Bulletin Board Wk3 Pg3
| Non-lawyers are subject to laws governing their behavior--laws written, interpreted, and enforced by lawyers. The punishment can be as severe as incarceration or even death. It happens every day. Lawyers are subject to rules--rules written, interpreted, and enforced by lawyers. The punishment can be as severe as being demoted to being a non-lawyer. It has been known to happen. |
| A VICTIMS RIGHTS AMENDMENT to the Constitution of the United States was proprosed in the Senate during Clinton's second term. It had 50 co-sponsors in the Senate. The president and the attorney general claimed to support it as well (although they did NOT). So who opposed it? Who kept it from even coming to a vote? The Black Congressional Caucus, who saw it as a racial issue, as if there were no black victims of violent crime. And the star of the opposition??? The man who almost singlehandedly PREVENTED a federal law PROTECTING VICTIMS of VIOLENT CRIME????? SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY!!!!!! |
| If there were federal guarantees of victims rights, then somebody in my position could sue Bob Burrell, could sue Dr. J.C. Upshaw Downs, could sue Judge Glenn Thompson, and could sue the State of Alabama in federal court--and win. But before you think it'd be that easy, just consider the fact that the State of Alabama is already under federal court jurisdiction in the Department of Education, in the Department of Human Resources (child protection), and the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, among others. If the United States said Alabama had to respect victims' rights, all that would happen would be a group of well-connected Alabama lawyers would make their living fighting a group of well-connected Washington lawyers, forever. And guess who PAYS these lawyer bills on BOTH SIDES??? We do, of course. We pitiful non-lawyers who dare to live in the United Lawyers of America.... |
| Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore--like other Alabama judges--answers only to the Judicial Inquiry Commission, which is composed of lawyers appointed by politicians. And if Chief Justice Moore doesn't like the ethics rules that apply to him and his fellow judges, he can just change the rules. Don't believe it??? HE'S ALREADY DONE IT... |
| Oh, well, at least he's been on BOTH SIDES of the issue... |
| Judge Glenn Thompson can do anything he wants. Anything. The JIC doesn't even consider RULINGS...as if RULINGS could not be evidence of BIAS. Those are the rules that lawyers made up to judge other lawyers by. It would be kind of like saying you can't sue a surgeon for malpractice if it has to do with uh surgery. In Alabama, you cannot even make a complaint about a judge--all you can do is make an INQUIRY of the sage well-connected lawyers to look into it on your behalf. The most common mechanism for resolving the INQUIRY is for a JIC lawyer to make a phone call to the lawyer judge. Simple, isn't it? Every six years, for one-half day, we non-lawyers are allowed to pick which lawyer we'd like to have as GOD over us for the next six years. Glenn Thompson's day comes in 2006. Until then, he is GOD in Morgan County, Alabama. |
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| There are actually a LOT of good lawyers in Decatur. Ask one of them what they think about Catherine Halbrooks. And Sherman Powell. And Glenn Thompson. |
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