America's Corrupt Legal System
Posted: 07/10/2004
From: Dr. Les Sachs
America's Corrupt Legal System –
Danger to Travelers and Visitors as
Well as USA Residents:
Phony "Show Trials,"
Kangaroo Courts and the Banning of Free Speech Inside
the USA
Recent American violations of international law are
ultimately based in the corruption of the USA domestic legal system. Phony USA courts are now dangerous for travelers
and visitors to America, who can easily wind up among the USA's 2 million
prisoners. A recent "show
trial" kangaroo court federal bribery scandal is a good exemplar of
laughably fraudulent USA courts.
Quite amazingly, Americans and the American government have
recently been criticizing the legal systems and trials in other countries such
as China, Russia, Belgium and many other places. This is amazing, of course, in light of the
clear violations of human and legal rights by America in its overseas jails,
such as the infamous situations in Guantanamo and
occupied Iraq. Several 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.
But the problem is much bigger than America's legal abuses
under its military invasions and "war on terrorism". It's time to confront the fact that these USA
violations of international law are consistent with the corruption in America's
home legal system within its own borders, and with America's legal abuses
against its own citizens and residents.
The entire world should be aware of how the corrupt USA
legal system is a danger to every traveler, visitor, and guest worker from
overseas, 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, after they were jailed on
flimsy evidence inside America.
The reality is that the United States of America, which
proclaims itself the "land of freedom," may have the most dishonest
and crooked legal system of any developed nation. The corruption of the USA legal system is
well-known, but also well-hidden, by America's large corporate media news services.
My own case is proof of America's tragically laughable level
of legal corruption. I am a writer with
my freedom of speech banned by the USA government -- after I dared to criticize
a rich woman who is a millionaire campaign contributor to President Bush's
Republican Party. Meanwhile Mr. Bush is
boasting about his so-called "land of freedom.”
My father was Canadian, my mother European, but I lived most
of my life inside the USA. I am a
graduate of Harvard University and have seven university degrees -- one of the
most educated people to have lived inside America. At Harvard I helped teach a course on the
evils of Nazi and fascist governments. I
have written several books, including a well known book on corruption in the
USA automobile sales industry.
Bush's multi-millionaire friend, who
bought the criminal scheme against me, is the famous author and right-wing
extremist, Patricia Cornwell, who at one point had a friend of President Bush
living in her mansion. After I criticized this
millionaire contributor for some of her neo-Nazi-style activities, the U.S.
federal courts set me up in a phony political "show trial" to silence
me and ban my freedom of speech. I was
given fake lawyers who, it was proclaimed in writing, were part of a
"civil rights charity foundation" which does not even exist. These lawyers threatened me with illegal
jailing, rape and torture, and murder in jail -- like the threats America used
on the Iraqi prisoners.
After a number of weeks, with no jury allowed to hear me,
the court proclaimed victory for Mr. Bush's millionaire friend, and it was
laughably claimed I "agreed" to "voluntarily submit" to
having my freedom of speech and journalism banned for the rest of my life, and
that I should begin to pay 100,000 U.S. dollars to the judge's friends, these
fake lawyers installed by the judge to produce this "agreement". As documents prove, I faced jail, and even
torment and death, if I did not remain silent about this farce in a USA
courtroom. I was ordered into total
silence about Bush's contributor, and about the phony nature of the "show
trial" court proceeding, on pain of being quietly jailed and murdered.
From inside the USA I tried to find lawyers to help me fight
this phony "show trial," and I contacted thousands of lawyers, only
to find that U.S. lawyers already accept court fraud, bribery, and fake
"show trials" as normal.
"That's how the game is played," say the American
lawyers. And also, "You can’t fight
a crooked judge that's backed by the Bush government." I was told that my only hope was to escape
from the USA before I was jailed and murdered.
I never found a lawyer in America who had the courage to
represent me, or to try and protect me from harm, even though I had clear
written proof of these political crimes.
USA lawyers are frightened, terrified of confronting their country's
legal corruption. I am very lucky now to
have escaped out of America alive.
