An American Dissident

The Waiting Game

2012-02-05T12:18:00.001-08:00

Ive got two big legal things on the burners..one I am waiting for a decision, and one I have to file this week.

I filed some big stuff with the Court of Appeals. Extraordinary motions. More here:

Occupy The Law

Real Dissidence

2011-12-30T12:37:00.000-08:00

I am happy to hear other people saying GET UP AND DO SOMETHING besides me.

I just posted about this on the occupy the law blog, but its real important that people realize and acknowledge that just sitting in front of your computer and copy pasting other peoples words dont make you anything.. but a copy and paster.

Even if you are limited as to what you can do, theres plenty of free or cheap stuff to get attention for your cause.

FREE PETITIONS for advocacy for instance - find like minded people and start a campaign.

You already know theres a vast amount of free web sites - use them and connect - have a damn demonstration - do something besides bitch on a message board or facebook

GET UP.. if I do it, you can do it too. Everything is online now, you have no excuse.

Start the New Year with a renewed sense of purpose and get moving.

please

Writing the Screenplay Now

2011-12-25T16:42:00.000-08:00

I am making the trailer for "An American dissident" this coming week. If you have a story of corruption, bias, injustice and flat out criminal behavioor by US courts, send it to my you tube channel. "occupy the law". Send me a message in You Tube stating that you will allow me to use that footage, Ill respond.
Thanks!

Film The Police

2011-12-13T10:38:00.001-08:00

Bloggers Beware

2011-12-11T15:07:00.000-08:00

Read the full story HERE

Crystal Cox, a self-described "investigative blogger," was sued for libel by Obsidian Financial Group and one of its executives, Kevin Padrick, after Cox wrote that some of their business practices were "illegal" and "fraudulent."
As part of the discovery process, Obsidian demanded to know the identity of the confidential sources Cox said she had relied on in the course of reporting her story. The trial was to be held in Oregon, and she invoked that state's shield law, which gives journalists a limited ability to protect their sources.
Judge Hernandez ruled that Cox was not a journalist and so therefore could not rely on the shield law. But he added that it wouldn't have mattered anyway, because even a traditional news organization would be required to give up its anonymous sources if the plaintiff in a libel suit demanded that information. Hernandez pointed out that the Oregon shield law contains specific language preventing news organizations from using the law as a way of defending themselves against a libel suit.
The Supreme Court has always been clear that the First Amendment is for all of us, not just for credentialed journalists. In fact, in the 1972 case of Branzburg v. Hayes the court ruled that journalists could not claim a constitutional privilege to protect their sources precisely because "liberty of the press is the right of the lonely pamphleteer ... just as much as of the large metropolitan publisher." And what is a blogger in 2011 other than today's lonely pamphleteer?

Word of advice - Even if you have the evidence, make sure you specifically state that the story you are writing is your observation and opinion.

UGH.. the Most awful time of the year

2011-12-10T08:45:00.000-08:00

Personal Post today -

You would think all the phone monkeys would know not to call asking for money at this particular time of the year. What? Are you all crazy?

Sick sick and sick.. I think the Post Office is the most infected place on the face of the earth.

Wondering if my writ will go through... wondering if my Motion for Reconsideration, and Motion to Amend the Complaint will fly. Not really worried, but wondering if Ill have a ton of work to do along with all this seasons .. uhhh.. expletives deleted.

The new and better way to spam - pretend to write a comment that actually relates to the subject matter, but incloude your asshole link to your asshole product so you think you can sneak your asshole comment through the spam filter.

Nope - I dont have time to go through all this trash , so I had to set all my blogs to "no comments".

The Finest Judges Money Can Buy

2011-12-08T09:52:00.000-08:00

Excerpt :

The Finest Judges Money Can Buy AND OTHER FORMS OF JUDICIAL POLLUTION Published in 1973, this book by Charles R. Ashman documents 74 cases of judges who took bribes, kickbacks and payoffs, and who appointed relatives and political cronies to lucrative positions as receivers and executors who in turn bled the resources of near-bankrupt corporations and estates for personal gain. Reprinted below are the prologue and introductory statements to the first eight chapters of the book, which should be consulted for details of individual cases.

No surprise here, Ive witnessed this and experienced it firsthand. In my case(s), they dont even try to hide it.

