Michael L. Lofton

(Address Omitted for Privacy)

January 28, 2011

The Honorable Lee Smalley Edmon, Presiding Judge

 Superior Court of California at Los Angeles

111 N. Hill Street

 Chambers of the Presiding Judge

 Los Angeles, CA 90012

RE: Settlement of “Limited Liability” Case #10K18049

Dear Judge Edmon:

On Monday, December 20, 2010, my Mom and I appeared in Department 77 of the Stanley Mosk Court, Los Angeles. I was advised to appear for hearing on January 27, 2011, by the court room clerk in Department 77 at 8:30 A. M..  

On January 27, 2011 at 8:30 a.m., I Michael L. Lofton and my, Mom, Mrs. Esther M. Lofton appeared in department 77 of the Superior Court of California at Los Angeles where the judge of court of record is the Honorable Steven J. Kleifield for the hearing which took place between 10:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. on January 27, 2011. The Attorneys for the plaintiffs, Brian N. Winn, John E. Gordon, Naimi Rust and Stephen S.  Zeller did not appear in court, and did not call in via speaker-phone.   Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, nor any representative of the City of Los Angeles, or the County of Los Angeles appeared for this hearing, even though each was served by mail on January 19, 2011 by Rhonda Walker, a self-identified honorably discharged American veteran.

Prior to the hearing for Case #10K18049, in another case the opposing party or parties did not show. Judge Steven J. Kleifield stated to the party or parties that appeared, when a party or parties do not show, the opposing party or parties who appear have the

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option to fill out and file a default claim against the party or parties who did not appear.

I too have this same right.

I attempted to present:

Ø Pages 1 and 2 of the Notice of Hearing on Demurrer of Defendant Michael L. Lofton to Complaint of Plaintiffs HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A. fks Household Bank (SB) N.A. served on the plaintiffs, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and filed with court, which the court stated it not only had but received the $40 fee. 

I therefore enclose:

Ø Case #10K180, Limited Liability Case, (Proposed) Judgment and Order

for the following reasons:

(1)          There are no issues in dispute (Cases #10K18049….. There is no dispute here, when the LADWP (BC385899), the County of Los Angeles (895188), make good on its' debt to the Mrs. & Mrs. Leon E. Lofton, Jr. family and Michael L. Lofton (BC 385899)…. earned retirement benefits, etc, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,  wrongdoing by the LADWP .......then the debt owed to Home Depot/HSBC Nevada N.A. fka HOUSEHOLD BANK (SB) N.A. will be paid.

(2)          The court lacks the power or right to over-rule the demurrer as served and entered

(3)          Article VI, Section 19, CC states that the court must settle the matter as submitted or he may not be paid for the office held.

Sincerely,

Michael L. Lofton

(Sent under cover of certified mail #7008 1830 0004 4951 2318.)

One enclosure:

 Case #10K18049, Limited Liability Case, (Proposed) Judgment and Order.  pp. 1-3

………….If you are a senior citizen,  this includes elderly Black women too, “pull the plug on grandma (Thank You Sarah Palin, conservatives, the Republican Party, and/or  Tea Party members)” is promoted in the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County 2^nd District, because anything goes in the inner-city………..

…… that annual Martin Luther King Day celebration and tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, must be meaningless because in the very liberal Democratic jurisdictions where this day is celebrated or Dr. King is honored……

Today, my Mom called the emergency 911 number to make this known.  I had to gather water from other sources to make it possible for life to continue as usual.  Upon returning home, my Mom stated that she was given the run around by individuals on the supervisorial level within the LAPD, the LADWP, the Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Vilaraigosa’s office, etc.   The response from LAPD representatives was to contact the LADWP.   She followed this advice and LADWP supervisors or other  employees,  kept her or hold and did nothing, gave her the run around, or suggested that she contact the Mayor’s office.  Upon contacting the Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s office she was advised to contact the LADWP…….

So glad Governor Jerry Brown is downsizing our state government in California.   Far too often be it city, county, state, federal level jurisdiction, employees, and/or elected officials……

…….these individuals, meaning government employees, elected officials, etc., etc., show no regard for the rights of property taxpaying citizens like me, and/or his or her loved ones, such as my Mom.   

It sure would be grand if I could pull the plug on paying Federal, State taxes, and/or Los Angeles County property taxes, like these government employees have chosen to contribute to  “pull the plug on grandma” pertaining to my Mom, while LADWP employee or employees disconnect my utilities and concurrently hold or attempt to cheat me out of the retirement benefits due a 30 year employee of qualifying age former LADWP employee.  

The day of reckoning is near, because on 8:30 A.M. , in Division 77, on January 27, 2011, the Stanley Mosk Angeles Superior Court, 111 N. Hill Street, the truth in Los Angeles Superior Court Cases 895188 and BC 385899, and/or other truths, will again uncloak the reality of day to day Jim Crow law enforcement that is alive and well in Los Angeles County and beyond.

Honorably discharged combat infantry Veterans of a Foreign War during the draft years , such as my Dad, Leon E. Lofton, Jr., were left with the mandate of serving or face prison time for refusing to serve, meaning “pulling the plug on the mandated draft” meant prison time and much, much, much less than dishonorable discharge.  Should you doubt this look no further than Mohammad Ali’s punishment for refusing to serve during the Vietnam War draft era. 

Unfortunately for me, the penalty for non-payment of State and Federal taxes is income tax evasion which mean criminal prosecution, stiff fines and prison time.  The penalty for defaulting on LA County property taxes, can result in a tax lien being placed against the property.

Sincerely,

Michael L. Lofton

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-275283 President Obama, etc., do Have the Power but Unfortunately Such Influence is Misused!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-265276 Obama's Real World Constitutional Law Practice Experience and Civil Rights Expertise is Questionable

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-287435 Congresswoman Maxine "Kerosene" Waters Neglects her District but Her Family Cashes In!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-279762 Soledad Obrien, CNN, Must Include Both Sides of the Issue of Being Black in the U.S.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-278743 Advice to be a Responsible Father Must Come From an Individual Who is Not a Liar and a Hypocrite!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-155551 Unsung Heroes Who Have Done More to Serve the Oppressed than Dr. Martin Luther King, the NAACP, etc.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-45488 The Republican Party is Not Responsible for the Demise of the Black Community

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-91586 Thank you, Dragon40, Executive, Niera, and ProudCitizen!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-39710 To Be Black in the United States of America, Means Forced Taxation Without Competent Representation!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-132599 Drafting Racial Profiling Bills, Community Organizing are Poor Qualifications to be President

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-178499 THE INNER CITY IS PART OF THIS REPUBLIC, IN NAME ONLY!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-217730 More so than Racism, the Crippling Putdowns of Black leaders, Keep the Black Community Down!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-178541 Buck-passing Stops with the Commander-in-Chief

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-160898 No Trust or Faith in the Elected Black Leaders of California, Specifically Los Angeles County!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-80736 The Democratic Party, Barack Obama, etc., Vanguard for the Oppressed, Ya Right!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-169225 The So-Called America's #1 Black Owned Newspaper the Los Angeles Sentinel is a Yellow Journal!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-182702 Does President Barack Obama Truly Respect the Constitutional Rights of All Americans?

