The Ohio Renaissance Festival Protest

Going to my mailbox is fun.  It didn’t use to be, but now that Peter Carroll and the Ohio Renaissance Festival are suing me, my mail is kind of like the crossword puzzles.  I should probably keep my mouth shut, as I seem to be receiving so very many opportunities to show the courts that Peter Carroll is the nut case that I think he is, but I kind of feel sorry for his lawyers.  So I am going to give them this one because they really need to know their client a bit more before they step in something they could have avoided.

If I understand this latest ditty correctly, it seems Peter Carroll wants the courts of Warren County, OH to order a Kentucky citizen not to use his US Federally guaranteed Constitutional Right to freedom of speech via California based servers connected to the Global Internet for purposes of addressing the employees of a festival which seems to be owned by a Delaware incorporation.  Wow!  And what am I informing those employees about?  There right to union, group negotiations, and other matters protected under federal and state laws.  In fact, there are laws forbidding anyone from intimidating me from these activities.  Wow!  It seems to me that Peter Carroll has been manipulating an unsuspecting law firm onto some very shaky, unethical, and maybe even criminal grounds.  And how is he doing that?  How could he get lawyers and a county court to think this conduct is appropriate?

Evidently, he has framed his side of the story with some ridiculous accusations, which appear to tie the matter to my acts in Warren County.  My favorite being that I destroyed MY forge inside MY building.  That’s right folk, I paid $15,000.00 to management of the Ohio Renaissance Festival when I purchased a building then I put $5,000.00 into the building.  Peter Carroll agrees that it was MY building and he is using the fact that I destroyed the forge inside that building as a reason to tie this matter to a Warren Count, OH court.  Uh guy, you can’t sue ME for destroying MY forge inside MY building.  Well, you can but its rather obviously not something you can win.  Thus, it seems rather obviously nothing more than an excuse to trick the Warren County courts into applying jurisdiction that else wise wouldn’t exist.  Oh but wait, it gets better.  Peter Carroll, in front of witnesses and in writing ORDERED me to destroy the forge.  Sounds nuts doesn’t it?

The full story behind the event is that I purchased the building with a concrete, stone, and mortar façade around a steel coal-burning forge.  When I purchased the building, the forge was at the rear where the previous owner had put it.  Marietta Marcin, in addition to her lies about my dumping chemicals into the creek, insisted that I had moved the forge to the rear of the building.  Peter Carroll insisted I move it back to the front of the building.  I explained, in front of most of his office staff, my wife, and another witness that the thing was concrete, stone and mortar and thus could not be moved without the façade being destroyed and rebuilt..  He insisted and gave me a written demand that it be moved.

I wasn’t happy with the forge as it was, so I looked at the ridiculous demand to improve the thing.  At a cost of about $500.00 I ordered in a new coal / coke burning forge and set about taking apart that concrete, stone, and mortar façade so I could reconstruct a façade around the new forge.  Before the new forge arrived, Peter Carroll left a message on my answering machine, knowing he was being recorded, stating that I would not have a contract for the next season, that Marietta Marcin would sell my building, and that I was not allowed to return to the property where my building was.

Here is the thing, if Peter Carroll has informed his lawyer about these facts then it seems it is the lawyer who is trying to manipulate the Warren County courts.  If not, then it seems it is Peter Carroll attempting to manipulate the lawyer.  Either way, it makes for very interesting reading on my way back from my mailbox.