Ex-Marine Decries Prosecution In Civilian Court

by Chelsea J. Carter - August 17th, 2008 - Breitbart

Nazario is the first military service member who has completed his duty to be brought to trial under a law that allows the government to prosecute defense contractors, military dependents and those no longer in the military who commit crimes outside the United States.

"They train us, and they expect us to rely back on that training. Then when we use that training, they prosecute us for it?" Nazario said during an interview Saturday with The Associated Press.

"I didn't do anything wrong. I don't think I should be the first tried like this," said Nazario, whose trial begins Tuesday in Riverside, east of Los Angeles.

If Nazario, 28, is convicted of voluntary manslaughter, some predict damaging consequences on the battlefield.

"This boils down to one thing in my mind: Are we going to allow civilian juries to Monday-morning-quarterback military decisions?" said Nazario's attorney, Kevin McDermott.

Like the insanity of using our courts to punish those who sold tobacco, a perfectly legal product that is still being sold today, the insanity of allowing our courts to after the fact try and hold soldiers guilty for actions they took on the battlefield, is simply beyond belief.

Our courts are not just corrupt. They are insane.

How The Mighty Lerach Has Fallen: Power Lawyer To Prisoner

by Quin Hillyer - August 17th, 2008 - D.C. Examiner

When he was on top of the world, flamboyant class-action plaintiffs lawyer William S. Lerach made more than $100 million during the 1990s for himself and even more for his now-disgraced firm, Milberg Weiss.

Silicon Valley tech executives shuddered and Fortune 500 chief executive officers reached for their checkbooks at the mere mention of being "Lerached." At one point, Lerach boasted that he had won more than $4 billion in damages for shareholders in 400 class-action securities suits.

Lerach is the epitome of the problems with our court system. Though he took advantage of its ability to be used as a system of extortion, his excesses are merely symbols of how the system actually works. No one can rely on following the law. Acquire any wealth and the extortionists in our court system will find some way to take it away from you. Abiding by the law is no excuse. Look at tobacco. The courts decided it was immoral and they extorted hundreds of billions of dollars from the tobacco companies and farmers who grew this legal crop. Please note, tobacco is still a legal product today. The irony is that the same corrupt lawyers who practiced this scam against tobacco, and the against corporations for the outrage of making money, are today predicting that they will bring down the evil McDonald's for making you fat.

Lawyers like Lerach made hundreds of millions of dollars, in most cases exaggerating the idea that if you smoked and had health problems, they were presumed to be the fault of tobacco. Evidence that many non-smokers suffered from the same maladies was ignored. Some who had problems with cancer before they started smoking were still awarded judgments on the assumption that smoking some how or other retroactively caused the cancer. The logic was simply absurd. And yet that is typical of the absurdity of our court system today. It is a system of extortion that immorally enriches evil abuses like Lerach. Just with until they close down McDonalds to stop you from buying the hamburgers they are selling with such (according to the lawyers) evil intent.

Please note that the courts have not taken away the illegally extorted millions from Lerach. When he gets out of prison, he will still be rich beyond belief, thanks to a system that anyone with a conscience would find contemptible.

What Happened To Justice In America?

by Dana Rohrabacher - August 4th, 2008 - Human Events

What happened to justice in America? It certainly wasn’t served on July 28 when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the unjust convictions of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. As it stands today, these two brave border protectors must now serve out their full 10-plus-year sentences for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler they encountered while he was carrying a million-dollar payload of narcotics along the Southern border in Texas. What started off as simple procedural mistakes by the agents has turned into an unimaginable travesty of justice unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my 30 years in Washington, D.C.

It’s difficult to reconcile why U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton would choose to seek out drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, in Mexico to offer him immunity, unconditional border-crossing cards and free medical care in exchange for his testimony against the border agents. Ramos and Compean did not wake up the morning of Feb.17, 2005, with the intention of committing a crime, unlike the illegal alien drug-smuggling “victim.” They put on their uniforms, strapped their weapons around their waists and pinned on their badges, as they had for five and 10 years respectively, with the intention of patrolling our borders to protect America.

The answer to the title of this article is obvious though not simple. Justice in America has become the rule of judges to replace the rule of law. Our system is a system easily abused by aggressive corrupt prosecutors, like Mike Nifong in the Duke situation, and Johnny Sutton in this case. Both care little for anything but political power. Nifong got away with his abuse many times before he stepped over the line and got caught. The system protects these powerful and abusive egomaniacs. Justice is not the goal of our system.

