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08-30-2005, 07:19 PM
Rigged courts, bribed judges, phony trials, extortion by lawyers, and
over 2 million prisoners in the USA gulag
by Les Sachs
August 30, 2005
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The recent pattern of American violations of international law are
ultimately based in the corruption of the USA domestic legal system.
Phony USA courts are very dangerous even for travellers and visitors
to America, who can easily wind up among the USA's more than 2
million prisoners, or lose all their family's possessions to corrupt
American lawyers.
All world citizens should know how the corrupt USA legal system, is a
danger to every traveller, visitor, and guest worker from overseas,
and to every individual who takes the risky step of entering upon
American territory. Just ask the overseas families of prisoners who
were put to death inside the USA, with their embassies never even
being informed that they were arrested - or the many foreign people
serving hugely long prison terms in America, after they were jailed
on flimsy tainted "evidence" from criminal snitches.
The reality is that the United States of America, which proclaims
itself the "land of freedom", has the most dishonest, dangerous and
crooked legal system of any developed nation. Legal corruption is
covering America like a blanket.
The corruption of the USA legal system is well-known, but also well-
hidden, by the news services of America's corporate-owned media. The
US media companies are afraid both of reprisal, and of the social
revolution that would come from exposing the truth. Here is what the
US media companies know, but are afraid to tell you about American
"justice".
Concentration camps with concrete walls
America has the largest prison gulag in the entire world - yes, right
there in the USA, the self-proclaimed "land of freedom". The starting
point for understanding anything about the USA, is to digest the fact
that just this one country, the United States of America, has twenty-
five percent of ALL of the prisoners in the entire world.
More than 2 million prisoners - more than 1 out of every 150 people
in America - are behind bars in the American gulag. This is now the
world's biggest system of what are effectively concentration camps,
though most of these prisoners are behind masonry walls and inside
prison buildings.
For minorities, the statistics are even more brutal. For example, the
USA is now imprisoning about 1 out of every 36 people in its black
population. American "justice" is especially focused on jailing young
black males.
Quite amazingly, Americans and the American government, continually
criticize the legal systems and so-called "political" legal
proceedings in other countries such as China, Russia, and even
Belgium among many other places. Yet, for example, the proportion of
prisoners is 30 times higher in the USA than in China, even though
China is a country regularly criticized and denounced by the USA
government.
No one imprisons people as readily, or casually, as does America. As
you learn more about America's horrifying legal system, you find out
how easily and carelessly America arrests people, and tosses innocent
people into prison. It is estimated that America has at least 100,000
completely innocent people in jail, but the statistics of innocence
may well run far higher. The number of people known to be innocent,
and yet who were actually sentenced to death in recent years in
America, is already running into the hundreds.
Of America's more than 2 million prisoners, about 50,000 are known to
be foreign citizens. This proportion might seem small, but remember
that 50,000 prisoners is more than the entire prison population of
many other countries. It only appears as a small percentage, because
of America's obsession with jailing its own people, who have had more
time to get caught in America's web of legal horror.
The USA is extremely casual about the jailing of foreigners, and not
honouring their rights under international law or treaties and
agreements. Often, foreign citizens have been sentenced to death,
while the USA didn't even bother to notify the foreign government
that their citizens were arrested.
Several other governments are working hard just to try and obtain
even the most primitive judicial rights for their own nationals, who
have been seized and held in abusive conditions by the USA empire.
And yet, the United States of America somehow still brags about its
own legal system, while criticizing other countries.
Understanding that America has such a huge percentage of even its own
people in prison, is to start to understand the subconscious fear
behind much of American life.
Before you set foot in America, you should have a clear picture of
the terror of America's legal system - the judges and lawyers and
money and bribery, that have made this system of fear so pervasive.
There is not yet enough public media information about America's
domestic legal horrors, horrors which have been rapidly increasing.
And the American public, even the victims of its legal system, have a
hard time realizing why it is so hard to fight legal corruption there.
The situation is so bad, that a social explosion is beginning inside
America. You can read some news stories - about people murdering
judges, or attacking the families of judges, or people setting fire
to courthouses in the USA - and see the pattern that is emerging,
even though the news media are afraid to connect the dots and suggest
what might be behind all these events. America is trying to maintain
its myths about its legal system, even while the desperate reality of
life inside the USA is starting to blow back into escalating social
upheaval.
USA torture and illegal jailing overseas, starts with USA domestic
torture and illegal jailing at home
The world press has documented clear violations of human and legal
rights by America in its overseas jails, such as the infamous
situations in Guantanamo and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and the
even more secret network of prisons in places like Diego Garcia or on
board American ships.
But the problem is much bigger, than America's legal abuses under its
military invasions and "war on terrorism". These USA violations of
international law, are consistent with the corruption in America's
home legal system within its own borders, and have partly evolved
from America's legal abuses against its own citizens and residents.
American prisons are often horrible, with lots of torment of
prisoners, like you would expect in some petty dictatorship.
Conditions are brutal in USA jails; rape and beatings are common, and
there is little help for abused inmates. In addition to the many
official USA executions, numerous people are also illegally killed in
jail cells, "mysteriously" said to have hanged themselves or "found
stabbed to death".
Scandals of overseas prison abuse, as in the USA-run Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq, have arisen from sources much deeper than America's
foreign policy. These scandals are in part replications of inmate
abuse inside of America's domestic prison gulag. Without diminishing
the brutality of the crimes committed by Americans in Iraqi prisons,
it is also true that such crimes are consistent with the brutality of
prisons inside America.
In the regular functioning of the USA courts, America's domestic
lawyers and judges, threaten people with illegal jailing, and rape,
torture and murder in jail, just like the threats used by Americans
against Iraqi subjects of the American occupation. America will play
the song about "just a few bad apples in the barrel" whenever an
abuse scandal gets exposed, either domestically or abroad, but the
cover-up of such abuse is more the routine response.
Theoretically, torture and abuse is totally outlawed by America's
Constitution, but some of the nice words in America's Constitution
hold little power anymore, despite how often people quote them. The
Americans who still believe the Constitution protects them, are
mostly those people who haven't yet dealt with the judges and lawyers
of America's corrupt legal system.
America's Constitution and Bill of Rights are nearly dead, not just
because the judges will no longer enforce them, but even more because
America's lawyers will not even fight for them. The two American
"political parties" are not fighting for them, either, and America's
news media are also very passive. If you look at America in depth,
you can see there has been a widespread moral collapse in America's
legal and political structures. This means that America's legal
system has become largely a tool of government terror, and of bribery
for the rich and the powerful. The average person is just fodder for
the meat-grinder of America's courts.
America's lies and sleazy arguments to make excuses for torture, or
to deny people the rights of the Geneva convention, or holding people
for many years without charges, are also just an extension of the
deviousness in America's domestic legal system. Inside America,
neither its laws nor its Constitution nor the facts nor evidence nor
anything else, no longer have real authority inside the American courts.
All that's left is what American lawyers and judges call "the game".
As part of playing this game, USA lawyers and judges just twist words
around, in order to produce any excuse, however flimsy, to achieve
their objective, whether that be to jail an innocent person, or give
the verdict that was sought by the big company that paid the big
bribe through its law firm.
It is an endlessly devious manipulation of words and phrases to get
the desired result, just devious falsehood and lies backed by the
naked power of the judges. The only "real" part is the power that the
judges and lawyers hold in America, to jail you and take away your
property. The words of the law don't protect you in the USA, because
American judges and lawyers have no scruples about bending them to
mean the opposite of what they say.
America's lawyers are controlled by the judges, and don't really work
for you - that's why they sell you out to the government, or to the
big companies that pay bribes
There's some very special aspects about the way American lawyers are
controlled by American judges, which is central to why America's
legal corruption is so much worse than any other advanced nation.
Even if you are paying an American lawyer huge amounts of money, he
or she doesn't really work for you, and in fact may sell you down the
river to the jailhouse.
American lawyers are directly under the thumb of the judges and the
government, and must submit to the culture of bribery and perversion
of justice, or else face terrifying revenge. Lawyers, just like you,
can be instantly jailed by an American judge on flimsy pretexts, and
American lawyers can be quickly stripped of their right to practice
law, and personally and financially destroyed, if they dare to
criticize legal corruption. Lawyers who try to fight the system can
find themselves not only dis-barred, but also criminally charged and
jailed, and no other lawyer will help them. It is a horribly crooked
system in America.
This is different from other advanced countries, where lawyers are
usually a professional guild, whose status and right to practice law,
is under the control of only their fellow lawyers. This means that,
in other countries, the judges and the government cannot easily ruin
or attack the lawyers for purely political reasons. This is also part
of why, in other developed countries, outside of America, you really
do see brave lawyers fighting for un-popular clients, or challenging
the government, and asking for justice.
