Talking Back to Dennis Ahn
Yesterday (April 1), I reached out via text to Montgomery Township Committee member Dennis Ahn whose phone number happened to be in my phone due to a brief collaboration in 2023. I reached out to him as a constituent, voter, citizen, homeowner and a long term resident of Montgomery. I contacted him about the situation where a March 14 event that his party organization co-hosted at the Paris Baguette in Montgomery Township and my communications with the Assembly candidates there have led to false accusations by NJ LD16 Assembly member Roy Freiman of “bribery” which is an indictable or felony level offense in NJ.
I went there to petition government of issues of concern – as did several other people that night – on the issue of the harm to free speech that would result from their sponsorship of proposed IHRA legislation. As many as a dozen more or less also visited them at that event and also expressed opposition to their support for IHRA. I did not coordinate with them. They were expressing the sentiment of the street.
The event led to a false defamatory smearing libelous – did I say lying – police report by Assembly Member Roy Freiman. He made some kind of “bribery” false police report, accusing my attempt to exercise my right to vote for the candidate of my choice and to BE the candidate of my choice and my right to talk about that candidacy to them and to petition for redress of grievance – to engage in protected free speech activty – was somehow “bribery”.
Current situation – NJ Office Of Attorney General Currently Considering Seeking Indictment of this Editor
Yes we have an Assembly representative – Democrat Roy Freiman in LD16 whose response to a constituent raising issue about his support for a bill that would violate our free speech by making a false accusation to the police of “bribery.” That is what NJ LD 16 is represented by right now – a gutless coward who can not handle a 2 minute conversation with a constituent. He needs to try to have the man (me) arrested for trying and seeks to have me charged with a felony!
Dennis Ahn’s answer to me reaching out to him as my committee representative to resolve the issue that his political party created that could indeed cause me to end up dying in prison was to make 2 points.
- He “can not control the actions of others.” Presumably he is referring to Roy Freiman who made a false police report accusing me of bribery – at an event co-sponsored by Montgomery Democrats with the Freiman Drulis campaign. He could also have been making a side eye comment toward me though – he might have been saying that he agrees with the wrath his party has brought upon me – that I brought it upon myself. That would likely need to be clarified. I will assume he meant the former for now.
- The other excuse that Dennis Ahn made was that he supports issues of relevance to the “residence” – he might have meant residents and I do not fault any typo – I made many in my exchange with him. However when I explained that I am a resident, tax payer, citizen, voter, homeowner – he did not clarify then why he has no concern for the wrath that his organization has brought upon me with a false accusation.
I sent a response to Dennis Ahn by text but looking back at it – some of it was hard to understand due to too many typos. I transposed it here so that Dennis Ahn, the rest of the committee and anyone else can know my response to Dennis Ahn.
I’m gonna be 65. Your party falsely accused me of bribery for expressing opposition to policy and announcement of candidacy. Bribery is felony. If oag calls a grand jury after having me arrested I could die in prison. You say you care about residence as you sit back and support your party attempt to destroy me. You can quote me on that.
Tell the (Township) committee this: You can’t wash your hands. Initial event was in Montgomery. Montgomery cops came and visited me. Montgomery cops didn’t dismiss smear or arrest Freiman for it. Montgomery kicked it it to Somerset Prosecutor’s Office.
My guess is Montgomery prosecutor and your counsel and police brass and maybe a committee member (one or more) tainted that sordid path (to Somerset) for this smearing libelous accusation. And maybe a party leader or operative.
If you lock me up you win. If not, Montgomery might have liability.
Your comment response, as it relates to Montgomery’s role: Your saying (what happened to me) is other people’s deeds is not true, (since you sit on the governing board of the responsible township entity.)
Plus it was your (party organization) event to begin with. So your fingerprints are everywhere.
Roy Freiman, one of the co-hosts of the event falsely accused me of bribery over my cordial presentation on the record, self documented on video, perfectly legal, invited, and respectful, first amendment free speech engagement . The event was advertised by Dennis Ahn’s Democratic Party organization to which the public – including this member of the public – was publicly invited to participate.
I now face possibly some sort of wobbled up felony charge for bribery which as of today to my knowledge is still being considered by the NJ Office of Attorney General. They are considering pulling the corruption trigger and the culpability for it would range from all of the sponsors of the event, including Ahn’s Montgomery Democratic Party organization, Freiman, Drulis, the thuggish partisans who made many attempts to block my egress through the public restaurant, the restaurant for allowing the thuggish individuals to prevent egress, the Montgomery police that made the corrupt decision to bump the smearing lie to county, the committee and Town counsel and Montgomery Prosecutor, Somerset Prosecution office and OAG. All of you are partners in this action that is still occurring against me as of Wednesday, April 2.
Dennis Ahn – you might actually have some legal culpability for this harmful and false legal action against me based upon your membership in the co-host organization and on the Montgomery Township Committee. I would suggest it is inconsequential, your claim that “you can’t do anything about other people’s actions.” As a representative of me as a local citizen, taxpayer, long term resident, homeowner and voter you can indeed speak out to state that what happened is wrong and it must stop!
Here are the words that you can not find in your internal concern for justice: “While I might not agree with Witanek’s views or his decision to raise them at this event – nothing he did was bribery and that is clear. Our organization regrets that our event led to these charges to be filed and we call upon Roy Freiman to clearly express in writing to the NJ OAG opposition to any further consideration of the false allegation. I have notified the Office of Attorney General to urge them to immediately discharge the false police report – there was no attempted bribery. It is a blemish to the Democratic Party that Witanek now faces indictment for non-violent and clearly expressed opposition to the IHRA bills. Let us remove that blemish and work to better communicate with dissenting members of the public.”
Why are you even in office if you do not believe you can voice opposition to the actions taken by your own organization, township police, your own committee, town counsel and your party local organization, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office and lead candidates of your LD16 organization? You claiming that you can not do anything about it means you never have any intention to do anything to fix problems unless you are the perpetrator. I am suggesting you rethink your role as a public servant if you refuse to act against injustice because your Bart Simpson style “I didn’t do it” response does not cut it for the role you are supposedly playing as a representative.
I have been told that there is at least one other NJ candidate who has taken the example I set at the Baguette event and decided to run for assembly. I am looking for further confirmation. That demonstrates that the presentation of my advocacy has had educational value to the community and an effective role in the creation of history – regardless of whether I end up indicted, incarcerated, dying in prison or if I am prevented from challenging your corrupt party due to this illegal action against me.
I am proud of what I did to challenge the Freiman and Drulis attempt to end free speech in NJ. For now I am still here, still fighting, still running.
However the offer to withdraw candidacy is off – any pair of candidates that use false charges to avoid discussion of the issues they support and to attempt to remove a candidate from their race – they need to be rejected by the electorate and run out of office – maybe even run out of town!
