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From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Mon Dec 11, 2000 1:54 am
Subject: Response to: Day 18 - But Where Is The Enemy?

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Response to: Day 18 - But Where Is The Enemy?

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To: jail4judges

Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:14 PM

Subject: Re: Day 18 - But Where Is The Enemy?

They weren't paying the taxes for the people who worked there, our church has to, I worked in a church office for years and they had to for me. That church isn't any better than ours. ....

Veroncia

Responsive reasoning by Ron Branson: "I'm a slave to the government, and the rest of us are also slaves to the government. We all have to wear our balls and chains. What makes you think you are priveleged and do not have to wear your government ball and chain like the rest of us? All of us slaves need to faithfully stick together to make sure none of us removes their ball & chain and escapes!"

Signed,

A faith government slave.

"The Government is My Shepherd."

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From: jail4judges

To: www.jail4judges.org

Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:45 PM

Subject: Day 18 - But Where Is The Enemy?

DAY 18 - Where Is The Enemy?

The General, (i.e., the Almighty Court) gave the "Order To Charge & Seize this Church," but what happened to His Majesty's Army?

GOVERNMENT STILL HAS NOT SEIZED CHURCH PROPERTY AFTER 18 DAYS!!

Christian Friends,

I write to you from the Indianapolis Baptist Temple, where my wife and nine children have been with me for the last eight of eighteen days. (Check out link to photo page below)

It has been 18 days since Federal District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker ordered the seizure of the 50-year-old, 22-acre Indianapolis Baptist Temple for a bogus "tax bill".

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY THAT A CHURCH HAS BEEN ORDERED SEIZED FOR TAXES, but the fact is that the church owed no taxes at all!

For those of you that are hearing of this for the first time I will provide a brief synopsis of the events leading up to today.

On November 14, the U.S. Marshal Service was ordered to seize the church property with an order from Judge Barker that read "using whatever force is necessary." At high noon, the deadline for evacuation, there were 1,000 worshippers in the sanctuary refusing to comply with that order. THE MARSHALS NEVER ARRIVED.

After a contact with the Marshal's office director, Frank Anderson, it was learned that they did not intend to arrest anyone unless there was resistance or attempts to re-enter the building after they had been carried out. They would not say when they intended to come. It has been a waiting game.

During this time, the press has been here with us around the clock, 24-hours a day. The coverage has been very fair and many times sympathetic. Public opinion, which at the beginning of this ordeal was 2 to 1 AGAINST us, has now turned 3 to 1 FOR US! As we have stayed longer, the news stories have begun to elaborate on the issues, so that "Joe Sixpack" now understands that this is not really a tax issue, but an attempt by the government to control the church. Sadly, many Christians still have not seen this.

The head Marshal, Frank Anderson, is himself a Baptist deacon at a local church. He plans to retire form the Marshal Service next year. He has made the following two interesting quotes concerning our situation:

"There is no right way to do a wrong thing"

"I do not want my last act as a U.S. Marshal to be the closing down of a
church and the eviction of its members".

His problem is exacerbated by an UNPRECEDENTED ACTION BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT:

The Marion County Sheriff, the Indianapolis Police Department, and the Indiana State Police ARE ALL REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SEIZURE!! The Marshal is on his own.

SCANDAL AND CORRUPTION IN THE SEIZURE OF THE CHURCH PROPERTY!!

We discovered that the company that was appointed by Judge Sarah Evans Barker, Atlantic Liquidators, LLC., is a bogus company that was set up for the specific purpose of liquidating the Indianapolis Baptist Temple Property.

Five years ago, IBT had another property seized by the IRS. The company that was appointed by the judge also turned out to be bogus. The church hired a private investigator, which determined that the company WAS A PROPRIETARY OF THE IRS!! IRS agents set up the company to collect the huge fees which are paid to the companies which liquidate the properties. Over 300 such scams by the IRS have been uncovered in the last five years in California alone!

To make things even MORE interesting, the person running the law office where Atlantic Liquidators was supposed to be located, was apparently the SAME MAN who was the receiver for the bogus company that liquidated the churches other property FIVE YEARS AGO!!

We are contacting congressmen from as many states as possible to call for an investigation into this IRS scam.

AN INVESTIGATION WOULD ABSOLUTELY PUT THE BRAKES ON THE SEIZURE OF INDIANAPOLIS BAPTIST TEMPLE!!

The head Marshal, Frank Anderson, a Baptist deacon, is looking for a legitimate way out of having to drag the pastor out of the pulpit, carry praying Christians from the sanctuary, desecrate the house of God and bring God's judgment upon himself. We are convinced that is why he has not moved thus far.

LET'S GIVE HIM THAT LEGITIMATE REASON!

Cal your Senators and Congressman and respectfully ask for an investigation of the IRS corruption in the seizure of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple!

US Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Numbers
1-800-241-7109
1-800-648-3516
1-800-722-7494

Here is a link to find the address and email of your senators and
representative:
http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

Here is a sample letter. You can use this one or make up your own.

**********************
Honorable So-and-so (whether you think they are or not) :

It has come to my attention that the IRS is involved in the seizure of a
50-year-old church, the Indianapolis Baptist Temple. According to published reports, a private investigator has determined that the receiver that was appointed by Federal District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker is a bogus company, and possibly part of an IRS scam operation to line the pockets of federal agents.

This is outrageous. We urge you to call for an official investigation into this case. The IRS cannot continue to be a renegade operation accountable to no one, and victimizing American citizens at will. This time it's a CHURCH. Where will this nonsense end?

Please call for an investigation and recommend the suspension of the order to seize the church property at once.

Sincerely,

**********************

WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN with the information above.... FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LISTS!

SO FAR, YOUR FORWARDING OF MY EMAILS HAS RESULTED IN 18 RADIO INTERVIEWS AND 52 PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR HERE IN INDIANAPOLIS!!

A servant of Christ,
Rev. Bruce Evan Murch

Call 540-730-4427 for a radio interview with me.
Call 317-787-0830 for information or directions.

Check this link for PHOTOS of what's happening at Indianapolis Baptist Temple:
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/CommercialSt/y2kwater/IBTpage.htm

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From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Mon Dec 11, 2000 3:53 am
Subject: * Gods In Black Nighties

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Gods In Black Nighties

(Parody of Knights In White Satin, by Pete Sagi)

Gods in black nighties, doing black collar crime,
Trampling our rights down, into muck and grime.
With justice not issued, from “his honor” (that whore)
Just what the truth is, doesn’t count anymore.

Time to JAIL you, yes, we’ll JAIL you, oh how we’ll JAIL you!

Deriding defendants, his gavel in hand,
Judicial tyranny, is the law of the land.
The message they send me, “Why bother to defend,
Go along to get along, you’re a slave to the end.”

So we’ll JAIL you, yes we’ll JAIL you.
Oh how we’ll JAIL you, oh how we’ll JAIL you!

Gods in black nighties, with toy hammers in hand,
Need to be brought down, tarred, feather’d and canned!
Justice we’ve always missed, just can’t wait anymore,
Let them hear the sound of, a slamming cell door!

Yes we’ll JAIL you, yes we’ll JAIL you.
Oh how we’ll JAIL you, oh how we’ll JAIL you!

By Pete Sagi - pasagi@...

Missouri J.A.I.L. For Judges

J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
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#280

From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Mon Dec 11, 2000 6:32 am
Subject: A Few Good Cops

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From: Constance Flaum

To: jail4judges@...

Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 1:29 AM

Subject: Re: Fw: LA cops

Well, there you have it folks-A GOOD cop speaking out! And I've said it before-the first to give warning about how BAD and dangerous the police in this country have become are the few GOOD cops out there, the few of good conscience, and principles, and a mind still bright enough to think for itself.

.But at what price!?

In New Jersey Sgt. DeLacy Davis dared to speak out, and continues to do so even though his car has been blown up and his life, and that of his family, has been so seriously threatened that Sgt. Davis, his mother, his wife, and his little girl dare not leave their home without a contingency of trusted, armed body guards.

A former DEA agent and police officer from the greater L.A. area (name withheld for his protection) was beaten so severely by his fellow officers that it almost cost him his life.
Another has had the IRS wrongly strip him of his home, his wages, and his lifes' savings.
A brave, rightous CityCouncel woman speaks up, her job and life are threatened, and she has to go into hiding but keeps up the fight. Let's hope we see her in the White House some day.
An LA motorcycle cop comes forward with truth about a police shooting- his life and that of his wife and baby are threatened and he is driven out of his job by enraged, gung-ho, brainwashed fellow officers.
A sweet, young Lt. at the Lennox Sheriff's station cried with me when I showed him a picture of my son.
In Oklahoma City Police Sgt Terrence Yeakey, one of the first on the scene after the bombing discovered disturbing evidence and tried to bring it forward. It cost him a most brutal death.

After learning about, and meeting, most of these good men and women, and being aware of what they have been made to suffer for the Truth I no longer pray for even one of the more than 100 police at the killing of my son to come forward and tell what REALLY happened that dark night. Even after what the ignorant, EVIL cops did I could not live with the knowledge that my prayers might cost the life of even one GOOD man or woman of conscience.

Good cops and coroners and medical examiners were the first to try and help me establish the Truth in my son's murder. Example-Jerry Pierce, retired Sheriff of 20+ years, Criminologist, Private Investigator, and host of radio talk show,
"The Radio Detective", on nightly, 7:00-10:00 pm out of Fresno CA, KMPH. Mr. Pierce is a man of honor who is proud of his years of service as a Sheriff, and he is a strong proponent of the police in general, but when this qualified EXPERT read the autopsy and police reports on the shooting of Michael "Buzz" Arnold he was so outraged by the obvious lies, the terrible, unnecessary use of extreme, deadly force and the blatant,sloppy cover-up perputrated after the killing that he spent three hours ripping a new "you know what-you know where" in L.A. Law Enforcement, the D.A.'s office, and the FBI. If anyone believes that the GOOD cop is totally extinct, please tune into Jerry's show, and call in with questions. His number is(559) 453-5338. I can guarentee you he will tell it like it is, no holds barred. Even if you can't pick up KMPH where you are you can still call in and ask Jerry questions-but do it only if you really want the truth because that's all you will get from this GOOD
cop!

In gratitude to the FEW Good men and women out there, and a prayer for their safety-
Constance Flaum

jail4judges wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tony Blizzard
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 7:51 PM
> Subject: LA cops
>
>
> The following is in response to the email with the LA police radio
> transmissions about cops going out for a killing by another officer also
> from the LA area. I have deleted his heading to keep his identification
> confidential.
>
> Dear Tony,
>
> I spoke with Constance about this at length. That poor woman was put
> through so much. How in the hell can you shoot somebody so many times
> and justify it?
>
> "Hi, Mrs. Smith, Captain Johnson from the Los Angeles Police
> Department. Mrs. Smith I have some good news and I have some bad news.
> The Bad news is
> we had to shoot your unarmed son 167 times today. We had to shoot him
> so many times because all the involved officers wanted the prestige of
> saying they blew
> somebody's shit away. The good news Mrs. Smith is that you can still
> have an open casket funeral! Yes, I knew that would excite you, fewer
> than ten percent of
> the rounds struck your son in the head. Congratulations Mrs. Smith,
> your son was shot and killed by the Country's finest, the L.A.P.D.!
>
> They are sadistic satanic bastards with no respect for life. Guess we
> have our work cut out for us.
>

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#281

From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Wed Dec 13, 2000 7:52 am
Subject: * Getting Inside The [Judicial] Cult

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What you are about to read, though moderately lengthy, is tremendously insightful, thought provoking and well worth the read. Truly we have entered the age of JAIL4Judges!

Getting Inside the Cult
by Ryan McMaken

It finally seems that the American judicial system may have finally gotten too smart for its own good. Prior to the November ruling by the Florida Supreme Court, some legal experts were predicting that the Florida high court would be unwilling to overturn the Secretary of State's certification of the Bush win.

Presumably, they argued, the Florida Supreme court would be unwilling to sacrifice its prestige by engaging in such a blatantly partisan action. The predictions were wrong, and the Florida Supremes did their best to hand Gore the election.

When the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme court, there were again predictions that the U.S. Supremes would not want to jump into the fray of the partisan fight. Well, the justices couldn't help themselves and they too jumped into the business. After the U.S. Supremes reversed the Florida decision, the Florida high court made another attempt to hand Gore the election, and the U.S. Supreme court slapped them down again.

In both of the latter two decisions, both the U.S. Supreme court and the Florida Supreme Court have given split decisions, and the U.S. justices have even taken to publicly criticizing each other before a decision on the case is even made.

All the judicial mythology of unanimity and political independence of the courts is beginning to look pretty foolish.

Ever since the ink was barely dry on the Constitution, the American courts have been trying to establish and solidify their independence while attempting to convince all that they are a breed apart from ordinary people who let themselves be swayed by vulgar politics.

Evidently, they have been pretty successful at their task. The vast majority of Americans hold the judicial system in high esteem while elected legislative bodies are held to be some of the most untrustworthy groups in America. Few dare criticize the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Supreme Court decisions are often invoked as the final word on various political matters. This is due largely to Chief Justice John Marshall's assertion in 1803 that the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review in federal law.

No such thing was written into the Constitution, but Marshall managed to turn it into a massive power grab for the judicial system. Marshall wanted to turn the court into a body of sages aloof from common politics. Detached from local interests and party matters, the judiciary was supposed to act in the best interest of preserving the law and the Constitution.

Free from the influence of politics, the court would be able to hand down decisions based strictly on the merits and the intent of the law. Or so they claim.

Although it has been able to promote its own power fairly well, the Supreme Court has not always been successful in enforcing its fiats. When Marshall declared that President Andrew Jackson's Indian policy was unconstitutional, Jackson ignored the decision and said, "Mr. Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." When Chief Justice Roger Taney criticized Lincoln's habit of suspending habeas corpus, Lincoln just ignored him.

The courts know that their power rests exclusively on their prestige. They do not represent local or state interests and they do not command any troops or any army of bureaucrats. They are powerless in executing any of their laws. To counter this, they work very hard on puffing up their reputations as unanimous, impartial, and independent bastions as the rule of law in the hope that someone will actually listen to them.

As a result, a cult of judicial supremacy has grown up within the legal profession. The judges and lawyers within the cult do their best to always make each other look good and to generally avoid controversy. They have odd habits like no other branch of government. They wear strange puffy black robes, and everyone has to stand up every time they enter the room. No one feels the need to stand up when the congressman from California's 27th district enters the room, yet when Podunk County judge Joe Schmoe enters the courtroom, everyone's suddenly on their feet.

Unlike elected politicians who openly criticize each other and engage in open debate, the modern Supreme Court and the state equivalents are huddled in a back room poring over some legal texts trying to figure out how they can best subvert the law without losing any of their precious prestige and legitimacy.

Like any good cult, they speak sparingly with outsiders of their own powers and of their role in society.

With the election of 2000, the edifice has cracked, and some light has shone in on the cult. With passions running so high, judges have begun to show their true colors, and while this would have been an excellent opportunity to show their supposed judicial restraint, the Florida and U.S. Supreme courts couldn't wait to get involved. The judicial infighting that has followed is truly a beautiful thing. With split decisions and partisan colors flying, the courts have been so unable to restrain themselves that the hideous innards of judicial lawmaking have been flung out on the table at last.

Publicly denouncing the decisions of their colleagues, they look more like Congressmen throwing tantrums than like judges. After this debacle, the judicial system will have plenty of damage control to take care of. All the claims of dispassionate deliberation and political detachment are clearly a sham. In a time when steady and cautious rulings would have been prudent, the courts involved in the matter have chosen instead to let it all hang out.

While the courts hammer away at each other, the Florida legislature prepares to name electors as dictated by law, and the Congress stands ready to decide the election if the matter somehow cannot be resolved in the Electoral College. As any student of history knows, it is in the elected branches of governments where disputed elections have been resolved, yet after 70 years of judicial activism, the courts just can't manage to bring themselves to allow elected officials the job of deciding the election. This will be their undoing. If the courts demand the power to make up new law, then they cannot claim to be immune from the public scrutiny that lawmaking bodies must regularly endure. Indeed, this is what the legal experts predicted when they claimed that the Florida and U.S. Supreme courts would never be so foolish as to get involved in the election. It is amazing that the courts would so publicly try to wrest lawmaking authority from Congress and the state legislatures. Such a move can only undermine their authority in the long run. If the U.S. and state Supreme Court judges are seen as the partisan hacks that they really are, it becomes harder for them to claim superiority over the other branches of government. The courts have been inveterate power grabbers for a long, long time. The only difference now is that for the first time, a lot of people have noticed. The whole affair reminds me of the old saying: "It's better to keep quiet and be suspected of stupidity than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." I have only one thing to say to the supreme courts: keep on talking.*

Sent by Bill Monroe, Tenn. J.A.I.L., Maynardville, Tennessee

37807-0355 (865) 992-5001, anchor@....

* Indeed, the Supreme Court is continuing to "talk." Just now the U.S. Supreme has released its "final" decision, and has borne out the most insightful words of Ryan McMaken, the benefit of which he could not have included in his article. Ever legal expert is now stymied and pondering the meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court. Everyone agrees that their "decision" is definitely indefinite, and questionable. These nine justices have revealed themselves to be harshly divided and unable to separate themselves from politics.

