No Real Due Process,
you are Not really protected by Law Enforcement and Judges,
you are Lied to about Cures for Disease.
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IRS
It is Time for you to Demand Accountability and
To Stand in Truth.
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the Tax Law is a Fraud?
Wake Up Folks...
We Don't Owe Income Tax
Why are We MADE to PAY it.
no tax
Enforcement Pocket Commission
Non-Pocket Commission
If you File You Waive your Amendment Rights
www.SherryPeelJackson.com
Check out Sherry Jackson's Website
tax Law
Conspiracies and Cover Ups.. Come On Let this Sick Stuff End for Good - Watch All 5 of these Videos
Bildeberg Group
Jessie Ventura Videos
Take Back Your Power
12/30/09
12/29/09
Newspapers Lie to You - Demand Accountability from Newspapers - Take Back your News - Blog
What if We the People Sue Major Newspaper Chains in our Area, such as the Lee Newspaper Chain in My Area, a Class Action Lawsuit for their Lies and Propaganda that got you into Real Estate Debt, that got you into bad financial situations, lied to you about area crimes, wrote fraudulent stories about citizens and businesses for political or financial motive and basically just treated the Citizens Minds as play dough in which they had all the power and control.
You read their newsprint, with No Accountability for what they write as actually being true and you believe it over the actual people who were actually there at that particular event.
Don't Buy their Papers, don't advertise in Big Media Cartel ...
Don't Click on Ads on their Websites..
Stop THEM from Feeding you Bull and Keeping you in the Dark.....
MT News
You read their newsprint, with No Accountability for what they write as actually being true and you believe it over the actual people who were actually there at that particular event.
Why is this? I mean they start a paper, print what they want.. Politicians and Local Muckity Mucks pay them to promote or HUSH certain news... and this is their business... kind of like making a Deal with the Devil.
Big Media Feeding you Spoonfulls of Gibberish, Flat Out Lies, Misleading you on Gas and Oil, Lying about why we are at war, and in the small towns lying ... creating news to make certain people look like the bad guys when in FACT they are the GOOD guys, people ... MOST still believe the news.. especially in Small Towns...
Stop Big Media News Chains like the Lee Newspaper Chain from controlling what you get to know, controlling your perception of reality, setting you up, lying about you ... keep you down and profiting HUGE from it....Don't Buy their Papers, don't advertise in Big Media Cartel ...
Don't Click on Ads on their Websites..
Stop THEM from Feeding you Bull and Keeping you in the Dark.....
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These Newspaper Chains SHOULD not get a FREE PASS to lie, while at the same time you Rant at Me because you think what i am saying is NOT true, though it is. You throw a fit at me saying where do i get my information, is there any fact to it... Yet you Don't ask this of the Big Newspaper Chains or your Local News, Why?
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Time to let the Newspapers Know that you will No Longer Accept their Twisted Version of Reality, their Flat Out Lies, their Misleading Gibberish and Well you are DONE supporting THEM.....
crystal COx
Bloggers are the News, Bloggers are the New Journalists, Bloggers are telling you what is really going on in a particular town and newspapers are Old News long - long before they hit the stands.
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12/27/09
Proskauer Rose Connections, Political Affiliations, Key Judges, Just the Right Proskauer Rose Partner and The Perfect Storm for Major Corruption.
How Does one Control the Courts, Control Complaints to the State Bar, Control Complaints to the Supreme Court in any Particular State and Cover up Even the Most Obvious and Blatant Crimes one can every witness or even imagine?
What if you Were Connected to a Partner of one the Most Influential, Most "Well Connected", highly Financed above the Law - Law Firm in the World.... say you Were a Partner at this Law Firm .... and say Your Wife was a Supreme Court Judge. What if this Law Firm was involved in.. orchestrated a Trillion Dollar Patent Theft and this Judge handled the Case? What if this Influential Supreme Court Judge had connections with one of the BIGGEST technology companies on the Planet - Say IBM?
What if you had connections deep within all political parties, favors owed from the richest of the richest and you basically owned the justice system within your sphere of influence, and your connections - pay offs - cronies was built over so long and were so loyal that there really was no crime that you could not pull off no matter what the price tag..
Well With all this In Mind, wouldn't you have laid all the necessary ground work for the perfect heist? Say a Trillion Dollar Heist... a Heist so good that even if any one player was EVER Caught in lies there would literally be hundreds more backing him or her up and the Victims would NEVER stand a chance at any real Justice.
With this kind of connection, you have the Courts, the Law, the Legal System controlled at every level and if the Victims have Moxy, well first try and Kill them, if that don't work and the Victim has Moxy and Smarts and the Attempt to Use the Legal System to Tell On YOU well then what.. Well they would tell the State Supreme Court, they would Tell the State Attorney Bar, and well as Long as Your Connections were FIRMLY in place there, well then the VICTIM would be running in place, blowing hot air, and even with thousands of documents of proof and years upon years of proof on EVERY level - YOU would still be able to cover up, ignore, or Stall it all... indefinitely.
What if you were a Supreme Court Judge and Had a Court Clerk that was NOT above changing the law, willing to do or say just about anything to please You... well this on top of your Husband being a Partner at the Mighty Proskauer Rose - Above the Law - Law Firm?
Well You Would Certainly have the Perfect Storm for Corruption to the Highest Payoff Ever Imagined that would pay you and your Kids, and their kids for Centuries Really.. I mean a Trillion Dollars in this Economy - Holy Cow.. Imagine the Possibility and Next.. with that Kind of Money and with connections deep inside the Government, Deep inside the Political Quagmire, and all your coverups in place til' the end of time as we know it... Well There is Now No Limit to Your Power - World Wide ... Now the World Needs You and You Control More then You Ever Imagined.
Now of course you have Your Supreme Court "Cleaners" - and well really Cleaners at every level, this is just basic house keeping like taking out the trash every night.
The Inventors, the Innocent Victims - some Beaten - some killed - most just indefiantly STALLED til they give up and choose to take their life back ... well these Folks are Just Collateral Damage in this World Domination Game that is Now WELL Funded, Well Connected and Perfectly in Place ALL because of this Holy Grail - Trillion Dollar - Perfectly Orchestrated Patent Heist.
Come On this is A Novel Right? this is a Movie Script Right? Well it surely will be One Day.. I mean you have all Seen "The Firm" Right? Well this is a Trillion Times Bigger then ALL That.
There is No Justice. There is No Accountability for Proskauer Rose Attorneys in Any State. There is No way to Bring Accountability to the Supreme Court Judges or Clerks in on all this, and Well the Iviewit Shareholders, the Iviewit Inventors and In Turn Every One of us.... Well we Pay the Price - and they Keep us Down.
In courts all across the Land where the TRUTH is irrelevant, the LAW is subject to the Opinion of a Voted in or Appointed Judge, and your life is at the Mercy of Pay Offs, Corruption, Cronies, Good Ol' Boys and Gals, and The Real Integrity of the Law - What Really Happened - Who Really Lied - Who Really got Hurt well all of that is Simply Irrelevant.
What if you Were Connected to a Partner of one the Most Influential, Most "Well Connected", highly Financed above the Law - Law Firm in the World.... say you Were a Partner at this Law Firm .... and say Your Wife was a Supreme Court Judge. What if this Law Firm was involved in.. orchestrated a Trillion Dollar Patent Theft and this Judge handled the Case? What if this Influential Supreme Court Judge had connections with one of the BIGGEST technology companies on the Planet - Say IBM?
What if you had connections deep within all political parties, favors owed from the richest of the richest and you basically owned the justice system within your sphere of influence, and your connections - pay offs - cronies was built over so long and were so loyal that there really was no crime that you could not pull off no matter what the price tag..
Well With all this In Mind, wouldn't you have laid all the necessary ground work for the perfect heist? Say a Trillion Dollar Heist... a Heist so good that even if any one player was EVER Caught in lies there would literally be hundreds more backing him or her up and the Victims would NEVER stand a chance at any real Justice.
With this kind of connection, you have the Courts, the Law, the Legal System controlled at every level and if the Victims have Moxy, well first try and Kill them, if that don't work and the Victim has Moxy and Smarts and the Attempt to Use the Legal System to Tell On YOU well then what.. Well they would tell the State Supreme Court, they would Tell the State Attorney Bar, and well as Long as Your Connections were FIRMLY in place there, well then the VICTIM would be running in place, blowing hot air, and even with thousands of documents of proof and years upon years of proof on EVERY level - YOU would still be able to cover up, ignore, or Stall it all... indefinitely.
What if you were a Supreme Court Judge and Had a Court Clerk that was NOT above changing the law, willing to do or say just about anything to please You... well this on top of your Husband being a Partner at the Mighty Proskauer Rose - Above the Law - Law Firm?
Well You Would Certainly have the Perfect Storm for Corruption to the Highest Payoff Ever Imagined that would pay you and your Kids, and their kids for Centuries Really.. I mean a Trillion Dollars in this Economy - Holy Cow.. Imagine the Possibility and Next.. with that Kind of Money and with connections deep inside the Government, Deep inside the Political Quagmire, and all your coverups in place til' the end of time as we know it... Well There is Now No Limit to Your Power - World Wide ... Now the World Needs You and You Control More then You Ever Imagined.
Now of course you have Your Supreme Court "Cleaners" - and well really Cleaners at every level, this is just basic house keeping like taking out the trash every night.
The Inventors, the Innocent Victims - some Beaten - some killed - most just indefiantly STALLED til they give up and choose to take their life back ... well these Folks are Just Collateral Damage in this World Domination Game that is Now WELL Funded, Well Connected and Perfectly in Place ALL because of this Holy Grail - Trillion Dollar - Perfectly Orchestrated Patent Heist.
Come On this is A Novel Right? this is a Movie Script Right? Well it surely will be One Day.. I mean you have all Seen "The Firm" Right? Well this is a Trillion Times Bigger then ALL That.
There is No Justice. There is No Accountability for Proskauer Rose Attorneys in Any State. There is No way to Bring Accountability to the Supreme Court Judges or Clerks in on all this, and Well the Iviewit Shareholders, the Iviewit Inventors and In Turn Every One of us.... Well we Pay the Price - and they Keep us Down.
In courts all across the Land where the TRUTH is irrelevant, the LAW is subject to the Opinion of a Voted in or Appointed Judge, and your life is at the Mercy of Pay Offs, Corruption, Cronies, Good Ol' Boys and Gals, and The Real Integrity of the Law - What Really Happened - Who Really Lied - Who Really got Hurt well all of that is Simply Irrelevant.
Proskauer
12/25/09
Ben Webb - Goodbye Bennie - Peacefull Travel to You...
Bernard “Bennie” Webb, 77,
died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at Mountain View Manor in Eureka.
He was born to Dick and Lena Webb in Beaver, Ohio on Sept. 1, 1932. In 1947, the family moved to Rexford where he attended Lincoln County High School.
At age 18, he had his first job manning Webb Mountain Lookout and continued to work for the Forest Service off and on until his retirement.
He married Linda Tyrone in 1956 and they made their home in Rexford. They bought a gas station and when it burned down they rebuilt it and added a grocery store. His father worked the grocery store and he made a living working in the woods and tending bar for his in-laws, Bud and Margaret Giese, at the Stockman’s Bar in Eureka.
The couple had three children – Terry, Monte and Tracy. In the 1960s, they opened the doors to the Bull Pen during the height of Libby Dam’s construction.
Family will remember him as a man who never met a stranger and was ready with a laugh, or with a joke or story.
Mr. Webb enjoyed life, especially with family and friends, and was never a man in favor of idle time when one could be socializing.
“There was always a motorbike or snowmobile that should have its abilities tested, a pool game or card game that needed challenged, a wrestling match or a good fistfight that needed to be started, there was always a bully to bump, a dance to have, and a granny to chase,” family members said. “There was always a son, daughter or granddaughter that needed to learn how to drive, dance, plant a garden, drag a log out of the woods and sharpen a chainsaw, to throw a football, swing a golf club or get advice on bowling. There was always laughter.”
Mr. Webb was preceded in death by his father, Joe Dick Webb; mother, Lena Crace Webb; son, Monte Webb; brother, Charlie Miller; sister, Betty Tidwell; brother in-law, John Tidwell; and niece, Johna Fleming.
Peaceful Travels Ben... Thanks for All the Laughs...
died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at Mountain View Manor in Eureka.
He was born to Dick and Lena Webb in Beaver, Ohio on Sept. 1, 1932. In 1947, the family moved to Rexford where he attended Lincoln County High School.
At age 18, he had his first job manning Webb Mountain Lookout and continued to work for the Forest Service off and on until his retirement.
He married Linda Tyrone in 1956 and they made their home in Rexford. They bought a gas station and when it burned down they rebuilt it and added a grocery store. His father worked the grocery store and he made a living working in the woods and tending bar for his in-laws, Bud and Margaret Giese, at the Stockman’s Bar in Eureka.
The couple had three children – Terry, Monte and Tracy. In the 1960s, they opened the doors to the Bull Pen during the height of Libby Dam’s construction.
Family will remember him as a man who never met a stranger and was ready with a laugh, or with a joke or story.
Mr. Webb enjoyed life, especially with family and friends, and was never a man in favor of idle time when one could be socializing.
“There was always a motorbike or snowmobile that should have its abilities tested, a pool game or card game that needed challenged, a wrestling match or a good fistfight that needed to be started, there was always a bully to bump, a dance to have, and a granny to chase,” family members said. “There was always a son, daughter or granddaughter that needed to learn how to drive, dance, plant a garden, drag a log out of the woods and sharpen a chainsaw, to throw a football, swing a golf club or get advice on bowling. There was always laughter.”