Trump And Newt Want To Set Up ‘The Apprentice’ For Poor Kids

2011-12-06T16:47:00.000-08:00

Newt Gingrich is doubling down on what began as a bizarre plank of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination: putting poor children to work. On Monday, Gingrich followed in his fellow candidates’ footsteps by meeting with Donald Trump, and in a press conference afterward, announced a new program to make poor inner-city children in New York apprentices.
Trump gave some vague facts about the program, with little indication of what it would actually entail: “[Newt] did mention if I could do something for some of the kids in very, very poor schools throughout the city, I thought it was a great idea. We call it an apprenticeship and we all know about the apprentice. We’re going to be picking ten young wonderful children and we’re going to make them apprentices. We’re going to have fun with it. It will be something that will prove results. I thought it was a great idea. It was Newt’s idea.”
Over the last few weeks, Gingrich has drawn both praise and scorn for his support of rolling back some child labor so that poor children can work. Last week in Iowa, Gingrich explainedthat poor children had no opportunity to learn a work ethic in their communities, and that they could be paid to be, for example, assistant janitors in their schools. “They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash’-unless it’s illegal,” Gingrich explained.
At the press conference, Newt reiterated this point, framing it as a choice between welfare and work: “I think that the issue is food stamps versus paychecks. Every state in the country will be in play and I intend to run as the paycheck candidate.” He continued, implying that what is holding poor children back is a poor work ethic:
“We need to work very hard to help poor children in poor neighborhoods acquire opportunities to work and I have asked him to take one of the poorer schools in new york and basically offer at least ten apprenticeships to kids from that school to get them into the world of work and get them into an opportunity to earn money and get them into the habit of showing up and realizing that effort gets rewarded and that America is all about the work ethic.”
This kind of rhetoric is scorned on the left but is very appealing to audiences on the right. Relaxing labor laws appeals to the anti-regulation, libertarian leanings of many conservatives. Moreover, it reiterates the classic conservative argument that welfare harms the poor by making them lazy — a key tenet of welfare reform in the 1990s, of which Newt often boasts.
Today, New Hampshire’s Union Leader, which endorsed Gingrich in November, joined other conservatives commentators who approve of Gingrich’s ‘put poor kids to work’ plan, defending it in their editorial pages: “Gingrich is only talking about putting common sense back into the child labor laws so minors can learn work habits that will serve them later in life. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

Greg Palast Teach-In

2011-12-04T08:44:00.000-08:00

Greg Palast Teach-InSubmitted by Julie Lewis on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:03pm When: Friday, December 9, 2011 - 7:00pmWhere: 2640 St Paul Street, Baltimore MD 21218
WHY OCCUPY?Teach-In and Book Signing: An Evening with Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an award-winning investigator of corporate fraud andracketeering, and the author of "Vultures' Picnic," "Armed Madhouse,"and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."
“The most important investigative reporter of our time.” --Tribune Magazine
Free and Open to the Public. Donations Welcome! Refreshments will be sold.
Greg Palast’s talk will be followed by a Q and A, discussion, and book signing.
Co-sponsored by:B-HEARD(Baltimore Higher Education Alliance for REAL Democracy)and Red Emma's Bookstore

Guaranteed Access To The Courts - no more no more

2011-12-02T07:41:00.000-08:00

America was created by people who understood that power unchecked is power abused. That’s why we have separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, and the right to a day in court.
For the past several years, however, many of those with power – in both the public and private sectors – have had few restraints. They could only be held accountable in the courts. So they unleashed an unprecedented, calculated, and fundamentally un-American attack: step by step, in area after area, they started trying to eliminate access to the courts – and, ultimately, justice itself.
That has not stopped. Look around. Throughout America, corporate wrongdoers are amending their consumer, employment, and investors’ contracts to explicitly ban individual and class action litigation. They’re working daily to expand federal preemption, mandatory arbitration, and court secrecy to preclude many suits and bury the rest.
Meanwhile, the federal government and state legislatures are increasingly considering regulations and legislation that would bar court access and eliminate Americans’ rights. We cannot let that happen.

Read More Here>

Suit for Conspiracy to Deny Citizens Access to an Impartial Court and Jury Trial.

