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"Don't fight it son, confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating,"
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Corruption is now rampant in the government as its self-serving “employees” shake down citizens to enrich themselves.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People are going to die over crap like this.
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Is this an area controlled by liberals, by chance?
These lawyers need to dangle from a lamp-post or a tree limb.
Right next to the politicians that enable them
I remember that one. He won’t be the last.
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The authorities do NOT like independent types, seeing them as a threat.
And there is a lot of speculation that the Desert Bullying has something to do with a plan for a L.A. - L.V. $hinkansen (bullet train) line, or vacuum tube, or whatever.
The Inland Empire and desert areas were what passed for conservative when I lived there. Ah, but that was long ago and now my information comes from mainly second hand.
“The bill went from $26,000 to $31,000.”
The Founders killed thousands of Brits and Tories for less. Get to it, California patriots, and take your state back from the filthy fascists.
Hint: American leftists can’t and won’t fight when confronted by armed citizens.
There’s absolutely no way this is constitutional. This is obviously an outgrowth of the law that allows lawfirms bringing civil lawsuits to recoup the costs of the court case from the loser - but that was never intended to apply to governments themselves!
It’s one thing for the city to hire private firms to do prosecutions on behalf of a strapped city government. It’s entirely another for the convicted to have to pay the court fees of the government bringing the prosecutions.
So the government charges the taxpayer to write the laws, then hires a lawyer to go after the taxpayer when he breaks those laws and then writes a law to have the taxpayer pay for the court costs when the taxpayer loses.
It’s total madness.
Further reason not to live or do business in California.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
"Don't fight it son, confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating,"
Wow.
I was taken aback by this sentence:
“On August 19, 1997, at about 2:30, New Hampshire state trooper Scott Phillips stopped Drega in the parking lot of LaPerle’s IGA supermarket in neighboring Colebrook for having too much rust on his pickup truck.”
Mr. Drega, a citizen of New Hampshire, took that state’s motto of “Live Free or Die” seriously.
Sounds like the lawyer rigging it so he gets $ from the fines; see this post by vette6387
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3606067/posts?page=7#7
There comes a point when one cannot help but notice. Time after time. Again and again. Decade after decade.
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