Trail of the Octapus author addresses town meeting
Coleman Addresses Town Meeting
Lex Coleman spoke before about 100 people in early April, 1998, at a Constitutional Town Meeting, attended by numerous candidates running for office, etc. This is the speech he gave at that meeting.
At one time, this nation had three branches of government: The Executive (President) the Legislative (Congress) and the Judicial (Courts).
Now, we have only one ... the lawyers!!
Let me give you just one specific example of the type of incestuous relationships they create and how it affects the rest of us.
A fellow named Hugh Dillin ran for governor of Indiana. The voters rejected him, saying, in effect, they didn't want him ruling over them. So he retired and never bothered the people of Indiana again.....right ?
Wrong.
At least if he had been elected and misbehaved, the voters could have Thrown him out on his butt. But no! ... What happened was Dillin's lawyer crony buddies - fellow lawyer political hacks - got him appointed as a Federal Judge for the Southern District of Indiana.
Dillin is still on the Federal Bench. Since federal judges are appointed for life, there is simply no way to get rid of them ... almost.
With the three branches of government being controlled by Lawyers, anyone trying to buck the government is not dealing with the law but with lawyers - personalities. The higher you go the more prominent it becomes.
Take former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger's comment, quoted in the book, The Brethren by Bob Woodward:
"We're the Supreme Court and we can do what we want."
Get the message?
Back in the 30's FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court with men of his own Choosing, making it self-evident that the law of the land depended not a hoot on justice but on personalities of the men sitting on the bench.
Richard Nixon was somewhat more successful. Today's Supreme Court should be referred to as Nixon's Revenge.
In all fairness there are some decent judges....take Federal Judge Karl Forester, who sits on the bench in Lexington. He seems to be a fair Judge. But this business of judgement by personality extends all the way down into the state courts.
Here in Kentucky, Judges are elected....it is a non-partisan office. That means no political party can profit by putting one of their own on the Bench...and the Judge can be tossed out if he misbehaves. This means, it is likely that a Kentucky state judge will do most everything by the rules....
In federal court, a non-lawyer fighting his own case is normally treated and looked upon as a species of cockroach.
The federal court system is the classic example of how not to do Things:
Federal Judges are appointed for life - supposedly in order to keep them from bowing to political pressure, to keep them free from Corruption. In reality, it has the opposite effect. What happens is that Federal Judges inhabiting a position that takes an Act of congress to dislodge them...become extremely arrogant and total arrogance breeds total irresponsibility.
Take a Federal Judge by the name of Frank Battisti, who back in the 80's made a name for himself by cramming forced busing down everyone's throats.
He is a classic case of rule by lawyers. It didn't matter that mandating forced busing is a legislative function. It didn't matter that forced busing was never a law passed by Congress. The judge took over the Cleveland School Board, which is an executive function at the State level. Federal Judges scooping up power for themselves - the constitution and The congress be damned - is nothing new. It's been going on since Andrew Jackson (who, by the way, told the Supreme Court, "I don't care what ruling you make. Try and enforce it!") What we need is another Andy Jackson President in the White House. Remember that two years from now.
It is also obvious that to stop the Federal Judge nonsense is to have Federal Judges elected like we do Judges here in Kentucky. Of course, that would leave the political parties nowhere to dump their deadwood.
Which brings me back to the real deadwood:
lawyers.
Law is not like chemistry or physics. You don't have to be a rocket scientist. It does not require years of training like being a good Mechanic.
All law is, is a collection of indexed paragraphs, just like you find in a set of encyclopedias, written in plain English, presided over by personality Judges and a bunch of people with an exaggerated opinion of themselves called lawyers. All you need to practice law is high school level English and (the ability) to use an index.
So now that we've dumped the Federal Judiciary...what next to get our nation back in the hands of the folks? Elect people to congress who will do two things:
Abolish federal agencies, not build them.
First to go should be the IRS.
Other federal law enforcement (agencies) were created in this century and have no place in the next. Most were founded on a sea of politics.
In 1998 I think local and state law enforcement is perfectly capable of policing us. We don't need some far off cop-shop, staffed with a bunch of strangers enforcing laws we had no say in creating. Federal law enforcement is an outdated institution that has no place in the 21st century.
Abolish every federal criminal law on the books that pertains to individual citizens. Crimes committed by people are subject to the states, not the federal government. The federal courts should confine themselves to resolving conflicts between states, civil disputes between litigants, but should get completely out of the criminal law business, save for those crimes spelled out in the Constitution - treason, and the like.
Sit down and talk with federal agency people in this state. The more all of us get to know each other, the more we will build trust among ourselves.