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-198686 The Black Middleclass and Their Bonanza of La La Land Fairy Tales!

"I enjoyed reading this post, as well as a couple of others. I have wondered why black people won't buck their leadership and say they are being hurt the most with illegal immigration. Illegals mostly settle into inner cities, but even when they don't they take up blue collar jobs such as construction. I know why black leadership are for illegal immigration as well as keeping black people down... so they can keep their positions of power. No one is going to listen to a word Sharpton says if things are doing well in the black community."

Well said Jesse "The Mind" Norman......

……..and in the event this trend continues, the Black community can only blame itself for driving the U.S. born law abiding segment of the Black community into extinction.

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/10/rep_clybu rn_reading_of_the_constitution_egged_on_conduct_of_az_shoot ing.html

....."Rep. Clyburn: "Reading Of The Constitution" Contributed To Climate Of AZ Shooting"

.....Clyburn and multiple members of the Congressional Black Caucus are a disgrace to the essence of what it means to be an elected official. The fact that few if any of these elected officials from the Congressional Black Caucus fulfill his or her sworn duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Rule of Law.....

.....make these individuals a huge part of the problem of making our government dysfunctional and out of reach of deserving law abiding U.S. born inner-city residents.

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“Current House Democrats, such as Chicago’s Jesse Jackson Jr., questioned which version of the Constitution would be read on Thursday, arguing that the original showed how far the nation had come through amending and reinterpreting the Constitution to reflect the evolution of society.” by Congressman Jesse Jackson.

What difference does it make which version of the Constitution is read, when in contemporary years there is only one U.S. Constitution that we are all bound to live by?.   U.S. born Black men, women, and/or his or her siblings, were not even considered citizens until the 13^th and 14^th amendment came into being as part of the U.S. Constitution. 

It is more important that every elected official uphold his or her sworn duty to respect the U.S. Constitution, and/or any respective State Constitution.   By and large elected Black leaders affiliated with the liberal segment of the Democratic Party, be it of local, county, state, and/or federal jurisdiction show little if any regard for the U.S. Constitution and/or any State Constitution.  . Elected Black leaders such as President Barack Obama, and/or multiple members of the Congressional Black Caucus….more likely the Congressional Black Caustic……

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-182700

http://ceyseau.net/AboutUs.html

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-37187

http://deadwiler.blogtownhall.com/

B.    Dishonoring the rights of honorably discharged Black Veterans, such as my Dad, Leon E. Lofton, Jr., and others.

C.   Playing games of deceit and/or gerrymandering to keep disgraceful elected officials in office.

D.   Promote “Black Code Law Enforcement”

E.   Promote the survival and prosperity of criminals, illegal immigrants, and subversives.

F.    Drive into extinction, any prospect to promote the survival and prosperity of law abiding U.S. born Black men, women, and/or his or her siblings.

G.   Keep U.S. born Black men, women, and/or his or her siblings heavily dependent on welfare, and unemployed or unemployable.

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House reads the Constitution, line by line, Republicans in the House of Representatives flexed their new muscle by insisting on a reading of the entire Constitution. Democrats inquired whether it would be the original version of the document, which included the Three-Fifths Compromise, designed to increase the power of the slave-holding states. Birther interrupts the proceedings.

by Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times, 9:32 AM PST, January 6, 2011

It would seem that if there were anything above the partisan political fray, the reading of the Constitution, the nation’s highest law, would be on that pedestal.

But apparently even that isn't above politics. Republicans in the House of Representatives flexed their new political muscle with a multiple-hour, line-by-line reading of the Constitution. It was the first time that such a reading had taken place publicly in the chamber and it fulfilled a campaign pledge pushed by the GOP’s conservative wing and the ‘ tea party” movement.

The action was designed both as political theater and a reminder to the nation’s lawmakers of what conservatives see as the nation’s founding principles that back a strict constructionist view of a limited government. It is the vision of limited government that Republicans see as one of their touchstones for the new Congress.

But the recitation of the Constitution was a chance for Democrats to score points while piously praising the historicity of the Constitution. They initially questioned whether the document would be read in full in its original language or in its amended form.

In its original form, the Constitution included sections such as the Three-Fifths Compromise, designed to increase the power of the slave-holding states by allowing slaves to be counted toward the allocation of congressmen, even though slaves were seen as property and obviously couldn’t vote. Nor could women vote in those times when all men, except slaves, were created equal.

Slavery, and its political implications, led to the Civil War, of course. But even in its time, it was so divisive that noted abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison took the Constitution to task.  "The United States Constitution is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell" became the motto on his journal, Liberator.

Current House Democrats, such as Chicago’s Jesse Jackson Jr., questioned which version of the Constitution would be read on Thursday, arguing that the original showed how far the nation had come through amending and reinterpreting the Constitution to reflect the evolution of society.

"The new Republican majority and their redacted constitutional reading gives little deference to the long history of improving the Constitution and only seeks an interpretation of our Constitution based on the now, not the historic, broad body of law and struggle that it has taken to get there. It leaves out the need to continue to refine the Constitution so that we have a more perfect union,” he stated.

That principle, sharply at odds with the GOP’s, is part of the Democrats’ vision of government as a growing entity that should have a role in dealing with the nation’s problems.

As the reading of the amended version went on for several hours, there was at least one outburst from the gallery as a person interrupted to say Obama wasn’t born in the United States, hence was constitutionally barred from being president. No effort, including the release of his birth certificate,  by President Obama has dispelled the false rumors of his birth that continue to have traction with the so-called birther movement.

“First interruption of the reading from the Gallery. By a birther, screaming about Obama. Unintended consequences,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) tweeted from the House floor.

michael.muskal@latimes.com, twitter.com/LATimesmuskal

Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times

One or more Black men who are honorably discharged disabled combat Veterans of a foreign war (WWII), Innocent Black men, women, and/or his or her siblings, have also been the subject of blatant U.S. and respective California Constitutional very serious violations and causes, such as:

A.   “Unequal Justice and Protection Under the Law”, as proven by Los Angeles Superior Court cases C895188, BC 385899, and BS 121571.

