Mille Lacs Academy Executive Director Paul Lynn Smith was convicted yesterday in Federal Court in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
More to follow.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
MLA Director Paul Smith Trial Continues
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA
Calendar of Proceedings For
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
HONORABLE ROBIN J. CAUTHRON
9:00
CR-08-272-C USA v. Paul L. Smith Jury Trial Crtrm #501
Paul L. Smith is the Executive Director of the Mille Lacs Academy in Onamia, MN. He is on trial for crimes he allegedly committed while acting as Director of the Marie Detty juvenile detention center in Oklahoma, prior to his appointment with the Nexus corporation. Original charges included theft, fraud, mail fraud, embezzlement, and lying to federal authorities and carried a penalty of up to 30 years in Federal prison.
In spite of the seriousness of the allegations, Nexus released a statement of support of their indicted director who has apparently continued to perform his duties at the juvenile sex offender correctional facility. Recently, the Mille Lacs Academy distributed propaganda through an insert in the Bargain Hunter Shopper, with a picture of the new sex offender facility with the word "Honesty" printed in bold letters. There was a photograph of Smith in the literature, as well as quotations, but nothing written about his indictment and upcoming trial.
Former Nexus CEO Jim D'Angelo is suing me for saying many things against him as well as the unwanted sex offender facility forced down our throats by the Onamia city council who knowingly put sex offenders next to day cares, children, elderly widows, and vulnerable adults.
The city council officials who went to great lengths to keep the sex offender institution in our community, who changed ordinances to accommodate a private corporation while ignoring the safety of their citizens, and who caved in to Nexus demands including 15 years of tax abatement were Mayor Larry Milton (dead), Councilmen Robert Mickus (unelected acting mayor), Bill Hill, (former president of the Mille Lacs Community Development Corporation), Mark Loch (who quit and moved away), and Jerome Kryzer (who did not reside in Onamia during winter months). They were assisted by the Onamia Zoning Guy Mickey Carter who proceeded to misclassify the correctional facility as R2 and allow spot-zoning without a Comprehensive Municipal Plan, bonnified City Planning Commission or Board of Adjustments. Is it any wonder that such a council would make such mistakes?
One of the things I'm being sued for is my statement (in my blog) that we think he's [D'Angelo] running a crooked company. D'Angelo claims that my statement was defamation. (According to the law, it is not.) I claim that it was a warning; apprehension based on disturbing data we found and presented to the Onamia city council and Mille Lacs county board who ignored both our concerns as well as the discovery of discrepencies in questionable financial figures supplied to them by Nexus in order to obtain tax exemption and tax abatement. Perhaps your elected officials should have paid attention to Hannabelle and as we requested, checked out the Nexus corporation before eagerly handing over your tax dollars to them. Who would have known that Nexus would use your tax dollars to pay for a lawsuit against a private citizen who opposed them, i.e. your friend and neighbor - me.
My Friends, as time goes on, Hannabelle is not only becoming vindicated, she is being proved correct in her assessment of this ruthless corporation that bullied its way into a private neighborhood against the wishes of American citizens whose Constitutional Rights have been abolished by the Onamia city council. The statement we think he [D'Angelo] is running a crooked company was not stated as fact, but as speculation within a humorous story. Should I have said such a thing? I don't know. When one is fighting to protect her home, one may have a tendency to react emotionally, especially when trying to keep sex offenders away from her mom. Was D'Angelo's lawsuit an overreaction? Or did Hannabelle touch a nerve? It may be too soon to tell what lies beneath the tip of this iceberg. But if the felony charges against Mille Lacs Academy Director Paul Smith pan out and he is convicted, perhaps a serious investigation into this corporation is in order.
I welcome your thoughts and comments on the Paul Smith matter. If you use this forum to make personal attacks and threats against me, (as so many have in the past), I will not post your comments. Let's keep it smart and civil.
WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA
Calendar of Proceedings For
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
HONORABLE ROBIN J. CAUTHRON
9:00
CR-08-272-C USA v. Paul L. Smith Jury Trial Crtrm #501
Paul L. Smith is the Executive Director of the Mille Lacs Academy in Onamia, MN. He is on trial for crimes he allegedly committed while acting as Director of the Marie Detty juvenile detention center in Oklahoma, prior to his appointment with the Nexus corporation. Original charges included theft, fraud, mail fraud, embezzlement, and lying to federal authorities and carried a penalty of up to 30 years in Federal prison.
