Isabella County Tenants Beware! Sheriff's Department Can & Will Evict You Without Due Process!
The "Stigma" of Eviction...
I wrote a letter to Rush Limbaugh today and I came to realize that the biggest thing kicking our ass here is the "stigma" that is associated with the word "eviction". Eviction is supposed to be a legal process but when it is not it is still called an eviction!?!
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about "EVICTION".
Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer , ejectment, and repossession, among other terms. Nevertheless, the term eviction is the most commonly used in communications between the landlord and tenant.
The first sentence of the definition offered by Wikipedia "Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord (PERIOD). It doesn't say the lawful or unlawful removal of a tenant. It doesn't say "through due process in a court of law" at the end. It is simply the removal of a tenant by a landlord either lawfully or unlawfully according to Wikipedia.
An eviction is an eviction is an eviction period, regardless of the lawfulness of it.
Without the court's involvement in the eviction process it would make sense to me that being thrown out of your house be called something other than eviction as the word eviction implies lawful right to do so or to having done so.
All of the other words used to define eviction in the Wikipedia definition above are legal words and terms used to describe actions or orders of a court of law and simply do not apply to what has happened to my family.
Yes, we had been evicted in the very literal sense of the word but our eviction had nothing to do with legal process and was unlawful!
No grounds existed for us to be lawfully evicted! This is why we were being unlawfully evicted and Steinert comes to our aid and becomes
an armed agent for the landlords and enforces our unlawful eviction as a cop?!? as an actor of the state?!? while under color of law?!?
Steinert's direct supervisor says that this is all alright?!? Steinert did nothing wrong?!? if I don't like it I should sue him?!? Then our
elected Sheriff further endorses the actions of the deputy and the undersheriff because it is easier?!? less paperwork?!? more convenient?!?
All the while hoping that my family just dies and goes away so that they don't need to address this publicly or be embarrassed for having
made such life threatening and life altering errors in judgment...
Ask any cop you know what they would do to a person that entered their house and changed the locks and started selling or moving out their belongings what they would do and if they would classify acts directly against them as civil issues while the same actions against them were "IN PROGRESS".
A house fire where you loose everything is very much different than loosing the same in an eviction right? Instead of people immediately feeling sorry for you they tend to look at you as if your were leprous, dirty and disgusting and that we had given some indisputable reason to be evicted.
Loosing your house in an house fire or by unlawful eviction have very much the same result for the victim in that everything is now gone and we were powerless to stop it.
When trying to explain to people what happened I start out by saying that we were "Unlawfully Evicted" and the unlawfully part always drops off immediately as they are hearing it as if I didn't even say it at all. Lawfully, unlawfully - guess you should have paid your rent is the comment generally spoken or unspoken in return.
"Unlawful Eviction" is not a good enough phrase to accurately portray what actually happened to us.
If I were to take over Steinert home tonight and refuse him entry when he came home from work and do what I pleased with the contents of his home would he still consider this a civil issue and just go away peaceably telling me that he would see me in court next month? This was the only option he gave my family outside of being arrested. So what if I am not his landlord. If I were his landlord and did the same thing it would then be alright?
So now we are being crippled by this question...
Were we evicted?
People don't ask if we were lawfully evicted just as people don't ask if we were unlawfully evicted. People generally understand
that evictions are a legal process and being so everything must be above board and their had to have been some justification somewhere along the line
for us to have earned the status as "The Evicted".
Our home was invaded with the specific intent to commit larceny. "Home Invasion in the 2nd Degree"
Our property was stolen. "Larceny"
But because a cop was there watching, allowing and enforcing this all to happen as an armed agent of the landlord, it can somehow be called
or reduced to that of a "Civil Matter"?
NOT IN MY COUNTRY!
What the readers of this website need to understand is that the mentality of everyone charged with (and paid for) upholding and supporting the
laws and the constitution of the state of Michigan feel, believe and act as though Landlords and the cops themselves are somehow exempt from the
laws in the county of Isabella and that cops here can and will manipulate the laws to suit themselves and their own agendas.
A public example is the parking violation on display every single work day of the year and directly
outside the front door of the Sheriff's Department in Mount Pleasant. This wonton display of total disregard for the law is absolutely appalling
to me and should be to all of the citizens of Isabella County.
Crimes perpetuated by law enforcement are still crimes!
The one and only exception is that no one wants or cares to hear about it!
Calling Home Invasion and Larceny Civil to get out of doing the job that I am paying you to do is totally WACK!
My family was NOT evicted in a court of law but we were still evicted using the commonly accepted definition of the word eviction. The invasion
of our home was a crime. The looting of our property was a crime. Steinert's contention that all our problems were civil is in and of itself a crime
as he became the biggest part of our problem and had nothing to do with any lawful resolution to the issues we called him for in the first place!
Steinert was in a position where he could have upheld the law (his job), stopped the crimes taking place against my family and instead he chose to
uphold the crimes and further victimize my family while seeing through with the crimes as they were all in progress!
Steinert concealed crimes against my family and assisted in the currently successful flight of our trespassers yet he is still currently employed
by the Sheriff's Department and allowed to continue on serving his own WACKED interpretation of the law.
All of these serious allegations have been presented to the supervisors of the Sheriff's Department and to the Isabella County Prosecutor's Office
and to the entire board of Commissioners for Isabella County and absolutely NOTHING has or is being done about it!
What in the hell are our tax dollars actually paying for!!!!
My tax dollars are obviously going to support the conversion to a communist society right here in the middle of Michigan!
A small donation will go a very long way
for this family as they continue to put
their lives back together!
The family would like to offer you their
sincere appreciation for your considerate
contribution!