Wednesday, June 25, 2014

JUDICIAL 'HELLHOLE'...YOUR RIGHTS IN MAGISTRATE COURT!



25 JUNE 2014, Vol.1, No.60 > JUDICAL ‘HELLHOLE’…YOUR RIGHTS IN MAGISTRATE COURT!

The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
[New Email address: pocahontascrier88@gmail.com]


JUDICIAL ‘HELLHOLE’…
YOUR RIGHTS IN
MAGISTRATE COURT!

PART OF THE PROBLEM

All around the nation, West Virginia is known as the ‘Judicial Hellhole of the USA, and within West Virginia, Pocahontas County is known as the ‘Judicial Hellhole’ of West Virginia – pursuant to bad judicial decisions, failure to provide timely Court Orders, and the number of appeals filed to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia!  So Congratulations, those of us living in Pocahontas County are living at the bottom, or center, depending on your location, of ‘Dante’s Hell’ – the ‘Seventh Circle’, a place where bankers / usurers are LOWER than blasphemers, sodomites, pedophiles, and murderers! 

When looking at the ersatz Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation (GVEDC) and its thievery of land & funds FROM this county – led by bankers – that scenario paints a pretty accurate picture TODAY considering that Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, wrote his classical work, ‘The Inferno’, between 1306 – 1321 as a satire against the corruption of his time; similar to that when Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli wrote his  satirical masterpiece, ‘The Prince’, reflecting the corruption of his time between 1498 - 1512!  They are but two in a very long line of great men who spoke out and wrote SATIRE against political, religious, social and economic corruption through the centuries!  Like King Solomon said, ‘There is nothing new under the Sun’.  Thus the line of ‘muckrakers’ challenging corruption is long & distinguished indeed!

In all fairness, those calling West Virginia the ‘Judicial Hellhole’ of America are in fact the most corrupt of all comprised MOSTLY OF MONEYLENDERS & INSURANCE COMPANIES, as well as Pharmaceutical companies for flooding the State with illegal drugs, that have been sued by our former State Attorney General, Darrell McGraw, who filed lawsuits and won BILLIONS for the Citizens of this State!  But McGraw was defeated after five-terms in office by a ‘lobbyist-lawyer’, Patrick Morrisey, who worked for the predatory corporations that outspent McGraw ten-to-one in the last election since McGraw was keeping the predatory-capitalist-corporations in check on behalf of ‘We The People’!  In short, corporations NEVER want to a admit any wrongdoing even when an employee is permanently injured or killed!  Nor do corporations ever want to pay any restitution for any injuries, lost of limbs or eyes for any employee – or pay any death-benefits to the family of any employee – even if the employee was the main income provider for the family! 

And we’ve all seen this here in this county as well, as the owners of the most dangerous jobs in this county, i.e., timber-processors, have REFUSED to pay Workman’s Compensation, and even fought against paying Workman’s Compensation and other benefits to employees injured on the job pursuant to the FAILURE of the owners to provide proper safety equipment!  How many times have workers been told to use a ‘weed-eater’ WITHOUT BEING GIVEN ANY SAFETY GOOGLES?  How many times have workers been severely injured when loading or unloading logging trucks – or working the ‘Green Line’ – and only provided limited benefits?  Yet the owners of these timber-enterprises have been given thousands of acres of public land & millions of board-feet to cut to stay in business from the federal government as ‘corporate welfare’ – yet only pay their workers minimum-wages, fight against Workman’s Compensation, fire injured employees and willing to pay thousands to have a horse X-rayed to see the sex of its fold!  Hypocrites that want us to think they are ‘Christians’ and belong to a secret ‘benevolent-society’!

What the corporatists want is to put an end to Citizen-Juries setting the amount of damages in malpractice & injury cases, etc., and ‘cap-all-lawsuits’ for damages & permanent injuries at $250,000 as a one-time fee!  This is what those corporation-sponsored-groups want that place billboards along the highways wanting ‘Judicial Reform’, etc. – IT’S A BIG SCAM TO ONCE AGAIN CHEAT THE RANK & FILE CITIZEN INSTEAD OF MAKING THE CORPORATIONS PAY FOR THEIR CORRUPT PRACTICES!

