Brenda Pitts Bennett
Corrupt Judiciary A World-Wide Problem
Thu Feb 12 12:42:33 2004
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I would like to ask you a question and get your thoughts please?

"Why is there any such thing as a "bail bonds"? It is a fact that most poor people are the ones that stays in jail because they have no bond money to bail out. But this seems to be a statement saying...." guilty until proven innocent". Most people who remain in jail because they can't afford a bond.... end up pleading guilty just so they can get out even though they are innocent. This is because if one says they are innocent, the court date usually is not set for another year.

Then there is so many in jails that are disabled. I have recently learned that social security "pays" jails to let them know when a person is incarcerated that is on social security or disability because they said that the law states they "stop the social security check while incrassated"!!!
I advocate for sick people incrassated therefore I asked the social security office why they do this and they replied, " because the persons needs are met while incarcerated"! I asked them what happens then when they get out of jail and their belongings are thrown on the streets from being evicted for non payment of rent, etc.

They said this was just hard luck!

What has America turned into?
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----- Original Message -----
From: VictoryUSA@jail4judges.org
To: Ronald Branson
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:20 PM
Subject: Corrupt Judiciary A World-Wide Problem

Corrupt Judiciary A World-Wide Problem
JAIL4Judges Also Needed In Kenya


Subject: KENYA ARRESTING CORRUPT JUDGES - SYSTEMIC FRAUD BEING PROSECUTED - WHEN DOES AMERICA CLEAN HOUSE ????

AMERICA WONT EVEN ADMIT THIS IS HAPPENING HERE .... TIME TO CLEAN UP CORRUPTION ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN THE AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE, ENFORCING PROSECUTION AGAINST UNACCOUNTABLE PUBLIC SERVANTS.... FULL DISCLOSURE NOW IS THE WAY THE TRUTH IS EXPOSED

From: Ann Mallaby

From Braveheart

Why doesnt the BBC expose British judges ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3152928.stm


30 September, 2003, 16:56 GMT 17:56 UK

Half of Kenya's judges 'corrupt'

President Mwai Kibaki has promised tough action on corruption


Half of Kenya's judges and nearly a third of its magistrates are corrupt, according to a committee investigating the Kenyan judiciary. The committee, itself led by a judge, gathered evidence against five of the country's nine judges in the court of appeals - Kenya's highest court - and against 18 of the 36 in the high court.

"Corruption has resulted in a loss of confidence in the judiciary as an institution," said Justice Aaron Ringera, head of the committee.

The judges accused of corruption were not identified publicly.

But under Kenyan law the chief justice will have to ask President Mwai Kibaki to appoint a tribunal for each of the 23 judges to further investigate them and to recommend the action to be taken against them.

The report came a day after the president submitted a statement of his wealth as part of a government drive against corruption.

President Kibaki promised tough action on corruption after his election in December 2002, but in recent days his record on the issue has come under the spotlight.

Credible evidence

Justice Ringera said there was credible and substantial evidence of corruption, unethical conduct and other forms of misbehaviour against 152 of Kenya's 300 judges and magistrates.

"We are, metaphorically speaking, presenting to you a dragon....it is bound to snort, kick and jump and even attack, for corruption always fights back," Justice Ringera told Chief Justice Evans Gicheru, who ordered the probe.

Justice Gicheru said that corruption was a beast which, as he put it, the judiciary was determined to wrestle to the ground.

Since Justice Gicheru became chief justice in March, more than 10 magistrates have either been sacked for corruption or incompetence, or resigned.

More than 50 court clerks and other judicial staff have also been fired for corruption.
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From Braveheart

The UK and USA require a similar purge of corrupt judges

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3472155.stm

9 February, 2004, 15:15 GMT

Kenyan judge faces graft tribunal

Half of Kenyan judges were suspended over corruption claims

The first Kenyan judge to appear before a disciplinary tribunal is defending himself in the capital, Nairobi. Justice Phillip Waki went before a tribunal set up after a recent purge on corruption in the judiciary.

Half of Kenya's most senior judges were suspended last year after a committee headed by Justice Aaron Ringera gathered evidence against them.

President Mwai Kibaki set up two tribunals to probe allegations that the judges were behaving unethically.

The BBC's Grant Ferrett in Nairobi says the tribunal is an important test of the government's commitment to tackling one of the biggest problems facing Kenya.

