Free Talk Live’s Ian Bernard’s anonymous complainant has been revealed at JailedActivist.Info.
Here’s the info from the site:
Mikaela L. Engert
Bio:
Mikaela L. Engert, originally of Rochester, NY, is the City Planner and Climate Protection Coordinator for Keene, New Hampshire. She received a degree in Liberal Studies from Green Mountain College in 2000 and later went on to the University of Buffalo where she earned a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning in 2004.
According to her CitizenKeene profile her favorite candybar is Snickers and she likes “many things in life like snow, snowboarding, music, art, burritos, and making new friends.”
Job:
She’s currently employed as a city planner for the City of Keene, New Hampshire.
According to Alumni Snapshot page at the Green Mountain College Career Services site she spends most of her time “supporting the Planning Board and various other city committees, such as the Heritage Commission, Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, and the Cities for Climate Protection Committee.” She reviews planning board applications for proposed development, provides technical assistance in the development of regulations, assists the general public with the development review process and conducts site inspections for compliance of board approvals. The rest of her time “is spent working with ICLEI – Local
Governments for Sustainability and our Cities for Climate Protection Committee to monitor, evaluate, and implement our community’s greenhouse gas emission reduction plan.”
According to the page she is “currently assisting the City with the formulation of a new plan that focuses on the community’s ability to improve its long-term preparedness for climate impacts.”
Previously to her position as city planner of Keene she was a community planner at Behan Planning Associates from 2003 to 2006.
Why is she on JailedActivist.info?:
She was the anonymous young woman who issued the complaint against Ian Bernard for the couch on his tenants lawn which eventually resulted in his ongoing incarceration. Fred Parcell on the September 27th, 2008 episode of Talkback described her vaguely (skip to 6:30 in) when Ian claimed he did not believe there was an actual complainant. It wasn’t until Ian’s November 14th trial while in the closed room after his first contempt of court charge that her name was released.
Previous interactions with Ian Bernard:
On August 9th, 2008, a week before Ian Bernard received his first visit from Mr. Carl Patten Jr., Mikaela L. Engert was on the local radio show Talkback to discuss the Keene, NH Visioning Process. During the show Ian called to ask questions on the Visioning Process. After describing the Visioning Process to Ian he says “accomplishing those things would be great as long as we don’t aggress our neighbors. Now you wouldn’t advise aggressing against our neighbors to accomplish those things? Would you?” Mikaela replies: “I wouldn’t advise aggressing against anybody.” Later she says that: “I want to stress this whole thing is really about community dialog and it’s about having conversations with people and it’s not about being aggressive towards anybody.”
Clips of the show can be found here. Ian comes in at about 10:30.
Images:
Quotes:
- “I’m not really enjoying the tone of this and I’m not going to engage in that.” – Speaking to Sam Dodson of Texas after he confronts her about the inherent violence in the state system.
- “I wouldn’t advise aggressing against anybody.”
- “I want to stress this whole thing (Keene, NH Visioning Process) is really about community dialog and it’s about having conversations with people and it’s not about being aggressive towards anybody.”
Contact Information:
Mikaela L. Engert
190 River Street
Keene, NH 03431-2454
Work Email: mengert@ci.keene.nh.us
Work Tel: (603) 352-5474Personal Email: mlengert@gmail.com
Sources:
- http://www.myspace.com/moxiechick_79
- http://www.greenmtn.edu/career_services/snapshots/engert.aspx
- http://citizenkeene.ning.com/profile/MikaelaEngert
- http://www.ci.keene.nh.us/Community_Vision/project.htm
- http://www.whitepages.com/…
- http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=Mikaela+Engert
- http://www.linkedin.com/pub/a/703/aaa
Sources:
- http://www.myspace.com/moxiechick_79
- Backup: myspace.zip
- http://www.greenmtn.edu/career_services/snapshots/engert.aspx
- removed as of Monday, Nov. 17th, 2008
- Backup: green_mountain_college.zip
- apparently mirrored here
- Backup: green_mountain_college2.zip
- http://citizenkeene.ning.com/profile/MikaelaEngert
- removed as of Monday, Nov. 17th, 2008
- Backup: citizenkeene.zip
- http://www.ci.keene.nh.us/Community_Vision/project.htm
- http://www.whitepages.com/…
- name removed as of Monday, Nov. 17th, 2008
- http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=Mikaela+Engert
- no backup made as it was private and provided no real data
- http://www.linkedin.com/pub/a/703/aaa
- removed as of Monday, Nov. 17th, 2008
- Backup: linkedin.zip
- http://www.iclei-usa.org/…
- Backup: iclei.zip
- http://list.uvm.edu/…
- http://www.nh.gov/dot/bureaus/planning/documents/NHOfficialsDirectory.pdf
- Mirror: nhofficialsdirectory.pdf
More to come in the following days. Keep tuned!
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Though Ian has every right to know who sent in the complaint against him, is it wise to broadcast it over the net, there might be some folk who might act violently against her etc.
“City Planner and Climate Protection Coordinator” sounds like a phony made-up job title if I’ve ever seen one.
@Ziggy: Many types of information could be used for nefarious purposes, so that’s not a strong argument in my mind. That said, if the complainant were some old crank, I’d find the profiling in poor taste. This subject, however, is not. Since she appears to be both a personal and professional aggressor, it seems justifiable to expose her to public feedback.
Her liberal background is apparently a lie, as liberals depend upon liberty to be liberal. Instead, she appears to be another treasonous covert operator of the state in the continuing aggression perpetrated by local government against the citizenry. Betrayer of liberals everywhere as well as libertarians in Keene. Shame on her, long shall her name be remembered among America’s Traitors.
Subcontractor
She should have thought of that before she initiated aggression against Ian.
NH guy maybe you’re right
This is despicable, I hope whoever decided to post someone’s personal information online and incite threats and harassment over something as silly as refusing to remove a festering rotting couch from their property sees what an absolute toddler they are being. Give me a break, take responsibility for your own actions.
I’m with Kris on this one. So she offended your sensibilities a little. You are being exceptionally petty about it.
If government is so bad, get elected a fix it yourself. Writing rude things about people who are generally getting the work done as best they can so the rest of us lazy assholes have roads to drive on isn’t going to change the world.
If you are an activist, act already.