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After Obama and the media, “community organizers” drew the most ridicule from Republicans at their convention. From Giuliani to Palin, speakers made it sound like community organizing was a job for slackers who are afraid to get a “real” one, like lobbying in Washington, perhaps. But the GOPers’ disdain for community organizers comes from more than just stereotype. Clearly, they don’t really understand the value of community organizing or, if they do, they don’t care much for it. Their disdain ultimately springs from a deep ultra-conservative distaste for anything that smacks of state intervention in behalf of the poor or the struggling—and social reform is the goal of many a community organizer who promotes self-mobilization by the grassroots. Besides, who is it that Republicans usually see prodding communities to raise hell against abuse or neglect by public officials or powerful interests? To Free Market “drill, baby, drill” enthusiasts, government has no business intervening in the natural order of things, that is, the playing field where only the fittest prevail. To them the poor remain poor because they are untalented and weak. Making government help them get out of the hole only encourages “dependence.” Listen to Mike Huckabee: “I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.” Social programs that assist the laid-off, the zoned out, the foreclosed or the medically uninsured have no place in the Huckabees’ Jurassic Disneyland, where only the strong deserve to survive. (Except, of course, when the strong falter—that’s the only time the state can legitimately bail anyone out.) Even emergency relief is anathema to folks like them; that’s why FEMA, which grew rapidly during the Carter administration in response to massive calamities, was downsized and gutted by the Bushies, who outsourced many of its functions to private enterprise. Did this contribute to the Katrina debacle? You be the judge. Mitt Romney echoed Huckabee by warning that liberals want to “make America like Europe.” Like Europe, where higher income taxes pay for universal healthcare, extensive public transportation, accessible higher education and various safety nets. But to most GOPers, that’s government taking your money away for “wasteful social spending” and “big government,” and community organizers, are among the most objectionable proponents of such socialistic schemes. Government should stay out of people’s lives, Huckabee said: “John McCain doesn’t want the kind of change that allows the government to reach deeper into your paycheck and pick your doctor, your child’s school, or even the kind of car you drive or how much you inflate the tires.” But he and his folks of course would love it if government would decide what library books you can read, who you can marry and what moral values you must hold. comments |
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SENATOR OBAMA,PLEASE GIVE AMERICA A GOOD HONEST DOSE OF REALITY CONCERNING THIS US HORROR ???
LETS ALL HOPE OUR MEDIA FRIENDS CONTINUE TO ALSO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA?S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????
WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL HORROR CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????
*** WHEN GOD?S FACE BECAME VERY RED ***
THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????
***THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****
The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.
This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.
**INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !!
This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!
Sadly, the true US legal Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!
For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.
It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.
This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!
***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!
A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:
1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE
MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.
** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !
lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com
By DOUGLAS FIELD · Posted on Sep 6, 02:41 PM(424-247-2013)
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Obama and Biden: Two Qualified, Brilliant, Wise and Intelligent Men working their way to Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Democratic Party Members and other U S Citizens please cast your VOTES for “CHANGE!”~~ Let’s make sure Obama and Biden make it to the White House! ~~~~
My Brothers and Sisters of all Nationalities what I am saying is, “Do not allow “RACE” to be the deciding factor in casting your Votes! ~~~~~~~~~~
Obama ~ a Black/White Man is fit to run our country. (It’s Time) ~~~~~~~~~~
Obama ~ a Black/White Man is fit to lead this country to the true light. (There is a Light at the End of the Tunnel) ~~~~~~~~~~~
Obama ~ a Black/White Man is fit to lead meetings and live in The White House (Designed by A Black Slave) ~~~~~~~~~~~
Obama ~ a Black/White Man is fit to put programs in place where everyone can afford Health Care, College, etc… ~~~~~~~~~~~
Obama ~ a Black/White Man is fit enough to create and design a plan to bring all this unnecessary and worthless fighting between countries. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obama ~ a Black/White Man is fit and well qualify to fill the shoes of a Bad President ~ G W. Bush!. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Benjamin Banneker ~A Black Man created an instrument “CLOCK” that all people use to tell time? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lewis Latimer ~ A Black Man created a tiny piece called a filament “ELECTRIC LIGHT” that allows people to see in the dark? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Phillip Reid (a slave) ~ A Black Man “DESIGNED” a place for our Nation Elected Officials of the highest authorities to meet in and a place for the president to live in “The Capital and the White House” ~ Pierre L’Enfant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Charles Drew ~ A Black Man was brilliant enough to do the first “OPEN HEART SURGERY” and show the world how to get and preserve “PLASMA” ~ (Dr. Daniel Hale Williams) ~~~~~~~~~~~
We were “Good Enough” ~ Smart Enough ~ Creative Enough ~ and Bold Enough ~ then, so let us all give Senator Obama the chance to show that we are still Brilliant and more…………. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Let us not forgot our past, which led us to our present and can definitely be the backbone to our future. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We all are as strong as our weakest link, so “DO NOT” be that “WEAK LINK” that denies American Citizens the chance to stand together, and to overcome the problems that faces many of our American Families today! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Yes We Can!” ~~~~~
God Bless America! ~~~~~
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Republicans: Some Silly People will only Boycott OPRAH WINFREY at (ABC) and they will not win! ~~~~~~
Ordinary Peoples can call for many other “Boycotts” ~ Remembering, Ms. Rosie Park and others…. ~~~~~~~~~~~
One must be very careful, the Community Organizers will rise and show you Republicans how Strong and Important we are. ~~~~~~~
“Yes, We Can and We Will!”