In spite of the seriousness of the allegations, Nexus released a statement of support of their indicted director who has apparently continued to perform his duties at the juvenile sex offender correctional facility. Recently, the Mille Lacs Academy distributed propaganda through an insert in the Bargain Hunter Shopper, with a picture of the new sex offender facility with the word "Honesty" printed in bold letters. There was a photograph of Smith in the literature, as well as quotations, but nothing written about his indictment and upcoming trial.
Former Nexus CEO Jim D'Angelo is suing me for saying many things against him as well as the unwanted sex offender facility forced down our throats by the Onamia city council who knowingly put sex offenders next to day cares, children, elderly widows, and vulnerable adults.
The city council officials who went to great lengths to keep the sex offender institution in our community, who changed ordinances to accommodate a private corporation while ignoring the safety of their citizens, and who caved in to Nexus demands including 15 years of tax abatement were Mayor Larry Milton (dead), Councilmen Robert Mickus (unelected acting mayor), Bill Hill, (former president of the Mille Lacs Community Development Corporation), Mark Loch (who quit and moved away), and Jerome Kryzer (who did not reside in Onamia during winter months). They were assisted by the Onamia Zoning Guy Mickey Carter who proceeded to misclassify the correctional facility as R2 and allow spot-zoning without a Comprehensive Municipal Plan, bonnified City Planning Commission or Board of Adjustments. Is it any wonder that such a council would make such mistakes?
One of the things I'm being sued for is my statement (in my blog) that we think he's [D'Angelo] running a crooked company. D'Angelo claims that my statement was defamation. (According to the law, it is not.) I claim that it was a warning; apprehension based on disturbing data we found and presented to the Onamia city council and Mille Lacs county board who ignored both our concerns as well as the discovery of discrepencies in questionable financial figures supplied to them by Nexus in order to obtain tax exemption and tax abatement. Perhaps your elected officials should have paid attention to Hannabelle and as we requested, checked out the Nexus corporation before eagerly handing over your tax dollars to them. Who would have known that Nexus would use your tax dollars to pay for a lawsuit against a private citizen who opposed them, i.e. your friend and neighbor - me.
My Friends, as time goes on, Hannabelle is not only becoming vindicated, she is being proved correct in her assessment of this ruthless corporation that bullied its way into a private neighborhood against the wishes of American citizens whose Constitutional Rights have been abolished by the Onamia city council. The statement we think he [D'Angelo] is running a crooked company was not stated as fact, but as speculation within a humorous story. Should I have said such a thing? I don't know. When one is fighting to protect her home, one may have a tendency to react emotionally, especially when trying to keep sex offenders away from her mom. Was D'Angelo's lawsuit an overreaction? Or did Hannabelle touch a nerve? It may be too soon to tell what lies beneath the tip of this iceberg. But if the felony charges against Mille Lacs Academy Director Paul Smith pan out and he is convicted, perhaps a serious investigation into this corporation is in order.
I welcome your thoughts and comments on the Paul Smith matter. If you use this forum to make personal attacks and threats against me, (as so many have in the past), I will not post your comments. Let's keep it smart and civil.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Mille Lacs Academy Director's Trial
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA
Calendar of Proceedings For
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009
HONORABLE ROBIN J. CAUTHRON
9:15 CR-08-272-C USA v. Paul L. Smith Jury Trial Crtrm #501
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA
Calendar of Proceedings For
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009
HONORABLE ROBIN J. CAUTHRON
9:15 CR-08-272-C USA v. Paul L. Smith Jury Trial Crtrm #501
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HANNABELLE,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The Philosophy of Liberty - Revisited
I just have to post this video again. There are too many people out there who just don't "get it". Maybe they never will. But this is important stuffm, so please try. (Especially you, Victor. Pay attention).
