City Attorney Dave Olsen said the essay stems from a code enforcement problem…that was solved a year ago

*With his stunningly bogus claim that the problem was solved a year ago, the incumbent-appointed City Attorney underscored his own ineptness. Since that Hans-Blix attempt a year ago to enforce a list of violations, those micro-terrorists have scornfully mocked the continuous non-enforcement of Boulder-City laws and ordinances.

Increasingly, they spread their havoc as evidenced in that May-6^th Information Bulletin and verified by numerous police reports, photographs, video tapes…plus personally witnessed and experienced by every resident of Lovely Lane.

3. Olsen said he believes the matter will be forwarded to the Secretary of State’s Office to determine whether campaign practices were violated. And later the RJ article states -- Bill Smith, in a tight race for mayor against incumbent Robert Ferraro, took offense to Olsen’s comments that the flier is politically motivated and someone else is involved. He believes city officials were insinuating Smith is somehow tied to the flier.

*. …forwarded to the Secretary of State’s Office? Yes, indeed, this matter should be forwarded to the Secretary of State’s Office to determine whether campaign practices were violated. The incumbent candidates disgracefully used that May-6^th Information Bulletin just before the election to conspiratorially impugn and perhaps illegally accuse their innocent opponents of possible crimes. City-Attorney Olsen then dishonestly implied that the incumbent challengers might have illegally financed and mailed that May-6^th Information Bulletin. Moreover, in ignoring America’s First-Amendment right to free press, Olsen improperly spent tax money in having Boulder-City police travel to Las Vegas, enter, and harass those at the author’s printing facilities. The printer rightfully

dismissed them for lacking a warrant. Olsen also improperly used the police to glean post-office information about the author.

Every incumbent fully knew of this micro-terrorism problem months before the challengers announced their candidacies. Every incumbent also received, both by email and US mail, a pre-publication copy of that May-6^th Bulletin at least two weeks before its mailing. Each received a cordial invitation to respond. Yet, none responded.

None signaled interest in simply and justly applying the already existing laws and ordinances to block the micro-terrorists from increasingly damaging the lives and properties of his or her constituents. Thus, no one provided a reason to abort that mailing. …That act of collective dishonesty by the incumbents in knowingly-and-unjustly besmirching their innocent political challengers is reason enough for each incumbent to resign or be voted out of office.

The May-15^th Boulder City News Article

Unlike Adrienne Packer’s Review-Journal’s objective news article about that press conference, Ray Brewer’s provincial Boulder City News page-one account was not a news article -- it was a conduit for advancing his political cohorts’ ignoble agenda. Twisting political agendas into so-called objective news stories and foisting dishonest assertions upon the public are journalistic-and-intellectual sins that vanish Mr. Brewer’s credibility and his newspaper’s worthiness, while doing a tremendous disservice to the residents of Boulder City.

Mr. Brewer perhaps can learn from his dishonorable article to become a better reporter -- an honest news reporter rather than a servant to political hacks. …He can start by learning from his page-one headline of his so-called news article:

City officials respond to misinformation in mass mailer

*…. misinformation? Where exactly? Where exactly in that carefully-documented Bulletin does misinformation exist? Did the reporter even read that Bulletin or is he just promoting the politicians’ false assertions as facts. He provides not a single example of misinformation. Yet, by positing that one word in his page-one “news” headline, Mr. Brewer proclaims with zero evidence that the Bulletin is false. Thus, he intends readers to dismiss its crucial message as bogus. He, thereby, fulfills the dishonest agenda of incumbents trying to conceal their dereliction of duty to public safety by burying the facts with harmful, perhaps even lethal, results.

Unlike the Review-Journal, the reporter for Boulder City News made no attempt to “get the other side” by contacting the author of that Information Bulletin. Moreover, unlike the reporter for the Review-Journal, Mr.

Brewer betrayed his readers by obsequiously promoting those incumbents’ unwholesome agenda to hold political power power by any unsavory means.

Conclusion

This is no longer the Wild West. Citizens can accept neither unchecked lawlessness nor pistol-packing vigilantism.

Only government officials are legally empowered to enforce laws and ordinances designed to protect the populace. Only they have the legal tools and responsibility to assure public safety. Thus, by failing their law-enforcement responsibilities, they harm both the lives of their constituents and the future of their jurisdictions.