But in America, it's different. Over the past century, the American
lawyers lost the right to regulate themselves, and instead fell under
the power of the judges. So American lawyers are afraid to do things
in court, that the judges don't want them to do. America's army of
nearly 1 million lawyers, is almost totally under the control of a
few thousand judges, with their entrenched culture of bribery and
fraud and miscarriage of justice.
Some USA lawyers don't like this, but they are helpless and can't
fight it. Most lawyers in America have, to one degree or another,
signed up with the devil, to do things the way the devil wants them
done.
That means that any time you hire an American lawyer, he already is
in a conflict of interest. He has to make the judge happy first. And
if the judge wants to make the government happy, or make somebody
else happy who is paying a big bribe, then guess what? You are
destroyed. It doesn't matter what you paid the lawyer. He works for
the judge, first and foremost.
So a totally unique factor in USA legal corruption is the amazingly
dishonest profession of American lawyers, these lawyers who "play the
game" with America’s judges and politicians and police. It is a
savage culture of legal fraud, where lawyers work with judges to rob
and terrify people, especially minorities, but also foreigners, and
above all those who dare to question the system.
People accused of serious crimes have the "right" to a lawyer, but
this may mean only a crooked lawyer who is stage-managing the victim
to help the government and prosecutors. If the lawyer does not help
the government, he can be put out of work and not "assigned" to any
more cases, or treated badly the next time he is in a courtroom. This
legal fraud is the core of the danger to those who visit America. A
lawyer who is "representing" you in the USA, whether the government
is paying him, or even if you are paying him yourself, may just be a
stooge who is helping the prosecutors to put you in jail, even though
you are innocent.
The judges of America gave every accused criminal the "right" to a
lawyer, not because they cared about the rights of the accused, but
because it helps stage-manage the victim, with a lawyer who has to do
things the judge's way. In America, such government-appointed lawyers
are the means by which hundreds of thousands of poor people are
railroaded into prison. Some of these people were just foreign
tourists, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and wound up rotting
in an American prison.
Some lawyers are fairly subtle about it, and their victims never
realize the lawyer has sold them out to the judge and the government.
Most American court cases never go to trial, never see a jury; it is
the job of the victim's lawyer to "sell the deal" that the judge has
decided will happen, or else. This is how people accept a "plea
bargain" so they accept going to jail for 3 years even though they
are innocent, instead of going to trial before a jury.
Because of the corruption of lawyers under the thumb of the judges,
there's a very fake and phony aspect of court proceedings in America.
They are really fake "show trials" in many cases, sometimes very
obviously so, where both purported "sides" of lawyers are actually
working together for the government, or for the big corporation or
rich person that is bribing the judge.
You will also find, in the American legal system, that you
essentially have no recourse whatsoever against wrongdoing by your
own lawyer. A lawyer can sell you out, betray you, steal your money,
engage in malpractice, help out the other side, hide the evidence
that proved you were right, or commit felony crime against you, and
there is nothing you can do about it, so long as the lawyer made the
judge happy, and the judge got his cut of any money the lawyer stole
from you.
Innocent and being arrested - they don't like to admit a mistake in
America
Yes, lots of people live their whole lives in America and never get
arrested. And yet, some poor foreign visitor comes to America for a
short holiday, gets arrested by mistake, and gets sentenced to death
by lethal injection even though he is totally innocent. Well, that's
the lottery of life for those who visit or live in America.
The police and prosecutors in America have no concern at all whether
they have arrested someone who is innocent. They just don't care.
When a crime is committed, they try to arrest somebody, anybody, just
to say they got the bad guy. And they never like to admit they made a
mistake. Once they arrest you, they will try to make up and plant
false evidence, to help try and convict you. A common trick is to
take other criminals they know, who are facing jail on other charges,
and get those criminals to be false witnesses against you. The cops
justify this kind of thing by saying to themselves, "Well, if you
didn't commit this crime, you probably committed some other crime we
don't know about."
If they do arrest you in America, they like to pile on all sorts of
criminal charges. The idea is to charge you with 10 crimes, because
it makes you sound bad, and maybe convict you on 3 of them or you
will accept a plea bargain on 1 or 2 of them. Any kind of guilty
plea, and they call it a success, even though you were totally innocent.
For the police and prosecutors, it's all a kind of sporting game, so
they can bring about their "high conviction rate". Perhaps part of
the reason America has so much crime, even with more than 2 million
people in prison, is because the people who actually committed the
crimes were never arrested. Also, some poor people may feel that the
odds are high they will be arrested someday anyway, so they may as
well be criminals and enjoy life in the meantime.
The system is extremely racist, of course, and white people are
arrested less than many minorities. But no one is safe. Any innocent
person can get railroaded to death in America.
Multi-millionaires and big corporations, vs. everybody else
The only people who really can get expect some fairness in American
courts are multi-millionaires and big corporations. Nobody else
really matters to American judges and lawyers.
There is a huge amount of bribery in America, perhaps even more than
in the courts of any other country in the world. Even some American
ex-judges have admitted the near-universality of bribery there.
Nearly all bribes are given to the judges by lawyers; this is
considered the safe way to bribe a judge. Bribery is rarely spoken
about, just understood. Rich people pay huge amounts of money to law
firms with connections, the lawyers walk around with a certain amount
of cash in their jacket, and they pass it to the judges in their
quiet moments together. It is mostly all cash of course. Sometimes
the bribery is blatantly obvious, because of the other crimes that
lawyers and judges commit in broad daylight together. In the
courtrooms you can see the judges being extremely friendly to their
rich lawyer friends who pay big bribes.
As an average person, there's no real way to out-bribe a big
corporation, regardless of what your lawyer promised you. That's why
the big companies win so often.
American judges are very devious, and use all sorts of techniques to
prevent a victim from getting justice. Lots of judges issue gag
orders, and bans on freedom of speech, to help prevent other people
from finding out what is going on. Judges set up a trial in all sorts
of ways, giving orders that all sorts of evidence be hidden from a
jury, for example. The judge may declare, for example, that the
evidence that proves you are innocent or right, will not be allowed
at the trial.
Jury trials are actually very rare in America, unlike what you see in
the movies. Most cases are settled through some deal or extortion or
intimidation, before there is an actual trial. If there is a jury
trial, they tend to stack the jury with un-educated idiots who will
tend to believe whatever lies they are told by the judge and the
government. If you are trying to fight a rich person in court, the
judge might let the fancy lawyers for the rich person say anything
they want, while he tells you to shut up as soon as you start
talking. The judges have a thousand ways to rig a legal proceeding,
to benefit rich people or the government.
It's no wonder so many innocent people go to prison. With the
fundamental brutality and harshness of life in America, American
citizens are confused and fearful, and gullible to propaganda. So, a
jury in a courtroom, these people who tend to be poorly educated,
will tend to go along with any lies presented by government
prosecutors. In this environment of fear, the feeling of safety for
the jury, comes from following the "strong" government in sending
various "suspected criminals" to jail.
Yes, there are appeals courts, but these are just more judges, who
are often friends with the lower court judge who originally sold you
out. The appeals judges tend to go along with the lower court judge,
unless you have suddenly acquired some politically powerful backing
on your side.
Americans love to talk about "taking it all the way to the Supreme
Court!", but this is a nearly empty hope. The U.S. Supreme Court
simply refuses to consider most cases that are presented to it.
If you are a little helpless nobody, the appeals judges often barely
reply to you, and sometimes don't reply at all. Sometimes people have
been strapped to a table and given the lethal poison and put to death
in America, with the victim's appeal never even answered by the judges.
What about when people win millions of dollars in a lawsuit against
the big company?
Every now and then, there is worldwide news of how some average
person in America has won a lawsuit for $25 million or some other
huge sum of money, from some company or other. What's going on here -
if the American legal system is so crooked, how can people be winning
such big money?
Such cases are indeed real, but they are actually somewhat rare,
numerically - rather like winning the lottery - and it's important to
see why they take place, and how they fit into the big pattern. Such
cases are typically after someone has been seriously injured or died
due to some defective product or prescription drug or hospital
treatment or accident.
These cases have a certain "place" in the American legal framework,
accepted by the judges. They are also very important for maintaining
the bribery culture. A lot of the money won in such cases goes into
the lawyer's pockets, and is a major source of bribery money for the
judges. As regards big companies and the judges, such cases are
viewed as a kind of "tax" on the big corporations, part of the cost
of doing business in America, part of the price of being able to
otherwise make huge profits.
Such cases, as well, have the same function as in a gambling casino,
when the casino proudly announces that one customer has just won a
huge jackpot. The hype about the one jackpot winner, hides the fact
that most everyone else is losing money. The person whose husband
died from the defective prescription drug, and won millions of
dollars (one-third of that to the lawyer, of course), is the person
who is shoved forward to prove that "the legal system works - it's
the greatest legal system in the world!"
