Thursday, December 12, 2013

13-12-12 ROGER SHULER: Beaten, jailed Alabama judicial corruption blogger - NO PROGRESS

It is so Richard Fine redux!
LINK:
[1] 11-04-23 Habeas Corpus in the United States - the case of Richard Isaac Fine - Review
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24729084/

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

PayPal Donations Help Support the Fight for Justice in the Legal Schnauzer First Amendment Case

This is Carol, Roger's wife. Since Roger's brutal beating and unlawful arrest on Oct 23, we have been very grateful for the many people who wanted to help us and who've offered to lend their support in a variety of ways in our ongoing fight for justice. Quite a few of those kind individuals have chosen to support this fight by way of the Legal Schnauzer PayPal donation button, which can be found in the upper right-hand corner of the blog. 

Fighting against the forces of evil and tyranny does not come cheaply, but the donations that have come to us via the blog's PayPal donation button have made that fight much more feasible. Hopefully, this will help enable the release of Roger Shuler from his unlawful incarceration and also defeat the powerful and obscenely corrupt thugs who orchestrated this entire travesty. Perhaps then, they will finally be held accountable for what they have done.

To those of you who decide to click on the button and support us with your hard-earned funds, we say a hearty "thank you." And we say that on behalf of Murphy Abigail Shuler (1993-2004), the beloved schnauzer to whom our work is dedicated.

Please know that our mission statement remains the same: "The memory of a beloved pet inspires one couple's fight against injustice."



Murphy Abigail Shuler:
the schnauzer who
inspired a blog 

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Media Coverage Continues to Expand on Legal Schnauzer First Amendment Case - Part 5


This is Carol, Roger's wife. Over the past several days, we have written about some of the more interesting articles to appear in the media on the Legal Schnauzer first amendment case. One such article appeared in ThinkProgress. The story was written by Nicole Flatow and was featured on the website Oct. 30--one week after Roger Shuler's severe beating and false arrest. 

Per the ThinkProgress website, Nicole Flatow is the Deputy Editor of ThinkProgress Justice. Previously, she was Associate Director of Communications for the American Constitution Society. Nicole has also worked for several legal and general circulation newspapers, including The Daily Record and The New York Law Journal, and was a legal fellow at Bread for the City, where she represented low-income D.C. residents in housing and public benefits matters. She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, and her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law from Binghamton University, where she was editor in chief of her campus newspaper. 

The article was very good, however, there was one incorrect statement. And it has, unfortunately, been repeated in several articles about the first amendment case.
"Riley sued Shuler and his wife, Carol Shuler, last year for alleged defamation." 
The above statement is simply not true and gives the mistaken impression that this harassment lawsuit had been ongoing for some time and thus, had been given a chance to be properly litigated. Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, the bogus traffic stop where improper service was attempted took place on Sept 29, 2013. And then, Roger was beaten and unlawfully arrested inside our garage on Oct 23, 2013. That is far less than one month later. Hardly adequate time for any proper litigation of the facts and the law.

Typically civil lawsuits are served and a person will have 30 days in which to respond and then the case proceeds from there in an orderly and legal fashion. In this case, Roger Shuler was assaulted and thrown in jail in a mere 3 weeks time. How about that for a railroad job and outrageous miscarriage of justice? 

Here is the link to the ThinkProgress article by Ms. Flatow: 

Alabama Blogger Arrested, Jailed for Writing About Former Governor's Son




Thursday, December 5, 2013

Media Coverage Continues to Expand on Legal Schnauzer First Amendment Case - Part 4


This is Carol, Roger's wife. Over the past few days, we have written about some of the more interesting articles to appear in the media on the Legal Schnauzer first amendment case. Another excellent article was a dairy written by a person who goes by the name, "Colorado is the Shiznit" on the widely-read, progressive political blog, Daily Kos. The creative and highly entertaining post was featured on the website on Nov. 15 and made their daily highly recommended list. 


According to Wikipedia, Daily Kos is an American political blog that publishes news and opinions from a progressive point of view. It functions as a discussion forum and group blog for a variety of netroots activists whose efforts are primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening the Democratic Party. 

Here is the link to the Daily Kos dairy written by Colorado is the Shiznit: 
Former Kossack Arrested on Bullsh-t Charges.


Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Media Coverage Continues to Expand on Legal Schnauzer First Amendment Case - Part 3

This is Carol, Roger's wife. Over the past couple days, we have written about some of the more interesting articles to appear in the media on  the Legal Schnauzer first amendment case. Another excellent article was written by Sara Rafsky of the outstanding international organization, Committee to Protect Journalists. It appeared on their website's CPJ Blog on Nov. 13. 


According to their website, the "CPJ promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. We take action wherever journalists are attacked, imprisoned, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored, or harassed."

Here is the link to the CPJ story by Sara Rafsky: Censorship in Alabama's Shelby County.

Per the bio on the CPJ website, "Sara Rafsky is research associate in CPJ's Americas program. A freelance journalist in South America and Southeast Asia, she was awarded a 2008 Fulbright Grant to research photojournalism and the Colombian armed conflict."

This article was very well done and I appreciate the hard work and effort that went into it. It is also important to note that it was featured in The Huffington Post on Nov. 14. 

Here is the link to Ms. Rafsky's story which appeared on the HuffPost Blog: Censorship at Issue in Alabama Blogger's Case.


Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Media Coverage Continues to Expand on Legal Schnauzer First Amendment Case - Part 2

This is Carol, Roger's wife. As discussed yesterday, we are glad to report that media coverage of the Legal Schnauzer first amendment case continues to expand. Once again, one of the more interesting articles published recently appeared in the WhoWhatWhy website on Nov. 25. It was written by David J. Krajicek who paid Roger a visit in jail and did his first jailhouse interview. 

Here is the link to the article:  In Jailhouse Interview, Alabama Blogger Says He Won't Budge 

This article was very well done also. And again, I very much appreciate all the hard work and effort that went into it. 

However, there was one statement that was highly inaccurate and it misrepresents a very important point: 
"Shuler insisted he was not legally served because the documents were not placed in his hand."
I have no clue how or why the above statement was even in the article because it has absolutely NO basis in fact and Roger NEVER said any such thing. It is utterly and completely false. To understand the truth about what happened during the bogus and unlawful "service" during the phony traffic stop and the pertinent law involved, please read the blog posts written by Roger Shuler himself on Legal Schnauzer. 

The LS blog posts concerning this unlawful traffic stop appear  herehere and here.


Monday, December 2, 2013

Media Coverage Continues to Expand on Legal Schnauzer First Amendment Case

This is Carol, Roger's wife. We are pleased to report that media coverage of the Legal Schnauzer first amendment case continues to expand. One of the more interesting articles of late was featured on Nov. 11 in the WhoWhatWhy website and was written by David J. Krajicek. 

Here is the link to the article: Gulag Justice? Alabama Blogger Jailed in Secretive Scandal

First off, I want to say that the article was very well done and I very much appreciate all the hard work and effort that went into writing it. However, there was one important statement that was so grossly incorrect that I simply must clear it up. 
 "Carol Shuler said their inability to afford a lawyer was one factor in her husband’s avoidance of court paper service."
After the article came out and I read the above erroneous statement, I immediately emailed Mr. Krajicek with the following clarification: 
"For the record, I never said or certainly never meant to imply that our inability to afford a lawyer was any factor in anything, much less avoidance of service. In fact we were not AVOIDING SERVICE at all. The fact of the matter is we had absolutely no clue why 2-3 sheriff's deputies were coming to our home twice a day for a week acting like we were on America's Most Wanted list. We had no way of knowing and in fact, did not know that it had anything to do with the serving of court papers in a civil case. As I said they were acting like they were trying to bust a meth lab or nab a serial killer. Scared us to death! We knew it was likely some trumped up bogus crap possibly to arrest one of us for some made-up charge or to ransack our home with a search warrant and maybe seize our computer for no legitimate reason purely for harassment and intimidation. 
So to be clear.... I never said we were avoiding anything. We simply did not answer the door to jackbooted thugs gone wild. If they had not acted so threatening and bizarre and there had only been one deputy and one vehicle...instead of 2 or 3... we quite likely would have answered the door. Also when it is civil service, they will typically leave a card on your door saying they have court papers for you. But they did not do that at any time. So again, it felt very threatening and intimidating and harassing and that was their intent to be sure."   

13-12-12 Facebook art: Scotsman on the situation in the US...














I may not be an *American -- That does not mean I cannot support my awakened brothers ...

13-12-12 Will the US militarized police, US armed forces massacre mass demonstrations?

