10-11-14 Rabbi Michael Lerner's Response re: Vast over-representation of individuals and an organization, identified as Jewish, in "corruption of the courts and the legal profession" // La comunidad judía y "La corrupción de los tribunales y los abogados" en California

[IN PRO PER  IN LA] New comment on 10-11-14 Rabbi Michael Lerner is asked to call for....

I get approximately 100 requests of this sort per week from various reasonable sounding causes. I'm just one human being and can't look into them all. I can say that I know the entire prison system in California to be deeply flawed and a moral outrage, and would support a bill to immediatley free all prisoners except those who are convicted of violent crimes--and to provide them with gainful employment so they don't end up in prison again. I can also say that I favor a total reconfiguration of the legal system along lines developed by the Network of Spiritual Progressives www.spiritualprogressives.org, which would require in part a massive redistribution of wealth, but also a massive spiritual transformation of our values along lines I outline in The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Rigth.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine 

10-11-14 Rabbi Michael Lerner is asked to call for Tikkun (repair) of the Los Angeles Jewish/Legal Community in view of its vast over-representation in “corruption of the courts and the legal profession”. // La comunidad judía y "La corrupción de los tribunales y los abogados" en California

    

Rabbi Michael Lerner_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ David Pasternak_ _ _ _ _ _  Sandor Samuels_ __  _ _  _ Terry Friedman

Rabbi Michael Lerner is asked to call for Tikkun (repair) of the Los Angeles Jewish/Legal Community in view of its vast over-representation in "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".

 Los Angeles, November 14 - Human Rights Alert (NGO) asked Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun (repair) magazine, a notable Jewish figure, to call for Tikkun of the Jewish/legal community in Los Angeles, California, in view of the vast over-representation of individuals and an organization, identified with the Jewish community in "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".  The request specifically referred to the conduct of Bet Tzedek ("House of Justice"), a prominent Los Angeles Jewish charity, and three of its former senior officers: David Pasternak - former President (also former President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association), Sandor Samuels - former President (also Associate General Counsel of Bank of America), and Terry Friedman - former Executive Director (also Judge, Superior Court of California). 

In response to the initial request, accompanied with references to media, expert, and official reports regarding corruption of the courts and legal profession in Los Angeles County, California, Rabbi Lerner, only responded with: "Doesn't sound good to me. But I don't have the capacity to investigate and make determinations on the issues raised below. Sorry."

Additional request was addressed to Rabbi Lerner, accompanied with opinion letter of Fraud Expert, FBI veteran, who was decorated by US Congress, US Attorney General, and FBI Director, referring to conduct of David Pasternak as "fraud being committed". The case also involved Sandor Samuels and Terry Friedman, and key events took place on the grounds of Bet Tzedek, by Sandor Samuels as President of Bet Tzedek.

No further response was received from Rabbi Lerner.

Rabbi Lerner is Editor of Tikkun Magazine, Chair of The Network of Spiritual Progressives, and Rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco and Berkeley.  Tikkun Magazine runs under the motto of "to heal, repair, and transform the world".

The April 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the official UN staff report, with reference to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession" in California.
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Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice systems of the State of California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Special emphasis is given to the unique role of computerized case management systems in the precipitous deterioration of integrity of the justice system in the United States.

http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert
http://human-rights-alert.blogspot.com/
http://josephzernik.blog.co.uk/
http://menchenrechte-los-angeles.blogspot.com/
http://droitsdelhommealertelosangele.blogspot.com/
http://inproperinla.com/
http://pressroom.prlog.org/Human_Rights_Alert/
http://ireport.cnn.com/people/HumanRightsA?numResults=10&view=documents
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES?
*  "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
*     "Innocent people remain in prison"
*     "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/
*   "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
*   "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."    
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/274339
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WHAT DID THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STAFF REPORT SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
*   "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/

10-11-14 Welcome Pakistan - Last New Visitor! // Bienvenido Pakistan - El Visitante Mas Reciente!

        

Last New Visitor Pakistan Visited November 14, 2010

10-11-13 Welcome India - Last New Visitor! // Bienvenido India - El Visitante Mas Reciente!