Mr. Webb was preceded in death by his father, Joe Dick Webb; mother, Lena Crace Webb; son, Monte Webb; brother, Charlie Miller; sister, Betty Tidwell; brother in-law, John Tidwell; and niece, Johna Fleming.
Peaceful Travels Ben... Thanks for All the Laughs...
They Say No News is Good News..
Well it Seems that I have folks that do not live here that would like me to keep up with my Eureka News blog and Though the last year has been a bit hellish and the Politics Kicked My Ass.. I Would Like to Know if there is more of you out there who would like to see me write on local news and events more.. So Email Me at Crystal@CrystalCox.com and let me know.. As I have haters .. duh.. but funny.. it is like .5 % as I do get alot of positive feed back from my Blogs...
I know surprising, all this Yammering and not alot of hate, but those who do hate me they certainly make up for the many fans I do have.
The thing is I have been here pretty much my whole life, and I blog from a point of view of someone who does care about the people in Eureka Montana, care about the Jobs, care about how students are treated and do really try and Give Voice to Those who are not being heard.
So I will Soon do a little update on Whats New in Eureka Montana and Lincoln County for those who don't live here, however, politic wise.. not much new.. Taxes are UP, Foreclosures are UP, Commissions Wages are Up, Nepotism Runs the Town, Contracts are given to Homeboys and Cronies and the hard working Tax Paying locals - well they are Leaving because Duh.. the Timber Industry is Dead and the Commissioners.. Geeeeee Whiz... Golly.. they just didn't see that one coming and seem to have NOT planned jobs for Eureka and it is even Reported to me that Jobs have been turned away...
I Stopped writing on local happenings as it seemed that many did not believe me, though my words came from several sources and a lifetime in Eureka Montana.. the Choice to Not Recall Sheriff Anderson well to me the People Had Spoken and thought With that You Folks did not want to hear my point of view on the local Goings On.. But with the Emails I have gotten over the last 3 months it does appear that many of you out there do miss my rants, my News to Me and my perspective on Reality... in Eureka Montana.. So We Shall See What Next..
I know surprising, all this Yammering and not alot of hate, but those who do hate me they certainly make up for the many fans I do have.
The thing is I have been here pretty much my whole life, and I blog from a point of view of someone who does care about the people in Eureka Montana, care about the Jobs, care about how students are treated and do really try and Give Voice to Those who are not being heard.
So I will Soon do a little update on Whats New in Eureka Montana and Lincoln County for those who don't live here, however, politic wise.. not much new.. Taxes are UP, Foreclosures are UP, Commissions Wages are Up, Nepotism Runs the Town, Contracts are given to Homeboys and Cronies and the hard working Tax Paying locals - well they are Leaving because Duh.. the Timber Industry is Dead and the Commissioners.. Geeeeee Whiz... Golly.. they just didn't see that one coming and seem to have NOT planned jobs for Eureka and it is even Reported to me that Jobs have been turned away...
I Stopped writing on local happenings as it seemed that many did not believe me, though my words came from several sources and a lifetime in Eureka Montana.. the Choice to Not Recall Sheriff Anderson well to me the People Had Spoken and thought With that You Folks did not want to hear my point of view on the local Goings On.. But with the Emails I have gotten over the last 3 months it does appear that many of you out there do miss my rants, my News to Me and my perspective on Reality... in Eureka Montana.. So We Shall See What Next..
12/24/09
12/23/09
The Second Fraud - Story Exposing the Aftermath of the Largest Fraud in MN History - Rejected by all Major MN Media Outlets
THE SECOND FRAUD is a motion picture documentary that exposes the aftermath of the arrest of Twin Cities businessman Tom Petters. Petters was the brilliant mastermind behind the first multi-billion dollar "Ponzi scheme" ever discovered.
Our exposé dives into the initial Petters controversy, exploring how he was able to keep his lucrative scheme going for what authorities say was over a decade, ending with his inevitable conviction on December 2, 2009.
When Petters' scheme was unveiled, the local community was left stunned. Not even the cynical press had seen this coming. Eventually, light was cast on a problem much greater than a simple Ponzi scheme. A second story was developing in the aftermath of the first scandal that was much more sinister.
Ultimately we discovered a tangled web of local professionals: judges, politicians and lawyers, some of which may have knowingly or unknowingly allowed the Petters fraud to perpetuate in the first place. Now these groups are left in charge to clean up the mess. As hundreds of years of legal precedent are blatantly ignored, creditors and victims are crying foul from the sidelines as they are swindled a second time by the very system that is in place to protect them.
How can this be happening? What was the motivation behind these actions? Suddenly it became clear. Tom Petters had been running a Ponzi scheme, but he also had a legitimate business empire holding such entities as the American icon, Polaroid. While there was no money left from the Ponzi scheme, there was plenty in the rest of the Petters Empire. The only problem was, to fund their fee fest, the lawyers involved needed to find a valid connection — or create one.
This film spins the tale of a dark story complete with a colorful cast of characters who are incorporating what we believe to be THE SECOND FRAUD.
THE CONTROVERSY
Ours is truly an independent film. We have worked on a shoe-string budget with a limited crew, yet we have pulled off what we believe to be incredible production value. Our relevance is ripe as we come on the coat tails of Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM : A LOVE STORY, Steven Soderbergh’s THE INFORMANT, and F. Gary Gray’s LAW ABIDING CITIZEN. The public ear is tuned into the truth about both corporate and government greed and corruption.
This film brings to the table hard questions that demand real answers. The local Twin Cities media may have followed the Petters scandal as it happened, but as an outsider, as an independent filmmaker, I bring to the table a different flavor, one that is credible but also digs below the surface.
We bought airtime on every major Network Affiliate to broadcast our film on Sunday, December 13, 2009 and Monday, December 14, 2009. When they saw the content we were dealing with, however, each network independently rejected us.
As a filmmaker, I am not disappointed by what some might call “censorship” in this situation. Others may even say this is disregard of first amendment rights. What fascinates me is what looks like a massive cover up of a continuing fraud—taking place behind the scenes of a fraud that in the public view has been stopped in its tracks. So why isn’t anybody getting their money back?
II say, give my documentary a chance. Let the questions be asked. Let the answers be heard. Do not let precedent be created by a system that may be too corrupt to change once it has gone too far.
Sincerely,
Ryan James Frost
Producer/Writer/Director
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Link to Story
www.TheSecondFraud.com
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Our exposé dives into the initial Petters controversy, exploring how he was able to keep his lucrative scheme going for what authorities say was over a decade, ending with his inevitable conviction on December 2, 2009.
When Petters' scheme was unveiled, the local community was left stunned. Not even the cynical press had seen this coming. Eventually, light was cast on a problem much greater than a simple Ponzi scheme. A second story was developing in the aftermath of the first scandal that was much more sinister.
Ultimately we discovered a tangled web of local professionals: judges, politicians and lawyers, some of which may have knowingly or unknowingly allowed the Petters fraud to perpetuate in the first place. Now these groups are left in charge to clean up the mess. As hundreds of years of legal precedent are blatantly ignored, creditors and victims are crying foul from the sidelines as they are swindled a second time by the very system that is in place to protect them.
How can this be happening? What was the motivation behind these actions? Suddenly it became clear. Tom Petters had been running a Ponzi scheme, but he also had a legitimate business empire holding such entities as the American icon, Polaroid. While there was no money left from the Ponzi scheme, there was plenty in the rest of the Petters Empire. The only problem was, to fund their fee fest, the lawyers involved needed to find a valid connection — or create one.
This film spins the tale of a dark story complete with a colorful cast of characters who are incorporating what we believe to be THE SECOND FRAUD.
THE CONTROVERSY
Ours is truly an independent film. We have worked on a shoe-string budget with a limited crew, yet we have pulled off what we believe to be incredible production value. Our relevance is ripe as we come on the coat tails of Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM : A LOVE STORY, Steven Soderbergh’s THE INFORMANT, and F. Gary Gray’s LAW ABIDING CITIZEN. The public ear is tuned into the truth about both corporate and government greed and corruption.
This film brings to the table hard questions that demand real answers. The local Twin Cities media may have followed the Petters scandal as it happened, but as an outsider, as an independent filmmaker, I bring to the table a different flavor, one that is credible but also digs below the surface.
We bought airtime on every major Network Affiliate to broadcast our film on Sunday, December 13, 2009 and Monday, December 14, 2009. When they saw the content we were dealing with, however, each network independently rejected us.
As a filmmaker, I am not disappointed by what some might call “censorship” in this situation. Others may even say this is disregard of first amendment rights. What fascinates me is what looks like a massive cover up of a continuing fraud—taking place behind the scenes of a fraud that in the public view has been stopped in its tracks. So why isn’t anybody getting their money back?
II say, give my documentary a chance. Let the questions be asked. Let the answers be heard. Do not let precedent be created by a system that may be too corrupt to change once it has gone too far.
Sincerely,
Ryan James Frost
Producer/Writer/Director
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Link to Story
www.TheSecondFraud.com
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12/22/09
Citizen's Grand Jury: an idea whose time has come
"by: Jay Stevens
Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 11:59:57 AM MST
I know some among my circle of progressive friends are a little nervous about conservatives wanting to create a "citizen grand jury" for Montana, but I think it's a fantastic idea!
Just imagine! As soon as the law's passed, we can start convening these things to use against the right-wing zealots behind this thing! Duane Sipe, the initiative's sponsor; Richard Stevens of "Freedom Action Rally"; and Sen. Verdell Jackson of Kalispell.
Constitution Party members, Tea Baggers. It wouldn't be hard to drum up some reasons, right? After all, these people believe the income tax is illegal, that most kinds of government activity is illegal, etc & co. I think we can confidently say their tax returns probably could use a good looking-over, right?
But, whoa! I'm getting wa-a-a-a-a-y ahead of myself here. You don't actually need a reason to convene a citizen's grand jury, you just need signatures from half of one percent of a county's registered voters! There'll be time enough after the signatures are gathered to figure out what the grand jury should investigate, because it's the jury that has "sole control" over the "length and depth" of investigations.
And the best thing? You don't even need an indictment to do damage! Isn't that great? Because the proceedings of the grand jury are completely public! That's right! And because of a grand jury's broad powers to call up evidence and testimony (and no sneaky hiding behind the 5th amendment for the accused in a grand jury!), all sorts of irrelevant evidence can be brought up to damage the investigated's reputation. Heck! And you can present all kinds of weak evidence that makes the defendant look guilty in the court of public opinion!
And think about all the costs someone under endless investigation would have to bear! All those trips to Missoula - on work days, of course - toting a lawyer along, the endless depositions, examination of evidence, research, etc & co. Really, if the costs of being investigated by a politically-motivated grand jury doesn't drive these people out of Montana...
And why stop there? How difficult would it be to, say, gather enough signatures to call a citizen's grand jury to look into Dennis Rehberg's role in the Flathead Lake Boat Crash? An afternoon at the Missoula Farmer's Market?
And while we're looking into Rehberg's drinking habits, we can examine his finances, his connections with lobbyists (like Leo Giaocometto!), hell! We can check out his family, make sure they're on the up-and-up, right?
And we can do the same to whoever opts to run against Tester in '12. Or to current legislators. Krayton Kerns! Scott Sales! Just to name a few. And some old names from the past - Marc Racicot! Tim Fox! Judy Martz!
Clever name, isn't it? "Citizens" grand jury? Because, really, it's just a means for a small group of radicals to terrorize their neighbors. Like the "Committee of Public Safety"! Or the local "citizens councils" (or "Soviets" in Russian)! It's a slap to democracy. In fact, all through the report, the brain trust behind these grand juries derides democratic institutions - appointed judges and elected leaders, the entire legal system.
But it's your system. You vote, you have the power to make and change the rules. So, make no mistake, it's not the government these people can't stand, it's you.
Jay Stevens :: Citizen's Grand Jury: an idea whose time has come "
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http://leftinthewest.com/diary/3680/citizens-grand-jury-an-idea-whose-time-has-come
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Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 11:59:57 AM MST
I know some among my circle of progressive friends are a little nervous about conservatives wanting to create a "citizen grand jury" for Montana, but I think it's a fantastic idea!
Just imagine! As soon as the law's passed, we can start convening these things to use against the right-wing zealots behind this thing! Duane Sipe, the initiative's sponsor; Richard Stevens of "Freedom Action Rally"; and Sen. Verdell Jackson of Kalispell.
Constitution Party members, Tea Baggers. It wouldn't be hard to drum up some reasons, right? After all, these people believe the income tax is illegal, that most kinds of government activity is illegal, etc & co. I think we can confidently say their tax returns probably could use a good looking-over, right?
But, whoa! I'm getting wa-a-a-a-a-y ahead of myself here. You don't actually need a reason to convene a citizen's grand jury, you just need signatures from half of one percent of a county's registered voters! There'll be time enough after the signatures are gathered to figure out what the grand jury should investigate, because it's the jury that has "sole control" over the "length and depth" of investigations.
And the best thing? You don't even need an indictment to do damage! Isn't that great? Because the proceedings of the grand jury are completely public! That's right! And because of a grand jury's broad powers to call up evidence and testimony (and no sneaky hiding behind the 5th amendment for the accused in a grand jury!), all sorts of irrelevant evidence can be brought up to damage the investigated's reputation. Heck! And you can present all kinds of weak evidence that makes the defendant look guilty in the court of public opinion!
And think about all the costs someone under endless investigation would have to bear! All those trips to Missoula - on work days, of course - toting a lawyer along, the endless depositions, examination of evidence, research, etc & co. Really, if the costs of being investigated by a politically-motivated grand jury doesn't drive these people out of Montana...
