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| Concept Image of FFG(X) via Lockheed Martin |
This unfortunately isn't the update that I mentioned in my last post, that particular post is taking longer simply because I just don't have the time to work on it much right now. This is due to a combination the holiday season and the pace of the current contract I'm working. Attempting to go from a clean sheet concept design to an in production tech demonstrator, with a team of only four people total in the span of about four to five months, isn't an easy process. That project however isn't the reason behind me putting this update out - at least not quite, though it would certainly be tangential to it. No, the bigger issue that prompted this update relates to the image I've posted above. The problem that has come up with it, and the situation in general that I face with the felony, has pissed me off a lot - so that motivated me to switch gears on posts and get this one out instead.
All our departments received notice that the Navy has canceled the planned number of FFG(X) frigates they initially intended to build. This has resulted in Marinette shipyard pulling back work from the company I work for, since we were contracted under them for engineering and drawing support. It isn't a complete rug pull since there are contracts and penalties involved for that kind of action, but they will slowly claw back the work that we were supposed to perform. Needless to say, loss of a big contract has a major impact on any company. Although Marinette will likely "land on a bed of roses" from what I've been told, since there is increasing demand for ice breakers and Marinette does a lot of that type of work.
My current employer however has been scrambling to ensure everyone working that project will have other work to perform in the aftermath, and thankfully they don't appear to want to lay anyone off. In fact, when discussing this development with me my supervisor seemed confident that they will be able to find enough work to retain everyone. I'm hoping that's the case, but naturally my past experience with my previous employer makes me a little gun-shy when it comes to that kind of thing.
As for the impact for me, right now there isn't one at least in the short-term. I haven't been working on the FFG for over a year now due to getting different tasking for two other projects. I was however expected to switch back over to the FFG in the future when the other projects I am currently working were eventually completed. Obviously that's not happening anymore, so while it's not a short-term problem it likely will be a long-term problem for me.
When first signing up with this new company I was split between two projects. One of the projects was the FFG(X), and the other was the Jordanian Patrol Boat (JPB). I had been very familiar with the JPB, thanks to it being a pickup contract from my previous (and bankrupt) employer. The JPB was one of two contracts that I had been extensively worked on, the other being the MSV(L) landing craft, when my old employer went belly up. For the JPB project with my current employer, I and another designer had to rebuild the entire database and model from the last incomplete Navis model my old employer sent to the shipyard before the bankruptcy. I then had to work from scratch to create the entire hydraulic system for the boat, because that system hadn't even been started beyond a space reservation by the time my old employer went bankrupt. There were contractual issues during the bankruptcy with the bankrupt employer that prompted having to do things this way when the shipyard came to my current employer for help.
Once I was done with that JPB pickup contract, I was working full time on the FFG at that point and for the foreseeable (at the time at least) future. Thankfully another project came along that resulted in me having to get training for a software I hadn't used before (Solidworks). Unfortunately I can't talk more about what is involved with this contract for some time, but getting assigned to it quite possibly saved my ass in terms of employment.
I worked on that new project for at least a year until I was shifted temporarily to a different one that I'm currently on. The previous new project is still ongoing, and will be for at least a couple more years. But once that contract had finally been awarded after the prototype phase, the firm we're subbed under needed to work on some things behind the scenes to get everything ready for production work. So we hit a temporary lull in the amount of work my company was receiving on that project.
In comes this other short-term project during the lull, which is also unfortunately not one I can discuss the particulars of for some time. This project has been a bit rough, both for the fast pace and the fact it has shoved me into areas outside of my usual experience and knowledge. At least this time I had some degree of training prior to starting the project. As opposed to my previous bankrupt employer telling me to find a manual online and just "figure it out" while the yard was waiting on us.
Returning to the FFG discussion, despite currently being on another project, I still had to have a talk with my supervisor about that shut down issue since it'll have some impact on everyone. I was assured that I wasn't going anywhere. Once I come off this new temporary project, the previous project I was on will be ramping back up. So the timing is pretty good at least. I was also told by my supervisor during this talk that "You're my only mechanical guy right now; you aren't going anywhere".
However, I can't exactly say I'm 100% confident of that promise given my previous experience with the old bankrupt employer. Not to mention that being the only guy he has available can change at any time with a new hire. I'm glad I'll have someone fighting in my corner, but if the heads of the company say to lay me off my supervisor isn't going to have a choice in the matter. That notice to ditch me very well may happen. Losing this FFG contract is a pretty substantial blow, and whatever value I may be providing is tempered by the fact that I have a felony on my record. If they decide they have to start cutting people loose, the only felon on the team is likely to be at the top of the list regardless of what I bring to the table. I cannot stress enough the sheer negative reaction I've received over the years whenever someone finds out I have a felony.
I already don't expect to get a job offer from the company I'm subbed out to on this current temporary project. The felony got flagged and had to be "smoothed over" so that I could attend certain meetings. Which means at least one person in the company I'm subbed out to already knows I have a felony. That felony also became a problem for them before I could even get started on the project. So I've obviously already written off the chance that this other company might try to poach me from my current employer.
So I basically have to hope that everything continues with that other project I was previously on when this temporary contract is finished up. If nothing happens to that previous project, then I've got about two years before I have to be worried about my employment. Maybe two years, and that's a really big maybe. Honestly I don't know what happens after that. Right now I'm not seeing anything in the company's list of projects that I could be switched over to when the two years is up. Obviously that could change down the road with new contracts being awarded and I certainly hope it does. But I can't plan for something like that when it hasn't happened yet and is beyond my ability to affect the outcome of. I would feel much less concerned about my situation if I didn't have issues getting hired due to being a felon, because I could more easily jump to another company before that clock ran out.
I wasn't that surprised by the FFG result and it doesn't sound like anyone at my company was shocked by it either. But the nature of the beast is that any contract can be cut at any point, especially military ones when priorities shift. It's an unfortunate part of this line of work. While having a contract get rug pulled has always been an ever present risk in this field, it is made much more serious when I've been having multiple problems and setbacks thanks to the felony. I've had it clearly demonstrated that I can't just jump to another company as easily as others.
