Injustice: Judges Destroy Liberty

Injustice: Activist judges destroy liberty. Prosecutors and police then conform to the judges’ corruption.

A Fact Sheet on America’s lost liberty.
By Steven D. Miller.

This is my only essay on injustice.

No misconstruing of any law or any fact can deprive you of your liberty.  U.S. Supreme Court’s definition of Due Process guarantees

“that life, liberty, or property will not be taken on the basis of an erroneous or distorted conception of the facts or the law… with assurance that the arbiter is not predisposed to find against him”
— Marshall v. Jerrico 446 U.S. 238 (1980).

Terror foretold

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
— Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury, Boston, MA: John P. Jewett and Company, Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington (1852) p. 14

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in a society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
— Frederic Bastiat in 1850

Prosecutors and law enforcement work together to destroy your rights.

The greatest right is the one you waived when you were 16 years old.  The right to liberty IS the right to travel without a license. (Travel Without a license — governments protect rights, which is why we created a government). More details at NotFooledByGovernment.com/driving

Liberty defined
Black’s Law Dictionary quotes the definition of Personal Liberty from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law.

Freedom from Restraint

Don’t be confused by the phrase “due course of law”.  If you think this means congress can pass any law that restrains you, think again. Injustice is unAmerican.

“no authority to detain exists except under extreme conditions” according to U.S. Supreme Court, Aptheker v. Secretary of State 378 US 500 (1964):

Free movement by the citizen is of course as dangerous to a tyrant as free expression of ideas or the right of assembly and it is therefore controlled in most countries in the interests of security. … That is why the ticketing of people and the use of identification papers are routine matters under totalitarian regimes, yet abhorrent in the United States. … Absent war, I see no way to keep a citizen from traveling within or without the country, unless there is power to detain him. … And no authority to detain exists except under extreme conditions, e. g., unless he has been convicted of a crime or unless there is probable cause for issuing a warrant of arrest by standards of the Fourth Amendment. This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful – knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, …”

Liberty Defined

US Supreme Court in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390, 399 gave a partial definition of Liberty. They said that The term Liberty:

… denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, to establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his/her own conscience… the established doctrine is that this liberty may not be interfered with under the guise of protecting public interest, by legislative action which is arbitrary or without reasonable relation to some purpose within the competency of the state to effect.”

  • And we know from the law books and from the Supreme Court’s prior decision that States are prohibited from regulating travel ever since the U.S. Supreme Court in Crandall v. Nevada, 73 US 35, ruled that people cannot be taxed for traveling in a stagecoach because travel is a right.

What about you?  Did you waive your right to travel by getting a travel credential?  Government was created to secure the blessings of Liberty. The right to liberty IS the right to travel. Like I said: Activist judges destroy liberty. Corruption is injustice. 

JUSTICE DEFINED

Here is a Maxim of Law in their own Roman civil law:

Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique tribunendi.
Justice is a steady and unceasing disposition to render to every man his due.

I have also seen this translated as: Justice is the perpetual and unending disposition to render to every man his due.

OTHER AUTHORITIES

US Supreme Court in Florida v. Bostick 501 US 429 quotes an Arizona Supreme Court case:State ex rel. Ekstrom v. Justice Court, 136 Ariz. 1, 6, 663 P. 2d 992, 997 (1983) (concurring opinion)

The thought that an American can be compelled to `show his papers’ before exercising his right to walk the streets, drive the highways or board the trains is repugnant to American institutions and ideals”.

U.S. Supreme Court in Butcher’s Union v. Crescent City 111 U.S. 746:

The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. … to hinder his employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.”

Did you waive your most sacred and inviolable right to your labor, thereby making your labor taxable?  If you don’t have the most sacred and inviolable right to your body, then you are a slave.

Were you forced to pledge allegiance to the new government in order to get an ID (which is used as a work authorization permit according to federal form I-9) or passport? The U.S. Supreme court, quoted below, says that loss of a job and loss of a passport are penalties affixed to a criminal act. Yet you are punished as a criminal until you are coerced to apply for these identification credentials.

Applying for a passport now presumes an oath of Allegiance (Title 22 CFR §6-212) even if you did not take an oath. Title 22 US Code section 212:

No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States”

Oath of Allegiance is defined by Homeland Security in their Title 8, Code of Federal Regulatons, section 337 as a commitment to perform unlimited labor for the rest of your life:

… I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God”

U.S. Supreme Court determined in Ullmann v. United States, 350 U.S. 422 (1956) that such punishments are for criminal acts

The forfeiture of property on compelled testimony is no more abhorrent than the forfeiture of rights of citizenship. Any forfeiture of rights as a result of compelled testimony is at war with the Fifth Amendment. . . .
”the forfeiture of property was a penalty affixed to a criminal act. The loss of a job and the ineligibility for a passport are also penalties affixed to a criminal act.

