Corrupt From Top to Bottom: Paul Craig Roberts on the US Court System

Corrupt From Top to Bottom: Paul Craig Roberts on the US Court System - lewrockwell.com

Excerpt from this article:

"Only about 4 percent of federal felony cases go to trial. Almost all, 96 percent, are settled by negotiated plea bargains. Law & Order Conservatives condemn plea bargains for the wrong reason. They think plea bargains let criminals off easy. In fact, plea bargains are used by prosecutors to convict the innocent along with the guilty. Plea bargains eliminate juries and time-consuming trials, that is, plea bargains eliminate all work on the part of prosecutors and police and lead to high conviction rates for prosecutors, the main indicator of their career success." 

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"As a young lawyer, from the books that I'd read,

I thought justice and law were the same.

But I soon put such juvinile thoughts from my mind

And I studied the rules of the game." (Author unknown)

Recommended reading:

Since 1980, California Has Built 1 College Campus and 21 Prisons (my post)
Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, a Prosecutor's Power, and a Betrayal of Innocence -by Edward Hume

"We Need to Be Better Than the People We Prosecute!" - U.S. Prosecutor*

First Prosecutor Jailed for Deliberately Convicting an Innocent Man - thenewamerican.com

Excerpt from this article:

"For the first time ever, according to legal experts focused on the subject, a prosecutor who deliberately sent an innocent man to prison by withholding evidence is himself going to be jailed. The case surrounds Michael Morton, a Texas man convicted in 1987 of murdering his wife, and former prosecutor Ken Anderson (shown), the state official responsible for Morton spending 25 years in prison. Anderson withheld crucial evidence in the case as district attorney that could have cleared Morton of the charges."
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Poem for today (unknown source)

"As a young lawyer, from the books that I'd read
I thought justice and law were the same.
But I soon put such juvenile thoughts from my head
And I studied the rules of the game!"

I don't believe there are a lot of innocent men and women who get sent to prison, although I do believe there are a lot of guilty people who will never see the inside of a prison, and never be brought to justice - until they stand be for the God who says in the Bible:

"In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ accoring to my gospel." - Romans 2:16

The Bible also says:

"Submit yourself to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's sake." - 1 Peter 2:13

 * Note: I'm not sure where I got the quote I used for the title of this post. I think I heard it on some 'law-and-order-type' show on TV. I'm sure that all prosecutors are better than the people they prosecute (I say that as I'm rolling my eyes!)

Recommended reading:

The Police: Damned if They Do and Damned if They Don't: A Cop Looks at Law Enforcement, by Herbert T. Klein
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, by John Grisham
Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, A Prosecutor's Power, and the Betrayal of Innocence, by Edward Humes

Mark Levin: A Modern-Day Constitutional Prophet

Mark Levin: A modern-day constitutional prophet:

"When Mark Levin decided to write his book “The Liberty Amendments” to advocate a convention to propose a series of amendments to the U.S. Constitution, he may not have realized how quickly and deeply his profound idea would resonate. But throughout the nation, people are inclining their ears."

Recommended reading (my posts):

Obama Suggests Only Lawyers Understand the Constitution
"Crime Doens't Pay - But It Costs A Fortune!"

Recommended Talk Radio Show

The Mark Levin Show

The Habeas Corpus Myth

The Habeas Corpus Myth - Anthony Gregory - Mises Daily:

"We know many things about habeas corpus. We know that it goes back to the Magna Carta and that the U.S. Constitution affirmed this bulwark of Anglo-American liberty. We know that habeas prohibits jailing people without cause, and that it remained healthy throughout U.S. history, except during wartime, until George W. Bush’s 2006 Military Commissions Act. And we also know that in 2008, the Supreme Court guaranteed basic due process rights for Guantánamo’s inmates. The trouble is that none of these things are true. "

Recommended reading (my post):

Obama Suggests Only Lawyers Understand the Constitution

The Problem of Indwelling Sin

Someone once said - and I think it is a true statement - that there are only 2 kinds of people in the world. There are people who need to know our Lord Jesus. And there are people who need to know our Lord Jesus better.

If you fall into the first category, let me encourage you to listen to the following sermon by Dr. David P. Murray:

Deluded and Damned

If you fall into the second category, then why don't you check out this sermon by Daniel Chamberlin

Why God Leaves Indwelling Sin in Believers

Recommended reading (my post):

The Pharisee, The Publican, and the Sandy Hook Massacre

Enemies of the State: 45 Goals of the Communist Party, USA, in 1963

In his article Enemies of the Constitution, Alan Caruba talks about Constitutional scholar Louis Michael Seidman. Here is an excerpt from this article:

"Perhaps the stupidest idea given an airing in a recent edition of The New York Times is Prof. Louis Michael Seidman’s opinion, 'Let’s Give Up on the Constitution.' According to his commentary, Prof. Seidman has “taught constitutional law for almost 40 years” and he was 'ashamed' it took him that long to conclude that it was an outdated, “bizarre” document."

