Monday, August 9, 2010

Allentown: Well we're living here with crony collusion, sadistic cruelty, and spineless apathy ... [Part 1]

Dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher, Sheena Villa, my first born and only daughter, was killed by a maniacal drunk driver on her 25th birthday in March 2006. Sheena was front seat passenger in a violent, airborne crash into a tree near the Rose Garden in Allentown. Police reconstructed the crash at a minimum speed of 85 miles per hour on a 35MPH residential street. The drunk driver's blood alcohol content was .24, 3X the legal limit, and even historically lenient on drunk drivers, Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin admitted on camera that Sheena and a 2nd passenger had feared for their lives and had "cautioned" the drunk driver to slow down before the fatal crash.

In March 2010, at the political blog of Allentown City Council Vice President and Cedar Crest College Ethics Professor W. Michael Donovan, Donovan and several area bloggers, all w/ affiliations to Allentown's monopoly newspaper, The Morning Call, "commemorated" the 4th anniversary of Sheena's death by cyber-punishing her grief-stricken family for the entire month of March.

Among the hundreds of vile and filth-laden blog comments targeting the Villa family that Donovan cooperatively published were allegations of necrophilia involving Sheena. Further false and libelous comments published by City Council VP Donovan claimed that Sheena's dad Bill Villa "snorts Sheena's ashes," "drinks his own urine," has made "terroristic threats" against District Attorney James B. Martin, and has "threatened to kill" employees of The Morning Call newspaper.

Ethics Professor Donovan responded to these irresponsible and purposefully damaging character assassination smears in a blog comment himself that declared, "I am just going to let all comments run. They are fun to read."

Many of the vile and filth-laden comments targeting the Villa family at Donovan's blog were posted, and signed, by Lehigh County Democratic Party committeeman from Trexlertown, CHRIS CASEY.


but only after the (recently reconstituted, by Donovan) Allentown "Ethics" Board had decreed that Donovan had not acted unethically ... per Allentown's Code of Ethics ...

and Allentown's only newspaper had quoted Donovan's blog perpetrators as Donovan character witnesses in The Morning Call's skillfully incomplete coverage by Jarrett Renshaw and Bill White.

Now, the first and third Wednesdays of each month, Sheena's Dad Bill Villa is a most unwelcome guest speaker at Allentown City Council's spinelessly apathetic "Courtesy of the Floor," where I politely request, and am being coldly denied, an apology by highly unethical and sadistically cruel Ethics Professor and colluding City Council Vice President W. Michael Donovan ...


What kind of place is this Allentown?

In an LVS exclusive rolling out in installments over the coming days and weeks, you will learn The Inconvenient Truth about Allentown-- its crony collusion, sadistic cruelty, and spineless apathy.

Allentown's parks are real nice.

Read LVS September 2010 POST UPDATE

21 comments:

The City Official said...

Bill & Angie, hopefully your new series of posts will attract more regional and national media attention to your justice mission. Greatly looking forward to each installment (please name names). Godspeed.

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
IN THE REGIONAL & NATIONAL MEDIA

Allentown's 100% Integrity-Free "newspaper," The Morning Call, visits this blog sometimes as many as 20X per day, including weekends and holidays, only to see if we're gaining ground in our relentless exposing of them. Consider helping us blow the doors off and drive The Morning Call "newspaper" out of business. w/ your help, we could accomplish this important goal faster.

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Bill Villa said...

FYI: many of the vile and filth-laden comments targeting the Villa family at Donovan's blog were posted, and signed, by Lehigh County Democratic Party Committeeman from Trexlertown, CHRIS CASEY.

Bill Villa said...

Home
by Michael Donovan


Link-Clarified, by Bill Villa

Greetings:

Home and healing. Over the coming weeks, I would like for people think about boundaries. When do you keep them close to you? When do you open them up broadly?

In many ways, boundaries play a fundamental role in ethical behavior. Distortions play havoc with relationships, actions, and consequences.

In particular, time is one boundary that can never change except in our mind. When we change the direction of time, or the order of events, that is when humans screw up.

And I find that happens often with people.

Best regards,

Michael

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Editor's Note: Cancer is beatable, Bill Villa isn't.

Angie Villa said...

Welcome, Cedar Crest College President,
Provost, and students ...

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Anonymous said...

I come here occasionally. I sincerely express my condolences with your tragic loss. I can't imagine the pain but hope that it is lessened in time.

I do admire your tenacity. I moved here 24 years ago and It is difficult to comprehend the depth of collusion this regions reeks of. From DA's in both counties, it is obvious, if you sleep with the right people literally and figuratively , you could get away with murder.

Don't give up!

Bill Villa said...

We'll never give up.

And thank you for taking the time to comment. There's been glitches (or sabotage) like crazy w/ "Blogger" today, if your comment disappears, as 5 others already have from LVS today, we will re-post it.

Thank you again.

Bill Villa said...

It was very rewarding to see Cedar Crest College taking so many study halls here at LVS yesterday.