Monday, September 28, 2009
Constant Comments
After two and a half years of debunking Nexus and the local governments, exposing their lies and propaganda, of telling you the Truth about what they are doing to abolish your Constitutional Rights, how they change or ignore laws which were in place to protect you, and about the negative consequences of having a sex offender facility in your community, you'd think people would "get it". Some people don't need corporate PR campaigns or a government which rules by intimidation and misinformation to be bamboozled. Too many people are too busy pulling the wool over their own eyes to see what's real.
Recently I received some comments on Hannabelle's YouTube videos. I'll share them with you in a moment. I always look up the commenteers and usually find the negative ones to be nothing more than malicious troublemakers. Ironically, these Pronexus hecklers say much worse things than I ever said which Nexus and D'Angelo and Freeman are SUING me for. But then of course, their lawsuits are frivilous attempts to crush the life out of me and bury me under their "cornerstone values".
Anyway, I looked up 111prettygurl (sic) on YouTube after she made a few stupid comments about my videos. I'll ask your opinion on this: She signs up for YouTube on September 26. She's the new kid on the block... Welcome to YouTube 111prettygurl... She has no videos of her own to upload. So what's the first (and only) thing she does? She beelines to Hannabelle's videos, watches three of them, and makes negative and as you will see, really stupid comments. Although I dutifully replied, I wiped the slate clean and blocked her after I saw that this wasn't a real viewer, but some Nexus ringer hell-bent on purely harrassing me. One of the Pronexusians. I think: AHA! This will be good for my countersuits, if we end up going there. Anyway, here are the comments.
I'm very proud of my videos, by the way. :)
Comment on Message to Nexusville
"they could be in my back yard because i have opened my eyes and know these kidsdeserve a chance, if your town was going to make it it wouldnt have ever died down,they have prisons in towns with worse offenders who still dont struggle like you do
and where in life did you all chose to give up on our future. these KIDS are in a rehabilitation setting so when they leave they dont reoffend. most inmates in prison or jail(there is a difference) reoffend and get worse if they recieve no treatment. these are children who made bad choices they arent bad. circumstances or life caused them to be this way, they werent born this way. open your heart and mind its not black and white anymore.its not about money or land its about CHILDREN all of them"
I have to say that sodomizing toddlers is a little more than "bad choices". Its a crime. Some of these "children" could be serving in Iraq if they weren't serving time in the Mille Lacs Academy... Strong young men that they are...
Comment on Spot Zoning for Sex Offenders
"so at what point when Jesus sacrificed himself did he say that the children who stray from the "way" dont deserve to recieve help if the location isnt right? were you told i will give you life but you cant be here and make a mistake. these children deserve to live and rehab,and the new facility is out of the way, they arent right in town where you can be "ashamed" because you are all cowards to let these children suffer with no saving. you go to the store and walk next to offenders.all kinds"
Jesus did not sacrifice himself. He was thrown under the bus by his good friends and neighbors. (I know the feeling.) No. If Hannabelle had been there, SHE would have stood up for Jesus and put her life on the line for her friend. But I bet that like me, in the end Jesus wished he'd had better friends... Right Skippy?
One more thing... if indeed I was a "coward", I certainly wouldn't have stood up to Nexus. I would have crawled under the table and hid, like other people. No. I might be STUPID, but I'm not a coward. Looks like I might be the only one in the county who isn't, (except for Ox and Poncho, of course. They're tough as nails. Better not to mess with them.)
And on her own channel page (like a home page) as a comment on me...
"you are a closed minded jerk to say they need to be in jail. these are messed up kids who deserve a chance. if ted bundy would have been given a rehab do you think he woulda killed more? maybe we should put a jail in onamia so you can cry more, but we could put murders and gang bangers there they will be safer then kids!!! ha ha you really should put yourself into these kids therapist shoes. to change you must want it, they seem to want it"
Recently I received some comments on Hannabelle's YouTube videos. I'll share them with you in a moment. I always look up the commenteers and usually find the negative ones to be nothing more than malicious troublemakers. Ironically, these Pronexus hecklers say much worse things than I ever said which Nexus and D'Angelo and Freeman are SUING me for. But then of course, their lawsuits are frivilous attempts to crush the life out of me and bury me under their "cornerstone values".
