© 2004 James Bauhaus
BEWARE THESE COMMON LEGAL FRAUDS
“We have something better to stand on than precedent: we have principles!” Sam Kinnison
ACLU: This is the American Civil Liberties Union. Probably most of these people mean well, but many of them in the highest positions of decion-making are simply sharks looking for food. They eat from the public's pocket and are facilitated in this by their cronies on the bench (judges) who declare how much they will be paid. The most unfortunate example of this is the many lawsuits they profit from that involve non-substantive issues such as the right of Nazis or the Klan to parade through Jewish or Black neighborhoods, the right to be free from prayer and other religious practices or icons in public places, the right to abort pregnancies and even the right of prisoners and other unfortunates to humane treatment and public assistance.
All these 'rights' they profess are usually mere matters of opinion and are subject to never be truly resolved because their solution-of-the-moment depends upon which group of 'special interests has current control of the media and thus the public mind. Education and propaganda are so intertwined that it will be another century before the Constitution can be correctly interpreted, and then it won't likely be done by lawyers who profit by means of empty rhetoric, as has been the case so far. The Constitution was invented to rein in the lawyer class, the power-elite and Royalty, and so far, the forces of lawyers, govt and aristocracy, etc. have pretty much managed to defeat every provision of it through use of statute and case law. Such will always be the case until citizens get as educated and as organized as the privileged classes who make and own the law.
A specific instance where ACLU lawyers and the judges who cater to them picked the public's pockets occurred in a Nebraska case where prisoners were creating significantly larger medical bills by attacking one another. There was nothing complex about the matter. It simply involved prisoncrats forcing incompatible prisoners to live in the same bathroom size cages together until fights with serious injury and death occurred. The prisoncrats simply decided to become too lazy to pay attention to designations such as black, white, Jew, Nazi, etc. So they just began to force what they call 'random celling'. This sadistic policy was quickly aped by most states nationwide. The Nebraska victims of it were among the first to manage to get past all the institutional and legal roadblocks and reach federal court with a lawsuit.
The case was bedrock simple. There was no other answer but for the judge to tap his gavel and say, "Stop random celling immediately and don't try to sneak it back in through another means".
What did the judge do instead? He technically ruled that the prisoners 'won' the lawsuit against random celling, but he didn't outlaw the policy. He then wrote an 'opinion' that functioned as a roadmap for the prisoncrats to use to continue to implement the policy and it showed them how to conceal the medical paper trail so that no new lawsuits against random celling can be 'won' by prisoners. Prisoncrats in every state learned how to cleverly write up reports of injuries and deaths due to forced celling of enemies in such a way as to make it appear that the cause was not due to random celling. One of the primary reasons the prisoners 'won' the lawsuit is so that their lawyers could get paid out of the public pocket to the tune of about a quarter million dollars.
ACLU lawyers are directed to prisoner and other types of lawsuits by their old boy network. This is so they can step in and de-fang explosive cases. Prisoners and other powerless groups must lose the suit or sign over their lawsuit to the lawyers as a 'class action' lawsuit. The lawyers keep the issues low key, they make the injury and harm appear minimal, and they keep the media even more tame than usual. They propose minimal solutions to the problem that turn out to be non-solutions that still maintain the status quo for the privileged classes. For these services, judges give lawyers fat paychecks drawn from the public's pockets. The rules judges have created that govern lawyer pay from public pockets in such suits are written in such a way as to entice lawyers to take over class action suits. One rule is that the persons harmed who brought the suit in the first place must forgo cash settlements when signing over their rights to the class action lawyers. (The ACLU normally only takes class action lawsuits.) As always, there are legal loopholes that can be used to overcome this and other restrictions, but not without permission from the lawyers themselves, particularly the judge.