This isn't just a big problem for me. It's a big problem for Michelle Dickerman, and if she still isn't aware of that fact I suggest she starts figuring it out. If I end up experiencing another lengthy bout of unemployment because of this false felony charge yet again, does Michelle Annette Dickerman really think that's to her benefit in the end? Making someone very desperate because of her criminal actions, when said person already has a justifiable hatred for her because of those very actions, isn't a good situation for her to be in. Something that this woman clearly wasn't smart enough to foresee in 2006.
I would honestly have loved to have been done with this shit long ago. If in 2006 Dickerman hadn't been incompetent enough to think that shredding my life was somehow a smart solution to the issue, we both would have been able move on from this. Instead of the current situation we find ourselves in today, where I have no intention of letting her walk away without getting my "pound of flesh" for the stunt she pulled. This whole thing could have instead been left back in the past as just a bad chapter in both our lives had she gone about things differently. By taking things as far as she did Michelle Dickerman instead accomplished the following:
- She made the situation far worse than she could ever imagine for both herself and her family. She ensured she can't do a damn thing to me about it, because attempting that hands me everything I need to ruin her life. This entire thing going public puts a spotlight on Michelle Dickerman and her father, and that doesn't end well for either of them. The only option that Dickerman had if she ever hoped to live a normal life one day was to take responsibility for her actions. If she wanted someone else besides herself to take more of the blame for what happened in 2006, then she needed to rat out her co-conspirators in the process. After all, none of the prosecutors involved could give less of a shit about her life, and I guarantee Platania hasn't been the one looking over his shoulder every day. But Dickerman has already shown she's not willing to do that and so now things are going to have to escalate.
- She ensured that none of this is ever going away until I get to apply a "legal sledgehammer" to someone's head in retaliation for the sledgehammer that got applied to my head. As I said earlier, I want my "pound of flesh" and I intend on getting it from someone involved in the 2006 events. This has gone on for far too long now and I'll never get back the years taken from me by Dickerman. So now nobody gets to walk away from any of this without someone answering for what happened in 2006 and beyond.
- She gave me plenty of motive to be exactly what she claimed to be worried about. What did this woman seriously think would be the result of ripping someone's life to shreds for something she absolutely knows didn't happen? Nobody sits with their thumb up their ass for seven months before going to the cops if they really believe someone is threatening to kill them. Dickerman had months to think better about what she was doing during my prosecution, and yet not a single shred of common sense popped into her skull between bar exams and summer trips to Europe. Everyone else saw that where she was taking things was a very bad idea - everyone except Michelle Annette Dickerman. So here we are now 20 years on. The "monster" image she had of me in her head didn't exist before 2006, it exists now because she created the conditions to bring it about.
- She has eliminated any ability to put the blame for everything that occurred on the prosecution. Sure the actions and behavior of the prosecution was blatantly malicious to the extreme. Everyone will see this thanks to all the documentation involved. The actions taken against me are viewed as extreme and excessive by everyone who hears about the case. However, the prosecution pointed the finger at Michelle Dickerman and her parents as being the responsible parties. Now that we're approaching 20 years of her letting the injustice stand, Dickerman cannot say the prosecution lied and that they did all this without her knowledge or consent. Because Dickerman could have done something to alleviate some of that damage at any time post-conviction if she was seriously going to try to claim that she disagreed with the prosecution's actions. Dickerman has known what the prosecution did in her name for almost 20 years now, and yet she never lifted a finger to fix any of the damage. Her silence all these years says more than her lies ever could. The public will not believe that Dickerman didn't agree with the things the prosecution did to me.
- She let me obtain enough evidence of blatantly criminal acts to fuck up her life if any of the evidence got out in front of the public or the courts. For example, nobody is going to believe that a woman who passed the bar exam the first time didn't know that deleting evidence at the start of a criminal investigation was a bad thing. No one will believe her claims of ignorance because a lawyer would know better. She absolutely knew taking her Myspace profile down would destroy evidence, which makes all the additional evidence showing her lies to law enforcement and her blatant evidence tampering look even worse.
- She created a shitshow of a court case with optics and behavior so bad by her and other parties that just those optics alone will ruin the lives and reputations of both her and her father. It looks like Charlottesville committed a coverup on behalf of the Manweiler family, and I believe a Federal investigation by the Department of Justice would uncover this. Given that her father has connections to two universities that covered up for criminal acts committed by his daughter, no one will believe that Gregory Manweiler didn't have a role to play in what happened in 2006.
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| I might get AI to replace Bush with Michelle Dickerman in the future |
Had Dickerman either just kept ignoring me back then, or actually attempted to talk the dispute over instead of immediately running for the nuclear option, that bad chapter would never have taken place and we both would have moved on to happier lives. She did after all conveniently wait to do something only once I had finally had my say and was walking away. Which is her standard mode of operation - wait until the moment I run out of steam to then go throw more gas on the fire. She's done that multiple times in our past, to the point where I find it impossible to believe it's accidental.
So rather than play the same stupid game she's played over and over again in the past with egging on this dispute, in 2006 she really should have just ignored me rather than getting law enforcement involved. Before Dickerman walked into that police station, my future looked pretty bright and I had a lot to look forward to. I also had a lot less trauma inflicted upon me by her. Everything changed after she went to the police. Ignoring me at the time had been a far better option for her than what actually ended up happening. Obviously the situation absolutely changed after everything she did in 2006 and beyond. Things are very, very different now and it would be stupid to think the situation as it stands now has anything to do with the petty shit prior to 2006. Ignoring this situation now is like ignoring an 18-wheeler barreling down the road towards you.
Honestly if Dickerman hadn't lived her entire life with her head continuously shoved up her own asshole, everyone involved in this situation would have ended up with better lives on the other side of it. I don't even know what possessed this woman to think slapping me with a felony she knew I was innocent of was ever going to end well for her. I can't even move forward with my life without the felony causing problems and we're on the doorstep of 20 years. The massive shitshow that went on in 2006 absolutely screwed with me in the worst possible way. The Charlottesville law enforcement did everything they could to deliberately inflict as much damage as possible - and it turns out that they succeeded. And that's a really, really bad thing for everyone involved.