Open courts

The tribunal investigating the Court of Appeal judges is headed by prominent Ghanaian Judge Akilano Akiwumi while that probing High Court judges is chaired by influential Kenyan constitutional lawyer Lee Muthoga.

President Kibaki said the tribunals would investigate six of the country's nine judges in the Court of Appeals - the highest court - and 17 judges out of the 36 in the High Court.

Justice Waki has denied seven counts of corruption levelled against him by the judicial probe committee on corruption.

The allegations against him include associating with suspected drugs traffickers.

He also objects to the manner of his suspension, saying the first formal notification was a letter ordering him to vacate his official residence and hand back his car.

Following requests by the accused judges, the disciplinary tribunal is being held in an open court, not in secret as originally decided.

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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
February 11, 2004
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U.S. Military May Run Out Of Money --The military will have no money to pay Halliburton ['for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan'] for three months beginning Oct. 1 because the White House is declining to ask Congress for funding until December or January, well after the presidential s-election.

Pentagon denies politics a factor in Iraq funding requests --The Pentagon denied Wednesday that it was holding off requests for additional funding for Halliburton ['military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan'] until January because of the November presidential s-elections.

Pentagon Defends White House Decision on Iraq Funds --The Pentagon on Wednesday defended a White House decision to delay until next January seeking up to an additional $50 billion from Congress for Halliburton ['U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan']. Democrats charge the delay is a political move to avoid debate over the high cost of Iraq - where more than 500 U.S. troops have died - while Dictator Bush seeks re-s-election this November.

Bomb kills two US troops in Baghdad --Two US soldiers were killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Wednesday night, the US military says.

Iraq blast near Japanese troops --A mortar round has exploded in Samawah in southern Iraq, close to where Japanese troops have been deployed. The blast shattered windows, but no injuries have been reported.

Second Iraq Bombing Pushes Deaths to 100 --A second suicide bombing in as many days killed up to 47 people Wednesday, pushing the toll in the back-to-back attacks to 100. Again, Iraqis were the targets -- this time, a crowd of volunteers for Iraq's new army -- in an apparent campaign to wreck U.S. plans to' transfer power' by summer. [What 'power transfer'? Iraqis will not have the right to direct elections under the Halliburton-Bush dictatorship, as Americans have no rights to direct elections, either.]

Libya decided 10 years ago against developing WMD, Foreign Minister says --Libya decided more than 10 years ago not to develop any weapons of mass destruction, Abdul Rahman Shalgam, its Foreign Minister said yesterday. His appeared to contradict the co-ordinated announcements in London, Washington and Tripoli last December that Libya was renouncing its WMDs and would comply with international inspection regimes.

CIA Posts Web Site Notice Seeking Iraq WMD Info --The CIA has gone public for information about the still elusive weapons of mass destruction in Iraq by posting a notice on its Web site offering rewards. [?!?]

Red Cross waits to see Saddam Hussein --The Red Cross has visited imprisoned officials of Saddam Hussein's toppled administration and expressed confidence that US authorities will allow it to see the former Iraqi president "sooner rather than later."

Gore at New School: Bush has abused Americans' trust --Speaking in Greenwich Village last week, President Al Gore accused Dictator Bush of exploiting Americans’ fears after 9/11 in order to wage war against Iraq. "He abused the trust of the American people," Gore said of Bush, "in order to take this nation on an adventure that was preordained and designed before the Sept. 11 attacks ever took place." Gore said the Iraq war was based on "patently false pretenses" and that Iraq did not threaten us.

The War Party's Waterloo --Get out the dip and chips, pull up a chair – and let the show trial begin! --by Justin Raimondo "...[T]he investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame – which may soon be dubbed Scooter-gate – is about to morph into a scandal that could bring down the roof on this administration, and strike a knock-out blow to the War Party... The propaganda campaign that led to war was conducted out of a little-known department of the Pentagon bureaucracy, indeed one that did not exist until the countdown to war. The Office of Special Plans, under Defense Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, bypassed the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, and side-stepped their Air Force counterpart, piping a steady diet of lies into the President[sic]'s otherwise empty head – including the canard that Saddam had plotted to procure uranium from 'an African nation,' which inexplicably wound up in the President[sic]'s 2003 State of the Union speech."

