This is one smart judge. The family is worried but the judge correctly rules that the disabled person has to be shown to be incapable of making reasonable decisions.
The family wanted to take away his right to marry.
Notes from Dr. Sam Sugar/Andy Ostrowski show.
While I did not listen to the entire show, I did hear the vast majority of it. All in all, it was an excellent discussion of some of the most insidious problems in our nation’s probate courts.
Dr. Sugar started out with some sort of strange discussion of courts of equity vs. courts of law. He seemed to blame many of the problems in probate on a strange notion that a probate court is a court of equity and that means it need not necessarily follow the law. He thought that a court of law had to follow the law, but a court of equity did not in fact have to follow the law.
I have never, ever, heard a probate court ever issue a court decision to that effect. I have had pro se clients, who have never been to law school tell me they have studied the law, read numerous book and tell me that theory of law and how courts of equity are somehow magically different from all the other courts, but I have never, ever heard a judge or a law professor say that. Ever. Nor have I ever heard an attorney appearing in probate say, “your honor, this is a court of equity and there fore you need not necessarily follow the law as written.” It has never happened. I have never seen it happen.
In the US, the case law controls and the courts must follow the law. In Illinois (as in most states) the Probate court is created by law, not by the sovereign. This makes it a court of law. It only exist because the law created it by having the state legislature pass a law creating both the court and the law for that court. In the U.S., courts do not pass laws or legislate anything. They carry out the laws as they are written.
It is not true that a “court of equity” can do anything or that it is somehow different from other court divisions such as criminal, juvenile, family court (aka break up the family court), law or municipal or small claims. They are now all the same, created by the law and given laws to follow. If the law is clear, the court must follow the law as written. If the law is unclear or there are nuances not set forth in the law, then the court follows case law which can address nuances.
However, it is not true at all the Judge can just make stuff up. If he does that, s/he is corrupt. A judge follows the law and the case law. If the judge is not doing that, they s/he needs to be reported and kicked out.
Dr. Sugar did mention that in abusive guardianships where the elderly are abused, if you go to the FBI they will say they cannot get involved because it’s a state issue or a civil issue. The local police (that are often tied in) will also say that it is a state court issue and they cannot get involved. I think most people know this is a facade and the FBI and the local police are generally tied into powerful people in the court system and they don’t want to get involved because they do not want to step on anyone’s toes, and the probate court system tends to have some especially powerful toes.
Dr. Sugar believes that by passing a law saying that the police may investigate and prosecute crimes by those in a guardianship, things will change. I think not and this is the reason: the law is already there, and the reason why it is being ignored is because the police are tied into the people making money off of the guardianship–the lawyers and the guardians. Both guardians and the lawyers contribute to the campaign funds of the judges and prosecutors which keeps them aligned with the lawyers and guardians. Both the lawyers and the guardians can pass to the judges seen and unseen benefits for allowing them to do as they please with the assets of a disabled person.
Andy Ostrowski believes that the main problem with the probate courts is that have not reigned in these abuses. I think that is simplistic and ignores the corruption and cronyism of a tied in and tied up system with a whole lot of money and power. I have alway asserted that 90% of the problems in probate will disappear by simply installing an FBI agent on the same floor as any probate court and making sure they do their job to root out and eliminate probate court corruption.
Dr. Sugar believes that we need to get in place judges and lawyers that do not tolerate the abuse of the elderly in probate. He believes that the judges are not well experienced and says they are only a step above traffic court judges. I disagree. The judges I have seen are very intelligent, but often feign they don’t see or don’t know. The vast majority of judges I see are not only very intelligent, but very skilled at manipulation of their courts to favor the crony lawyers and professional guardians and protect them instead of the elderly and the abuse continues–the drugging, the isolation, the draining of massive amounts of attorneys fees, tied in (anti) social workers, case (mis) managers, guardians (of death and injury). They all protect themselves and they get the judges to help them. Time after time, I have seen my reports of abuse being handed back to the perpetrators of the abuse, and while the judge pretends not to understand, s/he will do an excellent job talking about intracacies of probate law and cases. It always baffles me how the judges somehow manage to know the most obscure case quotes and case details, but they get a report of abuse and hand the abuse report right back to the abusers and command them to investigate it–as if every one of their brain cells sudden flew out the window.
Dr. Sugar complains that no one can get statistics on how many guardians and tied in service providers are “servicing” the probate courts. One could get statistics, but these are hidden from the public under the (false) guise of privacy for the disabled.
No due process, no civil procedure–it turns into an abusive system that is vertically and horizontally integrated.
It is a gigantic industry. Dr. Sugar claims Utah is supposed to be a good state because the Mormons won’t stand for these abuses. But Florida, California, etc. have massive problems. Once a state gets the problem, however; due to massive integrations into many industries–care giving, nursing homes, hospitals, etc., the problem is nearly impossible to get rid of–very much akin to getting a dose of cochroachs or bed bugs in your home. Once there, they are almost impossible to get rid of.
Www.aaapg.net is very helpful on abuses in guardianships.
It was an excellent program and I am hoping to get a permalink for the show.
Tomorrow (Wednesday, November 18) at 6 p.m. est, Dr. Sam Sugar, founder of the AAAPG will be on my show Justice Served with Andy Ostrowski. I’m sure it will be a great interview, and can be used as a part of all of our efforts to continue to bring much-needed attention to these issues, with the goal of reform on a national level.
Please tune in here – http://twigscaferadio.com/, for the live broadcast. You can download the app as well.
The archives of Justice Served are available here – http://twigscaferadio.com/justice-served/.
Thank you.
Andy
717-571-1818
Please not the time is 6 pm EST, which translated to 5 pm for those of you in Chicago. Both Andy Ostrowsky and Dr. Sam Sugar have done much work toward bringing more justice to families caught up in abusive guardianships.
JoAnne
from the Harvard Law Review:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwTWJ3VTJHSUFRTEU/view?usp=sharing
The conclusion of this article is as follows:
V. CONCLUSION
As I have tried to explain above, granting full First Amendment
protection to occupational speech is the only position that is consistent
with binding Supreme Court precedent. It is also the only position
that is consistent, more broadly, with the general trend of the Supreme
Court’s First Amendment jurisprudence over the last 20 years, which
has removed political speech from a position of privilege and now recognizes that speech on a wide variety of topics is entitled to robust
constitutional protection. Whether that was, as Post and Shanor argue,
a “radical[] ” shift when it began in the 1990s, it is now merely
the long-established law.
To be sure, there are those who wish this shift had never occurred,
but even its most ardent critics recognize that it has occurred.
Thus, whatever merit the democratic self-governance theory of First
Amendment may have in the abstract, it is little help in resolving the
actual First Amendment disputes that have plagued lower courts.
Those courts, unlike academic commentators, are bound by precedent.
In any event, the Supreme Court’s modern approach to the First
Amendment has more to commend it than its status as binding precedent.
In comparison to more instrumental theories, the Court’s modern
approach is unquestionably the more consistent with the First
Amendment’s uncompromising text, which contains no exemptions for commercial speech or occupational speech (or even lower-value speech like depictions of animal cruelty, violent video games, or lies about re-ceiving military honors). More than that, this approach to the First Amendment is rooted in a far more charitable view of the American people. It repudiates the paternalism that rests at the heart of so much regulation of speech, instead viewing Americans as capable of seeking out information on a wide variety of topics and of reaching their own conclusions about the merits of that information. This view is perhaps most eloquently stated in Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion in Citizens United v. FEC126:
When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.127
Although Justice Kennedy was writing about political speech, his
words are no less true for the sort of advice and information that
countless Americans earn their living by providing. Speech can be
important to its listeners without being political.
Other important article quotes:
In May 2013, newspaper columnist John Rosemond received a
cease-and-desist letter from the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology informing him that his syndicated column — in which he
answers readers’ questions about parenting — constitutes the unlicensed
and, hence, criminal practice of psychology.1 Although the
Board concedes that Rosemond may publish general advice about parenting, it has taken the position that answering letters from parents
about particular children is the exclusive province of state-licensed
psychologists.