The small handful of such personal-injury cases, are intended to
distract the public from all the innocent people sentenced to prison,
from all the families destroyed by bribed judges in divorce cases,
and from all the people whose lives are destroyed by big companies,
companies who cheerfully pay bribes to win their routine cases in court.
Big companies know that some big "injury" cases will be lost, in
order to supply money for the lawyers and judges who otherwise take
good care of the big company's interests. When you are making
hundreds of millions of dollars, the loss of a few million here and
there is just another expense of business. In the end, the companies
just raise their prices to cover the costs of lawyers and lawsuits.
The whole world pays for the millions earned by American lawyers,
they are the ultimate parasites.
There are other casualties here, too. America's health care system
has been destroyed from the inside by the legal culture of constant
lawsuits against doctors and hospitals, with huge amounts of money
being given to the lawyers in these cases, driving up the cost of
medical care and putting it out of reach of many people. America is
the only economically advanced nation without a national health plan,
with tens of millions of Americans having no health coverage. USA
lawyers joke openly about how, when the courts make big money awards
to pay a lawyer, the lawyer often gives the judge a bribe by way of
gratitude. Some lawyers grow rich, and doctors are afraid to continue
practicing medicine in the US, and many Americans die from lack of
health care.
But while America's lawyers will very casually file legal charges
against doctors, hospitals, or ordinary people, for any flimsy
reason, to try and squeeze some money from the situation, they are
extremely afraid to take any legal action against another lawyer or
judge engaged in misconduct. That's where fear takes over, and
lawyers are suddenly too timid to file any lawsuits.
The Hollywood image, versus the grim reality
Once you have digested the fact that America has the world's largest
prison gulag, another major thing to digest is the USA government,
and much of America, is primarily a sales organization, whose chief
tool is hype and propaganda and outright lies. America is a culture
built on sales and advertising; it focuses on portraying an image,
not the reality beneath it.
This is why America was so casual about inventing and selling the
lies about "weapons of mass destruction" to help start the Iraq
invasion. It was just a question of whatever lies needed to be told,
in order to sell the product; there was no concern about afterwards,
when the lies were exposed. America just figures it can later send
out more salespeople with more lies, in an endless cycle. Tomorrow is
just another day, when America will try to sell another product, the
"war on terror", the "spread of freedom", or whatever.
The selling never stops, in Washington or Hollywood. America sells
political lies like Hollywood sells movies. When the USA President
talks about "advancing the cause of freedom", he basically means
freedom for big corporations to do business. He's not really talking
about actual personal freedom for real people. But he grins when he
talks about "freedom" because it's a good word of salesmanship,
people hear him and some of them can be duped into believing that
America cares about personal or political freedom.
Hollywood movies and American television are a major element of
political myth-making. Around the world, people derive an image of
America, and its legal system, from these fictional creations on
film. America's propaganda about having "the greatest legal system in
the world" is one of those phony stories that Hollywood is helping to
sell.
It is also a myth sustained by the few trials about which there is a
lot of publicity, like with the celebrity trials of Martha Stewart or
Michael Jackson. Judges behave very differently when the cameras are
rolling, or the media is reporting everything that goes on, and
millions of dollars are being spent on lawyers. But in the 98 percent
of court activity that does not have big media coverage, the judges
of America provide a bizarre sideshow of horror.
In the Hollywood version, the judges in American courts are like kind
uncles, smiling and being wise and calmly dispensing justice. But in
reality, American judges sometimes scream at people like disturbed
perverts, and show off their bribed corruption right there in the
courtroom. Sometimes judges engage in flagrant extortion, where you
have to agree to pay money to the judge's lawyer friends as the price
to stay out of jail. It is really that bad. You can find no end of
documented horror about American judges behaving like criminal
lunatics, and it is getting worse all the time.
In the Hollywood version, there are brave lawyers who will fight for
your rights, to win justice for you in the American courts. In
reality, you can't find an American lawyer brave enough to fight
judicial corruption, even if you are innocent and the judge's friends
have threatened to murder you, or to send you to jail for the rest of
your life. The lawyers who used to be brave, were destroyed or
intimidated, and nearly all American lawyers now submit themselves to
the culture of corruption and bribery, and betraying and abandoning
the people who need legal help.
In the sad reality, American lawyers line up by the dozen to help the
government or the big corporations, and regularly betray the average
person, even if they are supposedly representing you. Even the
lawyers who don't want to be wicked themselves, are too timid to
really fight the system. At a certain point, nearly all American
lawyers will hold back and abandon their clients, because they are
trying to survive themselves and avoid revenge by the judges.
In the Hollywood version, the average person is also helped by the
"brave investigative reporter" at some newspaper or television
station, who shows great courage in exposing the truth, and bringing
powerful wrongdoing to face justice. However, the brave
"investigative reporter" in America is now as fictional and non-
existent as the "brave lawyer" who will fight for your rights. This
is especially true on any topic pertaining to corruption by judges
and lawyers.
In America today, reporters are little timid people who are afraid of
getting fired, and who almost never write a story on government
corruption, unless some other part of the government is officially
investigating or prosecuting. That goes triple when judges or lawyers
are involved. The owners of the newspapers and television stations
are afraid of revenge by the judges if they have to go to court, and
the nervous little reporters who work for them understand the rules
of the game.
If you look closely at a modern newspaper or news magazine in the
USA, you will see how almost all stories originate with the
government itself. When the media "investigates", they are usually
just adding more details on a situation already being targeted by the
government. Every news media and television station in America is
swamped with people begging them to report on stories, that they
totally refuse to cover. The reporters are too scared, and they know
the stories wouldn't get printed or broadcast even if they were written.
America is the land of fear, as regards the legal system and the
culture of corruption. Everyone involved with the USA legal system is
afraid, very afraid, of stepping on the wrong toes. Even American
judges themselves get driven out of office, if they don't participate
in the bribery culture.
No recourse against crime and fraud by judges and lawyers in America
In reality, there is almost nothing you can do against misconduct,
and even open felony crime, committed against you by American judges
and lawyers. All of the official complaint procedures you find on the
internet, or at the courthouse or in the law books, turn out to be a
joke, a farce and a fraud.
Complaints about lawyers in America, usually go to the "Bar", which
is itself run by the judges who are involved in bribery with the
lawyers. And complaints about judges go to other judges, their friends.
Nearly all the complaints about lawyers and judges - tens of
thousands of them - are kept secret. Nearly all are dismissed or
ignored. They are generally only used if the judges or politicians
want to specially destroy someone - some radical minority lawyer,
someone who is not playing the bribery game, somebody who has dared
to expose wrongdoing. Otherwise, even criminal acts by lawyers and
judges get a smiling cover-up.
You will almost certainly not find any lawyers to help you sue
another lawyer for wrongdoing. They are too scared of revenge by the
judges. Even the lawyers who are broke and unemployed and desperate
for work, are too scared to sue another lawyer. (Special caution:
Lawyers may make false promises to you about suing another lawyer,
cash your checks and steal your money, and then refuse to help you.
And then you will have another lawyer who wronged you.)
The police and FBI almost certainly will not help you, either. They
all know the bribery game, and they rely on the same crooked judges
to help send innocent people to prison after they have been arrested.
The more crooked the judge, the more eager the judge will be, to help
the police or FBI do a dirty deal and convict an innocent person.
And, of course, the newspapers and television and media won't help
you. They hear stories like yours all the time. If they publish or
broadcast your story, then they will have problems the next time they
get sued in court. Or they might find themselves arrested on false
charges, and end up in an even worse situation than you.
The newspapers are so tied into the establishment of judges and
lawyers, that the newspapers sometimes help the judges and lawyers to
commit their crimes, and to unfairly smear and attack their victims.
The big media newspapers have even helped to plant false "evidence"
in court cases, and help the legal establishment to destroy innocent
people. But even if not harming you, the USA media is afraid to help
you, afraid of revenge if they expose judicial corruption.
These fears are just as big, if not bigger, with America's radical
and alternative media, and bloggers and internet sites. Such people
will criticize American foreign policy and so on, but everybody is
scared of talking about specific cases of corruption by lawyers and
judges. The independent media has even more reason to be afraid,
because they are even more vulnerable if the lawyers start to file
false charges against them in the courts.
Of course, America's politicians will not help you, either. Many
politicians are themselves lawyers, very used to the whole game of
bribery with judges and other lawyers. The politicians accept the
crooked courts as the way that America is run, and as helping the two
big parties to monopolize the political scene and prevent alternative
political movements.
