Do People Recognize When They Are Wrong?

This question, or one similar, crosses my mind often when I think about the road district board. As you may recall, their answer to the complaint was quite simply “It’s a levy not a special assessment.”

But they do know it is a special assessment, right?

I’ve said before that my feeling is that the answer was not for me. It was for the judge. That everything they file has a purpose. It’s either to scare or overwhelm me, or it’s to feed the judge some bullshit. The judge does not yet know the facts, even though my complaint and motions spell them out.

But the board knows, right?

I think they must. It’s the only thing that makes their responses make sense.

If they really did think they were imposing a levy, they would have checked on that. They would have called or emailed the same people I did. But they didn’t. I asked the auditors office if they had called or emailed, and learned that 2 days before the scheduled hearing of Dec 12, they emailed and received the same forms that I received 3 months earlier. Yet, we are still heading to court.

They have yet to come up with any actual defense. Which leads me to believe they know full well they are wrong. They are just gonna try some smoke and mirrors, chaff and redirect… In all this time, they literally have come up with absolutely no defense.

They’ll try to get the Judge to focus on other things, like me, which are completely irrelevant to the case at hand. This supports my contention that they know full well it is a special assessment, they screwed up, they got caught, they are doubling down.

But that doesn’t answer the question, does it?

I think they have convinced themselves and each other that they are doing the right thing. That they must fight me for the greater good of the district. They likely know that I’m just the first. If they can drown me out, silence me… make me give up, it is less likely that anybody else will file the same lawsuit… right? That’s what I think they must be thinking.

I think a small group of them do know the truth, but I am not convinced that they have told the truth to the other members. We likely won’t know until this part is over.

Whether I win or lose, the next complaints will be filed, as we all discussed. We know we are right. We know it’s a special assessment. And we know it was unlawfully imposed. We know that if it comes down to simply what actually happened and the law, we will win this one and the others.

This was never a he said/she said. They are trying to make it that, but it isn’t. This is pretty simple to figure out. Which is why the lawyer is trying to make it into something else. And those lawyer tricks might win this time… but it doesn’t mean the case has no merit, and it doesn’t stop the others from filing.

Sorry, back to the question as to whether they know they are wrong. I think they know they are legally wrong. But I suspect they have and continue to convince themselves they are morally right. My job is to acknowledge all their chaff and redirect, and bring the focus back to the actual case, not the bullshit.