Posted on 11/18/2017 5:02:27 PM PST by sparklite2
In Coachella, a man was fined $900 for expanding his living room without getting a permit. He paid his fine. Then more than a year later he got a bill in the mail from Silver & Wright for $26,000. They told him that he had to pay the cost of prosecuting him, and if he didn't, they could put a lien on his house and the city could sell it against his will. When he appealed the bill they charged him even more for the cost of defending against the appeal. The bill went from $26,000 to $31,000.
Brett Kelman of the Desert Sun found 18 cases in Indio and Coachella where people received inordinately high legal bills for small-time violations. A woman fined for hanging Halloween decorations across a city street received legal bill for $2,700. When she challenged it, the bill jumped to $4,200.
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In the Matanuska Susitna Borough not only do I not need a permit to expand my living room, I don’t even need a permit to build an entire house. California has just gone bat feces crazy.
That one is certainly worth a ping to Mr. Null and Void.
In times like these, grocery store parking lots must be safer because rust never sleeps. (sorry had to lift it from THAT guy)
I’m gonna have to ticket you for excessive rust.
Henry Bowman, paging Henry Bowman. White courtesy telephone, please.
[Sounds like the lawyer rigging it so he gets $ from the fines]
The more I think about it
Old Billy was right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2-jYsOCn1M
Amen
Criminal mentality has taken over much of local government in the US. Officials at all levels are party to the criminal abuses that flow like a foul river from bureaucratic offices across the country.
Court systems are complicit in this corruption. Judges have the authority to control these abuses but they do little or nothing, demonstrating their complicity.
District Attorney offices are notorious for enforcing guilty pleas when a not guilty verdict is virtually assured with adequate representation.
Our entire governmental system is riddled with corruption. The extreme vitriolic opposition to president Trump is the clear manifestation of the criminal cabal threatened by his administration. We must do more tan pray for him.
We must develop citizen vanguards aimed at ridding us of the vile creatures that are ensconced in government. Identifying and exposing them is our highest priority.
Forget it, Jake. It’s California.
I’ve seen too many CHP’s ticket writing. No coincidence.
What would a judge say if you said that in court as your defense?
This is why we need the Second Amendment.
The judge would say, “You better show me some respect, boy.
I had to kiss a lot of ass to get this job!”
I don't think the judge would say anything. He would laugh.
My late father-in-law (in Lake County, Illinois) could not believe that we didn’t need a building permit to build a house in S.E. Missouri. He said such a thing was impossible, unthinkable. “How will they collect your property taxes?”, he asked.
California doesn't even have a rule forbidding lawyer dishonesty.
At least the ABA Model Rules say:
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:(c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation;
(d) engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice;
California rules: if you make money, it's all good.
Reason 1,000,000 I live in the country. Built a whole house just the way I wanted Permission from NO ONE. Then several years later added on about 2,000 square feet. Again asked no one. Took the County 2 years to barely increase my property taxes.
A totally illegal conflict of interest by the law firm and the city.
Time to sue them into oblivion.
And as we say in the legal business, “in the alternative, hang ‘em”. /sarc, or maybe not
I had not thought of Carl Drega in some time.
I wonder if prisoners in a Concentration camp would see the murder of a guard as a bad thing like the people outside the walls do? I am willing to bet that the prisoners hate that a man “went off” on guards, because they all believe they will make it out alive if they just follow orders. Carl Drega, you cannot call him a hero, but if there were thousands of these acts a month, the government would back down and we would all live a closer existence with true Liberty.
It is like with the IRS, people continue to obey the commands of the government on a graduated income tax. They prefer the false truth that it is need as opposed to THE truth that it is a control mechanism.
Extortion is a dangerous vocation.
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