Michael Allison Harassed By Abandoned Vehicle Ordinances Part 2 Of 2 [5p8yfki4cQA]

00:00 Alright Michael, I don't want to step on your story so if i'm moving you forward too much let me know. This is all very important and I have a lot of questions, and I know Jeff has a lot of questions about what you've told us so far. These are important issues but it seems that the authorities have somehow turned this into a completely different controversy about you eavesdropping in illegally quote-unquote taking recordings So how did your fight over your cars in your yard become a fight or were you recording something?

00:40 uh... the if i'm starting out in lawrence county and bridge of bridgeport illinois which is an orange county and the way that it transition to crocker county and then robinson illinois which my mother lives in robinson uh... i was a uh... in the process of restoring nineteen eighty seven cadillac but actually belongs to my mother it was her car and it was parked in her driveway I was on private property and I was restoring the motor in that 1987 Cadillac for my mother. And, uh...I was in the backyard of my mother's house exactly 71 days after I had voluntarily dismissed my case against Bridgeport

01:25 And I did that strategically to be able to refile it within a year and all of my deadlines for discovery restart. So, I strategically dismissed the case against Bridgeport with the intent to refile it and 71 days after I had done that, I was working on my mother's car And I noticed a police car stopped in front of her house. So, I walked up to the front of the house and the police officer was a Robinson City Police Officer and his name's Rutan and his first name is William. William Rutan. Now what year was this? This was actually in late 2008

02:09 It was in November of 2008. And I dismissed my case against Bridgeport in September of 2008 and so I was working on this car, and here comes the Robinson City Police. And he gets out of his car and tells me that the vehicles that are sitting parked in the driveway are in violation of a city ordinance because I happen to have a 1974 Chevrolet pickup truck that I was rebuilding the motor in it also parked right beside my mother's Cadillac, and I owned the pickup

02:45 so uh... he said that the two vehicles that were parked in the driveway were in violation of this ordinance and that uh... they're they were going to take action against me so i told him i said the cadillac belongs to my mother and pick up belongs to make and i said i know what this is all about i've dealt with it in the city bridgeport and uh... if you are taking any action against may or cause me to have to pay any fines, then I'm going to sue you and the city over the same issue just like I did with Bridgeport.

03:21 And, eventually we got into the whole situation that I was basically telling them flat out that I was going to expose their scheme just like I had done with the city of Bridgeport because I had already mentioned in my court case laid out every piece step by step of how they were obtaining these titles fraudulently and illegally. and and uh... how they were doing a step by step and i did that before i dismissed the case so they already knew that i i knew every piece of information but i i needed to be able to prove that everyone involved in this is it is involved in a vehicle theft and extortion racket and um... if it's a racketeering situation at the conspiracy to commit racketeer and extortion

04:11 And I laid out every piece of it in my court case before I dismissed it. When you were talking with this William Rutan, were you recording that conversation? At the first time whenever he first showed up, it caught me off guard. I wasn't prepared for it Okay, so once the threats and the intimidation was taking place during that first first incident I Started thinking. I need to be prepared for whatever's to come next So that's that's basically where I started documenting everything that I could That was involved in this whole illegal scheme Yeah, so he's what you

04:50 So what, you took video recording equipment when they came on your property and started recording them? Basically some of the reports that say video that's not right. The recording involved in question is just audio only. That's audio alright with your cell phone or what? It's just a digital recorder. A digital recorder It was an Olympus DS-30, I believe is the brand.

05:29 I thank you. I didn't need that much detail, but you just have this little recorder and so every time you're confronting someone from the local police you record them do they see the recorder? At various times that I had it right out in the open and at various times maybe they didn't know it. I don't know. The point of that issue is i never tried to hide it and they they knew what was taking place whenever uh... every time that they they had an incident where they came in trying to harass me they knew that i was documenting it and uh... the next incident would have won root and showed up uh... happened right on my mother's front step on a front porch

06:13 and how they can claim an expectation of privacy whenever they came here to harass and threaten me. uh... and on home my mother's property man and that you know it's not like that i i walked into their bathroom or something in their own house they came here to threaten me so uh... uh... i didn't invite them and and i told them i just wanted to be left alone cycle reminded i knew what this was all about i've dealt with the before And I just wanted to be left alone. So, I'd like to get a little editorial comment here Mike if you don't mind? It seems to me that the police...I mean here they have cameras on the police cars recording them and you might have a security camera in somebody's home and so it is pretty normal these days to find yourself being recorded

07:09 I believe, and I'll get your comment on this or maybe you don't want to touch this. It seems to me that the police are hiding something it seems to me that if the police were following the rules and doing everything by the book they wouldn't mind you recording them but there's some reason why they don't want you to record them and uh... and that's the i get back to the backstory of of everything that are laid out is now there i'm not facing the time potential time that uh... this bogus uh... eavesdropping statue calls for simply because of the recordings may or may not exist you know uh... it's the bare fact but i was a trying to and attempt attempting to expose