There is no moving forward for me on this, for both the mental harm inflicted on me and the cattle brand that is the felony charge itself. Had Dickerman actually tried doing something back in the very early years of this, to at least repair some of the damage she inflicted, it is likely that I'd have walked away. I could have returned to my career field sooner and been in a far better position now. Not to mention that the brand of the felony continuing to remain for years added to everything that had been done to me in 2006. The effects from constantly stressing over both the fallout from it, and the question of whether I could resolve the whole case in court, would just continue to pile onto the existing trauma for years.
Michelle Annette Dickerman's only accomplishment from 2006 is causing herself to have to look over her shoulder 20 years later. And once again - no shit she of course was going to cause that. Everyone involved in the events of 2006 saw that coming. My former attorney knew it when he made the plea deal offer that called this out - the one Dickerman turned down because she wanted me to have a felony. The prosecutors knew it wasn't going to help anything, because according to my lawyer Chapman was expecting that Dickerman would "turn up dead on the evening news" so they wanted to be sure nobody could point the finger at them for anything.
Even a guy in the jail cell with me, who was snatching money out of cash registers to feed his cocaine addiction, was making fun of Dickerman's decision when reading her VIS - "You know if I wanted someone to forget about me and move on, the last thing I'd want to do is give them a felony". Even a drug addict in jail on robbery charges had more of a brain in his skull than Michelle Dickerman has ever demonstrated in her entire life. How the hell did this woman ever manage to make it as far in life as she has? Is it really just daddy's money and connections that pushed her this far along?
I want to share just a little snippet of the (at the time) assistant prosecutor Joseph Platania's email:
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| Snipped from Joseph Platana's email threatening me into pleading guilty to the felony |
The simple reality is the above statement was an absolute fucking lie. Plantia knew it was a lie when writing it. It isn't the only lie that Joseph Platania made during the case, not by a long shot, but it really helps to hammer home just how incompetent Michelle Dickerman can truly be when making decisions. Joseph Platania absolutely knew when writing this that a felon, especially one who has a charge that is considered a non violent felony, could get their gun rights back at a future point in time. Platania knew it because even I knew it back then in 2006.
I knew, just as Platania knew, that it was always a question of when I got my gun rights back. I was always going to get them back one day. I'm sure Platania convinced Michelle Dickerman I needed to be a felon to never own guns again, but this just helps make my case that Dickerman is a lot more airheaded than she likes to put on. I knew back in 2006 that I was eventually going to get my guns back - and I'm not a lawyer. If Michelle Annette Dickerman wasn't capable of figuring out something that basic as a lawyer - then that just further demonstrates how stupid her decisions were in 2006. I suspect Dickerman did know I'd get them back one day, as I'll get into later.
When I attempted to fire my former attorney and hire Katherine Peters, she mentioned the option of signing one's right to own a firearm over in exchange for a misdemeanor. She was very confused as to why this wasn't an option the prosecution would attempt, stating that to give someone a felony just to keep them from owning firearms was ridiculous. As another lawyer I spoke to put it - "It's like going deer hunting with a grenade launcher, you're doing a lot more damage than you intend". Of course doing that damage was Michelle Dickerman's intent. Ironically enough, had I actually signed over my right to own a firearm in exchange for a misdemeanor, it is my understanding that the right would be gone forever. No avenue for restoration would be available at that point, making it actually more effective at such a thing than a simple class 6 non-violent felony ever could be.
Not to mention the fact that a felony never stopped me from obtaining a firearm if my intentions were bad. People like Michelle Dickerman are very detached from reality - either due to bootlicking, being sheltered their whole life, or just straight up delusional. They think that because something is a law, it magically means that this prevents anyone from committing that act. Dickerman thinks the mere presence of a felony stopped something from happening, when in fact a felony is nothing more than a label on a computer screen. Believing a felony stops something from happening to her isn't much different than her believing a lion wouldn't maul her simply because the lion was told it's not allowed to maul her. If you end up dealing with someone who has decided the penalties for murder don't matter to them, then obviously the penalties for lesser crimes don't mean a thing to such a person.
The reality is that since walking out of that jail cell in 2006, I could have obtained a firearm had I wanted to get my hands on one. At any time. The only thing that stopped me was my own choice - a large part of that being that I held out hope I could still clear my name in court one day and hold all these people accountable. Obviously if I obtained a firearm before the right was restored and happened to get caught with it (that's the key - they have to catch me with it first), then I lose the ability of ever clearing the felony from my record. Had I come to the conclusion quickly post-release that I would only be able to obtain justice outside of a courtroom, then it would have been a different story. Hell I reached that conclusion in 2020, and it was only through discovering that I had possible legal options available to me that I changed course on the decision that I made.
The fact that I have had my rights back for years means absolutely nothing. It does not change the fact that I was deprived of them for years prior. It does not change the fact that my life was dismantled in order to strip those rights from me, even if that stripping of rights was temporary. So now we come to Platania's statement of Dickerman believing I needed to be a felon so I can never own guns again. Well that statement was a lie and has always been a lie. Again - Platania knew it was a lie when he wrote it.
If that was honestly Dickerman's motivation, then she's dumber than her GPA would have suggested. It isn't Platania's fault or my fault that she was wallowing in her own ignorance when making that decision. She's a fucking lawyer. Dickerman should have been aware of the facts herself before making choices that would permanently impact everyone's life. The responsibility lies with her, and it was Dickerman's own choice for all of this to happen. The decision on what happened was certainly taken out of my hands once the cuffs got slapped on. I was unfortunately along for the ride at that point, and considering it was such a shitshow of a bad ride, I obviously wasn't about to let this woman walk away from what she did to me.
