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The U.S. Legal System (a.k.a. the World's Largest Crime Syndicate) Wastes Your Tax Dollars

2026-03-29T13:30:58-07:00

As I prove in chapter one of my second book, which can be read here, the U.S. legal system is in fact the world's largest crime syndicate in terms of both money and personnel. But not only is it expert with regard to committing crimes, it also excels at wasting tax dollars. As a conservative estimate regarding its fight against me over the last several years, it has wasted more than $1,000,000 of your money. But the party is not over. It will likely waste millions more.

Because its members have committed at least twenty-two felonies against me in order to steal $1.2 million in money and property from me and my family, I have gone on a rampage, if you will. This is because, despite the twelve chances I've given the syndicate to do the right thing in various courts across the nation, it has continued to try to block me.....and justice. I gave it eleven chances too many. One should have been more than enough. Therefore, I began phase one of the assault around October of last year.

As I always do when I am about to take remedial action, I warned them prior to this. They ignored the warning just like they ignored the warning about me listing their names and offenses in my second book before it was published. The object of this phase was to flood the syndicate's servers with many bytes of data daily, and to continually increase the amount of data every time its members try to block me, which is now more than 10 GB each day and totals well over a terabyte as of this writing, in order to force them to deliver justice—and stop committing crimes. After all, they've proved at least twelve times now that I will not be allowed to litigate in court—and for the obvious reason: I would absolutely.....crush.....them.

Third-party filing software used by the syndicate provides the added bonus of being able to designate email recipients to be sent an email with each filing, so I serve two of the criminals—Michael Paul Vicencia and Elwood Lui—with each filing I submit. Their email and home addresses, along with their phone numbers, can be found on this page. The contact information for about 2,000 judges can also be found there. So, in addition to about a dozen workers trying to keep up with me at just one court, the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, by deleting all my filings so that their server doesn't fill up and crash, two black-gown-clad criminals get their email boxes filled with messages as well.

Keep in mind that the criminals don't have the luxury of blocking the domain like they could if I had sent the messages from my own webserver. This is because they would cause the domain to be blacklisted if they marked the messages as "spam," which would interfere with the ability of other branches of the syndicate (courts) to conduct efiling operations. Also, even though the syndicate contacts the third-party software company daily to have them close my account, they can't permanently block me since the big internet-based email providers, Gmail, for example, allow users to create an infinite number of alias accounts specifically for signing up for online services. This is perfect because every time the syndicate tries to block me, I simply create a new account: <myusername>+stop-crime<X>@gmail.com and just increment the numerical "X" value for each one, which saves me a lot of time.

Phase two kicked in just this month. It is a cumulative attack including all of phase 1. But, in addition to the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, I now also flood two other state courts in BIG Blue with inordinate amounts of data. Like the other third-party provider, the one used by these two also allows email recipients to receive notifications of filings; however, this software additionally allows the actual documents to be served to the recipient, not just links, provided the attachment is not too large. This is an even greater bonus than the previous because it allows mailboxes to fill much faster.

Phase three will commence on April 1, no joke. This phase will include elements of both previous phases, but also add fax-bombing to the mix. Although most or all courts use a virtual fax system nowadays, it still will be yet another channel that they will try relentlessly to clear. Phase four kicks in on May 1 and will once again be cumulative of the previous three. The reason for the increasing attack is because my original offer to settle with the syndicate in November of last year was a mere $10,000 plus return of the stolen condo and wiping out the fraudulent debt. Again, I warned these criminals that the dollar figure would double each month. It is therefore currently $160,000 until the end of this month before doubling again to $320,000 next month. The pain must increase with the cost; otherwise, the syndicate will have no incentive to settle.

Estimate of Wasted Tax Dollars: by the Numbers

The Department of Injustice (DOI) Liar/Lawyer ($45,000)

Kristin Tavia Mihelic, the attorney/criminal for the DOI, after having previously communicated directly or indirectly with another criminal, Joseph Leonard Michaud, decided to fraudulently and criminally block the discharge of the fraudulent debt Michaud created against me. I was assessed "sanctions" for following the law and exposing crime. Mihelic filed motions for sanctions totaling about $10,000, but the hours wasted at 341 meetings, telephonic hearings, and whatnot easily consumed $25,000 of taxpayer funds. Appellate attorneys for the syndicate also got involved and increased costs further as did emails sent to me from disposable email accounts threatening me and then asking me politely to remove the aforementioned contact information.

Tracking the "Terrorist" ($300,000)

My emails now get tracked all over the world, with my messages being read thousands of times nationally and internationally, since the syndicate now considers me a "terrorist" for trying to force justice out of it. To make the call to Google, which folded up like an old card table and complied, and get the tracking mechanism underway had to take several members several hours. Add to this the time for post analysis of my messages, data crunching and data storage overhead, IT support, and more, the cost must be exorbitant.