No matter what your politics, the court have created a wonderful atmosphere for JAIL4Judges. The Democrats are sure to express their outrage with the Court, and Republicans is going to praise the Court for its bold stand. Bottom line - JAIL4Judges marches on toward victory. Are you listening? J.A.I.L. is the ONLY answer!

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams

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From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Fri Dec 15, 2000 5:54 am
Subject: * Judiciary vs. God Almighty!

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Judiciary vs. God Almighty!

(Lokey, a long time J.A.I.L. supporter, often shares some of his memories of his phenomenal experiences with us. Below is just one of his true life adventures. Though not covered here, he once was serving to two live terms, one without possibility of parole. He fought the system for years and eventually gained his freedom.)

The concept of individual sovereignty scares some people. Some individuals can stand the thought of governing themselves, but they cannot stand the thought of others governing themselves. Interesting, isn't it? This is how judges are.

And some say, "Oh no, the individual should not be a sovereign entity."

What does sovereign mean, anyway? We can start with a dictionary definition in order at least to touch the tip of that great iceberg.

sovereign adjective

1 syn see FREE 1

rel self-determined, self-governed

2 syn see DOMINANT 1

rel commanding, directing, guiding; highest, loftiest

3 syn see EXCELLENT

4 syn see KINGLY

I say, not to remind you (as I am sure you are aware), but simply to note, that we must always remember that the very concept of sovereignty comes from God, The Original Sovereign. Without God, The Sovereign, there would be none anywhere in nature. .... The main problem with individual sovereignty in man is that groups tend to combine and consolidate powers and overwhelm this aspect of individual man, usually in the name of a "greater good," and the group thus pirates in and unto itself, by raw force and power, the concept of "group sovereignty." They then proclaim, "We are a sovereign entity and whatever we say is the rule." This is pretty much what the judiciary has done. Piracy is an act against God Himself, whether committed by one man or a group, whether democratically or otherwise arrived at. This is how and why the judiciary all over the world is godless to the core. The judiciary is not only godless, it exists as Judiciary vs. God Almighty.

What caused you to create JAIL? Your sense of individual sovereignty did this. If you had no such individual sense driving you, you would simply chew your cud and look dumbly toward the judicial tyranny as it slaughtered you and your family in order to feed upon you. There is, an can be, no such thing as a sovereign state of individuals in which any individual, as a component, is not sovereign.

When that beast began feeding on me in 1947, just about everybody around me behaved as cows in a herd, except for the ones who had the power and authority to eat of the rest of the herd, that is, those with state authority. There was nobody I could complain to, nobody to hear, nobody with eyes and ears. Finally, a young man heard me, and he counted my bruises and bloody stripes. I was seven years old, he was about sixteen, just a boy himself. But he was free and I was not. He told me to pull my pants down so that he could see the handiwork of the State of Texas. I was a child. I did as I was told. He cursed and swore as he looked. He then kidnapped me with an old beat up Ford he was driving, a vehicle that must have been from the Twenties, and he swore an oath to die before he would allow such a thing to occur to me again. He later married one of my sisters and we lived all over the country while we ran.

It was an act of rescue, not kidnap. However, imagine if you can, in 1948 only a boy of sixteen had the sense of sovereignty to rescue me from the jaws of the judicial beast that had me looking like a botched late-term abortion attempt. I was little more than a morsel of food falling from the corner of its mouth and the judicial beast took little notice of the loss at the time. If the boy did such a thing today, he would be hunted down relentlessly until we were both recaptured and eaten.

When I was first imprisoned at seven years, I fought the only way I knew how. I escaped again and again, having no idea where I would escape to. I simply ran away. Each time, I was dragged back to feel the lash. I wanted to get away from there so fiercely that I left during one of Texas' famous flash-flood storms, reasoning that they might not come after me in such weather. The Canadian River was at full flood tide. It was at least a quarter of a mile wide and wider. Trees and barns and such boiled down through it rolling end over end sometime. That river lay at a right angle to my direction of travel. I had learned to swim only a few months earlier at one of the recreation ponds on the place. I dove in. I swam across. I ended up several miles downriver, almost drowned when I finally crawled ashore. Another boy of about fifteen escaped in a similar condition and they found him dead later.

My reasoning was faulty. The weather was not too fierce. They came after me on horses. About a dozen of them thundered down on me on the open prairie as I ran. A seven-year-old is not faster than horse. However, I was made to run in front of the horses the entire way back to the facility which was quite a few miles. Of course, they allowed me to rest when I could not run any farther. The only place I was assisted was crossing the Canadian River again. I was lashed to a saddle and carried across. The scene was right out of a pioneer movie with horses struggling against the current and riders holding onto saddle horns and flailing for advantage.

The authorities were irate that I had risked the lives of all those people (and horses) that had to come after me in those raging elements. All I had wanted was out of there. I was driven entirely by my spirit. I was driven by the spirit of freedom--the natural sovereignty instilled in every man by the Almighty Himself.

For modern man, especially in America today, it is quite difficult to conceptualize that the idea of individual sovereignty (freedom) is, relatively speaking, brand new in the world. Until the founding of America, all individuals in the world were owned by the state, and had been for thousands of years, whether that state was a king or other form of monarchy (such as religio-political social orders like the Jews.) It was cognized by man in general that the only reason for one's existence was to serve the state in some manner or other. Even though America was founded on July 4, 1776 (I place it at the firing of the first rebellious shot), which was designed to alter that erroneous conception of individuality, man's cognition regarding the reason for individual existence had not changed much when I was born in 1940. I was forced to change much of it with my own mind, body and soul, long before I was aware that I was changing anything.

Talking heads speak of the freedom of all men, but hide in the closet when the concept of individual sovereignty is raised. The only way any man can be free is when he recognizes that he is, in and unto himself, a sovereign entity exactly as any state or nation and on the same plane. It's a scary thought. However, no group of individuals can call itself sovereign that does not recognize the sovereignty of every one of its member individuals, nor can any individual be anything except a slave who does not know, as I do, that he is sovereign over all that is in his domain, and is willing to endure the hell that I did in order to assert it and change the world along with him.

Another scary thought: Criminals are the only creatures to test laws and break bonds of state servitude. Those who obey all laws without question have no capacity to be anything but slaves. Individuals that are charged with enforcing freedom are policemen, who solidify bonds of state servitude in everything they do, even in their individual thinking. The very state that enforces freedom is the culprit that takes it away and gives it not. A shining beacon of example, the very same bunch that calls itself "Top-of-the-Line Peace Officers" gave us the Waco Massacre, where tortures unimaginable were visited upon little children and babies, and mothers, and other innocent men. And why was it done? For all I can reasonably gather, the [Waco] holocaust was committed because the Davidians believed in the divinity of its leader. .... Not just any group of "peace officers" gave the Waco Massacre to the world. THE quintessential knights in shining armor, the FBI, provided this in all its gory and horrendous detail. And then these "peace officers," these "knights in shining armor" lied about it all and concocted evidence and buried the facts in an effort to conceal their evil doings. Yes, criminals break the bonds of state servitude, while policemen enforce those bonds. I have been privy to this knowledge for many years.

Another shining specimen is the judiciary. The judiciary is all about special dispensation for its members and fellows. The "good old boys" are alive and well in black robes and frocks and protected by interminable legal hocus-pocus and incantation. Even they don't know what they are talking about much of the time. They appear as gods in order to be gods among men. They have stolen, through piracy, every individual's natural sovereignty in order to consolidate it to their own ends. The house of cards needs to be pulled down.

Once the house comes down, they should be JAILed.

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Subject: * I Want To Sell Your Children - Gov't.

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The State of Utah is buying federal dollars with the blood of our children

Throughout America, an average of 3,000 children a day are stolen from their homes and placed in foster care to fuel a multi-billion dollar money-making machine. Utah’s system is typical, and provides a case study in both the tactics of the government and how individual citizens can defend themselves and their families. To you, your children are your life. To the thousands of caseworkers, supervisors, therapists, judges, and doctors whose salaries are paid by this machine, your children represent job security. Fresh meat. Despite what they may have told you, your case is not a weird exception. They’re doing this to everyone.

.... The federal government pays the State of Utah at least $25,000 for each child the State can remove from its family and place in foster care. The more children the State can take, the more federal money its child "welfare" system can rake in. Each year, hundreds of families throughout Utah fall prey to the Gestapo tactics of the Division of Child and Family Services.

....

Utah's Juvenile Courts Operate in Secret!

Did you know that the following Constitutional rights are prohibited in Utah's Juvenile courts?

The right to remain silent
The right to confront witnesses
The right to a jury
The right to a public trial
The right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty

A detailed discussion of the problems with Utah's child welfare laws is articulated very well by the Hon. Arthur G. Christean, a retired Utah juvenile court judge in an article entitled, "The Child Welfare Reform Act of 1994: Is the Cure Worse than the Problem?" ....

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Date: Mon Dec 18, 2000 8:31 am
Subject: Lawyers, Judges & Courts

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Lawyers, Judges & Courts

Having had my life determined dramatically by the courts of this country in
a 40 year period, here are some thoughts.

My entire life has been affected greatly with the antics of Lawyers, Judges
and Courts from the lowest court in this country to the very highest and all
in between. Most of these courts are presided over by a system where there was no vote by the public for them, or in most cases if it was possible to have opposition, there was none. This is true in the state courts but there is no chance for our vote in the federal system because they are appointed by their political cronies for life.

When judges are elected in our own State Supreme Court there is no
opposition and the only way to get rid of a judge is to vote NO in support
of that judge and even if we do reject that judge we have no vote as to the
replacement.

The state and federal legislatures of our country have a large percentage of
members that are lawyers. All the laws of our nation are written by lawyers and they always use legalese language rather than plain English. The lawyers then have a great say whether these laws get passed by also voting on these laws.

Many people voted for "their" man because he will get to nominate some new justices to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, after all, runs the
country. With a 5 to 4 vote, it can overturn any law. So, we were all
supposed to get all excited about voting for a man who will appoint a few
new members of this ancient, sovereign , unchallenged, body of nine people, lawyers all. ....

My apologies to my lawyer and judge friends. The devil made me write this.

Joe W. Stout
Greenfield, TN

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Date: Wed Dec 20, 2000 2:39 am
Subject: KCAL TV Channel 9 & J.A.I.L.

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J.A.I.L. has just been contacted by KCAL Ch. 9 TV, a major TV news and programming station in Los Angeles. One of their station manager has assigned a reporter to scoop out all the information they could about J.A.I.L. for a major lead story on judicial corruption. This assigned reporter, Lily Lee, has just contacted me, the founder, and two of our attorneys spending approximately an hour and a half interviewing us. We have agreed to report in to their studio in suits and ties for a television interview.

This is not a knee jerk spontaneous production, but a extended, well thought out presentation in which they are now asking us to provide real live victims of judicial corruption who can come into their studios and well present their experiences without a rambling long draw out complicated story. Obviously, only the top notch will be considered.

The focus of this story is the need for judicial accountability, and how J.A.I.L. fills that need. I know in putting out this notice, we are going to be piled upon by everyone wishing their voice to be heard on TV. So let me weed out most by setting some ground rules. If you are not willing to personally appear at KCAL's studios in Los Angeles at your own expense, do not write us! If your story requires a complicated background, do not write us. If your story involves a bad judgment call on the part of some judge, do not write us. We are seeking clear-cut uncomplicated violations of law by judges that are simple to grasp by a twelve year old. Criminal acts on the part of the judiciary are a definite plus.

Emotional issues involving children, child custody, or family issues are acceptable and even desirable provided the story is directed squarely at the out of control judiciary and not at the spouse or ex. In fact, we desire some very emotionally touching accounts that would make the viewers cry at the outrage of the judiciary. It was their observance of outrageous conduct in the family law court that have brought them to seek J.A.I.L out as a potential remedy.

If you do not fit into the above criteria for this TV production, perhaps you may know someone who would. If you feel you fill the bill, write a short single-page email summary to me so I may screen the stories prior to releasing them to KCAL. Be sure to include your telephone number so that either I, or they may call you to see if your story qualifies. Do not change the "KCAL TV Channel 9 & J.A.I.L." in the subject line.

KCAL TV seems to have possibly taken a personal interest in the advancement of J.A.I.L., and this could very well be a tremendous publicity kick off for J.A.I.L. as we reach millions of viewers, that will spark interest in numerous other news organizations. They are aware that we need to gather here in California approximately one million signatures in order to place J.A.I.L. on the ballot. They agree that once on the ballot, it will pass without a hitch. They are very impressed that we now have some thirty-eight states involved, and they agree that the passage in any of the states will "start a domino" effect, (their words). They also see that this effort is bound to be explosive upon passage and would doubtless assure coverage by the likes of even NightLine.

Thanks for your cooperation in this tremendous opportunity for publicity.

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Date: Thu Dec 21, 2000 7:16 am
Subject: The Death of Due Process

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The Death of Due Process

By Peter Brimelow, Forbes Magazine, 12.11.00

THE LEFT IS RIGHT: AMERICA IS AN UNJUST SOCIETY." Startling words to come from Paul Craig Roberts, 61, an architect (as assistant secretary of the Treasury) of the Reagan tax-cut revolution and now a syndicated columnist and chairman of the Institute for Political Economy. But he's not talking about discrimination or the unequal distribution of wealth. The problem, he says, is this: "Americans are no longer secure in law-the justice system no longer seeks truth and prosecutors are untroubled by wrongful convictions."

Recently, with coauthor Lawrence M. Stratton, a lawyer, Roberts published The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice (Forum, $25). In it he blames the Reagan and Bush administrations' wars on crime and drugs for institutionalizing many of the problems he sees developing. In particular he blames the near-sextupling of assistant U.S. attorneys in the early 1980s for a fatal dilution in prosecutorial standards. The prosecutions are not making the country safer for the law-abiding. They are making it more dangerous.

Historically, Roberts argues, Americans enjoyed the protection of what were termed "the Rights of Englishmen" by 18th-century jurist Sir William Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England was a bestseller in the 13 colonies. The broadest of these was the right to due process. That meant punishment by dint of laws and evidence rather than, as has been the case in much of human history and is still the case in much of the world, by dint of a dictator's fiat. A related notion is that there should be no bills of attainder, legislation designed to criminalize a specific individual.

Other rights: to have the confidential assistance of an attorney; to confront adverse witnesses; to be protected from self-incrimination; to demand that the prosecution prove not just an evil deed but an evil intention (called mens rea); and to be protected from retroactive laws. Another English concept was that the government should not go after people by making arbitrary attacks on their property.

Most of these protections were enshrined in our Bill of Rights. And yet most have been subtly but steadily eroded in the U.S., Roberts maintains. "They can seize anyone, and any property, at any time," he says of today's law enforcement agencies. For example, civil cases are now often criminalized, through "novel theories" of the law invented by prosecutors to target specific defendants-very much like a bill of attainder. Plea bargains, traditionally frowned on by English courts because of possible coercion, now conclude 90% to 95% of federal criminal cases, increasing the prosecutors' incentive to pile on indictments-in effect, torturing the defendant-and, in the absence of a court test, reducing the incentive for careful, or even honest, police work. You get an idea of what is going on when you see a newspaper story about a crime (often a white-collar crime) in which there is a detail like this: "If convicted on all counts, so-and-so would be subject to a sentence of 120 years." It seems that every misdeed becomes, in the statute books, a panoply of offenses like money laundering and racketeering. By throwing a large statute book at a defendant, the prosecutor can blackmail the culprit (or an innocent person) into a plea bargain.

In the old days punishments were harsh, but they were not arbitrary. You could be hanged for stealing a sheep, but you would not also be charged with conspiracy to commit sheep stealing, willful evasion of taxes on stolen sheep and diminishing the civil rights of the sheep owner. Attacks on property? Asset forfeiture, aimed at drug dealers when radically extended by Congress in 1984 but now covering 140 other offenses, allows seizure on "probable cause"-i.e., at the discretion of police and prosecutors. Proceeds go to the seizing agency, creating a corrupting motive.

This erosion of Americans' historic protections has already caused some public scandal. The spectacle of innocents losing homes, boats and other property because tenants, customers and even passersby were using drugs caused House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde to introduce legislation this year attempting to rein in forfeiture. Roberts himself got interested when he began writing columns about the Wenatchee, Wash. child sex-abuse case, one of several curious Salem-witch-trial episodes in which numbers of adults have been convicted on the word of children seized and coaxed by investigators into testifying to imagined events.

But much of the erosion of historic protections is in the area of white-collar crime-involving hitherto respectable, if less than universally loved, corporations and businesspeople. Roberts here cites, see FORBES (Dec. 1, 1997) in calling attention to the extreme punishments meted out to people involved in essentially civil disputes with the government. What we have at work is an unholy alliance between business-hating liberals and crime-hating social conservatives. Roberts says that the Clinton Administration Justice Department has even introduced a sort of affirmative action to law enforcement, demanding quotas of white-collar prosecutions.

