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Pubdate: Sun, 20 May 2012
Source: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
Copyright: 2012 The Daily Camera.
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Website: http://www.dailycamera.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/103
Author: George Will, The Washington Post
A NIGHTMARE IN TEWKSBURY
TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: "What country are
we in?" He and his wife Pat are ensnared in a Kafkaesque nightmare
unfolding in Orwellian language.
This town's police department is conniving with the federal government
to circumvent Massachusetts law -- which is less permissive than
federal law -- in order to seize his livelihood and retirement asset.
In the lawsuit titled "United States of America vs. 434 Main Street,
Tewksbury, Massachusetts" the government is suing an inanimate object,
the motel Caswell's father built in 1955. The U.S. Department of
Justice intends to seize it, sell it for perhaps $1.5 million and give
up to 80 percent of that to the Tewksbury Police Department, whose
budget is just $5.5 million.
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MAP posted-by: Jo-D
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