As outrageous as this situation sounds, it is not unique. Rosemond
is just one of the millions of Americans — from tour guides to lawyers
— who earn their living in occupations that consist primarily, if
not entirely, of speech. And, as he discovered, these “speaking occupations” are increasingly subject to occupational-licensing requirements. But this trend seems to be in serious tension with the First Amendment rule that “[g]enerally, speakers need not obtain a license to speak.”
In Lowe, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought
an enforcement action against Christopher Lowe, a disgraced former
investment advisor who had lost his registration and been prohibited
from acting as an investment advisor following a conviction on various
felony offenses. Despite his conviction, Lowe continued to publish
newsletters that provided investing advice.10 The SEC believed this tobe a violation of the securities laws and filed a complaint against Lowe
in federal court.
The SEC lost before the district court, but prevailed before the Second
Circuit,12 after which the Supreme Court granted certiorari to
consider “the important constitutional question whether an injunction
against the publication and distribution of petitioners’ newsletters is
prohibited by the First Amendment.” 13 But the Court never reached
this constitutional question. Instead, in an opinion by Justice Stevens,
a majority of the Court concluded on statutory grounds that the registration requirement did not apply to newsletter publishers.14
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Re: Your referrals to Denison and Ditkowsky
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In Abusive Adult Guardianships
Dear Madam/Sir;
Recently I became aware that your Committee was referring clients to myself and Ken Ditkowsky, another Illinois suspended lawyer who helps those who have been abused by the US court system in the area of guardianships. We both appreciate the referrals; however you should be aware that the address above is correct to send mail to both of us and Ken’s email is “kenditkowsky@yahoo.com”. Victims and their families may call me at anytime on my cell as shown above or work phone number as shown above.
But you should be made aware that both Ken Ditkowsky and myself have been suspended in Illinois from the practice of law for merely speaking out against abuses in Probate Court by some judges and tied in, crony attorneys across the US. I run a very popular blog at http://www.marygsykes.com, and http://www.justice4every1.com. Because Ken has published numerous letters asking for honest and thorough investigations of some highly abusive cases, and because I have published those letters on my blog, we were both suspended from the practice of law.
I will not elaborate on the hundreds, perhaps thousands of horrors in our nation’s guardianship “programs”, but I am sure you are well aware of the mantra “target, isolate, medicate, drain the estate, quietly eliminate, cremate” as being the hallmark of an abusive guardianship. Many large estates are quickly eaten up by as much as 90% or more of the income and assets of the senior which are paid to attorneys and tied in case (mis)-managers, (anti) social workers, visiting nurses (of death and drugs) with the rubber stamp of a tied in, eternally helpful judge. When the money runs out, the senior is quickly dispatched in hospice or other programs where the senior is dosed with large quantities of illegal chemical restraints, and food and water are withheld or minimal. No autopsy or tox screen is ever, and I mean ever, performed on these seniors who died a quick and tragic death when the money ran out (Sykes, Drabik, Tyler, Gore, Baker, Rector, etc.) and there is no end to this string of crimes and class X felonies when probate courts routinely deny exhumations, autopsies and tox screens to concerned family members.
At this time, in order to continue our work Ken Ditkowsky ask for just a few things if we are indeed recommended (albeit by default because there are no other lawyers in the US willing to do this work, and do it for low cost or free): 1) funding for our law office as an Illinois NFP; 2) declaration of us being Whistle blowers and entitled to protection of the US senate; 3) immediate restoration of our law licenses (you should contact the Illinois Supreme Court and explain to them they cannot terminate our law licenses when we are the only lawyers doing this work which must not be tampered with or interfered with and it is illegal under the Illinois and US Constitutions to interfere with a professional blog or media source–See Rosemond v. Markham, ED Kentucky, 3:13-cv-00042, ).
If you are unable to provide any assistance at this time, we will continue to do our best to assist probate victims and their families and expose and publish the string of felonies that are assaulted on our precious seniors each and every day in courtrooms throughout the US. You are welcome to recommend probate victims and their family members to the two of us and we will always help best we can. I am currently writing books for the probate victims. Ken continues to write letters to the state and federal authorities asking for help.
I would appreciate it if one or more of the senators would contact Mr. Jerome Larkin, head Administrator of the Illinois Atty Regn. & Disciplinary Commission, as well as the head of the Illinois Supreme Court which licenses us, and make it clear to them that our work is important, that no one else is doing our work and our law licenses should be immediately restored.
In the meantime, we will continue to do whatever we can for these victims, within the bounds of the law. We cannot appear in court for them, we cannot draft pleadings, at this point all we can do is hold their hands and cry along with them, as their precious mothers and fathers and grandparents die horrific deaths, their assets and dignity stripped from them, because no one will do anything about the situation. Ken will write letters and I will blog about those letters and also document the cases that come our way to the best of our ability.
If you cannot do anything at this time, I will continue to pray for Truth and Justice for the US Senate and for the Illinois ARDC and the Illinois Supreme Court.
Very Truly Yours,
JUSTICE 4 EVERY1.COM, NFP
JoAnne Denison
JoAnne M. Denison
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And Ken, you may note for the record, the mega media does nothing or very little to promote truth and justice. We just had Veterans Day, a day to celebrate peace and love and stop all the war, hate and violence, and yet there was no commotion over corruption.
We have to stand up and make a difference. Blogs and FB have to speak out. My FB grows every day with more and more instances of political corruption because I am garnering on my own the activists out there that want to save the world, make it a better place.
I call upon Jerome Larkin, head and Administrator of the ARDC, his side counsel James Grogin, Sharon Opryszek, Melissa Smart and Leah Black Guiterriez. The conduct of Steven Splitt, supposedly an ethics professor at John Marshall was particularly shameful. All of these attorneys know or should know the law. Ms. Smart started out my ARDC trial lying about the law was the “blog was like crying fire in a crowded theatre” which was not only not the law, but just dicta from the turn of the century. The standard now is that the speech must incite immediate lawlessness. This blog does none of that, her conduct and the other attorneys that did not speak up and shut her up that were present was shameful conduct. The ARDC should be filing a motion to withdraw my suspension and investigate why Melissa Smart blatantly lied about the law to a Tribunal to silence this blog–a blog which is doing great good in the justice system.
The Sawyer case made it clear the US Supreme Court said that an attorney can criticize a judge, a court and a decision.
The Virginia Bar case of Hunter Hogan made it clear that a lawyer can run a blog without interference from the bar association.
The recent case of Rosemont v. Weil makes it clear that a professional organization cannot regulate speech in the news, the media and on blogs. It’s simply unconstitutional.
I am still waiting for my apology from the ARDC and my lost income. Today every day I write and study for the blog. I write books and help out court corruption victims. I am busier than ever. But it’s good work (not paying) and highly worthwhile.
I want to know who among the attorneys mentioned above would ever do this? How do they walk by someone in need and do nothing?
Oh, I know, they need to take the psychopath/narcissist/sociopath test and then go find a job where society will be safe from PNS people.
thanks
joanne
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Mr. Bernstein,
This battle will not be won by an individual appearing on the scene and changing the world, nor will it be won by ‘crying the sky is falling.’ The “woe is me” approach claiming that the entire legal system is corrupt and has to be replaced or worse also will not work and leads to frustration.
Thanks for criminals like Mr. Jerome Larkin who are using their public positions to aid and abet the criminal exploitation, abuse et al of the elderly and the disabled (elder cleansing) we all have an opening to make a difference.
Larkin (IARDC) assault on the First Amendment in the JoAnne Denison case is so obscene that no citizen can stay silent. The fact that he has so far gotten away with it makes him not only one of most infamous and unethical public figures, but a cancer who must be not only barred from any future public office, but a person who must be prosecuted. I would like to call upon you to do the following:
1) conduct your own Honest investigation of the Sykes case (09 P 4585) it is detailed on the Blog MaryGSykes
2) conduct your own Honest investigation of the Gore case – it is detailed on the blog Probate Sharks.