The Arrival of Domestic Terrorists ($10,000)

Federal agents have arrived where I live on at least three occasions. The last time I interacted with Satan's right hand personally was in 2024 when I was on my way to the airport and, for the first time in approximately twenty departures from the particular airport, coincidentally could not get through security after telling the terrorists to pound sand and arriving at the airport more than an hour later. About ten of them appeared the day after I flooded the syndicate with 10,000 emails to thirty black-gown-clad criminals. Incidentally, this number is easily dwarfed by the 200,000 emails they received this past weekend, courtesy of third-party filing software. Planning and coordinating these events plus the actual on-site/surveillance time had to consume a minimum of 100 man-hours.

"Solution" to the Problem ($200,000)

Both Pamela Bondi and Kashyap Patel were on the email distribution during phase 2. Both have now changed their email addresses because of me. So, their solution to the problem is not to fix it, but instead, to hide from it. Changing an email address at the upper echelons of government is certainly no small task. Internal and external contact lists across the entire government have to be modified, the IT department must get involved, and other logistics must be addressed. The waste of tax dollars associated with this has to be at least six figures.

Miscellaneous Costs ($600,000)

There are, of course, the proportionate salaries of the thirty or so glorified lawyers who ruled against me and committed innumerable crimes by doing so and the salaries of the lawyers who were paid to protect them from criminal/civil liability in my lawsuits. The time it takes them to delete my voice mails—at least 25,000 to date—also adds up quickly. Moreover, there are supply chain, administrative, storage, and other costs associated with hiding their crimes that I can only estimate with rather rough accuracy. Every time I filed something with the syndicate, I guarantee several members communicated behind the scenes in order to devise a scheme to defeat me, that is, violate rules of procedure, civil and criminal laws, and the Constitution in order to reach their pre-determined ruling or judgment. There are many other costs associated with fighting someone who fights as hard as I do. Only the ones I can reasonably see have been mentioned here.

Summary

Adding the previous figures yields $1.15 million. Assuming the syndicate continues to foolishly fight me for another thirty years, the grand total of tax dollars lost will approach $7 million since they've fought me for at least six years and will then additionally fight me for five times longer. Understand that I've repeatedly offered to come to the table and negotiate with these criminals—something they have absolutely refused to do. If they were paying out of pocket instead of having an essentially infinite supply of taxpayer funding, they'd be singing a different tune. What I've offered the criminals is really a great deal for them for at least five reasons:

None of them have to admit any guilt.
None of them, therefore, will see the inside of a prison cell like they should.
All the fraudulent court records get to stay in place as they are, so they can all pretend they won.
I won't ever get the opportunity to be in front of a jury.....and thus crucify them all by exposing their crimes to the public and media, which I assure you, will be in full force at trial.
I will stop hammering the piss out of them.

I should also mention the dollars wasted at the expense of the Massachusetts taxpayers' backs on criminal-Michaud's salary. Rather than prosecuting him in 2018 for multiple felony violations when he was an attorney, the syndicate's "punishment" was to appoint him state judge and force the citizens of that state to waste over one million of their tax dollars to pay this criminal's salary.

Now for the knockout punch: based purely on empirical data, I can say, at the 95 percent confidence level with a 5 percent margin of error, that 92 percent of judges in Amerika are criminals. This translates into $2.3 billion tax dollars being tossed into the trashcan annually, based on a conservatively estimated $125,000 yearly salary for 18,000 judges—those who statistically act criminally of approximately 20,000 total—to commit crimes against us. It also translates into even more money being trashed for the benefit of government attorneys to defend them whenever they are sued for wrongdoing.....so they can continue victimizing others. If you do not like billions of your tax dollars being wasted each year, and you shouldn't, when only a small fraction would otherwise be necessary to prosecute these criminal offenders—Michaud in my case since the ongoing fiasco over the last decade would have ended years ago and without other judge-criminals committing crimes to cover for his—I urge you to contact your representatives in Congress and complain to them about it!

Should You Ask for a Court Filing Fee Waiver?

2026-02-22T19:26:33-08:00

One consideration people must make when fighting in our illustrious legal system is whether to proceed pro se, that is, without a lawyer. Another important choice to be made is whether to file any civil matter with a request for a fee waiver if you qualify. This second decision is the topic of this post.

For people receiving some sort of state aid—food, medical, housing, etc.—getting a fee waiver to file a civil court case is almost a given. One need typically only file an online form and send it to the syndicate. This is true at both the state and federal levels.