The results, as laid out by Roberts, are certainly disturbing. Savings and loan financier Charles H. Keating Jr. was convicted of the crime of employing fraudulent bond salesmen, even though there was no evidence he knew of their activities, and the crime was not on the books when he supposedly committed it. His conviction was overturned on constitutional grounds after he served 4 1/2 years in jail. Washington lawyer Clark Clifford, then in his 80s, was indicted by the federal government in New York for allegedly accepting bribes in his role as chairman of First American Bankshares. His personal assets were frozen and his credit card was rejected when he tried to pay the chauffeur who drove him to the airport on his way back to Washington, D.C. The case against Clifford was dropped when his partner was acquitted. Exxon Corp. faced cleanup costs and civil tort damages after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but it was also indicted for intentionally killing migratory birds without a hunting license and dumping refuse without a permit. This "novel theory" allowed the Bush Administration Justice Department to bring criminal charges, which carry massively higher penalties. "Despite the absurdity of the charges," notes Roberts, "Exxon lacked the confidence in our crumbling justice system to go to trial." It settled for a $125 million fine.

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Date: Fri Dec 22, 2000 8:50 am
Subject: * Idaho's Right To Prosecute Murder vs. Federal Courts

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Idaho's Right To Prosecute Murder vs. Federal Courts

Court weighs bid to try FBI agent: He killed separatist's wife at Ruby Ridge

http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert08.html

By Claire Cooper
Bee Legal Affairs Writer
(Published Dec. 21, 2000)

SAN FRANCISCO -- An 11-member panel of federal circuit judges gave no indication Wednesday whether it will allow Idaho to prosecute an FBI sharpshooter who killed a woman during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff.

As two of the nation's top legal talents presented sometimes emotional oral arguments, the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struggled with concepts of official immunity and federal supremacy.

Arguing on the side of Idaho officials, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark called FBI agent Lon T. Horiuchi's killing of Vicki Weaver a "summary execution," a classic case of excessive force by police that's well within the scope of the state courts to prosecute.

Seth Waxman, the U.S. solicitor general, countered that the freedom of federal agents to act in crises is "a principle of surpassing importance." He argued, "State prosecution of federal officers is terribly chilling in all but extreme cases, and this is not one of them."

The case grew out of the fatal shooting of Weaver, the wife of separatist leader Randy Weaver, as she stood holding her baby during the second week of a standoff at the couple's Idaho cabin. Federal agents were attempting to serve a weapons trafficking warrant. Horiuchi opened fire to keep the Weavers' friend, Kevin Harris, from taking cover in the cabin.

Local prosecutors in Boundary County, Idaho, charged Horiuchi with involuntary manslaughter after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would not prosecute him or his superiors.

A judge in Idaho threw out the case. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit upheld that action last June, saying Horiuchi made "an objectively reasonable decision" to shoot. But the full 9th Circuit sent the case to an 11-judge panel for a fresh look.

During Wednesday's arguments, only one judge, Andrew Kleinfeld of Fairbanks, Alaska, appeared firmly to take Idaho's side, saying Horiuchi should not be able to escape prosecution by claiming he was following orders.

But even Judge Alex Kozinski of Pasadena, who dissented strongly from the ruling in June, was hard to read, challenging the lawyers on both sides.

"It is troubling," he said, to let 50 states "trump" the authority of federal agents by applying their criminal laws.

Judge Pamela Rymer, also of Pasadena, said Horiuchi could not be prosecuted if he had a "reasonable belief" that the shooting was necessary to protect federal officers who were in danger.

Clark responded that the facts did not support any such belief, and much of the oral argument session was devoted to questions and answers about circumstances surrounding the shooting.

There is no deadline for the court's decision.

Every prosecuted SS Troop under Hitler argued as a defense at the Nuremberg Trial that they were just doing their job and following orders.

Murder is a state's rights issue, and in this case, Idaho's rights. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Tenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution.

So one must ask two threshold questions, "Is Idaho prosecution for murder delegated to the United States by the Constitution?" Answer: NO! Next question, "Is Idaho prohibited from prosecuting murder by the U.S. Constitution?" Answer: NO!

Subsequent questions are: Where in the U.S. Constitution does it define the "concepts of official immunity and federal supremacy" as it relates to states' rights? Where in the U.S. Constitution does it define "the freedom of federal agents to act in crises," and how does it define "crises?" And how can the question of "a 'reasonable belief' that the shooting was necessary" be "an objectively reasonable decision?" Isn't that an issue of fact to be tried by a jury? Imagine if anyone else facing a murder trial escaped his trial based upon his argument that he had a "reasonable belief" that his killing was "necessary," and was thus "an objectively reasonable decision." And where is "equal protection under the law?" Are FBI agents above the law, while citizens are liable under the same standard? You be the judge! Is this so complicated that a Federal Court should be involved here at all on "whether it will allow Idaho to prosecute an FBI sharpshooter?"

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Date: Mon Dec 25, 2000 9:08 am
Subject: * Lady Jumps From 9th Fl. Of Courthouse.

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Of Courthouse

Thursday, December 21, 2000

Los Angeles Times

Murder-Suicide From Ledge Kills 3
By LOUIS SAHAGUN, Times Staff Writer

A distraught woman killed her two young daughters by pushing them off a
ninth-floor ledge of the downtown Los Angeles County courthouse Wednesday, then leaped to her own death, Los Angeles police said.

Witnesses said the woman let out a piercing scream before she jumped,
landing in a lighted interior courtyard. Moments earlier, police had received a report of a suicidal woman on top of the building and tried to talk her back inside. One witness told of seeing the woman throw "two objects off the ninth-floor cafeteria balcony. That witness had no idea those objects were actually children," Lt. Horace Frank said.

The tragedy took place at the courthouse at 111 N. Hill St. as the building
emptied for the day at about 5:40 p.m.

Frank would not identify the victims beyond saying that the woman was
African American in her mid-30s and the girls were 6 and 8. The family was believed to have lived in Southwest Los Angeles, he said.

What prompted the woman's actions was not clear, but county officials said she may have reacted to a civil case she attended in the building Wednesday morning with her husband and daughters.
....

Suddenly, "she climbed up on the ledge and jumped, hitting the fourth-floor ledge," Frank said. Officers who rushed to the fourth floor found "two girls who appeared to be lifeless," he said.

The woman, who fell to the ground floor, died at the scene. The girls
suffered traumatic injuries and were in full cardiac arrest when taken to
County-USC Medical Center. They were pronounced dead on arrival, he said.

Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives and Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators were conducting a murder-suicide investigation of the incident that Frank described as "very tragic for many reasons."

"Certainly this is the time of the year for people to be festive and
celebrating," he said. "Now, [this family] has to deal with a situation like
this." *

Article received on Thursday, December 21 2000 from Los Angeles Times

* Obviously, most people will lose the significance of this event, chalking it up as an unstable woman who received an unfavorable ruling in court that day, affirming the soundness in reasoning of the judge. While I cannot address the particulars of this case, I am not ready to quickly dismiss this event as that of just an outright "wacko" woman. The odds are more than likely that this distraught woman, as are many others experiencing injustice in the courts of today, was driven to her action by hopelessness foisted upon her by the judge. It is inestimable just how many people have been driven to suicide and irrational behavior because they could not fathom hope beyond the court's gavel.

Many courts have ruined and destroyed innumerable lives beyond comprehension, either directly or indirectly, to which, if the truth could be comprehended, there would be a national outcry for immediate reform! Only because the public is diluted with the idea that the underdog just could not deal with the justice meted out, that they do irrational things, that keeps the judicial system, particularly family law, afloat. They cannot imagine that the courts could really be so corrupt as to ruin good honest and just people. No, not in America, after all, we are guaranteed "Liberty and Justice for All!"

Until America wakes up to the real facts of our judicial system, the evils of this system will continue until it hits them. Then they will scream, "How can this be?" and they may feel like committing suicide due to hopelessness. Wake Up AMERICA, J.A.I.L. is the ONLY Answer America will know!

J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
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Date: Thu Dec 28, 2000 3:05 am
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Here is a new participant for JAIL egroups. -Ron-

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Ron, what I want is to be able to input my ideas into the group and read the
other peoples' ideas that they input into the group.
How can I learn if there are any JAIL members in Newport News VA? Den.

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>Dennise, you are already a part of our JAIL email. The egroups will only
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Date: Wed Jan 3, 2001 2:10 am
Subject: * Three Strikes For Judges

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THREE STRIKES FOR JUDGES

JAIL has just received the current edition of "Ecobyte" January 2001, Volume 4, Number 1, out of San Anselmo, California 94979. On page 14 are two articles: Three Strikes for Law-Breaking Judges, and J.A.I.L. Update. If the former title sounds familiar to you, it is. It is a reprint of the article written by Peter Blumberg in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the largest legal newspaper in the country. For the benefit of those who have not had the opportunity of seeing the former article, we are below giving an edited version.

THREE STRIKES FOR LAW-BREAKING JUDGES PROPOSED

(Reprinted with permission)

.... You've heard of the "Three Strikes You're Out" law? The Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.) is Branson's version of "three strikes" for judges allowing special nonlawyer tribunals to criminally sanction and permanently remove jurists who repeatedly break the law...

..."This will become the hottest initiative in time that ever happened in the History of California."

The state's judicial establishment isn't exactly holding its breath.

"We're not going to be lying awake worrying about this," said Constance Dove, Executive Director of the California Judges Association. "I think the voters have more sense than that."

It was only five years ago that [California] voters strengthened public oversight of judges with Proposition 190, which revamped the Commission on Judicial Performance. ... [We wonder what motivated the voters to do that.]

... J.A.I.L. will go quite a bit further-- further, in fact, than any judicial watchdog agency in the nation.

It would eliminate the broad civil liability immunity that jurists currently enjoy and would establish three statewide 25-member grand juries empowered to investigate, indict and, through a special trial jury, sentence judges for criminal misconduct. The grand jurors could dismiss frivolous complaints, but would also have authority to remove any judge from office who receives three adverse immunity decisions.

To finance the $17 million that the Secretary of State estimates the grand juries would cost, Branson has proposed deducting 2-1/2 percent from the gross annual payroll of all the state's judges, magistrates and commissioners.

Branson said the independence of the grand jurors-- citizens over 30 years old chosen by lottery from the state's voter rolls (excluding all members of the State Bar, public officials and law enforcement personnel)-- will insure both tougher scrutiny and impartial judging of the judges.

... "The Jurors shall keep in mind, in making their decisions, that they are entrusted by the People of this State with the duty of restoring a perception of justice and accountability of the judiciary, and are not to be swayed by artful presentation by the judge," it states. "They shall avoid all influence by judicial and government entities."

Branson's own run-ins with the law-- including 13 cases he has unsuccessfully pursued all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court-- have consumed thousands of hours of his time, but he complains that California's highest elected officials have ignored his calls for reform.

... The opposing lawyers in Branson's parking ticket case could not be reached Tuesday, but his secretary seemed unfazed to hear about Branson's J.A.I.L. campaign. "Oh, he never stops," she said. [Yes, she is right, we shall never give up!]

Branson's partners in the initiative campaign include Costa Mesa attorney Phillip Putman and Newhall sole practitioner Gary Zerman, both of whom profess such profound disenchantment with the justice system that they specialize in legal malpractice litigation and are ever closer to dropping out of the Bar altogether.

Putman [stated]... "The state courts have gotten so outrageously vindictive, vigilantist and vituperative toward and parties and attorneys" he said. "I'm about ready to resign. I just refuse to go into the courtroom and allow these jackasses to spew their venom at me, which they do all the time."

Zerman [said] ... "The system is not holding judges accountable."

But as passionately as Branson, Putman and Zerman believe in their cause....

... "I think the internet has made it easier for disgruntled litigants to join forces" said Gerald F. Uelman, professor at Santa Clara School of Law. "This may be a reflection of that, but I don't think there's any grassroots movement that could provide the support needed to qualify an initiative measure."

Besides, Michael Belote, a Sacramento lobbyist for the CJA [Commission on Judicial Performance], said the proposed ballot initiative is patently unconstitutional. [Not to speak of the great embarrassment JAIL is bringing to the CJP, since that agency is charged with the responsibility of maintaining judicial integrity, the failure of which JAIL is exposing.]

"One could almost pick at random every element of the California Constitution and the United States Constitution that this violates," he said. "What about a jury of one's peers, a right of confrontation, the fact that you can't have lawyers or judges on the grand juries?"

The J.A.I.L. proponents fully expect the establishment to fight back-- and that's exactly what they hope for to jump-start their low-budget campaign.

"Once we get them to holler 'ouch,' they've done our advertisement for us," Branson said.

* * *

J.A.I.L. UPDATE

In Congress, JAIL is being proposed as a legislative Bill. Among the states there are two approaches, a Constitutional Amendment by legislation, and the initiative states, as a Constitutional State Initiative. The states are free to file or refile repeatedly at will. California is now between initiatives and will have to refile.

The drawback for JAIL at this time is lack of funding. JAIL hopes to catch the eye of financial backers. All of the JAIL Chapters will file and refile or labor until the necessary funds are received to get JAIL passed. By getting JAIL passed in just one state will start the domino effect until it's passed throughout the nation.

JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603.

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Our thanks to Jo Ann Fawcett, Editor

Ecobyte: P.O. Box 2523, San Anselmo, CA 94979

(415) 259-0118; Fax: (415) 259-0120

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J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed: add-remove-jail@...
All E-Groups are encouraged to sign on at jail4judges@egroups.com
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com

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Date: Mon Jan 8, 2001 3:30 am
Subject: * Growing Use Of Private Judges

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Growing Use Of Private Judges

Tuesday, December 26, 2000

Growing Use of Private Judges Raises Questions of Fairness
Court: The system was designed to speed up civil suits. But the hefty fees hurt poor litigants, critics say.

By TED ROHRLICH, Times Staff Writer

     Edgar L. Rushing paid his share of taxes to finance California's public courts. But when he needed those courts, they were not there for him.
     An ultrasound technician, Rushing was suing the Lancaster clinic where he worked, charging racial discrimination and wrongful termination. He had hired an attorney, signing a customary agreement to pay her 40% of whatever he won and reimburse her for costs she would advance for expert witnesses and the like.
     Then the judge to whom his lawsuit was assigned announced those costs were going to go way up. Superior Court Judge Victor E. Chavez said he didn't have time to hear all aspects of Rushing's case. If Rushing wanted his day in court, he'd have to have part of his case shifted from the public courts to a private judge--and split the private judge's $275-an-hour fee with the multimillion-dollar clinic he was suing.
     Private judging is a big business nationally, but nowhere more so than in California, where more than 500 former public judges, including six former justices of the state Supreme Court, are listed in directories as seeking private judging assignments. California's public judges have transferred thousands of cases to private judges in recent years over the objections of litigants, some of whom, like Rushing, have said they cannot afford to pay. The transfers are made only for the discovery phases of lawsuits, during which judges make critical determinations about what information each side must disclose. In those instances, private judges recommend rulings to public judges and frequently rack up bills of tens of thousands of dollars.
     "We are moving away from a truly free public court system that I used to think was a basic part of our constitutional form of government," said Robert Hinerfeld, a business litigator with the politically active Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips.
     Private judging began to develop as an industry more than 20 years ago as an alternative to crowded public courts such as those in Los Angeles, where it took five years for a civil lawsuit to reach trial. Although cases now get to trial in only one or two years, resolving disputes in private forums remains an attractive, efficient alternative for many litigants. They hire former judges, lawyers or other experts to preside at mediations, arbitrations or even full-fledged private trials.
     Critics assail the private forums as justice for the rich. Going rates for private judges range from $250 to $600 per hour.
     Sending discovery disputes in public cases to private judges gives Superior Court judges several advantages. They can shunt off disputes that are generally regarded as tedious scut work, help former colleagues financially and encourage the private judging industry, which some of them may someday want to join.
     Appellate courts have tried repeatedly to rein them in, ruling that some judges have been too quick to put their own interests ahead of the public's. Appellate courts have held that the law allows Superior Court judges to refer only exceptionally complicated, time-consuming discovery disputes to private judges and that public judges cannot put hard-pressed litigants such as Rushing in the position of perhaps giving up their day in court because they cannot afford to pay.
     In unusual displays of resistance, however, some Superior Court judges have balked at following those legally binding rulings. Appeals courts have found it necessary to restate them--as they did in Rushing's case, with evident dismay. "In the three years since [an earlier ruling]," an appellate panel noted in his case, "our colleagues' plea for vigilance has been generally ignored."

