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There seem to be three broad tasks
What we can do
There seem to be three broad tasks and these are:
1. Recognize and acknowledge that we have a state of inquisition with an adversarial and prosecutorial police, prosecution service and judiciary, dedicated not to the maintenance of justice but to the implementation and policing of a social ideology. And that the government and the taxation system pay for the prosecutors, not for the defence. Further weakening the foundations of our liberty is a corrupt and greedy legal profession, so that securing honourable defence lawyers is extremely difficult.
This situation is at or near its worst in America where due process is almost absent and a prosecution state appears to rule supreme. ‘Worst’ that is in the Western World, so bad that life in America offers little better than life in the totalitarian regimes that America opposes and wants to ‘liberate’. Great Britain is following in America’s footsteps
2. Build a consensus, where people both agree on the principles involved and are prepared to cooperate with each other. Helping us in this task is the emerging global consciousness and other writers such as those mentioned on this web site. Part of this must involve protecting the Internet from both onslaught by censors and attempts to use it as a state instrument of suppression and control – such as a Big Brother spying mechanism
To assist with the above, we should also expose the misunderstandings, misconceptions and deliberate frauds of the absolutism underlying and empowering the Inquisition, by publishing, participating and creating. An example would be with any NGOs or so-called ‘charities’ with private agendas. These are the disingenuous people feeding the absolutism for their own personal agendas, using ‘good causes’.
We should also encourage civil liberty groups to examine their own 'liberal' absolutism, and especially the extent to which they have contributed to political correctness, and question newspapers whose editorial policies are infused with political correctness, such as sexual absolutism. Remember that like politicians most newspapers adopt populism.
We need to encourage courageous writers, lawyers and politicians to join in the resistance.
We must oppose the Inquisition of the 21st century, by attacking its central core of absolutism, especially its social, sexual and other ideological manifestations. We are hoping that we are part of the great human vital surplus represented by those already engaged in this and other similar tasks, and if we do no more than follow and help others who may lead the way that will be sufficient for us.
What we have going for us
There are two great forces, or one great force exhibiting itself in a number of ways, including the two we now identify - the human vital surplus and the emerging global consciousness. Supporting both, or the main evolutionary force, is our group and individual unconscious.
Through this unconscious (unconsciously) we reach out and interconnect with both the vital surplus and the emerging global consciousness. No matter how isolated or lonely we feel in our convictions, we can be assured that there are others like us and that in the view of Teilhard de Chardin if we have a worthwhile idea it can never be stopped, no matter how hard some try to suppress and censor it and to punish us for thinking and trying to promote it.
Steps that can be taken
One way that the witch hunts may end is if their central core is demonstrated to be false. Read all you can on the subject and form your own opinion. Once satisfied try to influence others. The ideas will spread.
We must open up our minds. Read widely, question certainty and all absolutisms. Accept ambiguity and above all that there is a great unknown or not known and that it expands as our awareness expands. Read challenging articles and books such as those in our Bookstore.
Our times are so dangerous that civil disobedience may now be necessary. Repressive and damaging laws must be ignored and broken secretly or openly.
International co-operation
There are a number of organizations and web sites with broad similar objectives and an even bigger number with specific orientation, such as fighting the legal profession. Two
sources with the similar broad orientation of resisting absolutism and the emerging police state are Gimeweb.com in America and this web site Inquisition 21st century.
Specific actions we can take or are being taken
These are evolving daily and some are still at the planning stage, under discussion, partly openly, partly secretly
The Civic Protest
The Free State Project
The Nemesis project
Boycott the legal profession
Civil disobedience
All of these could be described as parts of a general boycott of the legal profession and judiciary in an attempt to make it reform itself. For example any judge who commits an act of infamy and does not apologise and make amends for it could justifiably be boycotted by his neighbours.
Each of these is now discussed in turn.
The Civic Protest
Warning Any group or individual deciding to embark upon this protest should check out its legality for their country. Do not advise anyone to refuse jury service. Simply check (even on the day) that you can legally voice your reservations if you are selected for jury service. The advice at the bottom from NZ suggests that it is legal.
This is suggested as a possible form of civic protest against the injustices that have taken place in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and elsewhere, but it may not be suitable in the US where the jury system is already degraded as it could play into the administration’s hands by degrading it further. The boycott below may be more appropriate in the US, and eventually in the UK, which is copying the US prosecutorial system of justice. No organization, such as that in New Zealand where the idea originated for a single case of national injustice (see below), yet exists to promote or oversee this, although it is being proposed by Nemesis. It could also be taken up by one of the groups involved in the backlash against the emerging UK censorship legislation.
This material has been copied from a dramatic New Zealand initiative arising out of the Peter Ellis (Christchurch Civic Crèche) case, which can be seen at The Civic Protest. The excellent thinking behind this reflects the minds of the two authors’ previous work in trying to undo a great injustice in New Zealand. (Link to their work at the bottom.)
