Editor’s Note: Thank you! Readers! This article has drawn incredible interest and on Monday, September 16, 2013, we had almost 2,000 readers in the one day. (the morning numbers today look like it’s going to be another good day, too)! This can only mean that you are sharing this blog with others and your good work is bearing fruits. Keep it up! Get the Word out! Send the link to this blog to every one and anyone who can make a difference! Something’s moving out there and it’s BIG, HUGE!!! We were astounded at the numbers and could almost watch the counter move up and up and up. Thank you! Now let’s move and do something about it. Let’s continue the clean-up of local government on November 5th in the voting booths!
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The Village of Ravena’s “No Loitering” Sign citing Village Code §83-13 Lands the Village in Hot Water AGAIN!
Village of Ravena and Town of Coeymans Served with Notice of Claim for Civil Rights Violations and Unconstitutional Law Violating Citizens’ First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment Rights!
But that’s not all…
Town of Coeymans and Coeymans P.D., Police Chief Darlington Take a Kick to the Cojones!
Town of Coeymans and Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Police Chief Gregory Darlington Hit Hard with a Notice of Claim for Civil Rights Violations, Violating Citizen’s First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights, Criminal Obstruction of Justice and Official Misconduct Charges.
We reported on the village of Ravena’s insane posting of a “No Loitering” sign on a public gazebo and Ravena mayor John Bruno and hatchet-woman Nancy Warner’s harassing of citizens who congregate in or around the public gazebo, especially on nights when the Teen Center is open. Bruno and Warner were actually observed cruising the gazebo at bizarre hours, and the Coeymans police joined in the harassment.
What the village of Ravena didn’t realize and what the Coeymans Police and police chief Gregory Darlington apparently didn’t know but should have is that the village of Ravena so-called no loitering law is 110% unconstitutional and violates citizens’ civil rights and the provisions of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution that guarantee citzen’s rights of assembly, expression, due process, and prohibit unlawful search and seizure. In fact, the village of Ravena and the Coeymans Police Department actually were courting criminal charges of obstructing justice and official misconduct, according to the Notice of Claim served on the village of Ravena and the town of Coeymans.
Ravena mayor John Bruno and village of Ravena board members Nancy Warner, William Bailey, Martin Case, and Rocco Persico, and town of Coeymans supervisor Stephen Flach and Coeymans board members Peter Masti, Thomas Boehm, Thomas Dolan, and Dawn Rogers were all named in the Notice of Claim, a requirement before filing a full-blown lawsuit against the village and town.
The really troubling part of these harassment and civil rights violation allegations is that at least two of the culprits are employees of the RCS Central School District: Martin Case is a social studies teacher (Of all things, social studies! And he is the biggest hypocrite of them all!) at the high school and Rocco Persico is a school psychologist at the high school. What does that tell you about the types we have in direct contact with the kids? The very people we are paying to teach them in the schools are harassing them in the streets!!! Hypocrites!!! And one of them is “clergy” (of a sort), Coeymans supervisor Stephen Flach and Peter Masti is a R.N. and allegedly a serious “Christian.” Hypocrites!!!
In fact, Peter Masti writes in a letter to the editor and published in the Times Union (Thursday, September 17, 2009 ):
“Where will it stop, this all-powerful government stripping us of our rights in the name of “protecting others”? I do not have the answer, but we will not have to come up with it if we do not let it start at all.“
and here’s another Peter Masti quote (Times Union, January 8, 2013):
“When government thinks it is God, it oversteps its role in a most serious manner. It needs to remember that its oath is to uphold the law as it was originally intended.”
Yes, Mr Masti? Well it’s there now and now you and your friends will have to fix it. Our question is: When will you and your fellow board members, the Coeymans Police Department and the Village of Ravena stop stripping us of our rights?!? Can we put action where the words are?