THE OVERTHROW

Judicial Immunity was invented by lawyers to protect themselves. Every judge and state congressman and all state executive and state judicial officers must be bound to support the U.S. Constitution pursuant to Article Six. Yet they weaseled themselves out of their obligation. They overthrew your government. Activist judges destroy liberty.

Now that government has been overthrown, imagine living in a regime so repressive that:

  • The Supreme Court determined in Briscoe v. Lahue 460 US 325 that police cannot be punished for giving perjured testimony that convicts the innocent.

  • Federal prosecutors were clearly entitled to immunity for initiating prosecution, whether or not charges were false, and whether or not prosecutors knew charges were false…” (Martinez v. Winner, 771 F2d 424)

  • Prosecutors may appeal to their immunity in the face of allegations of knowing use of perjured testimony and withholding of exculpatory information.” Glick v. Koenig 766 F.2d 265

  • Judicial immunity is not waived even though actions on part of judge were grievously erroneous or prompted by malice or corruption” (Patterson v. Aiken, 628 FSupp 1068)

  • Judge is immune from civil damage suits … immunity extends even to malicious or corrupt acts.” (Bryant v. O’Connor, 671 FSupp 1279)

  • Absolute immunity shelters prosecutors even when they act maliciously, wantonly, or negligently.” (Rykers v. Alford, 832 F2d 895)

  • Judges will not be deprived of immunity for erroneous acts or even those actions performed maliciously or in excess of authority” Glick v. Koenig, 766 F.2d 265

  • the Supreme Court in 1972 Mitchum v. Foster, 407 US 225, 242 ruled that a citizen injured by a government officer and seeking injunctive relief needed an act of Congress.

  • people can still cancel the obligations of their contracts (bankruptcy), even though the Supreme Law of the Land says that NO state can impair the obligations of contracts.

  • with liberty and justice for all. Mr. H. B. Chadwick, at age 73, was finally released from 14 years in jail in Pennsylvania without ever being charged with a crime. A new judge finally agreed that he indeed did not know the testimony that previous judges were trying to force out of him. 

  • U.S. v. Stewart, 234 F.Supp. 94 (1964): “The mere fact that he might be acting erroneously or perhaps even tortiously does not vest the courts with jurisdiction to interfere.”

ATTORNEY GERRY SPENCE ON JUDGES

Gerry Spence says the following about judges in his book, “O.J. The Last Word,”
beginning on page 170:
“Night after night on the talk shows, I heard criticism being leveled at Judge Ito. But I took a different position, born of years spent enduring the relentless abuse of tyrant judges, from having seen my clients’ rights placed in severe jeopardy at the hands of blockheads in robes whose only claim to judicial excellence was their ability to scream and shout and intimidate everyone who came before them. Ask trial lawyers who have been around the block even once, and they will tell you that many judges are mammal eating monsters that feed on lawyers and their cases, trample over justice, and spew their venom randomly over the courtroom because they do not possess the intelligence or judicial temperament to preside over a fair trial.
“Courtrooms are frightening places. Nothing grows in a courtroom—no pretty pansies, no little children laughing and playing. A courtroom is a deadly place. People die in courtrooms, killed by words. If you wake up someday in a courtroom and long to tell your story to someone who can hear and understand you, someone who will give a damn, who will give you a just hearing, you will be shocked. You want to tell the jury that you are being railroaded? You aren’t allowed to speak. Your lawyer isn’t, either. Perhaps he can sputter. He can object. He can bow and scrape before the judge. If he’s not too frightened of the despot up there, he can crowd into the half hour, arbitrarily allowed by the judge, an opening statement that should take at least two hours.
“I have seen those judges pace back and forth across that little stage up there, smirking, peering down, hollering, interrupting. I have seen them nail lawyers to podiums like goats tied to a stake, or banish them to counsel table like lepers. Your lawyer can’t communicate tied to a stake or banished to a tabletop. I see judges who, the day before they ascended to the bench, couldn’t ask the first intelligent question on voir dire, but who, the day after, sat up there as a judge, carrying on a voir dire, carrying on voir dire for the litigants that, if I had conducted it, would have been adjudged as gross malpractice. Often the result is the selection of a jury riddled with prejudice or jurors who are predisposed to convict. I watch judges bullying prospective jurors into saying what the judge wishes them to say. I hear them read instructions to the jury that are critical to justice but that no one, not even the lawyer who submitted the instructions, can understand. I, and every other lawyer who has practiced more than a few years, have endured their intemperance, which so often leads to error and pain and injustice. I see them rule one way one day and another way another day, depending on what they had for breakfast. God help you if you come before such a judge after he has had a bad night under the connubial covers.”