We have changed it from a protest about one New Zealand case to one addressing the numerous British and other cases of miscarriage of justice experienced under the legal regimes which have degraded due process and the quality of the defence mechanism. This degradation has been furthered by the greediness and incompetence of the legal profession itself and the rapacious behaviour of prosecutors. What is unique about the protest is that it legally strikes at the jury system.
The judicial system has proved itself incapable of self-correction and has instead acquired a siege mentality. The reputations of many of the individuals and processes involved stand to be brought into question. The authorities have a vested interest in upholding the convictions.
The justice system’s stance is now driven by expediency and finality rather than by the delivery of justice. Officials believe that certainty in outcome contributes toward maintaining the public’s faith in the judicial process. However, the system’s refusal to acknowledge failings in this case is having the opposite effect: it is eroding the public’s confidence in its processes.
Challenge to jurors
Are you prepared to convict an accused on the basis of unscientific testimony from a so-called expert witness, on the basis of a flawed police investigation, on the basis that you may be denied access to evidence prejudicial to the prosecution, and on the basis that a wrongful conviction is highly unlikely to be overturned?
When called for jury service you should take the opportunity during the selection process to inform the Bench (judge) that the outcome of many other cases makes you highly reluctant to risk putting yourself in a position similar to that of the jurors in those trials. Therefore you would be reluctant to convict the accused in any trial. If possible let fellow members of the jury selection pool know of your intention.
It is highly unlikely that you will be selected for the jury. You will be able to go home or return to work with clear conscience.
This action is ethical. In New Zealand and Great Britain, others have recently informed the Minister of Justice, the Attorney General and other officials of such an intent, and their actions were ‘acknowledged’ by the minister with no adverse outcome to themselves.
You will be doing the court a favour by alerting it to a source of possible bias within the jury.
In effect, you will also be issuing a statement of no confidence in the judicial system, one that will continue as long as the previous unjust convictions stand. The judicial system may well take notice of this protest as it is directed at the system's very heart - the jury itself.
It is hoped that many will take up this stand and that those who do so inform others of this protest action.
IMPORTANT: inform the judicial system of your intention; copy and paste the following letter and email to your local Minister for Justice, Attorney General and other MPs.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I write to express my loss of confidence in aspects of the judicial system due to the system's failure to rectify the miscarriages of justice caused by many other recent cases carried out under a regime where prosecution zeal and moral panic have caused the suspension of due process and where an effective mechanism of defence no longer appears to exist.
Until the judiciary and legal profession begin to take action to restore our system of justice and curb the excesses of individual prosecutors and attorneys/lawyers, and both are investigated by a truly independent source, I cannot allow myself to be placed in the same position as the jurors in previous cases where injustice prevailed. I cannot, in good conscience, find for the prosecution whilst the justice system refuses to acknowledge that it has failed to self-correct in these other cases. To do so means I may find myself complicit in a future irreversible miscarriage of justice.
I cannot legally refuse jury service if called. However, I notify you that I will make my extreme reluctance to convict known to judge, counsel and fellow jury pool members during the selection process.
I fail to see how I will then qualify as being suitable to sit in any jury.
Yours faithfully,
[Your name]
The US situation
When this idea was proposed in the US this was the reaction of a US observer to our request for advice on whether the Civic Protest should be promoted there:
This protest may not work in the US: indeed, it could achieve the opposite affect by further weakening already worthless juries.
The jury is nearly dead in America
The jury is nearly dead in America. Here are statistics on that from the online journal CounterPunch, June 23, 2005, article by Clay S. Conrad:
”Chief U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young of Boston has said that ‘the American jury system is dying. It is dying faster in civil cases than in criminal cases. It is dying faster in Federal courts than in State courts. But it is dying, nonetheless’. In 1962, 11.5% of federal civil cases were decided by a jury trial; by 2002, it was 1.8%. In 1962, 15% of federal criminal cases were decided by a jury trial; by 2002, it was 5%. Both civil and criminal trials have shrunk in absolute numbers, while the number of cases filed has continued to increase. In 1962, each federal district court judge heard 39 trials a year; by 2002, the number was down to 13.2.”
There has been a quite interesting group in the US - out West, I think - seeking to revive the original high purpose of the jury, the ‘Fully Informed Jury Association’ or FIJA - trying to remind jurors that the judges are lying to them, and that they have the right and duty to acquit people on any grounds of fairness, including that the law itself is a bad law.
Of course this group is much hated and scorned by the establishment, and ignored by the US media. And so they haven't gotten very far in educating real jurors. In the rare cases there is a jury, the judge and lawyers seek impressionable people of low education, and there's lots of winnowing the rest.