For example, look at General Motors (GM) at the present time, KNOWINGLY allowing defective ignition parts to cause accidents & death – but determining that the cost of fighting the lawsuits would be CHEAPER than fixing the problem!  A simple example of PUTTING PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE!  So if you find yourself in such an accident pursuant to their neglect, would you want a JUDGE to tell you that the TOTAL you can receive is $250,000, as a one-time payment, for you to suffer the rest of your life with permanent pain, injury & loss?  What if a child or spouse were killed?  Would $250K be enough to forget them or compensate for your loss?  OR would you like a JURY to determine how much you should receive based upon THE GOLDEN RULE, i.e., doing unto others what you would want done unto you?  The basis of our current legal system is based upon the COMMON LAW, that was based upon The Divine Laws as found in the first five books of the Bible written by Moses as he was directed in order for all of us to have an ‘Operations Manuel’ for personal, family, communal and National Social Order!

And how about those ‘refinancing companies’ that promise lower interest rates, and ‘cash-equity’, for those who need extra funds so try refinancing?  Know anyone who has tried that system only to find that using their home-equity to finance any type of purchase usually ends up in the hands of ‘collection-agencies’ after the home-equity-company SELLS your DEBT to some other debt-collector?  Not only does it usually end of costing your more – but when any type of financial SETTLEMENT is reached – try getting that company to file a RELEASE OF DEBT in the county courthouse to show you are now ‘debt-free’!  In nine of ten cases, the holding company is an out-of-state collections-agency and WILL NOT spend a dime to ‘set-you-free’ – instead, you will have to file a complaint in circuit court, pay court costs, wait for the out-of-state collections-agency to refuse to answer and ignore your request – then you will have to get a ‘default-judgment’ and then take that court order to the county commission to order the county clerk to remove the Debt from the county lien book – all of course at YOUR EXPENSE!

THE MAGISTRATE COURT SYSTEM

For those that know their Bible, both Old & New Testaments – and this does not include ‘evangelical-churches’ that mistakenly believe the Old-Testament has been done away with – in Exodus 18, Moses was overwhelmed with judicial decisions from petty disputes all the way to capital-punishment!  So in Exodus 18: 17-23, Moses was advised to choose ‘capable men from all the people – men who feared YaHoVaH Our Creator, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain – and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens’, etc. 

Magistrate Courts, as we now know them, were originated in West Virginia pursuant to the Common Law whereby legal disputes were to be settled accordingly.  At first it was a ‘Tribunal’ of three elected county officials who made the decisions known as the ‘County Court’; but as the population grew, so too was the ‘County Court’ overwhelmed with all kinds of ‘citizen-disputes’, so the ‘County Court’ became the County Commission, and the Magistrate Court was formed under the Judiciary Branch of government as a ‘Citizen-Court’ comprised of lay persons, i.e., rank & file Citizens, including the right to have a ‘Jury of your Peers’, i.e., folks that know you, etc., hear your dispute and hopefully ‘choose wisely’ & honestly!

BUT LIKE MOST THINGS – bring in a ‘lawyer’ and things go to proverbial hell-in-a-hand-basket!  Now for the most part, the Magistrate Court is simply a Medieval ‘Star Chamber’ whereby the Office of the County Prosecutor tells the Magistrate what to do!  And the history of this county has shown that few magistrates have had either the intelligence or the moral-courage to do what they know to be right, instead of simply ‘rubber-stamping’ the opinions of the Office of the County Prosecutor – forcing an ‘Appeal’ to Circuit Court for a de novo trial, i.e., start over from the beginning!  And since most folks cannot afford an attorney, the ‘government always wins’ – OR SO MOST FOLKS THINK!