B.   The break-up of the traditional Black family structure FOR profit through governmental misconduct and fraud, in Los Angeles County. (multiple members of the Mr. and Mrs. Leon E. Lofton, Jr. family unit, and/or other individuals to be specific)

C.   Placing minors including infants on probation due to government employee misconduct in Los Angeles County. (multiple members of the Mr. and Mrs. Leon E. Lofton, Jr. family unit)

D.   Penal incarceration and fines without due process, legal authority, and/or government misconduct in Los Angeles County. (Carl Steadman, “Theft by Court”, multiple members of the Mr. and Mrs. Leon E. Lofton, Jr. family unit)

E.   Punishment without good cause, ruining the work record,  and stellar reputation, of a law abiding long standing property taxpaying, 30 year employee of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles. (For reference Los Angeles Superior Court Case BC 385899 and related Los Angeles Superior Court case BS 121571)

F.    Denying or reducing earned property such as retirement and/or other benefits earned based on government misconduct, perjury, and fraud in the City of Los Angeles, specifically the LADWP. (For reference Los Angeles Superior Court Case BC 385899 and related Los Angeles Superior Court case BS 121571)

G.   Wanton disregard for the U.S. Constitution, California Constitution by elected officials sworn under oath and mandated by law to uphold the U.S. Constitution and respective California Constitutions. (For reference Los Angeles Superior Court Case BC 385899 and related Los Angeles Superior Court cases C895188, and BS 121571)

…Fixing the system, in every case, be it as outlined in A through G above,

…….. or as documented by the many cases of unwarranted prison or death sentences regarding Innocence Project work and DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent,

……..more than any other remedy requires upholding the principles to which this nation stands, and the “rule of law” as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the “Bill of Rights”, the California Constitution, and/or other State Constitutions.

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Innocence Project/ Case Profiles/ Know the Cases/Understand the Causes/ Fix the System

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LONG ROADS TO FREEDOM

Numerous Inmates from multiple jurisdictions throughout the U.S., who have been freed after their convictions turned out to have been based on faulty evidence:

• Joseph Lamont Abbitt:Joseph Lamont Abbitt was exonerated on September 2, 2009 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after serving 14 years in prison for two rapes he didn't commit. He was convicted based in part on eyewitness misidentifications.

• Kenneth Adams: Kenneth Adams was exonerated on July 2, 1996, after serving 17.5 years of a 75 year sentence for Murder and Rape.  He was convicted based in part on eyewitness misidentifications, false confessions, and invalid or improper forensic science.

• Marvin Anderson: Marvin Anderson was exonerated after serving 15 years of a 210 year sentence for Murder, Abduction, Sodomy, and Rape.  He was convicted based in part on eyewitness misidentifications, government misconduct, and incompetent legal counsel representation.

• Antonio Beaver: Antonio Beaver was exonerated after serving 10 years of a 18 year sentence for first degree robbery.  He was convicted based on eyewitness misidentification.

• Kennedy Brewer: Kennedy Brewer was exonerated after serving 7 years on Death row in Mississippi, for Capital Murder and Sexual Battery.  He was convicted based on government misconduct, and invalid or improper forensic science.

Michael Anthony Green: Michael Anthony Green was exonerated after serving 27 years of a 75 year 1983 sentence for the rape of a Houston woman.  He was convicted based on faulty eyewitness identification,

• Allen Wayne Porter: Released last Friday after serving 19 years for a June 1980 rape conviction. Though DNA testing appeared to clear him in 2004, it was not until last week that a judge ordered him freed after those who committed the crime testified Porter was not involved.

• Ernest Sonnier: Released Aug. 7, 2009, after serving 23 years for the 1985 abduction and rape of an Alief woman. DNA testing implicated two con-victed felons as the actual perpetrators. Sonnier was released pending further investigation by the Harris County District Attorney's office.

• Gary Alvin Richard: Released April 30, 2009, after serving more than 22 years of a life sentence on kidnapping, rape and robbery convictions. Forensic tests confirmed incriminating testimony a crime lab supervisor offered at Richard's trial was false. Although he was released, the case against him remains.

• Ricardo Rachell: Released in December 2008 after serving nearly six years of a 40-year prison term in a sexual assault conviction. Cleared by DNA evidence collected in 2002 but not examined until last year. In January, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction, clearing the way for him to apply for a pardon on the basis of actual innocence.

• Ronald Gene Taylor: Released in October 2007 after serving 14 years of a 60-year rape sentence. DNA testing on the rape victim's bedsheet revealed that another man with a history of sexual violence had committed the crime.

• George Rodriguez: Released in 2004 after serving 17 years in prison for a kidnapping and rape conviction. In June 2009, a federal jury awarded Rodriguez $5 million, finding the city should pay for its "deliberate indifference" to problems at the crime lab.

• Josiah Sutton: Released in March 2003 after serving 4½ years of a 25-year sentence for a rape conviction. DNA tests discredited those performed by the crime lab. Gov. Rick Perry granted him a pardon on the basis of innocence, rather than a lesser "full" pardon, in May 2004.

•Kory Wise: Korey Wise was exonerated on December 19, 2002, after  being sentenced in 1980 and serving eleven and a half years of 15 year sentence for assault, sexual assault.  He was convicted based on false confessions, false evidence, and invalid forensic science.

•James Lee Woodard: James Lee Woodard was exonerated on September 30, 2009, after serving 27 years of a life sentence for Murder.  He was convicted based on eyewitness misidentification, and government misconduct.

Attention Reader,

The article entitled, Keeping the Buffalo Soldiers on memory's front lines by Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2010.....

...... does not even mention the 92nd Infantry Division the only ground combat trained and actual combat fighting unit of actual (U.S. born Black Soldiers) Buffalo Soldiers during WWII.  

Unlike WWII Veterans Bruce E. Dennis (built prisoner-of-war camps) , Andrew Q. Isaacs,  Waldo C. Henderson  who did not fight on the front, the battlefield, etc......

(The hypertext contains pdf court documents, written correspondence, and other factual information to support all the foregoing statements)

Andre Showell of BET asked President Barack Obama about African American Unemployment:

As the entire nation tries to climb out of this deep recession, in communities of color, the circumstances are far worse, the black unemployment rate, as you know, is in the double digits. And in New York City, for example, the black unemployment rate for men is near 50 percent. My question to you tonight is: given this unique and desperate circumstance, what specific policies can you point to that will target these communities and what’s the timetable for us to see tangible results?

