A Constitutional Issue: Unlawful Police Prosecution: investigation by uniformed 0fficer, of website protesting of City Action.

I'll keep it short.
I emailed a local city manager (a Mr. Ron DeNicola) about a fence at a local city dog park, offering to him to him the option to reply to an editorial of mine on my personal website .

http://ptownnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101:rocky-the-dog-park&catid=36:editorial-pages&Itemid=34

In reply I got a snail-mail, official City letter demanding I "license" my un-licensed dog.

I showed the letter to my Wife and offered that I had had no truck with any member of the LE community...so I wondered aloud how this Cop came by my name in the first place.

So I went down to the Dog Pound and confronted this individual. After the usual obfuscatory ramblings in his reply to my questions,I asked him the pivotal question "Just how did my name come to your attention?"

He then spoke the words that blew my mind! "Mr. DeNicola showed me your email."

I was floored. Like a criminal I was being singled out for examination by the Police, not for criminal activity, but because I had raised my voice in protest. I'm just glad I'm NOT a criminal...<frown>

So, so far everybody in the City I've talked to obfuscates and avoids specifics whenever I've tried to get them to recognize that my problem is fundamentally Constitutional in nature and not just the sniveling whimpers of some victim personality.

Like, DeNicolas' boss offered that I should go to the police and lodge a complaint. But it is my opinion that the closed & barricaded society that is our local Police Officers Association would never allow for the issues I raise to be effectively addressed. To wit: that this person violated my Constitutional Rights when he subjected me to his arbitrary and unlawful examination under the color of authority. No, they "protect and serve" only their own, in my mind.

Due Process, Un-lawful search, privacy considerations...I don't know how to speak "Constitutional Law"...but I do know my Constitutionally Recognized Rights have been violated and I feel helpless to address this seemingly political emasculation!

Should I talk to the Mayor and hope she can somehow censure this individual? Or talk to a Lawyer about the potential for a law-suit? I just know that someone has to put this jerk in his place...or he will continue to violate other peoples rights as blithely as mine...but to more evil effects!

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