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"At the constitutional level where we work ninety
percent
of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies
the reasons for supporting our predilections."
- Charles Evans Hughes,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
"The American court system has two sets of
laws, one set to keep us under control and the other set to make
every crime the privileged class
wishes to commit legal. Most people don't even try to fight in court
because they simply don't have the time, aptitude or emotional strength to wade
into our ruthless, merciless court system. The American court system is nothing
but a collection agency for the ruling class." - Bruce McDonald
"A legal system that first formulates its own
special vocabulary (consisting largely of entities
no human eye has ever seen) and then shoehorns everything it encounters into
that same vocabulary will never touch down on the ground, will never respond
directly to the urgencies and needs of real people living real lives. A
responsible jurist will be one who says, "This rule leads to the following
results, which are socially undesirable for the following reasons." In short, a
responsible judge will have empathy." -
Stanley Fish
"The Supreme Court really should be named the
Unbeseem Court. Without any Constitutional justification whatsoever, as Justice
Holmes, dissenting in Lochner, pointed out, the Court has taken its task to be
the constitutionalization of a totally immoral, rapacious, economic system
instead of the promotion of justice, domestic tranquility, the general welfare,
and the blessings of liberty.
Consider this short list of examples:
It is legal for a vendor to sell a product which does not work but
illegal for a buyer to purchase a product with a check that does not work.
During a corporate bankruptcy, the company's assets are distributed first to
other companies and last, if anything remains, to employees and even people who
have obtained judgments from courts for company wrongdoing.
If a homebuyer
who has paid regularly on his mortgage for 20 and even more years, who has paid
the property taxes and the property's insurance, is forced to default for no
fault of his own, such as a death, serious illness, or economic collapse, the
mortgage holder gets to keep all the money and gets the house too, transferring
the risk that investors are supposed to bear entirely to the buyer.
Entire
industries uniformly require consumers to accept contracts that require them to
relinquish their legal and even Constitutional rights.
Entire industries
uniformly require consumers to accept contracts that the companies can change
in any way at any time for any reason without gaining the consent of the
consumer.
Companies can collect personal information on people without
their consent yet are allowed to keep company secrets even those which hide
wrongdoing, as when a civil case is settled and the company involved is allowed
to not admit to any wrongdoing and the court seals the detailed
record.
These situations have one thing in common: each protects the
company at the expense of the person. Nowhere in the Constitution is there any
justification for the protection of corporate interests; yet the Constitution
clearly states that one of the purposes for which the nation was founded is to
"establish justice."
In Citizens United, Stevens, in dissent,
clearly shows that the Court's rationale lacks any logical basis." - John Kozy
A number of criminal prosecutors and forensic
scientists have
expressed serious concern - about the"
'CSI' effect" - namely, the fact that such popular crime programs as "CSI,"
"Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan" raise unrealistic expectations about forensic science among crime victims
and jurors which materially affects trials.
Justice is
defined as:
The quality of being just;
fairness.
The principle of
moral rightness; equity.
Conformity to truth, fact, or sound
reason.
Conformity to moral rightness in
action or attitude; righteousness.
The
upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in
accordance with honor,
standards, or law.
Conformity to truth and reality in
expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of
facts regarding merit or demerit;
honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the
justice of a description or of a
judgment; historical justice.
"There is a common saying
that the Supreme Court isn't last because it is right, but it is right because
it is last. The Supreme Court makes law not because it
has the smartest judges, but because it has the final word on issues it chooses to address. As a former
law clerk, I came to understand more than I had in
law school that on many issues, the outcome depends not
on correct or incorrect analysis but
rather on the judge's base views of morality
and rights." - Julia Campins
"Under the sun there is evil in the courtroom.
Yes, even the courts of
law are corrupt!" -
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Jose Padilla, an
American citizen, was held in
solitary confinement for three years
without charges being filed . Jose
Padilla, injected with what he identified as a
PCP and
LSD
cocktail, ended up spending 1,307 days under sensory deprivation conditions.
Jose Padilla had no
history of mental illness when
George W. Bush ordered him
detained as a enemy
combatant claiming that a
presidential
decree overruled the Constitution of
the United States of America..
Jose Padilla's lawyers claimed that
interrogation methods included the use of psychotropic drugs and other forms of
torture.
Jose Padilla's 'treatment' has been
classified as a state
secret.
"I can't talk about what happened to me because it is
classified." -
Jose Padilla
(Clearly the
George W. Bush administration
succeeded in breaking
Jose Padilla!)
Psychological tests place
Jose Padilla on par with individuals
who have suffered brain damage.