There are good and bad federal agents, like anyone else. Get to know one; meet with them; find mutual ways to find solutions.
You will find that there are FBI, DEA, and BTF folks who, just like you, think the government is way out of control. They have been brain washed by Washington, too. Maybe to think that anyone who raises a voice against Washington should be their enemy. Nothing should be further from the truth.
As I said...the only enemy we have to fear is ourselves.
Of course....there are politicians right here in Kentucky who are going around tonight, telling folks, "Oh my, oh my - I'm gonna put folks back to work. Gonna build a 1000 bed federal prison in your back yard...gonna be jobs for lots of folks."
If this was Bangladesh, this would be called foreign aid. Locking folks up - prisons for profit - is not the kind of America I want to live in - nor do you. It's the same old political quick fix:
"Gonna build more prisons."
"Gonna cut the crime rate."
"Gonna put more folks behind bars."
And..."Gonna solve the 25 percent unemployment -
Gonna make you all prison guards."
"God bless Amerika!!!"
Politicians love to make promises. (Like big Jim Folsom.)
More jails, more folks in jail - a prison guard in every home is not gonna save our country. Any politician peddling that pile of pure- bred Kentucky blue grass manure should be voted out.
Who's gonna save us? We got us here, and no Savior is gonna get is out of this mess. This is our own creation. You wanna see who got America where it is tonight ? Look at that face looking back at you in the mirror.
Only 11 percent of the 180 thousand registered voters around here voted in 1994..... What that seems like to me is voluntary slavery.
"Democracy," "freedom," all those cute little catch words have to be fought for every day. 'Cause if you don't, somebody's gonna steal your freedom, piece by piece, until one day ... America is not America anymore, and you are not an American.
We are facing total tyranny. All we have to do is sit on our butts just a little longer.
Finally ...
Let me tell you a story.
This is no fairy tale. A fellow I know was living in Sweden. He found out that he was wanted by the police in his home country on a non-violent criminal charge arising from a situation in which such charges had never been prosecuted before.
He went to a local lawyer in the village where he lived. The lawyer said not to worry. The charge was not covered under extradition treaties.
Over the next three years his home country sent diplomatic notes seeking The fellow's deportation. The Swedish government initially refused, saying his three children would be affected.
Finally, after more pressure was brought to bear, Sweden informed the fellow that his application for permanent residence was being denied. He would be sent back to his home country. With the help of professional colleagues and even mother Teresa, the fellow took his family and fled to another European country.
A year later....several lawyers from his homeland told him to come on Back (and) clear up the problem. It was no big deal, anyway.
So, he decided to go home, and to show his good faith, to bring his family with him. He was going to go home and face the charges.
When he arrived in his homeland, he was arrested at the airport. Two days later, his application for bail was denied. He was flown cross the country chained and shackled with convicted, hardened criminals, and was taken to a holding facility full of gangsters, drug dealers, murders, and rapist awaiting trial ... where he sat for almost six months.
He had a malignant tumor the size of a silver dollar on his shoulder. For four months it went untreated and grew, and ooozed, and drained. The fellow begged to be treated. His lawyers wrote letters to the court begging that he be treated.
Finally in February, last year... Prison people took him to a Hospital. The operation took about an hour, and he was taken back to the Prison immediately afterward.
Two days later he was taken to solitary confinement - what prisoners call "the hole". When he asked why, the guards refused to tell him. That first night, the manager of his unit stuck his face in the small window of his cell and laughed at him sitting in the dimly lit cell.
Later, he found out that the guards feared he would expose their lucrative smuggling operation that was bringing everything from heroin To sausages into the prison. You see, the guards knew this fellow had once worked as an intelligence agent.
His surgical incision became infected, because no one had bothered to even change the bandage for two weeks. Again, his lawyer filed a round of complaints until he was sped away to a private hospital. It took eleven days of intravenous antibiotics to clear up the hideous infection.
While in the hospital, he was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The attending psychiatrist said it was due to his gross mistreatment at the prison.
He was taken back to the prison and thrown back in "the hole", Where he remained until his lawyers finally got him out on bail ...
Turkey? Russia? Mainland China?
No, this happened in America......
The fellow 's crime was making a false statement on an affidavit filed in a civil case - the first American ever charged with such a crime.
(UK AGENT-- ISN'T THIS WHAT PRESIDENT CLINTON DID IN THE PAULA JONES CASE? IF PRISON WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THIS MAN... SURELY IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR PRESIDENT!)
After his ordeal in a Federal pre-trial detention center, he spent another six months separated from his wife and three young children, under house arrest at a relative's house, wearing an electronic bracelet.
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