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How The Courts Are Stacked Against You
How are the courts stacked against you .... you ask? If accused of some henious little and petty crime by the police, let me count the ways.
  • The police are trained to tell a better story. Police officers tell stories in court for a living. It's part of their job description. They do it everyday. You might do it 3-4 times in a lifetime.

    The police officers job is to protect and serve, and commit perjury if it supports the state's case. This happens all the time. Somedays however, their training at the Marcel Marceau Mime School pays off when they stay silent. It's all about control, control and control, the centerpiece of tyranny.

  • Police are promoted on the basis of arrests and convictions. Again, this is their job. What else is there for them to do? That is besides hanging out at Dunkin Donuts?

  • The assistant district attorneys were law students who joined the prosecutorial side of the legal business. They either wanted to deal in criminal law or were not good enough to be hired by large law firms who do defense work. Only the top notch students get hired by private law firms. The lower level law students get hired by the state courts. In essence, they were made for government work. They are government employees. The path of least resistance.

    The purpose of the DA, assistant DA or prosecutor is simply to convict you on behalf of the state. Your innocence is simply not part of their business.

    The DA and assistant DAs also get promoted based on convictions. Your true justice is an accidental side effect to their promotions. Sometimes, you get lucky and the Screw Up Fairy visits the DA's office.

  • Believe it or not, the court requires you to take an oath. They want you to raise your right hand and acknowledge the oath that ends in ....so help you God.

  • Ask yourself how the judge got to be judge. He or she was a law student who became an assistant DA, then possible DA, then judge. There might have been a diversion into political office such as state rep. How many judges have you met that did not come from the prosecutorial side?

  • The juries are stacked against you. Juries are anything but impartial. More women are picked because more women show up for jury duty. Depending on the case, where fear might be involved, women will be chosen for their greater fear level.

    The primary function of the independent juror is not, as many think, to dispense punishment to fellow citizens accused of breaking various laws, but rather to protect fellow citizens from tyrannical abuses of power by government. The Constitution guarantees you the right to trial by jury. This means that government must bring its case before a jury of The People if government wants to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property. Jurors can say no to government tyranny by refusing to convict (Jury Nullification).

    When you hear about jury members having to fill out a long questionaire, can you really believe for even a picosecond that they could possibly be impartial. Every question removes more impartiality.

    Jurors routinely afford confident scientific experts an almost mythic infallibility (the CSI effect). No credentials are required to be an expert.

    Jury selection eliminates all those people who have been victimized by the judicial system. Thus, someone to be tried for murder will never have a jury of his peers (six or twelve other murderers).

    Personally, I think juries should be of the same race as the defendant, and should have been convicted of the same crime as the defendant. This might make them more impartial.

    Jury Nullification is one tool we have to combat their hostility.

  • Then, there is a the Prison Industrial Complex. Each person sent to prison feeds all those guards in the prisons whose unions spend money on election of tough, crack down on crime judges and DAs.

  • Courts are filled with anachronisms of power.

    The best is the contempt of court charge. No other state/local agency has such protection. There is no contempt of cop or contempt of public official charge. The judge is given a special power called contempt of court to put you away if he doesn't like your behaviour. This is more powerful than the police's catchall, disorderly conduct.

    The judge's podium or desk and seat is almost always higher than the rest of the courtroom as a reminder of his place in society, higher than yours or he pretends that his wee-wee is bigger then your wee-wee.

    If you examine the structure of a courtroom, the judge's seat is the best physically protected, so you are less tempted to twist his scrawny neck.

    The people in the court room have to stand up when the judge enters or else face a (you guessed it) contempt of court charge. In one three and a half court stint I attended, Judge Greco walked in and out of the court room to his chambers. Each time, all the people in the court had to stand up and sit down. This is what I call the Greco Workout.

    The court (the judge) is obsessed with getting respect. Judges have made many commentaries about how defendants or lawyers are dressed. A Brooks Brothers suit shows more respect of the court than jeans and hoodies. However, we need only examine how judges are dressed. They call them robes but they really do look like black mumus. Black is a more threatening color. In the older days, judges used to wear large white wigs to give them a larger and more threatening appearance. Those were the good old days.

  • The sound acoustics in most courthouses are terrible. You can barely hear what is going on unless you are very close.

  • Court security provides one way security. If you are not a lawyer, court employee or police officer, you are searched for anything that could be dangerous to the court, like knives, guns, cameras, voice recorders and other electronic gizmos. The other side keeps their guns, tasers, cameras and recorders and electronic gizmos. Nothing says one-sidedness than this behaviour. In our court, they want you to take off your belt before going thru court security, and as a new addition, you are now not permitted to wear hats in court. Either they view hats as disrespect, or they now want to play with their face recognition software behind their cameras.

    The courts clearly show tremendous hostility to the public.

  • It's very difficult for any intelligent person who has read H. G. Wells novels to respect legalese English.

Do you feel that everybody but you has a hand in the till feeding off your injustice? Do you feel like those two million people being incarcerated in the United States?

If you have dealt with the courts, you'll agree that they work under a cloak of secrecy. The court system is perhaps the least transparent agency in government. They are also the most technically incompetent.

Framingham District Court, 600 Concord Street, Framingham, 01702
Position Name Salary
Justice Paul F. Healy $129,694
Justice Douglas W.Stoddart $129,694
Justice Robert V. Greco $129,694
Clerk Magistrate Brian Kearney $110,000
Chief Court Officer Micheal Farrel $69,961
Assistant Clerk Magistrate Ronald Petralia $84,869
Assistant Clerk Magistrate Jeffrey Brigham $84,869

The 2009 state expenditures for this court house was $830,000. (expense code 0332-4900).

There is a camera in the court office downstairs that overviews the front counter.

There is a camera on the first floor overlooking the lobby area and possibly the hallway.

There is a camera that watches the stairwell of the top floor of the courthouse.
This same camera also has a view of courtroom 4 which is always used for clerk magistrates hearings.

The video space used is recycled every two weeks.

The clerk magistrate's courtroom, Courtroom 4, is not audio recorded as a matter of policy. Hmmm?

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