The purpose of this current Information Bulletin #2 is to ask those incumbents who failed that prime responsibility to resign -- or to be voted out of office. …To move toward a safe-and-prosperous 21^st century, Boulder-City residents must vote only for those candidates who explicitly pledge above all else to fulfill their protective responsibility to each individual constituent. Only then can Boulder City move toward its magnificant potential of becoming one of America’s loveliest communities.

[End of Information Bulletin #2]

Election Results

Before mailing Information Bulletin #1, the single incumbent councilman facing reelection on June 3, 2003, was favored to win. Yet, because of mailing to the voters Micro-Terrorism Information Bulletins #1 and #2, he lost decisively, ending in third place. The incumbent mayor was also initially favored to win handily. But, to keep his political power by any means, just days before the election, he (1) with the approval of his tap-dancing City Attorney, mailed to every Boulder-City household a possibly-illegal, tax-paid "newsletter" comprising false information and bogus financial figures, (2) blamed his re-election problems on the City Manager and publicly tried to fire him without due process, then (3) spent heavily on a slick, misleading flier delivered to every voter’s front door the day before the election. Of 5000 votes cast, the mayor won by 18 votes against his long-shot challenger. The mayor was then promptly subjected to a recall election that his challenger was favored to win.

Half-full or half-empty results? Neither. The results meant a failed mayor remains in political power along with his crime-camouflaging City Attorney, Dave Olsen. Thus, voters permitted further decline toward (1) ghettoizing Boulder City, (2) financial crises, (3) possible lawsuits, and (4) increasing criminally-wrought tragedies. ...The consequences?

Nightmarish Consequences Unfurl

In the month following the above cited warnings and predictions, that small desert town witnessed four micro-terrorists assaulting, injuring, and then robbing an 81-year-old Boulder-City woman of $1.50 at the local grocery store. Shortly after, another Boulder-City woman was chopped to pieces and her body parts dumped into the politicians’ new, tax-built fishing pond. A few weeks later, a young Boulder-City woman was murdered. Her decaying body was found near the town’s gravel pit. Later, a man’s body was found decaying on Boulder-City’s dry lake.

Three weeks later, a Boulder-City high-school football star died of a drug overdose just around the corner from the street-dealing Lovely Lane. Then, alarmingly, even before the toxicology report was issued, City-Attorney Olsen’s crony, Boulder-City’s Police Chief, hastily proclaimed no charges would be filed. Shortly after, a Lovely-Lane terrorist was arrested and convicted on drug paraphernalia charges. Sometime after that, a 25-year-old Boulder-City father of four was stabbed to death in front of his pregnant wife in the same Lovely-Lane neighborhood that the young Boulder-City athlete died of a drug overdose. And, what about the Boulder-City woman recently raped a gunpoint near Lovely Lane?

All cases such as above are under-investigated or investigated as well as under-reported or non-reported. …Local micro-terrorism a molehill? How many more tombstones will quietly rise in Boulder City for victims quickly forgotten?

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Two weeks after that high-school student’s drug-overdose death, City-Attorney David Olsen drank at a Blue Oyster Cult concert in Las Vegas and continued drinking at a local honky-tonk tavern. He was then arrested at 1:30am in Boulder City for drunken-driving someone else's motorcycle, weaving from lane to lane, then recklessly skidding around a corner in a hail of sparks! He was also arrested for driving without a motorcycle license and for failing to maintain a travel lane. …Dude! Talk about contempt for laws that protect the lives and property of Boulder-City citizens. Scofflaw City-Attorney Olsen endangers the lives of Boulder-City residents just as scofflaw micro-terrorists endanger the lives of Boulder-City residents.

Tombstones of micro-terrorist victims keep rising in Boulder-City’s cemetery. Street crimes remain

unprosecuted under Mr. Olsen’s scofflaw “justice” system. Will Boulder-City’s elected officials meet their prime responsibility? Will they replace their drunken-driving City Attorney who flouts the law with a law-abiding City Attorney who respects the law? Will they hire a hard-working City Attorney who will justly, consistently, and conscientiously enforce laws that protect the public from those who illegally damage and destroy innocent lives?

…Or, have the local politicians and their lapdog newspaper already spun the story for crony Olsen to save his job of concealing crimes in Boulder City?