Now what has been in effect in point of principle and fact since the beginning, is the fact THAT ANYONE CAN REPRESENT ANOTHER PERSON in Magistrate Court WITHOUT BEING A LAWYER!  It depends on the person needing a matter settled in Magistrate Court, for less than $5000, if civil; and it’s a right handed down via our Common Law Roots – and was just RESTATED IN AN OPINION OF THE NEW STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL on 06 May 2014, as follows: 

State of West Virginia Office of the Attorney General

Patrick Morrisey                                                                                                                  (304) 558-2021
Attorney General                                                                                                        Fax (304) 558-0410

May 6,2014


Ms. Anita R. Casey Executive Director The West Virginia State Bar 2000 Deitrick Boulevard Charleston, WV 25311

Dear Ms. Casey,

You have asked for an Opinion of the Attorney General pertaining to the authority of unlicensed individuals to practice law in West Virginia Circuit Courts on behalf of limited liability companies ("LLCs"). This Opinion is being issued pursuant to West Virginia Code § 5-3-1, which provides that the Attorney General "shall give written opinions and advice upon questions of law ... whenever required to do so, in writing, by ... [a] state officer, board or commission." To the extent this Opinion relies on facts, it is based solely upon the factual assertions set forth in your letter to the Attorney General's Office. You explain that your Unlawful Practice of Law Committee has received an inquiry from an unlicensed attorney who wishes to purchase an LLC, serve as its sole member, and routinely represent that LLC in suits to collect on accounts of the LLC in matters in West Virginia Circuit Courts, when the matters at issue exceed the monetary jurisdictional ceiling for magistrate courts.

Your letter raises the following legal question:

Does the exemption of West Virginia Code § 50-4-4a, which permits a party to be represented by an "agent" in magistrate court proceedings, permit a non-lawyer to represent an LLC in Circuit Court?

West Virginia has adopted the well-accepted rule that only an attorney licensed to practice law can practice law in a court of record, except in cases where a person is appearing on his own behalf (pro se). See W. Va. Trial Ct. R. 4.03 ("Every party to proceedings before any court, except parties appearing pro se, shall be represented by a

Ms. Anita R. Casey May 6, 2014 Page 2

person admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and in good standing as a member of its bar."); accord W. Va. Code § 30-2-4 ("[i]t shall be unlawful for any natural person to practice or appear as an attorney-at-law for another in a court of record in this state ... without first having been duly and regularly licensed and admitted to practice law in a court of record of this state"). As our Supreme Court of Appeals has explained, "[t]he reason for the requirement that the practice of law be engaged in only by duly licensed practitioners of the law is to establish and maintain a legal standard by which the rights of persons may not be jeopardized or sacrificed by counsel and advice of unlicensed and incompetent persons." West Virginia State Bar v. Earley, 144 W. Va. 504, 528, 109 S.E.2d 420, 435 (1959).

Consistent with this principle, the Supreme Court of Appeals has long held that a non-licensed person may not appear in a court of record on behalf of a corporation. See West Virginia State Bar v. Earley, 144 W.Va. 504, 526-527, 109 S.E.2d 420, 435 (1959). The harms that such a person might cause are no different than when a corporation is not involved. Like any other non-lawyer, a "non-lawyer corporate agent's lack of legal expertise could 'frustrate the continuity, clarity and adversity which the judicial process demands."' Shenandoah Sales & Service, Inc. v. Assessor of Jefferson County, 228 W. Va. 762, 766, 724 S.E.2d 733, 737 (2012) (quoting State ex rel. Western Parks, Inc. v. Bartholomew County Court, 383 N.E.2d 290, 293 (Ind. 1978)). Nor is there any argument that such a person falls within the exception for unlicensed pro se representation. The person is appearing not on his own behalf, but rather as an agent of the corporation, which is "an artificial entity created by law" that can only act "through an agent or representative." Id. at 767, 724 S.E.2d at 738; see also id. at 766, 724 S.E.2d at 737 ("it is a well-settled legal principle that a corporation must be represented by a lawyer in a court of record").