And why stop there? How difficult would it be to, say, gather enough signatures to call a citizen's grand jury to look into Dennis Rehberg's role in the Flathead Lake Boat Crash? An afternoon at the Missoula Farmer's Market?
And while we're looking into Rehberg's drinking habits, we can examine his finances, his connections with lobbyists (like Leo Giaocometto!), hell! We can check out his family, make sure they're on the up-and-up, right?
And we can do the same to whoever opts to run against Tester in '12. Or to current legislators. Krayton Kerns! Scott Sales! Just to name a few. And some old names from the past - Marc Racicot! Tim Fox! Judy Martz!
Clever name, isn't it? "Citizens" grand jury? Because, really, it's just a means for a small group of radicals to terrorize their neighbors. Like the "Committee of Public Safety"! Or the local "citizens councils" (or "Soviets" in Russian)! It's a slap to democracy. In fact, all through the report, the brain trust behind these grand juries derides democratic institutions - appointed judges and elected leaders, the entire legal system.
But it's your system. You vote, you have the power to make and change the rules. So, make no mistake, it's not the government these people can't stand, it's you.
Jay Stevens :: Citizen's Grand Jury: an idea whose time has come "
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http://leftinthewest.com/diary/3680/citizens-grand-jury-an-idea-whose-time-has-come
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Update on the Montana Grand Jury! - Duane Sipe
"November 10, 2009
The Office of Montana’s Secretary of State Has Accepted a Draft Ballot Initiative Seeking to Provide the Citizens of Montana the Ability to Summon Grand Juries By Petition
Stevensville, Montana, November 10, 2009 – The office of Montana’s Secretary of State (SOS) in Helena has accepted a ballot initiative, to be reviewed by the office of Legislative Services. This is the beginning stage of placing the initiative on the 2010 general election ballot.
This initiative has been labeled ‘Ballot Issue #18’ by the SOS, and is a Constitutional Initiative (CI), seeking to amend Montana’s Constitution, providing for the ability of the citizens to summon Grand Juries by petition.
Currently, the Montana Constitution only provides that a District Judge, at their discretion, may summon a Grand Jury. Article II, Section 20, Paragraph 2 states: “A grand jury shall consist of eleven persons, of whom eight must concur to find an indictment. A grand jury shall be drawn and summoned only at the discretion and order of the district judge.”
Serving as a ‘check and balance’ for the Constitutional Republic known as the United States, the Founders had preserved for the citizens, the right and ability to assure that the public servants kept their activities in line with the intent of the Constitution, and its Bill of Rights, which were ratified on December 15, 1791.
The term Grand Jury is mentioned only in the 5th amendment to the United States Constitution. It is meant to be a right retained by the people. It is a citizen function, not a government function, as the public has been lead to believe.
What do the courts have to say?
“An independent grand jury is to stand between the prosecutor and the accused, and to determine whether a charge is legitimate, or is dictated by malice or personal ill will.”
”Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 (1906)
The Supreme Court states that the independent grand jury’s purpose is not only to investigate possible criminal conduct, but to act as a “protector of citizens against arbitrary and oppressive governmental action,” and to perform its functions; the independent grand jury “deliberates in secret and may determine alone the course of its inquiry.”
United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338 (1974)
Article IV, Section 4 of The United States Constitution says: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government …” And, Montana is this form of government. As such, the Montana Constitution states in Section 1: “Popular sovereignty. All political power is vested in and derived from the people. All government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.”
And, in Section 2: “Self-government. The people have the exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state. They may alter or abolish the constitution and form of government whenever they deem it necessary.”
The Founders’ intended for the sovereign citizens to ‘lend’ the public servants their specific duties. Among these is the preservation of constitutionally protected rights. The servants are not in a position, and do not have the ability to take away these sovereign, constitutionally secured rights and powers of the people.
Amending Montana’s Constitution as indicated will serve to restore the Founders’ intent, at the state level, regarding the position of, and political responsibilities required by, the citizenry.
Duane Sipe"
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http://montanaconservative.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/update-on-the-montana-grand-jury/
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The Office of Montana’s Secretary of State Has Accepted a Draft Ballot Initiative Seeking to Provide the Citizens of Montana the Ability to Summon Grand Juries By Petition
Stevensville, Montana, November 10, 2009 – The office of Montana’s Secretary of State (SOS) in Helena has accepted a ballot initiative, to be reviewed by the office of Legislative Services. This is the beginning stage of placing the initiative on the 2010 general election ballot.
This initiative has been labeled ‘Ballot Issue #18’ by the SOS, and is a Constitutional Initiative (CI), seeking to amend Montana’s Constitution, providing for the ability of the citizens to summon Grand Juries by petition.
Currently, the Montana Constitution only provides that a District Judge, at their discretion, may summon a Grand Jury. Article II, Section 20, Paragraph 2 states: “A grand jury shall consist of eleven persons, of whom eight must concur to find an indictment. A grand jury shall be drawn and summoned only at the discretion and order of the district judge.”
Serving as a ‘check and balance’ for the Constitutional Republic known as the United States, the Founders had preserved for the citizens, the right and ability to assure that the public servants kept their activities in line with the intent of the Constitution, and its Bill of Rights, which were ratified on December 15, 1791.
The term Grand Jury is mentioned only in the 5th amendment to the United States Constitution. It is meant to be a right retained by the people. It is a citizen function, not a government function, as the public has been lead to believe.
What do the courts have to say?
“An independent grand jury is to stand between the prosecutor and the accused, and to determine whether a charge is legitimate, or is dictated by malice or personal ill will.”
”Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 (1906)
The Supreme Court states that the independent grand jury’s purpose is not only to investigate possible criminal conduct, but to act as a “protector of citizens against arbitrary and oppressive governmental action,” and to perform its functions; the independent grand jury “deliberates in secret and may determine alone the course of its inquiry.”
United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338 (1974)
Article IV, Section 4 of The United States Constitution says: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government …” And, Montana is this form of government. As such, the Montana Constitution states in Section 1: “Popular sovereignty. All political power is vested in and derived from the people. All government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.”
And, in Section 2: “Self-government. The people have the exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state. They may alter or abolish the constitution and form of government whenever they deem it necessary.”
The Founders’ intended for the sovereign citizens to ‘lend’ the public servants their specific duties. Among these is the preservation of constitutionally protected rights. The servants are not in a position, and do not have the ability to take away these sovereign, constitutionally secured rights and powers of the people.
Amending Montana’s Constitution as indicated will serve to restore the Founders’ intent, at the state level, regarding the position of, and political responsibilities required by, the citizenry.
Duane Sipe"
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http://montanaconservative.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/update-on-the-montana-grand-jury/
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You Just Cannot Hide your Online Identity or what you Say, so why Bother trying..
Of Course you Mostly Knew this, it is EASY for Law Enforcement to Track Emails, Track Where they came from and to get information from Yahoo.. unless of course they are trying to make the bad guy look like the good guy.
So yes this information below is disturbing but is it really something new. I mean come on EVERYONE knows you cannot truly hide your identity online and that if Law Enforcement were JUST and on the Right Side of the Law they could easily buy, or supeona this information from Yahoo.
Here is the Article Sent to Me Today...
"Yahoo is spying on you
Allegedly acting as proxy for law enforcement, intel agencies
LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Posted: December 21, 20099:18 pm Eastern
By Michael Carl
2009 WorldNetDaily
Yahoo.com is allegedly spying on its customers and acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
According to Wired.com, Yahoo also charges the agencies for the information. That means U.S. citizens' tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo's spying.
A Yahoo customer who asked not to be identified became suspicious of Yahoo's operations when the image below appeared on his screen while downloading his e-mail
Yahoo.com is allegedly spying on its customers and acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
According to Wired.com, Yahoo also charges the agencies for the information. That means U.S. citizens' tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo's spying.
A Yahoo customer who asked not to be identified became suspicious of Yahoo's operations when the image below appeared on his screen while downloading his e-mail.
John Young, who runs the website http://www.cryptome.org/ , believes the Internet giant is gathering data from customer e-mails for possible disclosure to U. S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Young says Yahoo has a standard operating procedure for e-mail data mining spelled out in the Yahoo Law Enforcement Compliance Manual. Young has posted a copy of Yahoo's manual on his Cryptome.com website.
Yahoo and its Washington, D.C.-based legal counsel, Steptoe and Johnson, have not responded to WND requests for comment
The manual says Yahoo records the IP address of any computer involved in a Yahoo e-mail exchange.
"Every message sent by a Yahoo! mail user contains the originating IP address in the header," the Yahoo manual says. "That is, Yahoo! records the IP address of the computer that was used to send the email, and Yahoo! inserts that IP address in the header of the message. Accordingly, if law enforcement is seeking to determine the IP address from which a Yahoo! e-mail was sent, Yahoo! will have no additional information other than what is visible in the message itself."
The manual continues.
"The relevant line from the header will generally look like this: Received: from [65.207.97.120] by web41705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 07:30:05 PDT
"In this example, the IP address in brackets corresponds to the computer from which the message was sent," the manual states.
Section V of the Yahoo compliance guide says:
"Yahoo! generally will accept service of court orders, search warrants, and criminal grand jury or administrative subpoenas for the production of documents by fax from government entities."
Then there's this paragraph a few lines later in the same section:
"Yahoo! will ask law enforcement to certify that the prior or delayed notice provisions have been satisfied if contents are sought with legal process other than a Search Warrant."
"…with legal process other than a Search Warrant."
An intelligence analyst and private terrorism investigator who asked not to be named, believes this phrase is key in Yahoo's willingness to turn over e-mail contents to U.S. intelligence agencies.
Young stands by his actions and what he has written about Yahoo's surveillance. He believes the public material may be a diversion for deeper surveillance.
"What remains unclear is what are other arrangements between Yahoo and law enforcement and intelligence agencies that are not covered by publicly available material. It is more than probable that the publicly available material diverts attention from these other shenanigans," Young observes.
He adds that other Internet providers are also involved in surveillance.
"Yahoo is not alone in these customer transgressions, the deceptive practices are widespread among telecommunications and IP providers," Young asserts.
A story on Mathaba.net states, "Cox Communications, SBC, Cingular, Nextel, GTE and other telecoms and Internet service providers," or ISPs, are involved in federally sanction data collection.
Young also believes media haven't done a good job reporting the abuses.
"There's an abysmal neglect of what the ISPs, OS (operating system) producers, network operators, data farmers and search engines are up to with customer data displayed on the computer screen."
Yahoo's legal counsel, Steptoe and Johnson, has contacted Young, acknowledging the compliance guide's existence and how it facilitates Yahoo's participation in intelligence and law enforcement investigations.
The letter posted on Cryptome.org reads.
The letter concludes with a threat of legal action.
The series of letters is posted on the www.Cryptome.org website. "
Source of This Post
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119240
Yes No Real Surprise that Big Money, Political Games, and the Power Elite pay Yahoo to give them what they want to know. The Internet .. everything you say and do is tracked, either to Watch You, or to create a data base to Sell you Something.. oh Well...
I have Read the Yahoo Law Enforcement Manual above and well it is a No Brainer to get this information, should your attorney not fear local law enforcement.
It is EASY to prove where emails REALLY come from, this is EASY technical though many make it seem so intensely complex for their own personal game and to Hide their Lies. However you get one of the Power Elite that Wants that information and you have it in minutes.
SO Never think that your emails are Private, they just are not. And when you talk about how you feel online, good or bad don't hide your identity just be proud of your stance and talk as intelligently as you can about your point of view or reasons why.
Suing Yahoo... not sure if that will work when Big Money and the Power Elite Control the Courts as Well, adn google is no better, just be Out There with your Truth, don't hide. I mean come on wasn't Google at this Years Bilderberg meeting.. Come On ..
Just Simply Say what you Mean - Mean What you Say and For Goodness Sake put your name to it... How proud can you be of what you say or how sure of yourself are you if your Anonymous about it?
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So yes this information below is disturbing but is it really something new. I mean come on EVERYONE knows you cannot truly hide your identity online and that if Law Enforcement were JUST and on the Right Side of the Law they could easily buy, or supeona this information from Yahoo.
Here is the Article Sent to Me Today...
"Yahoo is spying on you
Allegedly acting as proxy for law enforcement, intel agencies
LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Posted: December 21, 20099:18 pm Eastern
By Michael Carl
2009 WorldNetDaily
Yahoo.com is allegedly spying on its customers and acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
According to Wired.com, Yahoo also charges the agencies for the information. That means U.S. citizens' tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo's spying.
A Yahoo customer who asked not to be identified became suspicious of Yahoo's operations when the image below appeared on his screen while downloading his e-mail
Yahoo.com is allegedly spying on its customers and acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
According to Wired.com, Yahoo also charges the agencies for the information. That means U.S. citizens' tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo's spying.
A Yahoo customer who asked not to be identified became suspicious of Yahoo's operations when the image below appeared on his screen while downloading his e-mail.
John Young, who runs the website http://www.cryptome.org/ , believes the Internet giant is gathering data from customer e-mails for possible disclosure to U. S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Young says Yahoo has a standard operating procedure for e-mail data mining spelled out in the Yahoo Law Enforcement Compliance Manual. Young has posted a copy of Yahoo's manual on his Cryptome.com website.
Yahoo and its Washington, D.C.-based legal counsel, Steptoe and Johnson, have not responded to WND requests for comment
The manual says Yahoo records the IP address of any computer involved in a Yahoo e-mail exchange.
