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text_O.txt As of this Saturday morning James Barth will be in jail five days for ladders and firewood behind his garage that no one can see from the property lines as the ordinance he apparently violated clearly states is ok. As crazy as this sounds its true, this is not an exaggeration. The city of Orono Mn. In all their power and glory of the law decided that the proper course of action was to punish a homeowner criminally. so, how did we get here. A story rarely heard from a small town, to this date I've only heard of one other case where a homeowner was jailed for 2 days for unfinished piece of siding. That case was in Burnsville and resulted in an Minnesota senate committee investigation and lawsuit against the city. James Barth should of never been prosecuted in the first place, we can argue what city ordinance he supposedly violated and how ladders and firewood and a bike leaning up against his garage was a violation to his secret probation and why he plead guilty to his first court date, assuming they would just stop trespassing and harassing perhaps. The simple fact remains, at no time did anyone at the city stop from their overzealous, systematic and unjust asinine trespassing safari and inform him of his right to file an appeal with the city zoning board that oversees ordinance enforcement , if this would of been done James Barth homeowner could of spent thousands of his hard working dollars to hire his own slue of bottom feeding lawyers to counter the city's bottom feeders, thus is the American justice system for people with money which he is has not. so lets by all means destroy your homeowner financially and emotionally. To the city employees, yes i must remind them that they work for us and the hired slue of lawyers that the city uses to speak for them are also our employees. when was James Barth's rights as a property owner every considered, I'm sure your bottom feeding lawyers as they whisper in your ears will guide you in the correct answer before they cash their next Orono paycheck to make their Lexus payment and country club membership dues. when did the city of Orono mayor and council decide it was OK for Lawyers to speak for them, i must of missed that day in civic class. The city lawyers and code enforcement employees involved in this will most assuredly and inevitable state that they were "just doing their jobs" ," just following the law" and then proceed to incoherently lecture you on their interpretation of some law or code, missing the point that's as clear as the nose on their faces or use diversion to place the blame onto the homeowner by controlling the authoritarian propaganda in nice little sound bites or quotes in the news. Another tactic or term often used referred to as " plausible deniability" in which the The chain of command denies knowledge of and/or responsibility for any damageable actions committed by the lower ranks because of a lack of evidence that can confirm their participation even if personally involved or at least willfully ignorant. The individual 's responsible for James Barth sitting in jail are sleeping well tonight with little or no thought of their action or inactions that were directly responsible for sending someone to jail over ladders and firewood. I'm sure if you ask 100 people if jail time was warranted in this case, you would get the response "are you kidding me" 95 percent of the time. The other 5 percent are most likely sociopaths, lawyers or both. so, once again how did we get here? when did the city of Orono decide that Tyranny was ok , that cruel and unusually punishment was o , or is it a new orwellian city creed they are now rolling into place. A creed that demands obedience of its subjects or suffer it criminal consequences especially is you don't have the means finically to defend yourself. Months from now after the media buzz and court hearings die down and the city and lawyers can step back to reflect on what has just happened in this microcosm of society. If they have a conscious, what will their first questions be to themselves. what could I've done differently , did my ego and the sense of power override my moral compass, was I over zealous in myprosecution and to eager to inflict damage on others, was my sense of self worth solely based on my position in life, has my eagerness to please my peers lead me down the wrong path, I'm i morally misguided in this and other actions in life. well that's what any person would ask of themselves if responsible for sending someone to jail over ladders and firewood. so the next time you look into the mirror and your thoughts wonder, I hope you remember what Page 1