Anyway, I looked up 111prettygurl (sic) on YouTube after she made a few stupid comments about my videos. I'll ask your opinion on this: She signs up for YouTube on September 26. She's the new kid on the block... Welcome to YouTube 111prettygurl... She has no videos of her own to upload. So what's the first (and only) thing she does? She beelines to Hannabelle's videos, watches three of them, and makes negative and as you will see, really stupid comments. Although I dutifully replied, I wiped the slate clean and blocked her after I saw that this wasn't a real viewer, but some Nexus ringer hell-bent on purely harrassing me. One of the Pronexusians. I think: AHA! This will be good for my countersuits, if we end up going there. Anyway, here are the comments.
I'm very proud of my videos, by the way. :)
Comment on Message to Nexusville
"they could be in my back yard because i have opened my eyes and know these kidsdeserve a chance, if your town was going to make it it wouldnt have ever died down,they have prisons in towns with worse offenders who still dont struggle like you do
and where in life did you all chose to give up on our future. these KIDS are in a rehabilitation setting so when they leave they dont reoffend. most inmates in prison or jail(there is a difference) reoffend and get worse if they recieve no treatment. these are children who made bad choices they arent bad. circumstances or life caused them to be this way, they werent born this way. open your heart and mind its not black and white anymore.its not about money or land its about CHILDREN all of them"
I have to say that sodomizing toddlers is a little more than "bad choices". Its a crime. Some of these "children" could be serving in Iraq if they weren't serving time in the Mille Lacs Academy... Strong young men that they are...
Comment on Spot Zoning for Sex Offenders
"so at what point when Jesus sacrificed himself did he say that the children who stray from the "way" dont deserve to recieve help if the location isnt right? were you told i will give you life but you cant be here and make a mistake. these children deserve to live and rehab,and the new facility is out of the way, they arent right in town where you can be "ashamed" because you are all cowards to let these children suffer with no saving. you go to the store and walk next to offenders.all kinds"
Jesus did not sacrifice himself. He was thrown under the bus by his good friends and neighbors. (I know the feeling.) No. If Hannabelle had been there, SHE would have stood up for Jesus and put her life on the line for her friend. But I bet that like me, in the end Jesus wished he'd had better friends... Right Skippy?
One more thing... if indeed I was a "coward", I certainly wouldn't have stood up to Nexus. I would have crawled under the table and hid, like other people. No. I might be STUPID, but I'm not a coward. Looks like I might be the only one in the county who isn't, (except for Ox and Poncho, of course. They're tough as nails. Better not to mess with them.)
And on her own channel page (like a home page) as a comment on me...
"you are a closed minded jerk to say they need to be in jail. these are messed up kids who deserve a chance. if ted bundy would have been given a rehab do you think he woulda killed more? maybe we should put a jail in onamia so you can cry more, but we could put murders and gang bangers there they will be safer then kids!!! ha ha you really should put yourself into these kids therapist shoes. to change you must want it, they seem to want it"
Why, if you're such a "Christian", would you want to make me "cry more"? Why would you want to cause me more pain? I've not done anything to you. Trying to protect my family doesn't hurt you. And who is this "we" you are going to build a jail with to make me cry more? I say - you might as well go ahead and build one. Heck, a lot of your friends just might end up in it. Maybe you should consider building your jail in Oklahoma instead?
So there you go, 111prettygurl. I'm posting your comments here as Nexus attorney Victor E. Lund keeps saying "for the whole world to see". Happy now? Have you done your job? Now, when "the whole world" sees my video and reads your comments, they will see how bogus your attacks are.
As everyone knows, this has never been about getting help for juvenile sex offenders. This fight has been against bad government, the corporatization of America, and your First Amendment Rights.
You talk about Ted Bundy - if he had an opportunity for rehab, do I think he would have "killed more"? Well, the answer is yes. I knew Ted Bundy. I had a "close encounter" with him personally. I'm one of the few people who got out of his car alive. And let me tell you this: No amount of rehabilitation or treatment or counseling - NOTHING would have stopped him from killing. I only survived because - I'm Hannabelle.
[By the way - in two and a half years, not one person has asked me WHY I'm so opposed to putting sex offenders next to day cares and helpless little old ladies. They just yell at me, call me names, attack my character, and shove Jesus in my face. Go figure.]