3) Go the the IARDC site and read the info on JoAnne Denison. Also read the information written by Attorney Denison.
After you have satisfied yourself of the criminal activities that went on in the prosecution of these three cases and you have satisfied yourself that authoring a blog disclosing the perfidy and criminal felonies openly and notoriously disclosed in the three proceedings pursuant to 47 UsCA 230, the First Amendment et al is a protected activity and no akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater, join in the fight to protect the FIRST AMENDMENT and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Only by defending and protecting the American Constitution and in particular the Bill of Rights from public officials and criminals such as the elder cleansers will lwe provide our children with an inheritance that we can be proud and which resembles that which we ourselves inherited.
We have to shoot rifle bullets – not shotgun shells! The travesty that Ms. Denison has had to endure is a threat to the very fabric of America. The fact that the Illinois Supreme Court attorned makes this assault on the “Bill of Rights” by Larkin a National Socialist highlight!
Ken Ditkowsky
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What kind of a psychopath does this?
Mother Elena loses custody because the children needed their father because the mother has decaying health.
The real question is whether or not the shrink will pay for all the therapy that will be needed after her kids learn the truth why they could not see their mom in her last dying months.
Shame of the day for sure. More judges acting badly. More shrink acting horribly.
Two new sociopaths to the Hall of Justice Shame.
I guess this is just as about as corrupt and out of control as it gets.
Judge have plenty of options rather than jailing a mother or any civil litigant. Themother said she had no money. In the Montoya Lane case–$50,000 in GAL fees in 6 months and the litigants said the GAL caused more problems than the GAL solved. In this case, 4 months and $16,000. Mother Gilmore was to pay $3,300 only but she had no money.
The judge could have seized her car, she could have seized her bank account. The judge probably didn’t have the right to garnish wages or child support or maintenance, but she did have other options.
I know many of you out there have problems with massive fees churned by court appointed attorneys (and this includes attorneys for the Guardian which is an indirect appointment because the court chooses the Guardian and the Guardian generally has to have an attorney for a funded estate and generally the Guardian gets an attorney that is liked and known by the judge.)
In guardianship these court appointed attorneys hardly see or care about the ward at all, they generally bill massive amounts of fees.
(Sykes–$200,000 and the attorneys only saw the ward a total of about an hour or so over 5 years). No one cared at all about her wishes).
I understand that the artist’s beloved fiancee of 67 years was held in a horriffic guardianship.
This is his talented response
Reposted with permission of the artist, Daniel P Ryan. Please contact the author to repost or copy.
Apparently yes. The Canadian government was all set to raid a local, organic raw milk cooperative (milk was not pasteurized until well into the 20th century when mega agra insisted dairy farms pasteurize milk. The reality is, whole raw milk is a health food considered so valuable it is still dispensed in vending machines 24/7 in
Europe). But mega corps have to make mega profits, so they don’t give consumers a choice to purchase raw milk for its health food benefits, and many consumers are unhappy about that. Raw milk, like human breast milk is a living breathing substance with anti bodies in it and has the ability to still captue and eliminate bad bacteria because it is living. Once it is pasteurized, it loses those abilities and bad bacteria quickly grows if left at room temperature. Pasturizing equipment makes milk much more expensive. Fortunately, human breast milk, if pasteurized,will eventually kill your baby, otherwise mega corps would likely force that on mothers too.
Citizens everywhere are tired of mega farms and mega agra picking on the local small farmer everywhere and raids have increased with lawlessness gone amuk.
Jerome Larkin and James Grogin are but one example at the ARDC. Dozens of valid citizen complains are tossed away like so much garbage. Lyle Harrison and his family have had vast amount of farmland taken from them, and yet the ARDC does nothing. The IRS investigates and liens Hardware State Bank and US Bank $21 million, still Lyle goes to the ARDC and they send him a paralegal and Jerome Larkin and James Grogin refuse to meet.
Lyle Harrison shows proof that Bob Elder was given nearly $200,000 to pay inheritance taxes, but the county treasurer’s records only show $3,000 paid. Lyle wants compensation from the Client Protection Fund for attorney theft of client assets. For some reason, that’s a complicated process and they dismiss his claim.
While Canadian official pick on small farmers and are beaten off with a handful of farm coop members that show up after a FB post, we in Chicago struggle with an ARDC that takes away mine and Ken’s law license for publishing the Truth about the Mary Sykes 09 P 4585 case and her MURDER, and they still refuse to investigate. The FBI does not investigate, nor do the states attorneys we pay the big bucks–Lisa (Murray) Madigan, Anita Alvarez and Diane Saltoun. Obviously these women were put in place for a reason and “don’t do” corruption, leaving this area as one of the most corrupt in the nation.
But you my reader, and I can change all that. We don’t need any more Mary Sykes cases, or Robert Jaycocx, Dorothy Baker (murdered in probate), Alice Gore (same), Lydia Tyler (same), Rose Drabik (same) when the money runs out.
We can and should change all of this. Ask Jerome Larkin and James Grogin what happened to Patrick Murphy after the fire that killed 6 people at the OPG. What happened. What did they cover up? What information do they owe the families of these victims?
Ask JL and JG why Diane Nash is summarily booted from my hearing. Is it because she’s from African ancestry, was a famous civil rights worker, featured in the movie Selma, and she has been honored by Ophra Winfrey who might lambast them for what they do to honest and ethical attorneys?
Why did Judge Aicha MacCarthy have to leave her courtroom screaming because a service dog barked and wanted to jail a probate victim, Gloria Sykes, who already suffers from Litigation Abuse Syndrome (similar to PTSD), after Gloria has just been crying in the hallway, the series of abuse and horrors too much for her. Not for Aicha, who has a great video here
she says she is compassionate and just, but I don’t see that ever happened in the 09 P 4585 case. JMHO
If she were, she would have asked the GAL’s why Mary hadn’t seen Gloria but a handful of times in 5 years. She would have asked them why Mary could not go home with Gloria. When I and 3 other close friends went to see Mary in June of 2014, she was walking and talking just fine at age 94. There was nothing wrong with her. She wanted her beloved Gloria to come and get her out of the nursing home–a place where she never wanted to be and they “could start over again”. That would never happen. The 40 minute video was destroyed after a Naperville Police Officer talked with GAL Stern who clearly had a need for it to be destroyed.
So why does JL block all discovery in the Mary Sykes case? Why did he block it in my ARDC trial. Why does he not allow it now? Mary is dead, clearly narcotized to death and still he has no compassion for her or the familiy members that cared for her and not just for her Money.
I think most people would be appalled, would not call this a First Amendment right, and would call it exactly what it was–buying judges for inflated prices.
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RE: ARDC v. JMD 13 PR 001 – In re Weddigen 4-15-2015
Dear Counsel;
Please read the attached decision which was recently rendered by the 4th Dist. Appellate Court in Illinois. In this case decision, once again, yet another court recognizes Brandenburg as the law and not the “lazy cheat” that Attorney Smart used at the opening of my trial that a blog or social media is akin to “yelling fire in a crowded theater” when it clearly is not. Who died? Who almost died from my blog?
You can read the excerpts of the case on my blog, which you are well aware of. This case makes it clear a court cannot and should not regulate Face Book postings. These are clearly covered under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
The case of Rosemont made that clear. Now Weddigen makes it clear.
How many cases must issue with the courts saying we will not (and likely cannot) regulate social media because social media is clearly protected under the First Amendment.
You might not like the criticisms of the Courts and the ARDC which I publish, but I challenge you to make the public statement that you will defend the rights of Illinois citizens, myself and Ken Ditkowsky and Lanre Amu included, to criticize a court, a decision, a law or a statute (In re Sawyer) and you will and must uphold the US Constitution and the Illinois Constitution’s declarations that US citizens have completely free speech.
I challenge you to do this and uphold your sworn oaths as attorneys in Illinois.