     System Started Changing in 1981
     Until 1981, resolving discovery disputes was an inescapable part of the job of being a public judge. It was, therefore, free.
     Then, about the same time the private judging industry was taking off, the California Judges Assn. said public court judges were too busy to handle all discovery disputes. The association asked the Legislature to empower it to refer the quarrels to private judges when it was "necessary" and when it could be done in a way that was "fair and reasonable" financially.
     The new law created a "very tempting practice, because no judges like to deal with discovery disputes," said Craig Riemer, president of the Riverside County Bar Assn.
     It also created a tactical advantage for wealthy litigants. Bruce Brusavich, a former president of the Consumer Attorneys Assn. of Los Angeles, said that corporate defendants, in particular, learned that just by objecting, defendants could make it "very, very expensive for the plaintiff to get the information."
     As referrals of discovery disputes to private judges accelerated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, lawyers complained about the expenses and about the tendency of some judges to throw work to private judges who were their friends.
     Robert W. Parkin, who served as Los Angeles County's presiding Superior Court judge in 1997 and 1998 and is now a private judge, said he was helpless to do anything about those cronyism allegations because no lawyers would tell him which judges they were talking about. They said they were afraid of retaliation, he said.
     Some judges also ignored the California court rule that required them to let lawyers have a say in which private judges were assigned. Lawyer Hinerfeld was given no chance to suggest a name when he was representing a secretary suing a large corporation for wrongful discharge. "We were told, 'This is where you go,' " he said.
     Hinerfeld said he was directed to hire retired Superior Court Judge Henry P. Nelson, once rated by the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. as unqualified to serve on the public bench. He said the experience was "about as bad as I've ever heard or seen."
     Nelson charged $275 per hour for his time in California and $375 per hour for his time out of state, running up a $60,000 bill by insisting, over the objections of both sides, that he attend at least 15 out-of-state depositions, Hinerfeld told a state hearing panel. He said Nelson also improperly met privately with defense representatives, then made a suggestion to the judge who appointed him that would have crippled the plaintiff's case.
     Nelson did not respond to requests for comment.

     First Appellate Ruling in 1993
     The first appellate attempt to rein in such practices came in 1993. Three elderly women, represented by volunteer attorneys, had been ordered to hire a private judge to resolve a discovery dispute in their lawsuit against a business. They said the business had tried to trick them and other seniors into signing with it for medical care.
     Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John H. Major appointed former appellate court Justice L. Thaxton Hanson as the private judge. The women objected, saying they could not afford to pay Hanson's $300-per-hour fees. But Major said: "Fees are not going to be waived. If you are going to litigate, you are going to pay."
     The women appealed, arguing that such high fees would effectively deny them access to court. They already had been formally declared paupers--which meant that even administrative fees, such as the $192 it costs to file even the most complex lawsuit--had been waived in their case. How could the same court system that declared them paupers justify ordering them to pay hundreds of dollars per hour in private judge fees?
     The Court of Appeal ruled that it could not. The appeals court said trial courts cannot impose fees for private judges on paupers and should try to avoid imposing them on people "of modest means."
     "The justice system not only must be fair to all litigants," said an opinion by Justice Joan D. Klein, "it must also appear to be so. The increasingly common practice of referring discovery matters, without regard to the financial burdens imposed on litigants, threatens to undermine both of these goals."
     Other appeals panels ruled similarly. Then came the ruling in Rushing's lawsuit.
     He contended that a boss told him it did not look good to have an African American man such as Rushing performing intimate examinations on white women. The boss later fired Rushing, who had spent a year training for his $13.50 per hour job, and Rushing said he fell into unemployment and despair.
     Lawyers representing the clinic had asked Superior Court Judge Chavez to name a discovery referee and, over Rushing's objection, Chavez named Nelson.
     Chavez said in an interview that he decided to bring in a private judge because the attorneys "were having a great deal of trouble getting along." He said he chose Nelson because he believed him to be a fair-minded jurist who had been mislabeled by the bar association for "political" reasons that Chavez declined to articulate. Chavez said he was drawn to Nelson because Nelson, like Rushing and Rushing's lawyer, is an African American. Chavez said he thought that, given the racial accusation at the heart of the case, a common heritage might make Rushing and his lawyer more "comfortable."
     He said he did not recall being aware of the court rule that required litigants to be given a say in the identity of the private judge. But he said he had no ulterior motives, noting that he neither socialized with Nelson nor had any desire to become a private judge himself.
     Nelson attended all depositions, driving up costs, Rushing's lawyer said. His bill was $42,000, but he later acknowledged that it should actually have been only $30,000 because he had double-billed 11 times. His secretary said in a court declaration that the double bills were her fault.
     When Rushing settled his case with the clinic, his former employers agreed to pay him $210,000. But Rushing did not pay Nelson, and Chavez ordered Rushing's attorney, Shelly D. McMillan, to pay instead.
     She appealed, citing legal language that says that only "the parties" to a lawsuit, not their attorneys, can be held liable.
     The Court of Appeal agreed with her, finding that she was not responsible for the debt and that, because of errors made by Chavez, neither was Rushing.
     The Court of Appeal took the opportunity to blast private judges in general, declaring that they are part of a separate system of private civil justice for the well-to-do and, in this instance, were being used by the Legislature to avoid dealing with a need for more public judges.
     "Litigants are [being] given the privilege of paying twice--first through taxation, then again through a user's fee disguised as payment for a referee. . . . ," wrote Justice Miriam A. Vogel in an opinion in which Justices Reuben A. Ortega and William A. Masterson concurred. Declaring that the Legislature should act, she wrote, "To leave things as they are is to slam the courthouse doors in the face of the poor."
     Private judges objected to the ruling. Calling it "a polemic against private judging," six of them, including retired California Supreme Court Justice David N. Eagleson, wrote to the California Supreme Court, asking it to keep other courts from having to treat the Rushing decision as binding precedent. Without explanation, the Supreme Court agreed.

     Legislature Enacts Some Limitations
     Use of private judges in discovery matters continued.
     Last year, Marcus M. Hood, a 71-year-old Los Angeles attorney representing himself, was ordered to split the costs of a private judge with a department store chain he was suing.
     Hood filed a sworn statement that he could not afford to pay. But Superior Court Judge Ann Kough refused, without explanation, to take his word for it.
     Hood speculated that other litigants, without his legal knowledge, might have given up at that stage.
     Instead, Hood prepared his own appeal, citing all of the appellate rulings that had gone before.
     His case was assigned to Justice Vogel, who criticized Kough both for not explaining her decision and for insisting that a "quite ordinary" dispute be resolved by a private judge. "Any judge could resolve this discovery 'dispute' in about five minutes," Vogel wrote. Kough, through a court spokesman, declined to comment, noting that Hood's lawsuit is still pending.
     Faced with such evidence that some Superior Court judges were not complying with appellate rulings, leaders of the state's judiciary finally turned for help to the two other branches of California's government.
     California Chief Justice Ronald M. George had appointed a committee that included Vogel as well as some private judges to look into private judging in general. Its main recommendation was to try to rein in the use of private judges in discovery disputes.
     This year, at the request of the policymaking arm of the state Supreme Court, the Legislature passed and the governor signed a statute that will continue to allow public judges to refer discovery disputes to private judges over the objections of litigants.
     But it will incorporate the limitations that appellate courts tried to impose.
     The burden will be on litigants to prove they cannot afford to pay.
     Opinions are split on the extent to which it will prompt trial judges to slow down.
     H. Jay Folberg, dean of the University of San Francisco law school and chairman of the panel that recommended it, was optimistic. "I believe this should effectively resolve most of the concerns," he said.
     But one of his colleagues on the same panel, Santa Clara University law professor Gerald Uelmen, predicted: "The problem is still going to be overuse."

J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed: add-remove-jail@...
All E-Groups are encouraged to sign on at jail4judges@egroups.com
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
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Date: Tue Jan 9, 2001 9:27 am
Subject: * Federal Judges Starving - Need More Money

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Federal Judges Starving,

Need More Money

WashingtonPost.com

Full Court Press
Rehnquist Raises the Flag: Pay Judges More

By Charles Lane
Monday, January 8, 2001; Page A17

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has a message for Congress: The historic lawsuits that decided the 2000 presidential election tested this country's constitutional system as never before. Now, what about a raise for America's federal judges?

Rehnquist's annual report on the federal judiciary, published New Year's Day, began with the rueful observation that the election embroiled courts from Florida to the U.S. Supreme Court "in a way that one hopes will seldom, if ever, be necessary in the future."

He proceeded to an extended discussion of lagging judicial pay, a long-standing concern of the chief justice that he now calls "the most pressing issue facing" the federal courts.

Unless Congress gives judges an immediate 9.6 percent raise to make up for inflation, makes future inflation adjustments automatic and abolishes the provision in current law that ties judicial raises to increases in congressional and executive branch pay, the federal courts will lag too far behind private-sector pay and could face a debilitating loss of talent, Rehnquist contended.

"[W]e are facing a critical moment for judicial compensation," he wrote.

The chief justice's call for legislation directly boosting judicial salaries comes after the failure of a different approach to boosting judges' earning power that he supported last year. Rehnquist backed a bill, sponsored by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), that would have repealed a 1989 ban on judges' accepting outside honoraria for speaking engagements.

That provision died amid charges from Democrats and Republicans –– and some federal judges –– that the proposal had been hidden inside a little-debated appropriations bill and that, if approved, it would create an appearance that judges could be unduly influenced by the groups that paid them to speak.

Rehnquist briefly defended the proposal in his report, noting that "any honoraria would be governed by the strict standards of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges." However, he emphasized his desire to "work together" with Congress to raise judicial pay directly.

....

Charles Lane's e-mail address is lanec@...

� 2001 The Washington Post Company

J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed: add-remove-jail@...
All E-Groups are encouraged to sign on at jail4judges@egroups.com
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams

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Date: Sun Jan 14, 2001 8:48 am
Subject: The Shocking Epistle Of One, B. Lokey

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The Shocking Epistle Of One,

B. Lokey

Ron,

....

[A]ll government officials need to and must be put on a leash (in a J.A.I.L.-like manner), from the top all the way to the bottom. It is why law exists. Ideally, law is designed as a leash on every individual, to keep free folks free. It is a paradox that a free individual must be leashed. Nonetheless, this can and may be reasonably accomplished. Most individuals are leashed by their own sense of right and wrong. But others require the rule of law. Why is it against the law to drive 200 miles per hour on the freeways, for example? Why is it against the law to kill one's enemy? Don't people know any better? There are all manner of restraints on free individuals that are justified.

If the people are restrained by law, and they are, why should individuals in government who work for the people be suffered to exist above the law, with no restraint except what they may generate themselves, if any? How may a wolf censure another wolf for eating too many hens that neither are supposed to be eating in the first place? The hen must be put in the driver's seat here, not the wolf.

Who or what restrains government excesses? In 1947, on the day before I was incarcerated for the first time in my life by the government, I was playing in the yard and otherwise being an ordinary seven-year-old, as I had done all my previous life. I was as happy as I could be (though dirt-poor), as docile as a lamb, timid and shy to a fault, even more so than most of the other kids, and I had not the slightest comprehension about legality or principles of right or wrong. I made straight A's in school. It would have crushed me to lose a spelling quiz or other such contest at school. I was proud of my straight "A" report cards. I competed with the best at school and came out on top most of the time. This was in days gone by, when one did the work or failed. There was no such thing as fuzzy math. Math questions had only two kinds of answer: right or wrong. Except for being excessively bright (I taught myself to read before I was four) I was a typical seven-year-old, with the same hopes and dreams. I wanted to be a scout when I grew up, in Custer's Army.

Suddenly, without preliminary, for reasons I knew anything about, I was in the back of a flatbed truck with a dozen or so other boys headed for where, I knew not. Whomever's job it had been, if such a thing existed, to tell me the why's and wherefore's, failed in the mission. I had no idea where I was going or why. I was simply uprooted, like an onion in a garden, and harvested. To my mind, I was kidnapped by the State of Texas and incarcerated. I still have this mind. I still don't know the why's of it, if any there were.

My memory of events during that time is as vivid as this morning's breakfast because the trauma of that kidnap was so consuming that it burned its way into my cortical framework like a firebrand on a calf, never to be forgotten, never to be outgrown. I was physically branded later with a heavy leather strap. I don't tell any of this to solicit sympathy for myself, but to alert people to the truth of government without restraints and the reasons why rigidly enforced constitutional directives are necessary in a free society. The United States Constitution was not designed to constrain any citizen. It was designed as a bulwark between the citizen and the government, to constrain the government and protect the citizen from government excesses and abuse of the very brand that I know so well, said excess and abuse that always follow unchecked government power and authority, always, never failing.

In this little story, my problems at the time are not the subject, however. I write about the pain of others this time, a situation that confronts us when government is absolute and totalitarian with no checks and balances, as the case has been every day of my life. Except to hear government-regulated news agencies such as CNN, ABC, CBS or NBC telling it, Americans have not yet attained a modicum of the freedoms that the founders intended. That day is still in the distant future. I am the living witness, along with many others who can attest.

After I had been imprisoned for a while in 1947, I was wandering around near the gym one day. A door was ajar and I walked over to push it open. I heard terrible sobbing and thrashing noises inside. Curious, I peeked in. What I saw frightened me half to death, made me want to flee screaming in terror. I wanted to turn and run more than I had wanted to do anything before, but I was pulled in as though I was in the grip of a powerful tractor force, urging me forward with unbreakable bonds. At seven, I had never witnessed this manner of torture before.

A boy lay on the floor just in front of the door. He was gagging and puking, crying and begging for help. He looked up at me with eyes that are emblazoned into my consciousness forevermore. He was scared to death and in serious physical pain. His agony permeated me like a cloudburst on a cold day, or a dash of ice water in the face after rising from a hot bath. I was bathed in terror and soaked to the marrow of my bones.

The boy embraced my legs and tried to rise, begging me to help him. I attempted to back away. I couldn't move. I could only stare at the rest of the tableau, wishing that I was anywhere but here. There were about ten or fifteen officials in the gym with about five or six boys ranging in age from nine to twelve or so. A five gallon bucket of milk sat at one end of the gym, with a ladle inside. Several cartons of cigarettes were stacked beside the bucket.

A couple of officials were unpacking the cigarettes and crumbling them into the warm milk. Another was stirring the bucket with the ladle. Still others were situated at intervals around the gym, each holding several packets of cigarettes. Some officials were holding leather straps, huge, ugly things--saddle cinches of the nature that I was beaten with from time to time. They knocked big blood blisters on me when they hit and tore the flesh in pieces. I knew at least this much of what the boys were suffering.

Each boy was stripped to his shorts and ran in circles around the gym. When the boy arrived at the end of the gauntlet, where the bucket of warm milk was (with cigarettes ground up and stirred in), the ladle was held to his face and he was made to drink. Then he ran the gauntlet again. I don't know how long this had been going on before I arrived. But it continued for what , to my mind, seemed hours.

When the boy left the milk bucket to trek around the gauntlet again he was struck with the saddle cinches as he passed, two in the gauntlet, one on either side of the gym. When they were struck it knocked some of the boys down, others slipped and fell in the puke. None made it without falling down hundreds of times. It was a real nightmare. The saddle cinch struck anywhere it would. Then the boy stopped at the next interval to take several cigarettes, which he was forced to ingest on the spot. Then he ran to the next interval, where he was striped again with the belt. Then he ingested cigarettes again, then he was back at the bucket, drinking of the warm milk and cigarettes. It was a real horror show. It was my government, unrestrained, in action.

The boys ran around and around the gym, stumbling, falling, crying in pain and fear, begging for surcease, gagging on the ingested cigarettes, slobbering, puking, howling in pain and fright.

But a couple of them suffered in silence, as though this was a ritual of manhood. The only thing that betrayed their distress was when they slipped and fell in the puke that was all over the gym floor, couldn't get back up, and lay retching and gagging. It was a ritual of manhood, for sure, which not a single official present could have endured any differently. Some boys grew up fast in this place. I was one of them.

For me it was a waking nightmare. I don't know why I was allowed in the gym at that moment, as nobody else was allowed in except those directly involved. Evidently the boys had been caught stealing cigarettes and smoking them. I had been told that this would happen to me if I was ever caught smoking cigarettes. I had not believed it. I thought it was too horrible to believe. I thought it was a lie the boys made up. One could say that the reality of it caved in on me and made me believe. I was a true believer when I left the gym that day. In fact, I didn't have to believe. I knew for certain it was true.

Many years later a four year old boy, who was sitting in my lap, looked up at me very seriously and asked, "Is thew mongstews?" He was afraid of monsters and he was asking me if they really existed. I was hard-put not to say, "Yes, precious, monsters do exist. However, these are men in the world with too much arbitrary police power, not the kind of monsters you would like to believe in. The monsters you would like to believe in do not exist at all. They are only phantoms in your own little boy's fertile imagination." How could I answer the boy? How could I tell him the truth, and also assure him that monsters do not exist? When I was three years older than he was I was living and witnessing the spectacle of monsters full blown.

One of the officials saw me and came over to me. I was too numb to run away or care what he might do to me. I was transfixed with fear, loathing and revulsion. I had already learned how to hate and this moment sealed that knowledge with a special signet. For all I could know, I may be next. I was there, wasn't I? And so I stood, looking down at the boy still embracing my lower legs, begging me to help. How could I help? I was a victim too. What could I do but watch? The boy was covered in puke, cigarette debris, sweat, blood and tears, cowering like a dog at my knees. His entire body, semi-nude, was red and welted from the saddle cinch straps, with an oozing cut or scrape here and there.