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government paragraph 222:

“When government officers corrupt society, the result is “to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security…”

SLAVERY OF ALL AMERICANS

Now imagine a system of slavery so diabolical that:

  •  The police are allowed to lie to you.  Government agents are allowed to lie to you. Lawyers lie to you (even though the Bar Association says they do not lie). But it you lie, you go to prison.
  •  The police can video record you.  But if you video record a plain clothes cop who came from an unmarked car, who is acting irrationally and threatening you with a gun, YOU get charged with a felony crime punishable by 16 years in prison. (More…).
    Note:  I still recommend recording a police stop. For recording methods that defy tampering see http://VeteransAgainstPoliceAbuse.org/
  • The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State: individual so-called ‘ownership’ is only by virtue of Government, i.e. law amounting to mere user; and use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State” [Senate Document No. 43, 73rd Congress 1st Session, quoting Brown v. Welch]

  • the payment of a tax NOT owed creates an obligation to make future payments.

  • The right of traffic or the transmission of property, as an absolute inalienable right, is one which has never existed since governments were instituted, and never can exist under government.” Wynehamer v. NY, 13 N.Y. 378, 481.

  • 100,000 children disappear every year in America, and the police are ordered to stop looking for them.

    • Prosecutor may knowingly file charges against innocent persons for a crime that never occurred. Norton v. Liddell, 620 F2d 1375 (1980)

    • Prosecutor may knowingly offer perjured testimony. Jones v. Shankland, 800 F2d 1310 (1987)
    • Prosecutor may suppress exculpatory evidence. Hanzel v. Gertatica 608 F2d 654

    • Prosecutors are immune from lawsuit for conspiring with judges to determine the outcome of judicial proceedings. Ashelman v. Pope, 793 F2d 1072 (1986)

    • Prosecutor may knowingly use false testimony and suppress evidence.  Prosecutor may violate civil rights in initiating prosecution and presenting cause. Supreme Court in Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 US 409 (1976) partial quote below.
    • Prosecutor may file charges without any investigation. Prosecutor may file charges outside his jurisdiction. Myers v. Morris, 810 F.2d 1337 (1986)
  • The head of the Harvard Law School, Alan Dershowitz, testified in a Congressional Hearing that there is overwhelming evidence that police and prosecutors perjure themselves regularly in order to convict the innocent.

  • Immunity extends to all activities closely associated with litigation or potential litigation. Davis v. Grusemeyer, 996 F2d617

  • 34% of condemned criminals on death row are there because of the testimony of informants who were rewarded for their testimony.

  • Absolute immunity shelters prosecutors even when they act maliciously, wantonly, or negligently.” (Rykers v. Alford, 832 F2d 895)

The US Supreme Court in US v. Kozminski, 487 US 931, confirmed that it is perfectly lawful to hold slaves to unpaid forced labor.

  • Children now belong to the State. We have gone from a nation where the right to raise children is a Constitutionally guaranteed liberty (Supreme Court in Meyers v. Nebraska, 262 US 390, at page 399) to “The primary control and custody of infants is with the government.” Tillman v. Roberts 108 So. 6

Imbler v Patchman:

it is better to leave unredressed the wrongs done by dishonest officers than to subject those who try to do their duty to the constant dread of retaliation.”
— Imbler v Patchman 424 U.S. 409 @ 428.

13 AmJur Proof of Facts 3d, 21:

“Without having been directly authorized, tacitly encouraged, or even inadequately trained, police officers, like other public employees, may fall into patterns of unconstitutional conduct. This can result from a variety of factors not sufficiently traceable in origin to any fault of “municipal policy” in the Monell sense (Monell v Dept. of Social Services (1978) 436 US 658, and Soell v McDaniel (1987 CA4 NC) 824 F2d 1380). If these unconstitutional practices become sufficiently widespread, however, they may assume the quality of “custom or usage” which has the force of law…”

HISTORY

Unclean hands shall never pollute the pure fountain of justice according to 1841 Supreme Court decision Groves v. Slaughter 40 US 449

No polluted hand shall touch the pure fountain of justice was once a maxim in American courts

Quote from Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator, circa 100 AD

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.”
Translation: The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
— Annals of Tacitus, Book III, page 27.

The same thing happens today. Your Congress has passed so many laws that people don’t know the difference between right and wrong.

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?”
– James Madison, Federalist no. 62, February 27, 1788

JURY DUTY

Don’t get involved in the overthrow of your local government. Juries can judge the law as well as facts.

Trial by Government is a new concept in American jurisprudence. Trial by jury was not a trial by government until the early 1930s.

A TRIAL BY A JURY OF YOUR PEERS IS A TRIAL BY 12 PEOPLE WHO KNOW YOU and who can judge the law as well as the facts.

The writers of your Constitution had a strong distrust of government tyranny. A trial by a jury of your peers was intended to replace the inherently unfair trial by government. A trial by government does not fulfill the Fifth Amendment guarantee to due process of law. You have a right to a fair trial. Trial by government cannot be fair. Inquisition is trial by government.

