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America's Corrupt Legal
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Rigged courts, bribed
judges, phony trials, extortion by lawyers, and
over 2 million prisoners in the USA
gulag

by Les
Sachs

Global
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The recent pattern of American
violations of international law are ultimately
based in the corruption of the USA domestic legal
system. Phony USA courts are very dangerous even
for travellers and visitors to America, who can
easily wind up among the USA's more than 2 million
prisoners, or lose all their family's possessions
to corrupt American lawyers.

All world
citizens should know how the corrupt USA legal
system, is a danger to every traveller, 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.

For minorities, the statistics
are even more brutal. For example, the USA is now
imprisoning about 1 out of every 36 people in its
black population. American "justice" is especially
focused on jailing young black males.

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.

Understanding that America has
such a huge percentage of even its own people in
prison, is to start to understand the subconscious
fear behind much of American life.

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.

The situation is so
bad, that a social explosion is beginning inside
America. You can read some news stories - about
people murdering judges, or attacking the families
of judges, or people setting fire to courthouses
in the USA - and see the pattern that is emerging,
even though the news media are afraid to connect
the dots and suggest what might be behind all
these events. America is trying to maintain its
myths about its legal system, even while the
desperate reality of life inside the USA is
starting to blow back into escalating social
upheaval.

USA torture and illegal
jailing overseas, starts with USA domestic torture
and illegal jailing at home

The
world press has documented clear violations of
human and legal rights by America in its overseas
jails, such as the infamous situations in
Guantanamo and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and
the even more secret network of prisons in places
like Diego Garcia or on board American
ships.

But the problem is much bigger, than
America's legal abuses under its military
invasions and "war on terrorism". These USA
violations of international law, are consistent
with the corruption in America's home legal system
within its own borders, and have partly evolved
from America's legal abuses against its own
citizens and residents.

American prisons
are often horrible, with lots of torment of
prisoners, like you would expect in some petty
dictatorship. Conditions are brutal in USA jails;
rape and beatings are common, and there is little
help for abused inmates. In addition to the many
official USA executions, numerous people are also
illegally killed in jail cells, "mysteriously"
said to have hanged themselves or "found stabbed
to death".

Scandals of overseas prison
abuse, as in the USA-run Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq, have arisen from sources much deeper than
America's foreign policy. These scandals are in
part replications of inmate abuse inside of
America's domestic prison gulag. 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.

In the regular
functioning of the USA courts, America's domestic
lawyers and judges, threaten people with illegal
jailing, and rape, torture and murder in jail,
just like the threats used by Americans against
Iraqi subjects of the American occupation. America
will play the song about "just a few bad apples in
the barrel" whenever an abuse scandal gets
exposed, either domestically or abroad, but the
cover-up of such abuse is more the routine
response.

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 and the government,
and must submit to the culture of bribery and
perversion of justice, or else face terrifying
revenge. Lawyers, just like you, can be instantly
jailed by an American judge on flimsy pretexts,
and American lawyers can be quickly stripped of
their right to practice law, and personally and
financially destroyed, if they dare to criticize
legal corruption. 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.

This is
different from other advanced countries, where
lawyers are usually a professional guild, whose
status and right to practice law, is under the
control of only their fellow lawyers. This means
that, in other countries, the judges and the
government cannot easily ruin or attack the
lawyers for purely political reasons. This is also
part of why, in other developed countries, outside
of America, you really do see brave lawyers
fighting for un-popular clients, or challenging
the government, and asking for justice.

But
in America, it's different. Over the past century,
the American lawyers lost the right to regulate
themselves, and instead fell under the power of
the judges. 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.

Some USA lawyers don't like this,
but they are helpless and can't fight it. Most
lawyers in America have, to one degree or another,
signed up with the devil, to do things the way the
devil wants them done.

That means that any
time you hire an American lawyer, he already is in
a conflict of interest. He has to make the judge
happy first. And if the judge wants to make the
government happy, or make somebody else happy who
is paying a big bribe, then guess what? You are
destroyed. It doesn't matter what you paid the
lawyer. He works for the judge, first and
foremost.

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 minorities, but
also foreigners, and above all those who dare to
question the system.