President Obama:  Well, keep in mind that every step we're taking is designed to help all people.  But folks who are most vulnerable are most likely to be helped because they need the most help.  So when we passed the Recovery Act, for example, and we put in place provisions that would extend unemployment insurance or allow you to keep your health insurance, even if you've lost your job, that probably disproportionately impacted those communities that had lost their jobs.

And unfortunately the African American community and the Latino community are probably overrepresented in those ranks.  When we put in place additional dollars for community health centers to ensure that people are still getting the help that they need, or we expand health insurance to millions more children through the Children's Health Insurance Program -- again, those probably disproportionately impact African American and Latino families simply because they're the ones who are most vulnerable.  They've got higher rates of uninsured in their communities.

So my general approach is that if the economy is strong, that will lift all boats -- as long as it is also supported by, for example, strategies around college affordability, and job training, tax cuts for working families as opposed to the wealthiest, that level the playing field and ensure bottom-up economic growth.  And I'm confident that that will help the African American community live out the American Dream, at the same time that it's helping communities all across the country.

Vs.

President Barack Obama’s Address to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce: “…………education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it's a prerequisite for success.

That's why workers without a four-year degree have borne the brunt of recent layoffs, Latinos most of all. That's why, of the 30 fastest growing occupations in America, half require a Bachelor's degree or more. By 2016, four out of every 10 new jobs will require at least some advanced education or training.”

President Obama: Immigration Reform and Dream Act Speech…..I will not walk away from the fight…primarily in behalf of Hispanic Illegal Immigrants and the Hispanic Congressional Caucus.  

…….President Barack Obama steps up to the plate to promote rights for namely Hispanic illegal immigrants but when an appeal is directed to President Obama to:

1.  Tackle high unemployment in the Black community.

2. Respect the rule of law (Arizona Bill 1070, Federal Immigration Law).

3. Live by his sworn oath and mandated by law duty to honor the U.S. Constitution for all U.S. citizens, law abiding U.S. born black men, women, and/or his or her siblings being inclusive…..

…… in contrast President Obama lumps law abiding U.S. born Black men, women, and/or his or her siblings, in with the Hispanic community, most of the Hispanics being criminal illegal immigrants and not U.S. citizens.

…........all while ignoring petitions for redress from law abiding U.S. born Black men, women, and/or his or her siblings egregiously violated by the atrocities of a government seriously gone awry, which amount to Taxation without Competent Representation.

…Talks down to U.S. born Black men as being unfit Fathers, etc., etc.

…blame the demise of the Black community on the Conservatives, the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Fox News, etc., etc., all of this lacking factual basis.

…..declares Arizona Bill 1070 as being misguided. Arizona Bill 1070 mirrors Federal Immigration Law.

.......and Democratic liberal affiliated organizations, such as the California Democratic Party, The Minority News, or other Democratic affiliated organizations,  never bother to even check the actual party affiliation of the typical Black electorate, as if to say, if you are a Black voter, then you are without a doubt a Democrat and liberal.

In contrast, Republican organizations and individuals, truly check or research a registered voter's party affiliation  before mailing Republican Party oriented or Conservative minded material to any voter.    

With good reason, namely, "Taxation without Competent Representation", better than fifteen years ago,  I changed party affiliation from being a longstanding Democrat to being registered as a Republican…….   

…........after all the Democratic Party, namely the liberal segment of the Democratic Party, has proven itself time and time again, day in and day out, 24-7, to be the “Premier Political Party of Slavery", no good members of the Democatic Party promote policies designed to break-up law abiding U.S. born Black families for profit , "Jim Crow to the Power of Infinity", and/or "Black Code Law Enforcement" based policy.

With respect to "Obama Drives Home a Get Out the Vote Message", "Black Voter Turnout in the Spotlight", "It is Time to Protect Our Interests, the Tea Party, Republican Party/Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, etc., are not Friends of the Black Community" as published by the Los Angeles Wave Newspaper, West Edition, October 28, 2010,  to namely beg Black voters to save Obama, the Democratic Party, to keep no good elected Black leaders and/or other no good liberal Democratic Party affliliated leaders gainfully employed, so these individuals won't be facing the high unemployment rate that many U.S. born Black men, and women have experienced for decades.........

.......more likely come November 2, 2010, and beyond, President Barack Obama, and/or other liberal Democrats such as Senator Barbara Boxer, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, Assemblywoman Karen Bass, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, et al, only concern is to keep no good elected liberal Democratic Party leaders from becoming unemployed, due to mandated term limits for the length of time an elected official can hold office.

.........For decades the Democratic Party has taken Black people for granted, and thus far, far too many registered voters, who are U.S. born and Black, kiss up to the Democratic Party, even to his or her own, and/or the Black community's own demise.  

….....this being said, If I were you, Black electorate, stay home, vote Republican, or vote for a Conservative Democratic  candidate in November.  (Conservative anything are not in the Un-Constitutional, trashing the "rule of law", "Obamacrat, doomed for failure", Jim Crow oriented, "Dream Act and Anchor Baby Saving" promoting, ant-Free Enterprise, take property from those who earned it to give to the freeloaders, un-American,  promoting amnesty for millions of criminal illegal immigrants, Constitutional rights for known terrorists, issuing "Get out of Jail Free Cards" for misfits camp)

(The hypertext contains pdf court documents, written correspondence, and other factual information to support all the foregoing statements)

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rice-probation-department-20101010,0,1404993.story

“Put Probation on probation, Federal supervision is needed to fix intractable problems at the L.A. County Department of Probation, where the real victims are the youths in its custody” by Connie Rice, October 10, 2010, LA Times

“As far back as the 1970s, some of King/Drew's best nurses were sounding the alarm, demanding the removal of incompetent colleagues who were endangering patients. Instead, the county transferred the good nurses and left the incompetent ones in place.” by Connie Rice, “??????civil rights attorney????”

………..well those who have faced the music know for a fact elected Black leaders, lawyers, etc., etc., do not protect the Constitutional rights or serve law abiding “inner-city residents egregiously violated by the atrocities of a government seriously gone awry.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-kdday4dec07,1,5687046.story?page=2

………attacking the little guy or gal, while saying nothing about the doctors and hospital administrators at Killer/Butcher King Hospital whose incompetence and failure is as bad if not worse than the nurses singled out for ridicule.  

……Mind you, no good 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas is not fit to condemn anyone, because 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, and/or other elected Black leaders affiliated with the Democratic Party, are a disgrace to the office, sleazy, inept, and show blatant disregard for, or disrespect his or her sworn oath of office, to protect the Constitutional rights of all law abiding taxpaying residents,  egregiously violated by the atrocities of government in the 2^nd Los Angeles County District.

