Posted on 08/24/2007 9:03:57 AM PDT by chicagolady
An event by the Illinois Minuteman Project scheduled for Saturday has been canceled after the Crystal Lake Police Department demanded a $3,500 payment for security costs from the hotel where the event was to be held.
Regardless of how one feels about the Minutemen, the request by the police department is inappropriate. The Minutemen were planning to hold a private event on private property at the Holiday Inn in Crystal Lake. The supposed security need was for protesters – the McHenry County Peace Group – who were going to be on public property near the event.
On Thursday, a McHenry County judge ruled the Minutemen had violated their contract with the Holiday Inn because they had misrepresented themselves and did not provide proof of insurance. That was wrong and the Holiday Inn had every right to nullify the contract. However, the behavior of the Crystal Lake Police Department is a separate issue and one that deserves comment.
The stated reason for the security cost was that the peace group was going to be protesting the Minutemen along a busy road and therefore officers would be needed. That protest should not have been the responsibility of the Minutemen. Nor should it have been the financial responsibility of the Holiday Inn. Neither entity had any involvement in the peace group’s plans.
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When I read what the lawyers for the Holiday Inn wrote about me, I was in tears. Then my lawyer told me that what lawyers do to push their case.
They misrepresented what happened. I happen to value my integrity utmost. The lawyers said some nasty things about me and even said I was fraudulent.
Well folks it's not over yet. We have a contiueing court case in September.
What happened?
The Lawyers of the Holiday Inn said then received undo pressure by the police of Crystal lake. They really had no other recourse!!
The Police chief told me that the POLICE asked the hotel to give the protesters a place on the hotel private property to protest. The Hotel said NO WAY!!
The pressure began.
Why did the cops not advocate for a free room for the Illinois Minuteman project to have Sheriff Daniel Beck give his seminar??
Thanks for posting this and for your hard work.
Thanks for the thanks!
CL, you mention the hotel was correct in that you didn’t identify yourselves properly or provide proof of insurance. Can you explain this some more?
It seems if the hotel cancelled your contract the police issue is anti-climatic.
This is just awful..
Fairness Doctrine tactics..
stick to your guns CL
The law of the [chicago-] land says that you have to "provide" access and security for your ideological adversaries as we exercise the constitutional rights of peaceful assembly?
I don't really remember reading that in school or college?!?
Are there letters/emails or other documents from the PD to the Holiday Inn??
Get a lawyer or advocate team...
Sue the city and the cops until they can't see straight...
JMHO...
ping
Thank you for your work.
Yes, something is missing here. In the past I have set up many forecast/hind-cast meetings (20-40 attendees) at Holiday Inns (and others)in various locations and never was asked for proof of insurance. Then of course no one was scheduling a protest action, except the attendees who found the meetings boring! LOL
I identified myself as Rosanna Pulido, they said I should have identified myself as Illinois Minuteman Project State Director.
They absolutely lied about insurance. THEIR CONTRACT does NOT state what coverage they wanted. I got 1 million dollars coverage. The clerck called me and said can you get that to me today? I said no I am at work. She said can you get it to me tommorrow by 12 noon? I said sure.
They are now saying after REPEATED requests I did not give them the policy. That is a lie!
We are starting a legal defense fund because I may have to pay for their attorneys, it says in the contract.
Curtail freedom of speech for the law abiding because leftists threaten a commotion. Wonderful.
Heaven knows what they teach in schools now.
I wish them luck with their suit. It would seem a slam-dunk were it not for the fruit-loops that pass for judges nowadays.
The contract that the Holiday Inn nullified?
Please be careful about what you post here.
You have identified yourself on this website by name and you have an ongoing court case.
I suggest that you reply to people by Freepmail ONLY, and ONLY to those Freepers who have been here for a year or longer.
I’m rather angry over this. I look forward to any updates or related news articles that you are able to provide.
Please post these details publicly. Is there an address, website or phone number?
It would be unusual for them to include an insurance clause if they did not know it was MM or if it was just a general meeting. It is also unusual that once they felt the need for an insurance policy that they didn’t disclose the amount they required up front.
Did you eventually send them a copy of your policy? IF so you would have the fax documentation. Did you drop it off in person?
Was the meeting canceled due to the hotel or the cops?
I don’t see how the police could charge you any fees for holding an event on private property, if the need for security was due to the counter protesters on public property they should have got the fees from them. I also don’t see how a contract could enforce a “pay my legal fees” clause without an arbitration clause.
Personally, this doesn’t sound like the mountain I’d want to die on. Better to rip off a few nasty letters to hotel management and the police dept. asking for explanations and move on.
Lot’s of other hotels.
I've set up events at hotels before as well, and I've never been asked for proof of insurance from any of them.
Their constitutional rights were violated. I hope the Minutemen get millions for this.
No they weren’t. The mm don’t have a case.
bump
Sounds like the hotel messed up by folding to police pressure and are now trying to pass the buck on to you.
“the right of the people peaceably to assemble”
— 1st Amendment
No, it applies to the police who demanded $3,500.
If they are of peaceful why do the cops have to watch them?
Peace group my a$$! They are just a bunch of brown supremacists, "the Klan with a tan".
not that I stay at Holiday Inn’s in my travels but I will strongly discourage their use from now on.
10-4 thanks
www.illinoisminutemanproject.com
It is in the contract
BTT!
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