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 of America gave every accused criminal the
"right" to a lawyer, not because they cared about
the rights of the accused, but because it helps
stage-manage the victim, with a lawyer who has to
do things the judge's way. In America, such
government-appointed lawyers are the means by
which hundreds of thousands of poor people are
railroaded into prison. Some of these people were
just foreign tourists, in the wrong place at the
wrong time, and wound up rotting in an American
prison.

Some lawyers are fairly subtle
about it, and their victims never realize the
lawyer has sold them out to the judge and the
government. Most American court cases never go to
trial, never see a jury; it is the job of the
victim's lawyer to "sell the deal" that the judge
has decided will happen, or else. This is how
people accept a "plea bargain" so they accept
going to jail for 3 years even though they are
innocent, instead of going to trial before a
jury.

Because of the corruption of lawyers
under the thumb of the judges, there's a very fake
and phony aspect of court proceedings in America.
They are really fake "show trials" in many cases,
sometimes very obviously so, where both purported
"sides" of lawyers are actually working together
for the government, or for the big corporation or
rich person that is bribing the judge.

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

Yes, lots of people live
their whole lives in America and never get
arrested. And yet, some poor foreign visitor comes
to America for a short holiday, gets arrested by
mistake, and gets sentenced to death by lethal
injection even though he is totally innocent.
Well, that's the lottery of life for those who
visit or live 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". Perhaps part of the reason
America has so much crime, even with more than 2
million people in prison, is because the people
who actually committed the crimes were never
arrested. Also, some poor people may feel that the
odds are high they will be arrested someday
anyway, so they may as well be criminals and enjoy
life in the meantime.

The system is
extremely racist, of course, and white people are
arrested less than many minorities. But no one is
safe. Any innocent person can get railroaded to
death in America.

Multi-millionaires and
big corporations, vs. everybody
else

The only people who really can
get 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.

If you are a little helpless nobody,
the appeals judges often barely reply to you, and
sometimes don't reply at all. Sometimes people
have been strapped to a table and given the lethal
poison and put to death in America, with the
victim's appeal never even answered by the
judges.

What about when people
win millions of dollars in a lawsuit against the
big company?

Every now and then,
there is worldwide news of how some average person
in America has won a lawsuit for $25 million or
some other huge sum of money, from some company or
other. What's going on here - if the American
legal system is so crooked, how can people be
winning such big money?

Such cases are
indeed real, but they are actually somewhat rare,
numerically - rather like winning the lottery -
and it's important to see why they take place, and
how they fit into the big pattern. Such cases are
typically after someone has been seriously injured
or died due to some defective product or
prescription drug or hospital treatment or
accident.

These cases have a certain
"place" in the American legal framework, accepted
by the judges. They are also very important for
maintaining the bribery culture. A lot of the
money won in such cases goes into the lawyer's
pockets, and is a major source of bribery money
for the judges. As regards big companies and the
judges, such cases are viewed as a kind of "tax"
on the big corporations, part of the cost of doing
business in America, part of the price of being
able to otherwise make huge profits.

Such
cases, as well, have the same function as in a
gambling casino, when the casino proudly announces
that one customer has just won a huge jackpot. The
hype about the one jackpot winner, hides the fact
that most everyone else is losing money. The
person whose husband died from the defective
prescription drug, and won millions of dollars
(one-third of that to the lawyer, of course), is
the person who is shoved forward to prove that
"the legal system works - it's the greatest legal
system in the world!"

The small handful of
such personal-injury cases, are intended to
distract the public from all the innocent people
sentenced to prison, from all the families
destroyed by bribed judges in divorce cases, and
from all the people whose lives are destroyed by
big companies, companies who cheerfully pay bribes
to win their routine cases in court.

Big
companies know that some big "injury" cases will
be lost, in order to supply money for the lawyers
and judges who otherwise take good care of the big
company's interests. When you are making hundreds
of millions of dollars, the loss of a few million
here and there is just another expense of
business. In the end, the companies just raise
their prices to cover the costs of lawyers and
lawsuits. The whole world pays for the millions
earned by American lawyers, they are the ultimate
parasites.

There are other casualties here,
too. America's health care system has been
destroyed from the inside 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. America is the only economically advanced
nation without a national health plan, with tens
of millions of Americans having no health
coverage. USA lawyers joke openly 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 US,
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, for any flimsy
reason, to try and squeeze some money from the
situation, they are extremely afraid to take any
legal action against another lawyer or judge
engaged in misconduct. That's where fear takes
over, and lawyers are suddenly too timid to file
any lawsuits.

The Hollywood image,
versus the grim reality

Once you
have digested the fact that America has the
world's largest prison gulag, another major thing
to digest is the USA government, and much of
America, is primarily a sales organization, whose
chief tool is hype and propaganda and outright
lies. America is a culture built on sales and
advertising; it focuses on portraying an image,
not the reality beneath it.

This is why
America was so casual about inventing and selling
the lies about "weapons of mass destruction" to
help start the Iraq invasion. It was just a
question of whatever lies needed to be told, in
order to sell the product; there was no concern
about afterwards, when the lies were exposed.
America just figures it can later send out more
salespeople with more lies, in an endless cycle.
Tomorrow is just another day, when America will
try to sell another product, the "war on terror",
the "spread of freedom", or whatever.

The
selling never stops, in Washington or Hollywood.
America sells political lies like Hollywood sells
movies. When the USA President talks about
"advancing the cause of freedom", he basically
means freedom for big corporations to do business.
He's not really talking about actual personal
freedom for real people. But he grins when he
talks about "freedom" because it's a good word of
salesmanship, people hear him and some of them can
be duped into believing that America cares about
personal or political freedom.

Hollywood
movies and American television are a major element
of political myth-making. Around the world, people
derive an image of America, and its legal system,
from these fictional creations on film. America's
propaganda about having "the greatest legal system
in the world" is one of those phony stories that
Hollywood is helping to sell.

It is also a
myth sustained by the few trials about which there
is a lot of publicity, like with the celebrity
trials of Martha Stewart or Michael Jackson.
Judges behave very differently when the cameras
are rolling, or the media is reporting everything
that goes on, and millions of dollars are being
spent on lawyers. But in the 98 percent of court
activity that does not have big media coverage,
the judges of America provide a bizarre sideshow
of horror.

In the Hollywood version, the
judges in American courts are like kind uncles,
smiling and being wise and calmly dispensing
justice. But in reality, American judges sometimes
scream at people like disturbed perverts, and show
off their bribed corruption right there in the
courtroom. Sometimes judges engage in flagrant
extortion, where you have to agree to pay money to
the judge's lawyer friends as the price to stay
out of jail. It is really that bad. 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.

In the sad reality,
American lawyers line up by the dozen to help the
government or the big corporations, and regularly
betray the average person, even if they are
supposedly representing you. 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.

In America today,
reporters are little timid people who are afraid
of getting fired, and who almost never write a
story on government corruption, unless some other
part of the government is officially investigating
or prosecuting. That goes triple when judges or
lawyers are involved. The owners of the newspapers
and television stations are afraid of revenge by
the judges if they have to go to court, and the
nervous little reporters who work for them
understand the rules of the game.

If you
look closely at a modern newspaper or news
magazine in the USA, you will see how almost all
stories originate with the government itself. When
the media "investigates", they are usually just
adding more details on a situation already being
targeted by the government. Every news media and
television station in America is swamped with
people begging them to report on stories, that
they totally refuse to cover. The reporters are
too scared, and they know the stories wouldn't get
printed or broadcast even if they were
written.

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.)

The police
and FBI almost certainly will not help you,
either. They all know the bribery game, and they
rely on the same crooked judges to help send
innocent people to prison after they have been
arrested. The more crooked the judge, the more
eager the judge will be, to help the police or FBI
do a dirty deal and convict an innocent
person.

And, of course, the newspapers and
television and media won't help you. They hear
stories like yours all the time. If they publish
or broadcast your story, then they will have
problems the next time they get sued in court. Or
they might find themselves arrested on false
charges, and end up in an even worse situation
than you.

The newspapers are so tied into
the establishment of judges and lawyers, that the
newspapers sometimes help the judges and lawyers
to commit their crimes, and to unfairly smear and
attack their victims. The big media newspapers
have even helped to plant false "evidence" in
court cases, and help the legal establishment to
destroy innocent people. But even if not harming
you, the USA media is afraid to help you, afraid
of revenge if they expose judicial
corruption.

These fears are just as big, if
not bigger, with America's radical and alternative
media, and bloggers and internet sites. Such
people will criticize American foreign policy and
so on, but everybody is scared of talking about
specific cases of corruption by lawyers and
judges. The independent media has even more reason
to be afraid, because they are even more
vulnerable if the lawyers start to file false
charges against them in the courts.

Of
course, America's politicians will not help you,
either. Many politicians are themselves lawyers,
very used to the whole game of bribery with judges
and other lawyers. The politicians accept the
crooked courts as the way that America is run, and
as helping the two big parties to monopolize the
political scene and prevent alternative political
movements.

America's two big political
parties, the Democrats and Republicans, can be
seen as another phony game like America's courts.
The two parties actually get their hundreds of
millions of dollars in money from the same people
at the same big corporations who own the rest of
America. These two American parties pretend to
argue with each other over emotional issues like
gun control and abortion rights, but in the end
both of these parties serve the big corporations.
Half of Americans are still fooled into thinking
that these parties represent them, the other half
sense it is phony but feel helpless and don't know
what to do. This is why people don't vote very
much in America; they feel it is hopeless and
useless.

You can also forget about
America's human rights and civil liberties groups,
even though it looks, at first, like there are
many such groups on the internet. Many such groups
are just money-raising groups which don't help
victims, or are tied to the two main political
parties or some narrow agenda. They are all scared
of the legal system, too, and there is no one with
any significant funding or money, who is out there
helping the victims of legal corruption. They
can't find lawyers to help them, either. There are
some overwhelmed and struggling projects here and
there, doing worthy work for a few of the innocent
people in prison, but they function in an
environment of timidity and fear, and without the
resources or clout or media access to expose or
change what is happening.

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.

It is also important to
know, that once you have started complaining
about, or exposing, judicial and legal corruption
in America, you become a kind of outlaw there. You
are in a very dangerous situation, and you are
considered fair game to be either arrested and
jailed on false charges, or to be totally robbed
and betrayed by America's lawyers. Once you have
spoken out about legal corruption, you may find
that no other lawyer will then help you for any
reason, even if it is un-related to your complaint
about judicial wrongdoing. You may be trapped in a
nightmare from which there is no escape unless you
can leave America altogether.

Dealing with American
lawyers, if you have no other
choice

Perhaps the statistical
chance of getting arrested in America as an
innocent person, and then being sent to prison or
put to death, is relatively small. But think of
how you will feel if you end up as one of those 2
million American prisoners, including 50,000
foreign citizens. Or perhaps even one of those
several thousand people on Death Row, waiting for
the lethal poison to be injected into your
arm.

Visiting America now, is probably
similar to visiting or doing business in 1936 with
Hitler's Reich, or Mussolini's fascist empire. If
you did such a thing in 1936, you might have
visited and had a wonderful time, maybe even have
done some business with companies in those
countries. You might have seen some beautiful
sights, and met some very friendly individual
people, perhaps drunk a beer or two, or a nice
glass of wine, maybe attended the 1936 Olympics.
Very likely, you wouldn't have seen any
concentration camps, in the places where you
travelled. You might have had a very pleasant
trip.

But nonetheless, you were in a
dangerous place, where horrible things were going
on. That's true of the United States of America
today, the land of 2 million prisoners in a giant
gulag.

With America's corrupt legal system,
it's certainly not the wisest place to keep money
or assets, which can be easily grabbed by American
lawyers in legal proceedings. Many smart Americans
have opened overseas bank accounts, and it is wise
to not keep too much money where American lawyers
can seize it. There is no bigger group of thieves
in the world, than American lawyers.

If you
are in a lawsuit situation in America, get all
your money out of the country, fast, before the
USA lawyers can put any kind of hold or freeze on
it. But you shouldn't keep substantial assets in
the USA in the first place. Sell any USA real
estate and rent instead, get that money out where
it is safe.

Certainly, don't ever expect
any justice from American courts. Expect the
judges and both sides of lawyers to tilt toward
the government, or toward the big company that can
pay bribes on a regular basis. All that most
people get out of American courts, is grief, and
lawyers stealing their money. Best not to approach
American courts unless absolutely
necessary.

Despite the commonplace fraud
and dishonesty of American lawyers, it's still
important to have one if you must be in an
American court. The reason is that American judges
absolutely hate people who come to court without
lawyers, especially if they have any money at all.
The judge takes it as a personal insult if you are
not giving some money to one of his lawyer
friends, and will tend to take revenge on you
unless you hire a lawyer, even a very stupid one,
to stand by your side.

What American
lawyers love to do, is to steal all your money,
tell you a bunch of false promises and lies, and
then do nothing for you, while they sell you out
to the other side. That is a perfect scenario for
an American lawyer. A lawyer's goal is to squeeze
as much money from you, while at the same time
doing as little as possible to rock the judge's
political boat. Some lawyers even make money by
the "research and review" scam, where they don't
even agree to represent you, but just steal your
money to "research" your case.

Accept in
advance that an American lawyer will rob you and
betray you, and everything will go more smoothly
if you quietly understand this. Never actually
trust an American lawyer, but don't let on that
you know he's a crook.

Don't tell the
lawyer how much money you really have, he will try
to get all of it. Try to pay a lawyer very slowly,
in small chunks, that will keep him more
interested, and prevent some of the bigger
robberies and betrayals, and will leave you some
money to try another lawyer if things get too
awful.

Remember, once you give a USA lawyer
any money, it's almost impossible to get it back.
Lawyers will almost never sue another lawyer, and
if you go to court, the judge will almost
certainly protect the lawyer who defrauded you
(and get a share of the money, of
course).

Lawyers and judges in America like
people to appear to be submissive and stupid and
easily manipulated. They like to feel superior to
you. By letting them think that you are weak and
falling for their lies, you may give yourself some
breathing room. This tactic has even enabled some
people to stay alive and not get murdered, and to
escape from America back to
safety.

The growing American
nightmare

It is just getting worse
and worse in America's legal system. For some
years now, the USA judges and lawyers have gotten
used to denying people justice, to the great flow
of bribery money, and even to committing felony
crimes in broad daylight and getting away with it.
It just keeps on escalating. Though a social
explosion is lurking beneath the surface - with
judges starting to get murdered, and people
lighting courthouses ablaze - the people who run
America are letting the current system chug along
as it is, justice be damned, and to hell with the
people who seem to have no way to fight
back.

It can't go on like this forever, but
it may get a lot worse first, despite the fair
internet visibility on documented American legal
corruption. One should note a brave and promising
grass-roots attempt at judicial reform in the USA
called (Jail 4 Judges -
www.jail4judges.org), which attempts to place onto
American ballots, a referendum for a new procedure
to give citizens a real right of redress against
corrupt judges. It is a wonderful and beautiful
idea that deserves success, and will help
transform America if it moves
forward.

Regrettably, though, for all the
usual reasons of fear, there is no one with any
big money or media clout, yet making a foray
against the real-life nightmare of America's
courts and prisons. It remains a taboo subject for
the American media, and the media silence feeds
and encourages the whole machine of bribery and
repression.

Perhaps, though, it will not be
until after America has had a major economic or
social cataclysm, that the big American machine of
legal corruption finally comes to be
reformed.

Sociologically speaking, it's
astonishing how disgraceful American lawyers have
become - they are now both the mafia and the
gestapo of American life. 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 nowadays,
are "playing the game" with America's government
and its judges.

America, indeed, does not
have the rule of law at all. Instead, it is just
the rule of lawyers, lawyers who crave money and
power. And, in America, it can be jail or worse
for anyone who tries to fight these
lawyers.

The reality of the United States
of America is that Americans, despite their
overall wealth as a nation, are now 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 losing their jobs
in a brutal society with no social safety net,
afraid of needing health care in a disastrous
system with no health plan. And Americans are
afraid of what will happen if they try to question
the system and 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. Because Americans have difficulty in
sorting out their many fears, they have become
ripe candidates for racial and religious hatreds,
and for following their 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 them to face the ugly
truth, that their freedom is already largely lost.
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. And
the Americans most likely to imagine 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",
regularly trample upon the freedoms that Americans
thought they had. It is people like myself,
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 travelling 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.

For a deeper and more thorough
analysis of the USA legal system, see the online
FAQ on American
Judicial and Legal Corruption.

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