"Every message sent by a Yahoo! mail user contains the originating IP address in the header," the Yahoo manual says. "That is, Yahoo! records the IP address of the computer that was used to send the email, and Yahoo! inserts that IP address in the header of the message. Accordingly, if law enforcement is seeking to determine the IP address from which a Yahoo! e-mail was sent, Yahoo! will have no additional information other than what is visible in the message itself."
The manual continues.
"The relevant line from the header will generally look like this: Received: from [65.207.97.120] by web41705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 07:30:05 PDT
"In this example, the IP address in brackets corresponds to the computer from which the message was sent," the manual states.
Section V of the Yahoo compliance guide says:
"Yahoo! generally will accept service of court orders, search warrants, and criminal grand jury or administrative subpoenas for the production of documents by fax from government entities."
Then there's this paragraph a few lines later in the same section:
"Yahoo! will ask law enforcement to certify that the prior or delayed notice provisions have been satisfied if contents are sought with legal process other than a Search Warrant."
"…with legal process other than a Search Warrant."
An intelligence analyst and private terrorism investigator who asked not to be named, believes this phrase is key in Yahoo's willingness to turn over e-mail contents to U.S. intelligence agencies.
Young stands by his actions and what he has written about Yahoo's surveillance. He believes the public material may be a diversion for deeper surveillance.
"What remains unclear is what are other arrangements between Yahoo and law enforcement and intelligence agencies that are not covered by publicly available material. It is more than probable that the publicly available material diverts attention from these other shenanigans," Young observes.
He adds that other Internet providers are also involved in surveillance.
"Yahoo is not alone in these customer transgressions, the deceptive practices are widespread among telecommunications and IP providers," Young asserts.
A story on Mathaba.net states, "Cox Communications, SBC, Cingular, Nextel, GTE and other telecoms and Internet service providers," or ISPs, are involved in federally sanction data collection.
Young also believes media haven't done a good job reporting the abuses.
"There's an abysmal neglect of what the ISPs, OS (operating system) producers, network operators, data farmers and search engines are up to with customer data displayed on the computer screen."
Yahoo's legal counsel, Steptoe and Johnson, has contacted Young, acknowledging the compliance guide's existence and how it facilitates Yahoo's participation in intelligence and law enforcement investigations.
The letter posted on Cryptome.org reads.
The letter concludes with a threat of legal action.
The series of letters is posted on the www.Cryptome.org website. "
Source of This Post
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119240
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Yes No Real Surprise that Big Money, Political Games, and the Power Elite pay Yahoo to give them what they want to know. The Internet .. everything you say and do is tracked, either to Watch You, or to create a data base to Sell you Something.. oh Well...
I have Read the Yahoo Law Enforcement Manual above and well it is a No Brainer to get this information, should your attorney not fear local law enforcement.
It is EASY to prove where emails REALLY come from, this is EASY technical though many make it seem so intensely complex for their own personal game and to Hide their Lies. However you get one of the Power Elite that Wants that information and you have it in minutes.
SO Never think that your emails are Private, they just are not. And when you talk about how you feel online, good or bad don't hide your identity just be proud of your stance and talk as intelligently as you can about your point of view or reasons why.
Suing Yahoo... not sure if that will work when Big Money and the Power Elite Control the Courts as Well, adn google is no better, just be Out There with your Truth, don't hide. I mean come on wasn't Google at this Years Bilderberg meeting.. Come On ..
Just Simply Say what you Mean - Mean What you Say and For Goodness Sake put your name to it... How proud can you be of what you say or how sure of yourself are you if your Anonymous about it?
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12/21/09
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group - Great Book - You NEED to READ
"Unravel one of the best-kept secrets in political history.
Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world’s most powerful people—the Bilderberg Group.
Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek, the Bilderberg Group has been comprised of European prime ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all coming together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity.
The press has never been allowed to attend, nor have statements ever been released on the attendees' conclusions or discussions, which have ramifications on the citizens of the world. Using methods that resemble the spy tactics of the Cold War—and in several instances putting his own life on the line—the author did what no one else has managed to achieve: he learned what was being said behind the closed doors of the opulent hotels and has made it available to the public for the first time.
Daniel Estulin is an award-winning investigative journalist and has been researching the Bilderberg Group for more than 14 years. He is the host of two radio shows in Spain."
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Source of Post and Where to Buy this Book from the Author.
http://trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/Bilderbergers.html
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More on Daniel Estulin and the Bilderberg Group at
This Awesome Site
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12/19/09
Calif. city's police to wear head-mounted cameras
"Posted: Dec 19, 2009 3:24 PM MST
Updated: Dec 19, 2009 4:04 PM MST
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - San Jose police are testing head-mounted cameras to record interactions with the public.
The test using 18 patrol officers comes as citizens' groups criticize the department for too often using force during arrests.
Officers are to turn on the cameras every time they talk with anyone. They download the recordings after every shift.
The cameras are the size of a Bluetooth cell phone earpieces and attach by a headband above the ear.
San Jose is the first major American city to try the devices, made by Arizona-based Taser International. Taser is paying for the experiment, but the price could be high if San Jose equips all 1,400 officers.
Each kit costs $1,700, plus a $99 per officer monthly fee. That's $4 million department-wide each year."
Source
http://www.khq.com/global/story.asp?s=11704815
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What Do you Folks Think of This, I guess it would depend on who is monitor, if the public could, now that would be something. And Citizens may have rights again...
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Updated: Dec 19, 2009 4:04 PM MST
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - San Jose police are testing head-mounted cameras to record interactions with the public.
The test using 18 patrol officers comes as citizens' groups criticize the department for too often using force during arrests.
Officers are to turn on the cameras every time they talk with anyone. They download the recordings after every shift.
The cameras are the size of a Bluetooth cell phone earpieces and attach by a headband above the ear.
San Jose is the first major American city to try the devices, made by Arizona-based Taser International. Taser is paying for the experiment, but the price could be high if San Jose equips all 1,400 officers.
Each kit costs $1,700, plus a $99 per officer monthly fee. That's $4 million department-wide each year."
Source
http://www.khq.com/global/story.asp?s=11704815
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What Do you Folks Think of This, I guess it would depend on who is monitor, if the public could, now that would be something. And Citizens may have rights again...
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12/16/09
JP Morgan involved in Stealing Millions of Bankruptcy Assets - Rubber-Stamped by Judge Beatty..and Between Alan Nisselson and Marc Goldberg
Again the US Trustee was Advised in Wrong Doing, Corruption
and Illegal Behavior and they Did nothing...
The US Department of Justice Bankruptcy Trustee system has serious flaws... room for Error and lots of Room for Corruption with No Accountability. Where is the Attorney General, where is the Law, is there No Checks and Balances what so ever - has there EVER been?
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This Story Sent in Today to our Whistleblower Network
Exposing the Corruption in the US Bankruptcy Courts.
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a Woman - a Family Suffering, fighting injustice in the US Department of Justice Bankruptcy Courts and US Trustee System for 20 Years. Have We as Tax Paying Citizens of the US .. no Rights What So Ever?
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Here is Today's Story..
though 20 years in the making
we just got it Today...
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"Bankruptcy Fraud Involving JP MORGAN’S Theft of Millions of Bankruptcy Assets and Collusive Settlement Between Alan Nisselson (the Bankruptcy Trustee of Bernard Madoff) AND MARC GOLDBERG
TO FRAUDULENTLY STEAL ASSETS
IS RUBBER-STAMPED BY JUDGE BEATTY
OF THE US BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR
THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, NY
On Thursday October 28, 2009, The Law Offices of David H. Relkin, on behalf of Donna A. Sturman, applied to retiring Bankruptcy Judge Prudence Beatty, to have the Court “finally do justice” and order JP Morgan and the Trustee to turn over Millions of Dollars of stolen assets—which the Judge flatly denied by claiming Donna “had no standing.”
This case is virtually a tale ripped from the pages of the Trustee’s Manual of Bankruptcy Fraud and Abuse.
On Thursday, the Court having never required an accounting of his collections and distributions in the case, the Trustee finally disclosed that he had taken in over $41 Million Dollars, still leaving the mystery of where the money went, although most of it found its way into the coffers of JP Morgan.
Prior to the Bankruptcy, the Bank chased after Donna’s brothers to lend them Millions for a hostile takeover of The Cooper Companies, Inc. and, due to its theft of assets, JP Morgan is now one of Cooper’s largest shareholders.
Once the Bank became aware that, what the brothers called their silent partner, Donna Sturman, had commenced an action against them for waste, dissipation and fraudulent transfers of the Sturman Family properties, which were being used by the brothers as their private piggy bank, the Bank frantically began illegally acquiring security interests in the Family assets to secure the brothers’ personal loans with property owned by their sister, including the Southeast Corner of 86th Street, leaving the properties empty shells.
In furtherance of its unlawful conspiracy, the Bank then filed Bankruptcy Petitions against Donna’s three brothers, and installed its handpicked Trustee and law firms, who were counsel the Bank as well as all the other major creditors in the Bankruptcy—which conflict of interest, under the Bankruptcy Code, requires disgorgement of the attorneys’ enormous fees.
Thus, the Bank was able to play both sides of the table by making all the major decisions in the Bankruptcy, while its own officers negligently left a trail of brazen correspondence of the Bank’s collusive and corrupt instructions to the Trustee.
Judge Beatty repeatedly approved the Bank’s unlawful acquisition and sale of non-debtor assets, allowing her Court to satisfy fraudulent claims over a 20 year period.
Under her supervision, the Bank, the Trustee and his law firms were able to rape the assets of the Sturman Family—none of which were in bankruptcy—and to line their pockets with millions of dollars of stolen money.
Judge Beatty blatantly and improperly dismissed Ms. Sturman’s action against the Bank for “lack of prosecution,” after the action was fully briefed, while keeping in place an injunction prohibiting Donna from taking any discovery of the Banks.
The complicity in fraudulent conduct did not stop there during this 20 year old case (perhaps the longest running bankruptcy in New York).
Although the US Trustee was repeatedly advised and supplied with evidence of these crimes, it inexplicably sat on its hands, despite its legal obligation to supervise and investigate Trustee misconduct.
To force the brothers to help the Bank go along with its embezzlement, it threatened the brothers with criminal prosecution, and after the Bank got it, had the brothers indicted anyway for submitting false financials, spending thirteen months in federal prison. Unsurprisingly, the Bank officers testified with immunity.
Despite Orders obtained by Donna preventing sales of the properties, the Trustee was allowed by Judge Beatty to simply ignore them, allowing one of the most valuable assets of the Sturman Family Enterprises to be “abandoned” so the Bank could acquire the property for free without using up any of its debt—a lender fraud called “double dipping.”
The Bank and its hand-picked Trustee then took control over the other non-bankrupt properties, used them as cash cows, and after bleeding them dry, sold them for the asking to third parties (including one by the Trustee to his own employee) while the Trustee took in $1.0 Million Dollars a year for seven years on just one property.
Where the money went is still a mystery.
The United States Trustee Program is a component of the Department of Justice that, according to its website, “seeks to act as the watchdog over the bankruptcy process to protect the integrity of the Federal bankruptcy system.”
In addition the Department of Justice has the responsibility to ensure compliance with applicable laws and procedures and to identify and investigate bankruptcy fraud and abuse in coordination with United States Attorneys and the FBI.
The Attorney General is charged with the appointment of United States Trustees and Assistant United States Trustees.
On Thursday, after Judge Beatty awarded the Trustee a cumulative amount of over $8 Million Dollars in fees to him and his law firms (which Judge Beatty fittingly called “Blood Money”), Judge Beatty characterized the negligent failure of the Trustee to do anything in the Bankruptcy case for the last ten years by saying, “I understand how busy people can get.”
It is counsel’s opinion that such award of fees was a transfer of stolen money.
In attempting to fight Judge Beatty’s indifference to the criminal activities committed in her Court, Donna retained Helen Chaitman, who coined the phrase “lender liability” but who, like so many of Donna’s attorneys walked away when Donna’s money ran out.
So “successful” in their control of the Bankruptcy, the Bank and the Trustee blocked all of Donna’s income, forcing the heiress to be locked in handcuffs by Judge Beatty, evicted over seven times with her three young children, once in the middle of a winter blizzard, and then thrown into a fraudulent bankruptcy by one of her own law firms whose debt to the Bank was wiped off the books.
Once forced into Bankruptcy, Alan Nisselson, who now supervises the Madoff Bankruptcy, was appointed as Donna’s Trustee to clean up Ms. Sturman’s dangerous claims once and for all.
Without any notice to Ms. Sturman, he settled all of Donna’s claims in the brothers’ bankruptcy in a collusive and illegal agreement in which the Trustees even released each other—a violation of law and the Code of Professional Responsibility—which settlement was immediately rubber-stamped by Judge Beatty.
Mr. Relkin is now analyzing the case in order to determine what appropriate actions to take to vindicate Ms. Sturman’s rights.
For further information contact:
David H. Relkin, Esq.
Law Offices of David H. Relkin
575 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
David@RelkinLaw.com
212.244.8722
Links: www.DavidRelkinLaw.com
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Click Here For Press Release PDF Document
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More on the Corruption of US Bankruptcy Attorneys, US Bankruptcy Department of Justice Trustees and the Whole Liquidation Process....
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www.ObsidianFinanceSuck.com
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www.LiquidatingTrustee.com
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www.Summit1031BkJustice.com
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and Illegal Behavior and they Did nothing...
The US Department of Justice Bankruptcy Trustee system has serious flaws... room for Error and lots of Room for Corruption with No Accountability. Where is the Attorney General, where is the Law, is there No Checks and Balances what so ever - has there EVER been?
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This Story Sent in Today to our Whistleblower Network
Exposing the Corruption in the US Bankruptcy Courts.