None of you at the ARDC or the judges or attorneys in the probate courts of Cook County fall into the category of “delicate snowflakes” described by this court at ¶ 66, nor can you claim to be running a Stalinist show trial or a Vietnam “re-education camp” circa 1976 (para 64), so what exactly is the ARDC doing to eliminate attorney corruption and uphold the First Amendment and Free Speech?
Please explain or I expect you to send a Motion to the Illinois Supreme Court you are withdrawing all charges and are reinstating my license in accordance with recent court decisions and you have decided to uphold the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
Very Truly Yours,
DENISON & ASSOCS, PC
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Joanne M. Denison
cc: http://www.marygsykes.com blog
Another great decision from the Illinois Court of Appeals – In re Weddigen 4-15-44
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwNmJMYlZLMlRzVXc/view?usp=sharing
Respondent, James Weddigen, was found in indirect civil contempt of court for
comments he posted on the online social networking site, Facebook. The trial court’s purge order required respondent to post further comments on Facebook apologizing, recanting, and correcting his previous comments. Respondent appeals the order of contempt, the purge order, and the order requiring respondent to pay petitioner’s attorney fees associated with the contempt proceedings.
And I find para 9 to be esp. repugnant to the First Amendment:
Nonetheless, the court finds that his statements on Facebook stating that he had recorded incourt family proceedings and encouraging others to record family court proceedings constitute contempt of court as the statements tend to encourage disruption in this court and other courts. [Respondent] has shown himself to be a sophisticated person with regard to family court proceedings.
Now, if Respondent really is sophisticated, then, unlike the trial court, he has read and understands the Wikipedia page on the “First Amendment”
Note this is THE 4th district appellate court, famous for letting Lyle Harrison linger in jail when HIS constitutional rights were denied by a tied in court with summary indirect civil contempt–withhout any procedural safeguards. These three justices knew the safeguards and enumerated them at para 27 of the decision:
(and this paragraph is dedicated to Lyle, Andrew and Roger Harrison for their stints at the Moultrie county lockup for lack of due process and US and Illinois Constitutional protections at the hands of the Judges Flannel and Broch):
A person charged with indirect criminal contempt is entitled to all of the
constitutional protections and procedural rights afforded to other criminal defendants. Betts, 200 Ill. App. 3d at 58. These include the rights to (1) be charged by a written complaint, petition or information; (2) know the nature of those charges; (3) personal service; (4) file an answer; (5) be heard; (6) present evidence; (7) confront and cross-examine witnesses; (8) be personally present at trial; (9) subpoena witnesses; (10) a public hearing; (11) the privilege against self incrimination; (12) counsel; (13) the presumption of innocence; and (14) be proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. People v. Budzynski, 333 Ill. App. 3d 433, 439 (2002); Betts, 200 Ill. App. 3d at 58; Goleash, 311 Ill. App. 3d at 956-57.
The brothers Harrison were afforded none of these protections and when I challenged Broch/Flannel for these unconsitutional and illegal jailings I was told increduously “we don’t do that down here” — refering to the US and Illinois constitutions and case and statutory law! I believe I cited the Budzynski case in my pleadings.
But Justice Steigmann comes to the rescue like the US calvary of the legal world with a stunning concurence and did not just overturn on the fact that indirect civil contempt procedures were clearly not followed one iota (just the like Harrisons’ jailing for refusal to withdraw counterclaims–claims that would bring out rampant corruption in Moultrie and Paitt if discovery were allowed, but it was not–it was quashed by these errant judges).
para 46–admonnishing the judge and the attorney involved in these illegal and unconstitutional actions:
Although fully agreeing with the majority, I write separately to express my dismay regarding the contempt proceedings that occurred in this case. Respondent’s postings on social media were clearly entitled to first-amendment protection, and the contempt proceedings in this case violated his first-amendment rights. That the attorney who brought those contempt proceedings is one of the most respected members of the Sangamon County divorce bar and the judge who entered the contempt findings is one of the most experienced and well-regarded trial judges in central Illinois compels me to write this special concurrence. If a lawyer and judge of their deserved repute do not realize the first-amendment implications of their actions in this case, then further guidance is obviously needed.
The modern, seminal decision from the United States Supreme Court on the first
amendment is Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969), where the Court wrote the following: “[T]he constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” More recently, in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234, 253 (2002), the Court reiterated and expanded upon these themes, as follows:
“The mere tendency of speech to encourage unlawful acts is not a sufficient reason for banning it. *** First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought. To preserve these freedoms, and to protect speech for its own sake, the Court’s First Amendment cases draw vital distinctions between words and deeds, between ideas and conduct (citations omitted).
Note, the Brandenburg case is the one that Melissa Smart just could not figure out overturned a case where a Judge said certain words and phrases are illegal if they are like “yelling fire in a crowded theater”. The statement was and is dicta. That case and subsequent cases were an embarasment to SCOTUS and were overturned with Brandenberg–something Melissa (not so) Smart didn’t read on the Wiki page about First Amendment rights in the US.
One more intersting paragraph from the decision–why are judges so darned sensitive to criticism from the public and from attorneys?
Regarding what may be the sensitive feelings of judges to criticism, whether fair
or unfair, the Court also added the following:
“The assumption that respect for the judiciary can be won by shielding judges from published criticism wrongly appraises the character of American public opinion. For it is a prized American privilege to speak one’s mind, although not always with perfect good taste, on all public institutions. And an enforced silence, however limited, solely in the name of preserving the digni[t]y of the bench, would probably engender resentment, suspicion, and contempt much more than it would enhance respect.” Id. at 270- 71.” (para 54)
and the court adds a quote from Thomas Jefferson at para 55:
To emphasize this point, the Court provided an interesting excerpt from a letter
written by Thomas Jefferson: ” ‘I deplore *** the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write them. *** These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste. It is however an evil for which there is no remedy, our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.’ ” Id. at 270 n.16. Apparently, dissatisfaction with the press is not a modern phenomenon.
¶ 56 Bridges precedes Brandenburg by 28 years, and legal scholars agree that the
Brandenburg standard provides greater protection for controversial speech..
Obviously all the scholars agree that Brandenburg is the standard for speech under the First Amendment–except Melissa Smart.
In People v. Goss, 10 Ill. 2d 533 (1957), the supreme court reversed that finding, albeit based upon the trial court’s error in refusing to grant the defendant’s motion for change of venue. The supreme court discussed Bridges at length and wrote the following:
“Comment on pending cases, even if it is unfair and inaccurate, is not to be adjudged contemptuous unless it constitutes an ‘imminent peril’ to the administration of justice. [Citation.] The social interest in the integrity and competence of the judicial process requires that courts and judges should not be shielded from wholesome exposure to public view, and if this interest is to be well served, then some latitude must be allowed for inaccurate and intemperate comment.” Id. at 544.
To that end, the United States
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Supreme Court has declared that freedom of speech and freedom of the press should not be impaired through the exercise of a court’s contempt power unless there is ‘ “no doubt that the utterances in question are a serious and imminent threat to the administration of justice.” ‘ People v. Hathaway, 27 Ill. 2d 615, 618, 190 N.E.2d 332, 334 (1963), quoting Craig v. Harney, 331 U.S. 367, 373 *** (1947). Thus, ‘the first amendment forbids the punishment by contempt for comment on pending cases in the absence of a showing that the utterances created a “clear and present danger” to the administration of justice.’ Hathaway, 27 Ill. 2d at 618, 190 N.E.2d at 334.”
The cases are obviously not going the way the ARDC wants them. The ARDC wants power to cover up. Today, Lyle Harrison went to the ARDC with no less than 2 tax levies for $21 million against Hardware State Bank and US Bank for their roles in stealing Harrison property and crop proceeds in the Harry and Pete Harrison estates and demanded to know why the IRS opened an investigation and found that money had be stolen, was entitled to be taxed at the criminal gains rate of 50% plus 2% interest per month up to 100% of the stolen funds, but the ARDC had refused to open an investigation. How is that? 3 attorneys were involved–Dwight O’Keefe III, Bob Elder and Frances Purvis (deceased) but the ARDC does nothing. Is this an 18 USC sec 4 cover up and misprison of felony? Is it an 18 USC sec 371 conspiracy violation? The IRS opened an investigation and then issued tax levies against 2 major banks–US Bank and Hardware State Bank. He told the ARDC (Jerome Larkin, the head Administrator and his good friend in these deeds, the ARDC counsel James Grogran refused to meet with Lyle Harrison) but sent in a paralegal. A paralegal? Are they kidding? For a $43 million theft of crop proceeds and farmland and a $21 million tax levy 3 Illinois attorneys created? You could never even make this stuff up. Why didn’t he send in the receptionist or the mail room guy. Unbelievable. It’s like hiding under the skirts of your mom after you killed someone’s cat, but I digress.