And while we’re at it, lest we be accused of casting a blind eye to clergy who themselves cast a blind eye to the evil right under their noses, let’s not forget the apostate-hypocrite pastor of St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Ravena, the very type of “renewal” priest that Paul VI had in mind when he stated that the “smoke of satan has entered the Church thru a small crack,” (or maybe his holiness meant ‘a small crackpot‘). Rev. James Kane of St Pat’s, among his many, many abuses of rules and liturgy, has made the arch-satan of the Coeymans Police Department, Gerald “Dirty-Hands Jerry” Deluca, a lay minister, and has placed Dirty-Hands Jerry Deluca in the sacred space of the sanctuary as a reader of Holy Scripture during the Catholic liturgy. This is an incredible sin when you think of how the Christian churches, Protestant and Catholic, are always preaching and publishing about social justice, human rights, etc.! Holy hypocrisy, Batman!
The Claim demands payment of at least $1,000,000 in damages or, and this is where it gets interesting, that the village and town make public apologies, publish their apologies together with the apology of the Coeymans police chief in the local official newspapers and, as an alternative to the at least $1,000,000 plus, to make no-strings-attached donations in the amount of $100,000 per year for five years to the Ravena-Coeymans Teen and Youth Activities Center, the non-profit youth services organization that mayor Bruno, councilwoman Nancy Warner and the Coeymans police have been harassing.
The citizen filing the Notice of Claim explains that he is not interested in profiting for himself but the civil rights abuses have to stop. Furthermore, he says, if the village of Ravena can afford to finance an unlawful and fraudulent (our words) Ravena Health and Fitness Center to the tune of $105,000+ a year, a healthclub that excludes persons under the age of 18 years, the very group that the Teen Center takes under its wing, then it can serve justice and fairness by making a gift, a donation to the Teen Center, too. Young people are citizens, too, and should not be excluded from the generosity of taxpayers! We agree 150%.
Click here to read the entire Notice of Claim.
Notice of Claim Alleges Coeymans Police Chief is Incompetent, Discriminatory Law Enforcement, Criminal Obstruction of Justice, and more…
The second Notice of Claim that was served on the Town of Coeymans is going for the tender parts of the Coeymans Police Department and its incompetent police chief, Gregory Darlington…alleges discriminatory law enforcement, criminal obstruction of justice, and violation of civil and protected constitutional rights.
The Notice of Claim served on the town of Coeymans naming the Town of Coeymans, Coeymans supervisor Stephen Flach, the Coeymans town board and members Peter Masti, Thomas Boehm, Thomas Dolan, and Dawn Rogers, the Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans police chief Gregory Darlington, and Coeymans police officer Jason Albert alleges Coeymans police chief Gregory Darlington is a whimpering wimp (our language) and is Incompetent, and that on Darlington’s watch the Coeymans police department has engaged in discriminatory law enforcement, criminal obstruction of justice, and violation of civil and protected constitutional rights, and more.
The Notice of Claim also charges the town of Coeymans, the town of Coeymans supervisor Stephen Flach, and the Coeymans town board and members Peter Masti, Thomas Boehm, Thomas Dolan, and Dawn Rogers aiding and abetting the misconduct in the Coeymans police department and the incompetence of Coeymans police chief Gregory Darlington because the Coeymans town supervisor Flach and board members Masti, Boehm, Dolan, and Rogers have the duty and responsibility of directly supervising Darlington and his band of rabid wolverines. The Notice of Claim specifically names Darlington, Gerald Deluca, Ryan Johnson as examples of the failure of the Coeymans Police Department.
The Notice of Claim also names Coeymans police officer jason Albert for his role in the sham investigation of Cathleen M. Deluca a.k.a. Cathy Deluca, wife of Coeymans Police Department employee, Gerald “Dirty-Hands Jerry” Deluca. Officer Albert seemed to have had trouble reading the law or had some help having trouble reading the law and botched up the investigation not only of the initial complaint against Cathy Deluca, manager of the controversial Ravena Health and Fitness Center, but managed also to overlook the fact that Deluca and her employee Claude A. Wheeles conspired to criminally falsely report an incident (seems to be a local habit in Ravena-Coeymans) , and yet another criminal offence of obstruction of justice! Incredibly, Albert glossed over the facts and even closed the investigation just hours after having interviewed the complainant and then actually ignored evidence proving that Deluca and Wheeles had lied! We have the stuff and it’s unbelievable. But it just goes to prove that it rally pays off in Ravena-Coeymans if you know someone in village or town hall.
