.....
it is estimated that 70 percent of low- to middle-income citizens can no
longer afford the cost of justice in America. What would our Founding
Fathers think?
Our
Constitution intended that only elected lawmakers be permitted to create
law.
Yet judges create their own law in the judicial system based on their
own opinions and rulings. It's called case law, and it is churned out
daily through the rulings of judges. When a judge hands down a ruling
and that ruling survives appeal with the next tier of judges, it then
becomes case law, or legal precedent. This now happens so consistently
that we've become more subject to the case rulings of judges rather than
to laws made by the lawmaking bodies outlined in our Constitution.....
That
would be O.K. if the judges would read the facts of the case they are
presiding on, and then make a decision. In most cases they do not read,
therefore they are making their ruling solely on the prosecutor's theory
and base their opinion and ruling on it bypassing the
constitution.
This case-law system is a constitutional nightmare because it
continuously modifies Constitutional intent. For lawyers, however, it
creates endless business opportunities. That's because case law is
technically complicated and requires a lawyer's expertise to guide and
move you through the system.
The judicial system may begin with enacted laws, but the variations that
result from a judge's application of case law all too often change the
ultimate meaning.
One of the uses of our
system of justice is to warn others... We are
reforming, not the hanged individual, but everyone else.
--Michel de Montaigne
An eye for an eye
makes the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Gandhi
"If the motto ‘and justice for all’ becomes ‘and justice for those who
can
afford it’, we threaten the very underpinnings of our social contract."
- Chief Justice Ronald George California Supreme Court, Annual "State of
Judiciary" Speech, 2001
The virtue of justice
consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
Aristotle
Good lawyers know the
law; great lawyers know the judge. ~Author Unknown
The United States is a
nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
~Frank Zappa
It is not a Justice
System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart
Bad laws are the worst
sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke
This is a court of
law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr.
People who love
sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch
either of them being made. ~Otto Bismark
Do not pursue with the
terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
[Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
- Horace (Quintus
Let the punishment be
equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius
Among the attributes
of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines
with even more brilliancy than justice.
- Cervantes
Let us be merciful as well as just.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men
call justice.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you judge,
investigate; if you reign, command.
[Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Medea
Justice is like a
train that is nearly always late.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
One can not be just if
one is not humane.
[Lat., On ne peut etre juste si on n'est pas humain.]
- Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues, Reflexions (XXVIII)
The more laws, the
less justice.
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)
In the Halls of
Justice, the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce
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Today
the skill and gamesmanship of lawyers, not the truth, often determine
the outcome of a case...ByJohn
F. Molloy
"Where
is Liberty and Justice for All?"
Judicial
corruption continues in Florida
Judge Cliff Barnes of St. Lucie County Court Florida spoke out against
corruption and is now being attacked by
Florida’s Judicial Qualification Committee.
William Trudelle, Of my own free will. TheProtester.com
The JQC complaint against Judge Barnes can only be described as a
meaningless act of retribution by a syndicate of legal practitioners
abusing
Florida’s legal system. When the citizens of Florida are forced into the
legal system it is the members of The Florida Bar that reap the
benefits.
Increased criminal convictions and plea bargains accomplished in
violation
of due process and the law force higher taxes and divert government
money
away from legitimate social needs. Frivolous and fraudulent lawsuits
weaken
and destroy our economy. It is a monopoly on justice that has created an
injustice against Florida Citizens. Legal corruption can be stopped now
bysimply enforcing ethics in the legal system. When Judges Cliff Barnes
spoke
out against how his colleagues where abusing; the system, the law, and
the
constitution, his colleagues took action against Judge Barnes in the
form ofan ill-conceived complaint to the Judicial Qualification Committee.
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/pub_info/jqc.shtml
It is when good people do nothing that evil wins
Even a layman to the law can see the charges against the Judge are
superficial; this is how the corrupted Florida Bar has successfully
usurped
power from the citizens. The Florida Bar has gone unchallenged by WE THE
PEOPLE for too long. I implore every reader of this article to read the
JQC
complaint against Judge Barnes, become informed and take control of your
government’s power over you. Take action and live free, do nothing and
you
lose the liberties too many have fought and died to preserve. I believe
if
WE THE PEOPLE do not support Judge Barnes it is WE THE PEOPLE who will
suffer the greatest lose. It is when good people do nothing that evil
wins.
