Post news and information from your neighborhood: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________ Dear Tim, Pam, John, and everybody else,
Pam, I totally understand what you are saying. We all know government officials (elected and un-elected) who have lined their pockets at the expense of the citizenry. I also agree with what Tim has stated. We need to be careful in generalizing too much. I have been guilty of this myself in the past and made many an enemy for being too general in my statements. People get angry when you accuse them of something they never did and rightfully so. In 2002 a District Court Judge actually told me if I did not commit a FELONY that he ordered me to commit in a court order, he would incarcerate me until I complied with his court order. In otherwords, I would not get out of the Chisago County Jail until I committed the FELONY. I am not joking here. Everything is in court records. What did I do? I actually committed the FELONY. I will never get prosecuted for this FELONY. The system wanted me to commit this FELONY. The system made me commit a FELONY. There is something serious wrong with the system when "they" want you to commit a FELONY. I have done everything in Minnesota I know how to do to get the situation reversed. But, as David stated, nobody will do anything about it. Here is what I think goes on in most situations for whatever it is worth, but I think most of you will agree with me. 1) Someone makes a mistake. They then find out about their mistake. 2) That someone does not want to admit they are fallible and were capable of making a mistake. 3) That someone then proceeds to cover up their mistake and then they start committing crimes in the process and become CORRUPT in the process. 4) WE THE PEOPLE take our grievances to the appropriate authorities and we are told to sit down and shut up if we know what is good for us. 5) Well, some of WE THE PEOPLE are stubborn and do not sit down and shut up. We keep pushing for justice and then there are more cover-ups by other officials. 6) Hence, we then come to the conclusion that the entire system are nothing but crooks and is totally corrupt. Some people do demand money to look the other way. I have come to believe most of the corruption is because people just tend to cover-up for other people. The higher ups do not want to do their job properly and admit they have ignorant people working for them. I was once told by a former attorney of mine that the purpose of the system is to protect the integrity of the system. In otherwords, even if something is seriously wrong, nobody is to find out. The person who exposes the system and tells the public there is something wrong needs to be severely punished so that person never speaks up again. This means up to and including death if that is what it takes. This attorney did not agree with the system and the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board removed his license to practice law in the state of Minnesota because he tried to help me. How does this relate to St. Paul Tim will ask me. Well, the LPRB is in St. Paul at the Landmark Tower. Things like what I just mentioned happen in St. Paul just as well as anywhere else. What can we do about it? I do not have all the answers. Maybe there will be some brave elected officials and attorneys that will help some of us navigate our way through the system and get some of these corrupt officials out of their respectful positions of authority. I am not going to hold my breath waiting for one to arrive though. However, miracles do happen. The Revolutionary War was a miracle in and of itself. I hope all of you had a very blessed weekend and have an even better week. Sincerely, Michael Darling 53285 Falcon Avenue North PO Box 521 Rush City, MN 55069 (612) 281-0271 --- Tim Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Post news and information from your neighborhood: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________ > > > >People in general are fed up with the money lining > the pockets > >of our elected officials, and when citizens step up > and say en masse, NO > >MORE, we'll see how the cookie crumbles. > > I just have to point out, that as a citizen, I'm a > little disturbed > by generalizations like the one above. As much as I > disagree with > many decisions that government make and as much as I > dislike some > elected officials, I simply do not agree with > blanket accusations > about public officials lining their pockets with > money at the expense > of taxpayers. > > Yes, there are example of this - which need to be > discussed. But, > general accusations about corrupt public officials > tends to encourage > an unhealthy lack of trust in government and distort > that debate on > important public policy officials. > > Most of the elected officials that I've met, whether > I agree with > them or not, are hardworking and sincere > individuals. Reducing bad > decisions to "corruption" is in my opinion an > oversimplification and > does a disservice to public policy discussions. > > Best wishes, > > Tim Erickson > Hamline Midway > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > ================================================= > Tim Erickson http://www.politalk.com > St. Paul, MN - USA 651-643-0722 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 105978430 > ================================================= > > > _____________________________________________ > NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your > password - visit: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > _____________________________________________ > For state and national discussions see: > http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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