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THE STATUS QUO:
You may have fallen for this one too… Often Patchogue Village Code Enforcers (see http://www.patchoguesredevelopment.wordpress.com) say that they are “starting to enforce the law,” when, in fact, all they are doing is either raising revenue or targeting a non-politically connected person for their own agenda. In public meetings Patchogue Village officials grandly proclaimed that they could interpret the law “…any way they want.” Senior Code enforcers colorfully insist they can write tickets on any house in Patchogue “until the cows come home.”

“SOFT LAW” FOR YOUR BUDDIES, HARD RULE FOR THE REST OF US:
Political privilege in the Village of Patchogue is a great asset before the law. Some businesses are exempt from vast stretches of the Patchogue Village Code. While others, usually those that cater to working people, are harassed or shunted. A crisp, fresh example is the Dollar Store debacle. For years the Village of Patchogue issued entirely fake “STOP WORK” orders—employing a fake tool to force our residents to comply with other fake procedures and fake law. The  Wood class-action law suit settled and the Mayor admitted how the Village knowingly enforced New York State Motor Vehicle law, lining their pockets with cash and all the while having no authority or capacity to write tickets as constables. The Wood lawsuit settlement stipulation requires the Village to make efforts to clean up our driver’s licenses. However a November of 2008  investigation into the Village’s failure to wright these  past wrongs has shown the how utterly negligent the Village is in obeying the  stipulation to erase the makes on the Victim’s licenses.

Another example is how the same laws are harshly enforced against a tenant class, especially if those tenants are working class families, but are not applied to homeowners. In fact, there is evidence that the Patchogue Village even invents laws, determinations, and administrative procedures; to burden those it deems as unfavorable or not welcomed. Recently, the Patchogue Village was converting the $1,000-type tickets into tax liens, so the undesirables could be more expediently driven from their property. Many business owners say that the Village government is responsible for the vast stretches of vacant stores. Smart entrepreneurs won’t move in to the line of fire, “any more than they would move to Idia Amines Uganda.” Look what they did to the Mustard Seed Café and Good Fellows.

THE SOLUTION: BECOME A PUBLIC WITNESS AT http://www.databasejustice.com
There is an old adage that goes something like this: You can be violent, you can be a victim, or you can bear witness. Our solution is simple, we ask that the residents of the Village of Patchogue become witnesses and make statements (anonymously if need be), as to how the law is being enforced. For example, if you notice unregistered vehicles on the property of someone who is politically connected, but who is not ticketed, we’ll add your observations to our database. With enough witnesses we may protect ourselves from political abuses. Why should the politically connected be exempt form $1,000 unregistered motor vehicle tickets? Why should the politically connected be able to jam three families into a two-family house? We believe that with enough witnesses to all these political abuses, there will be a shock-wave of real change that could protect residents. We aim to develop compelling court admissible evidence that the Patchogue Village laws are being selectively enforced. Your witness to the behavior of Patchogue Village Officials may prove “beyond reasonable doubt” that much of the Patchogue Village’s law enforcement is arbitrary and a violation of the Patchogue Village’s own code of ethics.

VOID FOR VAGUENESS:
Our Constitution requires that a reasonable man be able to shape his conduct to conform to the law. But whatever is good for them is good for us. First town attorneys carefully construct the law that is as plastic and as incomprehensible as possible.

WHATEVER IS GOOD FOR THEM IS GOOD FOR US:
Patchogue Village gives some tacit permission to break the published laws? The Stave v. Johnson, 507 S.E. 2d, case states “To determine whether a penal law is unconstitutionally vague, a two-pronged analysis is applied; first, the statute must provide adequate notice of what conduct is prohibited, and second, the statute must not be drafted in a manner which fosters arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement.

For the first time we have a unique opportunity to track the way in which laws are being applied and what the present administration’s enforcement standards are. With http://www.databasejustice.com we may actually be able to know what is the standard of conduct is. With the http://www.databasejustice.comdatabase you can file and retrieve information from residents just like you. The database is a grassroots tool to access information that will aid the average citizen in defending himself or herself against the Patchogue Villages policy of selective enforcement. Or, said a different way, with a www.publicwitness.com database residents can defend themselves against being arbitrarily “shaken down” with fines like the $1,000-type of fine.

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