But in the federal syndicate—and possibly in some state syndicates—asking for and being granted the filing/service of process fee waiver allows the syndicate to flush your civil action before it ever gets out of the starting gate. There is plenty of case law related to this, which is based on 28 U.S. Code § 1915(e)(2)(B), but that’s beyond the scope of this post. The reasons to file or not to file under this statute are many and are discussed below.

If you want to all but ensure that you will be able to at least get to the point of serving the defendants in your case, then not filing under such a waiver should allow you to do so even if you qualify. Keep in mind, however, that the syndicate—U.S. federal court branch—may still try to “pull one over” on you. I know one person who wanted to be assured he would be able to serve a myriad of defendants in his case, so he paid the outrageous filing fee even though he easily qualified for proceeding in forma pauperis, as it’s called, because those same defendants were responsible for impoverishing him by stealing his home, retirement, and life savings in one fell swoop.

Despite all the supporting case law disallowing the syndicate from immediately dismissing his case, the criminals tried to do it anyway. The magistrate judge-criminal cited bogus case law and inapposite rules and other nonsense in order to try to flush the case illegally, which, incidentally, is obstruction of justice and is a felony. As so often happens, the syndicate will break all the rules and laws and see if the pro se litigant catches it. If he doesn’t, then the syndicate pockets a quick few hundred dollars and clears the docket of yet another annoying pro se litigant’s case.

In this instance, I helped this person and pointed out that the magistrate was full of sh!t and was attempting to wrongly dismiss the matter under false pretenses. After filing an objection, the syndicate restored the case; however, it managed to flush his case later for other unjustified reasons as was its intention all along. Regardless, the syndicate did manage to swindle several other self-represented litigants by using the highly improper attempted flushing of this person’s case as precedent to justify its thievery on other unsuspecting victims by taking their filing fees and then immediately flushing their cases. If you do not find this outrageous, then you clearly do not have a pulse.....or you are part of the syndicate, but if the latter is the case, then you would not likely be reading this post in the first place.

Another reason to pay the filing fee would be more of an altruistic one. Each segment of the syndicate is allowed a certain pool of money to allocate to the needy. Every dollar used in your case would theoretically not be available to some other poor person in that same district. Possibly another reason to pay the fee would be to demand that it be fully refunded if the syndicate refuses to follow its own rules and laws. The only time the syndicate follows its own rules and laws is when it’s convenient or when not doing so would otherwise hit one of its members in the wallet or the time clock. That’s it.

I know someone who paid the filing fee and is asking for a refund because of the rampant corruption he is experiencing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circus. He has reached out to the U.S. Supreme Syndicate judge responsible for that district, Amy Coney Barrett. If everyone who has been victimized by the syndicate did this, it would then have a strong reason to actually follow its own rules and laws.

There are probably other reasons to pay filing fees, but let’s move on to the corollary: reasons not to pay. One good reason is to put the syndicate in a position in which it would have skin in the game. Some case law allows for the prepayment of filing and service of process fees, not a complete waiver, with the stipulation that if the litigant is successful with the suit, the syndicate is repaid its up-front costs. If syndicate members have any financial interest in a proceeding whatsoever, they should be far less likely to predetermine the outcome against you in cases concerning smaller sums.

When there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and someone on the other side bribes the judge an amount greater than the prepaid fees, then all bets are off. Again, the syndicate is motivated by two things: evil and money. If someone comes along with a more lucrative deal than yours, say goodbye to your case.

If your matter has reached the appellate level, one strong reason not to pay the filing fee is that you would essentially be helping the syndicate rob you otherwise. If you qualify for a fee waiver and ask the appellate syndicate for one, but it declines on the basis that your appeal is "frivolous," which the criminals love to claim with regard to the overwhelming majority of pro se litigants or any others it doesn't like, what they are essentially telling you is that they're going to flush your case no matter what. If you pay the outrageous fee, the minute the opposing party files anything—if not sooner—the syndicate will hit the reject button on your entire case, and it will be sayonara to your money.

Finally, one of the remaining reasons to ask for a fee waiver is to hammer the syndicate later. Whenever their online filing system is hosted by third-party software, which is almost universal these days, this makes it virtually impossible for them to cut off your access to online filing. Several providers exist nationally that provide electronic filing services for the syndicate: TrueFiling, Tyler Technologies, and more.

By applying for and receiving a fee waiver, I’ve been able to dox the syndicate with 10 to 15GB of data each day, and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. If your lawsuit is illegally dismissed because of crime and corruption, having access to online filing will allow you to pummel these criminals into submission. Additionally, if I had not applied for the waiver, I would have wasted more than $1,000,000 to date in filing fees.