Since Coeymans police chief Gregory Darlington’s wife, Leah [sp?] Darlington, works in the Albany County District Attorney P[udenda] David Soares’ office, Could that have a little something to do with the disappearing investigations or the disappearing felonies? Waddaya say, Chiefie? Wifie and you in cohoots to save the Delucas’ bloated arses?
The obstruction of justice charges and official misconduct are both misdemeanors.
But the worst offence to the public is the fact that the Coeymans supervisor Flach and the Coeymans town board and its members Peter Masti, Thomas Boehm, Thomas Dolan, and Dawn Rogers, elected officials who took oaths of office to support and to protect the constitution have done just the opposite. Because they have failed miserably in their duties and obligations to supervise the Coeymans police chief, Gregory Darlington, and the operations of the Coeymans Police Department, they have indifferently, negligently, and in some cases wilfully violated citizens’ civil rights and protected constitutional rights. While this situation might be the norm in the village of Ravena, we do expect more from the town of Coeymans (Why? We don’t know.)
Gregory Darlington is a public employee, not an elected official, and is subject to the provisions of a job description both as a civil service employee and as a town employee, as well as to periodic evaluation and, if necessary, disciplinary procedures. But the town of Coeymans board has pussy-footed around and has let Darlington have his way in the department everywhere from ignoring blatant abuses, to ignoring employee misconduct, to refusing to communicate with citizens, and has not been held to the minimum standards of his written job description. But he’s being paid more than $90,000 a year out of taxpayer money! And nobody’s watching him or keeping him on the straight and narrow. WTF is going on here, people?!?
According to the citizen filing the Notice of Claim, “I’m just fed up with the favoritism, the dishonesty, the conspicuous double-standards and the abuse in this community. And it really gets my dander up when they go after easy prey like kids or brain-dead druggies and let the real criminals go Scott-free. No pun in intended when you know they let Scott Lendin off the hook! We see the crimes of boardmembers relatives like Tom Dolan’s son [Editor’s Note: Dolan is Coeymans town board member and liaison to the Coeymans Police Department] and Dawn Roger’s daughter [Editor’s Note: Dolan is Coeymans town board member and also town liason officer to the Coeymans P.D.] disappear! When you have friends in the police department, like Scott Lendin claims he has, felonies tend to disappear! That’s just not right! But they’ve f**ked with the wrong citizen now and for the last time! I’m taking no prisoners in this war.” YES! Stick to your guns and fight the good fight!
We hope that some of the citizens in the Ravena-Coeymans community will stand up and join this courageous citizen and join the fight to clean up Ravena-Coeymans and to take back our civil rights!
Click here to read the entire Notice of Claim.
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Trailer Trash In A Double-Wide
Somehow It Seems Appropriate That the Coeymans Town Administration and Police Department Should be Housed in What Appears to Be A Converted Cargo Container or An Oversized Double-Wide Trailer
Town Of Coeymans
Town Hall
It’s also not surprising that search as I may, I just can’t find a photo or an image of the Coeymans Town Trailer? Can it be that it’s such a gem of the Hudson Valley, such an Objet d’Art that they need to keep it a secret?
Or is it, more accurately, because it’s such a den of corruption and iniquity that only those poor bastards unfortunate enough to have to appear there and be humiliated by the ignorant but arrogant town justices, an ex-cop and a former cafeteria manager, or abused by the hirelings of Coeyman’s police department chief Gregory Darlington and his troupe of sadist pervert investigators and Albany PD rejects (McKenna and Johnson, included). I’d go for this latter option.
Moreover, it’s really unfair to even use the term “trailer trash” when discussing the town hall thugs. Trash they are but it’s doing a terrible injustice to those poor persons whom the elite disparagingly call “trailer trash.” There’s plenty of so-call “trailer trash” who would put the community élite to abject shame in terms of morality, virtues, values, and ethics. So, understand that I am using the term “trailer trash” in it’s most literal form, not in the manner that the hypocrites might use it to disparage persons less fortunate than themselves.
