Maximized Bribery 

            You know the most galling thing about bribery? It is that it is such

a ripoff: It used to be bribery was straight forward. You found your

crooked public official in charge of keeping the public from what it needs, you

negotiated a price, you paid it, then he gave you what you paid for. If

he could not do it, he wouldn't accept the money, and, if his boss caught on,

he either took a cut for himself or quashed the deal. You either paid

slightly more, or you got your money back and tried some other gov't employed

influence peddler.

            Now the lawyers have taken over much of the bribery business by

weaseling themselves between a public groaning beneath the oppression of

laws and the public officials so ready to dispense relief for a price. The

main trouble that this causes is that this makes the cost of bribery sky-

rocket. The lawyers now suck out 30 to 50 percent for themselves merely

for acting as bag men. Since when is it worth such a huge markup to simply

take money from one pocket and sneak it, untraceably, into a public

officials' pocket? The lawyer doesn't even launder it: For this service he

charges extra:

            Now, I understand that, in this new age of x-treme lawyering, crooked

public officials need extra protection from the general public finding out

how these public servants really work. Simply looking at the graph of political

corruption since it broke its first chart during the Reagan      

administration shows a nearly vertical rise by the end of the Sonny Bush

regime, which ended in the world wide robbery. (See: "Bail the Rich;

Screw the Poor")

            One would think that the cat is out of the bag, and, since Bush Junior,

splatted up onto the wall, unmistakable to anyone with eyes to see. Public

officials are now famous for their corruption as well as their greed,

incompetence, infidelity, hypocracy and lack of morals or ethics. They

have also made themselves immune to the laws that they make, so they do not

any longer need the services of lawyers to hide that which everyone knows.

A second tragedy about lawyers inserting themselves between buyer and

seller of influence and special treatment is that the bribe intended for

the politician or gov't bureaucrat is often simply stolen by the lawyer.

This is particularly true of "criminal" lawyers, who are often exactly that.

            While they are trying to obtain your money, they will say anything to

induce the transfer, painting the rosiest of pictures. Common phrases to      .

look out for are, "The law clearly is as you described it to me!", "I see no

problem getting what you want", "I know that judge well; we often drink to-

gether and go to the same country clubs. He is a good, fair man." This all

sounds innocuous to the amateur purchaser of justice, until he gets ripped

off. First, the criminal lawyer will always agree with any type of out-

rageous nonsense that you heard or read about the law. He is the fantasy man.

            Your money and his optimism combine to make your dreams of justice, freedom

and fairness come true. His business is indeed to "see no problem" in ob-

taining your desires, since, if he can't do this, you'll go to the next

lawyer and he will be totally optomistic. It is also true that he and all the

other lawyers know each other, drink with each other, went to school to-

gether, go to work and to country clubs together and all think of each other.

as very fine fellows! The thing is, it is a small world, especially for

people who have the same job of funnelling and prodding the common herd down

their chutes of law for branding with justice. And who would have a higher

opinion of themselves when the very first rule of law and politics

teaches, "Never disparage your own people or craft"?

            Soon as he cashes your check, his optimism declines in direct proportion

to how much future payment he thinks that he can obtain from you. For $5,000,

you get plenty of hot air and the lawyer will have his paralegal scribble-up

a short essay to the judge about your case. You will not get a copy, except

maybe after the prosecutor rebuts it and the judge denies it. This is to

prevent you from reading how inconceivably inadequate his work is for the

price you paid and writing the judge yourself, if only to complain about

being ripped off. Trying to sue him for fraud or incompetence is useless,

and lawyers have their own bureaucracy for pretending to investigate them-

selves. They never rule that they should give any money back, no matter

how flagrant their frauds. Unbeknownst to you, soon as your money passes to

the lawyer's hands, his thoughts turn almost immediately to fleecing his

next victim. When months pass and the judge finally rules, "your" lawyer

can count on you calling him so he can sell to you his same services again for

the next highest layer of judges. Most people think that the appeals system

grew out of concern for justice. Actually, the four more layers of judges

were put there out of a concern for the profits that lawyers noticed were not

being harvested. The less justice, the more people are willing to pay for

another ride on the lawyer-go-round.

            The main reason that lawyers were able to take over the citizen-accessible

end of the bribery industry is because wealth-packed corporations have bought

up all the politicians at their end. As a consequence, our legislative law

lords are priced far out of range of any ordinary citizen's pocketbook. The

super-rich have spoiled our politicians by drowning them in money, inflating

the price of bribery to far more than it is actually worth. Ordinary citizens

are thus made too financially insignificant to buy any relief from our state

crooks through purchase of federal gov't crooks. This situation leaves us

at the mercy of our state crooks and the lawyers that keep us from directly

accessing them.

            So now we citizens are stuck, because corporations write the laws and

lawyers control the relief from them. Citizens are in more danger than

ever before now that corporations have bought from our politicians the right

to suck up tax cash by caging citizens. The corporations now write the

legislation that makes captivity last longer and have their politician

servants vote them into law. Just look at any of the 50 C.U.R.E newsletters

to see the state politicians approve prison corporation-written laws with

machinegun rapidity. Soon these captivity-selling corporations will be making

the laws that fill their cages and fund the building of their prisons.

            Sonny Bushs' secret prisons and torture facilities were just the begining.

Just wait for when the next pack of republican conservative chickenhawks get

in to finish their rape of Earth and its inhabitants. We are already half

way to their envisioned world of a supper rich parasite class feasting end-   

lessly from the slave class, with millions of police thugs to keep the two

classes safely apart.