The State of Florida is now rated at the bottom in Legal Fairness
(Harris
Poll), some 70% of Floridians do not trust attorney’s (Florida Bar
Study),
the Florida Bar’s own statistics state that 14% to 20% of lawyers and
judges
suffer impairment disorders including on-going cocaine addiction
(Florida
Lawyers Assistants Program), yet theses legal practitioners continue,
shielded by rules and laws created by a self-serving Florida Bar. It is
WE
THE PEOPLE who must make our government accountable and when the
righteous defend our freedoms we must defend those who had the courage to take
action.
If this is to be a government formed by “you the people” and for “you
the
people” then I ask you to take 10 to 15 minutes to educate yourself
“Google
Judge Cliff Barnes”, read the JQC complaint and his response. Take
action
right now, forward this to your friends and you will reap the benefits.
Let
the corrupt know the righteous have allies. Send this to your friends,
write
letters of support to Judge Barnes and the JQC, let them know you
support
Judge Barnes and any Judge willing to speak out against the legal
corruption
which has become far to prevalent in our court rooms. When Judge Barnes
wins
we all win.
Supreme Court of Florida
Briefs & Other Documents in Case No. 06-2119
Case Number: SC06-2119 - Active
Inquiry Concerning A Judge, NO. 05-437 vs. Re: Clifford H. Barnes
Who is a
Victim-of-Law?
Victims-of-Law are persons who have been subjected to tyrannical or
arbitrary rulings or edicts in violation of constitutional and civil
rights under the democratic maxim reminiscent of our Republic -- the
"Rule of Law"
The victims of unethical and corrupt lawyers, judges and employees of
the state and federal judiciary demand accountability from those who
abuse the power of office while they remain absolutely immune. The media
as well as the legislative and executive branches of government
traditionally ignore these abuses. The judicial branch itself hurls
insults at the victim claiming they are nothing more than a 'disgruntled
litigant' while ignoring substantive allegations. It is essential
to empower the victims of legal abuses. Our strength is in our numbers
thus the more people that demand their constitutional and civil rights
the quicker they will be attained.
What most people do not comprehend is that judges are immune from civil
lawsuits. If a judge unlawfully imprisoned someone or maliciously denied
due process in a case that cost a litigant millions of dollars, it
doesn't matter. There is no redress for the aggrieved person.
The emotional and physical health problems inherent in these abuses are
now coming to light but the judicial branches throughout our country
continue to avoid or deliberately ignore what they have helped to
create.
This website hopes to publish documented proof of many of the deliberate
violations of the 'rule of law, the doctrine upon which our
Constitutional Republic is based.
This website hopes to publish documented proof of many of the deliberate
violations of the 'rule of law, the doctrine upon which our
Constitutional Republic is based.
What is the "Rule of Law"?
Equality and the Law
The right to equality before the law, or equal protection of the law as
it is often phrased, is fundamental to any just and democratic society.
Whether rich or poor, ethnic majority or religious minority, political
ally of the state or opponent--all are entitled to equal protection
before the law.
The democratic state cannot guarantee that life will treat everyone
equally, and it has no responsibility to do so. However, writes
constitutional law expert John P. Frank, "Under no circumstances should
the state impose additional inequalities; it should be required to deal
evenly and equally with all of its people."
No one is above the law, which is, after all, the creation of the
people, not something imposed upon them. The citizens of a democracy
submit to the law because they recognize that, however indirectly, they
are submitting to themselves as makers of the law. When laws are
established by the people who then have to obey them, both law and
democracy are served.
Reprinted from the National Constitution Center
The Supreme Court
The Framers considered the rule of law essential to the safekeeping of
social order and civil liberties. The rule of law holds that if our
relationships with each other and with the state are governed by a set
of rules, rather than by a group of individuals, we are less likely to
fall victim to authoritarian rule. The rule of law calls for both
individuals and the government to submit to the law's supremacy. By
precluding both the individual and the state from transcending the
supreme law of the land, the Framers constructed another protective
layer over individual rights and liberties. --Reprinted from U.S. Dept.
of State
News flash: Florida's
judges play politics
By Barry L. Crane, guest columnist
Response To The Nov. 28 Editorial, "Is This Any Way To Honor Judges?"
12-2-06 -- I agree with your Nov. 28 editorial — "Is this any way to
honor judges?" — but I have some insights that you might have missed or
been unaware of. . . . From mid-1967 to mid-2003, I was an official
court reporter in the courts of Palm Beach County assigned to the
criminal divisions. As such, I was involved in more than 1,700 jury
trials and probably a quarter of a million hearings, motions, etc. . . .