Will the US militarized police, US armed forces massacre mass demonstrations?
That is the question posed by Occupy Chicago below.
The routine abuse of the people of the US by law enforcement does not bode well...  
But the big question, posed in various ways, is whether militarized police or US  armed forces will actively massacre mass demonstrations.  
More bluntly put - will they shoot?
The very fact that this question is raised again and again points out to the crucial problem in the US today - social disintegration to the point that police and the military could possibly do that!
It is unthinkable in any other "Western Democracy" that I am familiar with!

Occupy Chicago posted 2 updates.

13-12-12 Los Angeles County, California - widespread corruption of the courts and law enforcement

 
Judge Alex Kozinski - Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit and Leroy Baca - Sheriff of Los Angeles County - two of a kind!

Suffice is to read the 2006 Rampart Reconsidered - Blue Ribbon Report, which concluded that corruption of the LA Superior Court was central to the Rampart Scandal, that corruption in LA County in 2006 was greater than corruption in Los Angeles County during the notorious Water Wars of the 1920s, and that unknown number (probably over 10,000 - the Blue Ribbon Panel was denied access to records) of people were still falsely imprisoned 8 years after the eruption of the Rampart Scandal, since judges of the LA Superior Court claimed that releasing them would cause "collapse of the justice system".

LINKS:
06-07-15 Rampart Reconsidered: LAPD's Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)

On Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:23:35 AM UTC+2, Joseph Zernik, Human Rights Alert (NGO) wrote:
The only problem in this story is that the person, who is "the chief administrator", so to speak, is Chief Judge Alex Kozniski himself!

Under his tenure, Los Angeles County was permitted to reach unprecedented levels of corruption, documented in the Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the first ever review of Human Rights in the United States, which concluded "corruption of the courts and the legal profession in California."

The US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, was involved in patronizing corruption of the courts and law enforcement in Los Angeles County at least since the Rampart Scandal (1998-2000), when it approved the hefty award to corrupt LAPD officers, who were convicted by jury and sentenced to prison terms, then freed by the corrupt California Judge Jacqueline Connor, who claimed she biased the jury in her erroneous jury instruction...  

Justice Kozinski was also personally involved in denying the habeas corpus petition of Richard Fine.

Typical of corrupt judges, from time to time they drip justice with great fanfare, only to generate massive corruption in their routine conduct.

In short
Kozinski should be held accountable for the deprivation of rights of all California residents through the establishment and patronizing of the corrupt California courts and law enforcement, as noted in the UN report.

JZ 



On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Arnie <arnie@arnierosner.com> wrote:


Isn't it obvious the problem is the responsibility of those in charge?  

When a failure is detected within a system, the chief administrator must be immediately suspended, charged with the defect, removed from control of the organization and independently investigated by the people.  There is no such thing as self monitoring or internal affairs.  Anyone foolish enough to accept such a notion does not have sufficient intelligence to even address such a matter.

On Dec 11, 2013, at 8:42 PM, Gary Zerman <gzerman@hotmail.com> wrote:

Ron:

Here is a follow up to your email.  GLZ.

9th Circuit Chief Judge-Kozinski Writes Scathing Dissent Warning of Epidemic of Brady Violations by Justice Department 
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/12/11/chief-judge-writes-scathing-dissent-warning-of-epidemic-of-brady-violations-by-the-justice-department/



Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:20:01 -0800
From: VictoryUSA@jail4judges.org
To: VictoryUSA@jail4judges.org; jail4judges@yahoogroups.com; JAIL-SoundOff@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Lawsters:20345] More and More Law Enforcement Engaged In Corruption


More and More Law Enforcement
Engaged In Corruption

In the past this author has been thrown into the L.A. Men's County JAIL on victimless crimes with repeated anal searches, deprivation of food, lack of medical care and sanitation needs such as toilet paper. He would  document such incidents and report them to the L.A. County Grand Jury charged with inspecting the Los 
Angeles County jails. The problem was, whenever the Grand Jurors came to inspect county jails, the sheriff's would clean up their act and present to the Grand Jury pristine inspection conditions. I wrote to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury and suggested they send through the jails a pretended criminal to inspect the jail system. Below is a current account of informants being sent through the jail system which resulted in around twenty L.A. Sheriff's Deputies being arrested and charged with corruption. Year after year, we find these very same taking place.