A verdict under the rules, without regard for actual innocence or guilt, is all our system seeks. That is not what the people of America think our system is supposed to be. However that too is rapidly changing. As an example, you need only look at this case:

The jury was never told Davila was more than a one-time offender; smuggled drugs while under immunity, was in possession of a border-crossing card our government gave him four months before testifying against Ramos and Compean and that he potentially violated his immunity agreement by not giving up any information about the cartel he was working for. Sutton’s office was well aware of these facts. It successfully petitioned the trial judge to seal that information from the jury and, to the chagrin of most reasonable people, the appellate court ruled that the protection of the Davila’s 5th Amendment rights outweighed the relevancy of his additional smuggling activities.

This is typical of the modern abuse of justice in American courts. Little concern is actually given for the truth in a case. It is all a game. As more and more injustice becomes the standard, fewer and fewer Americans maintain any respect for the tyrants who rule our court system. Maybe Sutton will get his own justice someday. For now he is proudly strutting his win in this case. The appeals court is now complicit in this injustice.

Ramos-Compean Convictions Affirmed By Court Of Appeals

by Jerome R. Corsi - July 28th, 2008 - World Net Daily

"It was never the intent of the Congress to have U.S.C. Section 924(c) apply to law enforcement officers," he said.

The appellate court reversed and vacated only the convictions for obstruction of justice under Section 1512(c), ruling "the Border Patrol investigation was not an 'official proceeding' within the meaning of the statute."

Let's see how many things our corrupt court system did to screw these two men. The court took the word of a drug smuggler who, violating his own promise kept smuggling drugs after provided with a green card and immunity by the prosecutor. Ramos and Compean told their supervisor at the site that they had fired their guns and he said to leave that out of their report, which is why they were charged with a crime. The court would not allow either of these known facts to be provided to the jury, which was as usual, kept ignorant of many facts. Now the appeals court says that they can't overturn the conviction because the jury, in a fair trial, found them guilty.

I do not believe anyone can say with any integrity that this was a fair trial. Why hasn't the President given them a pardon? No one who cares about justice can figure out what this President thinks about anything.

Making The World Safe For . . . Politicians

by Paul Jacob - July 27th, 2008 - Townhall.com

In 2006, Citizen Guetzloe premeditatedly communicated with thousands of his fellow citizens by mailing a police report involving David C. Strong, then a candidate for mayor, to approximately 4,000 Winter Park residents. The mailing contained some additional editorial comment, but there was no call to vote for or against any candidate — not that that should matter, of course.

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Believing he would pay a small fine and ultimately not even have a conviction on his record, Guetzloe pled “no contest.” Instead, Judge C. Jeffrey Arnold sentenced him to 60 days in jail, $8,500 in fines, and three years supervised probation. All for the crime of spreading around his opinion without following all the byzantine rules and regulations enacted into law by incumbent politicians.

So much for freedom of speech.

Of course such actions by any of a myriad of left wing organizations or individuals against any conservative would not even have warranted a fine. It would have been dismissed out of hand. What you really find is that Guetzloe is a conservative anti-tax crusader. That is the crime that liberal activist Judge Arnold found him guilty of.

There is no justice in America. The courts are corrupt.

When Governments Attack!

by Andrew Langer - July 14th, 2008 - Townhall.com

The ante is upped exponentially when the government adds a criminal angle to its attack. In the case of David McNab, an anonymous tipster led federal law enforcement officials to prosecute him for importing undersized lobster tails. Though he was unaware, and no person was harmed by his mistake, the[y] nevertheless pursued felony charges against him. And because he had imported what they considered an illegal product and actually paid for his shipment, the government tacked on smuggling and money laundering charges as well! McNab was forced to spend huge sums of money defending himself, and he ultimately lost—he is now sitting in a federal prison, another waste of taxpayer resources.

It is situations like this that sometimes make me so angry at Democrats I have to take a walk down by the gorgeous Chowan River to cool off. The outrageous conduct of our government is ignored by Democrats, who love the pretense that all of their laws are being enforced for the good of our society. Instead Democrats have turned us into one of the most malevolent tyrannies in history.

