Monthly Archives: August 2015

Note: I was elected recently to the position of “Church Advocate” for the Church of the Gardens. It is a new church, which hopes to join with other churches, in growing spiritual resistance to rampant materialism and the vast economic disparity of wealth and resources between the peoples and nations of the world. Church of the Gardens is different than many churches in that part of its mission and faith requires its members to become engaged politically, socially, and economically to achieve its spiritual and religious goals. Church of the Gardens is a 508(c)(1)(a) “Free Church.” It is not a 501(c)(3) organization. WHEN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS FAIL US… Many people, including at least one candidate for President, acknowledge that our government is not working for most of us. When we look around it is difficult not to notice that millions of people have lost their homes to the banking-servicing industry based on documents which are well known to have been fabricated. Students and former students owe the same banking industry colossal debt which Congress has declared is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Millions of our citizens (mostly black and hispanic) are incarcerated, working more or less as slaves, for private prisons which have contracts with State and municipal governments guaranteeing to keep their facilities stocked with prisoners. The disparity of wealth and resources between the 1% and the 99%, as well as between the industrialized nations and poor nations, is grotesquely disproportionate to the point of being unconscionable. So how can those of us … Continue Reading

The 1% know the way to win cases in the american empire’s adversarial system of justice is to eliminate their opponent’s advocate. By doing so the 1% assure themselves that a judge will rely solely on the presentations of their well paid attorneys in resolving cases in their favor. There are numerous reasons America’s adversarial system is now dead for most of us. The primary one is the disparity of wealth between the 1% and the rest of us. For the most part only the wealthy can afford lawyers. And most lawyers (many of whom who have spent a fortune on their education and are struggling with large amounts of student debt) cannot afford or are not interested in representing clients who do not have the ability pay the exorbitant costs of litigation, along with lawyers’ sky high hourly fees. The courts have exacerbated the problem by requiring that only lawyers can appear before them as advocates. This judicially created monopoly, like all monopolies, starves competition and promotes only the interests who benefit when the people are not ably represented. The party line is that limiting advocacy only to lawyers, who have gone to law school or apprenticed for years, assures the competent representation essential for the adversary system to work. But there is little proof to back up this assertion. I know from my own experience as a lawyer that I have seen plenty of lay people who know more about specific areas of law than do most lawyers. … Continue Reading