This is an excellent, true essay that I found on the J.A.I.L. for Judges web site.
It was written in 2005, and the situation is MUCH worse today in 2015.
Portrait of America's Legal System As Seen From the Outside
Rigged
courts, bribed judges, phony trials, extortion by lawyers, and over 2 million
prisoners in the USA gulag
by Les Sachs, drlessachs@lycos.com
August 30, 2005
Banned in America Blogspot
[Excerpts]
.... All world citizens should know how the corrupt USA legal system, is
a danger to every traveler, 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. ....
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. ....
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.
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. ... 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. ....
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. ....
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 ... all those who dare to question the system. ....
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
.... 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."
....
Multi-millionaires and big corporations, vs. everybody else
The only people who really can 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. .... 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. .... 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. ....
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.)
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. ....
The growing American nightmare
No one should ever again be fooled by USA propaganda about being the
"land of freedom". Those who are thinking of traveling 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.
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