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A Notice to the Elected Officials of Boulder City, Nevada September 2, 2003

This notice is addressed to the elected officials of Boulder City, Nevada: Mayor Bob Ferraro and the four City-Council Members: Andrea Anderson, Karla Burton, Mike Pacini, Roger Tobler. This letter also applies to their appointed officials: City-Attorney David Olsen and City-Manager John Sullard.

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On August 6, 2003, each elected official named above received an updated Micro-Terrorism Information Bulletin that diagnosed the malignancies of micro-terrorism metastasizing throughout Boulder City. At the same time, each elected official again received a cordial invitation to witness and understand firsthand the destructive effects of their unenforced laws and ordinances being broken daily by micro-terrorists. Each elected official had a unique chance to ally with impacted constituents in stopping the illegal dangers and damages inflicted daily on Boulder-City residents. Additionally, each elected official had an opportunity to gain new perspectives for avoiding a bleak future for Boulder City.

Only Mayor Ferraro had the gumption to accept that invitation. Not a single City Council Member chose to see and understand firsthand the spreading damages for which each is responsible. Thus, once again, each underscored his or her failure to meet the prime responsibility of every public official to protect the life-and-property rights for each-and-every constituent. …Once again, Boulder City’s elected officials demonstrated their unworthiness to hold public office.

On August 7, 2003, Mayor Ferraro was welcomed into the home of his constituents on Lovely Lane. From the moment of his arrival to the time of his departure, in front of his own eyes, he could witness at least three immediately-actionable street offenses simultaneously occurring within a radius of fifty feet from his parked car.

The mayor could also clearly see numerous trash-strewn law-and-ordinance violations in the micro-terrorists’

front yard coupled with unhealthy-smelling stacks towering six feet or more of insect-infested/fire-hazard trash in their back yard and filling their entire garage. He could observe all around him a Tobacco-Road street

bespattered with dirt, feces, and strange trash. Even more serious, he could see a death-trap street branded with burnt-rubber insignias from recklessly-driven vehicles, sliding-skid marks from illegally-speeding vehicles, and bizarre waste paraphernalia along the curb.

After a congenial one-hour visit, Mayor Ferraro earnestly promised to call back in three days about a plan to enforce laws and ordinances to protect the residents of Lovely Lane. He never called back. Three weeks later, not a word or act of remedy came from Mayor Ferraro. Not a single word or act of remedy from him or any public official as constituent-harming violations of unenforced laws and ordinances continue unabated along Lovely Lane -- along chemical lane.

But, much worse, the elected officials of Boulder City have not only failed to enforce laws on Lovely Lane, but now their police department does not return phone calls, take reports, record complaints, or originate actions

concerning illegal acts of micro-terrorism on Lovely Lane. That street now lies helpless with no apparent police protection. …Micro-terrorists reign free.

What is happening here? Why do elected officials and their police department no longer respond to or record complaints? Why do they not simply enforce the public-safety laws and city ordinances already on the books?

…That is all that the victims of Lovely Lane have ever asked of their elected officials.

Are Boulder-City elected officials and their police department acting on advice from a scofflaw City Attorney? Are they acting on advice from a law-breaking lawyer already sullied by dishonesties, ineptness, and illegal behaviors? Are they acting on advice that increasingly threatens the lives of their constituents and innocent children? Have ill-advised elected officials signaled the police to ignore law-and-ordinance violations on Lovely Lane? For, any such law enforcements or additional complaint reports would (1) verify earlier Micro-Terrorism Information Bulletins that succeeded in ousting two Boulder-City officials for failing their public-safety responsibilities, (2) yield negative political fallout for the remaining elected officials in their next elections by highlighting their irresponsible defaults, and (3) stir possible lawsuits rising from damages, injuries, even deaths resulting from their negligent behaviors.

[End of Notice]

Is that crime-concealing dynamic why the local newspaper failed its reporting obligations about Boulder-City’s latest murder? Why did they remain so strangely silent about the gruesome beating-and-shooting death of a teenage youth at Boulder-City’s Dry Lake? Was that murder caused by a drug deal gone sour? That boy’s battered body was found stuffed in a hefty bag with his hands cut off. And, today, right now, a teenage girl lies comatose in intensive care, perhaps brain dead from drugs. (Soon after she died.) The police and newspaper reported no details or up articles about those youths -- killed youths who would merit major headlines and heavy follow-up reporting in any comparable small-size community in America.