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a Woman - a Family Suffering, fighting injustice in the US Department of Justice Bankruptcy Courts and US Trustee System for 20 Years. Have We as Tax Paying Citizens of the US .. no Rights What So Ever?
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Here is Today's Story..
though 20 years in the making
we just got it Today...
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"Bankruptcy Fraud Involving JP MORGAN’S Theft of Millions of Bankruptcy Assets and Collusive Settlement Between Alan Nisselson (the Bankruptcy Trustee of Bernard Madoff) AND MARC GOLDBERG
TO FRAUDULENTLY STEAL ASSETS
IS RUBBER-STAMPED BY JUDGE BEATTY
OF THE US BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR
THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, NY
On Thursday October 28, 2009, The Law Offices of David H. Relkin, on behalf of Donna A. Sturman, applied to retiring Bankruptcy Judge Prudence Beatty, to have the Court “finally do justice” and order JP Morgan and the Trustee to turn over Millions of Dollars of stolen assets—which the Judge flatly denied by claiming Donna “had no standing.”
This case is virtually a tale ripped from the pages of the Trustee’s Manual of Bankruptcy Fraud and Abuse.
On Thursday, the Court having never required an accounting of his collections and distributions in the case, the Trustee finally disclosed that he had taken in over $41 Million Dollars, still leaving the mystery of where the money went, although most of it found its way into the coffers of JP Morgan.
Prior to the Bankruptcy, the Bank chased after Donna’s brothers to lend them Millions for a hostile takeover of The Cooper Companies, Inc. and, due to its theft of assets, JP Morgan is now one of Cooper’s largest shareholders.
Once the Bank became aware that, what the brothers called their silent partner, Donna Sturman, had commenced an action against them for waste, dissipation and fraudulent transfers of the Sturman Family properties, which were being used by the brothers as their private piggy bank, the Bank frantically began illegally acquiring security interests in the Family assets to secure the brothers’ personal loans with property owned by their sister, including the Southeast Corner of 86th Street, leaving the properties empty shells.
In furtherance of its unlawful conspiracy, the Bank then filed Bankruptcy Petitions against Donna’s three brothers, and installed its handpicked Trustee and law firms, who were counsel the Bank as well as all the other major creditors in the Bankruptcy—which conflict of interest, under the Bankruptcy Code, requires disgorgement of the attorneys’ enormous fees.
Thus, the Bank was able to play both sides of the table by making all the major decisions in the Bankruptcy, while its own officers negligently left a trail of brazen correspondence of the Bank’s collusive and corrupt instructions to the Trustee.
Judge Beatty repeatedly approved the Bank’s unlawful acquisition and sale of non-debtor assets, allowing her Court to satisfy fraudulent claims over a 20 year period.
Under her supervision, the Bank, the Trustee and his law firms were able to rape the assets of the Sturman Family—none of which were in bankruptcy—and to line their pockets with millions of dollars of stolen money.
Judge Beatty blatantly and improperly dismissed Ms. Sturman’s action against the Bank for “lack of prosecution,” after the action was fully briefed, while keeping in place an injunction prohibiting Donna from taking any discovery of the Banks.
The complicity in fraudulent conduct did not stop there during this 20 year old case (perhaps the longest running bankruptcy in New York).
Although the US Trustee was repeatedly advised and supplied with evidence of these crimes, it inexplicably sat on its hands, despite its legal obligation to supervise and investigate Trustee misconduct.
To force the brothers to help the Bank go along with its embezzlement, it threatened the brothers with criminal prosecution, and after the Bank got it, had the brothers indicted anyway for submitting false financials, spending thirteen months in federal prison. Unsurprisingly, the Bank officers testified with immunity.
Despite Orders obtained by Donna preventing sales of the properties, the Trustee was allowed by Judge Beatty to simply ignore them, allowing one of the most valuable assets of the Sturman Family Enterprises to be “abandoned” so the Bank could acquire the property for free without using up any of its debt—a lender fraud called “double dipping.”
The Bank and its hand-picked Trustee then took control over the other non-bankrupt properties, used them as cash cows, and after bleeding them dry, sold them for the asking to third parties (including one by the Trustee to his own employee) while the Trustee took in $1.0 Million Dollars a year for seven years on just one property.
Where the money went is still a mystery.
The United States Trustee Program is a component of the Department of Justice that, according to its website, “seeks to act as the watchdog over the bankruptcy process to protect the integrity of the Federal bankruptcy system.”
In addition the Department of Justice has the responsibility to ensure compliance with applicable laws and procedures and to identify and investigate bankruptcy fraud and abuse in coordination with United States Attorneys and the FBI.
The Attorney General is charged with the appointment of United States Trustees and Assistant United States Trustees.
On Thursday, after Judge Beatty awarded the Trustee a cumulative amount of over $8 Million Dollars in fees to him and his law firms (which Judge Beatty fittingly called “Blood Money”), Judge Beatty characterized the negligent failure of the Trustee to do anything in the Bankruptcy case for the last ten years by saying, “I understand how busy people can get.”
It is counsel’s opinion that such award of fees was a transfer of stolen money.
In attempting to fight Judge Beatty’s indifference to the criminal activities committed in her Court, Donna retained Helen Chaitman, who coined the phrase “lender liability” but who, like so many of Donna’s attorneys walked away when Donna’s money ran out.
So “successful” in their control of the Bankruptcy, the Bank and the Trustee blocked all of Donna’s income, forcing the heiress to be locked in handcuffs by Judge Beatty, evicted over seven times with her three young children, once in the middle of a winter blizzard, and then thrown into a fraudulent bankruptcy by one of her own law firms whose debt to the Bank was wiped off the books.
Once forced into Bankruptcy, Alan Nisselson, who now supervises the Madoff Bankruptcy, was appointed as Donna’s Trustee to clean up Ms. Sturman’s dangerous claims once and for all.
Without any notice to Ms. Sturman, he settled all of Donna’s claims in the brothers’ bankruptcy in a collusive and illegal agreement in which the Trustees even released each other—a violation of law and the Code of Professional Responsibility—which settlement was immediately rubber-stamped by Judge Beatty.
Mr. Relkin is now analyzing the case in order to determine what appropriate actions to take to vindicate Ms. Sturman’s rights.
For further information contact:
David H. Relkin, Esq.
Law Offices of David H. Relkin
575 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
David@RelkinLaw.com
212.244.8722
Links: www.DavidRelkinLaw.com
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Big Banks Promise More Lending - Financial Reform - Who Cares Your Still Losing your Real Estate and Short Sales are Legal, Taxes are Up.
Folks all the Lobby the National Association of Realtors, All the Political Foul Play - the bailouts - the paying of the bailout money back, the printing of Money and all these games are nothing to do with the Real Tax Paying Citizens. You Pay for their games and get nothing in return.
Pushing for Lenders to Lend is NOT the answer in anyway...
Financial Reform, Banking Reform, Real Estate Reform is right here right now
as it kicks your butts. The only thing that should be happening is a 30 to 60 percent reduction in your home loans. They get the Bailout and you owe more then your home is worth.
An Investor can buy your home as a Short Sale for 30% to 60% Less then what you owe on your home loan. This is immoral, unEthical and a Serious Blatant attack on the Real Estate Consumers.
Now while the 'Realtors' - the Subprime Lenders - the Banks were making Billions upon Billions by letting the market falsely rise - Now you Get to lose your home because the value they legally allowed is not really there.
Read books like Confessions of a Sub-Prime Lender, and Confessions of a Mortgage Broker and you see that they let values come in higher then the property and the Money was so good that they deliberately let it keep happening, the bubble bursting was never an IF and was always a WHEN... so they planned for it...
Yet you think they went under, and then they got a bailout, but those at the top are Multi-Billionaires as is NAR, though the NAR President Said Buy - BUY - Buy at a time when everything was falling apart and the Real Estate Consumer did. Now the Chief Economist at the National Association of Realtors is still lying to consumers and there is absolutely no accountability.
Add this to the MLS Data that is NEVER policed for quality control, the SOLD data may not even be real and there is no watchful eye over any of this... the markets are manipulated to make the Realtors and the Lenders Money, and when it all topples the Lenders are Protected and NAR gets to Lobbying to Fix the problem as the Hero and not as the Reason it Happened in the First Place.
They are Getting Billions in Christmas Bonuses, many of you are losing your home and YOUR State - Local governments are Raising your Property Taxes. the Real Estate Consumer has no Chance, no Real Protection and no One really able to look out for them. The money is just to good for the bad guys.
So as you watch the yammering of Banks Lending More and Financial Reform, know that the base of all this collapse is the Real Estate Market, the Lenders Loaned without Limits - Ethics - or an accountability and the system REWARDED them for it.
The only thing NAR should be Lobbying for Or any Politician Should be pushing for is for REAL Homeowner Relief, Give you a Cut in your Loan Debt... but that is Illegal, meanwhile a new buyer can come in and buy for half the price of your CURRENT LOAN.... and this is Legal.. What ?? Banks Can't hold the property they have to Sell? What - and well they end up Selling for very cheap as homes pile up on Their Books.
One Video Today on the Lenders, Big Money, Big Insurance Companies..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32450072/vp/34430080#34430080
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More on My Views of the Real Estate Industry
www.RealEstateIndustryWhistleblower.com
www.RealtorSucks.com
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Pushing for Lenders to Lend is NOT the answer in anyway...
Financial Reform, Banking Reform, Real Estate Reform is right here right now
as it kicks your butts. The only thing that should be happening is a 30 to 60 percent reduction in your home loans. They get the Bailout and you owe more then your home is worth.
An Investor can buy your home as a Short Sale for 30% to 60% Less then what you owe on your home loan. This is immoral, unEthical and a Serious Blatant attack on the Real Estate Consumers.
Now while the 'Realtors' - the Subprime Lenders - the Banks were making Billions upon Billions by letting the market falsely rise - Now you Get to lose your home because the value they legally allowed is not really there.
Read books like Confessions of a Sub-Prime Lender, and Confessions of a Mortgage Broker and you see that they let values come in higher then the property and the Money was so good that they deliberately let it keep happening, the bubble bursting was never an IF and was always a WHEN... so they planned for it...
Yet you think they went under, and then they got a bailout, but those at the top are Multi-Billionaires as is NAR, though the NAR President Said Buy - BUY - Buy at a time when everything was falling apart and the Real Estate Consumer did. Now the Chief Economist at the National Association of Realtors is still lying to consumers and there is absolutely no accountability.
Add this to the MLS Data that is NEVER policed for quality control, the SOLD data may not even be real and there is no watchful eye over any of this... the markets are manipulated to make the Realtors and the Lenders Money, and when it all topples the Lenders are Protected and NAR gets to Lobbying to Fix the problem as the Hero and not as the Reason it Happened in the First Place.
They are Getting Billions in Christmas Bonuses, many of you are losing your home and YOUR State - Local governments are Raising your Property Taxes. the Real Estate Consumer has no Chance, no Real Protection and no One really able to look out for them. The money is just to good for the bad guys.
So as you watch the yammering of Banks Lending More and Financial Reform, know that the base of all this collapse is the Real Estate Market, the Lenders Loaned without Limits - Ethics - or an accountability and the system REWARDED them for it.
The only thing NAR should be Lobbying for Or any Politician Should be pushing for is for REAL Homeowner Relief, Give you a Cut in your Loan Debt... but that is Illegal, meanwhile a new buyer can come in and buy for half the price of your CURRENT LOAN.... and this is Legal.. What ?? Banks Can't hold the property they have to Sell? What - and well they end up Selling for very cheap as homes pile up on Their Books.
One Video Today on the Lenders, Big Money, Big Insurance Companies..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32450072/vp/34430080#34430080
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More on My Views of the Real Estate Industry
www.RealEstateIndustryWhistleblower.com
www.RealtorSucks.com
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12/14/09
WR Grace - Lincoln County Victims will NEVER get Justice and the State of Montana is In On It - so is the EPA always has Been.
WR Grace Will Forever Live in Our Hearts and Minds.
As this winter my Uncle Died after suffering for decades, and never did get a portable oxygen tank or other needed medical attention, I find myself pondering the whole sorted affair of WR Grace.
Those who do suffer this painful death or watch it in loved ones will always hold a grudge of sorts, not only to WR Grace and their lies - greed and corruption but to the EPA guys who knew and to the State of Montana who not only knew but even allowed the "Alleged" Victims to be kept from any justice even as recent as last summer.
The State of Montana cares so little about Victims rights in general that you are not Legally allowed to be called a "Victim" unless the Courts deem there is a crime. So your Robbed, Car Stolen, .... your beat up.. whatever crime hapens to you.. in Montana you are NOT a victim unless the Courts Prove there was a Crime and well they rarely do.
So decades of suffering... 2 summers ago I met a man around 30 in Libby, yes that young and he had painful bleeding of the bones he called it, constant chronic pain which he claimed was asbestos related. When the stories, the corruption ,the greed piles up it is a Mountain that will never be crossed. WR Grace wins and the State of Montana makes sure they do. People continue to suffer and die and still they are not allowed to legally be called "Victims".
The State of Montana knew back then what was going on and they allowed it, it was all about money and hey we are the good guys, we are creating jobs. Sure people will get sick and die painful deaths, oh well not our problem. The Money those State Folks and Politicians got 30 years ago - well their life was better for it.
As the sickness, the damage surfaced and people cried out, they were kept down as much as possible. When more and more people started Speaking Out the Lawyers got involved and they all know each other of course.. side deals.. and conflicts of interest galor. And there was NEVER a way for these folks to get any kind of justice yet many of them continue to fight even today.
