Wettlaufer’s documented Lie No.1
The Holland Blog is starting a LIE-Counter; this lie-counter will start at zero and will increase by one increment with each documented past or new significant lie by one of our selectmen.I know, the word “LIE” has an extreme negative connotation; I do not use it lightly. To allege that a selectman is lying is a serious allegation as the act of lying by any town official is an outrageous act. Some of what you will read here is ugly; most of you will only read about it, a few of us actually have to live with Wettlaufer’s and Earl Johnsons’s lies on a daily basis. While some slanderous lies only affect certain individuals, other lies affect the entire community in a most harmful way and will only be realized by unassuming trusting individuals when it is too late. The truck stop is a prime example of a development where nepotism and cronyism rule over commonsense and the entire community will suffer the consequences.
The first lie the Holland Blog is documenting here is a lie perpetrated during an interview by James Wettlaufer that he gave to the Southbridge Evening News just days before the election back in 2007. The evidence the Holland Blog provides to expose Wettlaufer’s lie could not be more credible. The evidence is a court document, the MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER ON THE DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS, HAMPDEN SUPRIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION NO. 2006-00651.
What the Holland Blog here does is not slandering the chairman of the selectboard James Wettlaufer, the Holland Blog here proves that Wettlaufer is slandering one of the residents of Holland. To read Wettlaufer’s LIE, click here!»
Peter Frei
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Posted on 13 May 2009, 6:13 by Huguenot Farms@Bondet Hill circa 1687Wettlaufer Lie
There was an "evidentiary" hearing in March of 2007 where the housing Court Judge took testimony from witnesses AND came to Holland for a viewing of our farm activities.
Furthermore in July of 2006 Wetlaufer actually traveled to Oxford and asked the Oxford Fire Chief to show him the LaMountain Huguenot Farm on Huguenot Road in Oxford.
While there he saw cows, barns, tractors, farm machinery, pastures and hayfields.
The reason Wettlaufer lied in the newspaper and residents of Holland was to discredit people associated with me who were running for Office.
Oh yea the Housing Court ruled that all of our axtivities in Holland are Agricultural and ordered the town to recognize our legal exemtions to the clean air act as shown below in MGL Chapter 111 section 142L. Wettlaufer has refused to abide by the Court order and publically is quoted in the Southbridge evening news as stating he does not agree with the Judges Ruling. Only in Holland is this a standard practice.
Again the Town Officials leave us no choice but to sue the town in Federal Court. I also named Wettlaufer individually in the lawsuit.
Below is the agricultural exemption of MGL 111.
PART I. ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
Chapter 111: Section 142L. Agricultural burning
Section 142L. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A to one hundred and forty-two E, inclusive, the burning of tree prunings, diseased plant materials, and brush from land clearing operations, which are the direct result of the normal commercial pursuit of agriculture, as defined in section one A of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, shall be allowed subject to the permission of the local fire chief which need not be in writing. Said permission shall be based solely upon whether or not appropriate meteorological conditions exist to ensure safe burning.
This case cost the town at least 20 thousand dollars to deny our farm agricultural exemptions as allowed by State Law.
I say he who interferes with agriculture should not be allowed to eat.
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Posted on 13 May 2009, 12:54 by Skipper
Over the top!
I remember reading in the newspaper about Wettlaufer’s disagreement with the judge’s decision, it is not that he doesn’t know the law; Wettlaufer thinks he is above it. LaMountain and Co. is over the top but still, he has the same rights as others living in this town and I’m getting sick of hearing and paying for these endless lawsuits that don’t help anybody.
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Posted on 13 May 2009, 13:27 by LaMountain and Co.
Over the top?
explain over the top skipper. We are sick of these lawsuits too. What other choices have we???? They told us not to access our land.
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Posted on 14 May 2009, 7:01 by Jim LaMountain
Hey Brian Johnson
I filed a motion to have Highway Surveyor Brian Johnson taken into custody for perjury when we go to Court in a couple of weeks. I applied for a driveway permit and Johnson submitted an affidavit stating the reasons why we can't have one. The notarized affidavit that he made under oath included at least four documented lies.
