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A TROY MONTANA READER SPEAKS OUT
  by MNA PRESS

To the Editor


I read the May 14, 2004, Missoulian front page article of “State likely won’t appeal school ruling” with interest. The quote from Senate Majority Leader Fred Thomas on the Montana Supreme Court being “one of the worst in the country, and going there is an extreme risk for any citizen and the state of Montana” hit home to me. I must concur with Mr. Thomas opinion of risk to the people of Montana. When the Montana Supreme Court will allow Lincoln County to take land without any kind of a title to the land it is going against the fifth and fourteen amendments of the United State Constitution and Article II section seventeen and nineteen of the Montana Constitution and Article 17 section one and two of the United National’s universal declaration of human rights.


Lincoln County Commissioner John Konzen admitted in court, he had never seen any conveyances or deeds, which conveyed the property to the county. The courts ignored the lack of deed as required by MCA 7-14-2108. The Court also ignores 16 other laws telling the county how to keep records of all roads.  The based their ruling on one Montana Code that was repealed in 1959 is this an “ex post factor ruling”?? See Supreme Court Case # 02-349


Anytime the Courts can base their ruling on one law and ignore sixteen other laws they are not taking the law “as a whole”. Whenever the Courts do not take the law “as a whole” you have a “good old boy system”.  There is no justice in a “good old boy system”.


 


Glenn Garrison
Box 493
Troy, Montana 59935
295-4501