However I am writing about a Trillion Dollar Stolen Patent Case and the things crossing my Cyber Desk are bringing the WR Grace stuff back up for me. As I write about the Serious Corruption in the bankruptcy courts, and this Stolen Patent Case, I See information here and there on WR Grace and I have people ask me as I am from Lincoln County Montana.
In Watching the last Trial play out, I gave up, I did not even talk about it as it was going on. For me I saw no way to get justice, every time an "Alleged" victim spoke up they were shut down, made to look like the criminal and treated cruelly by the Montana Court System.
It was too sad to watch little own comment on.
You pay for the Montana Courts to treat you bad. The Lawyers decide your Fate, big money and political motive ALWAYS wins over the Truth, your Quality of Life and the Actual Laws.
Information came up as to what the State of Montana Really knew and this was shut down. No one can stop Big Money, it does not matter how many Montanans suffer YOU are dispensable Period.
WR Grace had many - MANY years to hide assets, create different business and then go bankrupt... whatever it took to make sure that folks could not buy a portable oxygen tank.
Whatever it took to stick the Libby Residents with the Real Estate Economy Stigma they will forever have and not Spend WR Grace Billions compensating the Libby Residents.
After the First of the Year you Can see more on WR Grace - the Bankruptcy and finance stuff at www.LiquidatingTrustee.com and a bit may be posted on the Trillion Dollar Stolen Technology Heist at www.DeniedPatent.com .
What your Montana Judicial System allowed in the WR Grace Trial and all the stalling that led up to over Decades, and knowing that the EPA guy knew, the State knew, local politics at the time knew and still no justice was really ever served to the victims of WR Grace. And well the State of Montana does not Care.
There was so much stalling allowed that the courts decided that some of the laws and citizens rights did not even apply as to those laws were enacted later, What?
Someone told me about a year ago that it Cost $50,000 to buy a Montana Supreme Court Decision, if this is or ever was true well it beats a 1.4 Million dollar Punitive Judgement or a Hundred Million Dollar HELP LIBBY judgement, Right?
Sure money comes to Libby now and then, Millions but to me it seems like a Political play to get so and so, whoever is running at the time elected and the Real People that are suffering see no Quality of Life Changes, no Real Estate Relieve, no Medical Help that really helps and are basically told to sit down and shut up.
There will never be Justice I Suppose. I mean you cannot bring back our loved ones that died a painful long death. Really WR Grace and the Montana Judicial System is just waiting for the last of them to die and get off their back and off their dime.
Peace and Love To You Uncle Tom..
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As this winter my Uncle Died after suffering for decades, and never did get a portable oxygen tank or other needed medical attention, I find myself pondering the whole sorted affair of WR Grace.
Those who do suffer this painful death or watch it in loved ones will always hold a grudge of sorts, not only to WR Grace and their lies - greed and corruption but to the EPA guys who knew and to the State of Montana who not only knew but even allowed the "Alleged" Victims to be kept from any justice even as recent as last summer.
The State of Montana cares so little about Victims rights in general that you are not Legally allowed to be called a "Victim" unless the Courts deem there is a crime. So your Robbed, Car Stolen, .... your beat up.. whatever crime hapens to you.. in Montana you are NOT a victim unless the Courts Prove there was a Crime and well they rarely do.
So decades of suffering... 2 summers ago I met a man around 30 in Libby, yes that young and he had painful bleeding of the bones he called it, constant chronic pain which he claimed was asbestos related. When the stories, the corruption ,the greed piles up it is a Mountain that will never be crossed. WR Grace wins and the State of Montana makes sure they do. People continue to suffer and die and still they are not allowed to legally be called "Victims".
The State of Montana knew back then what was going on and they allowed it, it was all about money and hey we are the good guys, we are creating jobs. Sure people will get sick and die painful deaths, oh well not our problem. The Money those State Folks and Politicians got 30 years ago - well their life was better for it.
As the sickness, the damage surfaced and people cried out, they were kept down as much as possible. When more and more people started Speaking Out the Lawyers got involved and they all know each other of course.. side deals.. and conflicts of interest galor. And there was NEVER a way for these folks to get any kind of justice yet many of them continue to fight even today.
The Stories that come to me are quite shocking, and well at some point one simply turns away as their suffering is not something I can ever really do anything about. Your Tax Dollars, Your Courts, your Judges well..... they stood behind WR Grace and therefore anyone who even remotely cares about your plight is quite literally HELPLESS.
I was not going to write on WR Grace anymore as family members die, as victims still get no justice and the Montana Court System as usual caters to and protects Big Money and not the Tax Paying Citizens who actually live here, vote them in and pay their wage.
However I am writing about a Trillion Dollar Stolen Patent Case and the things crossing my Cyber Desk are bringing the WR Grace stuff back up for me. As I write about the Serious Corruption in the bankruptcy courts, and this Stolen Patent Case, I See information here and there on WR Grace and I have people ask me as I am from Lincoln County Montana.
In Watching the last Trial play out, I gave up, I did not even talk about it as it was going on. For me I saw no way to get justice, every time an "Alleged" victim spoke up they were shut down, made to look like the criminal and treated cruelly by the Montana Court System.
It was too sad to watch little own comment on.
You pay for the Montana Courts to treat you bad. The Lawyers decide your Fate, big money and political motive ALWAYS wins over the Truth, your Quality of Life and the Actual Laws.
Information came up as to what the State of Montana Really knew and this was shut down. No one can stop Big Money, it does not matter how many Montanans suffer YOU are dispensable Period.
WR Grace had many - MANY years to hide assets, create different business and then go bankrupt... whatever it took to make sure that folks could not buy a portable oxygen tank.
Whatever it took to stick the Libby Residents with the Real Estate Economy Stigma they will forever have and not Spend WR Grace Billions compensating the Libby Residents.
After the First of the Year you Can see more on WR Grace - the Bankruptcy and finance stuff at www.LiquidatingTrustee.com and a bit may be posted on the Trillion Dollar Stolen Technology Heist at www.DeniedPatent.com .
What your Montana Judicial System allowed in the WR Grace Trial and all the stalling that led up to over Decades, and knowing that the EPA guy knew, the State knew, local politics at the time knew and still no justice was really ever served to the victims of WR Grace. And well the State of Montana does not Care.
There was so much stalling allowed that the courts decided that some of the laws and citizens rights did not even apply as to those laws were enacted later, What?
Someone told me about a year ago that it Cost $50,000 to buy a Montana Supreme Court Decision, if this is or ever was true well it beats a 1.4 Million dollar Punitive Judgement or a Hundred Million Dollar HELP LIBBY judgement, Right?
Sure money comes to Libby now and then, Millions but to me it seems like a Political play to get so and so, whoever is running at the time elected and the Real People that are suffering see no Quality of Life Changes, no Real Estate Relieve, no Medical Help that really helps and are basically told to sit down and shut up.
There will never be Justice I Suppose. I mean you cannot bring back our loved ones that died a painful long death. Really WR Grace and the Montana Judicial System is just waiting for the last of them to die and get off their back and off their dime.
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This is a Really Good One
WR GRACEPeace and Love To You Uncle Tom..
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12/11/09
Melinda Gopher is seeking the State of Montana's sole Congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
"Melinda Gopher, 44, an Ojibwe / Blackfeet from Missoula, Montana is seeking the State of Montana's sole Congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. While many glass ceilings have been shattered; a Native American woman has yet to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Gopher's running as a progressive Democrat and focusing her campaign on jobs. The current recession has hit Montana's communities hard, even though the state unemployment rate is not as critical as the overall national rate of 10%; it is deceiving. Montana does not count long term unemployed workers who have given up.
Melinda is a civil rights activist, and blogger. She is a Paralegal but decided to run for the U.S. House believing she can make a difference in the nation's capitol. Melinda Gopher believes the nation does not have to choose between cap and trade and carbon taxation as revenue raising; rather, clean energy must be pursued to create jobs no matter what.
Melinda supports the Employee Free Choice Act as a means for keeping American labor strong. She believes corporations have gone unchecked, and have had a negative impact in DC. This has led to the loss of jobs and outsourcing of jobs to artificially inflate corporate profit margins. Gopher believes exploiting labor forces in foreign countries is detrimental to the world economy in the long term. Loss of workers' rights has created unfair trade policies between the U.S., China, India to point to a few examples. Corporate exploitation and economic coercion do not create win/win partnerships: something Gopher wants to create.
Gopher supports overhauling the nation's ailing housing sector. She believes the low-income are mired in HUD programs of the past. Not enough of the nation's low and middle income people are building personal wealth equity--resulting in lost economic power and a declining tax base. She believes there must be revolutionary changes in the national housing policy that will reverse the housing crisis. She would enact laws ending financial apartheid in America, and ban policies mired in the FHA redlining legacy. She vows to "pick up where Bobby Kennedy left off" in ending American poverty.
Melinda is the spouse of a combat disabled veteran and cares about veteran issues. She believes the VA ratings system is broken, she currently supports the efforts of national veterans groups to work with Montana Senator Jon Tester to fix the system so that it works for veterans.
Melinda Gopher is a long time civil rights, tribal sovereignty, and environmental activist. She believes HUD has been a weak institutional home for civil rights and supports the creation of a cabinet level agency for civil rights. She believes state-by-state laws on gay marriage are the wrong approach and unjust. She believes the federal government must beef up the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Amendments to include sweeping protections for gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals.
Melinda Gopher points out, "the black codes are a disgraceful part of America's past. The state-by-state approach are the black codes for the LGBT community, why are we tolerating this inequality?" She believes to ensure an end to discrimination against gays and to provide for their full civil rights--will require federal intervention as was done in the 1960s civil rights movement.
Melinda Gopher has been a civil rights practitioner since her early 20s. She was the only Native American panelist in the 1994 National Fair Housing Summit and worked to enact fair housing protections in Montana. Melinda Gopher has worked in the public and private sector on fair housing.
She believes the nation needs another Fair Housing Summit to address the subprime crisis. She points out, "not enough is being done to ensure Americans keep their homes, and participate in the American dream of homeownership."
Melinda Gopher knows her candidacy is improbable; she believes her voice is needed to address the lack of effective Native American leadership in the state Democratic party. She believes the Native Americans advancing in the political party pipeline in the state are tokens and are placed in positions where they are politically neutered.
She is a vocal critic of Senator Max Baucus's mishandling of state tribal issues, his failure to address long term and chronic unemployment in the state's seven Indian reservations and urban areas. She has criticized the Senator over taking single payer off the table in health care reform. Melinda Gopher is likely to challenge Baucus in 2014 when he comes up for re-election."
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www.MelindaForMontana.com
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Gopher's running as a progressive Democrat and focusing her campaign on jobs. The current recession has hit Montana's communities hard, even though the state unemployment rate is not as critical as the overall national rate of 10%; it is deceiving. Montana does not count long term unemployed workers who have given up.
Melinda is a civil rights activist, and blogger. She is a Paralegal but decided to run for the U.S. House believing she can make a difference in the nation's capitol. Melinda Gopher believes the nation does not have to choose between cap and trade and carbon taxation as revenue raising; rather, clean energy must be pursued to create jobs no matter what.
Melinda supports the Employee Free Choice Act as a means for keeping American labor strong. She believes corporations have gone unchecked, and have had a negative impact in DC. This has led to the loss of jobs and outsourcing of jobs to artificially inflate corporate profit margins. Gopher believes exploiting labor forces in foreign countries is detrimental to the world economy in the long term. Loss of workers' rights has created unfair trade policies between the U.S., China, India to point to a few examples. Corporate exploitation and economic coercion do not create win/win partnerships: something Gopher wants to create.
Gopher supports overhauling the nation's ailing housing sector. She believes the low-income are mired in HUD programs of the past. Not enough of the nation's low and middle income people are building personal wealth equity--resulting in lost economic power and a declining tax base. She believes there must be revolutionary changes in the national housing policy that will reverse the housing crisis. She would enact laws ending financial apartheid in America, and ban policies mired in the FHA redlining legacy. She vows to "pick up where Bobby Kennedy left off" in ending American poverty.
Melinda is the spouse of a combat disabled veteran and cares about veteran issues. She believes the VA ratings system is broken, she currently supports the efforts of national veterans groups to work with Montana Senator Jon Tester to fix the system so that it works for veterans.
Melinda Gopher is a long time civil rights, tribal sovereignty, and environmental activist. She believes HUD has been a weak institutional home for civil rights and supports the creation of a cabinet level agency for civil rights. She believes state-by-state laws on gay marriage are the wrong approach and unjust. She believes the federal government must beef up the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Amendments to include sweeping protections for gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals.
Melinda Gopher points out, "the black codes are a disgraceful part of America's past. The state-by-state approach are the black codes for the LGBT community, why are we tolerating this inequality?" She believes to ensure an end to discrimination against gays and to provide for their full civil rights--will require federal intervention as was done in the 1960s civil rights movement.
Melinda Gopher has been a civil rights practitioner since her early 20s. She was the only Native American panelist in the 1994 National Fair Housing Summit and worked to enact fair housing protections in Montana. Melinda Gopher has worked in the public and private sector on fair housing.
She believes the nation needs another Fair Housing Summit to address the subprime crisis. She points out, "not enough is being done to ensure Americans keep their homes, and participate in the American dream of homeownership."
Melinda Gopher knows her candidacy is improbable; she believes her voice is needed to address the lack of effective Native American leadership in the state Democratic party. She believes the Native Americans advancing in the political party pipeline in the state are tokens and are placed in positions where they are politically neutered.
She is a vocal critic of Senator Max Baucus's mishandling of state tribal issues, his failure to address long term and chronic unemployment in the state's seven Indian reservations and urban areas. She has criticized the Senator over taking single payer off the table in health care reform. Melinda Gopher is likely to challenge Baucus in 2014 when he comes up for re-election."