By the way, it is still possible to file electronically without a fee waiver being granted for an existing case if the filing software allows for new case generation along with the submission of an accompanying fee waiver. This is how I'm flooding the syndicate as stated earlier even though my "electronic filing privileges have been revoked." I really do not care. The syndicate is never going to let me litigate anyway. Once crime and corruption entered the picture, there's no way they'd let this happen. It's corrupt members will do everything they can to keep me away from a jury.

One thing I absolutely refuse to do—and I tell others this too—is pay criminals to commit crimes against me. Granted, our tax dollars are still being used to pay them to commit crimes.....and pay other government lawyers to protect them from suit so they can continue to victimize others, but at least you are not directly paying them to essentially punch you in the face.

If you think of other reasons to pay or not pay the filing and service of process fees, leave them in the comments below. I’ve covered the main ones here, but there may be other specialized reasons. Remember that we are waging a war against these criminals. Nobody is going to save us but ourselves, and the sooner we can unite behind one giant consolidated front, the better off we will all be as litigants who receive real justice.

Incidentally, Sara and I would like to let readers know that our blog has been rated the best anti-corruption blog out of well over one thousand in the nation. We are honored to have been bestowed this distinction and will continually try to meet the requisite standards by doing our best to fight corruption in the American "justice" system every day.

New Laws in 2026

2026-01-25T15:47:37-08:00

Another year, another laundry list of new laws across the United States. Many address serious matters such as public safety, healthcare, education, and consumer protection. But every year, a handful of new laws stand out not because they are controversial or sweeping, but because they are downright strange when reduced to a headline. We are going to share some of the craziest ones below.

California leads the nation in laws that sound bizarre out of context.

Fortified Tortillas (AB 1264): Commercially sold corn masa flour (used for tortillas and tamales) must now be fortified with folic acid to reduce birth defects.
Cat Declawing Ban (AB 867): It is now illegal to declaw a cat statewide except for rare medical necessities. To animal welfare advocates, it’s a long overdue protection against an inhumane practice. To casual observers skimming a list of new laws, it reads like the government suddenly decided it needed to intervene in household pet grooming.
Rental Refrigerator Mandate (AB 628): In Los Angeles and across California, landlords are now legally required to provide and maintain a working refrigerator and stove in rental units, ending a long-standing L.A. tradition where renters often had to buy their own.
AI Disclosure: Large platforms must now explicitly disclose when a user is interacting with an AI chatbot.
Smartphone Restrictions: Public schools must adopt policies to limit or ban student smartphone use on campus by July 2026.

Utah, ID for Everyone

Mandatory ID Checks: In an effort to curb drunk driving, all customers in Utah restaurants and bars must now show identification before being served alcohol, regardless of their age.
"No Alcohol Sale" IDs: Individuals convicted of "extreme DUI" (BAC of 0.16%+) must surrender their standard licenses for a replacement with a prominent red stripe and the words "No Alcohol Sale."

Georgia, Patriotic Plates

"America First" License Plates: Georgia has introduced a new specialty license plate featuring the American flag and the words "America First." It costs $90 for the first year.

Hawaii, the Earth Tax

Climate Change Tourism Tax: Hawaii is the first state to implement a "Green Fee," a 0.75% daily room rate tax on tourist lodging specifically to fund climate resilience projects like beach replenishment.

Texas, Parental Consent for App Stores

In this state, new regulations surrounding age verification and parental consent for app stores have sparked intense debate. Critics say the law sounds like a dystopian overreach, while supporters frame it as child protection in a digital age. Either way, the idea of the government monitoring who can download apps has generated more than a few raised eyebrows.

Washington, Minimum Wage

Washington's minimum wage rose to $17.13 per hour, becoming the first state to exceed the $17 threshold.

Illinois, Job Protection

New parents with newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) now have expanded job-protected leave.

Maine, Subscription Law

Maine now requires that canceling a subscription must be as easy as signing up for it.

Additionally, nine U.S. states have shopping cart laws in place, with hefty fees for breaking them. Shopping carts are a hot commodity according to statistics, with a shocking two million carts stolen on an annual basis. This costs U.S. retailers roughly $175 million in annual replacement and repair costs. With one shopping cart stolen every 90 seconds, according to Supermarket News, the widespread issue burdens stores with both financial and operational challenges. Consumers who steal shopping carts are often driven by factors such as personal use, convenience, resale and homelessness. They don’t always walk away unscathed, however, as three actions constitute illegal cart use and are subject to civil and criminal charges.

The rise of silly-sounding laws reflect how deeply government now reaches into daily life. As society becomes more complex, regulation follows. Lawmakers are no longer just setting tax rates and criminal penalties; they’re navigating food science, algorithms, consumer psychology, and cultural pluralism. That complexity makes modern lawmaking easier to parody and harder to explain.