America's two big political parties, the Democrats and Republicans,
can be seen as another phony game like America's courts. The two
parties actually get their hundreds of millions of dollars in money
from the same people at the same big corporations who own the rest of
America. These two American parties pretend to argue with each other
over emotional issues like gun control and abortion rights, but in
the end both of these parties serve the big corporations. Half of
Americans are still fooled into thinking that these parties represent
them, the other half sense it is phony but feel helpless and don't
know what to do. This is why people don't vote very much in America;
they feel it is hopeless and useless.
You can also forget about America's human rights and civil liberties
groups, even though it looks, at first, like there are many such
groups on the internet. Many such groups are just money-raising
groups which don't help victims, or are tied to the two main
political parties or some narrow agenda. They are all scared of the
legal system, too, and there is no one with any significant funding
or money, who is out there helping the victims of legal corruption.
They can't find lawyers to help them, either. There are some
overwhelmed and struggling projects here and there, doing worthy work
for a few of the innocent people in prison, but they function in an
environment of timidity and fear, and without the resources or clout
or media access to expose or change what is happening.
It's getting worse and worse in America all the time. As the judges
and lawyers can get away with committing crimes, they are getting
more open and blatant, committing felony crimes in broad daylight,
because they know no one will stop them or bring them to account.
It is also important to know, that once you have started complaining
about, or exposing, judicial and legal corruption in America, you
become a kind of outlaw there. You are in a very dangerous situation,
and you are considered fair game to be either arrested and jailed on
false charges, or to be totally robbed and betrayed by America's
lawyers. Once you have spoken out about legal corruption, you may
find that no other lawyer will then help you for any reason, even if
it is un-related to your complaint about judicial wrongdoing. You may
be trapped in a nightmare from which there is no escape unless you
can leave America altogether.
Dealing with American lawyers, if you have no other choice
Perhaps the statistical chance of getting arrested in America as an
innocent person, and then being sent to prison or put to death, is
relatively small. But think of how you will feel if you end up as one
of those 2 million American prisoners, including 50,000 foreign
citizens. Or perhaps even one of those several thousand people on
Death Row, waiting for the lethal poison to be injected into your arm.
Visiting America now, is probably similar to visiting or doing
business in 1936 with Hitler's Reich, or Mussolini's fascist empire.
If you did such a thing in 1936, you might have visited and had a
wonderful time, maybe even have done some business with companies in
those countries. You might have seen some beautiful sights, and met
some very friendly individual people, perhaps drunk a beer or two, or
a nice glass of wine, maybe attended the 1936 Olympics. Very likely,
you wouldn't have seen any concentration camps, in the places where
you travelled. You might have had a very pleasant trip.
But nonetheless, you were in a dangerous place, where horrible things
were going on. That's true of the United States of America today, the
land of 2 million prisoners in a giant gulag.
With America's corrupt legal system, it's certainly not the wisest
place to keep money or assets, which can be easily grabbed by
American lawyers in legal proceedings. Many smart Americans have
opened overseas bank accounts, and it is wise to not keep too much
money where American lawyers can seize it. There is no bigger group
of thieves in the world, than American lawyers.
If you are in a lawsuit situation in America, get all your money out
of the country, fast, before the USA lawyers can put any kind of hold
or freeze on it. But you shouldn't keep substantial assets in the USA
in the first place. Sell any USA real estate and rent instead, get
that money out where it is safe.
Certainly, don't ever expect any justice from American courts. Expect
the judges and both sides of lawyers to tilt toward the government,
or toward the big company that can pay bribes on a regular basis. All
that most people get out of American courts, is grief, and lawyers
stealing their money. Best not to approach American courts unless
absolutely necessary.
Despite the commonplace fraud and dishonesty of American lawyers,
it's still important to have one if you must be in an American court.
The reason is that American judges absolutely hate people who come to
court without lawyers, especially if they have any money at all. The
judge takes it as a personal insult if you are not giving some money
to one of his lawyer friends, and will tend to take revenge on you
unless you hire a lawyer, even a very stupid one, to stand by your side.
What American lawyers love to do, is to steal all your money, tell
you a bunch of false promises and lies, and then do nothing for you,
while they sell you out to the other side. That is a perfect scenario
for an American lawyer. A lawyer's goal is to squeeze as much money
from you, while at the same time doing as little as possible to rock
the judge's political boat. Some lawyers even make money by the
"research and review" scam, where they don't even agree to represent
you, but just steal your money to "research" your case.
Accept in advance that an American lawyer will rob you and betray
you, and everything will go more smoothly if you quietly understand
this. Never actually trust an American lawyer, but don't let on that
you know he's a crook.
Don't tell the lawyer how much money you really have, he will try to
get all of it. Try to pay a lawyer very slowly, in small chunks, that
will keep him more interested, and prevent some of the bigger
robberies and betrayals, and will leave you some money to try another
lawyer if things get too awful.
Remember, once you give a USA lawyer any money, it's almost
impossible to get it back. Lawyers will almost never sue another
lawyer, and if you go to court, the judge will almost certainly
protect the lawyer who defrauded you (and get a share of the money,
of course).
Lawyers and judges in America like people to appear to be submissive
and stupid and easily manipulated. They like to feel superior to you.
By letting them think that you are weak and falling for their lies,
you may give yourself some breathing room. This tactic has even
enabled some people to stay alive and not get murdered, and to escape
from America back to safety.
The growing American nightmare
It is just getting worse and worse in America's legal system. For
some years now, the USA judges and lawyers have gotten used to
denying people justice, to the great flow of bribery money, and even
to committing felony crimes in broad daylight and getting away with
it. It just keeps on escalating. Though a social explosion is lurking
beneath the surface - with judges starting to get murdered, and
people lighting courthouses ablaze - the people who run America are
letting the current system chug along as it is, justice be damned,
and to hell with the people who seem to have no way to fight back.
It can't go on like this forever, but it may get a lot worse first,
despite the fair internet visibility on documented American legal
corruption. One should note a brave and promising grass-roots attempt
at judicial reform in the USA called (Jail 4 Judges -
www.jail4judges.org), which attempts to place onto American ballots,
a referendum for a new procedure to give citizens a real right of
redress against corrupt judges. It is a wonderful and beautiful idea
that deserves success, and will help transform America if it moves
forward.
Regrettably, though, for all the usual reasons of fear, there is no
one with any big money or media clout, yet making a foray against the
real-life nightmare of America's courts and prisons. It remains a
taboo subject for the American media, and the media silence feeds and
encourages the whole machine of bribery and repression.
Perhaps, though, it will not be until after America has had a major
economic or social cataclysm, that the big American machine of legal
corruption finally comes to be reformed.
Sociologically speaking, it's astonishing how disgraceful American
lawyers have become - they are now both the mafia and the gestapo of
American life. America's lawyers, as a whole, have had little to say
about America’s recent international crimes of prisoner abuse, and
violation of international human rights agreements. American lawyers,
as always nowadays, are "playing the game" with America's government
and its judges.
America, indeed, does not have the rule of law at all. Instead, it is
just the rule of lawyers, lawyers who crave money and power. And, in
America, it can be jail or worse for anyone who tries to fight these
lawyers.
The reality of the United States of America is that Americans,
despite their overall wealth as a nation, are now a people living in
a society of great fear. Their fears are complicated, and many
Americans cannot even put their fears into words. They are afraid of
lawyers and the prison system, afraid of losing their jobs in a
brutal society with no social safety net, afraid of needing health
care in a disastrous system with no health plan. And Americans are
afraid of what will happen if they try to question the system and the
way things work. They often feel helpless and powerless against the
great forces dominating their country.
American citizens are confused and fearful, and gullible to
propaganda. Because Americans have difficulty in sorting out their
many fears, they have become ripe candidates for racial and religious
hatreds, and for following their government into war. The issues of
"terrorism" and war distract the emotions of Americans from the
terrible problems in their own society at home. The foreign "enemy"
gives Americans a face on which to project their fear and their
anger. The result is the horrifying misconduct of some Americans in
these wars; while back inside the USA, there is increasing corruption
and repression in the legal system.
Americans desperately would like to believe that they still live in a
"free" country, as it is so horrifying to them to face the ugly
truth, that their freedom is already largely lost. Americans can
imagine they are "free" because they can still choose among different
products to buy, or quit their job, or buy a gun at the store. And
the Americans most likely to imagine they are still "free" are the
ones who have not yet been trapped in the halls of America’s legal
system. They have not yet seen the lawyers and judges who smirk and
laugh as they deny victims the most basic human rights.
The truth is that, inside America, a nightmare has begun. The lawyers
and judges and courts, "playing the game", regularly trample upon the
freedoms that Americans thought they had. It is people like myself,
escaped from the USA, living in kinder and gentler places, who are
now the lucky ones.