You want me to walk in the therapists' shoes? Sure! I will - when you try walking in mine.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Wheels of Justice Grind Slowly...
but exceedingly fine...
Just an update to let you all know that there is no update on the Nexus vs Hannabelle lawsuit. Yes, I know its been over thirty days since our last court appearance and yes, I think that is just plain appalling, but no, there is nothing I can do about it. Nexus has indeed finally "taught me a lesson"!!! Isn't that what all this sue-age is about? Teaching Hannabelle a lesson???
The lesson is: Frivilous lawsuits such as theirs clog our justice system.
And as time goes by and we discover more about the Nexusians, my SLAPP case gets even stronger and stronger. Nexus certainly has plenty of reasons to try to shut me up. Nexus has plenty of reasons to keep the public in it's blissful ignorance. Personally, I don't care how slowly justice grinds (knowing it will indeed be exceedingly fine in the end...) The longer Nexus drags out my "lesson", the more I'll learn - about THEM. They picked the wrong person to "punish".
Nothing I have said or done up to this point is defamation. Nothing I have said or done up to this point has hurt the Nexus corporation one iota. They can't claim damages because they don't have any. The spoiled brats got everything they wanted. (I am referring to Nexus, not the Poor Troubled Boys...) Because they keep suing me, they won't let me move on. Because they keep suing me, they are forcing my to stay involved. And since I am a firm believer in the old adage: Know Thy Enemy, I will indeed keep going. Nexus has proven itself an enemy.
en·e·my
n. pl. en·e·mies
1. One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe.
2.
a. A hostile power or force, such as a nation.
b. A member or unit of such a force.
3. A group of foes or hostile forces.
4. Something destructive or injurious in its effects:
adj.
Of, relating to, or being a hostile power or force.
In essence: Nexus
Just an update to let you all know that there is no update on the Nexus vs Hannabelle lawsuit. Yes, I know its been over thirty days since our last court appearance and yes, I think that is just plain appalling, but no, there is nothing I can do about it. Nexus has indeed finally "taught me a lesson"!!! Isn't that what all this sue-age is about? Teaching Hannabelle a lesson???
The lesson is: Frivilous lawsuits such as theirs clog our justice system.
And as time goes by and we discover more about the Nexusians, my SLAPP case gets even stronger and stronger. Nexus certainly has plenty of reasons to try to shut me up. Nexus has plenty of reasons to keep the public in it's blissful ignorance. Personally, I don't care how slowly justice grinds (knowing it will indeed be exceedingly fine in the end...) The longer Nexus drags out my "lesson", the more I'll learn - about THEM. They picked the wrong person to "punish".
Nothing I have said or done up to this point is defamation. Nothing I have said or done up to this point has hurt the Nexus corporation one iota. They can't claim damages because they don't have any. The spoiled brats got everything they wanted. (I am referring to Nexus, not the Poor Troubled Boys...) Because they keep suing me, they won't let me move on. Because they keep suing me, they are forcing my to stay involved. And since I am a firm believer in the old adage: Know Thy Enemy, I will indeed keep going. Nexus has proven itself an enemy.
en·e·my
n. pl. en·e·mies
1. One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe.
2.
a. A hostile power or force, such as a nation.
b. A member or unit of such a force.
3. A group of foes or hostile forces.
4. Something destructive or injurious in its effects:
adj.
Of, relating to, or being a hostile power or force.
In essence: Nexus
Saturday, August 15, 2009
All That and a Bag of Chips
What can I say? We were invited. Everyone was. Nowhere did it say "everybody EXCEPT Hannabelle". So Poncho and I attended the Mille Lacs Academy Open House celebration. Of course, since Nexus has proven itself to be a total detriment to my life, I wasn't in any mood to celebrate the completion of the sex offender facility. I was, however, curious to see how Nexus spent our money (I mean, if they can spend something like $40,000.00[*1] on lawsuits against me, what can they do with $18 MILLION taxpayer dollars to play with?[*2]).
