Can you fight corruption?
WTShaw
and the City of Alvarado is still largely unchecked.
a425couple
> Even as I have won on some issues, despotism in Johnson County, Texas
> and the City of Alvarado is still largely unchecked.
How bad is the corruption / despotism?
Or, more to the point, how do majority feel?
Yourself and like minded can always run for office.
Live in interesting times!
WTShaw
> "WTShaw" <lure...@gmail.com> wrote in message...
Almost all are aware of the problems but the entrenched powers have
rigged the system. I lived in that county about 30 years, was active
in both parties and got an inside look at how things worked for the
machine. The pattern is rather a classic one of abuse of
centralization of authority. I never expected that I would become a
victim of it. In fact, I even ran an one a precinct chair but after
seeing the herding, I left that position in disgust and promptly.
At present, I am in court except I can't go there and fear my safety
there, and have been ill represented; lawyers tend to reject federal
law here or work against victims so to get the blood money. , On
hearing earlyon that I was fighting the bad system, a conspiracy
between lawyers even on small matters denied me proper representation
and they even began to ridicule me for trying. Smart lawyers have been
trained to stay away from corruption issues because they don't know
the law and/or they might be sued. My case has ADA aspects as well as
tort claims based partly on appraised damages.
If the federal law requires layers to know it, it is at least obvious
that not knowing it is proof of the incompetence of most. The office
of Texas AG had denyed to me several times that federal law has
validity here, Also, the Sheriff, and Constable Mike White. Police
Chief Allen of Alvarado has said,"Don't even mention federal law."
The details are many and the documentation would gag any clerk, but I
have been consistent in recording and gathering ther evidence since
the problem became a significant burden for me beginning in 2002...and
as ever, I will win if truth and justice still have a place.
I've won a few victories but one against so many hardly seems fair.
Even a friend who assisted me was picked up after he stopped a car
jacking after I had filed my federal complaint. It was obvious that I
needed him and was public that he had joined forces with me much to
the glee of many who saw that things might be changed. He had
apprehended the criminals and jailed for getting involved with
official matters that the police did not want to otherwise handle. He
was placed in a cell with two of them, for entertainment purposes of
the guards, refused his pain and blood pressure medicine for many
hour, and was otherwise abused by officials at the court house and
other functionaries before, during, and after his trial. "And, let
this be a lesson for you;"
Many details are omitted here except that he later died of a stroke
which was hastened by the stress of his mistreatment. Seeing the
gravity of the situation and against orders by Judge Weber to stay out
of the lime light he wrote a statement of what had happened, gave it
to me, then signed the statement and gave it to a
DFW newspaper at my property in Alvarado. He was given a hero's
funeral but few yet know his details and those that do assume that
nothing could be done about it. I miss him.
I've heard from many that the same will happen to me...but now maybe
I am beyond fear, at least for a few hours.
My friend Larry also figured that the County Attorney was the heart of
the problem and I was told on several issues by various clerks that no
law could be enforced in the county except at his direction. So much
for independent entities...
I have been personally threatened many times. This is no way to run a
country
WTShaw
County after several years of attempting to get them otherwise to
comply with federal laws. In full compliance with my need to know my
rights, Representative Kay Grainger's office had sent to me a copy of
the ADA 1990 legislation. Later, the Civil Rights Division sent me
further information, and even more has become available on line. For
many years, I have suspected that something was badly amiss in Johnson
County including Alvarado and Grandview as well as with various county
entities. My experiences as a disabled person echos my previous views
and the savage conduct I have received as disabled.
Subsequently, some resolution of my complaints as submitted were
addressed but comprehensive compliance with the developed ADA has not
yet been realized nor compensation for maltreatment aptly considered.
Currently, the court has issued a temporary restraining order against
several persons involved in attacking my property in Alvarado.
Mitigating efforts to militate against abuses are mandated by the law
and echoed by the courts. There is no excuse for doing otherwise.
Indeed, I hear continually from DOJ that the law must be obeyed, often
with the disbelief that officials even dare to transgress it.