07:52 the underlying corruption and and uh... their whole scheme and and i threatened to basically bring down there also came well no my goal with we've got about six minutes left uh... so where were is a stance that will you arrested one day for videotaping them The way that all happened was they ended up issuing a citation saying that I was in violation of the city ordinance in a city that I don't even reside in and I don't own any private property. but they were saying that i was in violation of a city ordinance the governs real property located in the city limits of the city robinson which uh... move basically means that the citation i wrote out was bogus when without uh... jurisdiction without merit and uh... there at that citation sent me to a court in crawford county and and uh... i knew that the court case with them be just as crooked and bogus as as what the police were

08:53 And so I went the day before the court hearing and requested a court reporter, and my request was denied. I was talking to the circuit clerk, and she denied my request. I re-requested it, she denied it again, and while I was talking to her I had my digital recorder in my hand And it was turned off at the time, and I was using it as a visual aid. And I said, I want a record made of this court hearing because I intend to use it to sue the city, the city police and the city attorney, and everybody involved in this whole vehicle scam just like I did the City of Bridgeport. So I told them flat out every time that I was dealing with them that I was going to take action against them for what they were doing against me

09:42 have you were you ever taken to jail just specifically for the audio recording yeah and i think that uh... and i get into the the whole situation that happened the very next day even though i i would never specifically said but i intended to record the court hearing they anticipated that i a what had been tended to and they knew that an advance and never told me you can do this you know they didn't they didn't volunteer the fact that now that would be prohibited there they uh... just uh... of the circuit clerk at some point in time and between the time but i talked to her on uh... on january twelfth of two thousand nine

10:27 and and uh... the thirteenth of the very next day of two thousand nine um... that they are the judge that was setting in in over this uh... bogus ordinance hearing and uh... the sheriff deputy who was acting as a bailiff the city attorney who is prosecuting the alleged ordnance violation everyone in my courtroom knew what was about to happen when i walked through that door except for me and what basically happened was as soon as I walked through the door, the judge looked right at me. As I was putting the recorder in my pocket, I was facing her and walking through the door at the same time. And she didn't even start to hearing and she asked a question while I was still walking through the door. She said do you have a recording device on you? And I responded. She said is it turned on? And I said no. Then I responded once again so

11:23 When she heard the answer to those two questions, she proceeded to read the Illinois eavesdropping statute that she had laid out on her desk. It was already open to the page and the book was open and she quoted the statute based on the fact that I answered those two questions And now that she has confirmed that I have the recorder, she quotes the statute and then informs me that I have just committed a class one felony offense of eavesdropping against her personally because she did not give her consent to being recorded. And I violated her right to privacy in this open court hearing."

12:05 Okay, now where were the where we're worded 75 years. Where did the 75 years in prison? Where'd that ever come from? She went on to after she told me to turn it off As she read the statute and said that I was just in violation of a class 1 felony, or that I had just committed a class 1 felony. And she told me to turn it off so then she goes ahead with and proceeds with this bogus ordinance hearing And even though she's just told me that apparently I'm a criminal and that she is apparently the alleged victim of this crime, this alleged crime. She goes ahead and instead of instantly having me arrested

12:54 or even instantly recusing herself from going further with this bogus court hearing. She goes ahead with this bogus court hearing, and at the end of this hearing she sets a court date for a bench trial and then tells me that I'm free to go. The sheriff deputy, who was acting as a bailiff stopped me at the door and said you're under arrest for eavesdropping And she told me to turn it off and I turned it off He said your under arrest for eavesdropping with the circuit clerk yesterday and with the city attorney's secretary about a week ago

13:34 So he asked me, am I going to have any problem? And he was reaching for his handcuffs. And I said no, I can't believe this is even happening but you ain't gonna have any problems and do whatever you gotta do. Ok Michael we got a minute to go so what are your thoughts on the ultimate obviously and none of us here want to see you go to jail right so what what would be a what your attack here we got about a minute ago were off the air uh... my attorney is as uh... came on onto the case and his challenge the constitutionality of this eavesdropping statute yes and uh... that's basically where rest right now is that there will have a motion to dismiss

14:23 Based on the fact that the statute is unconstitutional who came up with this 75 years in prison The statue calls for oh, I didn't explain that part of it once they see the recorder uh... that they went through the recorder after they illegally obtained the record recorder and kept it illegally once they had let me know seconds they kept a recorder and went through it and found every other instance where they wanted to help me with another another count So that's where they piled them all on, and what they're saying is that they have evidence to have problems. Michael Allison thank you for being with us we are at the end of the show if you want more information you can go to Mike Hanson archives on youtube.com Okay see ya next week folks maybe for the last time