I've already mentioned that I was moving to the Arlington area thanks to the contract with the Coast Guard ending. I have had to walk away from an excellent job opportunity with the USCG as a GS employee, because I will not be accepted into the position as a felon. There isn't anything I can do about it at the moment other than just turn my back and walk away from something with potentially more pay, opportunities and job stability.
This already angered me a great deal but now I've run into a further complication. I was informed yesterday that the apartment I applied to has indeed rejected my application, as I was beginning to suspect after having talked to their investigator earlier, and no explanations on my part to them was going to change their minds. They did this on the grounds that their leasing company policy is they don't rent to felons until seven years after the conclusion of probation terms. I'm hoping they mean the 5 years probationary period and not the 20 years good behavior I was slammed with. As it is if they are going by the completion of the probation I'm still going to be unable to rent from ANY apartment owned by this leasing company for a few years - and this isn't a small leasing company either meaning that my options are limited. I can only hope there aren't more leasing companies in the area with this policy towards felons.
With both the turning down of a USCG position and a rejection by an apartment due to the felony charge, to say I'm angry would be a massive understatement. This has gone too far and I've been well past my point of tolerance for some time. Living with a felony charge I did not commit thanks to the corruption of some ignorant and vicious people is not an option. I've made some decisions and I'm going to pursue those options - I'm not speaking any further on this.
The decision by the Manweiler family to slam me with a felony that they knew I never committed was a mistake (not to mention that they knew it was completely unwarranted and only done as a special favor to them). I was even willing at the time to plead guilty to charges I knew I never committed so long as I was given misdemeanors and allowed to move on with my life. Michelle Manweiler instead made the idiotic decision to slap a felony on me for a laugh. She was already warned that this was dumb idea by my former attorney - who despite his incompetence was quite aware that nothing was going to be accomplished by giving me a felony. This is the section of his letter about the subject where he warns about this very issue (full letter posted elsewhere on this blog):
Even cocaine addicts were smarter than Ms. Manweiler when it came to this decision. As one of them put it quite well when discussing this with me in jail (paraphrase from memory) - "If I wanted someone to just forget about this situation and move on, the last thing I'd want is to give them a felony that will always remind them of this situation and me for the rest of their lives." Nothing was accomplished by giving me a felony except to escalate a situation that in 2006 was actually nothing more than a dumb argument that was running out of steam when the cuffs got slapped on.
If nothing had happened in 2006 both of us would have moved on with our lives and not even given each other a second thought to this day. Now in my 30s, without even counting what was done to me in the legal arena in 2006, I've realized the situation prior to the legal issue was not worth it. So what if this woman had caused harm, lied and spread rumors and other people brought them up years later - in my 30s I would have told them to just get over it and grow up. Had none of the legal nonsense happened in 2006, when running into Ms. Manweiler in my 30s I wouldn't have even wasted the effort to acknowledge her let alone bother giving her the finger. Even with the arrest and criminal proceedings of 2006, with misdemeanors I would not be going through things like this and thus could have just shut the door on that part of my life. Now that isn't an option - for me or Ms. Manweiler.
It amazes me that a valedictorian can be so brainless as to ALWAYS make the worst possible decisions when it comes to this situation. I've made plenty of bad decisions when it comes to the argument myself - but were I in Ms. Manweiler's shoes I would never have been stupid enough to agree to plea agreement terms like that without expecting to make things 100 times worse. It was a bad choice and Ms. Manweiler should always remember it was a choice she made and did not have to make, just as I will always remember the lack of mercy that was shown by her.
"For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy."
--- James 2:13
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