Platania and his former boss Warner Chapman are absolutely massive pieces of shit, but the decisions and the blame behind what took place has always been with Michelle Dickerman. You cannot not tell me that if Dickerman had protested about the felony that the prosecution wouldn't have listened to her. Platania had his head lodged up Dickerman's skirt and was having sexual discussions about her with my lawyer over the phone. He absolutely would have listened to her had she demanded that they not destroy my life like they did.
One of their biggest motives of the prosecution was to avoid looking bad if something happened. So if the claimed "victim" demands that the prosecution finds a solution outside of giving me a felony charge, the prosecution could easily point to this as their reason for leniency if something did happen later. So the fact that railroading me into a felony was such a priority for them tells me that there was never a protest from Michelle Dickerman during the entire case. Quite the opposite - Joseph Platania got up in court at the guilty plea hearing and stated that Michelle Dickerman had full knowledge of the plea deal, the excessive penalties, and the felony - and was "in full agreement" with all of it. The prosecutors had no problem pointing the finger of blame at Dickerman and her parents as to why things were happening.
By directly including Michelle Dickerman's parents, Greg and Carole Manweiler, as also being party to the harmful acts committed against me in this email, Platania has given me grounds for filing litigation against them in the future for considerable damages. While my former attorney did state that Dickerman's parents were heavily involved in what was going on in his letters, notes, and on tape recording; having this fact stated directly by the prosecutor in an official email is damning. There is no possibility of claiming they weren't a party to the life altering consequences this decision had, when the prosecutor handling the case freely admits without any prompting that they had a hand in the decision.
I want to make sure to point out the fact that Platania never had to mention that Michelle Dickerman and her parents wanted all this to happen. The prosecution does not have to give a single bit of justification for why they are taking actions against a defendant. Platania didn't need to tell my lawyer that Dickerman and her parents wanted to extend my confinement. He didn't need to address the court and say that Michelle Dickerman was okay with the felony, the plea deal, the excessive terms. As the prosecution they merely have to say "because this is what we want" and there isn't any arguing with them. Instead the prosecution constantly made sure to mention throughout the entire case that all of this was being done at the request of the Manweiler family. Given that the prosecutor didn't have to even state any of this, it means that Dickerman and her parents were obviously onboard with the entire thing just like the prosecution said they were.
Considering that this email happened right after Katherine Peters made contact with him to get information for taking over the case, I'm sure part of Platania's motive was retaliation for it. Retaliation was also the motive behind the approval from Dickerman and her parents, just for reasons unrelated to Katherine Peters. The wording of the email makes it clear that the November release was something that clearly had been discussed already prior to Thursday. So again, given Dickerman can be proven to have no longer lived in Charlottesville long before November - for what possible reason was it necessary that they even discussed extending my confinement into November? Keep in mind there are going to be emails at the DA's office that will document these discussions - which will further reveal Dickerman's involvement and her parents involvement. Certainly the prosecution will document it among themselves. But I'm willing to bet a majority of Dickerman's communication with the prosecutors was through emails, especially once she moved to DC by September. All of that stuff will come out in the future Mrs. Dickerman - whether via discovery or by an investigation.
I want it made very clear how serious this extending of my confinement is. The question of why they thought this was necessary was not an idle one. This directly resulted in further and very serious damages to me. Not only in trauma, but in career and lifelong damage. My supervisor had wanted to rehire me ASAP, but by October he was forced to fill my position. Had I been released in September it would have been a difference story. This particular decision directly resulted in two very serious things.
One was being forced into employment involving heavy physical labor that my medical condition with my muscles could not handle, but I had been rushed into it because employment was a direct condition of probation and I didn't have anything else available thanks to the extended time in jail. This caused daily physical injury and a great deal of pain. It also directly resulted in a lengthy time of unemployment - years in fact. I wasn't able to get hired in my field again until 2011 - in my 30s. Nobody would hire me in my field prior due to my felony charge, and certainly not a felon under probation. My only option was to attend classes to attempt a career change, which thankfully satisfied conditions of probation.
None of this would have happened had I been released sooner and my supervisor rushed me back into my old position. Returning to my old position was impossible solely thanks to me remaining in custody until November. By Platania's own confession in his email, keeping me in custody until then was not only his plan, but was additionally suggested by both Michelle Dickerman and her parents. It was part of their plan as well.
So I'm going to ask the question again. I would suggest that great care is taken when thinking about that answer, because it becomes a serious aggravating factor in both future criminal and civil litigation. This is a question that will also be asked in the future by a lot of people when this entire thing comes out publically. What could possibly be the justification for delaying my sentencing hearing until November in order to keep me in custody longer (as directly stated by Platania), when Michelle Dickerman can be proven to have moved to the DC metro area by September, as listed in her own LinkedIn profile?
We already know the answer. The public and media will know the answer. Law enforcement will know the answer. A jury will know the answer.
Malice. Pure maliciousness and the intentional infliction of harm. And harm is exactly what you caused. How much you want to bet there is further material about this and other such issues in stored emails at the Charlottesville District Attorney's office? Things that neither Platania nor Dickerman want dragged into the light? Dickerman is a litigation lawyer, I shouldn't have to describe to her how bad this can get for her and her family. This is just one thing out of likely numerous issues that are still cataloged in city records. Platania is quite the arrogant prick so you know he doesn't have a problem writing things in emails that he doesn't believe could potentially bite him in the ass later.
The prosecutors made it very clear the entire time that the felony and excessive penalties was what Dickerman and her parents wanted the entire time. My former lawyer William Johnson also made it very clear that Dickerman and her parents wanted the felony and the excessive penalties. Once again, the emails exchanged during my criminal case are still stored by the City of Charlottesville and they will come out in the future - either during discovery or when this entire thing goes public. I guarantee those emails will say that Dickerman and her parents wanted all of this. The prosecutors and Rudman might have gone as far as giving direct quotes by Dickerman and her parents.
Then we have the fact that all these years, had Dickerman at any point disagreed with what was done to me - there were options she could have taken to repair some of that damage. As a lawyer she knew every bit of this. She can't claim ignorance either that there had been other options during the 2006 case. She saw the letter I posted where my former lawyer drew up a very reasonable plea deal. Both her and her parents saw it - I still have the viewer records of it.
