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November 4th, 2009 WW Editorial Staff | Letters to the Editor
 

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Ruppert Is Not A Rogue


This is in response to your publication’s hit-piece on Michael Ruppert, your so-called “Rogue of the Week,” published on Oct. 21, 2009.

This BOLI decision was handed down by the commissioner, acting as the final “judge,” without him ever laying eyes on a single witness or hearing any testimony. The commissioner then took it upon himself to make several erroneous statements to the press, falsely claiming that Mr. Ruppert was personally responsible for this judgment when, by the terms of the very order the commissioner signed, Mike Ruppert is not even the named defendant in the case and Ruppert has no personal liability for paying this award. The commissioner’s actions and erroneous press statements were extremely harmful to Mr. Ruppert, being made as distribution talks were underway for Chris Smith’s critically acclaimed documentary film, CoLLapse, which features Mike Ruppert and is based upon Mike’s new book, A Presidential Energy Policy: Twenty-five Points Addressing the Siamese Twins of Energy and Money.

We believe that the process of BOLI acting as investigator, prosecutor, judge, and attempted collection agent is a fundamentally unfair process that is terribly biased against small business owners across the State of Oregon. The commissioner’s final order was a rubber-stamp of an A.L.J’.s proposed order that is riddled with bad evidentiary rulings, factual errors and legal errors.

Your readers deserve a more fair and complete representation of this case. Please visit mikeruppert.blogspot.com for more details.

Wesley T. Miller,
attorney for Michael C. Ruppert

 
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11.04.2009 at 08:53 Reply
As labor commissioner for eight years (1995-2002), I often heard complaints from losing parties about the unfairness of our system. They would be shocked to learn the number of times the bureau lost or had the requested penalties substantially reduced as a result of these administrative hearings.

The administrative hearing process if much quicker and less expensive for all parties and, in my opinion, is better than any alternative system for resolving these kinds of complaints.

I appreciate the fact that the losing attorney did not like the result in this case, but I hope other people would take a broader and more objective look before condemning the whole process.

 

 
 

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