Now, more than ever, Americans need to stay informed about and protected from our legal system, particularly with orders of magnitude more laws being introduced than repealed. One of the best ways to stay informed about is to read a copy of our book, Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor, available in libraries nationwide, on Kindle Unlimited, and for purchase on our website. We've said for a long time that for every new law that gets added, more than one needs to be removed until the number of laws on the books is reduced to a reasonable number at which time it can be a one-for-one exchange of new laws coming in with those going out. As it is, there is significant overlap with innumerable laws in this country.

Pamela Bondi and Kash Patel—Both Opportunists and Criminals

2025-12-28T13:45:35-08:00

Honestly, I had high hopes—but not high expectations—once this administration took office. The promise of taking back the country, easing the burdens on everyday people, and prosecuting criminals in the world’s largest crime syndicate (the U.S. legal system, and hereinafter “syndicate”), were refreshing concepts. Love President Trump or hate him, he seemed to be surrounding himself with people who were the right fit for their respective positions. In early March of this year, I reached out to both Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.

Frankly, I don’t give a sh!t about the drug war. I don’t care one bit about what people purposefully do to themselves. What I do care about is what people do to other people—such as the criminals in black gowns who commit innumerable crimes every day in every court in every state to deliberately destroy other people’s lives without any repercussions to themselves or their friends whatsoever. This is what absolutely must be stopped.

While the big PR machine makes it seem like Bondi, Patel, and others responsible for judicial oversight in this administration are doing meaningful things with our tax dollars, nothing would be more meaningful than attacking and dismantling the syndicate, which is a multi-billion-dollar yearly industry that is off-the-rails corrupt. I might be only one person who has been negatively impacted by criminal activity within the syndicate to the tune of more than $1,000,000, but cumulatively, other Americans have similarly been robbed of orders of magnitude more.

AG Bondi and Mr. Patel were sent letters by U.S. mail and by email. I know one email was read by AG Bondi (or a member of her staff who has access to her email) because both Streak email tracking and Google Analytics revealed so. The message to pamela.j.bondi@usdoj.gov was read on April 10 and July 4. More than half a year is plenty of time to take action, yet only inaction has been taken—or more precisely, no corrective action has been taken. Rest assured the syndicate is still trying relentlessly to figure out a way to take me down, particularly how the hell they can do it without putting me in front of a jury. My mother’s email sent on April 10 of this year was as follows:

Dear Attorney General Bondi:

My son wrote to you just about a month ago on March 1, 2025. He had modest hopes he’d either hear from you or from one of the other two people in the administration whom he contacted by U.S. mail. Sadly, he has not heard anything from anyone. Unfortunately, he has been forced to file a major lawsuit against approximately 70,304 defendants—99.997 percent of whom are affiliated with the federal branch of the U.S. legal system.

Incidentally, he refers to the U.S. legal system as the world’s largest crime syndicate and actually proves that it is in chapter 1 of his second book, Our American Injustice System: A Toxic Waste Dump Also Known as the World’s Largest Crime Syndicate. He is suing every lawyer and judge in the federal branch as you will see in the civil complaint linked below.

My condominium has been stolen, and $2,200 per month has been and continues to be stolen from my son by corrupt/criminal state and federal government actors and their minions. At least twenty-two felony statutes—more than sixty statutory laws all told—have been violated by these individuals in order to do both. My son is not too happy about any of this and, quite frankly, is about as pissed as any person can possibly get. The domestic terrorists (federal agents) have showed up where he lives on multiple occasions already. He tells them—in words—to pound sand each time. Rather than rightly prosecuting the offenders, they are wrongly searching for ways to manufacture bogus charges against him. He is more furious than a tiger after poking it with a sharp stick!

You said on March 24, 2025, “If you’ve committed fraud, we’re coming after you.” I sincerely hope you will remain true to your word. There are dozens of defendants associated with massive fraud in case number 25LBCV00245 that my son filed in the California Superior Court, of which the associated complaint and summons can be accessed via this link. Many of the offenders should be on their way to prison—or more accurately, already be there.

This letter along with the preceding link is official service of process for the lawsuit. I’m truly hoping that instead of fighting against justice and my son you will fight for justice and my son—and not protect these criminals by further wasting tax dollars to defend them.....so that they can continue on their corrupt course and inflict injury upon other innocent victims. For you or anyone else in your office to do so would be beyond outrageous! Incredibly, my son is still open to having a conversation about creating and then leading MAJA in order to fix the top problem ever to plague this once great nation as he mentioned in his correspondence last month, but regrets that it had to come to this.