Obviously, being a lawyer and/or a judge does not guarantee that that
person knows the law, only that above all others that they should know
it and apply it fairly and lawfully. It is obvious that many don't
and can't and that actions that reflect that are unacceptable to me,
are easily dismissed as false, and are tantamount to evidencing areas
of incompetence in spite of trivial advances. Such deficiencies are to
be addressed until overcome.
As a disabled and as any person would be, I am due the courtesy for
cause to be aware of all relative circumstances of an case or pending
legal measure involving me and in lieu of the availability of proper
formal qualified council shall have that right affirmed
notwithstanding any advertised reason to abridge, conceal, or
frustrate such knowledge. And, I am worthy only of qualified council
to judge or represent me.
In dealing with subversive practices as has been recent experience,
apt consideration of my physical disabilities must be respected and as
I alone might convey and in such timely manner as I may require. Using
any other standard is improper for even as I sit and enter these
words, I try to understand my own limitations from day to day, even
hour to hour, the most likely person to understand myself as I am a
degreed biologist and researcher, and trained in appraising others. I
must deal with myself as a clinical subject as well as confront the
horrors of my own delicate situation as I alone am aware.
It probably is a complement that many would never see me as
chronically disabled. They do not realize that most days I must be fed
at some time as I become periodically very weak, that my condition
required frequent monitoring in ways that I cannot do myself, that I
cannot prepare food much less serve it to myself, that sometimes I
cannot even walk and often require assistance to do so, that I drive
rarely and only when that my abilities in that area seem solid but not
for long periods of time or in traffic that I judge too much to
confront. Even as there here are some times when it is an absolute
survival necessity for me to drive, that might not be enough to
convince me that it is a good idea, much less as an enjoyment of that
freedom.
But the questions here go further beyond my immediate disabled status
but to basic civil rights of everyone, due process with respect for
complaints as related behavior is held to held to a high standard for
officials. Because I am disabled, I do always have additional means
to make complaint, and neither does every friend of the disabled
also. The courts have held that these rights really extend to
everyone as well; society as a whole benefits by good official
conduct.
Specifically, current communications from Johnson County excuse an
inability for them to fully communicate with me regarding my rights as
a victim and is a violation of fairness and of lawful procedures. It
is always correct for anyone, and me, to discuss civil rights with
anyone because circumvention of such knowledge can thwart justice.
Judges are required to honor civil rights as they are not to otherwise
adjudge law as persons other than that they are what they are.
After the restraining order, there have been breaches. I notify you
that I have been offered no convenient means to complain directly to
the court. There is no legal excuse for this. Harassment and
intimidation toward me, a person who has caused progress in ADA
participation by Johnson County and Alvarado, is illegal, not
acceptable, and reflect retalliation. It is the responsibility of the
court to respect my rights, especially the freedom to visit my
property, maintain it, remove items, etc., in absolute security from
illegal acts by the defendents.
I accurately predicted the pattern of illegal acts against me as the
result of dealing with a corrupt city and county. Acts done reinforce
my criminal complaints and highlight obvious systematic patterns to
discourage me; these are evidence of a conspiracy, US Title 18,
Sections 2401, 2402, to deprive me of my civil rights. I see such also
answerable under Rico standards.
State officials are not immune from action as well as they are
required to obey the law. My oath is to the Constitution, not to
corruption administrations in a state, county, or city. Where are the
impartial investigations of criminality of officials? Why am have I
been deprived of the right to complain and get required responses from
certain officials who refuse to cooperate? I am the victim.
There have been some efforts by a select few to appropriately handle
just complaints but a pattern of abuse of centralization of authority
still persists as centralization procedures are most often selectivly
used to further abuse and not to support good patterns of governance.
There are several strengths that the ADA compiles for convenience and
for my benefit. One of these is that time schedules and restrictions
cannot be used to further abuse as some hope the time runs out for
their benefit and against me. Under the circumstances, I am not a
party that has avoided grave issues for years but I am the one that
sought to sort out problems and bring early compliance with valid laws
all along.
THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE--Article. VI.:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be
made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be
made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme
Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby,
any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding."