Dickerman clearly reached out to Charlottesville, because I ended up with City of Charlottesville ISP viewers (the prosecution and police are on that network) and I had Detective Rudman conduct an investigation of my blog. I still have records of his investigation. He saved a page from my blog and burned it to a CD, almost certainly to open the page from a computer not connected to the internet so that his views of it couldn't be tracked.
Detective Rudman likely wanted to analyse the code to see how I was tracking viewers. Not realizing that when the software to burn to CDs accessed the file, the tracker still embedded in the page and files sent the location of the file to me. To be fair to Rudman, he couldn't have known this would happen because I sure as hell didn't know it would do this either. It is interesting to note that Dickerman started using methods to attempt to prevent me from seeing her views after Rudman did this investigation. As if Rudman had later given her some instruction on these methods (which were executed poorly). Which certainly leads to a reasonable conclusion that Charlottesville law enforcement was using taxpayer resources as a personal favor to Michelle Dickerman (who wasn't a resident of Charlottesville for years at this point), in the hopes of allowing her to monitor my blog without my knowledge. Something tells me that the public isn't going to like that kind of corruption very much.
Whatever Michelle Dickerman said to the prosecutors during that incident (I seriously doubt she contacted Rudman directly but I guess that's possible) I guarantee it was recorded somewhere. Either in the emails exchanged between the prosecution and Rudman, or in emails exchanged between Rudman and his supervisor. All of which are records that have to be retained, and Charlotteville already admitted to the number of emails they retain about my criminal case when I did the first FOIA request. Even if Dickerman made a phone call in order to not have a paper trail leading back to her, I can guarantee that the subject matter of the phone call was documented in the email exchanges between law enforcement parties. Detective Rudman was conducting an investigation of my blog on the taxpayer dime - you can absolutely be sure that something of Dickerman's conversation has been recorded in city records.
That's just a taste of the shitshow coming for Dickerman and the guilty parties in the future. Not even the tip of the iceberg. Bad shit is happening in the future. So let's get back to some very important questions that Dickerman should be asking herself now.
Let's look at things post-2006. My rights get restored (I even reluctantly voted in the last VA election since discovering the hard way that jury duty wasn't tied to voter registration anymore) and this dispute is in a far, far worse place than it has ever been. Twenty years on and I've not only refused to walk away, but I intend on escalation. Nothing about me having a felony charge stops me from doing any of the things Dickerman claimed to be fearful of in 2006. Quite the opposite in fact. She essentially created the very motive and conditions to produce the thing she claimed to be afraid of. By all means, she should run the possibilities through her own head and figure out what exactly does the felon label actually stop from happening at this point?
I know that it seems a skill lost on Michelle Dickerman given her many dogshit choices over the many years of this fight, but really try to stop and think for a moment - what did this woman accomplish in 2006 that has ever benefited her even a little bit? Twenty years later and this fight is now something far worse than it has ever been. There is someone out there now who justifiably want revenge against her for what she did, and she can't do a damn thing about it. Because trying to do something to me would just give me everything necessary to fuck her life up. The moment this entire case sees public exposure Michelle Dickerman might as well kiss everything she's ever worked for goodbye. It won't just be her that suffers the consequences of that - everyone around her will have a bad time when this shitshow comes under public scrutiny.
I have enough to not only ruin her life but her father's life as well. Their reputations will be permanently ruined due to their own actions and behaviors. I have the ability to drag her family through hell via the legal system. Dickerman can't even risk running for public office, and I'm betting it's something she grew up wanting to do. It's likely that due to this problem of being unable to hold an elected office, that she's effectively hit the ceiling in her career. Because anything higher in the Treasury department is likely to be a politically appointed office. I'm sure being anything above a Deputy Assistant requires some public figure to put their name and reputation behind her and approve her in that position. Anything higher also certainly carries more risk of exposure.
Any public office carries with it a deeper vetting process and the risk of public scrutiny - which won't work out for Dickerman. So Michelle Dickerman will never be the next Janet Yellen. She'll never be president. She'll never even be a run of the mill politician. By ruining my life in the manner that she did, Michelle Dickerman has in turn ruined her own life by being forced to close doors to bigger things she likely wanted growing up. Once again, anything that comes with public scrutiny means exposing this entire shitshow. None of that is my fault either - Dickerman can go look in the mirror if she wants someone to blame. Anyone who had designs on future political office should have been thinking about the optics behind every action and decision even in their 20s.
This extends to Michelle Dickerman's husband as well. John Dickerman running for office means that people will start looking at his wife's personal history. As I've already pointed out, even him working for the business council of Canada is perhaps flying a little too close to the sun. It only takes one reporter digging into his wife's background to bring a tidal wave of shit. Climbing any higher will risk more scrutiny, and in turn risks his wife getting exposed. So any political aspirations of John Dickerman have to be sidelined or he risks his wife suffering serious consequences when everything gets dragged out into the public square. I can't see him being dumb enough to ever run for a public office given the serious risk that entails to his wife.
Things will also get worse when all this comes out depending on the manner that it happens. If it happens in a way that shows a lack of remorse from Michelle Dickerman and a refusal to take personal responsibility from her - she'll get eaten alive because of that. Her family won't have a fun time either by extension, especially when the accusations against her father come forward. She'll drag everyone else around her done and permanently damage their lives. All because she got pissy over mean emails in 2006, and decided to then lie and fabricate evidence to ruin someone's life for a crime she knew the entire time that person never committed.
I'm not kidding when I say that Michelle Dickerman should keep the below video in mind. This is going to be her in the future one way or another. Reporters will be sticking microphones in her face. They will stick microphones in her father's face. The woman in this video actually came forward to take responsibility, legally if not publicly. She was very clearly a shitbag and everyone knew it. She was obviously reluctant to come forward - but she still came forward. Something Michelle Dickerman has not done.
