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Minor Violations Lead to Massive Prosecution Fees in Two California Desert Towns
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| Nov. 16, 2017 12:15 pm
| Scott Shackford
Posted on 11/18/2017 5:02:27 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: SaveFerris
One of the lawyers is VP for the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers.
To: Rusty0604
Sounds like some sort of racketeering operation....
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:18:45 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: hanamizu
Behind the cheddar curtain in Walworth county Wisconsin, you need a permit just to get a new washing machine or fix your fence - no kidding. And yeah, they charge you to prosecute you for something. It’s a bs money game.
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:50:49 PM PST
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: ClearCase_guy
Re #3. Good quote about government having too much power. Here’s another:
Quotes from “The Russian Revolution” by Alan Moorehead 1958 “
but the fact remained that this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals...”
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posted on
11/18/2017 8:32:02 PM PST
by
libertylover
(Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
To: Lurker
People are going to die over crap like this. Yep. See my quote in #44.
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posted on
11/18/2017 8:33:34 PM PST
by
libertylover
(Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
To: Gene Eric
Extortion is a dangerous vocation.
Not quite dangerous enough yet, apparently.
L
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posted on
11/18/2017 8:45:15 PM PST
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: PLMerite
Carl wasn't the only one that decided to fight city hall:
Marvin Heemeyer - Killdozer "Outraged over zoning disputes, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004 to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings"
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posted on
11/18/2017 10:01:39 PM PST
by
Garth Tater
(Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Yup. Time for someone to take out the trash.
48
posted on
11/19/2017 8:21:22 AM PST
by
zeugma
(I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
To: Noumenon
Henry Bowman, paging Henry Bowman. White courtesy telephone, please.Why do you think there are cameras at almost every redlight in most states? THey are deathly afraid of Henry Bowman. Every day that passes and I do not hear about some government thug being killed amazes me, given how much of the kind of crap in this story goes on.
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posted on
11/19/2017 8:26:06 AM PST
by
zeugma
(I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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