Another reason I decided to attend the big gala was that I was curious to see if I could catch a glimpse of my Accusers. After all, I'm just a disabled old musician and now that I'm not going to all of those horrible city council meetings to stop Nexus, I don't get out much. Well, except for court. I've only actually met suers Jim D'Angelo and Dave Hutchinson. (Always exceedingly unpleasant...) I've never even seen the other people who are suing me - Peter Freeman (suing me twice, once for embarrassment and again as Team Nexus board chairman), Janet Benway (AMERIPRISE) Father Jerry Schik (YES a CROSIER PRIEST!!!!!), Laureen Carlson, Darnell Allen (SUPERVALU), Jeff Talley, Kevin Gray (MNDOT CFO), Larry Riesselman, Francis Smith (father of Michael D. Smith - you remember the Jack Abramoff scandal? Smith was Jack's partner.), and Laurie Zenner... Do these suers actually exist? So I hear. In this country, we have THE RIGHT to face our accusers. I, however, have to research mine on the Internet because I have no idea of who they are. (They aren't from MY neighborhood... They just dumped their 94 sex offenders here.) I've been to court THREE times and have yet to see anybody from Nexus except Vic, their lawyer. And as diligently as I TRIED to communicate with all of these ... people, they gave me the Nexus Silent Treatment until the sheriff's deputy showed up in my yard with the lawsuits. HEY! WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, NEIGHBOR!!! WANT TO BORROW A CUP OF .... MY SOUL?
Anyway, it wasn't my intention to cause any trouble. I didn't expect to talk to any Nexusians. To tell you the truth (and I always do), I haven't set foot on that 38.81 acres since Nexus purchased it from the Onamia Corporate Real Estate Office (i.e. City Hall...). Jim D'Angelo might have given me permission when he talked about giving me an "easement" to use the land, but this is a fellow who lied on a sworn affidavit while suing me for calling him "Poopsie". I'm certainly not going to trust him not to shoot me for trespassing. So no, I haven't been there since they ruined it. And I don't plan to go back. Today was MY day to visit the Mille Lacs Academy. So I did. I was invited.
My first impression of the "Academy" was utter shock. YIKES! The buildings, which I knew from the plans would be ugly, also looked so CHEAP! Really tacky. (How sad for poor Councilman Jerome Kryzer - whose proudest life acheivement was to put sex offenders next to day care... "aye-ing" at every opportunity - those few months he actually resides in town, that is ... ) But then, that is just my opinion. For all I know, J.F.K. is thrilled with the ticky-tack. (Please note: I don't know Jerome's middle name, but here the F. does not stand for Fitzgerald...)
For $18 Million taxpayer dollars, I expected much more. But then, perhaps the inside of the buildings are nice??? I don't know. I didn't go in. I never will (unless it is to drag "home" one of the escaped sex offenders I round up on my property, in which case it will definitely be my intention to cause trouble. A lot of it).
You know, it just occurred to me that perhaps, for a non-creative kind of person, these buildings might be ... like... the ultimate. I don't mean to brag, but I've composed symphonic music, have a couple of paintings in a museum, and designed and built my own dream house. I've been creative all of my life. Thusly, maybe I'm being harsh in my judgment. Maybe building sex offender facilities that resemble Nazi concentration camps made out of paper mache' is the best they can do, and they should be commended for their attempt at creativity. Still.... $18 million taxpayer dollars... Maybe it wouldn't be so ugly if it was in an appropriately zoned area such as commercial or institutional. Maybe it just doesn't belong where they built it. I tried to tell them...
The next thing I noticed was that I was looking directly at the director Paul Smith - you know, the one who has been indicted for embezzlement, fraud, mail fraud etc. down at Marie-Detty in Oklahoma where he used to be the director there too. He was standing in the parking lot laughing along with Pat Rookie. They seemed happy. Well, until they saw yours truly. Now there isn't any love lost between Smith and me. (I mean Paul, not Francis or Michael D.) Just seeing him made my skin crawl. It always does.
"Now why isn't that man in jail?" I said. But then, it hit me... Paul and I have something in common. We're BOTH defendants! NEITHER of us has yet to face our Accusers! (Of course, he keeps getting his trial POSTPONED while I'm seeking to get these frivilous lawsuits against me dismissed.) And NEITHER of us wants to live next to .... a school. I almost felt sorry for him. At least I'm not facing 30 years in prison .... or even Brazil.