If this entire thing comes out in the media in any manner other than a complete capitulation by Michelle Dickerman where she shows remorse for what she did - then Dickerman can expect worse treatment than the woman in this video. Because once again, this woman at least came forward to take responsibility and that's more than Dickerman has ever done. This other woman also didn't wait 20 fucking years to do the right thing. Everyone is going to be critical of how long Dickerman has let this entire situation go on as it is. The length of time Dickerman has already allowed the damage to fester is really bad in the optics department. Every moment more that this situation continues is just adding more fuel to her pyre.
People will ask why she didn't even attempt some kind of damage mitigation for all this time. Michelle Dickerman watched me flounder around from unemployment for years due to the felony charge and she didn't so much as lift a finger. As a lawyer she knew there were options but she just didn't care. That's not going to look good at all for her. She is on record with having seen the behavior of the prosecution on her behalf, meaning she can't claim ignorance on what they did. Her status as a lawyer further complicates any attempt at claiming ignorance.
People will want to know why Dickerman didn't do the right thing in 20 years. The longer this goes on, the worse it gets for Michelle Dickerman and her family when all of this finally comes out. People will see that a rich white girl with a banker father received excessive special treatment from law enforcement. They will see that law enforcement committed a coverup for her benefit. How does Michelle Dickerman expect that to work out for her?
At the end of the day Michelle Dickerman's arrogance and stubbornness is going to rip her life to shreds and drag down everyone else around her, and she's absolutely going to deserve every single bit of it. She will be viewed in an even worse light than the woman in that video being ambushed by reporters.
So I'll ask once again having gone over all of this:
How exactly is this situation as it stands now better than what she dealt with prior to 2006?
Michelle Dickerman effectively made everything worse for everyone - herself and her family especially. She's hurt a lot of people, inflicted a lot of suffering, and dismantled someone's life to the point that recovery is never going to be possible. The only legacy Michelle Dickerman leaves behind is the undeserved destruction of someone else's life. All because she wanted to be a vicious and arrogant ass with no concern for other people. She was doing this sort of thing back even when we were young. I was just a kid trying to navigate this issue the best I could, my only sin was just wanting to be around her, and yet she was exceedingly cruel the entire time. The deep trauma she caused resulted in me wanting to lash out verbally later on. Then she had to go and do something very, very stupid in response - lying to law enforcement in order to weaponize them for her own personal gain. All of her actions and decisions, from the beginning all the way up to this point in time, were not a series of abstract "bad things"; they are concrete, visceral actions that led directly to another human being having their life permanently destroyed.
There is no moving forward after what she did in 2006. Not after so much damage that has persisted for so long. Not without a high cost to Dickerman. The responsibility for all of this happening falls on Michelle Dickerman's shoulders - a weight this woman put on her own shoulders. A weight she's been forcing others around her to carry along with her.
There were always other options she could have taken throughout this entire dispute. Options that wouldn't hurt people. Options that could have let everyone involved move on to better lives. Options that wouldn't have destroyed lives. All options Michelle Dickerman refused to take. Because that required actually giving a shit about other human beings, and Michelle Dickerman is too much of a narcissist for any of that. A lot of people have already been hurt and more will get hurt further by this entire shitshow when it all comes out. She's already destroyed lives and will cause more lives to be destroyed. A lot of suffering is going to be laid at her feet. Her family is going to suffer consequences right along with her.
Again, it's time for a "come to Jesus" moment for this woman. What Platania claimed in his email to be the goal was never a goal, and that's over and done with now anyway. So the only fucking thing that remains is the felony charge - which keeps causing me problems in life after 20 years. In turn, this not only keeps reminding me of what this woman inflicted on me constantly, but it also continues to confirm that I can't move forward in my life without getting justice against these individuals. So what the hell did you accomplish you idiot? What exactly did you make better for yourself or anyone else? I know that her own life is all the narcissist thinks about, so I'll reiterate - what exactly did you make better for yourself?
I don't expect anything I say here to get through her skull - it never has. I just want to make it very clear how badly she's fucked up. If she still can't figure that out, then there isn't anything that can get through that thick head at this point.
As for the legal stuff, that's still a work in progress. So far nobody has told me "There's nothing we can do for you" so at least there is that. But I've been well apprised of the very expensive uphill battle I would be in for. So I'm anticipating the possibility that I'll eventually either get told "We can't help you" because of just how expensive and difficult it is. Or even more likely, I'll just not be able to take the financial risk right now because in the near future my employment prospects might completely evaporate. It isn't like I'm having luck in that regards thanks to the felony.
All of which is making me feel like I'm being backed further into a corner. If indeed it becomes apparent that I can't get this situation resolved in court? Well, I've been at that point in 2020/2021 and I had already set myself towards what I planned to do to seek justice against Dickerman. Finding out the rules changed on the Writ of Actual Innocence is the only reason I set that plan aside. If I finally get told "Sorry it's not happening" on what is likely my last legal hope, or worse actually pay that kind of money and battle for three years only to get told to go fuck myself by the legal system, then it's pretty clear at that point what needs to happen and I'll simply switch back to the original plan. I won't bother announcing it on here or the website when that happens. I'll just simply move forward quietly with what I've been forced to do at that point.
I am however increasingly contemplating going to Charlottesville, filing a police report, and walking into the district attorney's office to have it out with the bastards. I honestly don't care if they try any bullshit, because they absolutely will be handing me the axe that takes everyone's heads in the end. It won't go down like last time, and I absolutely will have plenty to say for the media and the cameras. That's ultimately the reason neither Dickerman nor Charlottesville can risk lifting a finger to fuck with me - because that comes with guaranteed media exposure.
Michelle Dickerman knows this, after all she complained about journalists contacting her back in 2006. I had plenty of journalists show up to talk to me, including at the national news level (some even made Johnson give an "oh shit" whistle when I told him). I had to sign documentation at the jail each time for the reporters saying I wasn't giving any comment. I'll have plenty of comments this time around. Dragging this shitshow into the light ends in a nightmare for Michelle Dickerman, and she's already demonstrated that she's aware of this fact.