The upshot and amazing conclusion of this brilliant justice is:
As bad as the original contempt finding may have been, the so-called “purge
order” was manifestly worse. It constitutes an example of “compelled speech” reminiscent of Stalinist show trials or Vietnam “Re-education Camps,” circa 1976. The trial court was completely without any legal justification to impose such an order.
We in the judiciary are part of the government and just as subject to fair—and
unfair—criticism as those in the executive and legislative branches. We can no more be “delicate snowflakes” in the face of such criticism than can any other government official. The orders entered in this case finding respondent in contempt and directing him to purge his contempt were unnecessary, unwarranted, unwise, and violative of the first amendment.
The only question remaining is why are Jerome Larkin and James Larkin such snowflakes?
(b) Guardianship shall be utilized only as is necessary to promote the well-being of the person with a disability, to protect him from neglect, exploitation, or abuse, and to encourage development of his maximum self-reliance and independence. Guardianship shall be ordered only to the extent necessitated by the individual's actual mental, physical and adaptive limitations. (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.) · Guardians are fiduciaries. As fiduciaries they owe the highest standard of honesty, fidelity and loyalty to the ward. This means that the guardian is intended to be selfless in his obligation to “ promote the well-being of the person with a disability, to protect him from neglect, exploitation, or abuse, and to encourage development of his maximum self-reliance and independence.” · As a fiduciary the guardian must act solely for the benefit of the ward. This means quite simply that the guardian cannot promote his own interests, must account for every dime, cannot make even an incidental profit and essentially be selfless in his/her pursuit of the ward’s interest · A guardian cannot receive any remuneration other than for services which are absolutely necessary, for the benefit of the ward, and promote the interests of the ward. In other words, hiring a law partners as the guardian’s attorney and generating thousands of dollars in legal fees is strictly prohibited. · A guardian’s payment for services must be based upon those services which are reasonable and necessary and represent the benefit to the estate. The engagement of attorneys to silence neighbors and friends of Mary Sykes who complained of her isolation, abuse, exploitation and forfeiture of his liberty and property is not compensable. · A guardian’s need for an attorney to represent his interests is limited. If the guardian is performing his/her services properly there is little need for legal representation. thanks to Dr. Sam Sugar on the AAAPG.org (Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship) website
http://aaapg.net/video-photo-gallery/
On this page you will find no less than 10 mega media reports from around the country decrying the treatment of the elderly in abusive guardianships.
5 minute video is excellent on the case of Mrs. London, an 87 year old woman–says the Newsreporter–the system is in “Desperate need of change”
Julie London’s 87 year old mother is caught in a abusive guardianship after one thieving daughter started to charge a credit card without her permission.
Contacting Lutheran Services resulted in a guardianship where she was stripped of all rights, the mother and daughter Julie (the good daughter reporting the abuse) were not served. LS was granted complete access to all mom’s bank accounts and home. LS services admits that guardianship was a course of last resort. LS services not cheap–$85 per hour for Julie to make any type of phone call to them.
Julie went to State Stenator Nancy Dieter. Dieter noted about a 800% increase in fraud. In Florida, gship is 24 hrs notice! She asked for an office to regulate both private and professional guardians.
Julie is still fighting for the life of her mother. Julie just wants to keep her mother happy.
Please pray for them
http://www.macombdaily.com/general-news/20151030/retired-chiropractor-at-center-of-legal-battle-dies
Same old story. Step mom bars children and father is over-medicated despite the fact he believed in all natural cures and healing.
His health became a public issue beginning in December 2011 when three of his five adult children accused their father’s wife of 27 years at the time, Karen Chism, not their mother, of orchestrating efforts to accelerate his health problems and blocking their efforts to see him. He was diagnosed with dementia, taking prescription drugs and admitted to a mental hospital
The children — Steve Chism, Susan Lucier and Laurie Meagher — protested publicly by picketing in front of the Mount Clemens facility and protesting on Facebook, creating the page, “Saving the life of Army vet James F. Chism,” which has 1,526 members. They all resided out of state….
A judge shortly thereafter stripped her of the guardianship and transferred it to an attorney, who was removed nine months later when the judge determined Chism could function on his own.
Steve Chism said this week that he remains “disgusted” with the state probate system that prevented them from having more involvement with their father.
He said since September 2012 when James Chism’s guardianship was removed, he and his siblings’ contact with their father continued to dissipate due to Karen Chism blocking their efforts. He said they barely had contact with him the past couple of years despite attempts to do so.
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Steve Chism said he would like to see a law passed that mandates that adult children can visit their biological parent even if the parent’s spouse opposes it. A battle between the wife of the late Casey Kasem and his biological child brought national attention to the issue.
But Michele Fuller, a Sterling Heights elder-law attorney, said existing “laws and processes” with the probate court system in Michigan provide avenues for adult children to pursue visitation. She said children can petition a judge for a guardian to allow visitation or can seek to have a guardian replaced by a child or another attorney. If the parent does not have a guardian, the children can petition to be one or have one named.
from another article:
Karen Chism last June filed for personal protection orders against the three children, but Judge John Foster in July denied them following a hearing in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens.
Karen Chism claimed the children made false accusations, disparaging remarks and threatened to take James Chism and the couple’s assets, in written and video Internet postings.
She said Steve Chism accused her of trying to murder her husband, and that she was interviewed by a Clinton Township police detective.
She said the children are trying to call their father and making the comments to him about her has created stress and damaged her and his health.
The children say she has turned their father against them.
You will notice the out of control spouse, the isolation from one’s children, and the attempt by the step mother to gag the children from presenting their side of the story on FB.
It’s sad that there’s no one to make sure that children always get to see their parent without $50,000+ in legal fees and nearly a year to make a decision. It’s also a shame that a senior dedicated to “naural healing and simple cures” all his life falls claims to “over-medicating.”
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I need a favor.
My beloved State of Illinois and my beloved country are in serious financial straits. Illinois is not paying its bills and is on the verge of Bankruptcy. It would grieve me terribly to have to suffer the shame of Illinois going into bankruptcy. I need your help in attempting to save it.
No, this is not a plea for money. Illinois, like most States, has plenty of money due it in taxes, interest and penalties, but for reasons that I do not understand the Illinois Department of Revenue is uninterested in collecting it. Apparently my writing skills are suspect and I do not comport myself well in writing as it appears that few if any attempts are being made by the taxman to collect the billions of dollars in taxes interest and penalties that are due from the corrupt lawyers, corrupt judges, corrupt judicial officials, corrupt public officials who have all banded together to fleece the elderly and the disabled of their life savings and other financial assets.
The Wall Street Journal yesterday exposed some of the crimes occurring in an article that can be accessed at http://on.wsj.com/1KKSb51’ Similar official criminal activity can be garnered at the NASGA, Probate Sharks, MaryGSykes *** sites on the internet. The corrupt public miscreants all took an oath to protect the Constitution and thus were all aware that using public office for private gain was not only criminal but a taxable event in itself. As lawyers most of the public sector (or Judicial sector) miscreants are also aware of 18 USCA 371, and 18 USCA 242 and that any intentional act take in pursuant of a conspiracy (as defined in 18 USCA 371, and/or 18 UsCA 242) creates personal liability for tort damages and income taxes jointly and severally with all the other members of the conspiracy.