I knew the boy well. We were close friends. We had played together. We all called him "One-eye." for the fact that one eye was glass. The glass eye drooled with a snotty, pusy opacity, glaring at me with a weird, painless objectivity contrasted against the good eye through which I beheld the bloody,

fear-emaciated soul of my friend, One-eye. The glass eye possessed a coldness that I had never noticed before. In the boy's mind he must have thought he was being murdered. I thought he was too.

The official pulled One-eye away from me and threw him up against the wall, demanding that he run. Then he turned to me and put an arm around me, as though caressing me with kindness.

"This is what happens to boys who steal cigarettes and then smoke them," he confided. "You don't ever want to steal cigarettes. Do you now?"

I shook my head from side to side, "No sir." I wanted to kill him. At the age of seven I wanted to kill a man. This is what government run amok can do to a boy. It can ignite fires of revolution in the spirit, fires as hot as the sun, a consuming flame that will never die. Over fifty years have passed and those fires have not abated. Indeed, they are hotter today. They have gone from red-hot to white-hot. I am older and wiser. I have lived several lifetimes since then and I know things that I did not know in 1947.

My first encounter with absolute government authority ignited fires of belligerence in my head as hot as the sun. They won't die as long as I have a brain. I intend to see government reigned in and leashed, whatever the cost. I conceive it to be the very reason for my birth.

"What can you do about it?" might come the refrain.

To this I say, "Watch."

Absolute individual sovereignty realized is an awesome thing to behold, even in a single man. When that great day comes (the final stud in the leash on government), I'll take a bow and say, "Here it is." And my life will be fulfilled.

It's coming. Watch for it.

Lokey

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Date: Sun Jan 14, 2001 9:25 am
Subject: * Fed. Ct. To Determine SSN Challenge

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Federal Court To Determine

Social Security Challenge

Suit claims invasion of privacy
State official wants to protect Social Security numbers

By Charlie Cain / News Lansing Bureau Chief

What's next
   * U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell will schedule a hearing on Michigan's suit.
   * The state could lose about $1 billion annually from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for not following the new law.
   * Secretary of State Candice Miller predicts the state will prevail -- or comply with the law before losing federal funds.

   LANSING -- Secretary of State Candice Miller Thursday sued the federal government to block a new law that would force Michigan to collect Social Security numbers from nearly 7 million motorists, which she calls a privacy invasion.
   "I feel very strongly that the role of government should be to protect your personal privacy, not to be invading (it). No wonder people are afraid and they talk about Big Brother watching them," Miller said shortly after a suit was filed on her behalf in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
   At issue is a provision in federal law that took effect Oct. 1, requiring states to gather Social Security numbers from applicants seeking or renewing driver's licenses. It's a little-noted portion of the 1997 welfare reform act, designed to help recover overdue child support from deadbeat parents.
   Miller said Michigan already does better than most states in collecting support payments. And she feels that creating another database with Social Security numbers could add to the growing crime of identify theft.
   Pam Carter, a Washington spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said she couldn't comment in detail on the suit beyond noting that Michigan is the only state not complying.
   An exemption request was rejected twice.
   Michigan faces the potential loss of about $1 billion annually for disobedience, though no federal grants would not be withheld while the case is pending. If she loses in court, Miller said, she'd comply to avoid the financial loss.
   No hearing date has been set.
   Michigan's suit argues the exemption should be granted because the law violates the U.S. and state constitutional guarantees against invasion of privacy; represents an unfunded federal mandate; and violates the 10th Amendment by requiring a state to administer a federal regulatory program.
   Miller said the IRS already maintains Social Security numbers and would be the ideal agency to concern itself with collecting support payments. *

You can reach Charlie Cain at (517) 371-3660 or ccain@....

* The Bible predicted 2000 years ago that every man, woman and child would be numbered. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16,18.

It is anticipated that a small computer chip the size of a grain of rice will be forced to be implanted into every person at the penalty of death. That a world-wide internet type trade will be the only way of buying and selling by passing one's computer chip under a sensor, and while it will prosper business, it is necessary to accept worship of demonic influence in order to participate therein. "If any man ... receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured our without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the hold angels..." Rev. 14: 9, 10. Can anyone question that the SSN is the forerunner of this universal numbering system to be set up by the government? This numbering system will only come about by the endorsement of the judicial system, which will be its impetus.

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Date: Mon Jan 15, 2001 1:06 am
Subject: J.A.I.L. Night tonight with Host Allen Raymond

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J.A.I.L. Night Tonight!

This evening (Sunday 14th) at 8:30 p.m. PST our Georgia State J.A.I.L. Representative, Capt. Dennis M. Hatcher, along with his Georgia Associate, Ms. Carla, will be guests on JAIL Night with Allen Raymond, the host. Capt. Hatcher is a very interesting gentleman and he has a lot to share with America. He is inspiring a great host of people, and is planning a large January 23rd demonstration.

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Date: Mon Jan 15, 2001 7:26 am
Subject: WA. Rep. Kathy Lambert Seeks support of SSN Challenge

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To All JAIL Readers and Subscribers:

Before me is a response from Washington State Representative Kathy Lambert to our Jan. 14th JAIL News Journal about Michigan's challenge of the Federal Government's forced requirement of the states to use the Social Security Number for identification as it pertains to the driver's license.

I had the opportunity of personally meeting Rep. Kathy Lambert while visiting Washington State when Brad Goodspeed (WA. J.A.I.L.)sponsored us up to Washington for their August, 2000 JAIL BBQ and fundraiser.

Rep. Lambert has indicated that she would like to see Washington State also join in the Social Security Number challenge of the Federal Government. Read her response below. Let's all write Rep. Kathy Lambert and encourage her and show our support, not only for Washington State, but also for our own respective states.

-Ron Branson-

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From: Kathy Lambert

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Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 1:18 PM

Subject: RE: Fed. Ct. To Determine SSN Challenge

This is great! I want Washington [State] to join in and show the same courage. ... Thank you.

Rep. Kathy Lambert,

Washington State Representative

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J.A.I.L. News Journal
Los Angeles - January 14, 2001
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Federal Court To Determine

Social Security Challenge

Suit claims invasion of privacy
State official wants to protect Social Security numbers
By Charlie Cain / News Lansing Bureau Chief

What's next
   * U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell will schedule a hearing on Michigan's suit.
   * The state could lose about $1 billion annually from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for not following the new law.
   * Secretary of State Candice Miller predicts the state will prevail -- or comply with the law before losing federal funds.

   LANSING -- Secretary of State Candice Miller Thursday sued the federal government to block a new law that would force Michigan to collect Social Security numbers from nearly 7 million motorists, which she calls a privacy invasion.
   "I feel very strongly that the role of government should be to protect your personal privacy, not to be invading (it). No wonder people are afraid and they talk about Big Brother watching them," Miller said shortly after a suit was filed on her behalf in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
   At issue is a provision in federal law that took effect Oct. 1, requiring states to gather Social Security numbers from applicants seeking or renewing driver's licenses. It's a little-noted portion of the 1997 welfare reform act, designed to help recover overdue child support from deadbeat parents.
   Miller said Michigan already does better than most states in collecting support payments. And she feels that creating another database with Social Security numbers could add to the growing crime of identify theft.
   Pam Carter, a Washington spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said she couldn't comment in detail on the suit beyond noting that Michigan is the only state not complying.
   An exemption request was rejected twice.
   Michigan faces the potential loss of about $1 billion annually for disobedience, though no federal grants would not be withheld while the case is pending. If she loses in court, Miller said, she'd comply to avoid the financial loss.
   No hearing date has been set.
   Michigan's suit argues the exemption should be granted because the law violates the U.S. and state constitutional guarantees against invasion of privacy; represents an unfunded federal mandate; and violates the 10th Amendment by requiring a state to administer a federal regulatory program.
   Miller said the IRS already maintains Social Security numbers and would be the ideal agency to concern itself with collecting support payments. *


You can reach Charlie Cain at (517) 371-3660 or ccain@....

Copyright 2001 The Detroit News.

* The Bible predicted 2000 years ago that every man, woman and child would be numbered. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16,18.

It is anticipated that a small computer chip the size of a grain of rice will be forced to be implanted into every person at the penalty of death. That a world-wide internet type trade will be the only way of buying and selling by passing one's computer chip under a sensor, and while it will prosper business, it is necessary to accept worship of demonic influence in order to participate therein. "If any man ... receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured our without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the hold angels..." Rev. 14: 9, 10. Can anyone question that the SSN is the forerunner of this universal numbering system to be set up by the government? This numbering system will only come about by the endorsement of the judicial system, which will be its impetus.

J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed: add-remove-jail@...
All E-Groups are encouraged to sign on at jail4judges@egroups.com
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams

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From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Wed Jan 17, 2001 2:55 am
Subject: * God's On The Federal Bench

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Los Angeles - January 3, 2001
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Saturday, January 6, 2001

Consultant in Contempt for LAPD Leak

By DAVID ROSENZWEIG, Times Staff Writer

     A legal consultant who defied a judge's protective order and leaked confidential LAPD personnel records to a television reporter was found in criminal contempt Friday by a Los Angeles federal judge.
     "You can't cherry-pick the American system of justice," said U.S. District Judge William Keller,* shaking his finger at self-described whistle-blower Robert Mullally.
     Mullally, 57, of Scottsdale, Ariz., faces as much as six months in prison when he is sentenced March 27.
     He admitted leaking the records to former KCBS-TV investigative reporter Harvey Levin for a 1997 expose that accused the LAPD of ignoring domestic violence complaints against its own officers.
     Levin's two-part series triggered a probe by the LAPD's inspector general, who recommend sweeping changes in how the department handles domestic violence cases.
     The report found that members of the force who battered their spouses were rarely prosecuted and often faced only light in-house discipline.
     Mullally had obtained the files on 79 officers while working as a consultant to attorney Gregory Yates, a specialist in police abuse cases.
     In 1996, a federal magistrate ordered the department to turn over the records to Yates in connection with a damage suit that he brought after a police officer murdered his estranged wife and boyfriend and then shot himself to death. The officer had a history of domestic violence known to his superiors. Yates sued the Police Department.
     At the city's request, the magistrate issued a protective order mandating that information from the files could be used only in connection with the suit and could not be disclosed until trial.
     Mullally, who had worked as a consultant on other police malpractice cases, set about analyzing how the LAPD handled domestic violence complaints against the 79 officers. He found that, despite overwhelming evidence of abuse, many officers were given nothing more than wrist slaps.
     The city settled the suit with Yates the next year for $1.5 million, dashing Mullally's hopes that the problem would be exposed publicly.
     That's when he says he decided to take the files to KCBS' Levin.
     Mullally acknowledged his role only after the city attorney's office filed a complaint with the state bar, accusing Yates of leaking the documents.
....

     Mullally did not testify during the daylong hearing. One of his attorneys, James Weinstein, a law professor at Arizona State University, argued that Mullally had a 1st Amendment right to publicize the contents of the personnel files because they contained information of criminal wrongdoing that was being covered up by the police.
     Co-counsel James LeBow contended that Mullally should not be held in contempt because the protective order expired when the lawsuit was settled.
     Keller rejected both arguments. To ignore Mullally's defiance of the protective order would "inflict a serious wound" on the judicial system, Keller said.
     Speaking to reporters after his conviction, Mullally said, "I am willing to take my punishment. What's really disturbing to me is that to this day neither the judge nor the U.S. attorney has looked at the underlying evidence and decided, 'Maybe we should be investigating this domestic abuse that's going on inside the LAPD.' "

....

* I personally know Federal Judge William H. Keller, and have had opportunity of making him a plaintiff in one of my lawsuits. His name was drawn again in another Federal case brought by me, of which he thereafter removed himself and the case transferred to another Federal judge.

William Keller once served as the U.S. Attorney for seven counties in Central California, centered in Los Angeles and the publicity of him as a pro-government Federal Judge is not lacking. He loves police action and even joked about it in his courtroom.

He once went after Attorney Stephen Yagman for merely expressing his opinion outside in front of the courthouse that Keller was "perhaps the worst Judge on the Federal Bench." Even Channel 2, CBS commentator Michael Tuck exposed Judge Keller as thinking and acting like he was God. His commentary title was, "It Is Great To Be A King," and posed the idea that better than being a king was to be a Federal Judge.

One would be hard put to find any private attorney who would be pleased with drawing William Keller on their Federal case. I was once asked by an attorney who the Federal Judge was on my case. When I said, "William Keller," instantly the attorney retorted, "Oh, that's too bad!"

Please notice the paragraph above that reads, "At the city's request, the magistrate issued a protective order mandating that information from the files could be used only in connection with the suit and could not be disclosed until trial."

Note the words, could not be disclosed until... Once a case is disposed of, trial or not, the "until" is satisfied, despite Keller misunderstanding of the English language. "Until" defines a point of conclusion! But that's our secret. Don't tell Judge Keller, as he believes "until" means "never." Remember, he just loves police action. It's time for JAIL4Judges folks!

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JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
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Subject: * Armed Guards At DMV

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Mountain Media, DEC. 8, 2000
THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz

And now ... armed guards at the DMV

Constitutional authority for licensing cars and drivers is pretty tenuous, largely based on early legal sleight-of-hand designed to purposely confuse the excisable professional of "driving" -- hauling passengers or freight for profit on the public roads -- with simple civilian travel.

The image is colorful -- the Slim Pickens "toll booth" scene from the Mel Brooks film "Blazing Saddles" comes to mind -- but there's no record that George Washington had to stop by each state capitol along his route,
signing up for the 18th century equivalent of a "photo ID" and a little
metal plate to hang over his horse's rump, as he moved from Massachusetts through Connecticut, rushing to the defense of New York in 1776 and Philadelphia in 1777.

In fact, drivers' licenses are thinly disguised police ID cards. (Does one forget how to drive when moving across town, or into another state? Then why isn't the license you got in another state the year you graduated from high school still as "good" as the high school diploma you earned that
same year? [or even your marriage license -Ed])

Yet we obligingly buy into the euphemism that the "customers" of the
Department of Motor Vehicles want quick and efficient "service" when we go wait in line to renew these sundry government forms -- as though anyone would be buying this bill of goods, absent the armed and uniformed men who stand ready to handcuff us and impound our valuable vehicles if we're caught without our "papers, please."

Now, some of the peons are apparently growing restless. Nevada Gov.
Kenny Guinn said Monday that state workers fear for their lives because "patrons" at DMV offices are going ballistic when they're told -- after waiting in line for an average of more than an hour -- not only that they're being refused the routine paperwork they've come to pay for, but that their
vehicles are instead going to be impounded for overdue traffic or parking
tickets.

DMV Director Richard Kirkland added that some victims have told his
employees that they will be killed or that they should be looking over
their shoulder when they leave work.

"Some have been grabbed around the throat," he added.

Oh, the humanity!

The governor Monday asked members of the Legislature's Interim Finance
Committee to provide funding for armed guards in the Las Vegas and Reno DMV offices, to keep these unruly peasants in line.

Though it's tempting to suggest they be given MP-40 submachine guns and fancy black uniforms with silver skulls on the collars, the better to help
everyone appreciate the true nature of the transaction being effected, in
fact some better solutions are available:

First, the American system of governance is based on carefully delineated
lines of jurisdiction between the various levels of government -- one of
many safeguards against a vertically integrated, Napoleonic tyranny.

A state motor vehicle office has no more business withholding a state document from an otherwise qualified citizen based on non-payment of local or municipal parking tickets, than the U.S. State Department should be refusing us passports because our chicken coops are alleged to be in violation of some local zoning code.

Yes, local judges have ruled that the state should impound the vehicles
of drivers who ignore local parking tickets. The correct response from Gov. Guinn should be: "The judges have made their ruling; now let them try to enforce it. My guys aren't going to do it, because it's unconstitutional." *

* It is noteworthy here to ask, what are citizens supposed to do when forced to comply with an unconstitutional law. The logical answer should be, "Tak'em to court and mak'em justify the law on Constitutional grounds." But why are we still being harassed by these swarms of officers seeking to eat out our substance? Is it because no one has thought of taking them to court? or is it because the courts are not exercising their duty of overturning these unconstitutional laws? Hmmmm. Let me see...

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Judges' Penalty Box

Benched!

January 14, 2001

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH STAFF REPORTER, Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County's [Illinois] "penalty box" for judges accused of misbehavior is getting crowded.

A sixth Circuit Court judge removed from his courtroom has been ushered into the ever-more-popular suite of offices on the Daley Center's 13th floor where accused judges shuffle paper while awaiting resolution of the charges against them.

Call it whatever you want: "The Penalty Box," the "The Sin Bin," "Camp Muni,"--it's bursting at the seams.

"It's the most I've ever heard of in modern times--it's a lot," laughed "Warden" Jacqueline Cox, presiding judge of Cook County Circuit Court's First Municipal Division (hence the "Camp Muni" nickname).

When Judge George J.W. Smith, under federal indictment, recuperates from heart surgery and reports back to work, "We may eventually have to double up, put another judge in the same office," Cox said.

In the past, judges handling administrative duties while removed from the courtroom were jokingly referred to by fellow judges as being on "The Sun-Times Call." (No, that's not self-promotion--it was a reference to those judges having little to do but twiddle their thumbs and read the newspaper all day.)

