Don Armstrong... at it again!

Don Armstrong, Town Lawyer, advised a nice innocent young couple with one child, to buy a one acre lot in a two acre zone and now they are stuck with a useless vacant lot. Think that's bad? It gets worse. Armstrong had to know he was advising them to buy that illegal lot when he did so two years ago. Less than a year ago he sent a letter to another fellow telling him he could NOT sell HIS undersized lots! So what's the difference. Well, now it gets interesting... The fellow he told he couldn't sell his lots was NOT a friend of the town board while the woman whose illegal lot he helped sell IS a friend of the town board. And it gets worser, or worse yet or whatever... wait till you hear this. The bestest childhood friend of the woman whose illegal lot he helped sell is his client! Can you smell the fish yet? Last March Armstrong sends a letter to the ZBA telling them that, in his opinion, it is just fine and dandy for this undersized lot and they should grant a variance... BUT just TWO months before that, in January, he cited chapter and verse and the law that proved without a doubt that it was illegal to do what he just told the ZBA it was OK to do. (I'm getting a headache)

Let's see what we have here.

Conflict of interest? Yep!
Favoritism? You Bet!
Unethical? Without a doubt!
Illegal? In all likelihood!

I know I have your curiosity at a fever pitch but I just don't have time right now to do the full blown, chapter and verse, treatment this story deserves. But you can bet I will, and soon. The saddest part is the poor young family that have been cheated out of their money because of Don Armstrong. And he is our town lawyer, and doesn't that make you just feel so special and warm all over? No? It should make you mad as hell at Armstrong and at our town board for hiring him.

Attention Pro Bono Lawyers: Here is a good chance to help these poor people get their money back AND you will have the distinct pleasure of suing Don Armstrong. Now don't push and shove, get in line, it's bound to be a long one.

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Iraqi Minister Scolds U.N. for Inaction Regarding Hussein

Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, accused the United Nations Security Council today of having failed to help rescue his country from Saddam Hussein, and he chided member states for bickering over his beleaguered country's future.

'Settling scores with the United States-led coalition should not be at the cost of helping to bring stability to the Iraqi people,' Mr. Zebari said in language unusually scolding for an occupant of the guest seat at the end of the curving Security Council table.

'Squabbling over political differences takes a back seat to the daily struggle for security, jobs, basic freedoms and all the rights the U.N. is chartered to uphold,' he said.

Taking a harsh view of the inability of quarreling members of the Security Council to endorse military action in Iraq, Mr. Zebari said, 'One year ago, the Security Council was divided between those who wanted to appease Saddam Hussein and those who wanted to hold him accountable.

'The United Nations as an organization failed to help rescue the Iraqi people from a murderous tyranny that lasted over 35 years, and today we are unearthing thousands of victims in horrifying testament to that failure.'

He declared, 'The U.N. must not fail the Iraqi people again.'

Secretary General Kofi Annan, the first to emerge from the hall, appeared taken aback.

Sounds like he did more than scold them, it sounds like he told them off, and he's right.

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Guardian Unlimited

"In the same northern Iraqi town yesterday, about 700 people rallied, chanting: 'Saddam is in our hearts, Saddam is in our blood.' US soldiers and Iraqi policemen shouted back: 'Saddam is in our jail.'"

Saddam?

President Bush sends his regards.

But one of Saddam's arresting officers said yesterday that the dishevelled former dictator had immediately offered to negotiate when captured on Saturday night.

"He said: 'I'm Saddam Hussein, I'm the president of Iraq and I'm willing to negotiate'," recalled Major Brian Reed, operations officer for the first brigade of the Fourth Infantry Division.

Major Reed said he responded to Saddam: "President Bush sends his regards."

Now that's cool.

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The Capture of Saddam Hussein

"Before the news conference, soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division set up pictures of the house where Saddam Hussein was found. The $750,000 that was seized during the arrest appears below."

President Bush Addresses Nation on the Capture of Saddam Hussein

"Remarks by the President on the Capture of Saddam Hussein
The Cabinet Room
12:15 P.M. EST"

'WE GOT HIM'

SADDAM CAPTURED Photo of Saddam Hussein shown during a briefing at the Iraqi Forum in Baghdad, Dec. 14, 2003. Troops from the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team captured the former Iraqi leader without incident Dec. 13. Saddam was found hiding in a storehouse at a remote farmhouse near Tikrit, Iraq. DoD photo

U.S. soldiers with 4th Inf. Div. capture Saddam Hussein near his hometown.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2003 — With three words – “We got him” – Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III announced at a press briefing in Baghdad today that U.S. forces had captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit.

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