I will be [redacted] years of age on my next birthday.
Anxiously awaiting a reply,
I remain,
Norma Oliver
[address redacted]
[phone number redacted]

My mother's statement about AG Bondi claiming, “If you’ve committed fraud, we’re coming after you,” is 100 percent true. I saw and heard her make this statement in a video seemingly recorded at the White House. What she forgot to add was: "Unless you work for the Department of Injustice, then it's perfectly OK to commit fraud." This was obviously just a slight omission on Bondi's part. Many of the criminals in my lawsuit linked in the next paragraph work for the DOI. Others are glorified unelected lawyers in black gowns.

I’m convinced that nearly everyone who assumes a position of power is nothing more than an opportunist—saying what the public wants to hear but not doing anything remedial that would benefit the population at large and with the ultimate objective of obtaining more money and more power. By ignoring the letters and emails that were sent, Ms. Bondi and Mr. Patel have proved themselves to be criminals according to 18 U.S. Code § 4 and Branzburg v. Hayes 408 U.S. 665 (1972). Support for this fact can be found on page 4 of stloiyf.com/case.html.

If my gracious offer to fix the entire nation free of charge was not enough to garner the attention of just one of the dozens to whom I’ve reached out, there’s truly no hope of redemption. The syndicate has fallen too far down the abyss to save it. I wish I could report more glimmering news. Sadly, I can’t.

Shootings of Two National Guard Troops near the White House: Is Militarization a Factor?

2025-11-30T16:16:36-08:00

Troops do not belong on our streets. The ACLU, Common Defense, and the Chamberlain Network join these veterans on Capitol Hill, where they’re urging all our elected representatives to stop the Trump administration’s misuse of the military. We know that putting troops in our communities for political purposes breaks public trust and is disrespectful to their service.

This mobilization on Capitol Hill is a seminal moment for those pushing back on the Trump administration’s abuses of power. This year marks the 250th birthday of the Army, Marines, and Navy. We can’t let our armed forces, which were created to defend our liberties, devolve into an arm of someone’s political pursuits. But that’s what we have seen take place this year. President Donald Trump and his administration have sent troops into our communities and enacted policies that roll back civil rights progress.

Already we’ve seen President Trump federalize National Guard troops and other service members to cities under the guise of keeping communities safe. Often, this is happening without the consent of state governors and officials.

Military Troops Do Not Belong on Our Streets

As commander in chief, President Trump also took an oath to protect the Constitution. In the United States, the federal military should not be used for domestic law enforcement. That is a fundamental principle embodied in the Posse Comitatus Act, one that helps separate our democracy from dictatorships abroad. History shows what happens when we cross that line. The tragedy at Ohio’s Kent State University in 1970 when National Guard troops shot at student demonstrators, proves that putting military troops in our communities can result in disastrous consequences. National Guard troops should be reserved for genuine emergencies, not deployed to our cities to serve the president’s political whims. Kent State continues to serve as a reminder of what happens when we comingle military troops and policing of civilians.

President Trump’s ongoing use of militarized force is not about safety; it’s about asserting power. Over the summer, his administration sent troops and armed federal agents into Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. His administration continues to threaten to send them to Chicago and Portland despite objections from city and state leaders. Military troops—and armed federal agents in masks who appropriate military uniforms—do not make our communities safer or safeguard our rights. These deployments erode the public’s trust in a non-partisan military when our neighbors struggle to understand why troops are patrolling their communities, or to distinguish between National Guard and federal agents. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents often wear military-style uniforms or gear, creating confusion that further erodes public trust. True safety comes from strong and supported communities, not from local militarization. That’s why so many veterans, active-duty service members, and military families have joined the ACLU and others in condemning these dangerous and escalatory actions.

One of the first to arrive after the shootings was Gary Goodweather, a Democratic candidate for next year’s mayoral election, who had been having lunch on Washington’s 14th Street when he learned of the shooting. A former U.S. army captain who served in the National Guard, Goodweather professed himself unsurprised, suggesting that Trump’s deployment of federal forces on the streets of Washington was an invitation to violence.

“If I’m completely honest, we’ve been expecting this. It hurts me to the core,” he said. “We knew that Trump was going to do this to the city. He tried to do it in his first administration. He knew what he was doing when he activated the National Guard. The National Guard should not have been in our city—period—for law enforcement.”

Asked if the Trump administration bore moral responsibility for the shooting by deploying the guards, Goodweather paused for several seconds before answering: “Yes. Look around us. These are citizens, they’re residents, they’re human beings. Activating the United States military against people within our own country, within Washington, D.C., is the wrong message.” Goodweather said he feared the administration would respond by increasing the troop deployments, which he said would “inflame” the mood on the streets.

