To put it clear, our attorneys are the blood suckers of our society. They have taken over control of our lives and they are not going to give it up without a major battle.

If we can win this battle, our "cost of living" will drop dramatically.

We are not trying to push a new legal system down anyone's throat. We are only offering to put together a new system of laws and give, you the opportunity to vote on whether you prefer our new laws or our existing laws. Every attorney is going to tell us how impossible this is to do and "we the people" are not smart enough to make this major decision, However, we all know that they have a (big time) vested interest in not letting this happen.

We have more than 200 million people in this country who cannot afford to pay an attorney to properly represent then in a legal battle. So, who wins these legal battles? It is the people with big time money, the "deep pockets. We must demand a level playing field.

We are offering you a chance to break free of this control and regain your freedom and equality.

Our present legal system is written in a foreign language that we cannot understand and one of our laws says “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” It would take a total idiot to agree to live under this type of legal system. But all of us, you and me, just follow whatever our attorneys tell us to do. 

Our nation represents 5% of the worlds population, but we have 25% of the worlds prisoners.  This says we are putting too many people in jail, far to many.  Don't get the impression that I advocate letting dangerous prisoners out of jail; they can spend their life in jail as far as I am concerned, but we have far to many people jailed for other "crimes."  There are many other ways to punish people who do not steal our property or represent a physical harm us than just throw them in jail. We should never jail people like George Hansen, or someone who cheats on their income tax, or has a marijuana plant in their living room, or purchased their medications in Canada and brought them across our border, or someone who kicked my dog, or anyone who has violated hundreds of thousands of other "crimes" that can put them in jail under today's laws.  

We punish our doctors, if they make a mistake, by making them give lots of money to attorneys, but their punishment should be to send them back to school and learn how to do it right.  Our laws also increase our medical cost by a huge margin.

Combine this with the following facts;

We have laws that are convoluted, contradictory, and loaded with so many conflicts that anyone on either side can be right or wrong.

1. You will win or lose a legal battle based on how much money you can afford to pay your attorney.  If you have limited funds, and your opponent does not, then he just has to drag the case out until you run out of money.  Many of the worlds legal systems make it simple enough that you can represent yourself, you go to court, present your case, your opponent presents his case and the judge makes a ruling.  But our legal system requires many steps (most un-necessary) that you must go through to get to court and chances are you will go to court not just once, but many times.

2. We have what is called “precedence” which makes every ruling by a Judge an instant law that we must all follow, yet, it has no approval by our congress as demanded by our Constitution. This means our laws change hundreds of times every day, so you may violate a law this afternoon that went into effect this morning. And it might be a law that will send you to jail.

3. We have so many laws it is virtually impossible to even count them, much less understand them, but a rough estimate is 4 or 5 million enacted by our congress and 5 to 6 million enacted by “precedence.”  Do you know all the laws you must abide by?  There is no way any average citizen knows what they are and there is no way he can find out what they are, unless he has unlimited funds to pay attorneys to research and find out what they say.  Yes, you have to "research" every law to see what it says and then check out hundreds of "precedence" cases to see how it has been "modified" and then make a guess about what the law means today, because many of the "precedence" cases will conflict with each other.

4. We have laws written with more than 120 words in the individual sentences. Ask any English teacher if it is possible to clearly understand sentences this long.

5. We have about 1%, (1 out of every 100 of us, incarcerated) more than any country in the entire world. Will you be next?

6. If you are a small businessman and you want to raise money to expand, you will most likely be required to pay attorneys a minimum of $100,000 just to do the paperwork for you. It could easily cost you more than a million dollars. Attorneys make every job they do sound like it is the first time anyone has ever done this, but the facts are that a few standard forms can be designed that will permit you to do your own paperwork.

7. If you have a question about what is legal, would you prefer to open a book in your home, or on the Internet, and spend 5 minutes reading it or would you prefer to pay an attorney for 10 hours of his time at $300 an hour?

We are offering you a chance to stand up and be counted.

We can change the system if enough of you will work with us.

We are not telling anyone you cannot hire an attorney, you can hire as many as you wish, we are only asking that those of us who do not have the money you have, be given a "fair playing field."  I strongly suspect that, after we pass this law, your attorneys will not cost you nearly as much as they cost you today because they will have competition.  Competition is wonderful and mandatory in a free capitalist society.

PS -- (I do not normally admit this to anyone, but my brother is an attorney, as well as two of my best friends.) But, in a serious vein, they are all 3 tremendous, patriot Americans, just like many other attorneys, but the attorneys we have chosen to run our nation have done a very poor job. They are not concentrating on doing what is best for our country as much as they are concentrating on doing what is best for them and their associates. When I recently asked one of my attorney friends, "Why don't we simplify our laws?" He replied, "You can't do that, that would put me out of work." And he was right.

The Flag Waving Patriot