The main purpose of the constitution is to protect the citizens - from their government! That is why Obama's crusade to do away with the second amendment is so serious. It is much easier to take over a country when the citizens are unarmed (see What Happens When a Government Disarms its Citizens?)

Yesterday I did a post where I provide some links to W. Cleon Skousen's YouTube Videos The Naked Capitalist (See Debbie Schlussel Takes on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, While Joseph Farah Takes on Fox News). I was surprised today to find an article that talked about The Naked Capitalist (the book that the videos were based upon). The article is titled America, You Were Warned 40 Years Ago!, by Dr. Steven Lambert.

Dr. Lambert just mentioned The Naked Capitalist, because that author had republished a document that was made public in 1963 by the Communist Party, USA titled: Goals of the Communist Party. Dr. Lambert claims, and I agree with him, that many - if not most - of these goals have already been accomplished. When conservatives accuse President Obama of being a Marxist, we are comparing his vision for America with these 45 stated goals of the Communist Party in 1963.

The Naked Capitalist was published in 1970. In 1971 another important book was written: None Dare Call it Conspiracy.  The author of this book was Gary Allen. Here is what Mr. Allen has to say about Communism:

"The first principle in any encounter, whether it be football or war (hot or cold), is: Know your enemy. The American people do not know their enemy. Consequently, it is not strange at all that for three decades we have been watching one country of the world after another fall behind the Communist curtain.
In keeping with the fact that almost everybody seems to have his own definition of Communism, we are going to give you ours, and then we will attempt to prove to you that it is the only valid one. Communism: AN INTERNATIONAL, CONSPIRATORIAL DRIVE FOR POWER ON THE PART OF MEN IN HIGH PLACES WILLING TO USE ANY MEANS TO BRING ABOUT THEIR DESIRED AIM-GLOBAL CONQUEST.
You will notice that we did not mention Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, bourgeois, proletariat or dialectical materialism. We said nothing of the pseudo-economics or political philosophy of the Communists. These are the TECHNIQUES of Communism and should not be confused with the Communist conspiracy itself. We did call it an international conspiratorial drive for power. Unless we understand the conspiratorial nature of Communism, we don't understand it at all. We will be eternally fixated at the Gus Hall level of Communism. And that's not where it's at, baby!"

 Recommended Reading:

Excerpts from The Naked Capitalist

"To Hell With the Truth!"

Rep. Trey Gowdy Explodes at Libya Hearing: ‘I Want to Know Why We Were Lied To!’

Mark Twain once said: "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." I have experience this at least twice in my lifetime. The first time was about 12 years ago when I stood before a judge and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.  The second time was early last month, when I stood before a different judge, to ask that my probation be cut short by 3 months so I could vote in the presidential election this year.

Eleven years ago I was sentenced to prison for 10 years for a crime I committed in the 1990s.  I served out just short of 9 years of that sentence,  having about 13 months taken off for good behavior in prison. And I deserved every day of my sentence. In fact, there are people serving much longer sentences than I got for the same crime.

But there were many things that were told to my judge back then that were simply not true. Instead of my judge being able to look objectively at the crime I committed, what the law says about the crime I committed, and rule accordingly, he also had before him many things that were not true.

No big deal. I served out my prison sentence and got on with my life. But then last month I filed a motion with the court to get off probation 3 months early so I could vote in the presidential election this year. The judge denied my motion. Again, no big deal. I only had 3 months left on my probation, and I would not have voted for either Obama or Romney!  But like 12 years ago,  my judge was also lie to this time.

The prosecutor told my judge that he had talked to my probation officer. And my probation officer told him that I have a no contact order, which is true. But the prosecutor also told my judge that in his conversation with my probation officer, she told him that I said I was going to violate that no contact order just as soon as I got off probation.

That is absolutely not true. I have strictly obeyed my no contact order for the past 12 years. And I have even told my probation officer in person (and in a recent email) that I fully plan on continuing to obey that no contact order once I am off probation. In a later conversation with my probation officer, she assured me that she never told the prosecutor I said I was going to violate my no contact order. The prosecutor must have taken it upon himself to lie to my judge.

In one of John Grisham's novels, he says:

"Kriegler was telling the truth, but the truth needed to be blurred at this point. This was a cross examination, so to hell with the truth. The witness had to be discredited."

My prosecutor had a job to do. He needed to convince my judge that she should not let me off probation 3 months early so I could vote in the election this year. And if he had to lie to her to do his job, well, that's then that's what he was going to do.

I read a short poem about lawyers that goes like this:

"As a young lawyer from the books that I've read
I thought justice and law were the same.
But I soon put such juvenile thoughts  from my head
and I studied the rules of the game!"
-Author unknown

I'd like to see my judge 'explode' and yell at my prosecutor (like Rep. Trey Gowdy in the article above): "I want to know why I was lied to!"

The Bible says" "Thou shalt not bear false witness." Exodus 20:16