Lawyers have taken an oath to uphold the constitutions of the US and their own state.  We don’t “take up arms” because we know that the only time there is a win for a democracy it is done in a legislature or in a courtroom, generally a Federal District Courtroom, and yet the small person has been banned for most suits in Federal District Court.

Something has to change. We spend $2 billion per day on the Pentagon, while our rights are being slowly eroded away in the US and State courtrooms.  I recall when the judges were very interested in justice and would brag about how they helped the common guy.  Now the judges to your face brag about how they next have a $50 million case up next before them and your damages are pennies, so please get out of the way.

What happened?  Well I think I…

okay, I voted her that, but I know she helps other women who have been through the worst–and that is prostitution.  A crime that no one does anything about where in the US we have the most trafficked women, girls and boys.

I have had contact with trafficked women in Chicago, and believe me, no one helps. I faxed the FBI, the states attorneys (Madigan, Alvarez, etc.), the Chicago police department and no one responded.

For that, I am giving Brenda Powell my vote and this blog’s vote for Woman of the Year.

Keep on going, Brenda!

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33113238?SThisFB

My 25 years as a prostitute

Brenda Myers-Powell was just a child when she became a prostitute in…

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/why-edward-snowden-is-a-hero

Is Edward Snowden, the twenty-nine-year-old N.S.A. whistle-blower who was last said to be hiding in Hong Kong awaiting his fate, a hero or a traitor? He is a hero. (My colleague Jeffrey Toobin disagrees.) In revealing the colossal scale of the U.S. government’s eavesdropping on Americans and other people around the world, he has performed a great public service that more than outweighs any breach of trust he may have committed. Like Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who released the Pentagon Papers, and Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician who revealed the existence of Israel’s weapons program, before him, Snowden has brought to light important information that deserved to be in the public domain, while doing no lasting harm to the national security of his country.

Doubtless, many people inside the U.S. power structure—President Obama included—and some of its apologists in the media will see things differently…

From Roseanne Miller

http://nypost.com/2016/05/22/justice-department-lawyers-got-a-slap-they-deserved/

In a stinging slap at the Justice Department, a federal judge last week ordered practically all the lawyers in its main DC office to take ethics training for five years.

At that, they got off lightly: Judge Andrew Hanen said he would have disbarred the lawyers, who had deceived him, if he had the power.

Hanen was the judge who heard the request by 26 states to toss out President Obama’s 2014 executive order granting temporarily legal status to millions of immigrants who aren’t actually legal.

The case is now before the Supreme Court — which is the only reason Hanen didn’t issue a summary judgment against Obama and the lawyers who lied.

Federal rules of civil procedure require attorneys to neither mislead the courts, nor allow the courts to be misled. Hanen found that the Justice lawyers had done just that — in his court.

http://www.nextavenue.org/guardianship-u-s-protection-exploitation/

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  By Emily GurnonHealth & Caregiving Editor

Credit: Tennessee Bar Association

Ginger Franklin of Nashville speaks before the Tennessee Bar Association.

(Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a three-part series on guardianship abuses appearing this week on Next Avenue.)

Ginger Franklin was just shy of her 50th birthday when she fell down the stairs of her Nashville-area townhouse in 2008. A marketing representative for Sam’s Club, she was taken to the hospital with a severe brain injury. Doctors weren’t sure if she would survive.

Since Franklin had not designated anyone to make decisions for her if she became incapacitated, and with no immediate family, her aunt was advised to petition the court for a guardian. The guardian, a lawyer appointed…

http://www.ourmidland.com/news/wixson-advocates-for-residents-as-public-guardian/article_4a875747-fa66-539e-ae43-39f1e4e14686.html

For those of you out there that know probate, get ready, this article will make you want to vomit:

From Cynthia Stevens:

How many stories will it take before the authorities do anything.

He wants to see her, she wants to see him. She does not want to stay in a nursing home, but the nursing home has her under house arrest.  Doctors and nurses admit she is competent. Yet, she is imprisoned in a nursing home, the gulags, ghettos, and slums for the elderly from which death is the only escape.  Human and civil rights quickly disappear as attorneys and the nursing homes “take it all” and accuse family members and friends who would charge nothing to little to care for the elderly, as being the culprits, when they are nothing but criminals charging 10,000 to 15,000 per month or whatever they can get, while refusing to let the elder go home and stay with a relative.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/man-accused-of-taking-woman-from-nursing-home-heads-to-court/39656180

This man was finally released and loves his friend. She loves him.  Her…