(Thanks both to
progressive national radio host Thom Hartmann of the USA for calling this
article "brilliant", and to the reform group JAIL 4
Judges for saying this article
was "the best and most inclusive article we have found written on the subject of
the cover-up of judicial corruption.")
In the headlines are the appalling
news stories of Americans carrying out murderous attacks on judges and their
families. In a matter of days, one judge was shot and killed in his own
courtroom, while another judge had family members brutally murdered in their
home. These news stories are, however, related to another news story, which is
the most taboo subject of the American media - the expanding crisis of
corruption among American judges and lawyers. At question is whether the
deepening despair of Americans about their own legal system, is fueling some of
these violent attacks on judges.
Much is written now about how America's
economy is resembling that of a banana republic, given how America is sunk in
preposterous debt, and how the U.S. dollar currency is sinking toward a possible
collapse down the road. But there is another way that America is also like a
banana republic, in that its legal system - contrary to its Hollywood image -
has become a sinkwell of secret proceedings, the jailing of the innocent, and
political misconduct; and how it is sullied with documented corruption, fake
trials and court fraud.
These facts are not generally understood, because
of how judicial corruption is the most un-reported news story in the American
landscape. It is the category of news story which America's newspapers and media
are most afraid to report, even when clear proof is in their hands. In America
right now, judges - and lawyers who are protected by judges - can commit felony
crimes in broad delight, leave the proof lying around, and yet avoid being
prosecuted or even having their crimes be reported by the media. The people who
work in the media see a lot of material on court misconduct, and yet they know
this is the story of which they dare not speak. The lack of media coverage, in
turn, encourages more judicial corruption, leaving millions of Americans in
anger and despair.