While the Supreme Court of Appeals has not had occasion to consider whether a non-attorney may appear in a court of record on behalf of an LLC, we have no reason to doubt that the Court would find such an appearance impermissible. The risks presented by a non-lawyer representative of an LLC are similar—if not the same as—those presented by a non-lawyer corporate agent. Moreover, there is likewise no argument that such a person is engaged in pro se representation. An LLC—no less than a corporation— is an artificial legal entity. See W. Va. Code § 31B-2-201 (defining an LLC as a "legal entity distinct from its members"). Thus, a person seeking to represent the LLC in court would not be acting on his own behalf, but rather as an agent of the LLC. Notably, the overwhelming majority of cases outside of West Virginia hold that a non-attorney may not appear in court on behalf of an LLC. See Lattanzio v. COMTA, 481 F.3d 137 (2d Cir. 2007) (per curiam); United States v. Hagerman, 545 F.3d 579 (7th Cir. 2008); Collier v. Cobalt, LLC, No. Civ. A. 01-2007, 2002 WL 726640, at *1 (E.D. La. 2002) ("Whether the LLC is characterized as a corporation, a partnership, or a hybrid, it may only appear in court through counsel."); J. William Callison & Maureen A. Sullivan, Ltd. Liability Co. § 1:1, n.6 (2013) (collecting cases).

Ms. Anita R. Casey May 6, 2014 Page 3

You ask whether West Virginia Code § 50-4-4a creates an exception to this rule for a non-lawyer to represent an LLC in a West Virginia Circuit Court. That law provides: "Any party to a civil action in a magistrate court may appear and conduct such action in person, by agent or by attorney. Appearance by an agent or attorney shall have the same effect as appearance by the party represented, and the appearance by an agent shall not constitute the unlawful practice of law." Id. (emphasis added). The Supreme Court of Appeals has construed this provision narrowly to permit an "isolated or casual appearance by a non-lawyer friend or relative of a party to proceedings in magistrate courts for the purpose of assisting such party in representing himself in the litigation." State ex rel Frieson v. Isnei\ 168 W. Va. 758, 778, 285 S.E.2d 641, 654 (1981).

We agree with the Unlawful Practice Committee that Section 50-4-4a has no application to the facts as presented. By its plain terms, this provision "authorizes a party to appear by a lay agent in magistrate court—not a court of record," such as a Circuit Court. Shenandoah Sales, 228 W. Va. at 770, 724 S.E.2d at 741. This distinction is significant. Where a statute has sought to permit a non-natural person such as a corporation "to retain a non-lawyer representative to act as an agent on their behalf and engage in activities which constitute the practice of law in a circuit court" the Supreme Court of Appeals has found the law to be a violation of the Court's "inherent and constitutional authority to define, regulate and control the practice of law." Id. Accordingly, we conclude that Section 50-4-4a does not permit an LLC member not licensed to practice law in West Virginia to appear in a West Virginia Circuit Court on the LLC's behalf.

Patrick Morrisey Attorney General

What this means is that ANYONE – lawyer or no lawyer – that any given person wishes to have present their side of any issue in Magistrate Court can be done so under West Virginia law!  Now if only the Office of the County Prosecutor would simply present its ‘case’ and leave it at that – without telling the Magistrate what to say & do for its advantage – then maybe the Magistrate, or Jury, could make a decision based on THE COMMON LAW instead of the intimidation, threats, and plea-bargains that usually take place to the detriment of the ‘victim’ before the court!

In the meantime…

THAT’S WHY…

On 04 NOVEMBER…there’s no excuse…
 IT’S YOUR CHOICE…
TO CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER!

Just say ‘NO’ to those who want to keep this county in Poverty & Pauperism
– and –
Just say ‘YES’ to real Progress & Prosperity for the future!

On Primary Day – YOU have a chance to elect two persons that will always put YOU first!  They know that:

THE GREATER COMMON GOOD ALWAYS COMES BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL INTERESTS!

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   On 04 NOVEMBER it doesn’t matter how you are registered – YOU CAN VOTE for:

CHARLES WILFONG – ND
&
NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN - SD

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two candidates for County Commission
      CHARLES WILFONG & NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN  
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

PART VII - SNOWSHOE RAD - THE END OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY AS WE KNOW IT!



18 JUNE 2014, Vol.1, No.59 > PART VII – SNOWSHOE RAD – THE END OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY AS WE KNOW IT!