Sincerely,

Michael Lofton

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Put Probation on probation, Federal supervision is needed to fix intractable problems at the L.A. County Department of Probation, where the real victims are the youths in its custody.

by Connie Rice, October 10, 2010

On a classroom wall of the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall where Los Angeles County houses — and is supposed to help — juvenile offenders, there is a sign that reads "No Reading Newspapers, No Cell Phone Use and No Alcohol Consumption During Class."

The message is for the staff.

The sign was posted after the Department of Justice found serious problems with the county's Department of Probation, including staff members drinking on the job and retaliating against whistle-blowers. The problems were so widespread that, in a 2004 memorandum of agreement, Justice Department officials required the Probation Department to "ensure that staff … do not maintain or consume alcohol at the camps" or "threaten and intimidate youth who report … mistreatment."

Six years later, the department has even bigger problems. Employees have been charged with sexually exploiting the youths in their custody, pepper-spraying them inappropriately and staging fights between kids.

After a decade of federal prodding, multiple civil rights lawsuits, muzzled warnings from the L.A. County Commission for Children and Families, deflected whistle-blower actions, dozens of unheeded Boardof Supervisorsresolutions and a spate of embarrassing news articles, the Probation Department's malpractice continues. Which means children in county custody are still committing suicide, dying from untreated illnesses, being "jumped" into gangs at the camps, receiving "diplomas" while still illiterate, being held in solitary confinement without needed mental health treatment and cycling directly into adult prison. As Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas recently revealed, the department even fails to feed its wards meals that meet minimal state nutrition requirements.

In August, new leadership at the Probation Department released an impressive, if disturbing, assessment that confirmed the extent of the dysfunction. It noted a lack of hiring standards, ineffective discipline, unsuitable staff, inadequate data systems, managers without authority, corruption in promotions and work rules that maximize staff convenience but damage operations. The assessment concluded that the department needed to "return to the basics."

But that's like recommending Mel Gibson attend a session with Miss Manners. The problems are so profound that, in my opinion, the department's new leaders need outside help to overhaul and replace the current culture. Among their recent findings is that staff need to learn "the expectation of 40 hours of work in a workweek," and "the consequences of failing to adhere to policies." It's hard to imagine solving such problems that deeply rooted without outside intervention.

For decades, the county Board of Supervisors' oversight has been ineffective, hiring standards lax and training inadequate. Employees have refused to collect data, conduct assessments or perform evaluations. Too many kids are locked up, and the idea of rehabilitating them was never effectively embraced. The department is organized to serve staff needs rather than those of the kids in its care, and the resulting culture of entitled indolence shields incompetence, shuns excellence and sinks the good employees struggling to do a good job.

If this all sounds familiar, it should. The county presided over a similar disintegration of mission with Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. As far back as the 1970s, some of King/Drew's best nurses were sounding the alarm, demanding the removal of incompetent colleagues who were endangering patients. Instead, the county transferred the good nurses and left the incompetent ones in place. Some 30 years later, King/Drew's emergency facility was mismanaged into closure and the Board of Supervisors was finally forced to cede control over a new hospital to independent medical professionals.

So, why does the county continue to allow institutions to sink to such depths?

The County of Los Angeles, the nation's largest local government, is a world unto itself. Its huge, cubicle-filled departments are reactive and risk-averse. This sclerotic mind-set limits action to "inside factors" that bureaucrats can control from their desks. A refusal to deal with "outside factors" — say, the gangs operating in juvenile detention facilities — means that not only are problems rarely solved but, as one expert in child development noted, new ones are created: "The county grows a lot of the worst kids from inside its own departments."

The county's departments operate as fiefdoms, competing for funding and votes from the Board of Supervisors. Cross-department cooperation is so rare that when the Probation Department and the Department of Children and Family Services — two agencies that ought to be in constant contact — worked together to keep a family intact, it generated a Section A article in this paper.

Because transparency might bring embarrassment and more inept micromanaging from the board, departments are opaque, seemingly unable to produce such simple information as the number of employees in a given program. The supervisors, lacking information, try to exert control through budgets and interfering in departmental hiring, operations and policies. Not every county department has probation's level of dysfunction, but the big departments that deal with poor children all tend to bury problems to avoid the supervisors' wrath. Bringing in new managers at the top of the Probation Department will definitely not be enough.

It's time for outside intervention. Because the county has shown itself unable to protect the basic civil rights of the children in its care, the situation demands deeper and more aggressive intervention by the Justice Department. Just as with the resurrection of King/Drew, expanded federal supervision must empower outside professionals to help the new leaders create a functioning Probation Department.

In addition, voters need to create a child-safety enforcement and accountability unit that has the power to publish data and enforce the well-being of the county's most vulnerable kids without micromanaging by supervisors. As taxpayers investing more than $630 million a year in the Probation Department, we must demand child safety and fully rehabilitated youth, and end this abysmal revolving door of danger and abuse.

Connie Rice is a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles.

Copyright © 2010, Los Angeles Times

August 26, 2010

Mr. Bernard C. Parks, Councilman

8th District, City of Los Angeles

City Hall

200 N. Main Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Dear Mr. Parks:

            You were once the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) with the responsibility for executing and enforcing the constitution and law. You are now a legislator in a political arena, commonly referred to as the land of the possible. In a petition dated 08-21-10, I wrote you that my son Michael L. Lofton, a thirty (30) year employee at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is being deprived of all his retirement benefits in the absence of cause.

            Does your silence and lack of action say that to deny my son his retirement, without cause, is not a crime? Or are you saying that if a crime has been committed the criminal must be the black male, Michael L. Lofton?

            If either of the above conclusions is what you are saying or thinking it comes as no loss to law-abiding citizens in Los Angeles County, like me, that you are not now Supervisor of the 2nd District of the County of Los Angeles, individuals with all powers (executive, legislative and judicial). To have powers you will not exert for law-abiding constituents, including black, is a waste.

            How tragic since 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas is a total disaster!

Sincerely,

Esther M. Lofton

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Theft by Court details how an innocent Black man, specifically Carl Steadman, is involved in a minor traffic accident, to where Carl Steadman is the victim, victimized by another driver cited for illegal backing, as documented by the actual traffic collision report 1998080109 and Vehicle Code 22106.  The female perpetrator leaves the scene of the accident, to commit felony hit and run, both the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the California Highway Patrol,  former Culver City and Inglewood Municipal Courts, are fully aware of Carl Steadman's innocence, yet blatant fraud on the part of government and the Los Angeles County Court system frees a felony hit and run driver, and illegally and unwarrantedly convicts, jails and fines, Carl Steadman, of battery, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license,  etc. (Inglewood Municipal Court Case #8IW7573).

