The Video that started it all: On Her Hood
His wife told Earl that some woman was sitting on a car at the end of their driveway yelling and waving her hands toward their house.
A State Police officer informed Ms. McGinley that she would have to move her car and get a permit if she wanted to protest on Fortescue Road in front of Mr. Meyer's home...or he would write her up for obstructing traffic and not having a permit. She removed herself from protesting in front of the Meyer's home but she then began placing signs in front of her home.
The story is told here in words, pictures and videos.
Click on the above link... and then watch the three videos that I took later in the month.
Take notice how often she gives me permission to put her story onto the Internet. Notice also that after giving me permission she then calls the police.
Take notice how often she says, "I never lie."
The first video and then the second two were taken within 24 hours of each other.
Click on the following links to see the videos...
Oracle of Fortescue #1: The Five Permissions
Oracle of Fortescue #2: STALKER
Oracle of Fortescue #3: Confrontation
On
Saturday, July 11, 2009, at the Newport, NJ Post Office, I
signed for a Certified letter. Much to my complete
astonishment, I signed for an envelope which contained a
Criminal Complaint against me for the crime of Criminal
Harassment. Specifically, 2C:33-4(c) which is the
harassment statute in New Jersey. The complaint is No.
SC000399.
The full statement of the complaint is:
Harassment- Engaging in alarming conduct & repeatedly committing acts with purpose to alarm/seriously annoy the victim, specifically by taking pictures of victim on her property.
Marion Knipe, court clerk for Downe Township, indicates on the Complaint that “Probable cause is found for the issuance of this Complaint-Summons.”
Take a few minutes to review the material available from this website. After reading this webpage, looking at a few pictures of her signs and view three short videos. You decide if there was probable cause...and if there is any possibility of conviction.
You will
also see that Tamara McGinley slanders me repeatedly,
gives me permission to take pictures of her and then
calls the State Police to complain about me.
She then incites a total stranger to attack me because she yelled to the stranger's 16 year old daugher that I was a STALKER and a sexual predator.
While holding a huge poster with the word “STALKER” you will see Ms. McGinley walk up to total strangers and state that I am a STALKER, that I am stalking her and that I am a sexual preditor.
You will
see a justifiably irate and nearly out of control father
who grabs me and says he will kill me for taking pictures
of his daughter.
Ms. McGinley told the man's daugther, while holding a huge yellow sign emblazoned with STALKER, this: “He's a stalker... and does what sexual predators do.”
Despite
the spewing of lies and slander by Ms. McGinley, I was
found totally innocent of all the ridiculous charges she
put against me. It was only because of the compassion of
the judge that Ms. McGinley wasn't charged with multiple
counts of perjury.
You can
read about her perjury and my exoneration here: Exonerated!
The Background
I'm a blogger.
You are reading this blog because I believe I
can make my neighborhood and my township a better place
with words, stories and actions.
I cover stories on my
blog that the local newspaper won't bother about because
the number of people effected or influenced by the
stories are only a few hundred or so.
Not only am I a
blogger, I'm a political activist in Downe Township, New
Jersey. For 20 years I have attended Township Committee
meetings, Board of Education meetings and Planning and
Zoning Meetings in the township. To date, I have
missed 11 Township meetings in 23 years.
I am very vocal and
very public about my take on things...particularly where
I live, Downe Township.
The following story,
the pictures and, particularly the videos, tell a very
sad story. This lady is very troubled. I have spoken to
her on three separate days. Two of which are documented
in the videos you can see from this page.
A few days before
Father's Day, 2009, I heard about a woman in Fortescue,
NJ who had a large number of signs staked out on
Fortescue Road just before the bridge. No one I spoke
with had a clue what the signs meant or exactly who put
them there.
A few people told me that a woman who lived in a shack on the South side of Fortescue put them up “...because she had a beef about something.”
I empathized with her. I've been complaining about the Downe Township Inconvenience Garbage Dump, cronyism and general corruption in Downe Township for many years.
My empathy for her
disappeared when she told me that she had contacted the
State Police a few hours after she gave me permission to
advertise her cause.
As you can see in the
second video, she
gives me permission five times.
The actions that you
see me take, and the things I say and ask in these
videos, is done with the intent of getting an interview
with Tamara McGinely for an article I was going to write
about her “flag campaign”.
I figured I would take a ride or two to Fortescue in the evening, watch a beautiful sunset, take a few pictures and write up her story.
Little did I know that I would live for almost two years in a world that only Franz Kafka could create.
In
the first video, she gives me
permission to take pictures of her five times during the
video and
then she calls the State Police to complain
that I'm harassing her.
See her dozens of signs and a full description of our encounter here: The Oracle of Fortescue
Despite the spewing of lies and slander by Ms. McGinley, I
was found totally innocent of all the ridiculous charges
she put against me. All charges against Earl Meyer were
also dropped.
It was
only because of the compassion of the judge that Ms.
McGinley wasn't charged with multiple counts of perjury.
The court transcript shows the comments about her perjury.
You can read about her perjury and my exoneration here: Exonerated!