Belated congratulations to Benito Acosta, aka Coyotl Tezcatlipoca! “Costa Mesa’s high-profile prosecution of an immigrant advocate ejected by police from a 2006 City Council meeting was dismissed by an Orange County judge Monday, according to the L.A. Times, Orange County edition.
Here are a few more excerpts from the Times article:
Orange County Superior Court Judge Kelly MacEachern threw out the case on a procedural issue after learning that Costa Mesa’s attorney, Dan Peelman, had never been sworn in as city prosecutor by the city clerk — as required by state law. The case, she said, amounted to “a denial of due process.”
Failure to accept the oath to represent the people “is not a harmless mistake,” MacEachern said. “This is a constitutional issue.”
Mansoor declined to comment Monday.
Councilman Eric Bever said, “I think we have to follow the legal process, and that’s what the judge’s decision is and we have to accept it.”
I previously introduced this case at this link, and then presented Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor’s take on it, after he called me at this link. I felt from the start that this case was a bogus one, and I am glad Acosta prevailed.
But according to the Daily Pilot, this is not over:
“Now that Costa Mesa
[Failure to accept the oath to represent the people “is not a harmless mistake,” MacEachern said. “This is a constitutional issue.”]
However, to accept the oath of office and than violate it is a treason.
Please take note of it Pedroza, Gordon, Mill and Gallegos.
#1
Are you accusing Pedroza, Gordon, Mill and Gallegos for acts of treason? If so, please elaborate.
You don’t have to be Hispanic to
make ugly, thoughtless, rude and
miscreant comments at City Council
meetings. You don’t have to be
Hispanic to call people names, say
they are Nazi’s or impuned the
integrity of anyone. You don’t
have to be Hispanic to cause a
riot or attempt to do so. You don’t have to be a Hispanic to
ask people to create Disorderly
Conduct in a Public Meeting. Acosta should have been warned
four times, asked to sit down
and then removed from the premises.
Just as should be done with anyone
that solely attempts to disrupt
the Government Process. That is
why Gov. Ronald Reagan closed the
Universities that failed to enforce
civil conduct on campuses in CA!
#1 (Stanley Fiala),
What outh have they violated for you to accuse them of treason?
“Are you accusing Pedroza, Gordon, Mill and Gallegos for acts of treason? If so, please elaborate.”
I can’t elaborate because Pedroza would not print it. Since you are anonymous I can’t contact you.
In actuality, no one “won” this case – they just didn’t lose it. While waiting for the other shoe to drop – the possibility of the judge’s dismissal being overturned – we now have the specter of the federal case, to be tried in the spring, according to news reports today. In the meantime, the City of Costa Mesa is racking up legal costs – some of questionable value. It’s a poor use of taxpayers money.
This post was originally posted by Stanley Fiala. It was laden with cuss words and it has been edited for appropriateness.
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Art Lomely,
You are very intelligent Dentist who can uncover not only decay cavity but even my anonymous wittings which I am forced time to time engage in, so the First Amendment rights lower, Art Pedroza, would not take my unalienable rights away.
Pedroza is a typical socialist who believe that: “What is mine is his and what is his is not of my business.”
So he believes that only his crapola at this blog is protected by the First Amendment.
When I was witting in old communist Czechoslovakia I use to use sarcasm to go around idiots like Pedroza, but here, in USA, people are too stupid to understand the sarcastic meaning.
Stanley –
You are not in old communist Czechoslovakia, get over it. Free speech permits you to call Pedroza an idiot without fear of reprisal.
You may want to consider working for Brittney Spears as her bodyguard. I hear she’s looking for one cussin’ communist to protect her.
Art,
How does free speech prevail here? The issues at hand were not addressed and the case was dismissed due to a legal technicality. I find it sad that someone as intelligent and involved as you are chooses to hold up this idiot thug Acosta as some sort of folk hero. He actually harmed his own cause by getting violent and turning months of Costa Mesa City council meetings into absurd circuses. Did you attend any of these meetings?
We had people comingh in from all over southern California and accusing the Council and Mayor of being Nazis. One idiot even had a Hitler puppet he’d “brandish” at the Mayor. We had people at the podium spewing all kinds of noise about racism, etc.
To compare combating illegal immigration to the Holocaust is disgusting. To call the elected Mayor of Costa Mesa a “f****** racist pig” is an insult to the thousands who voted for him and diminishes the term “racist.” This whole controversy actually promotes racism when idiot thugs like Acosta hijack the term for their own nefarious purposes.
The Mayor did NOTHING to hinder Acosta’s speech until Acosta began deliberately disrupting the meeting. The rules of decorum are clearly posted, the Mayor conducts the meeting and Acosta violated those rules.
Try being honest, Art. watch the videos and tell me if that sort of behavior is acceptable at a City Council meeting. You know it isn’t, but you are too intellectually dishonest to admit it.