So what! says the phantom soul of a Boulder-City elected official. We want the public to pay no attention to those unpleasant things. They only upset my constituents. Instead, they want me to do important things that they can praise me for -- like spending taxpayers’ money to build a magnificent amphitheater in the desert. So what if it is seldom or never used. Such glory-reaping projects are much-more pleasant and enjoyable than dealing with nasty crimes -- messy crimes that are best not reported, crimes we want hidden and forgotten. After all, we must “save the appearances” of a clean, green, safe Boulder City. ...Just ask our legal advisor -- our drunken-driving City Attorney. But, don't talk to our police. They’ll just give you dark, disturbing facts.

Thus thinks a smugly-ensconced Boulder-City Councilwoman when micro-terrorists invaded and destroyed -- trashed -- a home on Lovely Lane. So what, she and the other elected officials exhaled wearily. Their great souls could not be bothered with such trivia. The local newspaper reporting of that victim-devastating crime? Zero, none -- complete silence.

Finally, as a thuggishly-cruel hypocrite, that same drunken-driving/life-endangering City Attorney now puts on a swaggering tough-on-drugs charade (what irony!) by moving to confiscate the home of a hapless, handicapped older lady -- confiscate that lady’s entire house, her only survival asset. Why? Because she pled guilty to a misdemeanor of owning six marijuana plants for her own pain-alleviating use. ...Meanwhile, gaunt-faced terrorists run loose as Boulder-City youth die of drug abuse, unhindered by that alcohol-abusing City Attorney.

Yes, the beat goes on: Criminal destructions and terrorisms inflicted upon the innocent, especially upon the youth and elderly, continue hidden and unabated. Do Boulder-City elected officials and their crony City Attorney hope that those “molehills” of crimes and terrorisms will somehow just go away by themselves? Well, such

malignancies never just go away. No, they fester and spread until they are exorcised…or until they destroy their host.

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Follow-up Report #1 from

Lovely Lane November 4, 2003

[edited for book publication]

Upon receiving the above September-2^nd letter, Mayor Ferraro phoned the Lovely-Lane victims several times to report that he plans to initiate court actions against the micro-terrorists. Also, newly-elected Councilman Roger Tobler, a businessman, phoned wanting to discuss the problem. …The others continued to hide.

Mayor Ferraro then returned to the victims’ home with his enforcement officer to review a list of actions.

Still, no apparent law enforcement actions occurred. As always before, only shows of spurious law enforcement occurred for public consumption. That was the micro-terrorists’ green light: They mocked and violated the unenforced laws and ordinances with contemptuous impunity. With an unresponsive police department and a silent newspaper, nose-thumbing street dealings began with strange police handshakes and garbage-bag drops.

…Suddenly, the dangerous street disturbances escalated dramatically and began occurring night and day.

Now, genuinely alarmed, Mayor Ferraro phoned the victims again. This time to report that he is enforcing the law by taking the micro-terrorists to court in early November 2003. …Just as suddenly, Lovely Lane began quieting down and cleaning up. Life-threatening dangers subsided. Dangerous-and-illegal street activities were no longer chronic for the first time in nearly two years.

Yes, a politician can choose to break from that deadly ring of self-glorification to become a genuine public

protector: Of all ironies, could Mr. Ferraro become the only elected official in Boulder City worthy of public office?

...Anyone can learn and change for the better, even become heroic.

Or, is this a ploy to win a possible recall election brought on by the deterioration of Boulder City? Once re-elected, will Mayor Ferraro rejoin the ranks of local self-serving political hacks? Will our community increasingly become the “dumping grounds for murder victims” as the Las Vegas Sun tagged Boulder City in its November 3, 2003 front-page article? Or, will Mayor Ferraro rise above his cohorts to restore public safety?

Follow-up Report #2 from

Lovely Lane December 3, 2003

[edited for book publication]

Fixing Negative Developments

Returning home at 12:30am on November 28, 2003, two victims of Lovely Lane encountered and photographed an inordinate amount of the micro-terrorists’ strangely-bagged, foul-smelling trash stacked in front of the victims’

house. With photograph proof in hand, the victims returned that unhealthy trash and waste materials to their rightful owners -- the micro-terrorists.

The next morning, two thuggish-appearing cohorts, never before seen in the neighborhood, stood in the

The next morning, two thuggish-appearing cohorts, never before seen in the neighborhood, stood in the