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www.MelindaForMontana.com
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12/10/09
McKay Family vs The Wilderness Club. The Montana Courts Dish Out another attack on Civil Rights, Privacy Violations and Stand with Big Money and Clout
a Bit the Latest Court Ruling Against the McKay Family and for the Multi-Million Dollar Big Bully Resort the Ruined their Life, Ruined their Equity and more...
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Remember in 2006 when we talked about the Horrible Harassment's of the Wilderness Club Resort against one Family in Eureka Montana who had lived here long - long before the Wilderness Club decided to make Eureka Montana their home. This family created a life, they had a peaceful home, a couple horse, was quietly raising their kids and had worked for decades to create a life.
Along comes the Wilderness Club Resort, the Norcal Group, Nick Faldo, and a Local Realtor who owned a large chunk of land and Lodge with investors out of Japan. Money started flowing, trees started falling, and HUGE amounts of water started flowing. With these Rich Golf Greens, and Amazing amount of Groundwater usage came the need for Fertilizer, for Lawn Mowers, for lots of Commercial Equipment to keep this look up in order to attract the Elite, the Big Names in Golf, the Oil Money, the Actors and all who were a being seduced to by land for $750,000 an acre in the Wilderness Club Resort.
So there was a need for a Large Commercial Building and it needed to be far away so that the Residence of the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana would not have to see the Building, Smell the HUGE amount of Fertilizer or be exposed to the Intense Noise and Lights of it all. So the Wilderness Club Resort chose to put this HUGE building to the back of the resort on a parcel of land that was just outside of the Wilderness Club Resort Development. This land bordered the resort but was in the Koocanusa Estates Subdivision.
This land was in a subdivision with restrictive covenant, covenants in which the landowners had obeyed even to the loss of their own business and to their hardship, still they obeyed the covenants for a VERY long time. Then this above the Law - Big Bully Resort pushes their way in, builds what they want, violates the covenants and no one can do anything. Koocanusa Estates landowners had meetings about it, they complained about it and no one cared.
This obnoxious, toxic building that violated the covenants was placed right next to one family the McKay family that had lived in the subdivision and had made a life there, it ruined their way of life forever and began an all out war that took more then money.
The McKay Family Spoke up right away, reached out for help right away and well they got very little support and certainly no justice. In the beginning the Wilderness Club was told to STOP construction, a judge ordered them to STOP all construction, and well they violated this and once again were above the law. They kept building almost as if they knew nothing would ever be done, they would never be held accountable, and they would never have to remove the building.
In the Beginning, Koocanusa Estate owners asked many questions of water, well issues and were constantly reassured by the Wilderness Club owners, and people who spoke for them. In the summer of 2006 people were already experience rocks coming up in the wells and other water issues. They were promised that if their wells went dry that the Wilderness Club Resort would drill them a new one. One Contractor told me that the state data for the Wilderness Club Subdivision came from a different aquifer then the one the resort is using.
There is definitely alot of water used to keep that property green year round for a very few people. And this DOES affect the neighborhood, many have lost water pressure and this is a real threat to water issues in that area. Not to mention the HUGE amount of fertilizer going into the Lake Koocanusa ground shed.
The Residence complained about the noise, the Covenant violations and none were heard.
Now Magnify the intense Light 24 hours Issue, the Fertilizer Toxins - Fumes and Poisons - the Noise - the Dust - and the Covenant Violations and bring it right up to your bedroom window, bring it right on in to your horses barn, see those HUGE lights in your horses eyes all night, watch your dogs suffer from being shot, your home broke into and the fight of your life all because you wanted Big Money to have to follow the same Laws, the Same Covenants, the Same Civil Rights that you adhere to.
You speak up for your rights as your life has become a toxic living hell, a constant fight and your life is changed forever, you have not the money to move and you have to suffer through all this.
Once you Speak up the War is on bigger then you could have imagined as the workers, the guards, the Resort - all launch a constant harassment attack on you, your family, your dogs, your horses and all because you asked for dignity and respect and you asked the Big Money obey the Same Laws and Decent Respect that you yourself obey.
Meanwhile your land is stripped of trees and an Easement out of no where is forced on you, and the Realtor involved with your Original Sale, is the one giving the orders to not only cut down your trees but to take them, and the revenue along with it. Your life lay in ruins, you stand up and fight and you get the Montana Court System Smack down.
You Finally get a jury trial and over a million dollars awarded in punitive, then a local judge overturns the Million dollars, and leaves intact the value of your house at the time of $350,000, the Wilderness Club attorney VERY - VERY connected to the Realtor who is really behind all this damage done to you, well they vow to get this overturned and well, a year later they do in the Montana Supreme Court. Your rights violated and no one cares.
Most Montanans have given up on getting justice, giving up on the Truth meaning anything and the violation of property rights, well I get emails on that issue all the time. You simply have no rights. You have to do what the Money and Politics of your area says you will do. There is nothing you can do about it in the Reality of Real Estate.
The McKay family complained and fought for their right as soon as possible, yet media outlets and court writings seem to say they let this go on and said nothing, therefore they have no rights.. and this is Simply Not True.
Remember when this Million Dollar judgement by Jury trial was overturned? I mean as I said then why waste the tax payers money on a Jury Trial if a Judge can overturn it. Why not let the Judge make the Decision in the First Place?
Laws Simply Cannot Be Enforced. One tends to give up completely on even trying, however, that should not stop the compassion for standing up for the McKay Family who have taken this disgraceful abuse by the Hands of Nick Faldo, the Wilderness Club LLC and all involved with letting this happen or standing by and doing nothing.
Those Who Know me know that Blogging about the McKays Harassment, Bullying, Civil Rights Violations, Real Estate Rights Taken and quality of life was my first real blog topic when it comes to Eureka Montana.
You see at that time in 2006 I had just really began Internet Marketing. And all the local hype was about the Wilderness Club and how great they were. Being a Real Estate Broker Owner I Began to Market local golf property on my sites, www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com was one of those sites. I had Positive information on the site about the Wilderness Club, talking about the resort, about press releases and well it was ALL positive.
However, because I came up higher in the Search Engines then they did, and without embracing that by emailing me and saying great job here is more information on us or anything at all from them to contact me in a friendly manner, they simply sent me a Cease and Desist letter stop talking about them.
My words were positive even though at the time I was hearing alot of negative stories, and so their attack on me for my Positive Site, well with that I decided to go ahead and write about the issues that people were telling me about. And a week or so later I got calls and emails from the residence in the Koocanusa Estates Community telling me of their concerns with the Wilderness Club.
I went and visited the site, took photos, and talked with many residence, this Story is very real, it has been going on for years and another case of Montana Locals having no rights over the Bullying of Realtors - their Clout or the Big Money of Resorts that move into Montana Communities and violate property rights.
The Story changes over time as these things go, however at the time many neighbors emailed me and many felt violated. The dust, the noise the harassment was unbearable for many in the Koocanusa Estates Subdivision. The building of the Wilderness Club Resort disturbed the quality of life of many, especially the McKay family who who were constantly harassed deliberate harassing lights pointed at their home 24 hours a day, 24 hour noise from HUGE generators, truck noise right next to their home oftentimes exaggerated as the war between the Wilderness Club and those Demanding their Right, their Quality of Life and the Civil rights... were harassed to unspeakable levels.
The Wilderness Club caved in the McKays Property by coming right up to the boundary and beyond the flagging, this caved in roads they used on their property and it caved in their horse area and the way they drove to take them hay. This was VERY bad, I have some photos I may share later.
In the Montana Court System at every level, the Wilderness Club continues to win as did WR Grace, however that does not change the the Truth, that Does not change the facts of what has happened. And I want you Know the Truth, just because theMcKays lost in the Court System does not mean that they are not telling the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but, because they are. The Truth is the Truth regardless of the Million Dollar Court system smack down. The people affected by this are real, the neighborhood suffering is real. And the Wilderness Club is above the law.
Tungsten Holdings violates Property Rights of Land Owners all the time, they use the Montana Court system to do it, they get your land cheap and force easements through other peoples properties. I get stories often of how Tungsten Holdings harasses and takes advantages of people, they could not do this if there was Consumer Protection in Real Estate or if the Montana Court System better protected the Rights of Land owner.
Since the Wilderness Club harassing the McKay Family, Stealing Trees, Violating their Property Rights.. well I have seen the inside of other lawsuits within the real estate courts and so with this there really was no doubt that the McKays would lose, the attorneys all know each other and the court system is all inner connected, the Realtors Clout and the Relationship between the attorneys and the Realtors is VERY anti-consumer and bad for real estate, add that to local political clout and fiduciary interest in the property the Wilderness Club is on and long term "in money" and you have the perfect storm to keep smacking down folks like the McKay Family. Nothing you can do, however, you do deserve to know the real story of all this.
The law and the truth is not a factor in these cases, it is Opinion and who you know. And when you have a Realtor that is connected to everyone in the County, as well as a Top Name in Golf, and lots of money - well the Truth - Who Cares about That. The Realtor involved in this did request the removal of the trees, did lie to the landowners, and did tell them there was nothing they could do about it.
You see the Realtor is a Name, he has money, clout, land and the works so who would believe the McKays. They just don't talk the part, they don't dress the part and well for some that means they don't have any rights they don't matter and will not be protected. I got their story heard years ago and will continue to tell you new developments as you have a right to know what is really going on.
The Wilderness Club, including Nick Faldo claimed that they did not know about the issues, the slash pile, the trees being cut.. at the time all of this was happening and well soon after this all came up, their was a photo of them in their own media that showed Nick and Barry standing near the Slash Pile in front of the McKays House.
After the WR Grace Trial, What I have Witnessed with Real Estate Rights in Montana Real Estate Lawsuits, and all I have seen over the last 3 years it is No Real Surprise that the Montana Supreme Court overturned the last of the McKay Settlement. You have no Real Estate Right, Property Rights in Montana. I mean look at the times now with 40 to 60 percent loss in home values, short sales and foreclosures everywhere and property assessment and thereby property taxes going up. The State of Montana has no interest in your Property Rights, read the lawsuits, look at the violations your being Served up.
And most of the Real Estate Cases that are this bad, well you never see them because the E and O insurance of the "Realtors" and the Corruption - Payoffs - Affiliations among real estate attorneys forces the Real Estate Victims to settle after years of fighting and then makes them sign paperwork that they will not talk about all this, so the Real Estate Consumer, the Taxpayers out there, well you don't know what is really going on because the story never gets told.
So the Moxy of the McKay family is Exposing the Corruption and Injustice in the Montana Court System that is Stripping You all of your Property Rights, your Civil Rights is something to be commended. I am proud of the McKay family for Standing against this tyranny and being bold enough to go to court after court after they keep getting lied to, lied about, shut down, and put in their place and on top of all that they Lose !!! again and again.
In cases such as these, the justice system basically asks of you just sit down and shut up, and when you do then other victims to be and victims past, well they are silenced right along with you. Tell the Truth folks, Don't Let the Lies Win.
There is nothing you can do about it.
Odds are you won't win, that is just the constant war against the real estate consumer, you have no rights. Really, companies Like Tungsten Holdings can bully you, force easements and the courts protect them. Big Resorts come in and ruin the quality of life of residence that lived in the area for decades and NOTHING can be done.
However, telling the Story helps those suffering in silence, the real estate victims out there not being heard, being smacked down and having no one in their corner.
These real estate wars, and lawsuits ruin lives, and when your in the right, have all the proof and get constantly betrayed, lied about, and made to look as a fool - well this takes your health, your home, your mind, your family, your marriage and causes unthinkable damage.
The Wilderness Club even has New Founders, new Owners right? I mean the websites used to talk about Norcal Group, Faldo Design, Schmidt-Curley Design and the other players on my Original Site www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com . And now theWildernessClub.com site claims that the owners and founders are Susan and Jim Banister, guess I just missed their name back then. Have they been there all along, did they condone this ruining of the lives of this innocent Family.
Did Susan and Jim Banister even know the True Story or did they buy the lies told to them. Does Susan Banister and Jim Banister care about what has been endured by this family at the hands of the Wilderness Club and the Realtor who ran them over? Is there no sense of decency or morals at the Wilderness Club Montana?
So many rumors have circulated around this case one is of the issue of the Connection between the judge and the attorney. Probably not true, however, is it time for the McKay family to get a new attorney? I mean back then it was said that the Attorney had her home threatened by and she herself was noted as not denying the stories of possibly threats from the Wilderness Club.
Since this time also there have been lawsuits with Tree Companies in Idaho, and controversy of Illegal Immigrants and other issues with the Wilderness Club Resort, still above the Law. They think that people would love to live in a place that has done this to people. A lovely vacation in beautiful Northwest Montana at the Expense of How Many.
What do they say when clients or buyers ask about all this, do they say I am lying, the McKays are just trying to get money, all the other victims are lying? I mean how does the Wilderness Club Montana justify the Injustice, the Cruelty they have dished for years onto this family?
Well I am writing on this Now again, because the Last of the Montana McKay - Supreme Court Smackdown hit the Courts Last Week as the McKay family lost the last of it.
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_039dc492-df84-11de-adfb-001cc4c002e0.html
The McKay family is reported as to plan to keep going on this fight for justice, though so far they have been stopped at every important juncture.
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Remember in 2006 when we talked about the Horrible Harassment's of the Wilderness Club Resort against one Family in Eureka Montana who had lived here long - long before the Wilderness Club decided to make Eureka Montana their home. This family created a life, they had a peaceful home, a couple horse, was quietly raising their kids and had worked for decades to create a life.