Thus, as a practical situation, as an example, Lawyer MS being well aware of Rule 8.3 and 18 USCA 4 uses her position as an employee of the Illinois lawyer disciplinary board (IARDC) to attempt to silence Lawyer JoAnne Denison’s complaints on her blog concerning the non-inventory by another cadre of lawyers of assets that were taken from various Illinois estates. Lawyer MS , well knowing that 47 USCA 230, 320 IlCS 20/4, and 735 ILCS 1 et seq. as well as Article 1 of the Illinois Constitution and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution all protect Attorney Denison’s right to speak out, uses her position to attempt to silence Ms. Denison. In her activity she is joined by several other lawyers who also enjoy the same knowledge and act overtly to aid lawyer MS in her wrongful conduct. All are liable not only for the tort but the taxes due.
The targeted senior citizens usually have savings and other assets that disappear during the probate process. It is an assumption on my part that the non-disclosed assets that disappear are also not reported on the 1040 tax form, and thus are subject to tax evasion fraud. I make this assumption because so many lawyers are part of the scheme and unless they were sure that lawyer disciplinary boards (and their kangaroo panels) were going to look the other way few would gamble their law licenses.
I need you to alert the taxing authorities that the money to fund the bailout of my beloved State and beloved country is in the hands of these deep pocketed corrupt judges, lawyers, judicial officials, and public officials. No tax raise is necessary! All that is necessary is normal collection activity by State, local and Federal authorities.
· The breach of fiduciary relationship is a taxable event.
· Constructive receipt applies to the entire fund
· Each 18 USCA 242, and 18 USCA 371 conspirator has joint and several liability for both the tort and the taxes.
My communicate skills need some polishing, ergo, as the simple proposition that I am making does not seem to be effective I hope that you personally can improve on my presentation. A greater tax burden on the ordinary citizen is unconscionable when deep pocketed corrupt public figures laugh all the way to the Bank.
Thank you in advance for your help in saving my beloved Country and State.
Ken Ditkowsky
Lawyer MS is Melissa Smart. Lawyers joining her to suppress mine and Ken’s First Amendment rights which is illegal under 42 USC 242 are: Jerome Larkin, kingpin of corrupt Illinois ARDC, Sharon Opryszek, Steven Splitt, Leah Guiterrez Black, etc. All are to be avoided like the black death. They will not help you seek justice, they aid and abet criminal cover ups, they don’t care that Mary Sykes was narcotized to death on May 23, 2015 and a small group of lawyers begged for their assistance to prevent this murder; they cover up and quash discovery for crucial evidence to prevent the deaths and murders of seniors and in general, they need to be removed from their positions of power and authority because they create gaping black holes where assistance is requested and crucial. They do nothing to protect the public from unscrupulous lawyers; they aide and abet the unscrupulous.
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This might make it more costly for the nursing homes to understaff and abuse patients–problems we know are rampant with beatings and sexual abuse, dehydration and bed sores.
The comments are interesting too. One commentator said that there is no reason to increase the cost of keeping an elder because the elder is going to die anyway in the nursing home and lack of quality care will not change the outcome. (Comment of a psychopath)
Interesting that they don’t consider the cost in terms of litigation when there is rampant abuse and neglect into that factor, and the other factor of people are there to do a job correctly, and also there is the factor that parents and grandparents deserve kindness and compassion at end of live and not squalor and abuse.
More mainstream media coverage! Yes. The title? ABUSE PLAGUES SYSTEM OF LEGAL GUARDIANS. And they act like it’s something new.
From the Wall Street Journal, an article on the g-ship of Linda McDowell, 71 years old.
But guardianship systems across the country are plagued by allegations of financial exploitation and abuse, despite waves of overhaul efforts. As a result, critics say, many elderly people with significant assets become ensnared in a system that seems mainly to succeed at generating billings. “These laws which were designed to protect the vulnerable are being used against them to exploit them,” says Dr. Sam Sugar, founder of Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship, an advocacy group.
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But the roughly 1.5 million adult guardianships in the U.S. involve an estimated $273 billion in assets, according to Anthony Palmieri, auditor for the guardianship fraud program in Palm Beach County, Fla.
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“My savings are gone,” says Ms. McDowell, now living in a motor home near Sequim, Wash., with her dog, Sam. “They took everything.”
from the following article:
http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/01/how-police-became-a-standing-army/#
After first describing how a SWAT team descended upon an animal shelter for housing for one night a fawn abandoned by its mother, came the note:
Eleven days later and less than 100 miles away, staff at a nursing home in the Chicago suburb of Park Forest called paramedics after 95-year-old World War II veteran John Wrana, suffering from a delusional episode, refused medical treatment. The paramedics in turn called the police, which further agitated Wrana, who threatened them with his cane and a knife. The police responded by shooting Wrana with stun guns and bean bags fired from a shotgun. Wrana died from internal bleeding shortly thereafter.
Jerome Larkin head Aministrator of the ARDC has joined forces with attorneys and judges to make sure that YOUR parents and grandparents are routinely housed in nursing homes against their will and without their or YOUR consent. It’s called a guardianship and it occurs everyday on the 18th floor of the Daley Center in the Illinois Court System and throughout the nation. Helen Stone does not want to be in a nursing home, and she has been crying every day for her daughter, but when her daughter comes and advocates for her care, Barbara Stone, herself a lawyer, is arrested and charged with “interferring with the care of a disabled person”. Mary G. Sykes did not want to ever go to a nursing home, she wanted to die at home, and the court system ignored all of that and let her Guardian, Carolyn Toerpe, put her there against her will when Mary wanted to live with her younger daughter at home until she died. On May 23, 2015, Mary Sykes was narcotized to death, the younger daughter rushed to the nursing home and found her heavily drugged and in a near complete stupor. Mary Sykes NEVER took drugs. She was a staunch Roman Catholic organic vegetarian and would NEVER consent to hospice. In July of 2014, myself and a concerned group of 3 other citizens found Mary in a nursing home and went to visit. She was walking and talking as usual and engaging in higher cognitive level thinking. She clearly knew her daughter Gloria who came and her friends Scott and Delores. A video was taken for 45 minutes. The Naperville police would later destroy it upon orders from a court appointed attorney and the Guardian (of death) under threat of arrest. Mary exhibited no signs of dementia in July of 2014, and death by dementia does not happen in less than one year’s time, but the ARDC, the Illinois Supreme Court and the probate court were all begged to investigate this case, and instead, the case was covered up by the ARDC. Mary Sykes was listed on blogs like this one and others that her life was “at risk” but no one lifted a finger to save her. Two attorneys, myself and Ken Ditkowsky, were suspened for 3 and 4 years respectfully for reporting this to the authorities and on the Probate blogs. The ARDC clearly engaged in a cover up operation with the help of the Illinois Supreme Court. Recently the ND of Illinois joined forces in the conspiracy of death for Mary G Sykes by suspending myself. They had already suspended Ken Ditkowsky a year prior.
Seniors currently at risk the ARDC, Illinois Supreme Court and the ND Illinois courts do nothing about after abuse has been reported are:
Alan Frake: contusions and undiagnosed hip pain, drugging with psychotropic drugs for no diagnosed psychiatric condition other than he is (or was) a feisty old man. The use of chemical restraints on seniors is illegal under FDA and AMA guidelines and is considered an act of Torture under the Geneva Convention.
MP: selling her home and valuables falling off inventory. When the money is gone they will narcotize her to death too.
IL; Son illegally evicted, items fallen off inventory, son without property or money. Mother in nursing home where she does not want to be. Home emptied. She too will be narcotized to death when money runs out. Please pray for them all.
Pray for the ARDC to see Truth and Justice
JoAnne
Please join with us in calling these actions what they are–clear cases of severe abuse of our elderly and disabled.
No senior should be forced in a dangerous nursing home against their will, but they are every day.
A SWAT team should not be responding to an incident at a nursing home–a staff of trained orderlys and a psychiatrist should. The death of even one 95 year old man at a Park Forest nursing home is a great tragedy for the State of Illinois that should not be put in the same category as your average banana republic that has no hope and no rights for its residents.