Councilman Bernard Parks has been contacted on more than one occasion about Carl Steadman, illegal activity that took place within the 8^th District, the 8^th District being Councilman Bernard Park’s district.

This proves that elected officials affiliated with the Democratic Party at the:

Local (8^th and 10^th Los Angeles Council Districts, the 10^th District being Councilman Herb Wesson’s district), Michael Lofton is a law abiding over thirty year property tax paying resident of the 10^th Los Angeles City Council District. Leon E. Lofton, Jr. being an honorably discharged disabled U.S. combat infantry veteran of WWII. (Los Angeles Superior Court Cases C 895188, BC 385899, Theft by Court pertaining to Carl Steadman, etc.

 State level in Assemblywoman Karen Bass or others.

Federal level in President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, former Congresswoman Diane Watson, and/or others

……..have no regard for his or her sworn oath of office to protect the U.S. Constitution and respective State Constitutional rights of all law abiding U.S. Citizens, law abiding U.S. born Black men, women, and/or their siblings being inclusive.

Sincerely,

Michael Lofton

Can a quadriplegic walk a block without the aid of artificial legs or crutches?   It is just as impossible for a law abiding citizen to pay his debts when government withholds assets belonging to another without just cause.

"There are cases when an individual has been wrongfully treated by his government andabout the only way, unless the individual resorts to court, and even in some cases the courtsare not able to give proper relief, the only area or avenue open to the individual is throughhis representative.  When you find a bona fide error has been made, I suggest that you makea maximum effort to remedy it.  This I feel is a vital and important function of those of us inthe House of Representatives."

Authors:  Donald G. Tacheron and Morris K. Udall, from the book entitled "The Job of the Congressman", pages 65 and 66.  (This important duty applies to all elected officials, all government employees, and all U.S. citizens)

Article 1, Section 7, of the California Constitution states:  " A person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or denied equal protection of the laws...." and Article 1, Section 26 states: " The provisions of the constitution are mandatory and prohibitory, unless by express words they are declared to be otherwise".

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." by John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

……..meaning it is crystal clear to anyone who comprehends the written as to the primary function of any elected official and the role of government to its’  law abiding citizens. 

Elected Black leaders affiliated with the Democratic Party, such as President Barack Obama, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, 10th City Council Herb Wesson, Congresswoman Diane Watson, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, etc., etc., all being black elected officials affiliated with the Democratic Party, still don’t get it, meaning these individuals are disgraceful, inept, and have more than just a few screws loose in the old noggin.

Amendment XIII. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Amendment XIV,  Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

In spite of the falsehoods and lies that lack factual basis sent my direction by LADWP management personnel, or Deputy City Attorney Lisa Berger, I’m a thirty year Los Angeles City employee with a clean record and stellar reputation, whose retirement and other benefits are being held without good cause. The LADWP continues to hold my retirement benefits and other benefits without just cause.

I met with attorney Gary Casselman, a prominent successful “Civil attorney” in the Los Angeles area, for his expertise in acquiring a substantial sum of earned insurance benefits from a 30 year paid up life insurance policy, and this too, has not materialized.  

I hired attorney Ricky Ivie, a prominent Black attorney in the Los Angeles, who did absolutely nothing for the legal fees received. Attorney Ricky Ivie has to be reported to the authorities, the result being virtually all legal fees were returned.

In most criminal proceedings, court decisions and swift penalties targeting Black men who are in violation of the law are signed by the judge of court of  record . 

In other instances, to where the government has egregiously violated the law to take property, jail, fine, destroy the reputation, violate the lawful right to gainful employment, hold retirement benefits, etc ., of law abiding U.S. citizens such as Leon E. Lofton, Jr., Mrs. Esther M. Lofton,  Michael Lofton, the Lofton Family, Carl Steadman, etc.,  as documented by Los Angeles Superior Court Cases BC 385899, C895188, BS121571, which is proven egregious failure or stalling to disrespect the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, the California Constitution,  all with the blessing of Black America’s brain dead no good Democratic Party affiliated elected black leaders.    The Democratic Party the so-called vanguard for the oppressed, etc., etc., meaning the Democratic Party specifically through this misfit group of elected Black leaders and/or others, are not about fairness and equity, but rather, the Democratic Party is indeed strongly “Jim Crow and Black Code law enforcement” oriented.

As reality would have it, as it concerns the courts, civil litigation, any petition for redress for the wrongs of a government seriously gone awry, the only individuals who have competently served my best interests have been my Dad, Mom, and I.  

I’m a law abiding black man. I play by the rules and abide by the law to uphold the rule of law to protect my property rights, lawful rights, reputation, etc. This cannot be said or proven for Black elected officials paid with taxpayer’s dollars,  sworn under oath and mandated by law to uphold the Constitutional rights of all U.S. citizens, law abiding U.S. born Black men, women, and/or his or her siblings being inclusive.    “Brain Dead” elected Black leaders again is truly appropriate.

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, the LADWP utility workers cut power from the utility pole on my property to my home for failure to pay utility bills, yet the LADWP continues to hold my retirement and other benefits. Prior to removing power, my Mom, Mrs. Esther M. Lofton, stated this is a civil matter supported by Los Angeles Superior Courts Cases BC 385899, C895188, BS121571.   My Mom, Mrs. Esther M. Lofton, also stated although I am licensed to use a gun and have the right to exercise the 2^nd amendment to keep the LADWP and/or others from entering our property, I know that you (LADWP representatives) want to return home safely to your families, and I want to avoid this type of deadly possible life endangering armed confrontation too. 

During the interim, namely this three week period, we used a generator to maintain power to our residence.  It is much more expensive to provide gasoline for a generator supplying power to your home, which only adds more difficult when the LADWP and/or others, hold assets due you, with legal authority and just cause. Again, Los Angeles County 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas was contacted, but to no avail.   The jest of it, “We cannot help you, call the county counsel's office”.  On Thursday, August 12, I, Michael Lofton, climbed the utility pole on our property to reconnect power to our residence.

My Mom, Mrs. Esther M. Lofton, is exercising her 2nd amendment right to bear arms to keep the authorities, The Department of Building and Safety, the LADWP, etc., off of our property.  Should the police, namely the LAPD, the LA County Sheriff’s Department, etc., respond through the use of deadly force,  my Mom made arrangement for me to stay at another location.  Since there is little if any civil law enforcement for Black men, the consequences of a black man exercising his 2nd amendment right, even when he is on the right side of the law, can be very deadly. 

