Well, the latest, a possible??? bully tactic has arrived in the mail as of February 27, 2008.Front of the Postcard: Looks like fun.....
Rear of the Postcard: Very strange......
Ok, folks involved - if this is one of your pranks or threats:
Our Question to you is:
Just how far are YOU going to continue to go?
Those involved keep taking it further by:
- not stopping the practices,
- reaming out taxpayers,
- hurting schoolkids,
- hurting everyone's futures, saddled with so many extra bond dollars to pay back,
- hurting educational programs needed,
- hurting the future of those who wish to learn - and can't get the programs because of the wasteful spending on overcharges,
- raising prices of college tuition sky-high to pay for allllll those alleged "lifestyle enhancements" etc. - greed - that cause such huge pricing,
- Getting using "used car salesmen" politicians to help (real statesmen won't touch such),
- And worse, Go after or threaten:
- A Housewife (Indiana)
- A Roofing Manufacturer (New Hampshire)
- A Roof Consultant (New Jersey)
- A Roofing Contractor (Idaho & Pennsylvania, and probably much more)
- A School Administrator (Missouri)
- And an Architect (California)
- Who else, besides your numerous former employees? (Many states)
And so it goes on ad infinitum, because the governmental authorities charged with catching overcharges to the government and who need to investigate are stopped - or refuse to act, with conflicts of interest abounding - repeatedly.
Such instances include but are not limited to reports and those who report them:
- Ignored by Press that has been told what to and not to report - a Pravda in our midst, involved de facto;
- Ignored by Governmental Authorities, involved and/or as I was told "calming things down" - or more accurately - "clam-ming things down" - by someone intimate with the California Governor's Offices - in the past few days;
- Told lies from Authorities, as in what to do to make reports, or how many contracts went to the perps statewide;
- Told lies from governmental personnel, as in Federal Employees lying about their conclusions and further actions that should be taken;
- Told lies by involved "legal" professionals, such as lawyers lying to clients, apparently "involved";
- Lies by omission, such as those by the California State Attorney General's Offices re: the SAG himself being a member of the Union representing workers applying the product reported to be illegally sole-sourced, with family owning such concerns;
- Politicians controlling what a State Auditor can investigate and report on, as in "Political Consultants" working for the interests of the elected State Attorney General controlling what the State Auditor can look into, from a political body's Joint Legislative Audit Committee;
- A politician allowed to control the reports of Whistleblowers and exposure of wrongdoing, the California SAG;
- A politician allowed to control the Quit Tam complaints and exposure of wrongdoing - as in the California SAG now able to dismiss a complaint without benefit of a jury, never before done in the 500 year history of the law;
- Called slanderous names;
- Judges attempting to silence using state-paid psychiatrists to deem the whistleblower "mentally incompetent";
- Silencing through the use of "Buddies" in the Court System, so that a Judge takes back a Dismissal with Prejudice - meaning you can never try the case again, but he does, several weeks later, or a Justice is related to or in organizations with a person who benefited from protecting those involved, or a Justice did not report criminal acts for prosecution;
- Silencing through the use of suits against former employees - many, not just a few;
- Undermining of reports to Authorities by involved Governmental Appointees, elected "Officials" and Governmental Employees;
- Use of the Legal System to Silence, Coerce and Threaten, such as asking for the criminal prosecutions of those who dare to bid another product other than their own, or those governmental employees who dare to allow another product as an equal in a bid;
- Use of lobbyists to change laws in their favor, not the taxpayers or education;
- Use of lawyers that lobby on behalf of the manufacturers to "help" State Attorney Generals "look" at the issues;
- Use of thinly-veiled asphalt-related organizations to change Public Contracting Codes to favor the involved manufacturers;
- Bullying, as in physical & other threats , such as:
- by hired thugs - one week prior to a court ruling/opinion;
- by phone - one week prior to a court ruling/opinion;
- by US mail;
- by Politicians, as in a San Francisco former Mayor/California Assembly Majority Leader;
- by "visits" from the manufacturer's lawyers, who "appear" to be afraid of what is known, that they "don't know";
- by a School Board President/Head of Facilities Committee;
- by local Prosecutors, caught on tape;
- by companies involved in specifying, hiring whistleblowers to torture them in the workplace with managers and coworkers of questionable repute;
- by companies involved in specifying, to attempt to "dirty" a whistleblower with involvement in the scam by drawing details for such a product on a job being unknowingly sole-sourced to the perps - while going through a court case re: whistleblowing about the marketing scams being used by that products' manufacturer;
- by "visits" from manufacturers and threats of suits, verbal or nonverbal, to media outlets and trade magazines who dare to print articles - such as pulling out large numbers of subscribers or advertising dollars, or worse;
- by Justices who provide rulings that help the scammers, meant to or not, circumventing constitutional rights, duties to report, allowing the hiding of procedures, lack of oaths in investigations, lack of enforcement of deadlines for those accused of pilfering the taxpayer tills, taking back rulings made with prejudice, warning whistleblowers off more reports, undermining future reporting of wrongdoing and the rights of the taxpayers and whistleblowers, etc.;
- by telling firms not to hire the whistleblowers.......
- Ignored by professionals who should not do so, apparently involved, overtly or defacto by not doing anything, including infoming professionals of the scams, how to avoid them, and alerting authorities when such occurs;
- And so much more.
Which governmental agency is going to have the courage to do the right thing?
We know they won't stop - what are you going to do, the Press, Trade Organizations, Unions, Governors, Legislators, Procurement Agencies, Educational Departments and School Boards and City and County and State and Federal Governments, Antitrust Lawyers, Attorney Generals, State Auditors and Investigators?
So far, most of the above-named save a few have not protected the public - for over 40 years of the scam's operation that we know about.
What will it take?