A nice looking young man with a Mille Lacs Academy tee-shirt ran up to our vehicle. Poncho rolled down the window. The nice looking young man looked happy as he invited us to join in the festivities. We declined. I have to say, he was very nice. (Contrary to your Pronexus beliefs, my fight has never been with the employees - just the location and the incompetent Onamia government's malfeasance -and finally, of course with the suers.) Obviously, this young man didn't realize he was talking to Hannabelle or maybe he wouldn't have been so pleasant. (Orders from the old boss and all...) Maybe later he'd send me some nice death threats or nice creepy comments on my blog... But he was really nice. He told us we could at least come over for a bag of chips.
I looked at the ugly mess of ugly "cardboard" buildings and sweeping my arm across the view, I said:
"Gee. All that AND a bag of chips."
We drove away.
[*1] That figure is just a rough estimate I based on what I've spent defending myself so far while being persecuted in two lawsuits - for 1. calling former CEO Jim D'Angelo "Poopsie" and embarrassing Pete, and 2. after I brought really, really unwanted attention to a child killed by a Nexus employee at another Nexus facility. Judging by their case against me, coupled with the old adage "you get what you pay for", I figure their lawyers are cheaper than mine.
[*2] Nexus charges county governments (last I heard it was about $245.00 per sex offender per day- with 94 of them, you do the math...) for "treatment", thus receives its primary income from taxpayer money. Nexus, a company that made $40 Million last year, is a "non-profit" company and does not pay taxes. It also got 15 years tax ABATEMENT from the Onamia Government (along with other "deals") and 7 years tax abatement from the county. We pay taxes so Nexus doesn't have to. But Nexus couldn't exist without our tax dollars.... Something to think about.
CORRECTION: I had written that Nexus made $40 Million "in profits", but that was an error in speakage on my part. According to Jim D'Angelo's resume:
NEXUS; Minneapolis, MN.
A $40M+, 720 employee, not for profit behavioral health agency with operating locations in Minnesota, and Illinois.
Anyway you look at it, that's a lot of tax dollars...
Another reason I decided to attend the big gala was that I was curious to see if I could catch a glimpse of my Accusers. After all, I'm just a disabled old musician and now that I'm not going to all of those horrible city council meetings to stop Nexus, I don't get out much. Well, except for court. I've only actually met suers Jim D'Angelo and Dave Hutchinson. (Always exceedingly unpleasant...) I've never even seen the other people who are suing me - Peter Freeman (suing me twice, once for embarrassment and again as Team Nexus board chairman), Janet Benway (AMERIPRISE) Father Jerry Schik (YES a CROSIER PRIEST!!!!!), Laureen Carlson, Darnell Allen (SUPERVALU), Jeff Talley, Kevin Gray (MNDOT CFO), Larry Riesselman, Francis Smith (father of Michael D. Smith - you remember the Jack Abramoff scandal? Smith was Jack's partner.), and Laurie Zenner... Do these suers actually exist? So I hear. In this country, we have THE RIGHT to face our accusers. I, however, have to research mine on the Internet because I have no idea of who they are. (They aren't from MY neighborhood... They just dumped their 94 sex offenders here.) I've been to court THREE times and have yet to see anybody from Nexus except Vic, their lawyer. And as diligently as I TRIED to communicate with all of these ... people, they gave me the Nexus Silent Treatment until the sheriff's deputy showed up in my yard with the lawsuits. HEY! WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, NEIGHBOR!!! WANT TO BORROW A CUP OF .... MY SOUL?
Anyway, it wasn't my intention to cause any trouble. I didn't expect to talk to any Nexusians. To tell you the truth (and I always do), I haven't set foot on that 38.81 acres since Nexus purchased it from the Onamia Corporate Real Estate Office (i.e. City Hall...). Jim D'Angelo might have given me permission when he talked about giving me an "easement" to use the land, but this is a fellow who lied on a sworn affidavit while suing me for calling him "Poopsie". I'm certainly not going to trust him not to shoot me for trespassing. So no, I haven't been there since they ruined it. And I don't plan to go back. Today was MY day to visit the Mille Lacs Academy. So I did. I was invited.
