The Number Three Problem We Must
Fix -- Our Legal System
Would you like to
be able to clearly understand any law in our nation without
paying an attorney one single dollar?
Would you like to
have all the laws in the nation in 3 books you can
purchase, read, and completely understand or placed on the
Internet where you can also do a word search?
Would you like to
have the legal right and the capability to represent yourself
in a legal battle with a neutral panel of 3 or 5 non-attorneys
who will give you a fair judgment?
Would you like to
have the ability and the legal right to help others represent
themselves in any legal procedure without going to jail
for practicing law without a license? Today, our
attorneys have a government mandated monopoly to control
everything associated with our legal system. We are
offering you the opportunity to take this monopoly away from
them. No monopoly should ever exist in a free and
capitalist system. I should have the right (and a flat
playing field) to represent myself or ask my neighbor to help
me represent myself.
I know our
attorneys are telling us that this "guaranteed monopoly" they
have been given is to protect us. They claim they
are simply what is best for us, but I suspect
otherwise. I want the right to hire my neighbor or any
other friends to represent me and if I make a mistake, it is my
own fault.
We are not a free
nation if our government gives some "special people" the right
to take care of us whether we like it or not; no matter what
the subject matter may be. I want to live in a free
nation and have the right to exercise that freedom. I do
not want any laws that gives someone else the mandated legal
right to "take care of me" whether I like it or
not.
It is my freedom
they have taken away from me in order to obtain a monopoly that
has unfairly enriched our nations
attorneys.
Actually, it is
quite easy to write a group of laws that “we, the people” can
understand. We just need the right people in control of our
country; people who would put in place a panel of English
Language experts to write these 3 books and then “we, the
people” would vote to accept this new set of laws or continue
to abide by our existing laws.
To put it frankly,
our attorneys are the blood suckers of our society; that
have taken over control of our lives and they are not going
to give it up without a major fight.
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. We know every attorney is going to tell us
how impossible this is and the people are not smart enough to
make this major decision, but 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." What we
should be demanding is 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have
more than 1%, (1 out of every 100 of us, incarcerated)
more than any country in the entire world. Will you be
next?
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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.
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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 10 minutes reading it or would you prefer to pay
an attorney for 10 hours of his time at $300 an
hour?
Our 3 books
may not be “Politically Correct,” but we can guarantee you that
they will apply equally to every single citizen of our nation,
just as our Constitution mandates. There will be no
discrimination between the rich and the poor, the religious or
the non-religious, the liberals or the conservatives, and the
color of your skin will be a non-issue.
My question to you
is “What group of people in our nation would prefer the legal
system described in the above 7 items and what group of
people would prefer our 3 books.” Does the people who
prefer our 3 books outnumber those who prefer what we have
today?
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
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