One Camp Muni judge who, attending a Blackhawks game with a friend recently, nodded toward the penalty box and said,"I know how they feel."

But Cox said the judges' hands are not that idle. The first municipal division gets 7,000 "pauper's petitions" a year. Those are requests from people seeking to have court costs waived because they are too poor.

Those petitions must be approved by a judge and that's the kind of work these judges can perform. They also can sign off on satisfactions and releases on cases handled in other judges' courtrooms.

"There's always paupers, always satisfactions of judgment--it's not like there's nothing to do," Cox said.

They also can preside over marriage court in the City Hall basement.

Well, all but one of the judges will perform marriages.

Judge Susan McDunn, who is in hot water for refusing to approve adoptions by lesbian couples, has religious convictions that tell her that "only God can sanction marriages," two other judges said.

Attorneys who defend judges at Camp Muni describe the paper-shuffling duties as make-work projects. They'd rather have their clients--who are supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty--stay on the bench. A judge accused of mishandling a criminal case could still hear contract matters and a judge accused of botching a divorce could still sit in Traffic Court, they say.

"The real toll [on a judge] is going to work every day with no meaningful judicial work to do," one attorney said.

Chief Judge Donald O'Connell disagrees.

"I want to make sure that every citizen appearing in a courtroom be confident that the judge before whom they are appearing has no cloud over them," O'Connell said.

And while the work may not be as satisfying and challenging as what they handled before they were pulled from the bench, O'Connell said, "It's better for them to be coming into a courthouse on a daily basis doing whatever Judge Cox asks them to do than to give them a prolonged vacation period where they have nothing to do and continue to collect their salaries."

So, the judges perform the paperwork and talk with each other about how their respective cases are progressing. Generally, their cases progress slowly.

Associate Judge Oliver Spurlock has spent three years in Camp Muni waiting to be tried on charges from the Judicial Inquiry Board that he sexually harassed female prosecutors and court personnel at Criminal Court.

In addition to Spurlock and McDunn, other judges in Camp Muni include:

* The aforementioned Smith. A former prosecutor found "highly qualified" by bar groups, he was indicted on charges of withdrawing $20,000 from his account in three small increments to avoid triggering the notice banks make to the federal government of withdrawals greater than $10,000. The indictment did not mention the charge that sources say Smith's ex-wife made to federal investigators: The $20,000 was to bribe a politician to secure Smith's judgeship.

* Judge Jack Hynes. A highly rated former prosecutor who helped convict police officer Gregory Becker in the shooting of Streetwise vendor Joseph Gould, he is accused of failing to mention on his application to be a judge the fact that appellate courts reversed a few of his convictions because he failed to offer sufficient grounds for excusing black jurors.

* Judge Lambros J. Katrubis. He faces charges he falsely signed a friend's name to his income tax returns, failed to disqualify himself from a case involving his step-daughter, failed to excuse himself from a case involving a friend, and failed to disclose background items on his application to be a judge.

* Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr. The most recent guest at Camp Muni, he is charged with failing to disclose on his application to be a judge the fact his ex-wife had charged him with failing to pay child support. He also is charged with failing to disclose other debts.

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Date: Sat Jan 20, 2001 8:52 am
Subject: Judicial Anarchy II (Abridged)

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Judicial Anarchy -- Part II

by Hari Heath

Government, at least that which poses as government in our current age, is a RICO activity. Originally passed to make the criminal activities of mobsters a federal crime, the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act is really a way for "government" to control its' competition. And what a mob our government has become. At the center of it all is the judiciary and the members of their private fraternities, the Bar Associations.
It is, after all, the judicial branch which has the final say on all things in government. All laws are enforced by the judiciary and any challenges to their validity or application are determined by a judicial branch member. All criminal prosecutions and civil matters sail through the courts with a judicial officer at the helm. And in the year 2000, judicial supremacy was taken to a new level as the 9 members of the Supreme Court held their own private election for the next President.
How has our nation fallen into this black hole of judicial anarchy? Through various unconstitutional schemes, the judiciary has collected and expanded the power of government unto themselves, as Thomas Jefferson explained in his 1821 Autobiography:
"Contrary to all correct example, [the Federal judiciary] are in the habit of going out of the question before them, to throw an anchor ahead and grapple further hold for future advances of power. They are then in fact the corps of sappers and miners, steadily working to undermine the independent rights of the States and to consolidate all power in the hands of that government in which they have so important a freehold estate."
And just what kind of anchors has the judiciary thrown ahead for themselves to gather and consolidate their power? By creating the rules they control the proceedings before them. By controlling the attorney's, they control the legal questions which come before them. Through the monopoly of the Bar Associations, those who won't conform are eliminated. With a broad and unfettered "discretion" they have empowered themselves to define just what the law is. By controlling the evidence and the testimony they control the facts. By controlling the jury they control the verdict. With a claim of jurisdiction they can "find" their authority to determine any subject. With a simple dismissal, or a judicially legislated doctrine like "estoppel," or the sealing and blocking of a case, they can prevent any question from being heard. By controlling the question they control the answer. The shelves of the law libraries are filled with answers to carefully controlled questions, ready for the next round of judicial plunder.
And after the citizen has been plundered of his rights and property, and seeks remedy and redress, what does he find? More judicial legislation creating the great wall of "Absolute Immunity."
It wasn't meant to be like this. The Constitutions intended otherwise. Originally the judiciary was entrusted to interpret our laws and maintain access to courts of justice. The Idaho Constitution declares: "Courts of justice shall be open to every person, and a speedy remedy afforded for every injury of person property or character, and right and justice shall be administered without sale, denial, delay or prejudice (Article 1, section 18)." The Federal Constitution further compels a judges compliance with its mandates: "The...judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution;...(Article 6, section 3)."
Go ahead. Try to find a court that will respect your rights and deliver justice. The Constitutions are no longer the foundation of government, but rather they are documents that are used when convenient to the judiciary and then discarded or ignored, defiantly, whenever they do not suit their purposes. In my years of trying to find justice in court and get a legal answer supporting the truths I have presented, I have seen courts routinely ignore constitutional commands. They defy the contents of clear and substantial case law when it doesn't suit their goals--the collection and maintenance of power. Courts, from local magistrates all the way to Idaho's chief federal district court judge Edward J. Lodge, have ignored the mandates of the Constitutions and legislated laws in favor of their court adopted "Rules," the Legislature and Congress be damned.
Thomas Jefferson saw it coming: "For intending to establish three departments, coordinate and independent, that they might check and balance one another, it has given, according to this opinion, to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others, and to that one, too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. For experience has already shown that the impeachment it has provided is not even a scare-crow... The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819.

The Courts' Rules

Article I, Section 8, clause 9 of the federal Constitution grants Congress the power to "constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court" and Article 3, Section 1 vests the judicial power "in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish." Idaho's Constitution similarly grants to the Legislature the power of creating the lesser courts.
No longer "established" by the Congress or the Legislature, our lower courts have become the province of the Supreme Courts. Yes, there are congressional statutes establishing the lower courts, but the "rules" provide the procedures which ordain their conduct and operation. Their functional utility is provided by the commands of the Supreme Courts. These "rules" were recommended by committees of lawyers and "adopted" by the federal Supreme Court in 1934 (soon after the conversion of our gold backed national economy to worthless paper and ink). The State Supreme Courts across the nation followed in lock step with the establishment of State Court Rules, nearly identical to the Federal Rules. Through regular and routine amendments to the rules, the Supreme Courts have brought the lower courts into its' fold. With these Rules, and other devious devices, the judiciary has established itself independent of the other branches. superseding any checks and balances between the powers of the three branches of government.
Not all the Justices of the Supreme Court were in favor of the adoption of the Federal Civil and Criminal Rules. In their dissenting statement: "Mr. JUSTICE BLACK and Mr. JUSTICE DOUGLAS are opposed to the submission of these rules to the Congress under a statute which permits them to "take effect" and to repeal "all laws in conflict with such rules" without requiring any affirmative consideration, action, or approval of the rules by Congress or by the President. We believe that while some of the Rules of Civil Procedure are simply housekeeping details, many determine matters so substantially affecting the rights of litigants in lawsuits that in practical effect they are the equivalent of new legislation which, in our judgment, the Constitution requires to be initiated in and enacted by the Congress and approved by the President." (374 US 865-866)
Although the constitutionally required method of establishing the rules of procedure for the courts is illuminated here by two Supreme Court justices, the judiciary continues to act contrary to the commands of the compact which created their own offices. In their quest for the consolidation of power unto themselves, control is the goal. By controlling the rules of the game, the judiciary controls the game.

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Date: Tue Jan 23, 2001 6:53 am
Subject: Ind. Bapt. Temple Appeals to Bush

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Indiana Baptist Temple Appeals To Bush
(70 Days Past D-Day)

From: "Rev. Bruce Evan Murch" <kidsx9@...>

Christian Friends,

JANET RENO IS GONE, BUT WE ARE STILL HERE AT THE INDIANAPOLIS BAPTIST TEMPLE!!

We praise and thank God that He has seen fit to grant us a STAY OF THIS SEIZURE FOR 70 DAYS SO FAR!

The Baptist Deacon/U.S. Marshal Frank Anderson has still not come in to raid this church, and appears to be in no great hurry to do it. He was reportedly under pressure from the Reno Justice Dept. to get it done before Inauguration Day.

PASTOR DIXON GOES TO WASHINGTON

Please keep us in prayer as Pastor Greg A. Dixon and attorney Al Cunningham arrive in Washington, DC today on a mission. They left here with one-way tickets. They are not leaving until they have spoken to President Bush or Attorney General (who will be confirmed today or Tuesday) John Ashcroft. Either one of these men can make this siege stop immediately. Ashcroft can simply withdraw the original complaint which will make all this go away. President Bush can forgive the judgment against the church which will also make this go away.

A PERMANENT RESOLUTION

Two other pastors have left from IBT as well with a different mission. They are visiting Congressmen and Senators with a proposal for a Joint Resolution on Unregistered Churches. The resolution will basically show Congress' intent that the First Amendment to the Constitution, affirmed by Holy Trinity Church v. United States should be interpreted as: Congress does not intend that CHURCHES NOT ORGANIZED UNDER IRS CODE ARE NOT SUBJECT TO GENERAL REGULATORY LAWS.

While this will not be binding as LAW, it will show CONGRESS' INTENT. It will have to be considered when judges render decisions like the one in the case of IBT. There will be no confusion as to legal status of unregistered churches--ie., that they are NOT legal entities. There are several legislators already willing to sponsor this resolution and Majority Whip Tom Delay feels he can get it passed. Bush has formed a new Office of Faith-Based Organizations, which will be headed by Steven Goldsmith, former Mayor of Indianapolis. Mr. Goldsmith is also willing to intervene on behalf of Indianapolis Baptist Temple, and will make sure that rules pertaining to churches in his new office DO NOT APPLY to unregistered churches like IBT.
Translation: "we will leave churches like yours alone" (his words).

PLEASE CONTACT PRESIDENT BUSH'S OFFICE AND THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL:

President Bush:

202/456-1414   Phone
202/456-2461   Fax

Attorney General John Ashcroft's office

202/307-2825   Fax

+++++++++++++++++
Sample letter:

Dear President Bush,

Please intervene on behalf of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple. It is not
good Public Policy for the government to RAID Christian Churches in America. Right now, Indianapolis Baptist Temple members and supporters are occupying their church around the clock as U.S. Marshals have been ordered to "use whatever force is necessary" to seize this 50-year old mainstream Baptist Church for taxes that they simply DO NOT OWE.

The former administration forgave millions of dollars of corporate tax debt
in just the last two months. They forgave hundreds of millions in Third
World debt as well.

PLEASE DISMISS AND PARDON THE TAX LIABILITY JUDGMENT AGAINST THIS CHURCH.

Sincerely,

+++++++++++++++++

Dear Mr. Ashcroft,

Please intervene on behalf of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple. It is not
good Public Policy for the government to RAID Christian Churches in America. Right now, Indianapolis Baptist Temple members and supporters are occupying their church around the clock as U.S. Marshals have been ordered to "use whatever force is necessary" to seize this 50-year old mainstream Baptist Church for taxes that they simply DO NOT OWE.

This siege began as a LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. You need only withdraw the original complaint and this church will be safe from seizure. A permanent resolution is in the works right now, but will not help this church if it is seized and sold before that process is complete.

As a Christian, I urge you to step in and protect this church against the
forces of evil that preceded you.

Sincerely,
....
A servant of Christ,

Bruce Evan Murch

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Date: Thu Jan 25, 2001 6:38 am
Subject: * Keeping Judges Out Of Divorces

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Keeping Judges Out Of Divorces

(While we agree that there is nothing good about a divorce, and many, if not most divorces ought not to be, the fact is, they do happen. Below is some sound advice for couples facing divorce. Couples should attempt at all cost to avoid going to court and save themselves untold heartaches. Too often, in the heat of passion of a divorce, one or both of the parties make unwise decisions to go to court in hopes of gaining an advantage against the other. For your own good, please reconsider. It could, and often will be a case of the avalanche becoming greater than the mountain, or two opponents fighting each other in an alligator swamp in which neither will be pleased with the net result. Believe me, take my advice, avoid courts at all costs and settle outside! You'll both be glad you did.)

Thanks to Murray Steinberg for the following:

Collaborating On Divorce
* New Process Avoids Court For Divorcing Couples
* Called Collaborative Law, Involves Informal Discussions
* Offers Couples Lower Cost, Less Emotional Pain

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Jan. 23, 2001

(CBS) A new way of settling divorces is providing couples with a way to end their marriages while avoiding nasty, costly courtroom battles, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In the process, called "collaborative law," each partner hires a lawyer,
and all four parties - the lawyers and the spouses - sign a "participation
agreement."

In it, everyone agrees to work toward a settlement, and not to go to court.
And if discussions do break down, both lawyers must withdraw from the case and may not file any motions in court whatsoever.

It's quicker, cleaner, and cheaper: A divorce handled in court costs a
minimum of $15,000 to $20,000, while a collaborative law divorce averages $2,000 to $3,000.

Minnesota attorney Stuart Webb dreamed up the idea. It's the risk of having to start all over with new lawyers, he says, that usually convinces about 95 percent of all couples to settle.

"I remind them of it all the time, you know, as we go along," Webb says.
"'Know if this is going in the direction it's heading, it's going to be
bye-bye time.'"

What About The Kids?

Read Part I of CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart's series on divorce:

Easing Divorce's Impact On Kids

A new legal experiment aims to solve one of the most wrenching social
problems of our time: how to protect the most valuable thing left from a
marriage when their parents have called it quits?

Mike and Sherry Rasmussen settled their divorce via collaborative law.
There was no love lost during the proceedings, but there also was no
threats or posturing - just a split down the middle of everything they own.

Attorneys Ron Ousky and Maury Beaulier like the process so much they've collaborated on a half a dozen divorces.

"You're an advocate and you're still representing your client's interests,
but you're doing so with reasoned arguments and eliminating some of the
tone," said Beaulier.

"Once you've launched the missiles in your first court proceeding you've
drawn adversarial lines and people become polarized rather than coming
together," he said.

Neither lawyer misses the emotional turmoil that acrimonious divorce
proceedings can bring.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Judges Say Colleague Took 400 Sick Days, Appeared Well
Courts: He reportedly attended medical school in the Caribbean during some of his time off. A state panel is considering disciplinary measures.

By RICHARD WINTON, Times Staff Writer

    A disciplinary hearing for a Los Angeles Superior Court judge began Monday with several other judges and officials testifying that the jurist took more 400 sick days off work during the last four years.
    The witnesses said they learned later that Judge Patrick B. Murphy had been attending a Caribbean medical school during a portion of the time that he was on sick leave.
    Murphy, 45, is accused by the state Commission on Judicial Performance of claiming falsely that he was ill or disabled while collecting his $122,000 annual salary.
    Three appellate judges in Riverside on Monday began the task of deciding whether Murphy should be punished for his conduct. They will make a recommendation to the commission, which can admonish Murphy, censure him or remove him from office.
    Several jurists who served with and supervised Murphy at the Citrus courthouse criticized his conduct.
     There was a feeling "of regret, shame and betrayal," testified Judge Michael Duggan, the godfather of one of Murphy's children, after learning in a Times article last year that Murphy had attended the Ross University Medical School in Dominica last January while on paid sick leave.
     "Frolicking in the Bahamas isn't consistent with a person who is ill," said Judge Dennis Aichroth, who supervised Murphy during 1998.
     When Murphy returned to the bench for three months last year, he was transferred to a downtown Los Angeles courtroom because his West Covina colleagues refused to work with him, another judge testified.
     Murphy, who is defending himself in the proceedings, spoke outside the court on Monday, denying any wrongdoing and saying every doctor who has examined him has found him to be disabled and unable to serve as a judge.
     Murphy, who has been absent from the bench since June--citing a stress-related medical condition--said he will tell his side of the story in court today.
     In court papers, Murphy maintains that he decided to pursue an alternative career while on sick leave and took premed classes in 1999 at a chiropractic school in Los Angeles and then attended the medical school, beginning in January 2000. He says his medical condition allows him to take classes and teach but impairs his sitting on the bench. In court on Monday, speaking as his attorney, he said he abandoned medical school after two weeks because of "headaches and insomnia."
     Authorities say he signed a medical school registration form on which he stated that he had no disabilities that would interfere with his studies or practice of medicine.
     Judge Thomas Falls testified that Murphy's absence disrupted the West Covina courthouse, forcing proceedings to be canceled and necessitating the hiring of a retired judge at $500 a day.
     Several judges and public officials testified that they saw Murphy at public events and in public places during his time off. Duggan said he bumped into Murphy at a mall and at a Republican fund-raiser. Judge Carol Williams Elswick, whose child attends school with Murphy's son, said the jurist attended three Christmas pageants at the school. All the judges testifying Monday said Murphy seemed healthy.
     Judge Rolf Treu, who presided over the West Covina courthouse until last January, told the judicial panel that on several occasions when Murphy was off sick, the accused jurist appeared at depositions that were part of a federal lawsuit.
     The suit alleged that Murphy and others conspired to conceal $1.8 million of the assets of a friend whose wife was divorcing the man. The case was settled last year, but Murphy paid nothing. The fraud allegations in the suit remain the subject of an inquiry by the U.S. attorney's office.
     Los Angeles County Assistant Sheriff Larry Waldie testified that Murphy contacted him before going to the Caribbean and requested a letter for Dominica immigration saying Murphy had never been convicted of a crime. Waldie said Murphy said nothing about medical school, saying that "he was going on vacation and needed an exit letter."