               

Last New Visitor India Visited November 13, 2010

10-11-12 Internment Camps in the United States // Campos de internamiento en los Estados Unidos

  
Copied from:
http://www.constitution.org/abus/intern/intern.htm
Maintained: Jon Roland of the Constitution Society
See also:
[1]10-06-04 ACLU Objects to Federal Bureau of Prisons "Communication Management Units"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32762916/
[2] 09-12-17 Rampart-FIPs (Falsely Imprisoned Persons) - Review
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24729660/
[3] 09-09-29 American Police Force Corporation Takes Over Small Town Police Force and Prisoner-Less Jail
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42234718/

Internment Camps in the United States

Many people think that talk of American "internment camps" is just paranoid conspiracy mongering, but such camps have played a significant role in government activity for more than 200 years.

1. Indian Final Solution — This is about the forcible eviction of the Cherokee from their Eastern homelands to internment camps, later to be called "reservations", in the Western states. Similar stories can be told about most native American tribes.
2. American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas — Official documentation on current reservation system.
3. Policing on American Indian Reservations: A Report to the National Institute of Justice, Stewart Wakeling, Miriam Jorgensen, Susan Michaelson, Manley Begay, et al.
4. Internment Records of Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War
5. The Pacification Of The Philippines, Chapter 3 of The U.S. Army And Irregular Warfare.
6. Uprising of '34 — In 1934 there was a strike of U.S. textile workers. The response of the U.S. government was to call out the National Guard to round them up and put them in internment camps. This is the transcript of the POV program on PBS on this episode in U.S. history. See Press Clippings and Transcript and a commentary.
7. The Japanese-American Internment of 1942-45 — Suspected of disloyalty, they were rounded up and confined for the duration of World War II.
8. Internment in the United States during World War II, December 7, 1941 - July 1948 — German and Italian nationals were interned as well.
9. Japanese Internment During World War II — Another collection of links on this episode.
10. A Psychohistorical Analysis of the Japanese American Internment, by Alison Dundes Renteln — Academic study.
11. Korematsu v. U.S., 323 U.S. 214 — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Japanese internment constitutional, and although the trial verdict was later overturned, the Supreme Court decision has not been.
12. A National ID System: Big Brother's Solution to Illegal Immigration — Cato Institute policy analysis of this proposal that has grave implications for civil liberties for illegal immigrants, who are systematically interned without trial, as well as for others.
13. Abstract of The United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, Operation Garden Plot.
14. Operation Garden Plot — Result of FOIA inquiry, image files.
15. Gulag Amerika: State-by-State Index — Compilation of links.
16. FEMA and PDD-25 — Introduction to the relationship between the two.
17. Project Megiddo — Document from FBI site, now on ours, detailing their plans for suppressing civil dissent.
18. NWO Intelligence Update — Sell DOD government manual, Operation Garden Plot.
19. Operation Garden Plot, Joint Task Force Los Angeles (JTF-LA) — From Federation of American Scientists (FAS).
20. Operation Cable Splicer, a sub-plan of Operation Garden Plot, by Army civil affairs groups — Investigator's report.
21. Do Hamdi and Padilla Need Company?, by Anita Ramasastry — Findlaw article on these detention cases.
22. Ashcroft Internment Camps Threat to Citizenry, by Charles Levendosky, Casper Star-Tribune
23. Internment, at Whose Florida — Links to numerous articles.
24. Welcome to Hell: The Bush administration plans internment camps for citizens, by Scott Loughrey
25. Camps For Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision, by Jonathan Turley, first appeared in Los Angeles Times
26. Comments on the Hamdi and Padilla cases, by Glenn Reynolds, author of Free to Die for their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II.
27. What's Next... Concentration Camps?, by Anis Shivani, Counterpunch.
28. General Ashcroft's Detention Camps, by Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice.
29. Plans for Civilian Internment: Stalag 17 American Style, by Mary Louise.

10-11-12 Welcome Belgium - Last New Visitor! // Bienvenido Bélgica - Visitantes Mas Reciente!

        

Last New Visitor Belgium Visited November 12, 2010