As regards protests, the USA is simply in a different category as far as all these things are concerned - it's quite frightening there due to the mass imprisonment for slave labor of the now 2 million plus prisoners, the long prison terms, and the fact that the corporate media serves the establishment and buries and suppresses most stories
of protest.
This means that civil disobedience - or organizing it, even worse – is much more dangerous in the US than anywhere else, and not only that, but few may even know when the protestor gets sentenced, because the media hides the story. So no one who's not there is able to really recommend such a strategy to people inside the Empire.
Some thousands of people were arrested protesting Bush last year, but the stories barely got referenced in the big media.
The fascist night is descending rapidly in the USA.
So what do we do in America?
We had doubts about the effectiveness of a version of the Civic Protest in the US even before reading the above, but now at least we are sure it would achieve nothing or worse. Other possibilities are now under review, such as 'Boycott the legal profession' below.
A version of the Civic protest is now being used in the UK to protest against the injustices meted out under Operation Ore. Read that HERE.
(The Civic Protest initiative was launched by Richard J Christie of Christchurch and supported by Jonathon Harper of Wellington, New Zealand, both leading critics of the notorious Christchurch Civic Crèche case. To read their excellent previous work go to ( http://www.homepages.paradise.net.nz/r.christie/index.html
The Free State Project
An extrardinary and bold project is underway in America. It is called The Free State Project.
It is an agreement between hundreds and eventually thousands of people to move to New Hampshire, where they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property. In other wods a Thorean reduction in the power of the state to interfere in the lives of individuals and families. The project sees 20,000 citizens as an ideal number to achieve the desired affect.
This is not a Waco, although that tragic experiment is now seen by many as an attempt to escape from the malign affects of state intervention and control, and one hopes that the Free State Project (FSP) will never end like Waco in attack and slaughter, because the authorities are not being given any excuses such as religious ideology or the ‘inappropriate’ treatment of children. This group simply wants the state to stay away from all except what it should do – help in the protection of life, liberty, and property.
What is most fascinating to those of us outside America is that it appears to be a partial answer for the growing numbers seeking to flee from America and find like-minded spirits whom they can live with side by side.
The manifesto states: “The success of the Project would likely entail reductions in taxation and regulation, reforms at all levels of government to expand individual rights and free markets, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world.”
It seeks to attract ‘pro-liberty activists’ and asks: “Are you frustrated at the loss of freedom and responsibility in America, while the growth of government and taxes continues unabated? Do you want to live in strong communities where your rights are respected, and people exercise responsibility for themselves and in their dealings with each other?
“If you answered ‘yes’ to those questions, then the Free State Project has a solution for you. We are looking for neighborly, productive, tolerant folks from all walks of life, of all ages, creeds, and colors who agree to the political philosophy expressed in our Statement of Intent, that government exists at most to protect people's rights, and should neither provide for people nor punish them for activities that interfere with no one else.
“When you sign our Statement of Intent, you signal your commitment to move to the chosen free state, New Hampshire, within five years of obtaining 19,999 other people who commit to move. The more signatures we get, the more secure people can be in their decision to move, because they know that many other people will also be moving— enough to make a real difference! You don't have to wait until we have 20,000 signatures to move, of course, but that option is there to let you be more secure in your decision.
“What the Free State Project is not... We are not a political action organization. We are not tied to any political party or organization; we do not run candidates for election, we do not financially support or endorse candidates, and we do not oppose or endorse legislation. All these things will be done by friendly organizations with which many Free Staters are involved.
“There's no better place for freedom-loving Americans than New Hampshire... New Hampshire was the state chosen by signed FSP participants in a vote that took place in August and September 2003. It was chosen because it has the lowest state and local tax burden in the continental U.S., the second-lowest level of dependence on federal spending in the U.S., a citizen legislature where state house representatives have not raised their $100 per year salary since 1889, the lowest crime levels in the U.S., a dynamic economy with plenty of jobs and investment, and a culture of individual responsibility indicated by, for example, a lack of seatbelt and helmet requirements for adults.
“If you're interested... Please consider signing the Statement of Intent, participating in our message board, or just signing up for our bimonthly e-mail newsletter. If you would like to help us advertise and promote our mission, please consider making a donation.
Contact Us
Free State Project, Inc.
PO Box 1684
Keene, NH 03431
1-888-532-4604
For membership questions: members@freestateproject.org, but see first the Member Services page. For publicity or marketing questions or comments, please contact info@freestateproject.org. For general questions or comments, please contact info@freestateproject.org.
Reader response
I do think that, at least here in the US, we can make a difference one locality at a time. We still have a thread of democracy here - at least Bush still lets us VOTE! Anyway, we can make a difference if we are willing to MOVE. If we can move in sufficient number to a local area, by our votes, we can ‘take over’ the system in that location including positions like the Prosecuting Attorney, County Government, Mayor, Councils, and of course therefore have some control over the local law enforcement. To me, this is legal and it is practical (although it DOES require participants to move to a new community).
