Our family had property taken from us that was worth millions of dollars through Eminent Domain. The case went to our state's supreme court where they ruled that allegedly a line several layers down on an obscure website was adequate notice for a hearing that my parents’ property was about to be taken. My dad had never even tried to use a computer at that time. The ruling was based on “facts” that were false and were never introduced in court. The governments tactic was to run my parents out of money by dragging them into court every two weeks for several years. The compensation they received was less than their legal fees which was never reimbursed.
That combined with several other bad rulings and now this matter has nearly destroyed any confidence that I once had in our legal system. But I admire your persistence on this travesty very much. Please keep it up!
Waa that in the state of Washington?
Wow, that really stinks. Sounds like you’re about at the same place I’m at with all this.
My family was involved in a case where the local school board had broken every open meetings law in the book so that a school bond issue was never legally proposed for the ballot. Lies galore. Dirty, dirty tricks. And the Nebraska Supreme Court unanimously ignored the law. Now the school board is doing more of the same just as an in-your-face so they got sued again. The judge told them they had to abide by the law and they STILL refused. As far as I know NOBODY has ever gotten those crooks to obey the law, and probably never will. And my brothers and the other farmers in the area will be put out of business because of it. But hey, there’ll be a 3 million dollar school for the 2 kids that are left - as bankruptcy is declared because there aren’t any taxpayers left to pay for it...
While my brothers and sisters were dealing with that local lawlessness I was trying to deal with lawlessness on the HI state level and federal level. It’s all over the place, unrelenting.
It is just a constant struggle against utter lawlessness. Right now it’s money, taxes, open records, property ownership, etc.... but we have only to look at Mexico and how it is creeping into our southern states to see that the beheadings and hanging from bridges are not far behind, if we allow the lawlessness to spread unchecked.
I think what we need to do is pass referenda that specifically provide a means for the PEOPLE to hold government accountable to enforce the law. We can’t count on any of the political critters to do anything for us. And unless we authorize ourselves to hold them in check, they will leave us totally out of the picture. If we don’t expressly say in our laws or Constitutions that we have standing to sue for breaches of the law, then we won’t be able to do a darn thing about any of it. We really have to re-establish some checks and balances, since the system itself is broken and can’t be trusted.
As for me, I’ve only begun to fight. They will have to drag me away kicking and screaming. Or dead.