Dirty Prosecutor Admits to Covering Up for Cop Who Shoved Gun Down Victim’s Throat
Apparently the DA attorney a Ms. Worrell had a “close relationship” with a dirty cop who handcuffed a suspect, beat him up and shoved a gun down the victim’s throat.
Instead of helping the victim file charges against the officer, the DA helped the police officer file false charges against the victim, adding insult to injury.
It is believed Ms. Worrell will face only 18 months probation for her crime.
If Larkin is involved he would just give her a reprimand.
For reporting on dirty attorneys and such in Illinois honest attorneys get suspended for 3 to 4 years.
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The cover-up of the Elder Cleansing scandal has grabbed my attention and marvels me. It is absolutely amazing that public officials have the temerity to act with criminal intent and actually get away with it. Every day it puzzles me that here in America so many senior citizens and disabled people are literally kidnapped, and robbed of their dignity and few are even concerned. Indeed, when a rapist is loose in a neighborhood everyone starts locking doors and windows, walking in pairs, and a hue and cry is raised. However, when an elderly and/or disabled person is seized, packaged into one of the hell hole nursing homes to lie in his/her own urine pursuant to an ultra vires court order not even a mouse stirs! The media goes mute, law enforcement goes blind, and the public goes deaf. Worse yet people who will be targeted as future victims walk with vigor and determination right into the makeshift gas chambers of the American holocaust.
Watching the debate last night reminded me of just how far we have allowed ourselves to be diverted from the core values of America. One of the guiding principles of America is the concept of ‘fair play’ and ‘honesty.’ The candidates for public office were protesting the obvious attempts by some people referred to a moderators trying to divert them into chaos and fighting amongst themselves for fun and profit. Questions of the type – do you still beat your wife – were beyond the intellectual capacity of the moderators, but they have gotten out of style in the 21st Century. The disclosure mechanism of a debate was absent as the moderators reduced the serious business to a sporting event. Who won became more important than who, if anyone, is best suited to be the President of the United States.
The seriousness of exposing the character, intelligence, ability, and personality of the person who become the next President of the United States was (and is) on the back burner. Billions of dollars are going to be wasted (and are wasted) in the packaging of a product that will exemplify the skill of PR people rather than the competence of the candidate. This perversion is designed with great skill. Unfortunately, it undermines America’s core values and leads to a general disregard of our humanity and our freedom. It also trickles down as ‘elder cleansing,’ ‘racial cleansing’ and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
The Lanre Amu case of the Illinois Lawyer Disciplinary Commission (IARDC) is an example of racial and ethnic cleansing of the Jim Crow variety. Amu, a citizen who immigrated to America from modern Africa, who possesses a darkest hue to his skin literally echoed a complaint made by the respected publication Crain’s Chicago Business when he encountered a law case in which the Judge was on the Board of the defendant, and the Judge’s brother was the attorney for the defendant [1]. Amu made a fatal error – he complained to the IARDC. Before he could turn his head he was labelled a liar and was suspended from the practice of law by the Illinois Supreme Court. Ms. Diane Nash (an Icon of the Civil Rights movement and a leader in the Selma march) sought to observe the kangaroo hearing that the IARDC was conducting against JoAnne Denison [2]. She was barred from the hearing room. In Spite of there being empty seats the IARDC told her (Ms. Nash) there were none and barred her from the hearing room.
How did the Illinois Lawyer Disciplinary Commission get away with this outrage? The political class has determined that they are ‘special’ and entitled to evade the laws that the rest of us are required to observe. The Wall Street Journal noted how a presidential candidate tried to evade disclosure laws and got caught. Here in Illinois public employees have to provide an ethics statement disclosing their financial information. A search of the ethics filings reveals that the Illinois Lawyers Disciplinary Commission administrator (Jerome Larkin) and a number of other public employees on the staff of the IARDC just ignore the law. Thus, the editorial from the Wall street Journal is applicable locally to demonstrate just how the elite public employees hold us = the ordinary citizens – in contempt and disrespect us, to wit:
Clinton’s Accidental Transparency
Let down by her overconfidence that the homebrew server would remain secret.
By
L. GORDON CROVITZ
Oct. 25, 2015 4:46 p.m. ET
No wonder Hillary Clinton feels aggrieved by her congressional grilling on Benghazi. She had the hard luck to be secretary of state in the Internet era, when digital secrets escape despite the best efforts to keep them hidden. Unintended transparency is better than none.
In an earlier era, the American public would never have learned Mrs. Clinton knew during the attack that it was a planned operation by terrorists and not a spontaneous protest as the administration insisted.
Mrs. Clinton kept her more than 60,000 emails off the State Department’s server. They came to light only because the House Select Committee on Benghazi discovered her secret email system. Those emails—not Mrs. Clinton—were the star witness at last week’s hearing, disclosing with precision who knew what when. ****
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One of the things Myanmar is severely lacking is free speech.
In this article we have Muslims being banned from political office:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/10/myanmar-muslim-free-election-151024182312301.html
Next, we have Amnesty International complaining about the Unity 5 or 5 banned imprisoned journalists for merely speaking the truth:
On World Press Freedom Day we remind the government of their promises to foster a free press and demand freedom for the ‘Unity Five’.
“What I want is more media freedom.” These are the words of Tint San, Chief Executive Officer at the Unity newspaper in Myanmar during his trial. His crime? Doing his job.
In January 2014, weekly newspaper Unity published an article about an alleged secret chemical weapons factory in Magwe Region, central Myanmar. Reporting that the factory was built in 2009 on land that was confiscated from farmers.
The government was quick to deny the story and responded by seizing copies of the newspaper. But worse was to come. Within days, Tint San and four journalists Lu Maw Naing, Yarzar Oo, Paing Thet Kyaw and Sithu Soe, were arrested…..
Jerome Larkin would be proud. Citizens arrested in a banana republic for telling state secrets on how their government poisons the populace with deadly chemicals . While the Myanmar government refuses to fund food, clothing, medical care or education for the populace, it wastes money on the military and on containing deadly chemicals. The release of waste of vast amounts of “military” money always seems to fall under “state secrets.” The production of vast amounts of deadly chemicals–for whatever reason–also seems to fall under “state secrets.”
Likewise, somehow the publication of vast amounts of attys and judges acting badly in court and not following the law falls under the Jerome Larkin umbrella of “code of silence”–a secret society that must be protected at all costs.
The Unity 5 were just doing their job when they were jailed, and likewise, when Ken Ditkowsky, I and Mr. Amu pointed out to the court there were obvious conflicts of interest, we were suspended for the necessary and evil “code of silence”–a code of silence that made it possible for Dorothy Brown to function for years screwing up the Cook County Court system with her brand of corruption.
JoAnne
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What is amazing is the effort that has been made to keep politics out of the Elder Cleansing scandal. There has been almost no attempt to brand the American Holocaust a consequence of this or that Republican or Democratic program, even though so many horrendous criminal ventures are fostered and sponsored by political operatives. Indeed, the assaults on the First Amendment promulgated by Jerome Larkin could not be sustained in a State in which the political machinery does not benefit from the corruption. Indeed, we are all aware that by a wave of his hand the political leader of the dominant political party can quash any HONEST investigation and quash the collection of billions of dollars in tax money due from the conspirators. It is no secret that the corruption is widespread and very profitable.
Behind the scenes the 18 USCA 242 and 18 USCA 371 criminals are laughing at us. Interestingly in spite of very slow tangible progress and up to now an almost total media blackout the ‘fighters’ who stand at the barricades fighting off the elder cleansers do not give up. Indeed, each of us is convinced that ultimately we will see the Jerome Larkin 18 USCA 242/18 USCA 371 elder cleansers in orange jumpsuits in the custody of the United States Department of Justice. Like it or not, we believe in America and her democracy.