In 1794, the Supreme Court conducted a jury trial in the case of the State of Georgia v Brailsford in the first jury trial before the Supreme Court of the United States. In the jury instructions. Chief Justice John Jay told the jury:

“It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision… …you have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy“.

The book Elliot’s Debates On The Adoption Of The Constitution (Vol 3, page 579) quotes Patrick Henry as stating:

“By the bill of rights of England, a subject has a right to a trial by his peers. What is meant by his peers? Those who reside near him, his neighbors, and who are well acquainted with his character and situation in life.”

Also in Elliot’s Debates we can read (Vol 2, page 516) where another Founding Father, James Wilson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and later a Supreme Court Justice, reassured us that a jury of your peers would always be 12 people who know you:

“Where jurors can be acquainted with the characters of the parties and the witnesses — where the whole cause can be brought within their knowledge and their view — I know no mode of investigation equal to that by a trial by jury: they hear every thing that is alleged; they not only hear the words, but they see and mark the features of the countenance; they can judge of weight due to such testimony; and moreover, it is a cheap and expeditious manner of distributing justice. There is another advantage annexed to the trial by jury; the jurors may indeed return a mistaken or ill-founded verdict, but their errors cannot be systematical.”

And again, in Elliot’s Debates, Vol 2, page 110, Congressman Holmes from Massachusetts, assured us that cases would be heard in the local community where the jury of peers could form a judgment based on the character of the accused and the credibility of the witnesses.

That’s right! Your Constitution was ratified on the reassurance, over and over again, that a jury of your peers would always be 12 people who know you.  Like I said: Activist judges destroy liberty.

In 1969 in US v. Moylan 417 F2d 1002 at page 1006:

“We recognize as appellants urge, the UNDISPUTED power of the jury to acquit, even if the verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge and contrary to the evidence. … the jury has the power to acquit and the courts must abide by that decision.”

As recently as 1972, in the case U.S. v Dougherty, 473 F 2d 1113, 1139 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that the jury has an “unreviewable and irreversible power… to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge.”

Here is further proof that a real trial (by jury) is not a trial by government: The Metropolitan News, a Los Angeles legal newspaper on October 25, 1973 quoted Hon. L. Thaxton Hanson, Justice Court of Appeals, State of California (ret.):

“In ancient times, the right to trial by jury was called `trial per pals’ – that is, trial by country – or by the people, as distinguished from trial by government”

Lord Hale, 18th Century English Jurist was being quoted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s case Sparf & Hansen v. U.S., 156 U.S. 51 at page 119 (1895):

“… if the judge’s opinion in matter of law must rule the issue of fact submitted to the jury, the trial by jury would be useless.”

Read that again. IF THE JURY MUST OBEY THE JUDGE’S INSTRUCTIONS ON THE LAW, THEN A TRIAL BY JURY WOULD BE USELESS.

That’s right. Trial by jury would be useless. Imagine what life would be like a country where people must obey the judges’ interpretation of the law.

Much of your law comes from the English system. The U.S. Supreme Court, in the same Sparf case at page 117 quotes Englishman John Milton in his book Defense of the People: ” And hence it is that when a malefactor is asked at his arraignment, `How will you be tried?’ he answers always, according to law and custom, `By God and my country, not by God and the King, or the King’s Deputy [Judge].'”

In the impeachment Trial of US Supreme Court Justice Chase in 1805, your US Government fought for the right of the jury to judge the law as well as the facts. They impeached Justice Chase because he failed to tell a jury in a murder trial that they can judge the law. Supreme Court Justice Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was impeached for [Chase Transcript Article 1, section 2, clause 4]:

  • “… endeavoring to wrest from the jury their indisputable right to hear argument, and determine upon the question of law as well as the question of fact, …”
  • “… to the disgrace of the character of the American bench, in manifest violation of law and justice and in open contempt of the rights of juries, on which ultimately rest the liberty and safety of the American people.”

That’s right. The liberty and safety of the American people depend upon the jury’s indisputable right to determine what the law is. Imagine what life would be like a country where people must obey the judge’s interpretation of the law.

The jurors have the power to ignore the court’s instructions and bring in a not guilty verdict contrary to the law and the facts. Horning v. District of Columbia, 254 U.S. 135 (1920).

But things changed. Juries now should not be told by the court that they have this power. United States v. Krzyske, 836 F.2d 1013, 1021 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 832; United States v. Avery, 717 F.2d 1020, 1027 (6th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 905 (1984); United States v. Burkhart, 501 F.2d 993, 996-997 (6th Cir.1974), cert. denied, 420 U.S. 946 (1975).

We have lost our rights: Juries must now be told that it is their duty to accept and apply the law as given to them by the court. United States v. Avery, 717 F.2d 1020, 1027. Activist judges destroy liberty.

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