The Nemesis project
See Operation Nemesis - class action against Operation Ore and similar injustices below
It's Showtime! The Nemesis project. is a group that has deliberately set itself up in an informal manner with no specific address or URL to deflect attempts by corrupt police forces either to infiltrate it or hurt its supporters. Individuals are invited to join rather than volunteer although they may volunteer also. For the moment it is focussed on police and judicial corruption.
Boycott the legal profession
This may be the ultimate campaign and an amalgam of all the others.
Following the dramatic idea of the Civic Protest (see above), the Nemesis project has come up with an even more dramatic idea. Why not boycott the legal profession to force it to reform itself?
The weakest link in the chain of elements that constitute our system of justice is the legal profession, and that includes the judiciary, as judges are promoted out of the legal profession, often for their prosecutorial zeal, not for their wisdom. The single greatest failure in Western society has been the legal profession. One now has the greatest difficulty in securing the objective and caring services of a defence attorney in the US, to defend one in any attack from the prosecution. It has been said that US defence lawyers work for the prosecution.
Added to this betrayal of justice and society, are the disgraceful greediness and incompetence of lawyers and the rest of the legal profession,
Here is a description of the possible boycott from the Nemesis project.
This is for discussion
While Nemesis is very pleased to see initiatives such as the Civic Protest, Ofwatch and other Backlash projects, its members recognize that there are two huge limitations to these. First the Civic Protest, which is aimed at the jury system, will not work in America, where it would simply further the objectives of the police state by making juries even more ineffective. Second, striking at the jury system, while possibly very effective in countries where due process is still valued, and might result in political and judicial action to reduce prosecution and police corruption in those countries, will not directly hit bad lawyers and judges where it really hurts them.
The weakest link in the chain of elements that constitute our system of justice is the legal profession, and that includes the judiciary, as judges are promoted out of the legal profession, often for their prosecutorial zeal, not for their wisdom. The single greatest failure in Western society has been the legal profession. One now has the greatest difficulty in securing the objective and caring services of a defence attorney in the US, to defend one in any attack from the prosecution. It has been said that US defence lawyers work for the prosecution.
Added to this betrayal of justice and society, are the disgraceful greediness and incompetence of lawyers and the rest of the legal profession, including solicitors in the UK and elsewhere, who have fanned the compensation culture and debased every public inquiry they have been involved in through their shocking levels of fees. The legal profession is today widely regarded as dishonest and even rapacious.
So a blow must be struck against the legal profession, including the judiciary, to attempt to force it to reform itself. The politicians whose job this is have failed to do it, so the citizens must do it if our society is to survive. The campaign for reform must be both legal and effective.
While initiatives such as the New Zealand inspired Civic Protest may make some legal professionals and politicians sit up and take notice, something much more draconian is required. America where due process is already lost, and the UK rapidly following it, show us what faces us in the West if we do not act now.
The Nemesis project is now suggesting that we consider using the nineteenth Irish idea of boycott that spread throughout the world and reached a peak of effectiveness during the American Civil Rights Movement, and helped develop the concept of ‘blackballing’ today.
The legal profession and judiciary have us where they want us and can screw us at every turn as they wish. They are above the law; which they have debased and prostituted. They are greedy and incompetent and uncaring about society, mainly caring only about their own enrichment. They need urgent reform in at least the following areas.
1. The creation of a mechanism for repealing and reducing existing laws, especially those based on the control of human morality.
2. The restoration of power and influence to decent legal defence lawyers
3. Control of the abuses of so-called ‘expert witnesses’
4. Acknowledgement of the fact that the police are out of control and are also above the law
5. The creation of an effective mechanism for handling complaints against the legal profession and the judiciary
6. The restoration of due process and an allegiance to justice
More ideas are requested for the above list.
How could the boycott work?
Charles C. Boycott was a ruthless agent of the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. The earl was one of the absentee landowners who as a group held most of the land in Ireland. Boycott was the champion evictor of Ireland, throwing families out and razing their mud cabins to the ground. Parnell's Irish Land League stepped in, and invented the ‘Boycott’. Charles C. Boycott and his family found themselves isolated -without servants, farmhands, any services in local stores, or even mail delivery. Boycott's name became a noun and a verb and spread worldwide, going into our psyche.
The lawyers and judges are the new aristocratic landlords. Today, they are even buying the great houses of Ireland. The prosecutors and police and lawyers and solicitors are their henchmen, their ‘Charles C. Boycotts’.
A campaign of boycotting the legal profession, including members of the judiciary could begin. Ideas are already being kicked around through Nemesis.
Here is one suggestion received: “One idea is a repeat of Parnell's Boycott. Until they announce that they intend to reform and take the first steps, shun them socially. Do not visit their homes or take them into yours. Do not serve them in your stores or from your other workplaces unless they announce their intentions to encourage their fellow professionals to reform themselves. Legally, you have to do the wretched business with them that the law has created, or that they force onto you or entrap you into, but do no other business with them.”
