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…

From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>
To: illinoisgov <gov.goca@illinois.gov>, “ilhouse51@sbcglobal.net”Subject: Fw: ARDC v. JMD – Motion to vacate all orders as void abintio, Strike Trial Testimony and Reinstate License Instanter–court reporter NOT licensed
Date: May 21, 2016 9:07 AM
Attachments: ARDC v. JMD – 052116 -Motion2Vac.all.orders.exhs.pdf ARDC v JMD 051716- MTVacate.all.orders.doc
Pursuant to Rule 8.3 and 18 USCA 4 I am reporting once again the criminal activity in which Jerome Larkin has pursuant to his violation of 18 USCA 371 18 USCA 1341 18 USCA 241,242 actively promulgated a massive cover-up of corrupt judicial activity including but not limited to criminal activity by corrupt lawyers and judges against the elderly and the disabled.
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: ARDC v. JMD – Motion to vacate all orders as void abintio, Strike Trial Testimony and Reinstate License Instanter–court reporter NOT licensed

The efforts of Jerome Larkin and his 18…

From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>
To: Cynthia Stephens <cynthiastphns1@aol.com>; & 50 others
Sent: Fri, May 13, 2016 12:43 pm
Subject: Re: OTCwith Shu and Deborah Goonan – Saturday, May 14th, 2016 at 2:00pm, est., or anytime thereafter, on www.onthecommons.us, orwww.onthecommons.net!

I can’t tell you how much I am disappointed by the investigation of the New York bar’s 13 attorneys where only one threw a corrupt foreign official out of his office on a 60 minutes report. Sixty minutes should be having a field day with corrupt lawyers and the bar associations and their programs. I am proposing herewith an entire series–“Law and Order– corruption in the courts”. Where is that series at?  Ken and I and others could write volumes of screen plays. Hollywood, please contact us.

In the meantime, we have 3 activist lawyers in Chicago who dared to make a difference, and who the ARDC suspended for 3 to 4 years–Ken Ditkowsky, myself and Lanre Amu only for whistleblowing and reporting on all the corruption.

Where is Hollywood?  You could not even make this highly dramatic and emotionally charged stories up.  Murder she Wrote and the Wurnos story…