No one should ever again be fooled by USA propaganda about being the
"land of freedom". Those who are thinking of travelling to, visiting,
or working in America, should think again. It might not be worth the
risk of being in a country that has one of the most crooked legal
systems in the world.
over 2 million prisoners in the USA gulag
by Les Sachs
August 30, 2005
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The recent pattern of American violations of international law are
ultimately based in the corruption of the USA domestic legal system.
Phony USA courts are very dangerous even for travellers and visitors
to America, who can easily wind up among the USA's more than 2
million prisoners, or lose all their family's possessions to corrupt
American lawyers.
All world citizens should know how the corrupt USA legal system, is a
danger to every traveller, visitor, and guest worker from overseas,
and to every individual who takes the risky step of entering upon
American territory. Just ask the overseas families of prisoners who
were put to death inside the USA, with their embassies never even
being informed that they were arrested - or the many foreign people
serving hugely long prison terms in America, after they were jailed
on flimsy tainted "evidence" from criminal snitches.
The reality is that the United States of America, which proclaims
itself the "land of freedom", has the most dishonest, dangerous and
crooked legal system of any developed nation. Legal corruption is
covering America like a blanket.
The corruption of the USA legal system is well-known, but also well-
hidden, by the news services of America's corporate-owned media. The
US media companies are afraid both of reprisal, and of the social
revolution that would come from exposing the truth. Here is what the
US media companies know, but are afraid to tell you about American
"justice".
Concentration camps with concrete walls
America has the largest prison gulag in the entire world - yes, right
there in the USA, the self-proclaimed "land of freedom". The starting
point for understanding anything about the USA, is to digest the fact
that just this one country, the United States of America, has twenty-
five percent of ALL of the prisoners in the entire world.
More than 2 million prisoners - more than 1 out of every 150 people
in America - are behind bars in the American gulag. This is now the
world's biggest system of what are effectively concentration camps,
though most of these prisoners are behind masonry walls and inside
prison buildings.
For minorities, the statistics are even more brutal. For example, the
USA is now imprisoning about 1 out of every 36 people in its black
population. American "justice" is especially focused on jailing young
black males.
Quite amazingly, Americans and the American government, continually
criticize the legal systems and so-called "political" legal
proceedings in other countries such as China, Russia, and even
Belgium among many other places. Yet, for example, the proportion of
prisoners is 30 times higher in the USA than in China, even though
China is a country regularly criticized and denounced by the USA
government.
No one imprisons people as readily, or casually, as does America. As
you learn more about America's horrifying legal system, you find out
how easily and carelessly America arrests people, and tosses innocent
people into prison. It is estimated that America has at least 100,000
completely innocent people in jail, but the statistics of innocence
may well run far higher. The number of people known to be innocent,
and yet who were actually sentenced to death in recent years in
America, is already running into the hundreds.
Of America's more than 2 million prisoners, about 50,000 are known to
be foreign citizens. This proportion might seem small, but remember
that 50,000 prisoners is more than the entire prison population of
many other countries. It only appears as a small percentage, because
of America's obsession with jailing its own people, who have had more
time to get caught in America's web of legal horror.
The USA is extremely casual about the jailing of foreigners, and not
honouring their rights under international law or treaties and
agreements. Often, foreign citizens have been sentenced to death,
while the USA didn't even bother to notify the foreign government
that their citizens were arrested.
Several other governments are working hard just to try and obtain
even the most primitive judicial rights for their own nationals, who
have been seized and held in abusive conditions by the USA empire.
And yet, the United States of America somehow still brags about its
own legal system, while criticizing other countries.
Understanding that America has such a huge percentage of even its own
people in prison, is to start to understand the subconscious fear
behind much of American life.
Before you set foot in America, you should have a clear picture of
the terror of America's legal system - the judges and lawyers and
money and bribery, that have made this system of fear so pervasive.
There is not yet enough public media information about America's
domestic legal horrors, horrors which have been rapidly increasing.
And the American public, even the victims of its legal system, have a
hard time realizing why it is so hard to fight legal corruption there.
The situation is so bad, that a social explosion is beginning inside
America. You can read some news stories - about people murdering
judges, or attacking the families of judges, or people setting fire
to courthouses in the USA - and see the pattern that is emerging,
even though the news media are afraid to connect the dots and suggest
what might be behind all these events. America is trying to maintain
its myths about its legal system, even while the desperate reality of
life inside the USA is starting to blow back into escalating social
upheaval.
USA torture and illegal jailing overseas, starts with USA domestic
torture and illegal jailing at home
The world press has documented clear violations of human and legal
rights by America in its overseas jails, such as the infamous
situations in Guantanamo and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and the
even more secret network of prisons in places like Diego Garcia or on
board American ships.
But the problem is much bigger, than America's legal abuses under its
military invasions and "war on terrorism". These USA violations of
international law, are consistent with the corruption in America's
home legal system within its own borders, and have partly evolved
from America's legal abuses against its own citizens and residents.
American prisons are often horrible, with lots of torment of
prisoners, like you would expect in some petty dictatorship.
Conditions are brutal in USA jails; rape and beatings are common, and
there is little help for abused inmates. In addition to the many
official USA executions, numerous people are also illegally killed in
jail cells, "mysteriously" said to have hanged themselves or "found
stabbed to death".
Scandals of overseas prison abuse, as in the USA-run Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq, have arisen from sources much deeper than America's
foreign policy. These scandals are in part replications of inmate
abuse inside of America's domestic prison gulag. Without diminishing
the brutality of the crimes committed by Americans in Iraqi prisons,
it is also true that such crimes are consistent with the brutality of
prisons inside America.
In the regular functioning of the USA courts, America's domestic
lawyers and judges, threaten people with illegal jailing, and rape,
torture and murder in jail, just like the threats used by Americans
against Iraqi subjects of the American occupation. America will play
the song about "just a few bad apples in the barrel" whenever an
abuse scandal gets exposed, either domestically or abroad, but the
cover-up of such abuse is more the routine response.
Theoretically, torture and abuse is totally outlawed by America's
Constitution, but some of the nice words in America's Constitution
hold little power anymore, despite how often people quote them. The
Americans who still believe the Constitution protects them, are
mostly those people who haven't yet dealt with the judges and lawyers
of America's corrupt legal system.
America's Constitution and Bill of Rights are nearly dead, not just
because the judges will no longer enforce them, but even more because
America's lawyers will not even fight for them. The two American
"political parties" are not fighting for them, either, and America's
news media are also very passive. If you look at America in depth,
you can see there has been a widespread moral collapse in America's
legal and political structures. This means that America's legal
system has become largely a tool of government terror, and of bribery
for the rich and the powerful. The average person is just fodder for
the meat-grinder of America's courts.
America's lies and sleazy arguments to make excuses for torture, or
to deny people the rights of the Geneva convention, or holding people
for many years without charges, are also just an extension of the
deviousness in America's domestic legal system. Inside America,
neither its laws nor its Constitution nor the facts nor evidence nor
anything else, no longer have real authority inside the American courts.
All that's left is what American lawyers and judges call "the game".
As part of playing this game, USA lawyers and judges just twist words
around, in order to produce any excuse, however flimsy, to achieve
their objective, whether that be to jail an innocent person, or give
the verdict that was sought by the big company that paid the big
bribe through its law firm.
It is an endlessly devious manipulation of words and phrases to get
the desired result, just devious falsehood and lies backed by the
naked power of the judges. The only "real" part is the power that the
judges and lawyers hold in America, to jail you and take away your
property. The words of the law don't protect you in the USA, because
American judges and lawyers have no scruples about bending them to
mean the opposite of what they say.
America's lawyers are controlled by the judges, and don't really work
for you - that's why they sell you out to the government, or to the
big companies that pay bribes
There's some very special aspects about the way American lawyers are
controlled by American judges, which is central to why America's
legal corruption is so much worse than any other advanced nation.
Even if you are paying an American lawyer huge amounts of money, he
or she doesn't really work for you, and in fact may sell you down the
river to the jailhouse.
American lawyers are directly under the thumb of the judges and the
government, and must submit to the culture of bribery and perversion
of justice, or else face terrifying revenge. Lawyers, just like you,
can be instantly jailed by an American judge on flimsy pretexts, and
American lawyers can be quickly stripped of their right to practice
law, and personally and financially destroyed, if they dare to
criticize legal corruption. Lawyers who try to fight the system can
find themselves not only dis-barred, but also criminally charged and
jailed, and no other lawyer will help them. It is a horribly crooked
system in America.
This is different from other advanced countries, where lawyers are
usually a professional guild, whose status and right to practice law,
is under the control of only their fellow lawyers. This means that,
in other countries, the judges and the government cannot easily ruin
or attack the lawyers for purely political reasons. This is also part
of why, in other developed countries, outside of America, you really
do see brave lawyers fighting for un-popular clients, or challenging
the government, and asking for justice.
