The incident happened on March 9, 2013 as she met at the community
center to discuss the findings on “revaluations” by Appraisal Systems,
Inc., a company which has been contracted by the state of New Jersey, to
assess the fair market property values for each county or borough- for
the tax assessor’s offices.
Apparently there was a lot of derision that had been caused by these
“revaluations” by homeowners due to the fact that property values have
fallen dramatically. The NJ families claim there is nothing “fair about
the market of home values that have been assessed.
Mrs. Hart told the
Examiner,
“”I tried to express my opinion and tell them that my Constitutional
rights had been violated. I began quoting the Constitution, line by
line.”
She then attempted to explain that the Appraisal Systems, Inc. was
attempting to inspect her property without her husband being present.
She is a Jew and according to her belief system, her husband needed to
be present. It seems the ASI representative took offense at Mrs. Hart’s
comments and called in the Tax Assessor Robyn Glocke-Hammond, who told
Hart that is was her job to enforce the law.
Since when are tax assessors law enforcement?
She recounts, “She also wouldn’t let me speak and told me to sit down
and shut up and listen as well.
That’s when the young man came toward
me. I knew he was going to put his hands on me. I saw him out of the
corner of my eye. I said to him “Don’t you dare touch me.” Then they
threw us out of the auditorium. The young man from Appraisal Systems,
Inc. was the one going postal, and I believe if HE HAD A GUN, he would
have shot me, Keith and Khloe on the spot. I was calm the entire time.”
Upon leaving the center, the same man, Andrew Colavecchio, from ASI
followed her and her husband into the parking lot screaming and shouting
at her and taking down her license plate number declaring, “See if you
are able to pay your property taxes now!”
Upon arriving home, the Harts found five police cars from the
Franklinville Police Department waiting on them and informed them that
the Clayton Police wanted to speak to them. The officers took her purse
and put her in a “paddy wagon” and took her to the police station.
This was all done in front of her young daughter.
“I have a 7-year-old daughter, I homeschool her,” she told
the Blaze.
“I would never risk going to prison for the rest of my life and lose
everything. I have no criminal history, I have no history of drug
abuse, no history of alcohol abuse, I have no history of mental illness,
I have never committed a crime a day in my life. And because I used my
First Amendment right I was arrested for it.”
She was then arrested and charged for making “terroristic threats” and “contempt.”
So what brings such a charge? According to the complaint in the
State of New Jersey vs. Eileen B. Hart, “The Defendant was yelling and
screaming and making the threatening comment. ‘If the door is locked.
I’ll be back with a gun.’”
Ms. Hart denies making the comment and the report was taken by Clayton County Sergeant J. Dick, who was not at the meeting.
However, when she was brought into the police station and handcuffed
to a chair, the police did a background check and discovered that she
had to lawfully owned handguns. She was advised to turn them over to
the court for “safe keeping” and the police told her that if she failed
to do so her bail would be very high, which would mean that if she could
not make bail she would remain in the county jail until such time as a
trial.
Hart is a daughter of Holocaust survivors and she said she can’t help
but to recall the “massive gun registration [and] invasion of private
property” that happened when Hitler invaded Poland.
“If quoting the Constitution makes me a terrorist, we are in Hitler’s America,” she said.
Under a biblical system of law there would have had to have been at
least two witnesses before Mrs. Hart would have had to endure this
nonsense. This is only one person’s word against another and the police
should have dealt appropriately with the matter. Instead, they acted
in a dishonorable manner, not a lawful one.
I have a similar feeling to Mrs. Hart. I also believe that Mr.
Colavecchio and Appraisal Systems, Inc. may find themselves in a massive
libel suit when this is all over. At least one could hope.