Monthly Archives: October 2015

Stafne Trumbull is ending

  October 28, 2015 Bankers, Banksters, courts, Government, judicial department, Judicial Watch, Justice, Washington State

Stafne Trumbull is ending… I am deeply grateful to each person who created the Stafne Trumbull law firm. By law firm standards, Stafne Trumbull died in its infancy. A young David fighting against the Goliaths of the twenty first century american empire. The firm’s success was remarkable; Its ending was inevitable. Writing blogs through sentiment is not as easy as creating those fueled by philosophy, reason, or anger. So I was lucky that Ethan, who is helping set up Stafne Law Firm’s new computer systems, came into my office and recited the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. The words rolled out Ethan’s mouth much quicker than I could understand them. He said the poem was written by Robert Frost. So I googled “Roberts Frost Nature’s first green” and found this article. Serendipity, through Ethan, had guided me to the very words I needed to express. Thank you Josh, Shaina, Emily, Matt, LeeAnn, Ashley, Brian, Linda, Karrie, Stephanie, Ryan, Mitch, and Michael for your efforts in helping Stafne Trumbull make a difference in the lives of many of our neighbors. May each of you and your loved ones prosper. Here’s to the memories…    

Hedge Fund Creeps

  October 22, 2015 Bankers, courts, economic disparity, evil, hedge fund, judicial department, Judicial Watch, Justice, Opinions, Washington State

    Hedge Fund Creeps Courts allow Hedge Fund Creeps (HFC), like Mr. Shreli, to blackmail our neighbors and family into paying exorbitant amounts of money for medicine they need to to live. While those of us injured by such market place anarchy, see good reason to limit such sociopathic behavior, the Roberts Court continues to find a constitutional right for HFCs to pick the flesh off the bones of those people who actually served their country. No, I don’t mean the Roberts Court has gone out of its way to protect young punk HFC pharmaceutical guru Shkreli. Our present day justices appear to manipulate their constitutional jurisprudence to benefit much bigger and more heinous fish, like the Kochs and those hedge fund creeps (spelled Berkshire Hathaway) who are buying up mortgages on people’s home for pennies on the dollar. According to Robert’s Court growing body of precedent the extraordinarily wealthy have every right to use their money to to buy a government which will legislate their right to take more money from us. The Robert court’s new Constitutional matra: “The wealthy are free make more money; and the rest of are free to be destitute, indentured, and abused by the rich.” Present day courts give real meaning to the song, Me and Bobbie McGee. “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…” In other words, to the 1% (and the government which serves them) we, the people, are “free” because we have the right to buy from our medicine and/or food and/or shelter for whatever the cost might be. But this is … Continue Reading

Scott Stafne revisits his past and finds wisdom

  October 13, 2015 Bankers, Banksters, Bettendorf, Federal Constitution, Government, Iowa, judicial department, Judicial Watch, Justice, News Articles, Rehnquist, spiritual, spiritual movement, Stafne, Washington State, William H Rehnquist, wisdom

Scott Stafne revisits his past and finds wisdom… Each memento comes with a soul weight that may overwhelm or be hidden from the moment in which it is revealed and recollected. The memories attached thereto are not only about me but the context of the society at that time… Sometimes we forget. It was as if I was being called to the boxes which stored my past. I really did not want to go there because my focus was on the present and how it could impact my future. But now that I am older I listen more to my callings. And so Saturday morning I opened the boxes and explored the various accumulations of a lifetime, including without limitation my birth certificate, draft card, poetry, plays, newspaper articles, and other mementos which had found their way into the boxes wedged into back of the pantry and the file boxes in my office. The first thing I noticed was that most of the papers were crinkled; some even appeared to have been snacked on. It is difficult to review mementos in the same way that I attack facts and documents when preparing to write a legal brief. Each memento comes with a soul weight that may overwhelm or be hidden from the moment in which it is revealed and recollected. The memories attached thereto are not only about me but the context of the society at that time. For example, on December 24, 2014 I wrote a blog entitled “Do we want police more devoted to one another … Continue Reading