Now That I Have Your Undivided Attention…
That may at first blush sound pretty uncharitable and it probably is if you don’t think about it. But that’s the problem: You simply don’t THINK about things; more accurately, you don’t REFLECT on things, and you really ought to.
It’s only natural… that when someone comes and stirs up the scum in your pool you’re going to get pissed because the scum is stirred up, not because you were negligent and didn’t do what was necessary, the work, to keep it clean. Same thing for your community.
It’s only natural…that when you find that someone is pointing out your fat ass, and mentioning that it means trouble for your overall health that you become indignant at being called “fat,” and curse the person for the insult. But you know you’re fat and you know you eat unhealthfully and you know you don’t exercise enough but still, he called you “fat.” Same thing for your community, you know what’s wrong but you decide to live with it, deny it, work around it, and then you’re pissed because someone tells you something’s wrong and that you can fix it…if you care to.
It’s only natural… that you should all rise up and complain: “All teachers aren’t greedy!” Or “All teachers aren’t bullies, there are some very good ones.” You cry this out but you don’t also take into consideration that teachers, police, doctors, judges, men and women elected to public office are all in a special position in society; they want special respect but in return society holds them to a higher standard. Either they tow the mark or they go.
You want to wear crown? Well…
These privileged statuses also want to do their own dirty laundry, take care of their own. And so, when it becomes public that there are bad apples in the barrel, it becomes the task of the good apples to clean up the bad ones…or they can be included in the bad bushel, too. You want to wear the crown and wield the authority, enjoy the perks, do the dirty work guys and gals; clean up your litter boxes.
Find’em and Fix’em
It’s only natural….that because it was YOU who elected them to their privileged statuses that you will get pissed and want to kill the messenger when it becomes obvious that you or those to whom you have delegated your decision-making authority have put jerks in those power positions. But rather than kill the messenger, why don’t you bite the bullet and lay down the rules for the perps and pervs; you put them where they are and you can kick them out. Why do you let yourselves be silenced by those at the head table? Remind them that they are public servants, not tyrants!
Caught cookie-handed!
So you’ve been caught with your hand in the cookie jar? It’s really humiliating for the crook to be found out and actually be called a crook. And it’s those types that get the angriest and the most vindictive when found out. Rather than ask forgiveness, seek reconciliation and change their ways (turn around), they retaliate. Same thing in the community: You call the crook a crook and he lashes out at everyone within reach. Low self-esteem is a very volatile condition and that’s what makes bullies, student bullies, street bullies, teacher bullies, cop bullies. But if the community were to have done its duty and if the community were to be a moral example and conduct its business ethically, Guess what!? Most of these uncomfortable situations could and would have been avoided.
Morality is a question of character; ethics is a question of what you do. If you are a liar or a cheat, that is immoral, it is a question of character: your character is who you are. Character doesn’t happen overnight, my friends, it starts as behavior that becomes habit that becomes character, the person. It is your character that governs what you do, when you do it, and why you do it. So, if your character that of a liar or a cheat, your ethics is that of lying and cheating. Your character is you; your ‘you’ doesn’t change unless you truly do something about it.
We can only hope that more Laszlo Polyaks, more Donna Pasquinis, more Ann Marie Vadneys, more Jerry Bogardis, more Pam Powells come forward and speak out like those citizen residents do on a consistent basis. Only then will this community be able to rid itself of the tyrany of the Jerry Delucas, the Gregory Darlingtons, the Donna Hommels, the McTigues, the Matt Millers, the Bartletts, the James Latters, the Josephine O’Connors. Only when the community spirited among you become the role models can you take back control of your lives, property, children; the fearful and anxious majority in this community must shake off the fear and anxiety and return to controlling your lives and your destinies.