When I actually take that step depends on a few things. I had hoped that Platania had retired already and someone else replaced him. It's completely logical why Platania wouldn't want to do something that is going to wreck him. The problem there is that not taking the necessary steps once confronted with the evidence of what he did isn't going to work out well for him either. Refusing to fix the damage he did when a police report is filed and all the evidence is presented to him won't end well for him in the future.
His only option at this point, in order to get the best result possible for himself, is to try to pin as much of the blame and guilt on Dickerman and make an example out of her. Attempt to portray Charlottesville law enforcement as the victim of a vicious individual who tricked them. Which granted they did get tricked initially, but that's because of criminal levels of negligence. It also doesn't excuse any of their actions afterwards. As unpleasant as it will be, it is however the only chance Platania has for a soft landing when this comes out. If this goes public via any method other than Platania doing the right thing, he's absolutely going to get crucified for the role he played in this. But the man has shown a significant level of arrogance only rivaled by Michelle Dickerman, and arrogance tends to make a person rather stupid in their decision making (Dickerman for example). So I don't anticipate Platania making the smart choice here. Platania likely won't attempt to cooperate until he gets slapped with a heavy dose of reality, and by that point it'll be too late for him to bargain.
If someone else was running the DA's office I could work with that more easily. Yes they have to deal with a shitshow, but it was over an event that happened long before their time. The new head prosecutor can pin the entire blame on the "old guard", promote themselves as undoing the evils committed by previous bad actors, and come out looking squeaky clean at the end of it. So I took a look at the C'ville DA's office and found out Platania is still there for some fucking reason. Speaking of which:
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| Charlottesville Prosecutor Joseph Platania |
New photo to use for the blog/website and for AI generation. And my what a sullen joyless prick he looks like in this photo. Guess all those years of fucking over your own community, and knowing you're a sell out who railroaded a man for a felony you knew he never committed, ends up wearing you down over the years.
Granted I'll give it to Platania that he's in better shape than Dickerman, who looks like she smacked the wall while going 90 MPH:
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| Michelle Dickerman, back in 2019 at a family gathering |
"Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes". Guess all those years of fucking up someone's life for something you knew you lied and faked evidence for, and knowing you gave that person justifiable reasons now for wanting revenge, wears you down with all the guilt you're too arrogant to acknowledge. Her mother doesn't look this tired and torn down at a more advanced age. Granted that dead eyed stare could possibly be from frying her brain with SSRIs and who knows what else, but that doesn't account for everything. Before anyone bitches about my comments - no, I'm not going to be nice to people who absolutely fucked up my life over a lie. What they've done is evil as shit. They are bad people trying to wear a good person skinsuit for the sake of appearances. I'm absolutely going to be a mean bastard to these people, and I guarantee there is plenty of bad things they say all the time about me and my family. I'm just honest enough to go on record with my shit talking.
I'm also not even saying I've come out that much ahead of her for right now. Thanks to all this shit dragging me down mentally to the point of hermitage and stress eating, I haven't done myself any favors over the years. I bet however that if I dropped the body weight and started lifting I'd look a whole lot less aged than Dickerman, despite the fact that my life getting fucked in 2006 has damaged me in plenty of other ways. With not much effort I dropped 20 lbs very quick earlier in the year despite my age before I lost the motivation when dealing with some other bad shit that was going on. Gained back the motivation now because I would like to avoid giving these bastards the gift of putting myself in an early grave before making them answer for what they did.
Returning from the shit talking back over to the issue of Platania - his presence there at the DA's office is a bit of a snag in the plan. Like I said, I can work more with someone who wasn't around when things went down in 2006. Someone without a personal stake in this is more likely to work with me because it's not their head on the chopping block. Then again, Platania might be smart enough to see the danger ahead of him if he doesn't fix what he broke. I want someone's head for all of this after all these years and that's non-negotiable. What ends up being negotiable is the question of whose head that ends up being. Platania might be open to a solution that saves his own ass and causes Michelle Dickerman to take the fall for everything.
I'd rather it be the heads of anyone that so much as breathed in the direction of this case, but I'm pragmatic enough to know I'm never getting that. While I'll settle for Platania and Chapman's heads, I'd much rather have Michelle Dickerman's head for all of this now. This woman has been doing damage to my life for a very long time, even long before the 2006 case happened. Like I previously said she's lived her life with her head permanently lodged up her own asshole, and had zero ability to treat other people like human beings (and I have no reason to believe that has changed even after all this time). She's made far, far more enemies over the years than she likely realizes or acknowledges, and they weren't just being "haters". If you act like an arrogant bitch to people and treat them like subhumans they tend to not forget it. She just ran into the one person who got angry enough to fuck with her back for it. She then made the incredibly stupid decision to use law enforcement as a tool of revenge, using lies and fabricated evidence to manipulate them into making their own incredibly stupid decisions. And that's something she's going to receive severe consequences for in the future.
Michelle Dickerman took things too far, and there is a heavy price to be paid for doing that. While Charlottesville law enforcement is far from being excused for their own actions, they never would have been in this position had Dickerman made better choices. Dickerman also has never shown a sliver of remorse for anything. She doesn't feel bad about hurting people. She was given the option to limit the damages to herself and shield her family from this multiple times, and yet she still couldn't accept responsibility and fess up to make things "right". I'm not even talking recently, where she had the option a year ago to reach out and didn't before the offer got withdrawn. Way back when Rudman was doing his initial investigation for her benefit, I put forward an offer on the blog - whichever side came forward and made this "right" (as right as it possibly can be, which isn't much, hence the quotes) I wouldn't take any legal action against that side. Instead I would focus the legal sledgehammer entirely on the side that didn't take the offer. One side being the Manweilers, the other being the Charlottesville law enforcement. My former lawyer William Johnson would get screwed either way and he absolutely deserves it.
I even repeated that offer around 2019 when I was doing the motion to unseal my records and the FOIA request. So Michelle Dickerman has had multiple opportunities to come forward while at the same time limiting the fallout for herself and her family. Considering I had agreed to not sue her and leave her family entirely out of this, and in the previous offers I had even agreed to not pushing for criminal charges being filed against her, I feel that I was being extremely reasonable considering the massive amount of damage she inflicted. My life will never be right because of this woman, and I'll never get all those years as a felon back. Yet I was willing before to forgo all legal action against her if she just admitted what she did, cleared my name, and pointed out what Platania and Chapman did.
