[Richardlord]

What to do? I am going to go after GM in Maryland small claims court and shall put in a claim plus interest. GM and perhaps my dealer shall have to explain who screwed me, let a judge decide on a culprit, and who pays.

Tilting at windmills? I. F. Stone said, “The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.” You have also probably read the quote, “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing.” I played football in college, and I made up this quote, “When up against a superior opponent, make it pay a higher price in winning than you pay in losing.” I had players say to me after a game in which its team beat my outclassed team, “I don’t ever want to go up against you again!” GM, and my dealer, you are now my new superior opponents.

I have a lot of experience tilting at and making windmills pay a price. I once took a county to court pro se over a zoning issue that went all the way to the state supreme court. I lost in the end, but it did not cost me much, and the county spent tens of thousands of dollars defending its case including hiring specialist lawyers. Consequently, the county changed its zoning law. It cost the county far more in winning than I paid in losing.

I also took a person to small claims court in Maryland and won. This was an eBay scam where I lost thousands of dollars. Turned out a Russian entity stole an eBay account for point-of-sale, used a US citizen to launder the money through a US account, who sent the money back to a Russian account – so said a Maryland States Attorney. I found the money launderer (the States Attorney told me it could not have found this person and not to tell it how I did so – The States Attorney told me “I don’t want to know”), and it put out an arrest warrant against this person. In the end, this person paid me back as part of a plea agreement.

When this Russian thing was going on, I worked for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the Criminal Alien Division in Intel. While I had every US Criminal database at my disposal, I did not use any of them as it would have been improper for me to do so. I just used good old fashioned sleuthing on my own time, and grit and determination. I retired in January, and when I retired, we at ICE had deported 400,000 criminal aliens that year. At my retirement ceremony, ICE cited me as being instrumental in finding all these criminal aliens it deported, but I can’t tell you how I did it except to say ICE deployed millions of dollars of assets, Federal Officers, based on the database I created and my analysis showing where the bad guys were located. You don’t hear about the 400,000 criminal alien deportations on Fox News as that would credit Obama, and you don’t hear about this on MSNBC as to do so would offend a key demographic. This is just the men and women; officers, agents, and analysts of ICE, doing our jobs. Whatever you think of Federal employees, I am so glad I am retired, for I no longer have sleepless nights wondering if I did not do my job well enough, and what more I could do, such that a bad guy goes free, goes on the loose, and hurts someone - in your neighborhood.

So, GM, here I come. If you are a windmill, while you very may prevail, it shall not be without a price to your canvass. It shall cost me very little to file in small claims court and to serve GM, and as there are no lawyers, someone from GM is going to have to respond to the court at a cost. Always remember, make your superior opponent pay a higher price in winning than you pay in losing. And, I gave my dealer the lowest possible rating on the survey citing the failed GM Price Protection Policy and Program – let my dealer and GM fight that one out. Plus that pickup truck I am going to buy, and that hybrid or electric my wife is going to by, we shall not buy them from this dealer, and now not GM products. Such dealer and GM shortsightedness and/or incompetence over a few hundred dollars – stupid!

Maybe, just maybe, what I have done, am doing, and shall do, may affect the GM Price Protection policy and program so that others don’t get screwed as countless have. A pipedream? Probably. But someone once in this county had a pipedream against overwhelming odds that the 13 colonies should stand for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The fight against wrong and injustice has to start somewhere with someone, and if necessary, it first shall start with me, as it should with all Americans. That has been my life’s work in Federal law enforcement that shall not end in retirement, which along with my guns, can only be taken from my cold dead hands.