Response 1.
Lest I be thought of too quickly as a ‘nay-sayer’ to this cause, I totally applaud the latest idea of boycotting the legal profession! What a great idea! A suggestion to think about in this area to lay people like me - list on your web site - what actions can we legally take in this boycott? (i.e. can we refuse to serve lawyers at the businesses we own?) - also, it might be helpful if we start compiling a list of persons and organizations that we would boycott and post the list (those specifically known to be acting with injustice and corruption).
Editor: Such as naming judges who have made infamous judgements in notorious cases.
Response 2.
Yes, a ‘focused’ boycott...that, for example, a web page be created which names specific people and entities who we know have been part of these injustices. This would of course need to be a collaborative effort from many for it to work. We already have several names from Operation Ore corruption. Things are so bad that I am not opposed to a general boycott of all categories of people involved in this,
but I think that would be up to each individual involved in the boycott to decide. (There's something a bit inherently unfair and prejudicial about such a general boycott - something akin to the kind of prejudice we face from the CP and CSA hysteria. That's why I am not so fully supportive of a general boycott, but under the circumstances, such extreme measures are not too unreasonable.) I think that, as a focused group effort, we should make the boycott as specific as possible.
The question I had at the time was regarding the specifics of the boycott, and how to do it legally. This would depend on one's country I know, but, for example, if I owned a business, could I legally refuse service to an attorney who came into my establishment?
Response 3 – from New Zealand.
It should be remembered that the Civic Protest (Civic Protest on Peter Ellis Satanic Ritual Witch-Hunt case) is specific and arrived at after 15 years of disgraceful judicial buck-passing.
> The question I had at the time was regarding the specifics of the boycott, and how to do it legally.
All important considerations. It may interest you to know that the protest was launched in New Zealand without much concrete knowledge of such outcomes. However some had personally taken such action a couple or three years ago and had not experienced any official adverse reaction. It is hard to see how the state can legitimately prosecute those who take such a stand as a matter of conscience. Much ado has been made every few years by the judicial system and Ministry of Justice in NZ in regard to the citizen's civil duty to serve on juries, while at the same time refusing to raise the ludicrous compensation offered to jurors for lost income when they do. The system's insistent complaint serves to identify a vulnerability. On occasion here (if memory serves me well) trials have fallen through or been postponed because of juror unavailability.
The protest can be effective if enough take it up to worry the authorities as to threaten the already stretched pool.
For two reasons it has not yet been aggressively promoted here; firstly because we have just had a general election with the usual musical chairs in regard to ministerial appointments; and secondly for the reasons your US correspondent has outlined above. This is soon to change. Official reaction from our attorney general has been encouraging. I quote from a local webpage
"This action is legal and ethical. Section 16C of the Juries Act 1981 states that a juror may be excused: "If the Judge is satisfied that the person objects to jury service on grounds of conscience, whether or not of a religious character." Others have recently informed the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of such an intent, their concerns were acknowledged and they were advised what action they could take to excuse themselves from jury service."
We are grateful to the authorities for being so candid. Of course conditions may differ in different countries and jurisdictions.
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Civil disobedience
A real and present reason for civil disobedience
Just one example is that ordinary, decent parents with teenaged sons all over the West are now at risk from the repressive new child sex and child pornography legislation. Read about this under The age of consent. This should be a wake up call to them. Sex abuse is simply an excuse, a reason for the current suspension of due process. It will be inappropriate behaviour next and already is in some countries.
All over the English-speaking world, good people are disheartened and depressed by bad laws being devised in the interests of the social and moral good of the community. This is giving rise to the dangerous possibility that good people may become disenchanted with all legislation and begin to harbour a grievance against, and a lack of respect for, the organised state.
When Gandhi was struggling against apartheid in South Africa, he turned to Henri Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience to give him support and the courage to recognize and resist tyranny. We can do no better than dip into that same manifesto now.
Thoreau begins with “I heartily accept the motto ‘That government is best which governs least’.” But he takes it further, as he believes “that government is best which governs not at all.”
If we are in a state where there are obvious and serious injustices and bad laws, he tells us that “All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.” Revealingly he adds: “But almost all say such is not the case now.” We have at least 100 times more law now as then, and people still ask for and accept more laws and more government intervention. On the basis of the number of laws, and the amount of state intervention, so much of it incompetent, intrusive and unwanted, Thoreau would have surely called for massive civil disobedience.
He gets right to the point. “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavour to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally - - - think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. (It, the government) Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? - - - Why does it always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”
So what do we do? “If the injustice (of the state) - - - is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.”
(As for majorities) “Any man more right than his neighbours constitutes a majority of one already.” And about resistance. “For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.” Echoing Teilhard de Chardin who believed that an idea once expressed cannot be stopped.
