Jimmy Johnson, at the Marion City Council meeting Monday.
MARION, Ill.---It was a slightly weird night last night at the Marion city council meeting, with a local man who was at one time under charges of shooting up the town being one of the lead points of interest.
James E "Jimmy" Johnson has been attending city council meetings to complain about the employees of The Appliance Wizard on North Van Buren street in Marion of harassment, vandalism and terrorizing him and his car and trashing his 84-year-old mother's yard.
Johnson says for the past seven years he has been tormented.
His latest complaint was an invoice belonging to Appliance Wizard that was lying near his mother's porch on April 8th.He said there have been sticks, rocks, papers and sycamore leaves even though no sycamore trees are around. They must have sacks of those, he said.
He is also accusing official misconduct ("a federal crime'") and discrimination by Marion Police Department forcing him to open another can of worms "to legally and openly expose Treason to the United States."
Marion police have installed cameras and have done everything possible to help rectify the problem and council has done what they can with no satisfaction to Johnson.
He says in 1993 former 1st Judicial Circuit Judge Robert Drew told him that the Williamson County Judges, the State's Attorney's Office, the Public Defender's Office, the Williamson County commissioners and he Sheriff's Office were controlled by the Masonic Lodge.
It must be noted at this juncture that on New Year's Day in 1994, Johnson went on a shooting spree in Williamson County and was charged with several firearm violations and criminal damage to property. In 1996 he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.