Sammy Sorrell Viewpoint on Amreican Extremism, Social Issues & Much More

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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EXTREMISM MOVING SOCIETY

TOWARD DESTRUCTION

It does not take a rocket scientist or any other expert to see what has happened in our society today. We have moved from moderation to liberalism and extremism in our views, actions and behavior. Extremism has fast become the direction for many individuals and groups in society today. This behavior is pushing human relationships to the brink. Extremism espouses excessive views and behavior taken to the outermost limit or degree. By its very nature extremism has a culmination or an end and that end is irrational logic, immorality, violence, terrorism and crime all of which can destroy a civilization.

Commercialize sex in the pornographic extreme as we see in our society today and the end degree is rape, child abuse, sex slavery, kidnapping, sex torture and brutal murder. Carry politics to the extreme and it can become corrupt with immorality, power and greed. Political campaigns today have reached the highest degree of intensity with unwarranted attacks of dishonesty and deceit. In a recent political campaign, one extreme depiction in Arizona puts the face of the opponent in a video presentation of crosshairs-scoped out for the kill. Our judicial system borders on the extreme as the definition of justice has become all about winning by prosecutorial or defense lawyers with political corruption replacing the merits of justice. Carry the entertainment industry to the extreme and morality will become a Godless culture with yesterday’s immorality becoming today’s morality. Carry the alcohol and drug culture to the extreme and you have more violence, injury and murder than in all our wars combined. Move the religious community to the extreme and the ultimate becomes a group that begins protesting at the funerals of our military dead and soon at other funerals of innocent victims with the theme that the deaths resulted because God hates certain segments of society. Finally comes the extremism in personal relationships where the family (the laboratory of society) has been totally victimized. Domestic violence, child abuse and other types of abuse are rampant in families. Human relationships fall apart as the divorce rate reaches an all-time high over 50% in the USA. Kids of those split family relationships often migrate to the gangs of extremism seeking their own self-image. Sum it all up and you have 159,000,000 million crimes committed against Americans during the 13-year period ending 2002 (U.S. Justice Dept.). We end up with the great American nation becoming the most violent of all the nations and leading most nations of the earth in crime statistics.

The United States is not alone in the world of extremism. In the mid-east that extremism has led to the war on terrorism. A war that has been declared and is waged by extremists under the name of a religion who have fashioned their own Jihad to kill all who do not embrace their extreme views, behavior and actions.

So what are the forces driving extremism? There are several driving forces just to mention a few. First, the underlying force is the attempted creation of a utopia of peace without God. The great roadmap of the Ten Commandments has been abandoned in favor of secular views and actions. The immorality engulfing our own nation and even the world is a fundamental and basic problem- it is a direct result of failure to follow the Ten Commandments. There is no middle ground here either we move toward good or we move toward evil. Secondly, the right of freedom of speech has lost all sense of balance and logic with responsibility being the main casualty. Thirdly, the public media spotlight shines brightly upon all of this extremism where conflict, immorality, celebrity nonsense, politics and inhumane acts of violence can drive the ratings and increase exposure. Fourthly and finally all human relationships have spiritual roots. When those spiritual roots are cut we turn into a robotic society. Extremism then becomes the driving force moving society ever closer toward the brink of immorality, crime, lawlessness, vigilante justice, anarchy and ultimate destruction as we disregard history in the traditional sense.

Every society is a mirrored reflection of its 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.

SAMMY SORRELL
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