From ADA Regulations:
"The phrase "criteria or methods of administration" refers to official
written policies of the public entity and to the actual practices of
the public entity. This paragraph prohibits both blatantly
exclusionary policies or practices and nonessential policies and
practices that are neutral on their face, but deny individuals with
disabilities an effective opportunity to participate. "
"The decision that compliance would result in such alteration or
burdens must be made by the head of the public entity or his or her
designee and must be accompanied by a written statement of the reasons
for reaching that conclusion. The Department recognizes the difficulty
of identifying the official responsible for this determination, given
the variety of organizational forms that may be taken by public
entities and their components. The intention of this paragraph is that
the determination must be made by a high level official, no lower than
a Department head, having budgetary authority and responsibility for
making spending decisions."
"Any person who believes that he or she or any specific class of
persons has been injured by the public entity head's decision or
failure to make a decision may file a complaint under the compliance
procedures established in subpart F." (Done)
From Magna Carta, 1215:
* (45) "We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other
officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to
keep it well."
WTShaw
whim and convenience for the criminals in charge. The ruse is thinly
concealed. One more try for me, like Charlie Brown at the football
and the current strike out lawyer said that he could not follow any
law that had not been review in Texas and that Federal Laws were not
important.
The illegal, unAmerican, and criminal abuse of process will not be
tolerated by me as I intend to use the options given to me by law, to
execute the law myself as I deem lawful and appropriate after weighing
the options with no other real reasonable recourse available. When you
meet a senseless bully, you should treat him like the pile of garbage
he is, expose him for what he is, and dispatch him by appropriate
means. Saying beforehand what is going to happen happen would spoil
the surprise.
The law is not meant to leave you toothless in a just endeavor but
many would have you feel that suppression is the technique to be used
as brute force by brutes as opposed by logic, fair law, and leadership
inspiring good citizenship.
Ricky
Citizens have the time, money and resources to stop it. Those who do
dare to try are stifled by insensitive government agencies. In one
experience, even the gov't employees are powerless and dependent upon
maintaining silence just to keep thier job, and the greedy employees
look the other way to get their "hard earned" promotions.
Its about personal success and survival in a corrupt system (the gov't
employees)as best as I can tell.
WTShaw
> Its the same corruption here in Brazoria County Texas too. Not too many
> Citizens have the time, money and resources to stop it. Those who do
> dare to try are stifled by insensitive government agencies. In one
> experience, even the gov't employees are powerless and dependent upon
> maintaining silence just to keep thier job, and the greedy employees
> look the other way to get their "hard earned" promotions.
>
> Its about personal success and survival in a corrupt system (the gov't
> employees)as best as I can tell.
>
This message is to the Texas State Bar Association Disability Issues
Committee at the suggestion of the Governor's Office who have granted
me the right to say so.
The abuses in question by this communication regard official
misconduct, deficient standards, and inadequate means of reporting,
attacking, and preventing them.
Consistent with information recommended by and obtained through
Representative Kay Granger's office, I learned that federal law
specifically requires that in order for a disabled person to secure
all appropriate rights that relevant entities be notified that a
specific person is disabled. When disability issues became obvious to
me, I made such notifications but they seemed to turn out more as in
invitation for for even more abuses.
In the last several years since 2003, discrimination against me in
Alvarado has been rampant and subsequently I have become aware of the
effects and magnitude of such widespread discrimination that has
festered in Texas.
The basic imperative of the law is quite simple for officialdom
tracing back to the Magna Carta, that all who are in such offices and
positions of public trust must know and obey the law. Our expectation
for the public is that they reasonably seek to know and follow laws
that apply to them but if even officials offer no pattern of justice,
no general lawful decorum is encouraged.
The due process chain in the United States begins and ends with the
Constitution. It is no error that Congress and the Courts have a role
in perfecting those laws. It is unacceptable to thwart justice by
pretending laws don't exist, use obscure rationalities and methods to
circumvent laws that all are required to heed, or attempt to trump
good mandated reasonable federal laws and practices with contrary
unacceptable state and local statues. It is overall formally illegal
by federal statutes, regulations, and decisions to promulgate boorish
bullying policies that tend to further promulgate unlawful
discrimination.