Please don’t misunderstand what I am teaching here. I’m not calling for lynch mobs, for banning, exiling, or ostracizing anyone but what I am preaching is that some really tough love might be in order for you to forgive, not forget, and to reconcile or not to reconcile with those individuals who have blackened and darkened this community and kept you silent all these years. It’s time to call out the bullies and to discipline them; its time for fair play, justice and fairness. It’s time to put them outside the community and allow them back into the community only after their moral and ethical lesions have been cleansed and are no longer a threat of infection to the rest of us.
It’s time to teach–not just talk about–the lost values of honesty, integrity, charity, simplicity, respect, humility, and generosity, teach those values to the children you all claim to love and cherish; why then do you expose them to indoctrination, propaganda, and indecent role models? They’re your flesh and blood; you have to fill them with morality, good ethics, and love. Smiles covering fear and anxiety just won’t work; nor will convincing them that sacrifice is a bad thing. Teach them good judgment not simply judgment.
Do A Family Virtue Pick!
Listening and watching the videos of public meetings you hear trembling voices, high-pitched tension, you see downcast eyes, suspicious, defensive body language. People these are not the signs of a happy hobbit community; these are signs you’d expect to see in a concentration camp! Look at yourselves!
When self-interest and self-preservation lock horns and complacency becomes the only coping strategy, there’s no compelling religious, spiritual, civic alternative–community evaporates and each one of you becomes an island with only the delusion of freedom in community.
We are going to give the RCS Central School District a bit of a respite for the time being; we are going to give the community the opportunity to step up to the plate and to help itself, to file their complaints with the New York State Education Department, the Office of the Attorney General, and other authorities, and give those authorities some time to show their colors and to do their jobs, investigate, audit, discipline. There are fish to fry in the town hall and in the police department; we’ll busy ourselves with them in the next several weeks. Stay tuned!
The Editor
Posted by Principal Editor on May 23, 2012 in Albany Police Rejects, Arrogance, Bill McFerran, Blogger, Brian Bailey, Building Community, Bully, Bully Gang, Bullying, Bullyism, Cathy Deluca, Church of St Patrick Ravena, Coeymanazis, Coeymans, Coeymans Police Department, Comment Troll, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crooked Cop, David M. Steiner, David Soares, Dayelin Roman, DeLuca Public Affairs, Donna Leput Hommel, Elizabeth Smith, Endangering a Minor, Ethics and Morality, Ethics in Schools, Failing Schools, False Prophets, Father James Kane, Fr James Kane, Frustration, George Dardiani, Gerald Deluca, Greater Coeymans Ravena Area Community Business Group, Greed, Greene County, Guns at School, Hakim Jones, Head in Sand, Histrionics, Hypocrisy, Ignorance, Immorality, Innocent Bystander, Investigation, James Kane, Jeff Stambaugh, Jerry Deluca, Josephine O'Connor, Lazlo Polyak, Lies, Main Street Small Business Coalition, Marlene McTigue, Matt Miller, Mayor Bruno, Melanie Lekocevic, Misfits, Morality, MSSBC, New Baltimore, New York, News Herald, NYCLU, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, NYSED, NYSED Office of Counsel, Office of the Attorney General, Pam Black, Parent Negligence, Parents, Perp Patrol, Person of Interest, Perv Patrol, Pieter B Coeymans Elementary School, Pieter B. Coeymanazis, Pieter B. Coeymans PTO, Police Rejects, Police State, Police Thugs, Poll Misconduct, PTO, R J DEsposito, Ravena, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk Central School District, RCS Athletic Association, RCS Board of Education, RCS Central School District, RCS Community, RCS School Board, RCS School Superintendant, RCS Sports Association, RCS Teachers Association, Role Model, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, Sarah Berchtold Engel, Schizoid, Schizophrenic, School Security, Secret Police, Selkirk, Skunks, Smalbany, Small Town, Sports Association, Stop the Bullying, Student Supervision, Students and Guns, Superintendent of Schools, Teacher Misconduct, Teacher Negligence, Times Union, Town Justice, Vampire Teachers, Verbal Abuse, Village Justice, Voting Fraud, Voting Irregularities