2011-11-30T15:16:00.000-08:00

Access to the courts - this is what we all need to do:

Press Release: Suit for Conspiracy to Deny Citizens Access to an Impartial Court and Jury Trial.Written by IsidoroRDL World News Jun 30, 2011 0diggsdigg ShareThis Press Release is a public service to alert all citizens of the on going corrosion to the rule of law under the U.S. constitutional system of justice by a coup d’etat of an oligarch in Washington, D.C., that heretofore has been unaccountable which is one of the, if not, the leading cause of the economic and political crises which Republic and citizens now confront.
Irene and Isidoro Rodriguez filed on June 28, 2011, a civil complaint against an interstate criminal conspiracy by the oligarch of government employees and attorneys at IRS and DOJ, Federal and Virginia judges acting outside of their scope of authority, in collusion with Beltway Lobbyists/Attorneys, by the evidence of denial to citizens of access to an impartial court and civil jury trial by treason and misprision of the felony of treason in violation of Art. IV § 4 of the U.S. Const. and the Void Order Doctrine, Irene Rodriguez et al v. Douglas Shulman and Sea Search Armada et al, Dist. Ct. DC #11-cv-01183(JEB)(see http://home.earthlink.net/~treason).
As detailed in the civil complaint the criminal conspiracy is in violation of §1203(b) of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, (26 U.S.C. §7804, notes), 26 U.S.C. §§ 7214, 7431, and 7433 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the Racketeering Influenced and Corruption Organization Act (“R.I.C.O.”) 18 U.S.C. §§ 1962 ( c) & (d), and 1964( c), and Bivens v. Six Unknown Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971)(“Bivens”). This criminal conspiracy began in 2003 in retaliation for Isidoro Rodriguez’s litigation and petitions to Congress to enforce his rights as a father (see http://www.liamsdad.org/others/isidoro.shtml), and for the law offices related civil litigation to protect the rights of all nonresident US/Colombian citizens against unlawful/negligent acts of DOJ employees and attorneys (see Martinez v. Lamagno and DEA, 515 U.S. 417 (1995) (case confirmed right of access to Art. III courts to review Attorney General scope of an employment letter issued to a DEA employee driving in Barranquilla, Colombia, negligently while DUI and having sex).
Since then, the interstate criminal conspiracy has been compounded to deprive Irene and Isidoro Rodriguez their property rights in the business of their law office (including rights to choate VA Attorney’s Lien client’s $17 Billion claim to treasure trove (see Sea Search Armada v. Republic of Colombia, DC #1–cv-01083(JEB)), and their right to self-employment as independent pro hoc vice attorneys serving the public (see http://home.earthlink.net/~malfeasance).
Isidoro Rodriguez Dra. Irene RodriguezMember the Ct of App for the Federal Circuit Attorney admitted in Rep. of Colombia

THE LAW OFFICES OF ISIDORO RODRIGUEZATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW
Northern Virginia Office: South American Office:7924 Peyton Forest Trail World Trade CenterAnnandale, Virginia 22003-1560 Calle 76 No. 54-11, Suite 313Telephone: 571.423.5066 Barranquilla, ColombiaMobil: 703.470.1457 Telephone: 011.5753.605288 E-mail: isidoror@earthlink.net RESUME OF WORK HISTORY:http://www.4jobs.com/1114836

Whisleblower - Targeting corporate heads

2011-11-28T16:05:00.000-08:00

From; http://www.ober.com/publications/1595-nonprofit-alert-can-effective-whistleblower-policy-prevent-misconduct

Truly effective whistleblower and investigative policies can reduce the risk of harm to individual victims and prevent monetary damages and reputational harm. Why should this be personally important to managers of nonprofits and other organizations?

Recent events suggest that the government and private claimants will increasingly target individual members of senior management or the board of directors who have knowledge of illegal activity within their organization but fail to act. The Department of Justice has begun to more aggressively use the “responsible corporate officer” theory, alternately known as the Park Doctrine, to hold executives liable for activity occurring on their watch.1

There is no reason to believe the Park Doctrine will be limited to FDCA cases. The Department of Justice has indicated that prosecutions of responsible corporate officers will increase in the health care and public safety areas. This trend is likely to spillover into the financial sector as well. Nonprofits and academic institutions may not be immune to its reach.

1 The decision of the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Park, 421 U.S. 658 (1975) is viewed as the seminal case upholding the propriety of the responsible corporate officer doctrine.