The possible consequences. “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (And if anyone thinks that in prison his influence would be lost) – “They do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person.” Which will resonate with all of those who have suffered injustices under our present regime.
And more on being in a minority position. “- - - a minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority - - - . What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obeys a higher law than they. They force me to become like themselves.”
When he was locked up for refusing to pay his taxes in protest. “I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.” Which is what is happening today with so many good people being dispossessed by a State hell-bent on imposing an ideological social and moral agenda.
And on his lack of interest in the government. “If a man is thought-free, fancy-free, imagination-free, that which is not never for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him.” We might re-write this in modern terms as ‘If a man is thought–free, fancy-free, imagination-free, and not inclined to see what is not as what is, unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him.
“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth - - -. Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”
The lawmakers. “No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.
“There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”
And finally he dreams of a state which could allow a few ‘to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbours and fellow men’. Such a state ‘would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State’.
The lessons from Thoreau
The State is already being regarded with contempt by good people. While in the UK fears of a ‘Nanny state’ are raised at parliamentary and other levels, many intellectuals already believe that the social activists have succeeded in getting the courts and the State to maintain and police their ideological programmes in what is a true totalitarian regime. The psychological procedures supporting this regime in what has been called a climate of ‘therapeutic jurisprudence’ are not based on science but on a belief system, just like that of the Roman Catholic Church during the initial Inquisitions. The same appears to be even more true in the US.
A careful reading of the laws on child pornography, under-age sex (under 17 and 18), incitement to hatred, and conspiracy to corrupt public morals will reveal that questioning certain laws concerning morality can itself be a crime. They must be questioned, and if believed to be wrong, and even evil, they must be disobeyed.
The time for civil disobedience has come. If you doubt it, read The iron fist of the state.
A response
They are my enemy and the enemy of my family. Not much longer will this nation tolerate the systematic dismantling of a freedom and way of life that we, our fathers and forefathers fought and died to protect - - - an accounting is near.
An unhappy American
Rogues’ gallery
Rogues’ gallery is the new name for the concept that began as a ‘Register of false accusers’. As it transpired, the latter name was not suitable for the first register, which has emerged in the US and is described below. It was also too focused on individuals low down in the responsibility chain, for example the thousands women who falsely or unfairly make allegations against me. So infamous and far-reaching are the actions of those in authority that make such false allegations and other injustices possible that it behoves us to concentrate on them at least for now. One word, however, in praise of the original idea of a register of false accusers, should someone be brave enough to take it on and risk prosecution for libel. Such a register could be kept offline and activated privately each time an allegation is reported to see if the same accuser has made previous allegations, and this information then passed in confidence to the new defendant’s lawyer.
The more general Rogues’ gallery
One model for those who cause serious damage to society is the new register in the US, where the libel laws of other countries cannot shut it down. It is called the ‘National Registry of Political and Professional Predators against Children’. It is arguably the register that begins at the most relevant level by naming the powerful politicians and others with self-interest who hurt both children and society in their selfish pursuit of personal power, who use the ‘for the good of the children’ mantra as their slogan, regardless of the consequences of their actions. The architects of the new register eloquently explain the damage that these demagogues and opportunists have done.
The register names the ‘predators’ with photographs in most cases and supplies a paragraph on each. Here is its overview statement:
“The predators listed on this site prey on children and teenagers who engage in consensual and non-violent sexual behaviour. They call them ‘sex offenders’ and destroy their lives for the purpose of financial and/or political gain.
“Political predators imprison them, place them on sex offender registries for decades or life, subject them to community notification, monitoring, and public humiliation, prevent them from living with their families, and/or eliminate them from most careers or decent housing.
“Professional predators coerce them into emotionally abusive treatment programs that use humiliation and shame, monitor their masturbation habits and sexual fantasies, and/or attempt to change their sexual arousal through the use of pornography with ammonia aversion therapy or other means.
“The information on this site is made available for the purpose of educating and protecting the public.
“WARNING: THE PREDATORS LISTED ON THIS PAGE ARE AT LARGE IN THE COMMUNITY AND THEY ARE DANGEROUS. THEY REMAIN UNRESTRICTED IN THEIR MOVEMENTS AND MAY HAVE FREQUENT CONTACTS WITH CHILDREN. KEEP YOUR CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEM.
“Anyone who uses this information to commit a criminal act against a predator is subject to criminal prosecution. Misuse of this information is a misdemeanour. You are cautioned that information provided on this site may not reflect the current residence, status, or other information regarding a predator. NRPPPAC compiles and provides this information but does not independently confirm the accuracy of all information. To correct erroneous information in this registry or to report a change in the predator's information, contact NRPPPAC.
“See list of professional predators.” (The list follows on the web site – link below.)