The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
[New Email address: pocahontascrier88@gmail.com]


PART VII – SNOWSHOE RAD – THE END OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY AS WE KNOW IT!

THE DILEMMA

For all those that happen to be ‘homeowners’ of a condo, townhouse, or whatever on Snowshoe Mountain or Silver Creek – then you know, or should know by now – exactly what is in store for everyone come 07 July 2014 when a meeting is scheduled for a discussion of whether to accept or reject the idea of turning Snowshoe & Silver Creek into a ‘Resort Area District’ (RAD) and in point of fact actually surrendering all your rights & claims for the benefit of making Donald Trump even richer at your expense!  And for all you ‘nay-sayers’ – perhaps you have not read the entirety of the ‘RAD LAW’ – if not, take a look-see at:  < http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2600%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=2600 >!

Kindly take notice of who actually gets to vote:

§7-25-5. Petition for creation or expansion of resort area district; petition requirements.
     (a) The owners of at least sixty-one percent of the real property, determined by acreage, located within the boundaries of the resort area described in the petition, by metes and bounds or otherwise in a manner sufficient to describe the area, may petition a governing body to create or expand a resort area district.

Guess who owns 63% or more of the REAL ESTATE BY ‘ACREAGE’?  Oh, so you do know Donald, do you?

And guess whose property-equity will be monetized for an ‘assessment’ to borrow against for ‘the cost of a project or projects’?  Ah, don’t worry – it’s just a fee ADDED ON TO all taxes & other fees levied on the property!

§7-25-3. Definitions.
For purposes of this article:
     (a) “Assessment” means the fee, including interest, paid by an owner of real property located within a resort area district to pay for the cost of a project or projects constructed upon or benefiting or protecting such property and administrative expenses thereto, which fee is in addition to all taxes and other fees levied on the property.
     (b) “Assessment bonds” means special obligation bonds or notes issued by a resort area district which are payable from the proceeds of assessments.

     (c) “Board” means a resort area board created pursuant to this article.

Guess how much DEBT can be added on to all monetized-equity?  NO LIMIT!

§7-25-20. Indebtedness of resort area district.
_____No constitutional or statutory limitation with respect to the nature or amount of or rate of interest on indebtedness which may be incurred by municipalities, counties or other public or governmental bodies shall apply to the indebtedness of a resort area district.
No indebtedness of any nature of a resort area district shall constitute an indebtedness of any county creating and establishing such district or a charge against any property of said counties but shall be paid solely from the resort service fee or assessments which the resort area district is authorized to impose on the owners of the property within the district by this article. No indebtedness or obligation incurred by a resort area district shall give any right against any member of the governing body or any member of the board of a resort area district.

Ah, don’t worry, even though ‘Snowshoe-RAD’ will be a private corporation owned by Donald Trump, he still will not be able to levy any ‘taxes’ upon you – only an ‘assessment fee’ for your monetized-equity!  [For those that may not know, the ‘equity’ is the amount of value between what the property-taxes are assessed and the actual fair-market selling price.  For example: if a property is worth $100K, the taxes are based on 60% of retail or $60K, and the ‘equity’ is 40% of the retail or in this example, $40K.  So all the equity of all the owners can be monetized to create a collateral base for an unlimited amount of DEBT of which each property will be charged an ‘assessment fee’!].


§7-25-7. Creation of resort area district; resort area district to be a public corporation and political subdivision.
     (a) Each resort area district shall be created by adoption of an order by the governing body.
     (b) From and after the date of the adoption of the order creating a resort area district, it shall thereafter be a public corporation and political subdivision of the state, but without any power to levy or collect ad valorem taxes.

IF you don’t continue to pay your assessed property-taxes, the County Sheriff can sell your property to someone else for the cost of a ‘tax-ticket’ – and if you don’t recover your property within a year or so, the purchaser of your ‘tax-ticket’ will own your property!

But the County Sheriff can also now TAKE YOUR PROPERTY FOR FAILING TO PAY THE ‘ASSESSMENT FEE’!  Ooops – someone forget to mention this part!  And Geewiz, it seems that your monetized-equity will be the collateral for BONDS and BONDHOLDERS! 

