WILL YOUR HOME OR BUILDING BE NEXT?!!!

"Taking back our property, our neighborhood,
our community, our country!"

What: Code department razes homes and buildings without just compensation, without ever going to court first, bypassing due process of law, without a judge's order or signature or supervision. Even after people have completed repairs. Do you tear down a home because it needs a new roof, new windows and a paint job? Do you tear down a home because the repairs could or did exceed $5,705, or $1,456, or $10,000 dollars? They are. But their "condemnation order" is not a legal document, not from a court or a judge. You have the right to defend your property and to refuse their invasion. Statute 939.49(1).

This is the story behind the carriage barn story that the gazette won't publish because the city messed up and does not want to be accountable and keeps doing it.

Who: Average citizens lose their home, their mortgage goes into immediate foreclosure, putting them into bankruptcy, then the city picks up their lot at the sheriff sale for nothing.

Well-healed citizens haven't fought it either, just let the building go, because legal expenses would exceed the value of the building, they can't risk city retaliation against their business and customers, and they can't risk the potential negative publicity.

Mortgage companies are tricked into foreclosing mortgages, thinking the homeowner will receive eminent domain just compensation from the city for their redevelopment projects. Not so.

When: For the last eighteen years, 10 to 20 victims per year, by violation of amendments 4, 5, 7, and 14 of the Bill of Rights, Janesville class action and Supreme Court case against current national trend of private property and eminent domain abuse by local government.

We need: Amicus briefs from state and national organizations like ACLU, LAW, WRA, WAA, UW-Law School, AARP, etc. Legal fees, law students, attorneys, information on other cases. Court of Appeals, District 4, Case No. 04-1922, Briarmoon v. City of Janesville and Christine Wilson (Copy of carriage barn Appellant's Brief is at the Hedberg Library)

We want: Complete restitution to the victims. Rewritten clarification of WI Statute 66.0413 by our legislators. Recognition of the Carriage Barn designation as a "Freedom Shrine".

What you can do: Pass out flyers, write letters to the editor and to our legislators, speak at the city council meetings, call the newspaper "sound-off", pass on the names of other victims, campaign for an overhaul of the Citizen Board of Appeals, elect aware city council members, post signs, collect signatures on a petition, have your organizations support these changes, help create our web site, make a donation to the legal fund, read "Abuse of Power; how government misuses eminent domain" by Greenhut, ISBN 1-931643-37-7.

City council meetings are 2nd and 4th Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 18 N. Jackson, on the 4th floor. Sign in at the back table for your 3 minutes. Bring your own refreshments. You may write your statement, and read from it, and bring 9 copies, 7 for the city council members and 2 for the press.

C.A.R.D. Citizen Association for Rights and Dignity Join us! Every Monday at 5:30 p.m. K. Andreah Briarmoon, 339 South Locust Street, Janesville, WI, 53548-4655 608-754-3999