Jose Padilla clearly exhibits symptoms
of post-traumatic stress
disorder.
"Mr. Padilla shows
extreme anxiety. He is
fearful of his time in
the brig. Everything that he talks
about is with regard to the time at the
brig, no other time point." - Patricia Zapf, psychologist
"People
who have known Jose Padilla and loved him before his military
detention don't
feel they can even bear to see him because he
is so clearly mentally ill."- Stuart Grassian,
psychiatrist
"There is torture
of mind as well as body; the will is as much
affected by fear as by
force." - Justice John Paul Stevens
quoting Justice Felix Frankfurter
The strategy the
George W. Bush administration used in the
Jose Padilla case was
designed to make it possible to suspend the
Constitutional rights of
American citizens by
presidential
decree. A precedent was set that future presidents can use to suspend the
Constitutional rights of any
American citizen. The
writ of habeas corpus was
suspended even though America was not being
invaded nor was a
rebellion taking place. Jose
Padilla was denied a speedy trial. And
although there is no proof, as the proof is a
classified secret, it is pretty
clear that Jose Padilla suffered
cruel and unusual punishment.
Originally Jose Padilla was
arrested for 'plotting' to detonate a radioactive ‘dirty bomb'. Later
George W. Bush administration said
Jose Padilla 'plotted' to blow up
apartment complexes with natural
gas. Jose Padilla was finally indicted and
convicted of conspiracy to ‘murder, kidnap and
maim' people overseas. No mention of the two previous 'plots' in the final
indictment and conviction.
No matter how 'evil' Jose Padilla
is or was his 'treatment' at the
hands of the federal government was unjust and reminds
one of the 'treatment' of
Winston Smith by Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984.
Although
all documents pertaining to government decisions or actions are to become part
of the public record in a report to the National Archives in June 2008 the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said it could not locate a recording
of the final interrogation of Jose
Padilla - his confession.
Justice is never served in this manner.
What was served was political expediency! George W. Bush had to prove that he
was willing to be tough on those wily terrorists so Jose Padilla became a
poster child. And his incarceration and trial was anything but just.
"The jury did seem to be an oddly cohesive group. On the last day of
trial before the Fourth of July holiday, jurors arranged to dress in outfits so
that each row in the jury box was its own patriotic color " red, white or
blue."- Washington Post
"I was the chief prosecutor for the military
tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until Oct. 4, the day I concluded that full,
fair and open trials were not possible under the current system. I resigned on
that day because I felt that the system had become deeply
politicized and that I could no longer do my job
effectively or responsibly. I resigned because I believe even the most perfect trial in history will be viewed with
skepticism, if it is conducted behind closed
doors. Telling the world, "Trust me, you would have
been impressed if only you could have seen what we did in the courtroom" will
not bolster our standing as defenders of justice." - Colonel Morris D. Davis
In 2007 23 year-old Ashley Ellis hit a man on a
motorcycle two days after auto insurance expired. Ashley Ellis was not impaired
or speeding but was distracted by her dog which was riding in the car when she
hit the motorcycle rider. For her negligence she was convicted of a misdemeanor
and ordered to spend 30 days incarcerated. She lost forty pounds, originally
125, from the time of the accident to the time of incarceration - about two
years. After two days in jail she died from lack of medical treatment which was
provided by the independently contracted corporation Prison Health Services.
For Ashley Ellis a 30 day jail sentence became a death
sentence.
"Profit-driven organizations are prone to cut costs. The
system failed." - Matthew Valerio
just
Properly due or
merited.
Valid within the
law; lawful.
Consistent
with what is morally
right; righteous.
Honorable and fair in
one's dealings and actions.
Used especially of what is
legally or ethically
right or proper or
fitting.
Precisely; exactly; - in place, time,
or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
Only a
moment ago; barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a
very small space or
time.
Implying justice dictated by reason, conscience,
and a natural sense of what
is fair to all.
Not transgressing the requirement of
truth and propriety;
conformed to the
truth of things, to
reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal;
reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a
just inference.
unjust
Not
righteous.
Faithless; dishonest.
Not equitable or fair.
Violating
principles of
justice or fairness; unfair.
Not
fair; marked by injustice or
partiality or deception
See
Social Control
See
The Global Free Trade Economy
A
specific unjust
act; a
wrong.
The practice of being
unjust or unfair.
An unjust
act or deed; a
sin; a crime; a
wrong.
Violation of
another's
rights or of what is
right; lack of
justice.
See
American aristocracy
See
The Corruption of the American Dream
See
The Subversion of American
Democracy
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