Typical alleged crimes are as follows:
Proposes a bill that would make mutual sexual activity by 13 to 16 year olds with someone under 14 an ‘aggravated sexual crime’ punishable with a minimum 25-year sentence. A juvenile justice expert calls the bill ‘a penal policy nervous breakdown’.
Recommended a boy be required to undergo sex offender treatment for a childhood prank.
Demands that Kansas health care professionals report all suspected consensual underage sexual activity to law enforcement authorities. Calls sexually active teenagers ‘child rapists’.
Favours placing children on the public sex offender registry, including those who commit non-violent or consensual ‘sex crimes’.
Prosecuted teenagers for consensual sex. Led to the suicide of Justin Fawcett.
Ruled that teenagers arrested for consensual sex be included on the public sex offender registry. Caused the suicide of Justin Fawcett.
Ruled that children as young as 9 years old can be placed on the state sex offender registry. Five named.
Ruled that a 13 year old girl is guilty of sexual abuse for having consensual sex with her boyfriend.
Designated boy as most dangerous category of sex offender for consensual sexual contact with 13 year old when he was 15.
Opposed a bill that would require that parents be present when juveniles over age 11 are interrogated by police and pressured to confess to sex crimes.
Prosecuted boy and girl on felony sexual assault charges for consensual sex with each other.
Believes 5% of all boys as young as 9 are paedophiles, advocates diagnosis with invalid sexual interest test or electronics attached to genitals, and promotes indefinitely long ‘treatment’ with sex drive reducing drugs and ammonia aversion therapy.
Defended the notorious Phoenix Memorial Hospital juvenile ‘sex offender’ program which used electronics connected to genitals and ammonia aversion therapy on children as young as 10.
Labels children who behave sexually as ‘children who molest’ and promotes the ‘children who molest’ scare. Writes workbooks used in programs that ‘treat’ these children through shame and humiliation.
Through her writings, demonizes juvenile sex offenders as lacking any humanity or conscience.
Conducted and promoted coercive interviews that traumatized hundreds of children and promoted the nationwide day care sex abuse hysteria. Currently labels children who behave sexually as ‘sexual abusers’ and promotes the ‘children who molest’ hysteria. Writes books used in ‘treatment’ for these children based on shame and humiliation.
Advocates ammonia and electric shock aversion therapy for juvenile ‘sex offenders’.
The register can be read in full HERE.
State of fear- Ireland
Unlike as in the US, there is no protection against defamation and libel in Ireland even if one is trying to publish the names of false accusers. One must wait for the rare occasions that the accusers are named in court which happens only in the equally rare cases of appeals against gross miscarriages of justice.
There is a campaign currently underway in Ireland to name individuals who made a major contribution to the witch hunt that caused several miscarriages of justice and to a knee jerk reaction of the government to set up a Redress Board for victims of residential abuse, that is all those who felt or claimed that were abused while in residential care over the past 50 years. The government even advertised worldwide for victims to come forward and to name their abusers and accept huge compensation. The result was thousands of applicants that now look to cost the Irish state well over one billion Euros.
As one had to name so-called ‘abusers’ to claim money, and accusers had legal protection while those accused had little or none, many hundreds of individuals have probably been falsely accused. Only future histories will reveal the extent of the injustices been perpetuated here.
One case however stood out in the witch hunt that had been engendered by both the moral panic of sex abuse and a television programme aptly titled ‘states of fear’ which itself contributed greatly to the national state of fear. A small group of concerned citizens believe that this TV programme more than any other factor contributed to the national hysteria that resulted in not only the Redress scheme but the horrifying pillorying and jailing of the innocent nun, Nora Wall, for a crime her convicting judge called ‘gang rape’. What can be published, and is below, is an extract from the judgement of the Court of Criminal Appeal which granted Nora Wall a certificate confirming a miscarriage of justice in December 2005. It is from the website www.courts.ie (Click on ‘Judgements’).
History will name the other individuals, including the police and prosecutors, behind this infamous act. The judgement names only those who accused her of the rape.
The extract now follows.
• It indicates that the accuser Regina Walsh and her witness Patricia Phelan had made multiple unsubstantiated allegations against family members and others.
• Apart from the Nora Wall case only one of these allegations - by Patricia Phelan against Michael Fitzpatrick - had even reached the courts. It was dismissed by a judge who would not let it go to a jury.
• It should be noted that Michael Fitzpatrick was largely responsible for the collapse of the case against Nora Wall. He read a report of the conviction of Nora Wall (and Pablo McCabe) in The Star newspaper and recognised Patricia Phelan's name. That justice was finally done was due to sheer luck and nothing else.
Finally - it appears that this is a ‘recovered memory syndrome’ case. It was one of the few such cases in Ireland and the only one which resulted in a conviction.