BRIAN, check this out! I found it on another Web site:
"A former Boston public works employee was sentenced yesterday to three months in the Deer Island House of Correction for lying under oath to a grand jury probing an alleged car-towing scam in Jamaica Plain that involved police officers and public officials."
ALSO ATTN ALL HOLLAND DEPARTMENT HEADS !!!
RE MY SUBPOENA FOR RECORDS,
OK people, you had Vincent McCaughey, town counsel, file a motion to quash my subpoena. Your motion was denied and Superior Court Juge Velis ORDERED the town to provide me with any and all documentation I request. Well, I made my first request two weeks ago in writing. I am waiting for the documents as ordered by the Court.
Are you guys ignoring another Court Order? I am sure the documents I requested will be very helpful in having more officials charged with miss-conduct(if you don't shred or hide them).
So all Department Heads, lets get them documents together for review. If you don't I will have no choice but to file a motion to find you all in contempt.
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Posted on 14 May 2009, 13:00 by Skipper
Over the top!?
I am not interested in politics even so I realized that politics affect me also personally. I had to get a simple permit to improve my property a while ago. My busy schedule forced me to pay an engineer to do the running around for my little project. At one point in time it was unavoidable that I had to accompany the professional in charge of the small project on one of his --too many-- trips. My memory of my visit to the town hall brings back feelings more along the line of a visit to the doctor’s office expecting a colonoscopy to be preformed than a visit to a place elected representatives suppose to help their peers. There is definitely something wrong in this town, too many positions are held by too few for too long. Most people don’t want to be bothered, including my self, I must admit. My visit to the town hall was a weak-up call.
Mr. LaMountain, what ever your goals are; reading about the crosswalk and about other alleged improprieties does not help your effort to bring change. Peter Frei’s only crime seems to be that he is your friend. His lengthy lawsuit ended up costing the town a lot of money and I still don’t know what the town tried to achieve that would justify the expense. I’m just rambling now…
I found this blog by coincident while googling something else related to Holland. You guys certainly stir up the pot as the rankings on Google clearly show. Nobody outside Google knows the algorithms utilized to assign rankings to certain queries; rankings are real!
Reading this blog became my healthy substitute for dessert after lunch, keep it up you may help me shed some weight! I need to go now…. Oh yea, over the top? Mr. LaMountain, you don’t seem to be as dumb as town officials would like people to believe; just tone it down a notch and you will be more effective; you don’t want to ruin the good thing you have going here!
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Posted on 19 May 2009, 21:15 by Your neighbor
Dear Mrs Raymond
Dear Mrs Raymond I watched the Selectmans variety show this evening and noted that most of what you said was propoganda for the Johnsonville Party. However I know we spoke in the past and I will answer the concerns you have publically raised.
We are and agricultural entity and there is a link posted to a ruling from a Judge. To see it scroll up and click on " to read wettlaufers lie click here" Click it and then read the rulings and findings of the housing court. You will see we are Farmers.
As such we enjoy certain exemptions from state law. One of them is that we are exempt from the wetlands protection act when performoing certain agricultural work. The following is the Law Mrs Raymond with the paragraph that exempts us from the wetland protection act.
PART I. ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
TITLE XIX. AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 131. INLAND FISHERIES AND GAME AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 131: Section 40. Removal, fill, dredging or altering of land bordering waters
ER 131
The provisions of this section shall not apply to any mosquito control work done under the provisions of clause (36) of section five of chapter forty, of chapter two hundred and fifty-two or of any special act; to maintenance of drainage and flooding systems of cranberry bogs, to work performed for normal maintenance or improvement of land in agricultural use or in aquacultural use; or to any project authorized by special act prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.
Constructing irrigation systems, farm ponds, water transfer systems are all allowed as exempted activities and are in fact listed in 310 CMR 10.04 (c) 1. g. under the heading, normal improvement of land in agricultural use.
Our pumping is temporary Mrs Raymond. And that stream runs dry the end of June till sept oct. You have no trouble with your well then do you? And we filter and return all the water we pump back into the water table.
By the way we willl need to run the pump twice as long now because when you tampered with the hose you wore the impeller in the pump by running it dry. Also both banks of that part of the stream are on our land so please note if you are in the channel you are tresspassing.
If you wish to discuss these matters and the others you raised in good faith then feel free to contact me @ 413 245 4502
James P LaMountain
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