-Sammy Sorrell-
Author, Radio Talk Show Host, National Director of Legal Reform Group
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The Cause and the Cure for Social Ills in America
"Our great nation has wandered far from the shores of original intent. The very things that made the nation strong are the things that are now tearing it apart. We have gone from common-interest to self-interest. As president John F. Kennedy said; “Ask not what the nation can do for you but what you can do for the nation.” In fact we are in a culture war of ideologies motivated by politics and self-interest. We are a promised land-led here and blessed by our God. There is a culture abroad in the land today that seek a utopia of peace without God. It will never happen! Politics may be on the way to becoming the God of the land vying for the minds and hearts of the masses. Stay with us as we identify the battlefronts in the culture war as the social ills expand daily in the nation and what we can do about it..." ...Author Sammy Sorrell
The level of comfort and trust Americans have in their government is fast disappearing today as corruption, fraud and political infighting by professional politicians reach the top echelons of government both state and federal. A spotlight example of that problem came to light in late March 2007 in New Mexico state government and reverberated all the way to the federal government in Washington, D.C.. The New Mexico kettle of fish had been stinking since 2004 involving reported huge kickbacks in the construction of the new Metro Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This fiasco happened under the watch of former U.S. attorney in New Mexico David Iglesias, former New Mexico attorney general Patricia Madrid and the powerful, longtime Democratic state senate speaker Manny Aragon. The conclusion of the investigation on a scheme to defraud the state burst upon the public scene with indictment of Manny Aragon, a lawyer and New Mexico’s top lawmaker for over twenty years who allegedly received kickbacks adding up to $700,000. Pleading guilty in the scheme was former Albuquerque mayor Ken Schultz, Marc Schiff, architect and senior partner in charge of the project, Manual Guara, subcontractor that inflated vouchers and kickback money. Not yet indicted as of this writing Toby and Sandra Martinez the court boss and his wife that are accused of approving over $2 million in phony invoices for kickback purposes. Also not yet indicted as of this writing is Raul Parra accused of skimming off $773,000 and funneling thousands of dollars more to other defendants. This scam totaled an estimated $4.2 million in fraudulent kickbacks and sent the Metro judges scurrying to the state to pay for overruns on the project.
While not involved in the chain scam conspiracy former New Mexico U.S. attorney Iglesias and former State Attorney General Madrid have been viewed with a jaundiced eye for slowdown of the investigation. U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and U.S. Representative Heather Wilson were aware of the slow-moving investigation and both called Iglegias in the fall of 2006 to see how the investigation was coming along. Those calls triggered the political lurching-reach of U.S. house and senate democrats to cry foul after Iglesias and seven other U.S. attorneys were fired. U.S. House and Senate democrats immediately rushed to press conferences to point the political finger at the Bush administration hoping to find something wrong with the dismissal of the U.S. Attorneys including New Mexico U.S. attorney Iglesias.
Honesty is the foundation of strong character. Dishonesty is the foundation of
weak character. Like a house built on a sandy foundation weak character will
ultimately collapse and often with a loud bang. Government leaders
representing the people are expected to be held to a higher moral standard.
Their standard of morality can lead a nation to the higher moral ground or
lead them to the depths of immorality. These people are the lawmakers of the
nation. Every democratic society is a reflection of its laws and how those
laws are administered. When lawmakers engage in immoral acts of dishonesty the
reflection of the nation’s laws is permanently impaired and we have arrived
to the age-old excuse (everybody does it) that sends a nation further toward
the edge of the slippery slope of immorality. History records great nations
that have destroyed themselves because of that slippery slope. Could this all
be placed at the doorstep of a counter-culture with a strong foothold in our
nation hell-bent on creating a utopia of peace without God?
The Scandalous State of Justice in America
A major player in the social issues of America is our very own judicial system. Sometime ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a state district court handed down the largest judgment in history. The facts of the case were scandalous and irrefutable. This case brought to reality the joke that one lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand criminals with guns. The judgment was $21 million against a lawyer who handled a woman's trust estate, left by her deceased husband. After the husband's death, information was kept from the woman about the value of the estate, which ultimately grew to over $20 million dollars. All the while the woman was receiving $150 per month when she should have been receiving at least the interest in the trust amounting to $78,000 per year. She died in a rest home with her son having to borrow money to pay for her funeral services.
In Washington, DC, we have all witnessed an unbelievable lawyer pony and dog show featuring a cast of over a hundred lawyers. The show stared a lawyer American president, his lawyer wife, the White House and hordes of lawyers planning legal strategy, the justice department lawyers and a special lawyer prosecutor surrounded by a staff of lawyers. American citizens finally paid a top admission price of near $40 million dollars for a ringside seat to witness this humongous lawyer spectacle of hide-n-seek justice.