Along comes the Wilderness Club Resort, the Norcal Group, Nick Faldo, and a Local Realtor who owned a large chunk of land and Lodge with investors out of Japan. Money started flowing, trees started falling, and HUGE amounts of water started flowing. With these Rich Golf Greens, and Amazing amount of Groundwater usage came the need for Fertilizer, for Lawn Mowers, for lots of Commercial Equipment to keep this look up in order to attract the Elite, the Big Names in Golf, the Oil Money, the Actors and all who were a being seduced to by land for $750,000 an acre in the Wilderness Club Resort.
So there was a need for a Large Commercial Building and it needed to be far away so that the Residence of the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana would not have to see the Building, Smell the HUGE amount of Fertilizer or be exposed to the Intense Noise and Lights of it all. So the Wilderness Club Resort chose to put this HUGE building to the back of the resort on a parcel of land that was just outside of the Wilderness Club Resort Development. This land bordered the resort but was in the Koocanusa Estates Subdivision.
This land was in a subdivision with restrictive covenant, covenants in which the landowners had obeyed even to the loss of their own business and to their hardship, still they obeyed the covenants for a VERY long time. Then this above the Law - Big Bully Resort pushes their way in, builds what they want, violates the covenants and no one can do anything. Koocanusa Estates landowners had meetings about it, they complained about it and no one cared.
This obnoxious, toxic building that violated the covenants was placed right next to one family the McKay family that had lived in the subdivision and had made a life there, it ruined their way of life forever and began an all out war that took more then money.
The McKay Family Spoke up right away, reached out for help right away and well they got very little support and certainly no justice. In the beginning the Wilderness Club was told to STOP construction, a judge ordered them to STOP all construction, and well they violated this and once again were above the law. They kept building almost as if they knew nothing would ever be done, they would never be held accountable, and they would never have to remove the building.
In the Beginning, Koocanusa Estate owners asked many questions of water, well issues and were constantly reassured by the Wilderness Club owners, and people who spoke for them. In the summer of 2006 people were already experience rocks coming up in the wells and other water issues. They were promised that if their wells went dry that the Wilderness Club Resort would drill them a new one. One Contractor told me that the state data for the Wilderness Club Subdivision came from a different aquifer then the one the resort is using.
There is definitely alot of water used to keep that property green year round for a very few people. And this DOES affect the neighborhood, many have lost water pressure and this is a real threat to water issues in that area. Not to mention the HUGE amount of fertilizer going into the Lake Koocanusa ground shed.
The Residence complained about the noise, the Covenant violations and none were heard.
Now Magnify the intense Light 24 hours Issue, the Fertilizer Toxins - Fumes and Poisons - the Noise - the Dust - and the Covenant Violations and bring it right up to your bedroom window, bring it right on in to your horses barn, see those HUGE lights in your horses eyes all night, watch your dogs suffer from being shot, your home broke into and the fight of your life all because you wanted Big Money to have to follow the same Laws, the Same Covenants, the Same Civil Rights that you adhere to.
You speak up for your rights as your life has become a toxic living hell, a constant fight and your life is changed forever, you have not the money to move and you have to suffer through all this.
Once you Speak up the War is on bigger then you could have imagined as the workers, the guards, the Resort - all launch a constant harassment attack on you, your family, your dogs, your horses and all because you asked for dignity and respect and you asked the Big Money obey the Same Laws and Decent Respect that you yourself obey.
Meanwhile your land is stripped of trees and an Easement out of no where is forced on you, and the Realtor involved with your Original Sale, is the one giving the orders to not only cut down your trees but to take them, and the revenue along with it. Your life lay in ruins, you stand up and fight and you get the Montana Court System Smack down.
You Finally get a jury trial and over a million dollars awarded in punitive, then a local judge overturns the Million dollars, and leaves intact the value of your house at the time of $350,000, the Wilderness Club attorney VERY - VERY connected to the Realtor who is really behind all this damage done to you, well they vow to get this overturned and well, a year later they do in the Montana Supreme Court. Your rights violated and no one cares.
Most Montanans have given up on getting justice, giving up on the Truth meaning anything and the violation of property rights, well I get emails on that issue all the time. You simply have no rights. You have to do what the Money and Politics of your area says you will do. There is nothing you can do about it in the Reality of Real Estate.
The McKay family complained and fought for their right as soon as possible, yet media outlets and court writings seem to say they let this go on and said nothing, therefore they have no rights.. and this is Simply Not True.
Remember when this Million Dollar judgement by Jury trial was overturned? I mean as I said then why waste the tax payers money on a Jury Trial if a Judge can overturn it. Why not let the Judge make the Decision in the First Place?
Laws Simply Cannot Be Enforced. One tends to give up completely on even trying, however, that should not stop the compassion for standing up for the McKay Family who have taken this disgraceful abuse by the Hands of Nick Faldo, the Wilderness Club LLC and all involved with letting this happen or standing by and doing nothing.
Those Who Know me know that Blogging about the McKays Harassment, Bullying, Civil Rights Violations, Real Estate Rights Taken and quality of life was my first real blog topic when it comes to Eureka Montana.
You see at that time in 2006 I had just really began Internet Marketing. And all the local hype was about the Wilderness Club and how great they were. Being a Real Estate Broker Owner I Began to Market local golf property on my sites, www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com was one of those sites. I had Positive information on the site about the Wilderness Club, talking about the resort, about press releases and well it was ALL positive.
However, because I came up higher in the Search Engines then they did, and without embracing that by emailing me and saying great job here is more information on us or anything at all from them to contact me in a friendly manner, they simply sent me a Cease and Desist letter stop talking about them.
My words were positive even though at the time I was hearing alot of negative stories, and so their attack on me for my Positive Site, well with that I decided to go ahead and write about the issues that people were telling me about. And a week or so later I got calls and emails from the residence in the Koocanusa Estates Community telling me of their concerns with the Wilderness Club.
I went and visited the site, took photos, and talked with many residence, this Story is very real, it has been going on for years and another case of Montana Locals having no rights over the Bullying of Realtors - their Clout or the Big Money of Resorts that move into Montana Communities and violate property rights.
The Story changes over time as these things go, however at the time many neighbors emailed me and many felt violated. The dust, the noise the harassment was unbearable for many in the Koocanusa Estates Subdivision. The building of the Wilderness Club Resort disturbed the quality of life of many, especially the McKay family who who were constantly harassed deliberate harassing lights pointed at their home 24 hours a day, 24 hour noise from HUGE generators, truck noise right next to their home oftentimes exaggerated as the war between the Wilderness Club and those Demanding their Right, their Quality of Life and the Civil rights... were harassed to unspeakable levels.
The Wilderness Club caved in the McKays Property by coming right up to the boundary and beyond the flagging, this caved in roads they used on their property and it caved in their horse area and the way they drove to take them hay. This was VERY bad, I have some photos I may share later.
In the Montana Court System at every level, the Wilderness Club continues to win as did WR Grace, however that does not change the the Truth, that Does not change the facts of what has happened. And I want you Know the Truth, just because theMcKays lost in the Court System does not mean that they are not telling the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but, because they are. The Truth is the Truth regardless of the Million Dollar Court system smack down. The people affected by this are real, the neighborhood suffering is real. And the Wilderness Club is above the law.
Tungsten Holdings violates Property Rights of Land Owners all the time, they use the Montana Court system to do it, they get your land cheap and force easements through other peoples properties. I get stories often of how Tungsten Holdings harasses and takes advantages of people, they could not do this if there was Consumer Protection in Real Estate or if the Montana Court System better protected the Rights of Land owner.
Since the Wilderness Club harassing the McKay Family, Stealing Trees, Violating their Property Rights.. well I have seen the inside of other lawsuits within the real estate courts and so with this there really was no doubt that the McKays would lose, the attorneys all know each other and the court system is all inner connected, the Realtors Clout and the Relationship between the attorneys and the Realtors is VERY anti-consumer and bad for real estate, add that to local political clout and fiduciary interest in the property the Wilderness Club is on and long term "in money" and you have the perfect storm to keep smacking down folks like the McKay Family. Nothing you can do, however, you do deserve to know the real story of all this.
The law and the truth is not a factor in these cases, it is Opinion and who you know. And when you have a Realtor that is connected to everyone in the County, as well as a Top Name in Golf, and lots of money - well the Truth - Who Cares about That. The Realtor involved in this did request the removal of the trees, did lie to the landowners, and did tell them there was nothing they could do about it.
You see the Realtor is a Name, he has money, clout, land and the works so who would believe the McKays. They just don't talk the part, they don't dress the part and well for some that means they don't have any rights they don't matter and will not be protected. I got their story heard years ago and will continue to tell you new developments as you have a right to know what is really going on.
The Wilderness Club, including Nick Faldo claimed that they did not know about the issues, the slash pile, the trees being cut.. at the time all of this was happening and well soon after this all came up, their was a photo of them in their own media that showed Nick and Barry standing near the Slash Pile in front of the McKays House.
After the WR Grace Trial, What I have Witnessed with Real Estate Rights in Montana Real Estate Lawsuits, and all I have seen over the last 3 years it is No Real Surprise that the Montana Supreme Court overturned the last of the McKay Settlement. You have no Real Estate Right, Property Rights in Montana. I mean look at the times now with 40 to 60 percent loss in home values, short sales and foreclosures everywhere and property assessment and thereby property taxes going up. The State of Montana has no interest in your Property Rights, read the lawsuits, look at the violations your being Served up.
And most of the Real Estate Cases that are this bad, well you never see them because the E and O insurance of the "Realtors" and the Corruption - Payoffs - Affiliations among real estate attorneys forces the Real Estate Victims to settle after years of fighting and then makes them sign paperwork that they will not talk about all this, so the Real Estate Consumer, the Taxpayers out there, well you don't know what is really going on because the story never gets told.
So the Moxy of the McKay family is Exposing the Corruption and Injustice in the Montana Court System that is Stripping You all of your Property Rights, your Civil Rights is something to be commended. I am proud of the McKay family for Standing against this tyranny and being bold enough to go to court after court after they keep getting lied to, lied about, shut down, and put in their place and on top of all that they Lose !!! again and again.
In cases such as these, the justice system basically asks of you just sit down and shut up, and when you do then other victims to be and victims past, well they are silenced right along with you. Tell the Truth folks, Don't Let the Lies Win.
There is nothing you can do about it.
Odds are you won't win, that is just the constant war against the real estate consumer, you have no rights. Really, companies Like Tungsten Holdings can bully you, force easements and the courts protect them. Big Resorts come in and ruin the quality of life of residence that lived in the area for decades and NOTHING can be done.
However, telling the Story helps those suffering in silence, the real estate victims out there not being heard, being smacked down and having no one in their corner.
These real estate wars, and lawsuits ruin lives, and when your in the right, have all the proof and get constantly betrayed, lied about, and made to look as a fool - well this takes your health, your home, your mind, your family, your marriage and causes unthinkable damage.
The Wilderness Club even has New Founders, new Owners right? I mean the websites used to talk about Norcal Group, Faldo Design, Schmidt-Curley Design and the other players on my Original Site www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com . And now theWildernessClub.com site claims that the owners and founders are Susan and Jim Banister, guess I just missed their name back then. Have they been there all along, did they condone this ruining of the lives of this innocent Family.
Did Susan and Jim Banister even know the True Story or did they buy the lies told to them. Does Susan Banister and Jim Banister care about what has been endured by this family at the hands of the Wilderness Club and the Realtor who ran them over? Is there no sense of decency or morals at the Wilderness Club Montana?
So many rumors have circulated around this case one is of the issue of the Connection between the judge and the attorney. Probably not true, however, is it time for the McKay family to get a new attorney? I mean back then it was said that the Attorney had her home threatened by and she herself was noted as not denying the stories of possibly threats from the Wilderness Club.
Since this time also there have been lawsuits with Tree Companies in Idaho, and controversy of Illegal Immigrants and other issues with the Wilderness Club Resort, still above the Law. They think that people would love to live in a place that has done this to people. A lovely vacation in beautiful Northwest Montana at the Expense of How Many.
What do they say when clients or buyers ask about all this, do they say I am lying, the McKays are just trying to get money, all the other victims are lying? I mean how does the Wilderness Club Montana justify the Injustice, the Cruelty they have dished for years onto this family?
Well I am writing on this Now again, because the Last of the Montana McKay - Supreme Court Smackdown hit the Courts Last Week as the McKay family lost the last of it.
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_039dc492-df84-11de-adfb-001cc4c002e0.html
The McKay family is reported as to plan to keep going on this fight for justice, though so far they have been stopped at every important juncture.
Now it seems the courts are saying the Wilderness Club had an easement, well the easement they claim is something to really be examined, and in that note when you look at google earth and some of the old roads that show up there it makes you wonder why doesn't the public have a right to drive through that property in many locations, why is there one easement forced, trees stolen, privacy lost and this is all legal and just yet all the other roads in that area .. well they just don't exist.
It is all about deals in back alleys, big money - the Total Lack of Concern or Integrity by the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana and the undeniable fact that Property Owners have NO Rights, no matter how much proof they have - Affiliations, Insurance, Big Companies, Realtors, Politics - that is what matters. .. You Lose !!!
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The Wilderness Club Montana Resort in Eureka Montana is on the Wrong Side of the Moral Compass on this One and No One Seems to Care or really be able to do anything. There is no accountability in site and a Win after a Win in the Montana Courts.
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Well We Stand by the Truth and We Stand Behind the McKay Family Forever. The McKay family is telling the Truth, it did happen just they way they say and just because you do not believe it or the courts knock it down does not mean that it is not True.
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Bless all of you terrorized by the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana.
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