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Angie Villa said...

Allentown's own Cedar Crest College may soon be the recipient of some national and maybe even international publicity, all thanks to Ethics Professor Donovan.

Here's hoping Cedar Crest College ultimately ends up being applauded far and wide, for doing the right thing w/ Donovan.

This really is a wonderful opportunity for Cedar Crest.

Bill Villa said...

"It is difficult to comprehend the depth of collusion this regions reeks of."

Here's a lil taste.

In September 2008, in an effort to shut me up, Lynn Township Supervisor and attorney (for now) David C. Najarian (then a loyal Morning Call "Valley Blogosphere" selectee/honoree), launched a custom blog designed to defend DA Jim Martin and The Morning Call "newspaper" against my exposé onslaughts and, more importantly, to provoke me into something/anything that could be prosecutable so that DA Jim Martin could throw me in jail and REALLY shut me up.

Provocations at the blog attorney Najarian started included allowing breathtakingly vile comments to be posted there about Sheena; a dizzying array of deceit-laden lies and spins; personal attack insults directed at my wife; and a blog dialogue involving attorney Najarian that was a discussion on how to sabotage my daughter Sheena's then upcoming wrongful death litigation.

When I never responded in any way that was inappropriate, and/or legally actionable, attorney Najarian just went ahead and filed a private criminal complaint for "harassment" against me anyway.

Najarian filed it w/ his close pal, Slatington Magisterial District Judge Rod Beck, who, unethically, per rules for District Magistrates, sits on a Lynn Township Board (Recreation), having been appointed there by (you guessed it) attorney (for now) Dave Najarian, Lynn Township Supervisor.

So, "Judge" Beck was all lined up to find me GUILTY for his pals Dave Najarian and Jim Martin. Until we told "Judge" Beck we knew about his Lynn Township connection w/ Dave Najarian. "Judge" Beck subsequently recused himself.

DA Jim Martin "seized the opportunity" (although in typical Jim Martin fashion it took him 10 months), and Martin sent Najarian's "criminal" (wink wink) complaint against me to the office of longtime Jim Martin pally the PA State Attorney General Tom Corbett. Yep. Tommy Boy's office actually "investigated" (wink wink) Najarian's phony charges against me and APPROVED them to go forward.

Sadly, it back-fired on all of them in court.

But there's just a taste of the "depth of collusion this regions reeks of," in my up close and personal, first-hand experience.

Keep reading our "Allentown" series, there's tons more "reeking collusion" to be examined.

Anonymous said...

I notice that the 'powers that be' in this area apply extra special zeal in PUBLICLY PUNISHING those who DARE to stand up for themselves and against injustice.

Bill Villa said...

Good eye.

And they work very well together.

It's all about being "in the club" around here.

Or on an "advisory board" (same thing).

Nothing ever gets done here (contrast Allentown w/ Bethlehem), except for keeping "the club" a closed, "invitation-only" loop; this, they're really good at. And it's a skill that apparently gets passed down from generation to generation.

The "thinking" that was on display in this area's most popular bumper sticker from the 1970s still applies,

"If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much."

Substitute "in the club" for "Dutch" and that's still Allentown PA.

We're trying to bust up this vicious cycle.

Angie Villa said...

re: 'powers that be' in this area apply extra special zeal in PUBLICLY PUNISHING those who DARE to stand up for themselves

It works, see: "spineless apathy" ... ;D

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LVS STUDY HALL DEPARTMENT

Looks like "W" Mike Donovan is becoming big "man" on campus, just sayin' ...

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Concerned Citizen said...

Bill, I caught this violent physical threat (by Dave Najarian?) at C. Casey's blog for evidence. They've all got their "thinking" (wink wink) caps on regarding how to SHUT YOU UP! Stay under their skin and keep up the good work!

eckville press said...

Chris,

The Rules and Regulations of Allentown City Council can be found here. These Rules are not to be confused with the HRC, but are the Rules legally adopted by Allentown City Council. The said Rules govern how City Council, a deliberative body, conducts business.

That said, no deliberative body should condone personal attacks on their members or participants when the body is officially Called To Order. If such a situation should arise, the speaker should be interrupted by Point of Order.

Or perhaps, Eck favorite, The Taser

August 10, 2010 12:32 PM

Bill Villa said...

This is just the loophole City Council's been seeking to ban me from "Courtesy of the Floor!"

But of course ...

stating FACTS + asking for an APOLOGY = Personal Attack on The Perpetrator.

In Allentown, anyways (just ask the Allentown Ethics Board).

And watch for City Council to approve the taser option, 7-0.

Foo Foo said...

I hear DA Jim Martin (right)
(hiccup) approves of it ...

Anonymous said...

Is Dave Najarian still an attorney?

What's up w/ that?

Bill Villa said...

There's a 2-year statute of limitations, we have plenty of time to un-holster our taser.

Angie Villa said...

"Both Barrels" ;D

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Rubber necking is all ...

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