Our appellate judges are selected and not elected. Potential judges for
the appellate courts are nominated by a nominating committee, which is
not above politics, and then usually three names are sent to the
governor for each opening. . . . The governor makes the selection. If
the governor is a Democrat, we get left-leaning judges. If the governor
is a Republican, we get right-leaning, conservative judges. . . . Here's
the problem: There are three groups that know and understand the rulings
by the individual appellate judges. They are: judges themselves, lawyers
and the news media. . . . The judges are a very tight group and never
publicly criticize their own. Lawyers have to appear before appellate
judges, so they may discuss appellate judges among themselves but never
in public. . . . The news media, while printing articles occasionally
covering appellate court rulings, never publish how individual judges
rule.
And we are suppose to set a democracy guide lines around the world?
No wonder we are terrorists no. 1 target.
10-year sentence for consensual
oral sex.
ONLY IN THE USA
THE KINGS OF HYPOCRISY
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - The Rev. Al Sharpton
embraced the mother and sister of a man serving a 10-year sentence for
consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old, joining hundreds of supporters
Thursday demanding his immediate release from prison.
Genarlow Wilson has been in prison for two years for taking part in the
sex act when he was 17 years old.
“This boy is not only her son, he’s your son, he’s my son,” Sharpton
told the cheering crowd from the steps of the Douglas County Courthouse.
“We’re here today because what affects you affects all of us.State Rep.
Alisha Thomas Morgan said Wilson’s punishment was excessive and should
be reduced, just like the prison sentence for former White House aide I.
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, which was commuted Monday by President Bush.
“Genarlow is the face of many other young black men who have received
injustice,” Thomas Morgan said. “Somebody’s got to stand up for them.”
The crowd held signs that read “Free Genarlow” and “Justice Now.” The
issues of race and class came up in many speeches.
“If he had a different complexion and a different connection, we
wouldn’t be here,” Sharpton said.
Law changed since sentence
Wilson, now 21, is serving a 10-year mandatory sentence for aggravated
child molestation stemming from a 2003 New Year’s Eve Party where he was
captured on videotape receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old girl. The
law has since been changed by Georgia lawmakers, but the state’s top
court said the new law could not be applied retroactively.
Wilson was also charged in 2003 with raping a 17-year-old girl at the
party, but a jury acquitted him of the charges.
Five other male partygoers accepted plea deals in the case. Wilson
rejected the plea offer.
On June 11, Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson ruled that
Genarlow Wilson should be freed from prison and not listed on Georgia’s
sex offender registry. The judge called the 10-year mandatory sentence
“a grave miscarriage of justice” that violated the constitution.
Attorney General Thurbert Baker immediately appealed that ruling,
drawing criticism from civil rights activists.
The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear the latest appeal in October.
Wilson’s lawyer, B.J. Bernstein, had sought to get Wilson released on
bond while the appeal moved forward.
But Douglas County Superior Court Judge David Emerson said Wilson was
ineligible for bond under Georgia law. Bernstein is appealing that
decision.
Updated: 5:36 p.m. ET July 5, 2007 FROM MSNBC.COM
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The
reality is that the United States of America, which proclaims itself the
'land of freedom,' has the most dishonest, dangerous and crooked legal
system of any developed nation.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
~Max
Stirner, The Ego and His Own
....it could happen in your life
It could be your son, daughter, brother, sister or your wife.
Please Help
Thank
you.
If you are neutral in
situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of
the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and
you
say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
--Bishop Desmond Tutu
Whoever
fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster ... when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks
into
you." -Friedrich Nietzche
He that
cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass
himself; for every man has a need to be forgiven." -Lord Herbert
There
can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on
the amount of money he has."
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Griffin v. Illinois,
373 U.S.12,(1964),
There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court." Clarence Darrow
Judges
are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices.
This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
~David Dudley Field
Laws:
We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs
for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing
nets in
the hands of the government. ~Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The
Match!
Our
government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government
becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man
to
become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Justice
Louis Dembitz
Brandeis
Justice
is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge
Sturgess
It is
the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl
Warren
There
are few better measures of the concern a society has for its
individual members and its own well being than the way it handles
criminals.
- Ramsey Clark
Being
all fashioned of the self-same dust,
Let us be merciful as well as just.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good
judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing
but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the
law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.
- Thomas Wilson
A judge
is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- Henry Louis Mencken
It is
better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than
severity.
- Cervantes
Extreme
justice is extreme injustice.
[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero
The
virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
- Aristotle
He who
is only just is cruel.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon