Sammy Sorrell Viewpoint on America The Greatest Nation on Earth & Social Issues

Sammy Sorrell is a non-fiction author, writer and radio talk show producer and host on "Justice In America". He is in-house author for American Trend Publishing. He has devoted the past several years to the development of United Citizens For Legal Justice Reform, a national organization that he formed in 1990. The organizations’ goals are varied but all leading to needed changes in the present judicial system in America. Mr. Sorrell is a published author of over 500 non-fiction books, e-books, booklets, articles and information reports on a variety of subjects relating to current social issues and other subjects Sorrell Publishing Archives. His writings also appear on his four Blogs Click Here.
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Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of human society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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AMERICA STILL THE GREATEST

NATION ON EARTH

America is a choice land above all other lands. As citizens of this great nation we are blessed immeasurably. We are grounded in a Constitution that gives us freedoms and privileges that God-fearing men scripted under the guiding spirit of the Almighty-I really believe that. If our nation remains a moral compass and guiding beacon to the rest of the world, this nation will have a destiny that will reach into the eternities.

But we have a heavy responsibility. The price of freedom is not cheap. We must be ever vigilant. Man in almost every political situation can become drunk with power and tyranny can become his by-product. This nation is not exempt from tyrannical forces at work in the world today.

On tyranny, from a talk on the U.S. Constitution. "We are deaf today to the approach of tyranny because we have lived so long under the protection of the Constitution that we take for granted the blessings of liberty. But the framers of the Constitution having had bitter experience with tyranny, wrote it with the purpose to preserve the right of local self-government-which had been the fundamental principle on which the war of the Revolution was fought. They were not dreamers but practical men of wide experience and they wrote into that document the fruition of human experience in self-government. Prospering under the privileges insured by the Constitution this country has advanced as no other in a like period in all history. We need more people today with strong convictions in support of the Constitution and with courage to stand back of their convictions. We need men with courage to refuse support to every effort aimed at undermining the Constitution. Any change in our social order which is really desirable can be effected under the Constitution or by orderly Constitutional amendment rather than by efforts to evade its provisions. We must continue to protect ourselves against the approach of tyranny in any guise."

"Beware of inroads upon the constitution by the Roman law. Now, in the last years, we in America have gone a long distance towards the adoption of the Roman concepts and the abuses against property rights and human freedom and liberties which are possible under that system. And let me say here and now that in the whole history of the human race, from Adam until now, Tyranny has never come to live with any people with a placard on his breast bearing his name. He always comes in deep disguise sometimes proclaiming and endowment of freedom, sometimes promising help to the unfortunate and downtrodden, not by creating something for those who do not have, but by robbing those who have. But Tyranny is always a wolf in sheep's clothing , and he always ends by devouring the whole flock, saving none. "

"Why I Am An American", a reprint from the Congressional record, June 11, 1940 by J. Rueben Clark, former Solicitor for the Department of State , Under-Secretary of State and Ambassador to Mexico during his service to the nation.

"I am an American because I believe in a government of laws and not of men and in a national allegiance to high principle and lofty ideal instead of to a personal sovereign.

I am an American because I believe in a government with three distinct separate branches each mutually independent of the other, with no power of delegation or appropriation of rights or powers by any one to or from any other.

I am an American because I believe that government must derive its "just powers from the consent of the governed" and that branches of government and officers shall have such powers and such only as shall be given by the people; because I believe that the assumption by branches of government or by officers of rights or powers not specifically conferred upon them is usurpation; and because impeachment or other trial lies against any officer who so usurps rights or powers not specifically conferred.

I am an American because I believe in the greatest possible measure of self-government and because I believe in a federal system of government which keeps local affairs in the hands of local governments.

I am an American because I believe in a bill of rights which places wholly beyond the reach of lawful government certain matters affecting "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and specifically the right of freedom of conscience and worship, the right of free speech and a free press, the right to peaceably to assemble and petition government, and the right to gain and hold property with molestation except by due process of law.

I am an American because under our form of government the people of the United States have made a progress never before made by any other people in the world in an equal time during the whole period of recorded history.

I am an American because standards of life and of living of the entire American people are far beyond those enjoyed by any other people in any other part of the world, either now or at any other time, which is a living testimony and evidence of the kindly beneficence of our free institutions.

I am an American because this Nation has no scheme or plan of conquest, because it has a respect for the rights of other peoples and of other nations, because it promotes justice and honor in the relationships of nations, because it loves the ways of peace as against war, as shown by the repeated peaceful adjustment of its own international disputes, because it has conquered the land greed which so afflicts the nations of the world, as demonstrated in Cuba and the Philippines.

I am an American because my country abolished slavery after it had become deep-rooted and because men still are free to work, and are secure in the enjoyment of the products of their labor. I am an American because I firmly and earnestly believe that the Constitution is an inspired document designed by our Maker to set up a government which would make sure and secure the rights set forth in the Bill of Rights, and particularly the right of freedom of conscience and worship.

I am an American because I believe that the destiny of America is to be the abiding place of liberty and free institutions and that its own practice and enjoyment of these blessings shall be to the world a beacon light which shall radiate its influence by peaceful means to the uttermost parts of the world to the uplifting of all humanity."

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Every society is a mirrored reflection of it's laws and the judicial system that administers those laws! If that system is political, corrupt, self-serving, anti-constitutional then equity and justice for citizens becomes about as sure as a game of Russian roulette. Under the U.S. Constitution and Bill Of Rights, A legal system and it's laws should be a safety net for the innocent, a protection for law-abiding citizens, a shelter for the abused and yes a place of retribution in favor of those who have been victimized. When a legal system becomes the abuser, disregarding constitutional rights and further victimizing those victims who are seeking a safe harbor, the reflection of laws in that society begins to turn ugly. That ugliness ripples through society and the fallout will have far reaching consequences.

If you accept the premise that a society is a mirrored reflection of it's laws and the administration of those laws, America is a nation in deep, deep trouble! The crisis reaches into every vital area of society including but not limited to constitutional, political, economic, financial, governmental, justice, social, moral and spiritual.

There are many men and women who have chosen to be a lawyer and devoted their professional lives to equity and justice. These people are not the target of this report. There is a greater number of the lawyer fraternity however, who have different motives and have not been so noble. In fact, as a general culture and class, lawyers are destroying America, turning this nation and American justice into a financial and political self-serving game, grinding out victims by the millions annually.

Client benefit, true equity and justice has been and is being subordinated to the financial and political business opportunity concept by lawyers in America today. Equity and justice is for sale to the highest bidder. Because of lawyer monopoly of the legal services profession, many Americans cannot afford to pay the ransom demanded by the lawyer monopoly to buy a shot at justice.

* 159,000,000 million personal and property crimes were committed against American citizens during a recent 13 year period, with a 26% clearance arrest record. When that 26% was turned over to the judicial system, the percentages go down through plea bargains, back room political deals and God only knows what else. A sad commentary for the American criminal justice system. Direct and indirect cost of crime in America is now costing taxpayers a staggering $675 billion dollars annually. America leads the world in prison population. * America has the highest tort tax in the world that now exceeds $1200.00 for every man, woman and child. We cannot be competitive in the international market place. Who pays that tort tax, none other than the American consumer.

* We are the most litigious society on earth with over 95 million lawsuits filed annually at a cost exceeding $300 billion dollars effecting the gross national product.

* Over 70% of low to middle income Americans can no longer afford the cost of justice in America.

* We have two standards of justice, the "Model T" brand and the "Cadillac brand". Those who have money get the Cadillac brand and those who don't have money go to prison or bankruptcy court.

* Over 30 billion annually is extracted from the medical and insurance fields by lawyers looking to extort a settlement from the deep pockets in those professions. This drives us consumer prices for health care.

* We have laws and rules stacked end to end which would fill up the super dome in New Orleans. Yet we have a legal mentality that looks at a given dispute and says "If we can't find any law that has been broken we may have to pass a new one".

* We have a judicial system where politics, fraud, conspiracy, deception, perjury, dishonesty and obstruction of justice is the order of the day by the dominant lawyer culture who operate the system. This translates into a giant mirror for society that if it happens in the judicial system, you can get away with it in society. Is the judicial system teaching immorality on the face? Nobody is responsible, nobody is guilty, nobody is wrong, there is no real consequence for wrong doing as long as lawyers can profit from the issue.

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