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THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL
[CCA 147/99]
IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 9 OF
THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT, 1993
BETWEEN
THE PEOPLE
(AT THE SUIT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS)
RESPONDENT
AND
NORA WALL
APPLICANT
JUDGMENT of the court delivered this 16th day of December, 2005, by Kearns J
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Without demur from the respondent, Mr. Rogers, senior counsel for the applicant, outlined the following facts, which fall into three broad categories, as constituting “newly-discovered facts” within the meaning of s.9 of the Act:-
(1) Regina Walsh - history of previous allegations, her psychiatric history immediately prior to the making of the complaints against the applicant and her reliance on ‘flashbacks’, so described by her, to retrieve these alleged incidents from her past
(a) That the complainant, Regina Walsh, had previously alleged that she was raped in London by a black man, in respect of which allegation she had made no complaint to the police.
(b) That the complainant, Regina Walsh, had previously had a violent relationship with her then boyfriend Tommy Mulcahy, in the course of which she was beaten and abused, as a consequence of which she was twice admitted to hospital, but in respect of which she made no complaint to the police.
(c) That the complainant, Regina Walsh, had made a complaint of assault against her aunt June O’Brien to the Garda Siochana in Waterford in 1996, which complaint was withdrawn by her some days after making same.
(d) That the complainant, Regina Walsh, had made three complaints to the Garda Siochana of assaults upon her by one Carol Tracey, who was never traced and in respect of which complaints no proceedings took place.
(e) That the complainant, Regina Walsh, had taken an overdose of tablets in 1996, as a consequence of which she was admitted to St. Declan’s Ward, Ardkeen Hospital, Waterford, under the care of one Dr. Sheppard, for psychiatric assessment and treatment immediately prior to her making the complaints the subject matter of the prosecution of the applicant.
(f) That had the direction of the respondent been followed the only evidence in the case against the applicant would have been that of the complainant, Regina Walsh, whose recollection of events was admitted to be solely the product of ‘flashbacks’ and who had no full memory or recall in the matter.
(2) Patricia Phelan - the calling of a witness deemed to be unreliable despite the respondent’s specific direction not to do so - non-disclosure of the unreliability of the witness.
(g) That on the 24 April, 1997, the respondent had directed, for reasons as yet undisclosed, that one Patricia Phelan ought not to be called as a witness for the prosecution upon the trial of the applicant. Patricia Phelan had, on the 10 January, 1997, made a statement to Garda Sinead Connolly, then of Kilkenny Garda Station, purporting to corroborate the complaints made by Regina Walsh, by giving an eye-witness account of the alleged participation by the applicant in the alleged rape of the complainant.
(h) That the said Patricia Phelan had made prior complaints involving indecent assault and/or rape to the Garda Siochana against Harry Phelan, her late uncle, and also against one Michael Fitzpatrick.
(i) That the prosecution by the respondent of the said Michael Fitzpatrick for rape and indecent assault upon the sister of the said Patricia Phelan and for indecent assault upon the said Patricia Phelan was restrained on the grounds of delay in judicial review proceedings heard in the High Court before McCracken J., in the course of whose judgment, doubts were expressed concerning the credibility of the evidence offered by the said Patricia Phelan.
(j) That the said Patricia Phelan had made prior complaints to the Garda Siochana against one Joe Maguire that he had ripped off her shirt and assaulted her, and these complaints were later withdrawn by her.
(k) That Garda Sinead Connolly, then of Kilkenny Garda Station, who was responsible for taking the aforementioned statement of Patricia Phelan on 10 January, 1997, in pursuance of the investigation of the complaints made by Regina Walsh against the applicant, was also a member of the Garda Siochana responsible for investigating the foregoing complaints by Patricia Phelan against Harry Phelan and Michael Fitzpatrick.
(l) That the respondent herein was a party to the aforementioned judicial review proceedings in Fitzpatrick v DPP, of which the Chief State Solicitor had carriage on behalf of the respondent and in which the prosecution of Michael Fitzpatrick on foot of complaints by Patricia Phelan had been restrained by McCracken J.
(3) Regina Walsh and Patricia Phelan - false statements in evidence
(m) That the said Patricia Phelan after the trial, conviction and sentence of the applicant, had voluntarily made contact with Sr. Mona Killeen, who had been a lifelong friend and supporter, and admitted to her and subsequently to members of An Garda Síochána also, that she had lied in her statement and in her evidence upon the trial of the applicant, in saying that she had witnessed the involvement of the applicant in the alleged rape and sexual assault of the complainant, Regina Walsh, when she had not.
(n) That the complainant, Regina Walsh, had connived in the said deception by the said Patricia Phelan.
Editorial commentary
The Irish media, having savagely pilloried Nora Wall, virtually ignored her acquittal and release from prison, and paid a small amount of attention to this final judgement years later. Hopefully history will reveal some of the content of her media crucifixion and the names of the crucifying journalists.
What we can do
Operation Nemesis
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