Friday, February 1, 2008

Crimes and Misdemeanest


Bad boys, bad boys - whatcha gonna do?

For the past nine months we've been hearing reports about the Mille Lacs Academy's "safety record". In fact, we Naysayers have been scoffed at and scorned for our concern about the safety of our children, our elderly parents, our property, and ourselves. What the hell is wrong with us? How can we be so 'afraid' of these poor troubled boys? Geez.
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Every one of our concerns has been countered by the opposition. Nexus even published a brochure of its lies - in order to hide the Truth and control public opinion. (Jim D'Angelo himself was there as the lies on the Mille Lacs Academy "Fact Sheet" were distributed at the November 14 tax abatement public hearing.) Nexus tells us that in the last decade there has only been "one incident". It involved a stolen vehicle. They had to fess up to the stolen van - because it belonged to one of the Naysayers in the Neighborhood. Nexus tells us that there have been no incidents in the past five years. This is blatantly false.
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In the last 5 years, there have been:
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11 assaults
2 burglaries
3 criminal damage to property
4 disorderly conduct
1 criminal sex
4 disturbances/fights
2 indecent exposures
5 out of control juveniles
43 runaways
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Now, I'm a musician. I'm only required to count to four. But it doesn't take a mathematician to figure out that 11+2+3+4+1+4+2+5+43 does not equal 0.
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So maybe it was a typo? Maybe they didn't mean zero. Maybe they really MEANT 75. But nevertheless they published their incorrect figures as FACT on the Mille Lacs Academy "Fact Sheet" and handed it out to the public, knowing that they would believe all the bullshit. Now, we don't know how many actual incidents there have been in the past 16 years, including unreported in-house 'situations', but the sheriff and police reports indicate
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389 calls
256 runaways
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Not zero. Not one.
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Why are we being lied to?
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Imagine if 256 convicts escaped from Stillwater State Prison. An average of one per month. Would neighbors be chastised for complaining? Would the community stand for such a breach of their safety? Would they accept being lied to?
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One MLA employee took umbrage at our use of the term "escape" when talking about the convicted sex offenders escaping. She said at a public meeting that sometimes the boys "get confused" and just walk away, most often with their counselors in tow cajoling the PTB to return to his program. Please! She misled us. Onamia school superintendent John Varner told us that the MLA boys are not violent. That's a misconception. Councilman Jerome Kryzer publicly stated that they are NOT sex offenders! That's just plain stupid. (He's up for re-election, by the way. I wonder if he'll start his campaign when he returns from Arizona, where he spends the winter missing city council meetings.)
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Some of these convicted PTBs on the police reports, including some young men standing 6 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds, are violent and dangerous and disturbed. They are at the Academy because they have already hurt people - and they continue to hurt people. And they do escape. 256 and counting!
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Why are we being told that they are not violent when they are? Why are we being told that they don't escape when they do? The statistics also don't include the local girl who got pregnant by the MLA sex offender, or the poor troubled teenage girl who was exposed to the AIDS virus. We're told that these MLA PTBs are under constant supervision. Does that mean their counselors are with them while these boys are sexually engaged with local teenage girls? Then there are the serious injuries to staff that we discovered. One man was disabled, perhaps permanently by one of the PTBs. Nobody has been talking about stuff like that. But they're starting to. And of course, there's a lot we don't know and will never know about what goes on at the Academy.
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Why are we being lied to?
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The city government - 5 nothing-special guys - have made the decision that a few jobs in the community take priority over the safety and welfare of citizens. They claim there are no danger issues, and in fact point to the Mille Lacs Academy's long record of "being a good neighbor". Good neighbors don't lie. Especially about things that could harm you and your family. Good neighbors don't put 94 sex offenders next to daycare.
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Have the city council and county commissioners ever looked at the record? Or have they blindly accepted the lies? Are they intentionally misleading the citizens? Or are they ignorant of what's going on?
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At the rezoning public hearing on Wednesday, January 30, Mayor Bully Milton revealed that he has been well-aware of the crime statistics. He's known all along. He's seen all the reports for the past seventeen years, he said. Actually, he didn't seem bothered about the crime statistics or Nexus' lies. He was, however obviously very agitated and angry that we Bradbury Idiots got hold of the information. In fact, he bellowed at us, accusing us of some wrong-doings in obtaining it. "Its public information," we informed the mayor.
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We've compiled the sheriff and police reports together and published the statistics in the Mille Lacs News so that everyone can see for themselves what's going on. We've also debunked the Mille Lacs Academy "Fact Sheet".
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Check it out at millelacsnews.com
The Truth shall set you free!
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