CCLP: This is the Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals. This is an organization that fronts itself off as an advocate for the disenfranchized, but my own dealings with them indicate that the people hiding behind this feel-good label are largely unresponsive and may primarily function as a fundraising tool. They have two offices, one in New York, one in California. I wrote both numerous times with my problem of fraudulent conviction and proof of same. The New York office never responded. The California office tendered my letter to a first-year law student, Karen Nash. She directed me to send her the same proof I'd already sent to CCLP twice, plus my trial transcripts. I did, and she sat on them for a solid year, then wrote back saying, "Since Mr. Barry Scheck and his innocence project were unable to make any progress in your case, it is unlikely that I'll have any success either." I never was able to obtain any response from her again or get my file or transcripts back. Since the transcripts were required for further appeals, I sent her and both CCLP offices numerous requests for them back along with sufficient postage for their return. They kept the postage too, then, months later, their fundraising office sent me a form letter begging me for money to keep their 'mission' alive! To me, their 'mission' seems to be to use law students for free labor to appear to do enough token activism to qualify for tax-free fundraising and other non-profit perks, such as special low postage rates for begging. If truth in advertising were in effect, these people should change their name to Coalition of Secretive, Student-Abusing, Funds-Soliciting Professionals.
OCCA: This is the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. This is another secretive band of even worse legal bandits. They refuse to fix obvious, flagrant violations of rights created by corrupt judges, prosecutors and cops from lower, city-court judges. They often facilitate or cover such corruptions, forcing their victims to try and obtain relief from the Federal judges (unlikely) or the 10th circuit judges (slightly less unlikely). Five judges hide behind these initials or their alias, 'The Court'. This institution feeds untold scads of aspiring prosecutors, serving as a training ground for ambitious social climbers intent upon wedging themselves into positions of power and lucre within the vast bureaucracies of govt. It also feeds, at taxpayer expense, legions of anonymous, unnecessary bureaucrats who do the work for the judges and prosecutors. They need to be audited and scrutinized closely for 'ghost' employees, just like the OK Health Dept., since it is widely known that many of the persons here do 'work' that consists solely of collecting paychecks.
The judges are arrogant in their untouchability and supreme power. And petty. They were to rule on the fraudulent sentence the Tulsa judge/DA had given me and asked them for their copy of the trial transcript. The Tulsa judge/DA refused on unintelligible grounds. This signaled the begining of the usual interminable legal wrangle between lawyers that served no purpose but to steal more months of my life. In desperation, I sent the OCCA judges/Attornies General my own transcript just to get them switched to important work, such as freeing an innocent man and catching the actual killer. After six solid months they finally puked their ruling, which was nothing more that the same legal frippery cited by the Tulsa Asst. DA, only with the title changed from 'response' to 'Order'. This refusal to fix things freed me to go to the next highest court, except that the OCCA bastards refused to return my transcripts, plus they stole the postage I sent! When I was forced to sue them to get it back, they snottily claimed that they'd sent it back. Years later Investigator John Floyd found it in their possession and, of course, returned it to them despite the fact that it had my sister's name stamped on it and a label that said it came from Kinko's in Tulsa, 90 miles away from their opulent lair in Okie City.
David Jordan: He is your standard highly-paid lawyer who is representative of all such scoundrels. Friends of mine who told me to try this guy because he was supposed to be less of a thief than most lawyers didn't know what they were talking about. I wrote him asking how much he wanted for merely reading my 100 page transcript and jotting down whatever appeal-worthy allegations he noticed while doing so. He said $200 would suffice, I sent him the money and the transcript. He cashed the money order immediately and sat on the transcript for six months. After two letters he finally deigned to respond. Instead of doing the job I'd asked and paid him to do, he replied, "Your chances on appeal are fair to good. I'll need $20,000 for each court I take you through." (I'd mentioned no court, only allegations, which are like titles of briefs that I'd write up myself based upon the titles.) I reminded him that our contract was for him to provide allegations which I would research. He'd supplied something akin to a weather report. He ignored what I'd said again in two more letters, forcing me to complain to the local lawyer's association about his theft of my money and transcript. This 'self-policing' organization was as worthless as Jordan himself. Finally he sent my transcript back unread. . (I'd stuck several pages together at various points: not one of these seals were broken.) This sleazy, slick-lipped thief stole $200 and did nothing at all to earn it.
'BAR' ASSOCIATIONS: I've written many of these various lawyer-excusing organizations and found them to be worthless to citizens and essential for lawyers to help disguise, delay and minimize their everyday, routine corruptions so that they can continue to practice their parasitic ways unhindered. The rule is that whenever you're forced to deal with lawyers, prepare to be eaten alive by a vicious, protected species that knows no restraints of any form. You will do better to be your own lawyer and feed sharks, not lawyers.