My first impression of the "Academy" was utter shock. YIKES! The buildings, which I knew from the plans would be ugly, also looked so CHEAP! Really tacky. (How sad for poor Councilman Jerome Kryzer - whose proudest life acheivement was to put sex offenders next to day care... "aye-ing" at every opportunity - those few months he actually resides in town, that is ... ) But then, that is just my opinion. For all I know, J.F.K. is thrilled with the ticky-tack. (Please note: I don't know Jerome's middle name, but here the F. does not stand for Fitzgerald...)
For $18 Million taxpayer dollars, I expected much more. But then, perhaps the inside of the buildings are nice??? I don't know. I didn't go in. I never will (unless it is to drag "home" one of the escaped sex offenders I round up on my property, in which case it will definitely be my intention to cause trouble. A lot of it).
You know, it just occurred to me that perhaps, for a non-creative kind of person, these buildings might be ... like... the ultimate. I don't mean to brag, but I've composed symphonic music, have a couple of paintings in a museum, and designed and built my own dream house. I've been creative all of my life. Thusly, maybe I'm being harsh in my judgment. Maybe building sex offender facilities that resemble Nazi concentration camps made out of paper mache' is the best they can do, and they should be commended for their attempt at creativity. Still.... $18 million taxpayer dollars... Maybe it wouldn't be so ugly if it was in an appropriately zoned area such as commercial or institutional. Maybe it just doesn't belong where they built it. I tried to tell them...
The next thing I noticed was that I was looking directly at the director Paul Smith - you know, the one who has been indicted for embezzlement, fraud, mail fraud etc. down at Marie-Detty in Oklahoma where he used to be the director there too. He was standing in the parking lot laughing along with Pat Rookie. They seemed happy. Well, until they saw yours truly. Now there isn't any love lost between Smith and me. (I mean Paul, not Francis or Michael D.) Just seeing him made my skin crawl. It always does.
"Now why isn't that man in jail?" I said. But then, it hit me... Paul and I have something in common. We're BOTH defendants! NEITHER of us has yet to face our Accusers! (Of course, he keeps getting his trial POSTPONED while I'm seeking to get these frivilous lawsuits against me dismissed.) And NEITHER of us wants to live next to .... a school. I almost felt sorry for him. At least I'm not facing 30 years in prison .... or even Brazil.
A nice looking young man with a Mille Lacs Academy tee-shirt ran up to our vehicle. Poncho rolled down the window. The nice looking young man looked happy as he invited us to join in the festivities. We declined. I have to say, he was very nice. (Contrary to your Pronexus beliefs, my fight has never been with the employees - just the location and the incompetent Onamia government's malfeasance -and finally, of course with the suers.) Obviously, this young man didn't realize he was talking to Hannabelle or maybe he wouldn't have been so pleasant. (Orders from the old boss and all...) Maybe later he'd send me some nice death threats or nice creepy comments on my blog... But he was really nice. He told us we could at least come over for a bag of chips.
I looked at the ugly mess of ugly "cardboard" buildings and sweeping my arm across the view, I said:
"Gee. All that AND a bag of chips."
We drove away.
[*1] That figure is just a rough estimate I based on what I've spent defending myself so far while being persecuted in two lawsuits - for 1. calling former CEO Jim D'Angelo "Poopsie" and embarrassing Pete, and 2. after I brought really, really unwanted attention to a child killed by a Nexus employee at another Nexus facility. Judging by their case against me, coupled with the old adage "you get what you pay for", I figure their lawyers are cheaper than mine.
[*2] Nexus charges county governments (last I heard it was about $245.00 per sex offender per day- with 94 of them, you do the math...) for "treatment", thus receives its primary income from taxpayer money. Nexus, a company that made $40 Million last year, is a "non-profit" company and does not pay taxes. It also got 15 years tax ABATEMENT from the Onamia Government (along with other "deals") and 7 years tax abatement from the county. We pay taxes so Nexus doesn't have to. But Nexus couldn't exist without our tax dollars.... Something to think about.
CORRECTION: I had written that Nexus made $40 Million "in profits", but that was an error in speakage on my part. According to Jim D'Angelo's resume:
NEXUS; Minneapolis, MN.
A $40M+, 720 employee, not for profit behavioral health agency with operating locations in Minnesota, and Illinois.
Anyway you look at it, that's a lot of tax dollars...
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