§7-25-21. Payment of assessments to sheriff; report to resort area district; collection of delinquent assessments.
_____(a) The assessments authorized to be imposed pursuant to this article will not be considered to be ad valorem taxes or the equivalent of ad valorem taxes under any provision of this code: Provided, That for the exclusive purposes of collection of the assessments authorized to be imposed under this article and enforcement of the assessment liens created by section twenty-two of this article, the provisions of chapter eleven-a of this code shall apply as if the assessments were taxes as that term is defined in section one, article one of that chapter.
_____(b) The sheriff shall promptly deposit all assessments upon receipt thereof in a segregated account established by the sheriff for such purpose and shall maintain a record of the assessments so received. Each month, the sheriff shall pay all moneys collected for the resort area district into the district treasury or, if the sheriff consents, to a trustee for the benefit of bondholders if assessment bonds are issued by the resort area district.

THE REALITY

Donald Trump is a ‘developer’ who makes his money building via cost overruns and playing all the angles he can muster!  Trump does not manage!  Trump builds & sells what he builds!  And Trump always carries a large DEBT so as to appear ‘lawsuit-proof’ and ‘too-big-to-fail’ – until someone calls his bluff as the folks did in Scotland recently when they sent Trump packing with his tail between his legs!  Now he has become OUR PROBLEM – but Trump had his LOBBYISTS in Charleston piece-meal the ‘Resort Area District’ nightmare into a state law over a five or so year period of time!  Who & how many were bought off is not as important as the fact that Trump is now in Pocahontas County – in TOTAL CONTROL OF IN EXCESS OF THE 60% OF THE LAND – BY ACREAGE – REQUIRED, AND IS ABOUT TO RIPOFF EVERYONE HE CAN ONCE AGAIN!

DOWN TO ONE OPTION LEFT!

Knowing the state of our educational system nationwide, and knowing the state of our educational system statewide, let alone countywide – it is no surprise that the State Legislature established that ownership decisions can only be made by the OWNERS OF ACREAGE instead of ‘Square-Feet’ as private homes & such as measured!  BUT THAT IS ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW SINCE THE MID-1830s! 

Ever hear of the battle between the TIDEWATER (Plantations) and the PIEDMONT (Mountainfolk)?  When this country was founded, ONLY LANDOWNERS COULD VOTE, and the Plantation-Owners of thousands of acres thought that they should have ‘one-vote per/acre’ compared to an Indentured Servant set free after seven-years of servitude that moved to the Wilderness (Indian-Land) and carved out ‘one-acre’ or more from the forest!  When it came time to vote, anyone owning land (except for women) were allowed to vote – BUT the Plantation-Owners did not like a former ‘servant’ having an equal vote to them!  So in the mid-1830s the matter was settled when Congressional Districts were standardized according to population rather than ‘acreage’!  But now along comes Trump and, “LAWS – we don’t need no stink’n Laws – we make our own!”

Trump has build into the RAD-Law that a ‘super-majority’ of six or seven board members must agree before anything major can occur!  Does anyone really believe that Trump would leave that to chance – instead of GUARANTEEING THAT HE WILL CONTROL EVERYTHING HIMSELF?  It is a given fact that already Trump controls 4 of the 7 seats, but he needs SIX to control every decision – and the last three-seats are supposed to be chosen by the current property-owners as members of condo-associations, etc.  But CONDOS are sold by the SQUARE-FOOT – and the new RAD-Law requires ACREAGE – so guess who controls in excess of 60% of the acreage?  Gee, and you thought you lived in a democratic-republic!  Were you absent the day they taught civics in eight-grade?  Oh, that’s right – THEY DON’T TEACH CIVICS IN SCHOOL  ANYMORE – that’s so the rich can get richer over the ignorance, i.e., lack-of-knowledge, of the peasants & minimum-wage-workers – you know, the kind that work for Snowshoe!

THE BETRAYERS, THIEVES & LIERS!