* Let us not forget that judges are seldom, if at all, prosecuted for misconduct or wrong doing. It is embarrassment for which judges are prosecuted. The system is forced to "cut its loses" to spare the embarrassment. The system just could not survive in an atmosphere of honest judges, so they look to the judges cover for government wrongdoing to maintain their survival, and in return, the system provides cover for all judges. It is a secret sweetheart deal at the expense of our country, our Constitution, and We, the People.

Judge Patrick B. Murphy crossed over the line and embarrassed the judicial system, and for that he must pay as the sacrificial lamb. But who knows, after being dismissed, he may thereafter receive a sizable bonus and a vacation trip to Dominica. What do I say this? Consider Judge Patrick Henry who was continually transferred around the County of Los Angeles to out skirt county courthouses, and finally was of such an embarrassment everywhere he was transferred to that the Commission on Judicial Performance was forced to come down on him. To get away from the hammer, he agreed to an unrevokable retirement from the County of Los Angeles, and was publicly thrown out the front door in disgrace, only to be secretly hired in the back door of the same county with a raise to defend wayward judges like himself. When I called the county on this outrage, County Counsel defended the county's action by saying he was doing a good job of defending the judges of Los Angeles.

There is a saying, "Fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me. Mock disciplinary proceedings against judges are taking place regularly. Haven't we learned our lesson yet? It's time for JAIL.

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Judicial Crackups Fracture the Bench
Outlandish behavior in and out of court suggests the pressure's become
too great.

BY DARRYL VAN DUCH, NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL STAFF REPORTER
The National Law Journal - Monday, April 8, 1996

JUDICIAL MELTDOWN has set in, say judges as well as the lawyers and health professionals who work with them. Unbearable stress, they say, is responsible for increasingly frequent, bizarre incidents involving a
surprising number of judges, including some at the highest levels, who
have been acting out of sorts, if not out of greed or lust.

How to explain the following events:

* Illinois Supreme Court Justice James D. Heiple is awaiting trial on
charges of resisting arrest for trying to outrun a police officer who
said he stopped him for speeding.
* Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge William Ormsby received a rare
"severe public censure" March 20 from a judicial commission for
temperament problems, including ordering the arrest of people who had
been whispering in his courtroom.
* An elected civil trial judge in Illinois, Kane County Circuit Court
Judge Michael F. O'Brien, resigned Dec. 4, 1995, after it was disclosed
he had pretended for 20 years to be a Congressional Medal of Honor
recipient.
* U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk of Los Angeles, 83, was censured
by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for making outrageous remarks
toward minorities and others, leading him to agree in 1994 to stop
hearing police brutality cases.
* Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen was convicted
in 1994 for illegally obtaining anti-depression drugs.
* Former New York State Chief Judge Sol Wachtler was convicted in 1992 for threatening to kidnap the teen-age daughter of an ex-lover.
* Indiana's highest court dismissed Vigo County Judge William McClain
last month and barred him from practicing law for two years for
allegedly having "participated in sending" in 1991 a used condom to a
courthouse secretary on whom he supposedly had a crush.

Injudicious judicial behavior is escalating, according to the "1994
Comprehensive Legal Needs Study" sponsored by the American Bar
Association's Consortium on Legal Service and the Public: Complaints
against federal judges jumped 24 percent, from 354 in 1990 to 438 in
1993.

And on the state level, complaints against state judges showed marked
increases during the same period. In Texas, complaints jumped 47
percent, from 491 to 722; in New York, they're up 24 percent, from 1,171
to 1,456; and in Florida, complaints are up 16 percent, from 391 to 455.

According to an article in the December issue of the ABA Journal, in
Wisconsin nearly half of the 66 formal complaints involved judicial
demeanor. And in Arkansas, 33 percent of the 185 complaints included
allegations of injudicious temperament.

Some judges insist their job is not particularly painful. "I find my job to be less stressful than what I see going on in private practice," says Illinois Appellate Court Judge Warren D. Wolfson, in Cook County, who has been active in the Illinois Lawyers' Assistance Program. But mental
health professionals say the sudden outbursts of intense anger they've
seen in judges is a result of the deep isolation and lack of normal support systems that go with such a high-profile job. Judges' special
anxiety-inducers, they say, include excessive and still increasing caseloads; exceedingly complex legal issues surrounding the emergence of
a global economy and the scientific information explosion; and intense
scrutiny attributable to rising media fascination with high-profile trials.

Political pressure on judges, too, has recently taken a quantum leap, with sharp criticism of the rulings of both federal and state judges. The harsh criticism has come not only from the floor of the U.S. Senate but from the White House as well. President Clinton said recently he was weighing asking for the resignation of one Manhattan federal judge because of his controversial ruling in a drug case.

Long-term solutions to the dark side of judicial life may go beyond
typical corporate stress-management seminars, candidate screening,
mentoring and professional counseling. Some lawyers and health
professionals also are calling for profound systemic reforms. At least
one therapist suggests that judges may need a spiritual conversion.

The Denial Response

Many stressed-out judges are their own worst enemies when it comes to
getting needed help, says Gordon Blush, a doctor of clinical psychology
in Rochester, Mich., who specializes in counseling distressed judges. He
says Justice Heiple's recent brush with the law may be an example of a
judge in denial, a common reaction to stress overload.

In the early-morning hours of Jan. 27, Justice Heiple--who is slated to be Illinois' next chief justice--was stopped by police for allegedly speeding a few blocks from his home in Pekin, Ill. While an officer was writing a ticket, Justice Heiple, 62, reportedly drove away. After police caught up with him moments later outside his house, Justice Heiple allegedly became verbally abusive and required restraint. He was eventually charged with resisting arrest. [NLJ, Feb. 12.]

Justice Heiple's attorneys--John P. Nicoara, of Peoria, Ill.'s Nicoara & Steagall, and Frederick A. Bernardi, a Pekin sole practitioner-- issued a statement on the justice's behalf "vehemently" denying the police accounts and threatening to file a civil rights suit. On Feb. 1, the justice himself issued a statement saying, "Implications have been made...that I flaunted my judicial status...These suggestions are completely false." A trial on charges of speeding and resisting arrest is set for mid-May.

Says Dr. Blush, "Here is a judge who drives off and essentially says, 'I
will do what I want to do because I'm a judge'...and doesn't realize...he really has nowhere to turn...to vent his frustrations...because all the [social] bridges that connect most people with each other have either been taken away or they have been burned."

Neither Justice Heiple nor his attorneys responded to requests for an
interview. But the justice's friends describe him as "a private, easygoing kind of guy"--despite his reputation as the most outspoken jurist on the state's highest court.

A colleague in Pennsylvania, former Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen,
also was in line to become his state's chief judge when indiscretions led him to lose his seat on the high court bench. In 1993, Justice Larsen was charged with using court employees to obtain prescription tranquilizers-- Valium and Diazepam--as part of a scheme to keep his psychiatric treatment secret. [NLJ, 11-8-93.] Justice Larsen strongly denied the felony charges through his then-attorney, Harrisburg, Pa., sole practitioner William C. Costopoulos.

When fellow justices took the unprecedented step of reprimanding him,
Justice Larsen accused two benchmates--Justice Ralph J. Cappy and
Justice Stephen A. Zappala--of conspiring to reduce his power on the
court and to prevent his accession to the chief's chair. He also suggested that his "adversaries" were guilty of judicial misconduct, referring to them as "fix artists."

A grand jury found "no credible evidence" that Justice Larsen's peers had conspired against him or that they had fixed cases. Instead, by the end of 1994, Justice Larsen, first elected to the state high court in 1977, was impeached by the Pennsylvania State Senate for misbehavior in office. In court, he was found guilty on two counts of conspiring to illegally obtain anti-depressants.

Still licensed to practice law, Mr. Larsen, 61, now lives in semi-retirement and expects to be vindicated eventually, according to his current attorney, Pittsburgh sole practitioner Stanton D. Levenson. Mr. Larsen filed a federal civil rights suit Sept. 13 against the Pennsylvania Senate, his former colleagues and disciplinary officials. He has also appealed his criminal conviction.

Getting safely to the top is no guarantee against falling into an emotional abyss. The widely respected former New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, 64, says he felt he could not go much further in his career when he hit a psychological wall in 1991 and plunged into a deep depression.

Job Stress?

He was suing his former pal, then-Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, for withholding
more than $97 million from the courts. It was Judge Wachtler's job to fire 500 court workers, many of whom were minorities who had been hired under a popular diversity program. But apparently the most painful aspect of Judge Wachtler's life then was the end of his four-year extramarital love affair with a Manhattan socialite.

At the end of 1992, the FBI arrested Judge Wachtler for allegedly
harassing his ex-lover, including threatening to kidnap her teen-age
daughter, demanding $20,000 and mailing a condom to the girl.

In a 1993 interview with The New York Law Journal, Judge Wachtler said
he had not wanted to see a psychiatrist during this period of intense
emotional difficulties because of the professional and social stigma
attached, especially in light of his gubernatorial aspirations. Instead, he said, he turned to his family doctor, who prescribed a number of drugs that only added to his problems. "Licit drugs combined with a mental predisposition can be a very, very dangerous road to walk down," he said. [NLJ, 8-2-93.]

Judge Wachtler served 13 months in federal prison. During that time he
kept a diary, and on March 26 Random House announced that it will
publish Mr. Wachtler's memoir. The book is expected to describe his
prison experience, his emotional troubles and his life since his release. He has since formed an alternative dispute resolution service in Great Neck, N.Y.

Far from the world of Judge Wachtler and his socialite mistress, the case of Patricia A. Schneider, 43, shows the suffering of small-town judges and how long-standing personal problems can suddenly devastate a promising career.

Ms. Schneider was the first female judge to ascend to the bench in Will
County, Ill., a mostly rural community about 30 miles from Chicago. Last
summer, locals were shocked when she was convicted and sentenced to 90 days of house arrest for tampering with public records, particularly for
fixing traffic tickets for two friends.

Ms. Schneider's attorney begged the court for mercy. He said the "tragic" downfall of the young jurist had followed her "remarkable" recovery after being abandoned, at age 18, by an equally young husband and being left "penniless and uneducated...[and] alone to raise three babies."

Said Ms. Schneider at her sentencing hearing, "Unfortunately, what for me in the past may have been my strong suit in raising my young family during less than ideal circumstances became my Achilles' heel while making decisions as a judge. I was never motivated by lust or greed, but by a desire to assist my family and friends."

Culture of Misconduct

In a recently published book by Manhattan trial Judge Harold J. Rothwax,
"Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice," the judge describes a national judicial system that, like the society it serves, is "out of control."

Judge Rothwax says there is a "culture of misconduct" in too many
courtrooms that "creates disrespect and distrust" for judges and
demoralizes the judiciary. He cites last year's O.J. Simpson murder trial as an example of how "petty arguments between attorneys to gain tactical advantages" can turn the system's supposed "search for truth" into a "shameful...sporting contest."

Benjamin Sells agrees with the Manhattan criminal judge. Mr. Sells, a
non-practicing lawyer, is also a Chicago psychotherapist with a master's
degree in philosophical psychology. A specialist in counseling
professionals, he wrote a book in 1994, which is titled "The Soul of the
Law."

Mr. Sells also says that many lawyers--and especially judges--took up the law out of a deep-seated love of fairness. But, with the rise of the 1970s "Me" generation and its "glorification of the individual," idealistic jurists increasingly found they were expected by their "Darwinian society... to act more like dispensers of power and political favoritism than justice," he observes.

Many judges complain bitterly about mandatory sentencing in criminal cases, states V. Robert Payant, the president of the Reno, Nev.-based
National Judicial College and a former state court trial judge in rural
Michigan. And political pressure on judges takes its toll. The White House, in a statement it later retracted, said U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. of Manhattan should reverse an evidentiary decision in a drug case or he would be asked to resign by President Clinton, who had
appointed him in 1994. Judge Baer did agree to reconsider his decision
to throw out as evidence 80 pounds of cocaine and heroin. A final ruling
is expected soon.

At the same time, New York Gov. George Pataki is pushing to get
Brooklyn, N.Y., trial judge Loren Duckman off the bench after the judge
decided not to jail two men with a history of physically abusing women.
One of the defendants subsequently murdered his ex-girlfriend; the other
defendant threw his former lover down a flight of stairs. Judge Duckman
is on leave from the bench while he fights charges that he is unfit to serve. A decision from the state Commission on Judicial Conduct is expected this month.

The media's disintegrating respect for the judiciary further compounds
judges' demoralization problem, say legal and health experts. In one of
his now widely debated opinions in the Baby Richard child custody case,
Illinois' Justice Heiple complained of "receiv[ing] several pieces of hate mail" which, he argued, were directly attributable to an unrelenting series of articles by a Chicago newspaper columnist. [NLJ, March 4.]

The increased incidence of threats of violence--even death--also takes a
toll. "It has to be always in the back of our minds," says Judge Payant.

Last year, in Chicago alone, a man was convicted of threatening to knife
a federal judge after his lawsuit was dismissed. Another federal judge was mailed a bomb, allegedly by a former criminal defendant who is now in federal custody. On March 12, a Wheeling, Ill., couple was charged with mailing a death threat to a third federal judge who had dismissed part of their civil lawsuit.

Chicago's legal community still talks about the 1983 murder of Cook
County Circuit Court Judge Henry A. Gentile, who was shot in the head
during a post-decree divorce proceeding by the disgruntled, litigating
ex-husband. Such threats and attacks on federal and state judges have
occurred with increasing frequency across the country.

Alabama State District Judge Eddie Hardaway says he believes the two
shotgun blasts fired into his home Feb. 23 were a racially motivated
payback for his having sentenced two white men to jail for vandalizing
black churches. The judge and his family were uninjured but, because their telephone line had been cut, they spent a night laying on a glass-strewn floor until daylight, when they felt safe to go for help. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating.

On May 5, 1992, in Grand Forks, N.D., state court Judge Lawrence Jahnke, 49, was shot and critically wounded in his courtroom by an alleged deadbeat father during a child-support hearing. In 1989, 11th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Vance, of Mountainbrooke, Ala., a
suburb of Birmingham, was killed while opening a mailed pipe bomb he
thought was a gift.

And in 1988, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Daronco was shot and killed
while gardening outside his suburban New York home, allegedly by the
father of a woman whose sexual harassment suit Judge Daronco had
dismissed.

Flooded Consciousness

Some suggest that struggling judges must themselves bear much of the
blame for their growing predicament. When challenged in--or out--of court, Mr. Blush says, too many judges automatically assert their
authority, thereby alienating others and further isolating themselves until they "crash and burn."

When former Pennsylvania Justice Larsen accused his colleagues of
wrongdoing after they'd reprimanded him, says Mr. Blush, "It was payback time... you did this to me, now I'm going to do this to you."

Others say too many judges today are inexperienced, especially those who
are elected and ascend the bench at a young age. "[T]hen they have to
devote a lot of their energy just to stay elected," says Wisconsin Justice Nathan S. Heffernan, who retired in August at age 75 after 31 years on the state's highest court, the last 12 years as its chief justice.

Even when judges are capable of ruling wisely, observes Washington,
D.C.-based clinical and consulting psychologist Isaiah N. Zimmerman,
rapidly expanding dockets leave little time for them to be anything but
"decision-makers...with almost no time to think." Today's judges, the
psychologist warns, are living in a state of "flooded consciousness."

The increasing complexity of the law is also taxing and anxiety-provoking. The ever-expanding body of "statutes, court precedents and procedures... have made it impossible for many judges to engage in a clear and mature search for the truth," says Manhattan's Judge Rothwax.

