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Pa. Patriot
State Researcher
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 12:37 am |
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Wilkes-Barre City Council meeting. August 7 at 6PM
This thread is to discuss the agenda (suggestions welcome), attendance as well as coordinate car-pooling, etc. of the next meeting in response to the incident on 6/7 as chronicled here:
http://www.pafoa.org/forum/concealed-open-carry-121/25386-violated-wilkes-barre-open-carry.html
The agenda is to address the following issues with city council:
1) WBPD Harassing open carrier for no stated legal purpose.
2) The refusal of the WBPD to state what they are "investigating" in regards to detaining mystery_man and confiscating his firearm
3) Training is in order for WBPD to prevent these incidents where people are being illegally detained and harassed. The consequences of which could include criminal complaints and civil lawsuits.
4) We have training materials for their inspection, ironically the same training materials I sent to WBPD a year ago that they obviously chose to not use or acknowledge were needed.
5) It is in the city's best interest to ensure the WBPD makes the incident report available for the public since the actions of the police that night were in violation of the law and incriminating to the WBPD, as such they are of high level of public concern and interest. So far WBPD has hid the incident report behind the "ongoing investigation" claim. Since they will not tell the aggrieved citizen what crime he is being "investigated" for having committed it makes the PD look as if they are covering up something.
We will also want to ask City Council what they plan to do about this issue and that we will return the following month for an answer.
INFO:
Wilkes-Barre City Hall
http://www.wilkes-barre.pa.us/citycouncil.php
Council meeting: Aug 7th
City hall ~ 4th floor in Council Chambers.
40 East Market Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711
Telephone: 208-4100
MAP
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Parking:
Meeting areas:Pre-meeting: TBD
Post-meeting: TBD
Roll call:
.Last edited on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 03:23 am by Pa. Patriot
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imperialism2024
Regular Member
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 04:06 am |
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Guess I'll be making another trip up north...
Anyhow, I have 3 seats open in my car, and I'll be leaving the Allentown area around 4-4:30. All I ask in return in a box of ammo. 
I might be persuaded to do a pickup down in the Philadelphia area, but that would most definitely require a two-boxes-of-ammo contribution.
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mystery_man
Regular Member
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 04:14 am |
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You know I will definitely be there! 
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Aran
Banned
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 06:44 am |
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Well, if anyone's coming from the west, I'm more than good at filling a seat. I just can't justify driving there alone.
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jpierce
Administrator
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Posted: Mon Jul 7th, 2008 05:13 pm |
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Way to go guys. Show them that gun owners are not to be stereotyped and that they are also not to be underestimated as a public voice!
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Bflamante
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Posted: Tue Jul 8th, 2008 12:14 am |
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Just some notes from the experience that those here in Utah had back when we met with the city counsel.
- Having the media there was of great value.
- Make sure you know what are the proper avenuse to raise concerns. The Mayor in West Valley City basically told us that the counsel could and would not do anything. That the city manager was in charge of the police force and the police chief. If this is the case with your city, then you might prepare for this response.
- Prepare your speech and make sure you cover the points necessary.
- Check your emotions at the door.
- Ask the counsel/mayor if/what they intend to do given the info you present. Get a commitment to action from them. Don't settle for a thanks for coming.
- Make sure and follow through, other wise it is nothing more than a publicity stunt.
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Pa. Patriot
State Researcher
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Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 03:22 am |
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Sorry for the late update ~ busy day!
Yes, there is a need to postpone this addressing of City Council until next month. will be an update this weekend explaining why.
I have updated the OP to reflect this.
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mystery_man
Regular Member
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Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 04:18 pm |
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Hey everyone! Due to some behind-the-scenes developments, there is a need to again postpone the addressing of City Council until next month. I will post an update when I have the new date and time.
A.J.
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imperialism2024
Regular Member
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Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 09:22 pm |
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mystery_man wrote: Hey everyone! Due to some behind-the-scenes developments, there is a need to again postpone the addressing of City Council until next month. I will post an update when I have the new date and time.
A.J.
Ah good. I entirely forgot about this, saw the updated thread, and thought, "Oh pooh!"
But I'll make sure to better mark down the date for September...
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