But in America, it's different. Over the past century, the American
lawyers lost the right to regulate themselves, and instead fell under
the power of the judges. So American lawyers are afraid to do things
in court, that the judges don't want them to do. America's army of
nearly 1 million lawyers, is almost totally under the control of a
few thousand judges, with their entrenched culture of bribery and
fraud and miscarriage of justice.
Some USA lawyers don't like this, but they are helpless and can't
fight it. Most lawyers in America have, to one degree or another,
signed up with the devil, to do things the way the devil wants them
done.
That means that any time you hire an American lawyer, he already is
in a conflict of interest. He has to make the judge happy first. And
if the judge wants to make the government happy, or make somebody
else happy who is paying a big bribe, then guess what? You are
destroyed. It doesn't matter what you paid the lawyer. He works for
the judge, first and foremost.
So a totally unique factor in USA legal corruption is the amazingly
dishonest profession of American lawyers, these lawyers who "play the
game" with America’s judges and politicians and police. It is a
savage culture of legal fraud, where lawyers work with judges to rob
and terrify people, especially minorities, but also foreigners, and
above all those who dare to question the system.
People accused of serious crimes have the "right" to a lawyer, but
this may mean only a crooked lawyer who is stage-managing the victim
to help the government and prosecutors. If the lawyer does not help
the government, he can be put out of work and not "assigned" to any
more cases, or treated badly the next time he is in a courtroom. This
legal fraud is the core of the danger to those who visit America. A
lawyer who is "representing" you in the USA, whether the government
is paying him, or even if you are paying him yourself, may just be a
stooge who is helping the prosecutors to put you in jail, even though
you are innocent.
The judges of America gave every accused criminal the "right" to a
lawyer, not because they cared about the rights of the accused, but
because it helps stage-manage the victim, with a lawyer who has to do
things the judge's way. In America, such government-appointed lawyers
are the means by which hundreds of thousands of poor people are
railroaded into prison. Some of these people were just foreign
tourists, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and wound up rotting
in an American prison.
Some lawyers are fairly subtle about it, and their victims never
realize the lawyer has sold them out to the judge and the government.
Most American court cases never go to trial, never see a jury; it is
the job of the victim's lawyer to "sell the deal" that the judge has
decided will happen, or else. This is how people accept a "plea
bargain" so they accept going to jail for 3 years even though they
are innocent, instead of going to trial before a jury.
Because of the corruption of lawyers under the thumb of the judges,
there's a very fake and phony aspect of court proceedings in America.
They are really fake "show trials" in many cases, sometimes very
obviously so, where both purported "sides" of lawyers are actually
working together for the government, or for the big corporation or
rich person that is bribing the judge.
You will also find, in the American legal system, that you
essentially have no recourse whatsoever against wrongdoing by your
own lawyer. A lawyer can sell you out, betray you, steal your money,
engage in malpractice, help out the other side, hide the evidence
that proved you were right, or commit felony crime against you, and
there is nothing you can do about it, so long as the lawyer made the
judge happy, and the judge got his cut of any money the lawyer stole
from you.
Innocent and being arrested - they don't like to admit a mistake in
America
Yes, lots of people live their whole lives in America and never get
arrested. And yet, some poor foreign visitor comes to America for a
short holiday, gets arrested by mistake, and gets sentenced to death
by lethal injection even though he is totally innocent. Well, that's
the lottery of life for those who visit or live in America.
The police and prosecutors in America have no concern at all whether
they have arrested someone who is innocent. They just don't care.
When a crime is committed, they try to arrest somebody, anybody, just
to say they got the bad guy. And they never like to admit they made a
mistake. Once they arrest you, they will try to make up and plant
false evidence, to help try and convict you. A common trick is to
take other criminals they know, who are facing jail on other charges,
and get those criminals to be false witnesses against you. The cops
justify this kind of thing by saying to themselves, "Well, if you
didn't commit this crime, you probably committed some other crime we
don't know about."
If they do arrest you in America, they like to pile on all sorts of
criminal charges. The idea is to charge you with 10 crimes, because
it makes you sound bad, and maybe convict you on 3 of them or you
will accept a plea bargain on 1 or 2 of them. Any kind of guilty
plea, and they call it a success, even though you were totally innocent.
For the police and prosecutors, it's all a kind of sporting game, so
they can bring about their "high conviction rate". Perhaps part of
the reason America has so much crime, even with more than 2 million
people in prison, is because the people who actually committed the
crimes were never arrested. Also, some poor people may feel that the
odds are high they will be arrested someday anyway, so they may as
well be criminals and enjoy life in the meantime.
The system is extremely racist, of course, and white people are
arrested less than many minorities. But no one is safe. Any innocent
person can get railroaded to death in America.
Multi-millionaires and big corporations, vs. everybody else
The only people who really can get expect some fairness in American
courts are multi-millionaires and big corporations. Nobody else
really matters to American judges and lawyers.
There is a huge amount of bribery in America, perhaps even more than
in the courts of any other country in the world. Even some American
ex-judges have admitted the near-universality of bribery there.
Nearly all bribes are given to the judges by lawyers; this is
considered the safe way to bribe a judge. Bribery is rarely spoken
about, just understood. Rich people pay huge amounts of money to law
firms with connections, the lawyers walk around with a certain amount
of cash in their jacket, and they pass it to the judges in their
quiet moments together. It is mostly all cash of course. Sometimes
the bribery is blatantly obvious, because of the other crimes that
lawyers and judges commit in broad daylight together. In the
courtrooms you can see the judges being extremely friendly to their
rich lawyer friends who pay big bribes.
As an average person, there's no real way to out-bribe a big
corporation, regardless of what your lawyer promised you. That's why
the big companies win so often.
American judges are very devious, and use all sorts of techniques to
prevent a victim from getting justice. Lots of judges issue gag
orders, and bans on freedom of speech, to help prevent other people
from finding out what is going on. Judges set up a trial in all sorts
of ways, giving orders that all sorts of evidence be hidden from a
jury, for example. The judge may declare, for example, that the
evidence that proves you are innocent or right, will not be allowed
at the trial.
Jury trials are actually very rare in America, unlike what you see in
the movies. Most cases are settled through some deal or extortion or
intimidation, before there is an actual trial. If there is a jury
trial, they tend to stack the jury with un-educated idiots who will
tend to believe whatever lies they are told by the judge and the
government. If you are trying to fight a rich person in court, the
judge might let the fancy lawyers for the rich person say anything
they want, while he tells you to shut up as soon as you start
talking. The judges have a thousand ways to rig a legal proceeding,
to benefit rich people or the government.
It's no wonder so many innocent people go to prison. With the
fundamental brutality and harshness of life in America, American
citizens are confused and fearful, and gullible to propaganda. So, a
jury in a courtroom, these people who tend to be poorly educated,
will tend to go along with any lies presented by government
prosecutors. In this environment of fear, the feeling of safety for
the jury, comes from following the "strong" government in sending
various "suspected criminals" to jail.
Yes, there are appeals courts, but these are just more judges, who
are often friends with the lower court judge who originally sold you
out. The appeals judges tend to go along with the lower court judge,
unless you have suddenly acquired some politically powerful backing
on your side.
Americans love to talk about "taking it all the way to the Supreme
Court!", but this is a nearly empty hope. The U.S. Supreme Court
simply refuses to consider most cases that are presented to it.
If you are a little helpless nobody, the appeals judges often barely
reply to you, and sometimes don't reply at all. Sometimes people have
been strapped to a table and given the lethal poison and put to death
in America, with the victim's appeal never even answered by the judges.
What about when people win millions of dollars in a lawsuit against
the big company?
Every now and then, there is worldwide news of how some average
person in America has won a lawsuit for $25 million or some other
huge sum of money, from some company or other. What's going on here -
if the American legal system is so crooked, how can people be winning
such big money?
Such cases are indeed real, but they are actually somewhat rare,
numerically - rather like winning the lottery - and it's important to
see why they take place, and how they fit into the big pattern. Such
cases are typically after someone has been seriously injured or died
due to some defective product or prescription drug or hospital
treatment or accident.
These cases have a certain "place" in the American legal framework,
accepted by the judges. They are also very important for maintaining
the bribery culture. A lot of the money won in such cases goes into
the lawyer's pockets, and is a major source of bribery money for the
judges. As regards big companies and the judges, such cases are
viewed as a kind of "tax" on the big corporations, part of the cost
of doing business in America, part of the price of being able to
otherwise make huge profits.
Such cases, as well, have the same function as in a gambling casino,
when the casino proudly announces that one customer has just won a
huge jackpot. The hype about the one jackpot winner, hides the fact
that most everyone else is losing money. The person whose husband
died from the defective prescription drug, and won millions of
dollars (one-third of that to the lawyer, of course), is the person
who is shoved forward to prove that "the legal system works - it's
the greatest legal system in the world!"