The crimes that were committed against me are fully proven
by documents. Now that I have exposed
this scandal from safe haven overseas, these crimes and my situation are
starting to be "reviewed" by the American government, and by a
committee named by America's Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist -- though we
have yet to see if this is anything more than a cover-up. Meanwhile, I still face jail if I return to
the USA, under the ridiculous fable that I "agreed" to a ban on my
own freedom of speech.
My case is known to the American media, but the media
corporations greatly fear informing the public about this kind of legal
scandal. They are afraid of the social
upheaval that would result from Americans learning about the degree of
corruption in their own courts. My case
does not fit the U.S. boasting about having "the greatest legal system in
the world," especially given that the evidence of court fraud in this
scandal is so blatant that it is hilarious. Most amusing is the phony
"civil rights charity foundation" invented by the judge and the
lawyers, who put this criminal fiction in writing and on the Internet.
The unique factor in USA legal corruption is its amazingly
devious body of lawyers, these lawyers who "play the game" with
America’s judges and politicians. It is
a savage culture of legal fraud, where lawyers work with judges to rob and
terrify people, especially minorities and foreigners, and those who dare to
question the wealthy and powerful.
A key fact about life in America is that the USA has over 2
million prisoners -- 25 percent of all the people in jail in the entire world
are in jail inside America. Many of
those people are innocent. 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 and lawyers call this "the game," as
they casually send people to jail for long terms of 10 years, 20 years or life,
not caring too much about who is innocent or guilty. In addition to the many official USA
executions, people are also illegally killed in jail cells,
"mysteriously" said to be hanging themselves or "found stabbed
to death."
Conditions are brutal in the USA, inside the most enormous
jail system in the world;
rape and torment and beatings are common, and there is little
help for abused prisoners. 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 as well.
In addition to the 2 million prisoners, the USA has almost 1
million lawyers. Many of these lawyers
are rich, "playing the game" for the big corporations, or playing the
specially lucrative game of suing doctors and hospitals; but many of these lawyers are also out
of work, desperately hoping for a chance to make big money like other
lawyers. Lawyers themselves are under
the whip of fear: If they fight the
judges or the culture of legal bribery, they themselves face revenge,
they can lose their career connections and ability to make money, or
worse. Lawyers who try to help the
victims targeted by the government are even themselves now being arrested and
criminally charged.
America's health care system is being destroyed 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. U.S. lawyers joke 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 U.S., 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, they are extremely
afraid to take any legal action against another lawyer or judge. This is part of "playing the game."
In my case, with my freedom of speech illegally banned in a
fake political "show trial," the lawyers told me I had "no hope
for freedom" inside the USA and that they would not help me, for fear of
their own careers. And 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, are "playing the game."
America does not have the rule of law -- instead it is the rule of
lawyers who worship money and power.
And, in America, it can be jail or worse for anyone who tries to fight
these lawyers.
For a long time, America has tried to coast on the images of
"freedom" portrayed in Hollywood movies and films. These films sometimes portray "brave
lawyers" who will "fight for your rights", just like they
portray "freedom and democracy and justice."
Even after I suffered the phony "show trial" to
ban my freedom of speech, I tried to find resources inside America to help
fight these crimes, as I didn’t yet understand how thoroughly the U.S. is now
under the iron fist of legal corruption.
At the risk of my own life, I stayed inside America to try to find some
few brave lawyers who would help "fight for justice" like in the
movies. But, this proved to be hopeless
in reality. Legal corruption is covering
America like a blanket.
America sells political propaganda just like Hollywood sells
movies. America is a culture built on
sales and advertising;
it focuses on portraying an image, not the reality beneath. But the reality of America is that Americans,
despite their overall wealth, are 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 the economy and losing their jobs, afraid of needing health care, and afraid of what will happen if they try to question
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; which
means that a jury in a trial, 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 comes from following the "strong" government in sending
various "suspected criminals" to jail.
Because Americans have difficulty in sorting out their many
fears, they have become ripe candidates for racial and religious hatreds, and
for following the 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 face the ugly
truth. 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.
The Americans most likely to think 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," will often
trample upon the freedoms that Americans thought they had. It is people like me, 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 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.
This article may be freely reproduced and republished in
full by anyone, anywhere.
Dr. Les Sachs can be reached through his website:
http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=59525