Petty scum bag bureaucrats, with malevolence formed from their spite at not being rich, seek out weak citizens who have transgressed laws in trivial ways to destroy them. Smugglers don't order product and document what they ordered. Money laundering laws were not intended to be used to criminalize someone for paying for an order of lobsters. Only tyrannical bureaucrats could extend these laws to such acts.

The example of the Duke Lacrosse players are a perfect example of how our society's bureaucrats regularly attempt to destroy lives for their own aggrandisement of power. People forget, if those kids had not had rich parents, they would be sitting in prison today. Nothing would have protected them. Bureaucrats learn those lessons too. They learn to go after the poor and leave the rich alone. As a result, our society becomes more and more abusive of the poor. Yet it is the Democrats who claim they are on the side of the poor who are setting up this tyranny to protect them. Protect them? Believing that requires an arrogant willingness to ignore the reality of daily life.

Of course a legal system with arrogant disdain for the rule of law is a major aid in this tyranny. Our legal system today is the most abusive revolving door system of injustice that could be invented. It is a system of blackmail, extortion and tyranny. Tort reform, the focus of this article, is one of many major changes needed if we are ever to return to a nation that respects the rule of law. In the meantime, David McNabb rots in prison.

Thank you liberals and Democrats. I will try to remember your intentions were good. I will try to remember you are people too. I will try and not despise you. But it is tough.

Judge To Bush Admin.: Guantanamo Is Top Priority

by Matt Apuzzo - July 8th, 2008 - Associated Press (Brietbart.com)

A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court.

"The time has come to move these forward," Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully. "Set aside every other case that's pending in the division and address this case first."

We are still at war and POWs and enemy combatants have no right to resolution of their cases while the war continues. That is the law. In fact the battlefield in Afghanistan where these illegal enemy combatants were captured is heating up again. However the enemies of this nation are outraged that these forces, blatant violators of the Geneva Convention, have not been freed to kill more American troops.

Who are those enemies? They include liberals and progressives and socialists within our borders who despise the free enterprise system that makes us the favorite target of all around the world. Their greed and envy has led them to see our system of government as the major problem of the world. They hate our monetary success and they hate the freedom it engenders. They hate the fact that socialism in all its various forms has failed again and again.

They also accept the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Therefore they see these enemy combatants in Guantanamo, who hate America, as their friends. They only care about freeing them to continue the war against America that THEY started.

The most outrageous comment is Judge Thomas F. Hogan's "If [the evidence against these enemy combatants] wasn't sufficient, then they shouldn't have been picked up." This tyrannical idiot feels enemy soldiers should be treated on the battlefield with all the rights of citizens who are defendants in a criminal trial. Our soldiers must investigate troops who surrender on the battlefield to make sure they really were shooting. If they can't be proved to be shooting then they must be presumed innocent and allowed to go free to kill our troops in future battles.

Judge Thomas F. Hogan is a traitor to America. He should be impeached.

Supreme Court's Embarrassing Error

by Clarice Feldman - July 2nd, 2008 - The American Thinker

A blogger, Caaflog, caught Justice Kennedy having made the biggest error in modern Supreme Court history that I can recall. In the death penalty child rape case, when he said that the death penalty for this crime was "against evolving standards" he overlooked, what a blogger found, that in 2006 Congress itself had made rape of a child a crime subject to the death penalty under the military code.

No clerk or justice caught this error which is significant and completely undermines the justification for Kennedy's swing vote in this case. Indeed, the entire case it seems to me is of dubious precedential value having been based on a clear factual error of great significance.

In the new world of "King" Kennedy, such trivial errors as supporting child rapists and defending them from justice based on a lie is of no great concern. Kennedy is one of the most contemptible people to ever serve as a Supreme Court Justice. His arrogance is beyond belief.

The only evolving standards the 5 liberal justices ever care about are the evolving standards of the perverts that they so adore.

Another article on this same issue, "Justice Dept. Admits Error in Not Briefing Court", points out that liberal bias is rampant in all of our justice organizations. The justice department, admits it was an error to not inform the Supreme Court about the recent legislative act to make rape of a child punishable by death. This is the same justice department whose FBI head opposes the second amendment decision. Liberal pro crime perversion of justice is rampant in our so-called justice system. Is there any wonder crime is out of control? From the supreme court justices on down, concern for criminals supersedes any concern for victims of crime.