“Please, do not let that occur,” he said. “Having a further enforced National Guard military presence is the opposite of what we need to do right now.” Defense secretary Pete Hegseth has since ordered 500 additional National Guard troops to the city at Trump’s request.

The Politicization of the Military Must Stop

Time and again, we’ve seen how, when the military crosses the line to civilian law enforcement, the fabric of our democracy decays. The Trump administration’s dangerous misuse of the military does not begin or end with troops deployed to our cities. It extends to the politicization of the military itself.

In September, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of senior military leaders to Quantico and delivered remarks attacking the principles of equity and accountability. President Trump followed with a disturbing address urging troops to use U.S. cities as “training grounds” to fight the “enemy within.” These are not the words of leaders strengthening national defense; this is a weaponization of the military that threatens our Constitution.

People are worried about possible political motivations behind the shootings, but many have tried to avoid apportioning blame. However, many residents were angry about what he called “the occupation” of the capital by federal troops. Resentment was aimed not at the National Guard but to other federal agents, who had been involved in arrests. The deployment of National Guard troops has been ongoing for many months, and we are hearing that it may go on until next year because of the supposed crime emergency, which many don’t buy for a second. The crime in D.C. is nothing like it once was.

Will Skynet Go Live Anytime Soon?

2025-10-26T12:20:36-07:00

To answer the blog's title, probably not. But Skynet's underlying premise of Artificial Intelligence has a strong possibility of having an equally insidious and detrimental impact upon humanity here in Amerika. The saying years ago—more accurately, decades now—was that a picture is worth a thousand words. More recently, a video was worth a million words. With the advent of AI, neither is any longer worth squat, to use a common vernacular.

Just the last couple of years have seen remarkable growth in the technology. While perfect for creating entertaining videos on YouTube and other such innocuous purposes, AI is almost certainly going to be used by the world’s largest crime syndicate—the U.S. legal system, or “syndicate” for short—for no good purposes. I predict AI will be used as just another tool for the syndicate to spin things the way it desires.

For example, any audio or video recordings made by the public—covertly or otherwise—of syndicate members either committing crimes or admitting to crimes will be deemed “AI generated” and thus not authentic by the syndicate in order for it to protect its members. Just as the law is now used as a tool to reach predetermined case outcomes—always to the syndicate’s advantage by ignoring statutes that incriminate it and recognizing statutes that don’t—so will AI technology be used, but the negative implications of it will be orders of magnitude more difficult to overcome. After all, how can one dispute what appears to be a genuine video that one sees with his or her own eyes?

The technology used to be easily spotted: people being rendered with extra fingers, skin having a plastic appearance, and whatnot, but now it is extremely difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. I watched what I thought was a real auto race recently, only to learn it was completely AI generated. If it can fool me, it can probably fool the majority of the population. And the scariest part of all is that the technology is still in its infancy.

I’ve never been wrong about a single prediction regarding anything the syndicate has done over the last decade or so, but I sure as hell hope I’m wrong this time. Think about it. The big push less than a decade ago was to have police officers wear body cameras so that they could no longer (easily) falsify police reports and other records. Now, with the advances in AI tech, they will probably be more likely not to “accidentally” turn off such cameras while on duty. No, they will be almost certain to leave them running constantly.....and then later edit the footage to reach their intended results.

Conversely, any exculpatory evidence John Q. Public provides in order to protect himself from these criminals will be easily altered by the syndicate to incriminate him. Then, a jury will be left to decide whose video is the real one: the defendant's version or the syndicate's. With a nearly infinite supply of taxpayer money, the syndicate will probably create “evidence” that will be nearly impossible to refute.

When these criminals want to attack someone, they will spare no expense, especially since they are not paying for it. I can personally vouch for this because I’d estimate the syndicate has wasted well over 3,000,000 tax dollars fighting me—rather than spending a fraction of that to prosecute the criminal offenders whom I fight daily.

It is already exceedingly difficult to fight the syndicate using its own weaponry. I’ve said for years that guerrilla warfare is the only way—and it is—but now AI will have the same impact upon increasing the syndicate’s power as fission had upon conventional warfare. The syndicate was already on the fast-track to hell, getting worse every day and at an accelerated pace. AI takes the acceleration to a whole new level.

I used to say believe your eyes and not your ears. Soon, we won’t be able to believe our eyes either—not with the syndicate pulling the strings in legal proceedings.....and having the power of AI behind it. Fortunately, for now anyway, we can at least believe what we see happening live, but there may come a day when we won’t be able to believe that either. Make no mistake; the syndicate will also use that technology—if and when it arises—to its advantage.