Congressman asks for probe of flights of bin Laden kin --Waxman looking for 'reassurance' --California Democrat Henry Waxman is calling on Attorney General John Ashcroft to reveal who cleared members of Osama bin Laden's family and other Saudi citizens to leave the country immediately following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Citing press accounts and congressional testimony on the issue, Waxman says the public "needs reassurance" that the Bush dictatorship conducted an "appropriate investigation" of the Saudis that were allowed to leave.

Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show --by Gail Sheehy "At 8:46 a.m., Mr. [American Airlines flight service manager, Michael] Woodward lost contact with Amy [Flight 11 flight attendant, Madeline (Amy)], Sweeney—the moment of metamorphosis, when her plane became a missile guided into the tower holding thousands of unsuspecting civilians. 'So sometime between 8:30 and 8:46, American must have known that the hijacking was connected to Al Qaeda,' said Mike Sweeney. That would be 16 to 32 minutes before the second plane perforated the south tower."

Crowd Jeers Eliminated U.S. Team With Chants of 'Osama!' --The boos nearly drowned out "The Star-Spangled Banner," and a few dozen [hundred?] fans chanted "Osama! Osama!" as the United States was eliminated by Mexico in Olympic men's soccer qualifying.

Pentagon Allows Padilla to See Lawyer --An American citizen held incommunicado by the military for more than a year as an alleged al-Qaida supporter will be allowed to see a lawyer, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

U.S. Preparing Guantanamo Bay for Haitian Refugees --The United States is preparing a detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to 'house' tens of thousands of refugees who may flee unrest in Haiti, officials in humanitarian organizations said on Wednesday.

New York Police Sued Over Anti-War Protest Arrests --Civil rights lawyers on Wednesday sued the New York Police Department on behalf of 52 people arrested at an anti-war protest, the latest in a series of lawsuits nationwide challenging police conduct at rallies opposing the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

Bush moved to Alabama unit without Air Force permission --George W. Bush left his Texas Air National Guard assignment and moved to Alabama in 1972 even though the Air Force denied his request for a transfer, according to his military records. In fact, Bush did not even ask for an official transfer until nine days after he moved to Alabama in May 1972.

Bush's loss of flying status should have spurred probe --Dictator Bush's August 1972 suspension from flight status in the Texas Air National Guard -- triggered by his failure to take a required annual flight physical -- should have prompted an investigation by his commander, a written acknowledgement by Bush, and perhaps a written report to senior Air Force officials, according to Air Force regulations in effect at the time.

Scalia Defends Hunting Trip With Cheney --Supreme Court inJustice Antonin Scalia strongly indicated he will ignore calls to recuse himself from a court case involving his friend and hunting partner, Vice pResident Dick Cheney.

Congress, FCC Focus on Pay Television Indecency --Outraged by how salacious programs on radio and network television have become in recent months, hypocritical lawmakers vowed on Wednesday to look at 'indecent' shows on cable and satellite channels. [Who appointed these self-righteous, hypocritical 'lawmakers' to be *our* First Amendment guardians? These are the same people who will NOT properly investigate the 9-11 terrorist attacks, but they have the time and (our) money available to investigate a tacky TV performance. These legislators (most of them), participated in an OBSCENE act when they allowed Bush to wage an illegal and immoral W-ar on Iraq. Let's investigate THAT.]

State panel backs disputed lesson, infuriates supporters of evolution --The State Board of Education gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a 10th-grade biology lesson that scientists say could put "intelligent design" in Ohio classrooms. Setting aside an impassioned plea from the National Academy of Sciences, the board voted 13-4 to declare its intent to adopt the "Critical Analysis of Evolution" lesson next month. The academy warned that doing so would give a green light to teaching intelligent design, the idea that life is so complex that a higher being must have created it. [How would the theory of 'intelligent design' explain the existence of George W. Bush?]

Justice Dept. Seeks Hospitals' Records of Some Abortions --The inJustice Department is demanding that at least six hospitals in New York City, Philadelphia and elsewhere turn over hundreds of patient medical records on certain abortions performed there. A federal judge in Manhattan last week allowed the subpoenas to go forward and threatened to impose penalties, and perhaps even lift a temporary ban he had imposed on the government's new abortion restrictions, if the records were not turned over.

US: Record number of long-term unemployed losing benefits --by Debra Watson "A Washington think tank estimates that a record number of US workers will run out of unemployment benefits during the first six months of 2004. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), working with data from the Labor Department, forecasts that som