Why is there no hue and cry for us? Why don’t we pick on some political soul and make a whole new religion out of him/her? We would love to do exactly that, however, each of us realizes that there is no quick fix to the problem of elder cleansing. Abuse of the elderly and the disabled is as old as human race. Exploitation of the weak is not a new state of affairs either. Assisted involuntary suicide is prohibited by the Ten Commandments. We by hook or crook are going to make any of the Jerome Larkin co-conspirators into saints. We cannot get them to remediate even the grosses of their crimes. I wrote Larkin asking him to apologize for his racial discrimination that he openly and notorious committed when he barred a civil rights icon from the kangaroo hearing he conducted in the JoAnne Denison case. He did not respond! Instead, he continued to violate citizen civil rights. In a similar manner, the Guardian ad Litem in the Gore case is not going to stop authoring fictitious claims for her own benefit. (Heirship in a Florida estate, oral promissory notes, imaginary thefts ***) The Guardian ad Litems in the Sykes case are not going to cease their opposition to HONEST investigations of criminal conduct ******. However, hope and justice is eternal but clout trumps both in Illinois and in too many State of the American union.
There is hope however on the horizon. For instance, in the political specter we are actually seeing career political characters being pilloried for their same old, same old. Last week we saw a former Secretary of State without shame disclose the bureaucracy of the Department of State was so bogged down in itself that not only could it not act to protect is own personnel but it was impotent in just about every way possible. The former Secretary further disclosed that instead of admitting to the America public that she and the Department had underestimated the playing field’s condition they just literally made up a lie and disseminated it. She showed no remorse! Lying to the American public was Standard Operating Procedure. Of course the usual knee jerk apologists for this political operative tried to divert attention from the serious admissions of wrongdoing and incompetence; but like Larkin’s cover up it appears a large segment of America was not fooled. Up is not down, Down in not up, Right is not wrong, Wrong is not right. The old strategies of the political class are not working and political favorites are not this election cycle getting away with the BIG LIE!. The message is clear – Americans want HONESTY and integrity from their government. America wants to be rid of the corrupt lawyers, corrupt judges, corrupt judicial officials as well as the corrupt political figures who figure that if they can buy elections and we are not smart enough to distinguish between Ivory Soap and Joe/Mary Candidate for public office.
Ironically not one political operative has openly and notoriously joined the fight to protect the elderly and the disabled from the predators who are raping our health care system and our safety valves that were represented to prevent hordes of elderly and disabled people from becoming homeless and destitute. It was not the intention of the Good Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the War on Poverty to be unjust enrichment programs for ‘sheltered care facilities’ such as nursing homes, hospice ****. Overcharges in services, pharmaceuticals etc was similarly not contemplated. The 700% fraud surcharge was a bit of a surprise. The usual 25% medium government fraud quotient was expected even though it also was a scandal. To reiterate it was the good intention to actually benefit a strong segment of the population that motivated the ADA, guardianship legislation, health care legislation etc.
All good deeds are properly punished and this situation was no exception. Intelligent criminals realized opportunities that were virtually unlimited and with the assistance of criminals in tailored suits and black robes did the deed – and are still doing the deed. So why do we laud our restraint! Many of us are realizing that we have an ally! Everyone gets old and everyone become vulnerable. The predators are no exception. The jurist who has traded his white sheet and hood for a black robe is not only no exception, but, he/she is a prime target of his 18 USCA 242 friends. The guardian ad litem who conjured up a scheme to silence a dissenter will ultimately find herself in her cousin’s nursing home getting the physical therapy (at government expense) consisting of being wheeled from her bedroom into the hallway so doped up that memories will be vague recollections of fantasy. Her predator has no loyalty to her. Interestingly, as government moves closer to closer to bankruptcy the taxman will make an appearance. Here in Illinois the billions of dollars in income taxes, interest and penalties due by the Jerome Larkin 18 USCA 242, 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators will not be overlooked as the anticipated and obvious tax rebellion comes to the fore.
Note to the bad guys! We do not need to be vocal, aggressive or nasty. Note to the political types! We do not need you – you are prime victims and if you do not exercise self-interest and protect the elderly and the disabled there is a bed waiting for you at the **** Nursing home where you will enjoy laying in your own urine as the life blood is sucked out of you and your family by the Jerome Larkin 18 USCA 371 and 18 USCA 242 co-conspirators.
Note to the rest of us! We are not alone! The issue of elder cleansing is not a partisan issue – it is a human issue and too many of our self-designated political leaders do not see their self interest in effectively addressing the problem. More meaningless laws that are unenforced is not the answer and everyone knows it – especially the political types. Being rich and famous do not give immunity from elder cleansing! Mickey Rooney is an example that come immediately to mind. We need HONEST investigations and Honest prosecutions of the Jerome Larkin 18 USCA 371, and 18 USCA 242 elder cleansing co-conspirators. Honest proper criminal prosecution and tax collection will not only take the profit out of isolation, abuse, exploitation and deprivation of human rights.
The Labryinth of Lies has to end right here and now. It is now time for an HONEST investigation and prosecution of the Jerome Larkin 18 USCA 242/18 USCA 371 co-conspirators and the protection of the elderly and the disabled.
Ken Ditkowsky
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from the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/john-doe-goes-to-washington-1445899241
Our readers know that Democratic prosecutors in Wisconsin tried to criminalize the political speech of Governor Scott Walker’s allies, but it turns out their ambitions didn’t stop at the state line. New evidence shows that John Doe investigators were trawling the files they collected via subpoenas and search warrants for information on national conservatives.
The documents are under seal in a state court case, Eric O’Keefe and Wisconsin Club for Growth v. Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB), but two sources have read them to us. The lawsuit is a complaint against the GAB, the state agency that worked with Milwaukee prosecutors on the John Doe that used campaign-finance laws to trample the First Amendment.
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This is all entirely interesting that Wisconsin is a hot bed of supressing the First Amendment, because union complained they could not protest at the capital when Wisconsin became an “open union” state where workers could take a job but turn down membership in the union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests
Many of these protestors were arrested and denied their right to protest in an open public forum.
However, it is apparent that they did not engage in the tactics of a fishing expedition to take out their opponents by having the authorities “look for” criminal activity where there was clearly no “reasonable suspicion” or “probable cause” that any crime had been committed.
In mine and Ken Ditkowsky’s ARDC cases, we were both told by clients that the ARDC contacted them and wanted them to testify against us, which is clear prosecutorial misconduct. Apparently those words mean nothing to the ARDC or the Illinois Supreme Court, but Wisconsin is getting heat for supression of First Amendment rights.
JoAnne
As many of you are aware, an attorney from Florida wrote a Cease and Desist letter to me regarding removing all content for “any and all cases in Miami Date County, Floorida relative to Barbara Stone, Helen Stone and/or the Guardinship of Helen Stone, and any and all parties participants counsel who have appeared, including Roy R. Lustig and Judge Michael A. Genden…..”
I would like to know why this guy is covering up corruption in the Florida court system? What is the point of that? Who is he actually working for and why is he doing this?
In any case, I have emailed him and I am waiting to hear from him regarding why he is attempting to suppress my (and your) first amendment rights to publish what Barbara Stone has told us.
It must be an important case, because it’s expensive and risky to send out these letters.
I am actually honored to know that someone thinks my work in uncovering corruption is so important it warrants an attorney letter clearly supressing my first amendment rights.
I will let you know how this attorney responds, if at all.
JoAnne
email to Atty Spiegelman re: Barbara and Helen Stone cases.
Dear Mr. Spiegelman;
I would like to interview your offices for my blogs, and esp. as it relates to the Stone case.
Or you can start by answering the following questions:
Your answers and a telephone interview would be greatly appreciated for the readers of my blog and other probate blogs.
please email me with a time that is convenient for you
Thanks
JoAnne
http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/nursing-homes/article41344296.html
California’s largest nursing home owner is facing a new round of government scrutiny as the FBI served search warrants last week at his Riverside facility, and two more of his former top administrators have been charged criminally by the state attorney general’s office.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller confirmed Saturday that FBI agents executed search warrants “seeking evidence in relation to alleged criminal activity” at a 99-bed facility in Riverside owned by nursing home magnate Shlomo Rechnitz.
MaryGSykes.com 