In the event the LAPD responds through the use of deadly force, under conditions that mandate civil law enforcement and not penal law enforcement, in the interest of remaining in the “land of the living”, through the kindness of my Mom's VFW friends, I have safe refuge for a couple of days, these VFW individuals being law abiding, outstanding, and honorable Americans. 

It is hoped that this message is shared with the LAPD and/or others so that more emphasis is placed with civil law enforcement and not penal law enforcement so that my Mom remains in the land of the living, and the principles to which this nation stands, namely the U.S. Constitution and California are equally and adequately enforced, so that the lawful rights of Leon E. Lofton, an honorably discharged disabled WWII veteran, Jr., his widow, Mrs. Esther M. Lofton,  his son Michael Lofton, other the Lofton Family members, Carl Steadman, and/or others, egregiously violated by the atrocities of a government seriously gone awry,  as documented by Los Angeles Superior Court Cases BC 385899, C895188, BS121571 are respected.   

Sincerely,

Michael L. Lofton

As of Thursday, July 22, 2010, I have been without LADWP provided electricity because the LADWP disconnect electric service from the pole to my home, for failure to pay the LADWP utility bill.   Prior to being disconnect from LADWP utility power, I've been denied truly earned retirement income and other benefits earned through 30 years of employment with the City of Los Angeles (28 years and 10 months with the LADWP and one and a half years with the LA Convention Center) without good cause, the only means that I have to pay utility and/or other bills.

Since Friday, July 23, 2010, I have been using a generator to continuously supply electricity to the essential loads here at home.   The essential loads being supplied are for refrigeration, cooking appliances, security lighting, and/or other survival essentials.

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 11 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

SEC. 9.  

(a) A municipal corporation may establish, purchase, and

operate public works to furnish its inhabitants with light, water,

power, heat, transportation, or means of communication. It may

furnish those services outside its boundaries, except within another

municipal corporation which furnishes the same service and does not

consent.

   (b) Persons or corporations may establish and operate works for

supplying those services upon conditions and under regulations that

the city may prescribe under its organic law.

…….meaning when a citizen is on the right side of the law whose retirement benefits and other earned benefits are being withheld with just cause, and the LADWP has egregiously violated the Constitutional rights of the law abiding then the city, specifically the LADWP had no legal authority to cut off power to my residence. (Los Angeles Superior Court Case BS121 571, Judge James C. Chalfant, (213) 974-5889, Dept. 85, Los Angeles Superior Court Case BC 385899, Judge Mark Mooney,  (213) 974-5707, Dept. 68, Los Angeles Superior Court Case C 895188,  Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.)

At least one or more neighbors at (home address omitted for privacy), have called the police to report being disturbed by the noise coming from my generator.   Los Angeles Police officers have come by my residence at least five times, in the evening, or before and after midnight.   In each instance my Mom and I have expressed to the LAPD that the LADWP continues to hold substantial earned retirement benefits due Michael L. Lofton, a 30 year employee of the City of Los Angeles. It was also stated that 10th District City Councilman Herb Wesson, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, and the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles are also aware of this, meaning this is a "Civil matter" and not a criminal law enforcement issue. (Los Angeles Superior Court Case BS121 571, Judge James C. Chalfant, (213) 974-5889, Dept. 85, Los Angeles Superior Court Case BC 385899, Judge Mark Mooney,  (213) 974-5707, Dept. 68, Los Angeles Superior Court Case C 895188,  Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.)

LAPD have suggested that my Mom and I contact our neighbors, to which we have contacted our Korean neighbors to the South, but with good reason neither my Mom or I, intend to contact the residents to the north at ( home address omitted for privacy), the residence of U.S. born and UCLA graduate Dale Pierson who has provided refuge for Ahmed Adan Ahmed and at least a dozen other Somalian illegal immigrants; providing refuge to Somalians not being in the best interest of any U.S. citizen.   In addition,  it was stated that our neighbors to the north, being U.S. born Dale Pierson, Ahmed Adan, and other Somalian illegal immigrants residents at ( home address omitted for privacy) blocked us from removing Palm trees growing on our property, that damaged the main sewage line at ( home address omitted for privacy).   This mandated going to court for the right to remove a date palm tree and other palm trees on our property.    The Los Angeles Superior Court (Case #06M009646: Lofton v. Pierson) ruled in favor of Michael L. Lofton.   To date, Dale Pierson has yet to pay for the expenses incurred to repair the damage to my property, resulting from the interference and infringement on my real property rights on the part of Dale Pierson and the illegal Somalian immigrants residing at (home address omitted for privacy). Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 10th District City Councilman Herb Wesson, and 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas are also aware of this and to date elected officials of the City and County of Los Angeles have done nothing to hold Dale Pierson accountable for harboring illegal immigrants from Somalia at her residence.

In each instance LAPD officers who arrived, also left with the condition of the generator running remaining unchanged.   Since the LADWP, the City of Los Angeles must also respect the rights of any law abiding citizen whose property (earned retirement and/or other benefits) is being held by the LADWP without just cause, LAPD officers lack legal authority to enforce any law to stop Michael L. Lofton from using a generator to supply power at (home address omitted for privacy).

On Saturday, August 8, 2010, I spoke with Simon Boone a neighbor, who frequents the residence at ( home address omitted for privacy), this residence owned by U.S. born Dale Pierson who has provided refuge for Ahmed AdanAhmed and at least a dozen other Somalian illegal immigrants.   I stated that as a neighbor, whether you like me or not, it would serve you to contact the elected leaders of this jurisdiction and not the police, because this is a civil matter and not a police law enforcement/criminal matter.    I also stated, it is about time elected officials of this jurisdiction uphold his or her oath of office to earn his or her keep, in return for the local, county, property and other taxes that you, I and/or other law abiding taxpaying residents pay to them.

 In response Simon Boone asked, "Is there any way of lowering the volume of the noise of the generator at night".    No and again, it would behoove you and/or anyone else to contact 10th District City Councilman Herb Wesson, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas about your concerns,  because this is a civil matter and not an LAPD law enforcement issue. (Los Angeles Superior Court Case BS121 571, Judge James C. Chalfant, (213) 974-5889, Dept. 85, Los Angeles Superior Court Case BC 385899, Judge Mark Mooney,  (213) 974-5707, Dept. 68, Los Angeles Superior Court Case C 895188,  Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.)