The small handful of such personal-injury cases, are intended to
distract the public from all the innocent people sentenced to prison,
from all the families destroyed by bribed judges in divorce cases,
and from all the people whose lives are destroyed by big companies,
companies who cheerfully pay bribes to win their routine cases in court.
Big companies know that some big "injury" cases will be lost, in
order to supply money for the lawyers and judges who otherwise take
good care of the big company's interests. When you are making
hundreds of millions of dollars, the loss of a few million here and
there is just another expense of business. In the end, the companies
just raise their prices to cover the costs of lawyers and lawsuits.
The whole world pays for the millions earned by American lawyers,
they are the ultimate parasites.
There are other casualties here, too. America's health care system
has been destroyed from the inside by the legal culture of constant
lawsuits against doctors and hospitals, with huge amounts of money
being given to the lawyers in these cases, driving up the cost of
medical care and putting it out of reach of many people. America is
the only economically advanced nation without a national health plan,
with tens of millions of Americans having no health coverage. USA
lawyers joke openly about how, when the courts make big money awards
to pay a lawyer, the lawyer often gives the judge a bribe by way of
gratitude. Some lawyers grow rich, and doctors are afraid to continue
practicing medicine in the US, and many Americans die from lack of
health care.
But while America's lawyers will very casually file legal charges
against doctors, hospitals, or ordinary people, for any flimsy
reason, to try and squeeze some money from the situation, they are
extremely afraid to take any legal action against another lawyer or
judge engaged in misconduct. That's where fear takes over, and
lawyers are suddenly too timid to file any lawsuits.
The Hollywood image, versus the grim reality
Once you have digested the fact that America has the world's largest
prison gulag, another major thing to digest is the USA government,
and much of America, is primarily a sales organization, whose chief
tool is hype and propaganda and outright lies. America is a culture
built on sales and advertising; it focuses on portraying an image,
not the reality beneath it.
This is why America was so casual about inventing and selling the
lies about "weapons of mass destruction" to help start the Iraq
invasion. It was just a question of whatever lies needed to be told,
in order to sell the product; there was no concern about afterwards,
when the lies were exposed. America just figures it can later send
out more salespeople with more lies, in an endless cycle. Tomorrow is
just another day, when America will try to sell another product, the
"war on terror", the "spread of freedom", or whatever.
The selling never stops, in Washington or Hollywood. America sells
political lies like Hollywood sells movies. When the USA President
talks about "advancing the cause of freedom", he basically means
freedom for big corporations to do business. He's not really talking
about actual personal freedom for real people. But he grins when he
talks about "freedom" because it's a good word of salesmanship,
people hear him and some of them can be duped into believing that
America cares about personal or political freedom.
Hollywood movies and American television are a major element of
political myth-making. Around the world, people derive an image of
America, and its legal system, from these fictional creations on
film. America's propaganda about having "the greatest legal system in
the world" is one of those phony stories that Hollywood is helping to
sell.
It is also a myth sustained by the few trials about which there is a
lot of publicity, like with the celebrity trials of Martha Stewart or
Michael Jackson. Judges behave very differently when the cameras are
rolling, or the media is reporting everything that goes on, and
millions of dollars are being spent on lawyers. But in the 98 percent
of court activity that does not have big media coverage, the judges
of America provide a bizarre sideshow of horror.
In the Hollywood version, the judges in American courts are like kind
uncles, smiling and being wise and calmly dispensing justice. But in
reality, American judges sometimes scream at people like disturbed
perverts, and show off their bribed corruption right there in the
courtroom. Sometimes judges engage in flagrant extortion, where you
have to agree to pay money to the judge's lawyer friends as the price
to stay out of jail. It is really that bad. You can find no end of
documented horror about American judges behaving like criminal
lunatics, and it is getting worse all the time.
In the Hollywood version, there are brave lawyers who will fight for
your rights, to win justice for you in the American courts. In
reality, you can't find an American lawyer brave enough to fight
judicial corruption, even if you are innocent and the judge's friends
have threatened to murder you, or to send you to jail for the rest of
your life. The lawyers who used to be brave, were destroyed or
intimidated, and nearly all American lawyers now submit themselves to
the culture of corruption and bribery, and betraying and abandoning
the people who need legal help.
In the sad reality, American lawyers line up by the dozen to help the
government or the big corporations, and regularly betray the average
person, even if they are supposedly representing you. Even the
lawyers who don't want to be wicked themselves, are too timid to
really fight the system. At a certain point, nearly all American
lawyers will hold back and abandon their clients, because they are
trying to survive themselves and avoid revenge by the judges.
In the Hollywood version, the average person is also helped by the
"brave investigative reporter" at some newspaper or television
station, who shows great courage in exposing the truth, and bringing
powerful wrongdoing to face justice. However, the brave
"investigative reporter" in America is now as fictional and non-
existent as the "brave lawyer" who will fight for your rights. This
is especially true on any topic pertaining to corruption by judges
and lawyers.
In America today, reporters are little timid people who are afraid of
getting fired, and who almost never write a story on government
corruption, unless some other part of the government is officially
investigating or prosecuting. That goes triple when judges or lawyers
are involved. The owners of the newspapers and television stations
are afraid of revenge by the judges if they have to go to court, and
the nervous little reporters who work for them understand the rules
of the game.
If you look closely at a modern newspaper or news magazine in the
USA, you will see how almost all stories originate with the
government itself. When the media "investigates", they are usually
just adding more details on a situation already being targeted by the
government. Every news media and television station in America is
swamped with people begging them to report on stories, that they
totally refuse to cover. The reporters are too scared, and they know
the stories wouldn't get printed or broadcast even if they were written.
America is the land of fear, as regards the legal system and the
culture of corruption. Everyone involved with the USA legal system is
afraid, very afraid, of stepping on the wrong toes. Even American
judges themselves get driven out of office, if they don't participate
in the bribery culture.
No recourse against crime and fraud by judges and lawyers in America
In reality, there is almost nothing you can do against misconduct,
and even open felony crime, committed against you by American judges
and lawyers. All of the official complaint procedures you find on the
internet, or at the courthouse or in the law books, turn out to be a
joke, a farce and a fraud.
Complaints about lawyers in America, usually go to the "Bar", which
is itself run by the judges who are involved in bribery with the
lawyers. And complaints about judges go to other judges, their friends.
Nearly all the complaints about lawyers and judges - tens of
thousands of them - are kept secret. Nearly all are dismissed or
ignored. They are generally only used if the judges or politicians
want to specially destroy someone - some radical minority lawyer,
someone who is not playing the bribery game, somebody who has dared
to expose wrongdoing. Otherwise, even criminal acts by lawyers and
judges get a smiling cover-up.
You will almost certainly not find any lawyers to help you sue
another lawyer for wrongdoing. They are too scared of revenge by the
judges. Even the lawyers who are broke and unemployed and desperate
for work, are too scared to sue another lawyer. (Special caution:
Lawyers may make false promises to you about suing another lawyer,
cash your checks and steal your money, and then refuse to help you.
And then you will have another lawyer who wronged you.)
The police and FBI almost certainly will not help you, either. They
all know the bribery game, and they rely on the same crooked judges
to help send innocent people to prison after they have been arrested.
The more crooked the judge, the more eager the judge will be, to help
the police or FBI do a dirty deal and convict an innocent person.
And, of course, the newspapers and television and media won't help
you. They hear stories like yours all the time. If they publish or
broadcast your story, then they will have problems the next time they
get sued in court. Or they might find themselves arrested on false
charges, and end up in an even worse situation than you.
The newspapers are so tied into the establishment of judges and
lawyers, that the newspapers sometimes help the judges and lawyers to
commit their crimes, and to unfairly smear and attack their victims.
The big media newspapers have even helped to plant false "evidence"
in court cases, and help the legal establishment to destroy innocent
people. But even if not harming you, the USA media is afraid to help
you, afraid of revenge if they expose judicial corruption.
These fears are just as big, if not bigger, with America's radical
and alternative media, and bloggers and internet sites. Such people
will criticize American foreign policy and so on, but everybody is
scared of talking about specific cases of corruption by lawyers and
judges. The independent media has even more reason to be afraid,
because they are even more vulnerable if the lawyers start to file
false charges against them in the courts.
Of course, America's politicians will not help you, either. Many
politicians are themselves lawyers, very used to the whole game of
bribery with judges and other lawyers. The politicians accept the
crooked courts as the way that America is run, and as helping the two
big parties to monopolize the political scene and prevent alternative
political movements.