Incidentally, Sara and I would like to let readers know that our blog has been selected as one of the Top Ten Best Anti-Corruption Blogs out of well over one thousand worldwide. We are honored to have been bestowed this distinction and will continually try to meet the requisite standards by doing our best to fight corruption in the American "justice" system every day.

Why the FISA Court Is Bad for Americans

2025-09-28T10:38:56-07:00

The Justice Department ends up falsely prosecuting unknowing Americans by relying on surveillance powers known by the acronym FISA. The department says it cannot turn a blind eye to crimes it uncovers when scrutinizing someone for national security purposes even if those offenses weren’t the initial basis of the investigation. In recent years, inquiries that began with FISA warrants have yielded charges including child pornography and bank and wire fraud against countless Americans.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, commonly known as the “FISA Court” and created in 1978 to hear government surveillance requests in foreign intelligence matters, remains shrouded in secrecy. Judges can theoretically order prosecutors to share FISA information with defendants if they deem it necessary for challenging a search’s legality, but courts have consistently agreed with the government that disclosing the material could expose sensitive intelligence secrets. In Keith Gartenlaub’s case, then-Attorney General Eric Holder advised against disclosure.

Current and former officials say just because a FISA warrant produces charges other than national security ones doesn’t mean the target is no longer considered a national security threat. Sometimes, particularly when disrupting a terrorism plot, prosecutors may charge other crimes they find evidence of for fear of tipping the target’s conspirators to the investigation’s actual purpose.

But critics say building routine cases on evidence derived from FISA warrants undermines constitutional protections against unreasonable searches. And if the original surveillance application is riddled with errors, omissions, or outright falsities, they say, any resulting prosecution is tainted. Though some judges have raised concerns, no court has prohibited the practice, and the Supreme Court of the United States has never directly confronted the specific issue.

Critics have long complained about the one-sided nature of the process. Targets of the surveillance, for instance, are consistently denied copies of FISA applications, making it hard—if not impossible—for them to know the accuracy of the information given to the court, to learn why precisely prosecutors considered them a national security concern, and to contest the legitimacy of the search. FISA cases create a complete lack of transparency and due process for the accused "spies."

One prominent case concerns a former Boeing manager, Gartenlaub, who was targeted with a FISA warrant because agents suspected him of having helped China acquire information regarding a C-17 military transport plane. Agents using that warrant to search his computer files said they found images of child pornography. Prosecutors charged him with that but not with spying for China, something he adamantly denies.

He was convicted on the child pornography counts and released several years ago after nearly two years in prison, though he says the images weren’t his and were on an old computer multiple people who came in and out of his California beach house had access to. He has written the Justice Department inspector general asking for a review of his case and for help accessing the warrant application.

“FISA has become a way to circumvent due process in the legal system,” Gartenlaub said. “Anybody in my situation cannot defend themselves because you can’t see anything.”

A San Francisco-based federal appeals court upheld his conviction. But it also said a prosecution for “completely unrelated crimes discovered as a result of rummaging” through a computer “comes perilously close to the exact abuses against which the Fourth Amendment was designed to protect.” The April blog of this year covers Gartenlaub's case in more detail.

One major problem with the FISA Court is that it is shrouded in secrecy. Like many enacted laws, which are misused against innocent people, the FISA Court has nearly unlimited, secretive, and abusive power that can be and is also misused against innocent people. The FISA Court has been criticized for its secrecy, which has led to concerns about the absence of transparency and accountability of the surveillance practices it oversees. Critics argue that the court's non-adversarial nature and lack of public hearings prevent the people from gaining a clear understanding of the surveillance activities and the legal justifications behind them.

This has raised questions about the fairness and legality of the surveillance methods employed by the government. Additionally, the FISA Court's decision-making process is often opaque, with the court's opinions and proceedings automatically classified, further complicating the public's access to information. With the U.S. legal system already well established as the world's largest crime syndicate, allowing it the opportunity for even more secrecy, power, and unaccountability provides the ideal recipe for complete unadulterated disaster upon the populace. These issues have prompted calls for reforms to enhance the transparency and accountability of the FISA Court, ensuring that the government's surveillance practices are subject to judicial oversight and, more importantly, public scrutiny.

The issue of FISA’s legality needs to be addressed by our legal system, and this issue is ripe for Supreme Court review. As concerned citizens, we must significantly narrow the government’s powers and require substantiation whenever "national security" is being used as a façade to justify ordinary prosecutions including illegal searches and everything thereafter.

Incidentally, Sara and I would like to let readers know that our blog has been selected as one of the Top Ten Best Anti-Corruption Blogs out of more than one thousand worldwide. We are honored to have been bestowed this distinction and will continually try to meet the requisite standards by doing our best to fight corruption in the American "justice" system every day.

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