Add to these stressors the heart-wrenching nature of cases that judges are hearing with increasing frequency--especially those involving child abuse--with little expert advice to guide them. "How much craziness can some of these judges take before they start wondering if the world has been turned as upside down as it seems?" asks Robert P. Cummins, a partner in the Chicago office of Dallas' Bickel & Brewer and ex-chair of the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board.

Lessons can be learned from those who have been "to hell and back" and
are willing to talk about it. To survive intense public scrutiny while
presiding over the recent, sensationalized trial of Susan Smith--who was
convicted of murder for drowning her two young sons--Judge William L.
Howard, of North Charleston, S.C., says he "rented a little house away
from [the trial site] rather than stay in a hotel room...[B]y doing that one thing...I was able to make my own dinner, bake my chocolate chip cookies, go for a walk with my wife and dog."

Unfortunately, when a judge starts to slip, the legal community generally fails to help. It responds usually by either overlooking his or her offenses or invoking formal disciplinary procedures, says Frances K. Zemans, executive vice president and director of the American Judicature Society. This year the ABA did, however, establish a national "mentor team" to help judges deal with high-profile trials.

Spiritual Conversion?

Judges also can be taught to win control of their courtrooms, says NJC's
Judge Payant. (So dismayed are some New York lawyers by Judge Rothwax's strong courtroom administrative style they refer to him as the "prince of darkness.")

But the personal steps judges take may "still not be enough," warns Judge Rothwax. He says the system itself needs an overhaul, and he offers a laundry list of suggested reforms, including eliminating the individual's right to an attorney during investigations and basing "speedy trial" rules on reasonableness rather than precise numbers of days and weeks.

To Mr. Sells, with his training in philosophical psychology, nothing short of jurists' experiencing a "spiritual" catharsis will bring real relief. They must, he urges, find a way to rediscover their original love of the law.

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Keller-Blind Justice

Federal judge William Keller does the LAPD's bidding by finding Bob Mullally guilty of criminal contempt for exposing some of the department's most shameful secrets.

By Tony Ortega

In a court hearing Friday, there seemed to be little enthusiasm to punish the man, Bob Mullally, who had just been found guilty of a crime.

In the complex case, the victim of Mullally's crime was judged to be the City of Los Angeles. But given the opportunity to request $86,000 in restitution, Deputy City Attorney Victor Schulte asked the court that Mullally not be required to pay the money back.

Mullally's prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Warren, seemed equally uninterested in a harsh penalty for the defendant. Warren noted that in his court pleadings, he'd specified no penalty at all.

Only one person in the courtroom seemed determined to throw the book at Mullally. And that was the man who demanded that he be investigated for the crime in the first place: U.S. District Court Judge William Keller.

Wagging a bony finger at Mullally from the bench, the red-faced federal judge chastised Mullally for violating a court order by leaking confidential Los Angeles Police Department files to a television reporter in 1997. "You were taking the law into your own hands, and you're not authorized to do that!" the judge barked. After delineating his reasons for doing so for some four hours Friday, Keller found Mullally guilty of criminal contempt and scheduled his sentencing for March 27.

Last fall, New Times detailed the story of Mullally, a former bureaucrat with a history of blowing the whistle on government wrongdoing, who had run afoul of the LAPD and Judge Keller ("Code Buster," cover story, October 5).

The case grew out of a lawsuit brought against the LAPD by the family of a woman killed in 1992 by her estranged husband, Victor Ramos, an LAPD officer with a known history of spousal abuse. Ramos used his service weapon to kill his estranged wife, her boyfriend, and himself. In order to prove that the Ramos case was not an isolated one, the family's attorney, Gregory Yates, convinced federal magistrate Carolyn Turchin to force the LAPD to turn over confidential internal investigations of domestic violence committed by police officers. Before handing them over, Deputy City Attorney Schulte redacted the records, blotting out the names of officers, victims, and witnesses. Yates signed a protective order agreeing to keep the documents secret until trial.

Yates then gave the documents to an old college friend, Bob Mullally, whom he had hired because of Mullally's extensive background in government personnel operations. Mullally digested the 4,000 pages of secret files in order to summarize them for Yates, and was shocked by what he found. The documents showed that for the years 1990-1993, more than 70 officers had been investigated for beating their wives and girlfriends. The allegations -- which included rape, battery, and child molestation -- were serious enough that several officers had been disciplined administratively and a few had been fired. But the LAPD had not arrested a single officer on the charges, and Mullally's records indicated that no cops were ultimately prosecuted criminally.

After Mullally finished vetting the records, Yates let City Attorney James Hahn know what he had found. Within weeks, the city sought a settlement to the lawsuit, paying $2.15 million to end two related lawsuits stemming from the Ramos murder-suicide. In a deposition, Schulte testified that the city sought a quick end to the cases for the sole reason of keeping the damaging documents from becoming public.

Angry that the public would never know how domestic violence in the LAPD was being covered up, Mullally says he leaked the files in 1997 to former KCBS reporter Harvey Levin. Levin's subsequent two-part series about the documents resulted in quick city action. An investigation by then LAPD Inspector General Katherine Mader confirmed that wife-beating officers had for years benefited from special treatment. The scandal resulted in significant changes in LAPD procedure and the formation of a special task force to handle domestic-abuse cases in the LAPD's ranks.

But if the LAPD publicly promised to clean up its act, privately it wanted to punish the person who had forced it to change.

Schulte and police chief Bernard Parks both blamed Yates for leaking the files, and asked the federal courts and the California Bar, respectively, to investigate the attorney. That's when Mullally stepped forward and signed a declaration swearing that he alone had made the decision to leak the records to Levin.

The bar investigation was dropped, but in Keller the LAPD had a far more willing champion.

Keller urged the U.S. attorney's office to prosecute Mullally and made statements in a 1999 hearing that suggested he was already convinced Mullally had committed criminal contempt.

Keller did little to dispel that notion last week when he did nearly all of the prosecuting in Mullally's bench trial himself, relegating assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Warren to the sidelines.

"Have you figured out whose case this is -- his or mine?" Warren said to a court observer during a recess in the hearing. (Warren explained to New Times that in contempt trials, the prosecutor's role is often nominal. But Keller's performance was remarkable.)

While Keller railed at Mullally and ridiculed his attorneys' arguments, he turned occasionally to a sheepish Warren, who dutifully, but seemingly without relish, agreed with the judge.

At times, Keller's tirades against Mullally reached such a pitch that Warren and Mullally's defense team seemed to be arguing together on a united front.

Warren even acknowledged in court that good things had resulted from Mullally's violation of the court order -- things that Warren admitted would never have happened if Mullally hadn't fed the files to KCBS.

Keller angrily admonished Warren for not seeking a wider definition of Mullally's criminal liability -- the judge widened it himself -- and upbraided Warren for not launching additional investigations against Yates and Levin.

Despite several caveats from Keller about his concern for the victims of domestic violence, it was clear that the judge was more concerned that Mullally had violated the sanctity of a court order.

Mullally's attorney, Arizona State University law professor Jim Weinstein, argued that the protective order should never have been issued in the first place: By asking to keep the records secret, the city attorney's office, Weinstein argued, had made the federal courts an accomplice in an ongoing government cover-up. Although Mullally had violated the terms of that agreement, Weinstein argued, the public's right to know about serious crimes hidden by the city outweighed the legality of the protective order.

"When pigs fly," Keller responded.

After finding Mullally in contempt, Keller turned to the subject of punishment. Mullally had been told that the maximum sentence he could receive was six months in prison, and Keller said he wanted a background study, called a presentencing report, done on Mullally before he'd make a decision on imprisonment. But then the judge began speaking about "fine potential," which seemed to take Mullally and his defense team aback.

Warren stood up and informed Keller that the offense called for jail time or a fine, but not both. Keller then denied he had raised the subject of a fine, it was restitution he wanted to explore. He asked what Mullally's leak had cost the city, and asked Schulte to address the court.

Schulte responded that in the city's original contempt motion (against Yates, not Mullally), it had asked for $86,000 in restitution. (Schulte, it turned out, had not completely redacted all of the names in the 4,000 pages -- not a surprise considering the Herculean task of blocking out every piece of identifying information. Levin, in his TV reports, had been able to identify two cops investigated for spousal abuse: Al Abolos and Jon Green. Abolos and Green then sued the city and others, including Yates and Mullally, for invasion of privacy, and later dropped the city as a defendant. Defending against that lawsuit, as well as a cross-complaint by Yates, Schulte says, cost the city $86,000. It could be argued, however, that if Schulte had been a little more careful redacting records, the city would not have found itself in the lawsuits to begin with.)

After telling Keller of the amount the city had lost, the deputy city attorney requested that the city be withdrawn from the case. The city did not want the $86,000 from Mullally, Schulte announced.

"Motion denied!" Keller yelled.

Opinions vary about whether Keller will actually hit Mullally with the hefty restitution order -- an order the Arizona man, who now makes $8 an hour at a Scottsdale hardware store, says he would be unable to pay.

Schulte doubts that Keller will really ask Mullally to pay $86,000 for leaking the documents. He surmises that Keller wants the city to brief him about the restitution amount in order to help him determine what number of days to imprison Mullally. "He might use it to give Mullally four months instead of three months," Schulte told New Times after the hearing. He explained that he had attempted to drop the restitution matter because the city isn't interested in Mullally's money.

"Protective orders are very important. We're not here for a penalty. We're not here for restitution. This is about honoring a court order," Schulte said. (He denies that his redaction of the files and request for a protective order had made him part of a government cover-up, as Mullally's attorney had charged. It was Mullally's perception that crimes were being committed by LAPD officers, Schulte says. But Mader's subsequent investigation not only confirmed Mullally's contention that officers were going unpunished, but the inspector general uncovered even more heinous acts by officers. Mader found that one officer, for example, had forced his pistol barrel into his wife's vagina against her wishes; the officer received a mere reprimand.)

Mullally's attorneys are less sure that Keller won't slap Mullally with the huge restitution order. Jim LeBow, Mullally's lead attorney, says it's clear to him that Keller is trying to put pressure on Mullally to cooperate in an investigation of Yates or Levin. (Yates' attorney, Janet Levine, says there's no evidence that her client had anything to do with the leak. Levin, meanwhile, did not respond to a phone call.)

Mullally, however, says he's already said what he has to say: He leaked the files, and Yates had nothing to do with it.

Outside the courthouse after being convicted, Mullally told reporters he didn't regret exposing the LAPD's dirty secrets.

"I'd feel worse if I stood by and said nothing," Mullally said.

On March 27, he'll find out how much prison time he will serve -- something none of the wife-beating officers he exposed ever had to face.

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Date: Sun Jan 28, 2001 4:07 am
Subject: * Let's Applaud Georgia J.A.I.L.

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Let's Applaud Georgia J.A.I.L.

Those on our regular subscribers list do not see the network of our national J.A.I.L. leadership. Sometimes we like to lift the curtain and allow you to peek in. Below is such an occasion in which we wish to share with you our successes. The following are the words of Army Captain Dennis M. Hatcher (Ret.), the head of our Georgia State J.A.I.L. Chapter, (dmhatch@...). We trust you will be as thrilled as we are with Georgia J.A.I.L.'s accomplishments.

Dear GA. Jailers,

In spite of last minute reservations, the [Jan. 23rd] press conference and rally went off well, and we were able to meet 95% of our objectives! No one else from JAIL but Kimberley Brown showed up, and she earned her weight in gold! The best part is this: I was able to pigeon-hole Rep David Lucas like I had wanted (it was reported he was not there, but low and behold I caught him walking down the stairs behind me, as if God put him in my path!). I introduced myself and gave him my J4J spiel. I said we had to put the power of the judiciary back in the hands of the people, he said "I don't know if we can do that, but we can't continue doing business as usual." Guess what he did?...he invited me to speak at the next Judiciary Committee meeting! I'm arranging it with his secretary. Kim introduced me to one of the senior senators, Joe Burton, who came right out of chambers when Kim paged him! We talked and he's on our side!

My short speech was taped by channel 11, FOX 5 News, GA Public Television, and 2 others I was unable to identify. I was interviewed by V103 Radio and I passed out nearly 100 J4J cards. Many folks were impressed by my JAIL jacket sent by Sherree from FL and they LOVED the concept of judges in jail, literally! I was stopped 4 times inside the Capitol by people wanting to know what those letters meant and when I told them, they were ecstatic. Each knew of someone, or themselves, who have been victimized by the system. Dozens more watched me and looked at the jacket. Two of the TV camera men actually walked behind me and got shots of the big yellow J.A.I.L. logo! I'm telling you, this was an exciting and wonderful trip. So very productive in such a short time. Kim and I stayed as long as we could, But we were both exhausted by the time 12 noon rolled around!

I'll fill you in more later. I really have to rest now. We did good!!!

-Dennis-

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JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
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Date: Mon Jan 29, 2001 2:54 am
Subject: * Texas Prison Escapees Speak Out

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Texas Prison Escapees Speak Out

As Salon [the news source] noted in an article on the seven men who escaped from prison: "The national media reported on every detail of the dramatic 'Texas Seven' prison escape -- except the fugitives' harsh criticism of the state's criminal justice system when they surrendered." <http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/01/26/texas_seven/index.html>.

As part of their agreement to surrender, the last two fugitives asked to be given a phone interview on a Texas news program in order to make a statement about conditions in the penal system. If the media even quoted their statement, it was in tiny soundbites. For the record, below you will find the uncut portions of their statement having to do with their grievances. You can find the entire transcript at <http://www.kktv.com/benedek/HomePage/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=7&subtopicintid=156&contentintid=7711>.

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Patrick Murphy: "Basically what I want to say is why men like myself decide to do what we have done here. You probably do but people probably don't realize after 17 years of incarceration that I was actually up for parole when I made the decision to join this escape.

"What forced me to do this was the penal institution and such. The way Texas has things set up is that I've said my life on the outside, I'd eventually become an outlaw again anyway because of parole stipulations and such.

"We, I felt by trying to make this statement maybe we could make more people aware that there is a definite wrong within the penal system of the state of Texas and that we would hope that maybe what we're doing here could open the eyes of the people."

...

Donald Newbury: "Well, the way I see it I had to make a statement. The judicial system in the state of Texas has really gone to the pits. We're receiving 99 years for a robbery for $68 and nobody's injured. There's no proof a gun was used in the robbery other than an unreliable witness who picked out several IDs and everything before, who created a statement through information in my files that apparently the prosecutor had given him which is strictly against the law as well.

"We had a Texas Ranger, he admitted in trial that the evidence was tainted yet I received 99 years. The same day I went to trial there was a man who cut another man's nose off during an aggravated robbery of a convenience store and he got 40 years. I don't see how the system is actually working. It's fallen. I don't hold it against the administration or the officers involved in what we're doing.

"I've done crime, you know, you got to face the music. But there's got to be something within reason in the state of Texas. They're giving kids so much time that they will never get to see light again. Their life is gone. Now all they are is a roach in a cage. Things have to be changed, there has to be more rehabilitation in the system down there. You know I couldn't even go to college. (Mimicking other voice) 'Oh, Lord you can't go to college. Come on.' Where's the rehabilitation when you can't even help yourself?

"The whole thing from the beginning, from our self-extraction from the unit, that was done very peacefully as possible. We hurt the officers very little, only the ones that resisted. It could have been a bloodbath. We could have been out of there in 30 minutes instead of 2 1/2 hours. We took time to take these people and do it gently instead of 30 minutes. We're not trying to start a big bum rush but I have a feeling that the fences are fixing to be rushed hard because of the time they're given.

"And even if you do make parole the way that they've got the system set up, it's going to make you fall. I've been told to quit my jobs and stuff like that by parole officers. What kind of system tells you 'Look, you're doing good, you're earning $8 an hour, you just got out of the joint, quit your job.' I don't understand it. The system needs to be checked. It needs to be rebuilt, reconstructed.

"I'm not saying do away with it or nothing else. I'm just saying make something that will work. The Texas system's not working. I had to threaten to beat my attorney up so I get could get another attorney because my first attorney spent three months and hadn't even come talk to me. What kind of judicial system gives you a defense that won't even show up? All right. Hello?

"Pretty much what I got to say is we have a statement to make that the system is as corrupt as we are. You going do something about us, we'll do something about that system, too. It's going to take the public and a lot of screaming and hollering.

"The reason why I'm stepping out of these doors tonight is not from fear because I've been set for the last 40 days to die. I'm stepping out of these doors with the sole purpose of honoring the person I love and to keep my voice in the media. I'm going to start writing,(garble) we're both going to do it. We're going to keep screaming. We're going to try to get something changed. Something's gotta change. They're killing people, not only killing people who did something wrong but they're tearing families apart.

"There's one incident where one guy got parole, he got dressed up to go out and see his mother and stuff out there and they turn around and send him back to his unit. What kind of mental language, cruelty is that? That's the same as a public hanging except you're tearing up families, too."

J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL's is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed: add-remove-jail@...
All E-Groups are encouraged to sign on at jail4judges@egroups.com
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root." -- Henry David Thoreau <><

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