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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DWI THE MOST DANGEROUS

 HOMEGROWN TERRORIST IN AMERICA
                             

We hear a lot of rhetoric about overcoming the DWI problem and much of that rhetoric is honestly intended.  To win the DWI war we need only to focus upon two issues; (1) Choice and consequence and (2) Swift and sure punishment. Both issues are missing in action as we see DWI’s back out on the street after as many as twenty driving offenses and two chief judges in New Mexico get caught in the legal net.

Now lets look at the cause that leads up to the problem. The use of alcohol in America is a huge paradox.  On the one hand judges, lawyers, lawmakers, celebrities, sports figures, politicians, professionals and millions of John and Jane Does get stoned driving while impaired and few get caught in the legal web.   The alcohol industry is a powerful political lobby at state and federal levels of the government.  Manufacturing, distribution, marketing and sale of alcohol are no small economic factors in the free-enterprise system. 

On the other hand, alcohol may well be the source of more misery, cost, loss, accidents and death, broken families, crime and immorality than any other single product in our society.   While one segment of the nation relaxes with a Martini or their favorite alcoholic drink, another segment of society is getting drunk, spending the family paycheck, committing crimes of domestic violence, child abuse, murder, rape and other immoral acts, filling up the jails, crowding the courtroom calendars, keeping law-enforcement officials busy, driving while intoxicated, killing, maiming and terrorizing millions of unsuspecting Americans.  This factual picture is indeed a paradox.

While Americans cry out to lawmakers and politicians to stop the DWI carnage, social engineers point to alcohol as a disease and that is pure hogwash!  Alcohol is a serious choice and consequence issue. And the use of alcohol is a bad choice!  New Mexico has consistently led the nation in DWI and now the State  continues to add another dimension to the DWI problem.   Not one but two chief judges of district courts in the state (Brennan and Fitch) have been caught in the legal net within the recent past.  Some say but that is only two out of a much greater number of judges.  One is too many!  To whom much is given-much is expected.  Factual statistics are the best measure we can rely upon.  There are many who simply have not been caught.  Then when they are caught, we see the dominant lawyer culture on and off the bench rush to their defense.   These two judges both began with thirty days of voluntary removal while the public uproar subsided. Ultimate punishment is little if any! It finally takes a public outcry to cause a resignation.  Dracula is in charge of the Blood Bank     

The last thing you can expect from an alcohol abuser is recognition and admission of truth and facts.  It is this basis upon which all justice must depend.  Undoubtedly some of those who came before Judge Fitch and Judge Brennan who now have a prison address must question justice in the American judicial system.

Finally to the question of homegrown terrorism. Alcohol related accidents in the USA have killed more Americans than all our wars combined.  71 people are killed each day in the USA from alcohol related accidents. 708,000 people are injured annually in the USA from alcohol related accidents.  51% of crime is alcohol related.  Estimates are that only 200 of every 2000 alcohol impaired drivers are arrested and very few receive a stiff penalty.   DWI’s are the most dangerous and feared homegrown terrorists in America.  What is the difference between a suicide car bomber and a DWI coming down the road?  Death is generally the end result. These facts leave us without argument.  High public office requires high moral standards.  Bad behavior and conduct are the byproducts of immoral standards.  Immorality is simply the embryo stage of crime.  With a 350% increase in crime during the past 40-years and DWI’s leading the way through the revolving door justice system, who can argue that the number one priority in America is the need for legal justice reform.  

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.

SAMMY SORRELL 
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