America's two big political parties, the Democrats and Republicans,
can be seen as another phony game like America's courts. The two
parties actually get their hundreds of millions of dollars in money
from the same people at the same big corporations who own the rest of
America. These two American parties pretend to argue with each other
over emotional issues like gun control and abortion rights, but in
the end both of these parties serve the big corporations. Half of
Americans are still fooled into thinking that these parties represent
them, the other half sense it is phony but feel helpless and don't
know what to do. This is why people don't vote very much in America;
they feel it is hopeless and useless.
You can also forget about America's human rights and civil liberties
groups, even though it looks, at first, like there are many such
groups on the internet. Many such groups are just money-raising
groups which don't help victims, or are tied to the two main
political parties or some narrow agenda. They are all scared of the
legal system, too, and there is no one with any significant funding
or money, who is out there helping the victims of legal corruption.
They can't find lawyers to help them, either. There are some
overwhelmed and struggling projects here and there, doing worthy work
for a few of the innocent people in prison, but they function in an
environment of timidity and fear, and without the resources or clout
or media access to expose or change what is happening.
It's getting worse and worse in America all the time. As the judges
and lawyers can get away with committing crimes, they are getting
more open and blatant, committing felony crimes in broad daylight,
because they know no one will stop them or bring them to account.
It is also important to know, that once you have started complaining
about, or exposing, judicial and legal corruption in America, you
become a kind of outlaw there. You are in a very dangerous situation,
and you are considered fair game to be either arrested and jailed on
false charges, or to be totally robbed and betrayed by America's
lawyers. Once you have spoken out about legal corruption, you may
find that no other lawyer will then help you for any reason, even if
it is un-related to your complaint about judicial wrongdoing. You may
be trapped in a nightmare from which there is no escape unless you
can leave America altogether.
Dealing with American lawyers, if you have no other choice
Perhaps the statistical chance of getting arrested in America as an
innocent person, and then being sent to prison or put to death, is
relatively small. But think of how you will feel if you end up as one
of those 2 million American prisoners, including 50,000 foreign
citizens. Or perhaps even one of those several thousand people on
Death Row, waiting for the lethal poison to be injected into your arm.
Visiting America now, is probably similar to visiting or doing
business in 1936 with Hitler's Reich, or Mussolini's fascist empire.
If you did such a thing in 1936, you might have visited and had a
wonderful time, maybe even have done some business with companies in
those countries. You might have seen some beautiful sights, and met
some very friendly individual people, perhaps drunk a beer or two, or
a nice glass of wine, maybe attended the 1936 Olympics. Very likely,
you wouldn't have seen any concentration camps, in the places where
you travelled. You might have had a very pleasant trip.
But nonetheless, you were in a dangerous place, where horrible things
were going on. That's true of the United States of America today, the
land of 2 million prisoners in a giant gulag.
With America's corrupt legal system, it's certainly not the wisest
place to keep money or assets, which can be easily grabbed by
American lawyers in legal proceedings. Many smart Americans have
opened overseas bank accounts, and it is wise to not keep too much
money where American lawyers can seize it. There is no bigger group
of thieves in the world, than American lawyers.
If you are in a lawsuit situation in America, get all your money out
of the country, fast, before the USA lawyers can put any kind of hold
or freeze on it. But you shouldn't keep substantial assets in the USA
in the first place. Sell any USA real estate and rent instead, get
that money out where it is safe.
Certainly, don't ever expect any justice from American courts. Expect
the judges and both sides of lawyers to tilt toward the government,
or toward the big company that can pay bribes on a regular basis. All
that most people get out of American courts, is grief, and lawyers
stealing their money. Best not to approach American courts unless
absolutely necessary.
Despite the commonplace fraud and dishonesty of American lawyers,
it's still important to have one if you must be in an American court.
The reason is that American judges absolutely hate people who come to
court without lawyers, especially if they have any money at all. The
judge takes it as a personal insult if you are not giving some money
to one of his lawyer friends, and will tend to take revenge on you
unless you hire a lawyer, even a very stupid one, to stand by your side.
What American lawyers love to do, is to steal all your money, tell
you a bunch of false promises and lies, and then do nothing for you,
while they sell you out to the other side. That is a perfect scenario
for an American lawyer. A lawyer's goal is to squeeze as much money
from you, while at the same time doing as little as possible to rock
the judge's political boat. Some lawyers even make money by the
"research and review" scam, where they don't even agree to represent
you, but just steal your money to "research" your case.
Accept in advance that an American lawyer will rob you and betray
you, and everything will go more smoothly if you quietly understand
this. Never actually trust an American lawyer, but don't let on that
you know he's a crook.
Don't tell the lawyer how much money you really have, he will try to
get all of it. Try to pay a lawyer very slowly, in small chunks, that
will keep him more interested, and prevent some of the bigger
robberies and betrayals, and will leave you some money to try another
lawyer if things get too awful.
Remember, once you give a USA lawyer any money, it's almost
impossible to get it back. Lawyers will almost never sue another
lawyer, and if you go to court, the judge will almost certainly
protect the lawyer who defrauded you (and get a share of the money,
of course).
Lawyers and judges in America like people to appear to be submissive
and stupid and easily manipulated. They like to feel superior to you.
By letting them think that you are weak and falling for their lies,
you may give yourself some breathing room. This tactic has even
enabled some people to stay alive and not get murdered, and to escape
from America back to safety.
The growing American nightmare
It is just getting worse and worse in America's legal system. For
some years now, the USA judges and lawyers have gotten used to
denying people justice, to the great flow of bribery money, and even
to committing felony crimes in broad daylight and getting away with
it. It just keeps on escalating. Though a social explosion is lurking
beneath the surface - with judges starting to get murdered, and
people lighting courthouses ablaze - the people who run America are
letting the current system chug along as it is, justice be damned,
and to hell with the people who seem to have no way to fight back.
It can't go on like this forever, but it may get a lot worse first,
despite the fair internet visibility on documented American legal
corruption. One should note a brave and promising grass-roots attempt
at judicial reform in the USA called (Jail 4 Judges -
www.jail4judges.org), which attempts to place onto American ballots,
a referendum for a new procedure to give citizens a real right of
redress against corrupt judges. It is a wonderful and beautiful idea
that deserves success, and will help transform America if it moves
forward.
Regrettably, though, for all the usual reasons of fear, there is no
one with any big money or media clout, yet making a foray against the
real-life nightmare of America's courts and prisons. It remains a
taboo subject for the American media, and the media silence feeds and
encourages the whole machine of bribery and repression.
Perhaps, though, it will not be until after America has had a major
economic or social cataclysm, that the big American machine of legal
corruption finally comes to be reformed.
Sociologically speaking, it's astonishing how disgraceful American
lawyers have become - they are now both the mafia and the gestapo of
American life. America's lawyers, as a whole, have had little to say
about America’s recent international crimes of prisoner abuse, and
violation of international human rights agreements. American lawyers,
as always nowadays, are "playing the game" with America's government
and its judges.
America, indeed, does not have the rule of law at all. Instead, it is
just the rule of lawyers, lawyers who crave money and power. And, in
America, it can be jail or worse for anyone who tries to fight these
lawyers.
The reality of the United States of America is that Americans,
despite their overall wealth as a nation, are now a people living in
a society of great fear. Their fears are complicated, and many
Americans cannot even put their fears into words. They are afraid of
lawyers and the prison system, afraid of losing their jobs in a
brutal society with no social safety net, afraid of needing health
care in a disastrous system with no health plan. And Americans are
afraid of what will happen if they try to question the system and the
way things work. They often feel helpless and powerless against the
great forces dominating their country.
American citizens are confused and fearful, and gullible to
propaganda. Because Americans have difficulty in sorting out their
many fears, they have become ripe candidates for racial and religious
hatreds, and for following their government into war. The issues of
"terrorism" and war distract the emotions of Americans from the
terrible problems in their own society at home. The foreign "enemy"
gives Americans a face on which to project their fear and their
anger. The result is the horrifying misconduct of some Americans in
these wars; while back inside the USA, there is increasing corruption
and repression in the legal system.
Americans desperately would like to believe that they still live in a
"free" country, as it is so horrifying to them to face the ugly
truth, that their freedom is already largely lost. Americans can
imagine they are "free" because they can still choose among different
products to buy, or quit their job, or buy a gun at the store. And
the Americans most likely to imagine they are still "free" are the
ones who have not yet been trapped in the halls of America’s legal
system. They have not yet seen the lawyers and judges who smirk and
laugh as they deny victims the most basic human rights.
The truth is that, inside America, a nightmare has begun. The lawyers
and judges and courts, "playing the game", regularly trample upon the
freedoms that Americans thought they had. It is people like myself,
escaped from the USA, living in kinder and gentler places, who are
now the lucky ones.
No one should ever again be fooled by USA propaganda about being the
"land of freedom". Those who are thinking of travelling to, visiting,
or working in America, should think again. It might not be worth the
risk of being in a country that has one of the most crooked legal
systems in the world.