Individuals have the chance to set certain priorities and are well
within their rights to instruct lawyers to respect them. A lawyer or
any other cannot be allowed to circumvent such rights by claiming
rights which he doesn't possess. Procedures, creeds, and required
agreements are no basis for discrimination; contracts have functional
limits regardless of what they say.
The appropriate way for entities to proceed without preemptive
discrimination against citizens is to follow the existing mandated
law, federal first as is appropriate even as might be determined by
the individual. Subsequently, entities may in an appeals environment
on whatever grounds and for whatever purposes, advocate for their
independent clients. If the law was just in the first place, the
appeal most likely will fail but the burden would not have been
unfairly placed on the little guy when immediate action was required
to mitigate circumstances. Also, due even to dire circumstances many
are unable to defend themselves or even know how to begin to. The
default must never be that which may be abusive to such people, to
silence any dissent against injustice. General welfare for the system
cannot mean being mean in a parochial sense.
The list of enumerated forbidden methods used to interfere with civil
rights is lengthy but includes in short form at least the following:
Retaliation; Interference; Coercion; Intimidation; Official Oppression
as defined by statutes; Physical Violence against persons and/or their
property; and Denial of Due Process, and other broadly defined corrupt
practices.
I have experienced all of these in Johnson County and Alvarado. Not
to give more of the contributing obnoxious details here, I sought at
least to be able to complain and won that right courtesy of the
Justice Department, but even then the resultant installed process
proved abusive and in exact lines with the grounds for the original
complaint. At the state level, this goes from bad to worse as the
myth that decentralization absolves responsibility seems to
predominate; corruption involves more that strange campaign
contributions.
Lawyers themselves can easily violate those prohibitions. They may
have been instructed somehow that they are unimportant, have no
meritorious priority, and become convinced that can they can just do
what whim dictates. Even those that are not hired or have any direct
part in a case can so become criminals without proxy. Especially note
that officials lose some rights they might have had as a casual
citizen but are required to ascent to a strict ethical level as a
licensed officer of the court, or other member of government. Those
ethical standards must also comply with the law.
Federal Law, especially repeated in the ADA, states that ignorance is
no excuse. The Department of Justice in one of its publications
accurately estimates that current ADA law affects about half of state
and local laws. In order for a lawyer to properly represent a disabled
person, or any other for that matter, he must know and apply superior
law, or he is incompetent and should receive no sympathy. These
advances in law are truly that and are to better justly serve the
people.
What once might have worked has been scrapped and must be repaired.
It was with a breath of fresh air and with unexpected surprise that I
finally heard the words and from the governor's office no less that
all must respect Federal Law and Constitutional uses of the Supremacy
Clause. Federal statutes can even properly transcendent of other
laws. Many say otherwise as a means to hurt me, and I cannot not
allow further abuse to whatever ends that may take me. It was
difficult enough to work to hear that your group even existed in the
bar association. The system seems to cut communications as a means of
self-protection and persists in uses of that and other contemptible
woeful strategies to shield itself from reality.
Even as I am still denied access to my property, due process, and face
further arbitrary hostile action on June 30 in District Court as an
eventual reward for merely complaining that my rights were being
denied, I yet fight by insisting that you do the right thing, stop
hollow and unfair processes, and relieve me of my quick future of an
appropriate and probably final response against my tormentors.
Bill Shaw, June 25, 2009
Martha's Statement:
Under Federal Law, all persons are granted certain civil rights
including disabled persons who are mentioned specifically in
legislation.
One of these rights is to obtain fair and impartial legal
representation with consideration as to accommodation for their
disabilities.
When officials in public service within entities and lawyers fail to
follow federal laws, they can and should be held accountable for their
actions and/or lack of accommodation.
A disabled person has the right to submit complains without fear of
reprisals, intimidations, insults, or being completely ignored. Also,
complaints should be addressed in a timely manner. And, not wanting
to work with a disabled person is not an option.