As everyone knows who attended a recent county commission meeting, watched it on a computer, or read the report in The Pocahontas Times, our very own ‘de facto-assistant-county-prosecutor’ took it upon himself, contrary to his ‘Oath-of-Office’, to request the county commission deny a county citizen from discussing the RAD-Issue before the county commission, especially the legal right of everyone to vote, whether a property-owner or not!  This ‘chor’ of ours went so far as to threaten the county commission that they might be ‘sued’ IF the private-citizen were allowed to speak – i.e., let the private-citizen exercise his FREEDOM OF SPEECH in a public meeting!  Fortunately the county commission did not listen to such stupid advice and the private-citizen made his content known to all – AND HE MAY BE RIGHT – Acreage has nothing to do with voting!  

Ironically enough, our ersatz ‘de facto-assistant-county-prosecutor’ neglected to mention to the county commission HIS OWN potential conflict-of-interest in supposedly being a liaison for the commission AND at the same time being a property-owner on the same mountain designated to become a RAD!  Like what else is new in this county when it comes to ‘conflicts-of-interest’?

THE END OF THE COUNTY AS WE KNOW IT!

If anyone can remember, when Intrawest first took over Snowshoe from a Japanese company almost two-decades ago, the FIRST THING mentioned was the potential to build a CASINO on the mountain!  The SECOND THING was the WV-DOH did a ‘study to improve’ Rt. 92 between I-64 in Lewisburg and Corridor-H in Elkins – and to include that into the plans for a four-lane from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico!  For the few that actually read the proposal, the ‘improvement’ was to REPLACE RT. 92 WITH A FOUR-LANE RIGHT DOWN THE VALLEY – wiping out all the farms in between!   Due to an uproar of opposition, the proposed projects fell into the shadows – but then along came the 2010 Winter Olympics whereby Intrawest fell into a massive $1.5 BILLION DEBT and took on Donald Trump as their controlling partner!

Trump as a self-styled developer builds CASINOS and then sells them off, and now he has his own RAD and can do whatever he wants – and the first will be to require a FOUR-LANE to get to HIS MOUNTAIN!  Then build his Casino, sell it to Jim Justice of The Greenbrier Inn, who will then do to Snowshoe Mountain what he has done on the property in Greenbrier – BUILD large homes for the super-rich on the back & surrounding acres!  Goodbye ‘pristine-Pocahontas’ as the ole-folks once called this county!

Now we ask you, WHAT will the likes of David McLaughlin & Bill Beard, Jr. really going to be able do about it should they become the next county commissioners?  Both have spent their entire adult life chasing after the DERRIÈRE of COWS, and Dave has the added experience of ‘driving around in circles’ delivering mail – SO WHAT DO THEY KNOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT?

THAT’S WHY…

On 04 NOVEMBER…there’s no excuse…
 IT’S YOUR CHOICE…
TO CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER!

Just say ‘NO’ to those who want to keep this county in Poverty & Pauperism
– and –
Just say ‘YES’ to real Progress & Prosperity for the future!

On Primary Day – YOU have a chance to elect two persons that will always put YOU first!  They know that:

THE GREATER COMMON GOOD ALWAYS COMES BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL INTERESTS!

Keep up to Date – Stay tuned to these Websites:




   On 04 NOVEMBER it doesn’t matter how you are registered – YOU CAN VOTE for:

CHARLES WILFONG – ND
&
NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN - SD

The Pocahontas Crier is an independent Internet News Service that has now endorsed
two candidates for County Commission
      CHARLES WILFONG & NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN  
in addition to providing in depth news reporting on important issues directly affecting the Citizens of Pocahontas County!

Email comments & suggestions to: pocahontascrier88@gmail.com  

The Pocahontas Crier is a free, non-subscription, Internet News Service meant for entertainment in the true ‘muckraking’ tradition of questioning authority, challenging corruption, and offering Common Sense Alternatives for The Greater Common Good before Self or any Special Interests!  We struggle for Social Justice on all levels and are part of The Crier Coalition of Internet News Services comprised of The Pocahontas Commentator, The Pocahontas Crier, Signal Fires of WV, Rolling Thunder &  Echoes from the Holl’r.