On Saturday, August 7, 2010, one of my friends at the end of the block informed me that Ahmed Adan Ahmed, an illegal Somalian immigrant who resides at (home address omitted for privacy) confronted him to express his dissatisfaction with me, the noisy generator, and the LAPD officers for not exercising his or her policing authority against my Mom and/or Michael L. Lofton.    It did not work out as Ahmed Adan Ahmed as expected because my friend informed me that he responded by saying running a generator is not a criminal act. This is especially true in this instance because Michael L. Lofton's retirement benefits are being denied without good cause by the City of Los Angeles, specifically by the LADWP.   Instead of wasting your time calling the police about this matter, just like laying on the horn of your vehicle, you should be calling the offices of 10th District City Councilman Herb Wesson, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, twenty-four- seven. 

This of friend of mine is also an honorably discharged U.S. Vietnam War Veteran, who believes that elected officials have a responsibility to protect the Constitutional rights of law abiding U.S. citizens, law abiding U.S. born Black people being inclusive.   He stated elected officials and police are under oath to work for law abiding citizens and not against them. He knows like I know that competent and mandated by law elected official representation is severely lacking in the 2nd Los Angeles County District and/or other districts across this nation, as it pertains to Black elected officials working to protect the Constitutional rights of law abiding U.S. citizens, U.S. born Black people being inclusive. If Ahmed Adan Ahmed’s intention was to bring dissention between this friend of mine and I, the foregoing information will prove that Ahmed AdanAhmed did not succeed.

My Dad, Leon E. Lofton, Jr., (deceased July 13, 2003) an honorably discharged disabled "draftee" combat 92nd Infantry (Buffalo Soldier) Veteran of WII, who never received the benefit due his sacrifice, who passed with his integrity intact, would be extremely proud of the chain of events that mandates that President Barack Obama, 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 10th District City Councilman Herb Wesson, and/or any other elected official uphold his or her oath of office and earn his or her keep.

Indeed Rush Limbaugh,

"The Obamas Party Like Royalty as the Country Boils Over in Disgust",  and the King Louie Obama and Michelle Antoinette depiction is truly appropriate.

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The Reinvention of the Reverend, by Allison Samuels and Jerry Adler, Newsweek magazine, July 25, 2010.  
 
“There isn’t just one black leader. Reverend Sharpton is at the forefront right now, but there are many other names working for equality.”  
 
….and having faced the music, neither President Barack Obama, nor the Congressional Black Caucus, nor has any ambulance chasing reverend, such as Reverend Al Sharpton, Reverend Jesse Jackson, any Black lawyer, any civil rights organization such as the NAALCP, etc., etc....  
 
....... used his or her influence and expertise to uphold the Constitutional rights of law abiding U.S. born Black men, such as honorably discharged disabled U.S. combat veteran Leon E. Lofton, Jr., Mrs. Esther M. Lofton, Michael Lofton, Carl Steadman (Theft by Court), etc., etc., etc……  
 
……Constitutional Protections, the Rule of Law, etc., being the most valuable part of what it means to be an elected official, and/or U.S. citizen.  
 
Sincerely,  
 
Michael L. Lofton

Hello America. 

I Michael Lofton, am the son of Leon E. Lofton, Jr., an honorably discharged disabled draftee combat Veteran of WWII. My Mom, Mrs. Esther Lofton, is the widow of Leon E. Lofton, Jr., My Dad, Mom, and I, are U.S. citizens by birthright.

I come to you today, as a 30 year Los Angeles City employee with a clean work record, whose retirement and other benefits are being held without cause by the LADWP. 

As of Thursday, July 22, 2010, I have been without LADWP provided electricity because the LADWP disconnected electric service from the pole to my home, for failure to pay the LADWP utility bill.   Prior to being disconnected from LADWP utility power, I’ve been denied retirement income from the LADWP without good cause, the only means that I have to pay utility and/or other bills.  Like many other members of the working class, I don't have access to a money tree in my backyard, or any wealthy heirs that I can call upon for any source of income.

To keep my food from spoiling I'm using a Homelite 3500 gasoline powered generator to supply electricity to my refrigerator and other necessities. In the interim at least one or more of my neighbors have contacted the LAPD.   LAPD Officers have come to my residence to ask that I shut off the generator down during night and early morning hours. To keep refrigerated food from spoiling, I must keep this generator running continuously. 

I'm an over thirty year law abiding taxpaying resident of the 10th Los Angeles City and 2nd Los Angeles County Districts. This is not a police law enforcement issue. This is a civil matter that requires competent elected official representation and/or  “Equal Justice and Protection Under the Law” as it pertains to the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, to respect my property rights, so that I won't have to use a noisy generator to disturb my neighbors to supply electricity to my home. 

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." by John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

Article 1, Section 7, of the California Constitution states: " A person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or denied equal protection of the laws...." and Article 1, Section 26 states: " The provisions of the constitution are mandatory and prohibitory, unless by express words they are declared to be otherwise".

"There are cases when an individual has been wrongfully treated by his government andabout the only way, unless the individual resorts to court, and even in some cases thecourts are not able to give proper relief, the only area or avenue open to the individual isthrough his representative.  When you find a bona fide error has been made, I suggest thatyou make a maximum effort to remedy it.  This I feel is a vital and important function ofthose of us in the House of Representatives."

Authors:  Donald G. Tacheron and Morris K. Udall, from the book entitled "The Job of the Congressman", pages 65 and 66.  (This important duty applies to all elected officials, all government employees, and all U.S. citizens)

In light of the U.S. Constitution and California Constitutions, a U.S. citizen shall not be denied property rights without good cause. My retirement benefits are property that I have earned through years of service and age. 

My Mom, Mrs. Esther M. Lofton, called 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas’s office on Friday, July 23, 2010, regarding the foregoing, and the only response thus far is “We cannot help you, call the county counsel's office” as stated by Renita (Renata, Renuta) one of Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas’s staff employees.

Furthermore, the Los Angeles County Counsel works for and is paid by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, one being 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas. In contrast, President Barack Obama, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, specifically 2^nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 10^th District City Councilman Herb Wesson, are the elected representatives who are paid by and employed by property taxpaying and taxpaying residents and citizens of the U.S., the State of California, the City of Los Angeles, the 2^nd Los Angeles County District, such as Michael L. Lofton, and Mrs. Esther M. Lofton, etc., etc. etc. 

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (Contact Information),10th District Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson (213-473-7010), 2nd District Los Angeles Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas (213-974-2222) are the elected official or officials of the jurisdiction where I reside.

I need your support to make the laws work for all law abiding U.S. citizens.

Thanks for listening.

Sincerely,