Special TV magazine shows are beginning to showcase the scandal ridden dominant lawyer culture. Sixty Minutes, Prime Time, 20/20, Dateline and other major network shows are devoting specials to highlight lawyer misconduct, judicial abuse, judicial ad-hockery and prosecutorial abuse in the Judicial system. Newspapers are devoting special sections to subjects relating to the lawyer based American judicial system.
All these happenings signal a crisis resulting from lawyer domination in American government and particularly the American Judicial system.
The Very Real Dangers Revealed
There are real dangers in the very foundation of the American judicial system today. These dangers confront serious moral, ethical, constitutional and economic questions.
While we cannot allude to the actions of the lawyer based judicial system as the basis of our total moral decline in the USA, we can document it's contribution to those problems, including the flourishing, largest criminal culture on the planet, which has changed the lifestyle of the great American nation.
In a nation with over 70% of the world's lawyers "policing" themselves, Social Issues Revealed makes the case for immediate concern and legal justice reform.
While there are many fine people in the American Judicial system who have devoted their professional lives to equity and justice, there are a great number who have not been so noble.
In fact, the American Judicial system in large part has become a business opportunity for lawyers first and foremost. Client benefit, true equity and justice have been and are being subordinated to the business opportunity concept. Equity and justice is for sale to the highest bidder. Because of lawyer monopoly of the legal services profession, 75% (American Bar Association estimate) of the lower income Americans cannot afford the cost of the legal system and therefore are denied access and their shot at justice.
Prosecutorial (lawyer) abuse is rampant. Political persecution under the guise of judicial prosecution is the order of the day with many political lawyers in the state offices of District Attorney and Attorneys General. Many prosecutorial lawyers seek high profile cases and manipulate the media for name recognition as they climb the political ladder moving to a higher political office. A prosecutor victims graveyard stands as a monument to prosecutorial abuse in most states, created and maintained at the taxpayer expense.
Bar associations literally operate the control tower of the Judicial system. Lawyer discipline is a joke. Lawyer deceit, misconduct, malpractice and theft is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy. Discipline is almost non-existent even in states where discipline is administered by a committee under the state supreme court. Dracula is in charge of the blood bank!
Government bureaucracies are largely controlled by ambitious and egotistical lawyers either in charge or high at the top with authority and influence. State legislatures are being dominated by lawyers running as high as 50% lawyer members. The US Congress is comprised of 55% lawyers. Occupants of the executive branch have been lawyers over 60% of the time. The judicial system enjoys 100% lawyer domination. What we now have are lawyers making the laws, lawyers judging us in the laws, lawyers prosecuting us in the laws, lawyers defending us in the laws, lawyers interpreting the laws and lawyers administering the laws - is this a constitutional nightmare?
Civil litigants entitled to their day in court under the constitution have to pay a ransom to lawyers to access the system. If you are a rapist, murderer or other felon then you don't have to pay the ransom. Just get a court appointed lawyer and the taxpayers pick up that expensive tab! We watch as our system of civil justice evolves into an expensive, ludicrous, self-serving business opportunity for the lawyers. We watch as defendants or plaintiffs who have millions of dollars at their disposal literally buy equity and justice. In this system lawyer judges create a maze of case law daily until there is really no law remaining! No judgment is ever final. No jury verdict is ever safe. No legal argument is ever totally without flaws. Lawyers and lawyer judges alone have created the "case law" mess for their own self-serving financial and political purposes.
Any unsuspecting litigant can fall victim to malpractice, fraud and politics in any given court. Survivors can no longer bury their dead in peace if they were the victims of disaster, accident or other demise where deep pockets are a likely target by the lawyer culture. Just the mention of a toxic liability will bring lawyers swarming like bees with retainer contracts using the hood of a car as a desk to capture the instant business opportunity. This is a lawyer based problem.
Finally, when a system of equity and justice, which should be the goal and objective of every court in the land is converted to an arena of merchandising of technicalities, time, legalese, manipulation, deception, fraud and plea bargains, society loses. A murderer or rapist under this scenario may be set free even when identified in a line up. Every one in the court may know that the suspect is guilty- but a legal technicality can set him free to go on his felonious way. The same technical sham of justice can easily convict an innocent party. Your lawyer can be derelict in his duty to you for whatever reason, as thousands of them are, and your dream of a simple solution can turn into a horrible costly nightmare.
Ultimately, it is the hope of the author that this web site may show what happens even in a free democracy when any arm of government is permitted to operate in secrecy, behind closed doors and act as it's own policing agency as has been the case with the American judicial system. But make no mistake about it, this is only one of several major social issues facing the great American nation.
Social Issues Revealed Should be in the Library of Every American
Social Issues Revealed is a series of several great social information reports that spotlight the truth about social issues in America today. Cost of each report is $10 each. All reports are two to six pages and power packed with shocking facts about social issues facing the nation today, what goes on behind closed doors and what you can do about it. These reports reveal not only the dark and ugly secrets but the practical self help information you need to help protect our nation before it is destroyed from within..
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