Drevelyn Minor ~ Dallas, TX
By Drevelyn Minor · Posted on Sep 14, 02:53 PMYeah…lets not let race influence our voting decision, then let me go on and on about black mens accomplishments with complete racial bias…give me a break…you don’t want race to be an issue STOP MAKING IT ONE!
By SB · Posted on Oct 20, 10:04 AM*** THIS IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF INJUSTICES BEING INFLICTED ON OUR POORER AMERICAN’S IN A UNDERFUNDED JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT NEEDS…C*H*A*N*G*E…....
**** GOD’S HAND IS INVOLVED IN THIS ONE ****
WHEN THIS HORROR IS PROVEN TO BE A TRUE EVENT AFFECTING THE POSSIBLE ENSLAVEMENT OF 2,500 POORER AMERICAN’S, THEN ALL OF AMERICA WILL BE AWARE THAT THIS SAME EXACT TREATMENT OF OUR POORER CITIZENS NEEDS A FORMAL US CONGRESSIONAL AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION NATIONWIDE !!!
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I’m a little late on writing about this story (via several sources), but it sure is a doozy.
You know how it’s common knowlege that most appeals aren’t successful? Well, if you were a pro-se petitioner in Louisiana for the last 13 years, you knew that you wouldn’t win. Why is that? Because the Chief Judge of their Court of Appeals directed his clerk to summarily deny all appeals from pro-se petitioners without circulating the appeal to other judges.
The clerk, ridden with guilt, committed suicide earlier this year and left a note confessing everything.
This immoral and apparently illegal policy was in place until Jerrold Peterson, the staffer charged with implementing it, blew his brains out in May of last year. Peterson was driven to it in part, his suicide note suggested, by guilt over the nefarious tasks the judges made him perform.
In his note Peterson explained how the court gave indigent appellants the bum’s rush.
Although every criminal writ application is supposed to be reviewed by three judges, he was deputed to winnow out any that had been filed pro se and arrange for their automatic rejection.
Thus were an estimated 2,500 appeals deep-sixed without any judicial consideration whatsoever.
Now, facing public embarassment and possible ethical violations, the Louisiana Supreme Court has stepped in and asked…get this…the same appellate court to look at the appeals again. Note that they did not ask the Court to conduct an investigation into this practice, but simply to consider those appeals that were so summarily denied.
Because, if we placate the defendants with another cursory look at their appeals, we can sweep the ethical violations under the carpet.
At first this whole thing seemed rather odd to me. After all, how is this even possible? Here’s how:
Edward Dufresne, Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit, took charge of pro se appeals in 1994. He then had Peterson prepare rulings denying writs for all of them and signed off “without so much as a glance,” according to the suicide note. “No judge ever saw the writ application before the ruling was prepared by me,” Peterson wrote in a second suicide note to the Judiciary Commission.
The rulings also bore the names, though not the signatures, of judges Marion Edwards and Wally Rothschild. Neither Edwards nor Rothschild had any clue as to what was in the applications, or even knew that they had been filed, according to Peterson.
So you’ve got one complicit judge and maybe three. But there are 5 more on that court. What of them? Are we to really believe that these 5 (or 7) other judges never once questioned the stark absence of pro-se appeals? Particularly in Louisiana, whose system has the following characteristics:
* About 90 percent of criminal defendants in Louisiana are indigent.
* Louisiana only provides post-conviction legal aid in death penalty cases. Everyone else must either hire a lawyer, find a lawyer to handle their case pro bono, or handle the appeal themselves. Obviously, most have no choice but to opt for the latter.
* One criminal defense lawyer in Louisiana told me that if you’re convicted of murder in Louisiana and you’re innocent, you’re actually better off getting the death penalty. At least then you’ll get a team of lawyers, investigators, and experts to help with your appeal.
This from a state whose criminal justice system was already crumbling. It’s hard to believe that people such as Judge Dufresne take an oath to uphold the law and to prove equal protection under it. Disbarment may be enough, but only barely.
Justice delayed is no justice at all.—————————————————————————————————————-———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————THE SMOKING GUN LINK TO AMERICA’S JUDICIAL INJUSTICES BEING INFLICTED ON POORER AMERICAN’S !
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By DOUGLAS FIELD · Posted on Nov 7, 03:56 PMlawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com (424-247-2013)