Democrats role in the foreclosure crisis

  October 8, 2015 Bankers, Banksters, Democratic Party, democrats, evil, Government, Justice, Republican Party, two party political system, Washington State

Democrats role’ in the foreclosure crisis suggests neither major political party cares about the people. Did Democrat candidates keep their promises to act on behalf of the people and not the 1%? You be the judge. This is a campaign ad for Bob Ferguson, who is running for re-election as the Attorney General of Washington State. Ferguson is the guy with glasses standing in the middle of the group of four people, who look like homeowners. The promise just below this photograph states: “Bob will Protect Homeowners and Hold Banks Accountable”. Ferguson, like many Democrats empire wide, made the same claim last election cycle. He promised he would use his position as attorney general to protect homeowners. Did Democrat candidates keep their promises to act on behalf of the people? No. While Republican President George Bush bailed out the banks, it was Democratic President Barack Obama who followed up by allowing the banks to brazenly feast on people’s homes. It is the Democratic Party (the party which always claims to represent the interests of the people) which has been in charge of the greatest redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the rich in the history of the world. So after promising to help them protect their homes from banks, what did AG Ferguson do to fulfill that promise? Astonishingly, he brought foxes in to the hen house. AG Ferguson hired bank attorneys and paralegals to “protect consumers“. Was this an act of bad faith towards homeowners? In my judgment: YES. I frequently … Continue Reading

Do judges really think the people are stupid?

  October 6, 2015 Bankers, Banksters, courts, Democratic Party, evil, judicial department, Judicial Watch, Justice, Washington State

Do judges really think the people are stupid? I was telling opposing counsel that as the lawyer for a servicer successor to Countrywide she needed to make sure no acceleration notice had been issued with regard to the defaulted upon loan before my client’s mortgage was transferred to BOA on or about January 1, 2009. She asked why she needed to do that. I responded that under a recent case out of the federal district court Washington attorneys had an obligation under Rule 11 to verify the absence of limitations defenses. She said, she didn’t believe me. So I told her to hold on and brought up my WestLaw legal database. I was flabbergasted. Judge Peterson’s opinion sanctioning me for not anticipating a limitations defense in a complaint was not there. I immediately suspected the empire’s corrupt legal publishing system.  I have previously written about my concern that the 1% who own everything (including the legal publishing industry) and/or the judicial department itself unfairly and corruptly influence the collection and reporting of legal decisions. On April 2, 2015 I complained about this in a blog entitled “Do private publishers of legal decisions attempt to influence precedent”.  I pointed out that U.S. District Court Judge Richard A. Jones of the Western District of Washington had authored a significant decision discrediting one of MERS legal theories. I told a representative of the private publisher, WestLaw, that I believed this decision should be available to homeowners and their attorneys. I even pointedly asked whether … Continue Reading

What is the Purpose of this Empire?

  October 1, 2015 Bankers, Banksters, courts, evil, Government, judicial department, Judicial Watch, spiritual, spiritual movement, two party political system, Washington State

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.” Our founders intended something different than a government which protects only the wealthy. America’s Constitution contemplates that “we the people” are sovereign. Further, that those governmental officials who act pursuant to the power of the people will act to protect the natural rights of all people. Last Sunday I was one of two attorneys who appeared as guest on a segment of Gary Dubin’s the Foreclosure Hour on Iheartradio. The common link which united me with longtime lawyer William Butler was that we were both being threatened by agents of the empire for representing homeowners against banks and servicers in courts. Here is a link to promotional materials about the broadcasts, which were entitled “Our Independent Judiciary Is No Longer Independent: Ten Ways in which our Courts are Denying Homeowners the Ability to Adequately Present the Merits of their Foreclosure Defense Cases.” One way which the empire supports the 1%, which Bill and I were appearing on the show to demonstrate, is by marginalizing those advocates of the people who dare sue banks on behalf of ordinary people. Both Bill and I practiced law for most of our lives without the slightest hint of a problem. It was only when our sense of justice caused us to stray from representing personal injury victims to … Continue Reading