Even ignoring that fact, Dickerman could even have attempted to "fix" some of the damage she did many years ago when I couldn't get employment over the felony. Dickerman refused and instead just watched as I struggled to get some semblance of my life back. There were things she could have done to alleviate a lot of the damages she inflicted many years ago, all without even confessing to her crimes, yet she still couldn't be bothered to lift a finger. So yes, I absolutely would prefer now for her head to roll instead of Platania's and Chapman's.
The reality is that a lot of people have already been hurt, and more will be getting hurt in the future, because of Michelle Dickerman. None a single bit of this situation would exist today if Dickerman hadn't pulled her little stunt in 2006. The stupid slap fight was absolutely over by the time she pulled her thumb out of her ass and walked into the police station with false accusations and tampered evidence. Yet even then this woman still had the chance to just let everyone walk away. I was willing to accept misdemeanors, even to charges I wasn't guilty of, and just chalk them up to the price for not walking away sooner. But that wasn't good enough for this woman and so now we're here twenty years later because she wanted to be vicious. Well it's my turn to be vicious.
Dickerman's existence has largely been a negative influence on everyone around her. Everything she does is for her own personal benefit when it comes down to brass tacks. There is no altruism, no willingness to sacrifice for other people, no true concern for anything outside her academic and professional career. She'd rather put her entire family through hell and drag them down with her, than to ever take responsibility for the harm she's inflicted on other lives. There is no redemption for this woman that I can see, especially because she's so massively delusion and arrogant that she doesn't believe she responsible for anything that she's done. A person like that deserves really bad things happening in her life. We aren't dealing with a good person here, and the fact that she's allowed this evil to continue for twenty years without lifting a finger speaks volumes for what she really is inside.
Anyway, I'll still end up confronting Charlottesville law enforcement, I'm just trying to gauge how I want to go about it and when I want to do it. Again, I could possibly have an easier time with someone that didn't have a personal stake in this, and would rather wait until Platania is out. But if I have to get in Platania's face so be it. I'll email him, file the police report, and then after talking with the detective in Charlottesville I'll go to the DA's office and have it out with Platania. If they are stupid enough to arrest me, then they give me the publicity to fuck everyone's life up. If they just ignore me, at least everything is on record to prove they are ignoring it. One way or another we're dragging this whole thing out into the public. We're going to have it out one way or another. So if the Charlottesville law enforcement ignore me when I file the police report instead of doing the right thing, they will get dragged even worse later on once something happens in the future. Regardless of how I have to go about it, something will happen one way or the other.
As for the Google thing, I'll leave most of that for the other update, which I still intend on finishing. It did seem that I managed to get some images pulled back into Google Images results. But one by one they've been pushed out - and once again very interesting how it's just images of the sister of a Google senior manager. Last I checked only three were left, and I'll be monitoring how long that lasts.
I still plan on getting in touch with Google. I've been pointed towards some contact routes where you can report issues with a Google employee and issues with search engine results. I'm prepping what I'm going to send to these contact avenues, but I'm not planning on leaving it there. I'm looking into sending a letter to Google's legal department. If I don't get any traction that way, then I might pay a lawyer to send the letter for me. We'll see if I get the investigation I want.
In the meantime I'll keep working on it on my end. I genuinely hate using Google search for anything, as Google seems determined to run their own ship into the ground and it's not been a useful search engine anymore. But a lot of people still use it so I try to keep things maintained. My views of Google tends to run along the same lines as Josh "Null" Moon of Kiwifarms forum infamy in the video below - that their search engine and Youtube have been turned to shit. But so long at the normies still use it, I need to maintain the presence of my website and blog on it. Yet someone or something seems to keep fucking with the images of Michelle Dickerman showing up in the search results. Is it some screw up with the algorithm, or Dickerman's brother? No idea, but hopefully I can get that looked into. If it turns out Justin Manweiler is not involved then that's great. It means I didn't get my privacy violated and the issue ends up being an easier one to fix.
As for the website, I'm still working on it. I've been working on letting AI code for me, but I haven't been satisfied with the results so I might be switching to a different one. Null mentions in the above video about Gemini so I might use that, though I'm reluctant to add yet another Google product to what I'm already using. I've dealt with programming as part of that degree for a career change I tried during my unemployment stint, and it's not difficult it's just tedious as hell to me. I can get that in my job sometimes just fine, I don't need to go looking for tedium. I used to do websites for myself in the early 2000s, back when putting up websites on sites like Angelfire was the only real social media beyond forums. But things have changed a lot since then and I just don't have the time or patience to learn it right now. So I'm seeing if the AI can work as a solution. So far it could be better, but at some point I'll get it resolved.
As for the Google update post, like I said I'm still planning it, it just isn't coming out yet. Likely not until after the holiday season. I just felt this one took priority given the issue of the major contract loss given that it, along with the setbacks, has stoked the flames a lot more.
Anyway I think I've done enough for this, and it's Christmas Eve as I'm doing a quick proof read scan before hitting send. I'm sure there are things I've written that might need to be corrected or cleaned up later, but I'm done with this post for now. Needless to say I'm pretty sick of all this shit and I want people answering for what they did to me. It's going to happen no matter what, it's just a question of time. Perhaps 2026 will end up being the year for it. We shall see.
As for the Google update post, like I said I'm still planning it, it just isn't coming out yet. Likely not until after the holiday season. I just felt this one took priority given the issue of the major contract loss given that it, along with the setbacks, has stoked the flames a lot more.
Anyway I think I've done enough for this, and it's Christmas Eve as I'm doing a quick proof read scan before hitting send. I'm sure there are things I've written that might need to be corrected or cleaned up later, but I'm done with this post for now. Needless to say I'm pretty sick of all this shit and I want people answering for what they did to me. It's going to happen no matter what, it's just a question of time. Perhaps 2026 will end up being the year for it. We shall see.
