Judge Richard B. Meyer has granted the Lewis Family Farm's motion for attorney's fees, noting APA's incredible early order that the Farm submit to and waive any right to claim that the APA's illegal assertion of jurisdiction was unauthorized by law.
APA motivation, urged by the Adirondack Council and others - is revealed in this case and related cases.
His Honor was helped by AAG Loretta Simon explaining away the APA's illegal jurisdictional mission creep - used again and again - as "Cut and Paste" – as carelessness – an error, perhaps by the absent minded true believers.
To the consternation of an embarrassed bureaucrat from Albany, APA was caught, pants down, as it scratched out the offending and incriminating legal jargon with a pencil.
Attorney Simon's words came in Oral Argument as she was questioned by an alert jurist - seemingly stunned by the enormity of the concept in play.
Judge Richard B. Meyer is unique. The North Country’s best has set the standard. This APA stuff has been going down for decades. Now, thanks to the Court, we have the record.
And thanks to the Clerks, in a dozen County Offices across the vast park – on shelf set apart, isolated for evidence – the offending, illegal pattern of "jurisdictional submission" is on public display in "settlement" after "settlement," and on deck for Court consideration, starting in Elizabethtown.
But the Court will need help.
As used in this case, in words uttered in open court, "Cut and Paste" simply means implanting phrasing that reduces property value with eternal easements and illegal jurisdiction, impairing title forever. Court challenges are forsaken and the impoverished merely settle.
APA demanded we relinquish right of appeal, forever. We fought. We won.
This “Cut and Paste” monstrosity was intended for Lewis Family Farm. The Attorney General could not deny this.
“Cut and Paste” reduces the landowner’s equity as obliged by a rogue agency gone berserk.
“Cut and Paste” denies due process. Due process – denied by fiat. The APA has been delighted. People have been crushed. It is that simple.
“Cut and Paste” is boilerplate in unilateral settlement agreements that bludgeon the local poor in favor of the downstate wealthy.
“Cut and Paste” refers to a clear and clever conspiracy of silence that repeats and repeats, its trail covered by weakened and complicit North Country counsel, see Briggs and Aubin.
With fees charged and weak representation all there is, North Country counsel has aided the APA with weak representation, again and again.
As all will learn, Cut and Paste is the downstream of action by an encircling 501(c)(3) keiretsu, a relentless, devious, clever cabal of influential downstate acquirers, aided by advocacy journalists for hire, wrapped in the flag of a needed movement, motivating, then applauding, the corrupted APA, with all of it designed to please the anonymous 501(c)(3) donor coming to gut the locals and to buy what they have owned for generations.
It was all there in John Bruce Maye.
What now?
For decades the Adirondack Council and the APA, with Attorney General in the closet, have clubbed jurisdictional settlements and easements that impair value and oblige sale, stripping the North Country of its children.
Distant taxpayers now own over 45% of the private lands in the Park. They do not work here. They will not staff our fire companies and EMT. They do not hire here. They do not build here. Most come rarely. They just own here.
Homesteads owned through generations are liquidated, neighbors flee their birthright, and family is destroyed.
Children vacate, leaving parents and grandparents to die alone.
We fought. Now, the people of the North Country must demand a full investigation into the APA's pattern of jurisdictional lawlessness and abuse.
In Judge Meyer’s Court we have created the needed record. We are posting other records.
Now, what will the people do?