Ron Branson
National JAIL4Judges Commander-In-Chief



http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/09/21835238-nearly-20-la-sheriffs-deputies-charged-in-corruption-inmate-abuse-probe?lite

Nearly 20 LA sheriff's deputies charged in corruption, inmate abuse probe

By Andrew Blankstein
NBC News
Nearly 20 current and former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were expected to be arrested Monday in connection with a two-year federal probe into corruption and inmate abuse in the county jail system.
Sixteen deputies, most still active in the department, were either arrested without incident or surrendered Monday to agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation. Two others had not yet been arrested by Monday afternoon. None of those arrested ranked higher than lieutenant.
Four grand jury indictments and one criminal complaint allege the unjustified beating of inmates, unjustified detention and a conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation.
“The five cases allege a wide scope of illegal conduct,” said André Birotte Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. “This investigation started by focusing on misconduct in county jails, and we uncovered examples of civil rights violations that included excessive force and unlawful arrests.”
“Our investigation also found that these incidents did not take place in a vacuum – in fact, they demonstrated behavior that had become institutionalized. The pattern of activity alleged in the obstruction of justice case shows how some members of the Sheriff’s Department considered themselves to be above the law.”
The arrests seem to culminate an investigation that included allegations that deputies tried to hide an informant who was providing information to the FBI while locked up after the deputies discovered the informant had a cell phone.
Seven current and former members of the LASD were accused in an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to obstruct justice, after the deputies learned that an FBI informant was being held in the Men’s Central Jail. The deputies learned that the informant had received a cell phone from a deputy who allegedly received a bribe, and that the informant was assisting the FBI in investigating alleged corruption and civil rights violations.
The defendants then allegedly attempted to hide the informant from the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service. Prosecutors say they altered records to make it look like the informant had been released from custody, and then rebooked him under a different name and told him he had been abandoned by federal law enforcement. Two sergeants named in the case allegedly confronted an FBI agent at her home in order to intimidate her into divulging details of the investigation.
Lieutenant Gregory Thompson, charged in the indictment, no longer works for the Sheriff’s Department. The other deputies named are Gerard Smith, Mickey Manzo, James Sexton, Scott Craig and Maricella Long.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the informant said he had been using his phone to take photos and document excessive force inside Men's Central Jail. Anthony Brown told the paper that FBI agents regularly visited him in court and at the jail, where he supplied them with the names of allegedly corrupt and abusive deputies.
In another indictment, a sergeant and four deputies are charged with arresting or detaining five individuals, including the Austrian consul general, who was handcuffed, when they visited inmates at the Men’s Central Jail in 2010 and 2011. Lead defendant Eric Gonzalez no longer works for the department. The four deputies, Sussie Ayala, Fernando Luviano, Pantamitr Sunggeemoge and Noel Womack, are charged with participating in at least one of four incidents in which victims allegedly suffered civil rights violations. One incident left a victim permanently disabled after he suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder.
Two deputies are charged in a six-count indictment with making false statements and civil right violations. Bryan Brunsting is charged in relation to an incident in which an inmate was allegedly assaulted and injured. Broth Brunsting and Jason Branum are charged in another assault. The indictment alleges that Brunsting then used deputies he was training to file reports covering up the abuse.
Deputy Richard Piquette is charged in the fourth indictment with illegal building and possessing an assault rifle. The investigation is being handled by the ATF.
Another of the cases involves three LASD deputies who are brothers who allegedly used a “buy-and-bail” mortgage fraud scheme to help buy a home in Corona, Calif. Billy, Benny and Johnny Khounthavong allegedly made false statements to buy the home and then made more false statements to walk away from the property when the value of the home fell below what they owed on it. The brothers allegedly avoided more than $340,000 in mortgage debt via the scheme.
Sheriff Lee Baca called the arrests "a sad day for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department."
"We do not tolerate misconduct by any deputies," said Baca. "This department is grounded in its core values, namely to honorably perform our duties with respect for the dignity of all people, and integrity to do right and fight wrongs. We have cooperated fully with the federal investigation and will continue to do so."
The arrests and jail abuse allegations represent the latest series of controversies to roil the administration of Sheriff Baca, who is seeking a fifth four-year term in next November’s elections. One of his chief rivals is Paul Tanaka, a former undersheriff and Baca confidant who retired from the department earlier this year amid a bitter falling out.
In June, the U.S. Justice Department found that deputies patrolling the Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County repeatedly harassed and intimidated Blacks and Latinos including using racial profiling and excessive force.
In 2012, a Sheriff’s captain at the Carson station was placed on administrative leave after the department alleged she was giving information to a suspected narcotics dealer.