Posted By CotoBlogzz
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA- Arguably, the City of Bell,
California, has become emblematic of everything wrong with parasitic
bureaucracies, triggering what we refer to as the Bell Syndrome.
Consider the current
administration’s much touted Financial Reform Act, we refer to affectionaly as
the Parasites’ Feed Reform Bill rewards another parasitic bureaucracy, the
Securities and Exchange Commission by making it exempt from public
disclosures. All this after the SEC
failed to act on the Madoff Ponzi scheme for ten years, failed to act during
the economic meltdown, and some of its attorneys prefer to watch pornography
for eight hours, instead of work. What
a life! What parasites!
Or what about the action taken
to help the grossly mis-managed, union-backed, job-killing, deemed Too Big To
Fail institutions, such as Government Motors, FannieMae and Freddie Mac, while
attacking creative game-changers, efficient, job-creators, such as Intel,
Microsoft, Google and Apple, deemed Too Successful To Be Big
Then there are the horror
stories in the Common Interest Develop industry. Last month in New Bern,
North Carolina, Chief United States
District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Alisah Bittle of Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, to 35 months’ imprisonment followed by three years’ supervised
release and ordered restitution in the amount of over $800,000.
According to the Attorney General’s press release, since August, 2000, Bittle worked as the Property Manager
of Buck Island Homeowner’s Association in Corolla, North Carolina. Her
responsibilities included collecting homeowners’ dues, compiling financial
reports, overseeing the complex grounds and ordering lawn and pool supplies.
Starting in December, 2003, Bittle issued checks to herself or to
businesses for personal expenses, used the business credit card for personal
purchases, and withdrew money directly from the business account for personal
use. After Bittle admitted to the embezzlement, an audit
was performed in which it was discovered that a loss totaling $861,819.42 in
fraudulent transactions had occurred from 2003 until 2008. The embezzled money
consisted primarily of Association dues and assessments collected from nearly
100 Buck Island homeowners as well as other monies that had been set aside by
individual property owners for the on-going maintenance and repair of their
homes. Investigation of this case was
conducted by the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Closer to home in Agoura, CA’s Morrison Ranch, the local
governance in its infinite wisdom-less, decides to use legal counsel and spend over $200 to
Challenge $0.13 Request for Documentation.
Something the SEC does not even have to do anymore!
But
wait, there is more. As a result of the
Laguna Woods Third Mutual lawsuit against property management company PCM,
seems like a game of Musical Legal Chairs has broken out –
we prefer to call it a case of Palmetto Bugs trying to get out of the spotlight.
Are
we done yet? Not quite. Now consider the activist judge who just
ruled against the will of the people in California and struck down Prop-8 as
anti-constitutional, or the US Attorney General Eric Holder going after Arizona
for it trying to protect its residents, while the AG fails to go after
sanctuary cities.
Now,
consider the following:
"The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the two-fold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer. He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor -- indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one."
- Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 (1935) (Sutherland)
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