Comments on: Trust your customers, stupid http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7475 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:59:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7475/comment-page-1#comment-28547 Reader's Write Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:02:34 +0000 #comment-28547 "Our only real hope, as a free society, is that the judiciary will fish around inside its collective underwear and find (shall we discretely call it: ) the cojones to rule in accordance with common law and common sense, in favor of freedom and justice for the common man, as opposed to privilege for the rich and powerful." There can be no hope in the judiciary. The judiciary is as bad or worse than the legislature. The judiciary is too easy to manipulate. Worse yet, no US federal judge has been removed due to a complaint since the 1930s, which means that over of over 50,000 complaints, not a single one has resulted in the removal of a judge. The result is that complaints are hardly ever filed because they are a waste of time. Among the reasons for not filing a complaint, or why they are a waste of time are: a. Complaints are never properly attended. b. A complaint leads to retaliatory actions by the judges. c. Complaints are evaluated, incredibly, by fellow judges. d. The complaint system is hidden to discourage complaints. For example, if a person wants to read prior complaints against a judge, there is no way to finde them in the court or the Internet. e. Not even the statistics are published, such a scomplaints per case, per judge, average time to resolve a complaint, judge removed, etc. The problem has been recognized by the Judiciary Comittee in congress. Unfortunately, after making a few political expressions, nothing has come out of the comittee, The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, James Sensenbrenner issued a statement on the problem over a year ago: "The 1980 Act, which was amended during the 107th Congress, is based on a self-governing construct that allows the judicial branch large deference to police itself regarding matters of judicial misconduct and discipline. This system worked quite well during the 1980's. . . . Since then, however, this process has not worked as well, with some complaints being dismissed out of hand by the judicial branch without any investigation." Actually, Sensenbrenner comments were less than honest, for the complaint system never worked, not even after the 1980 Act. Thenno changes have been made to the non working complaint system. Certainly no results have been seen. That a bunch of lawyers working for the cartels dare to extort money in exchange for not filing frivolous lawsuits says it all. The judiciary need not be feared or respected because it can be manipulated at will. Certainly nothing good can be expected from the judiciary until all the incopetenet or corrupt rotten apples are removed. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com “Our only real hope, as a free society, is that the judiciary will fish around inside its collective underwear and find (shall we discretely call it: ) the cojones to rule in accordance with common law and common sense, in favor of freedom and justice for the common man, as opposed to privilege for the rich and powerful.”

There can be no hope in the judiciary. The judiciary is as bad or worse than the legislature. The judiciary is too easy to manipulate. Worse yet, no US federal judge has been removed due to a complaint since the 1930s, which means that over of over 50,000 complaints, not a single one has resulted in the removal of a judge.

The result is that complaints are hardly ever filed because they are a waste of time. Among the reasons for not filing a complaint, or why they are a waste of time are:

a. Complaints are never properly attended.
b. A complaint leads to retaliatory actions by the judges.
c. Complaints are evaluated, incredibly, by fellow judges.
d. The complaint system is hidden to discourage complaints. For example, if a person wants to read prior complaints against a judge, there is no way to finde them in the court or the Internet.
e. Not even the statistics are published, such a scomplaints per case, per judge, average time to resolve a complaint, judge removed, etc.

The problem has been recognized by the Judiciary Comittee in congress. Unfortunately, after making a few political expressions, nothing has come out of the comittee, The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, James Sensenbrenner issued a statement on the problem over a year ago:

“The 1980 Act, which was amended during the 107th Congress, is based on a self-governing construct that allows the judicial branch large deference to police itself regarding matters of judicial misconduct and discipline. This system worked quite well during the
1980’s. . . . Since then, however, this process has not worked as well, with some complaints being dismissed out of hand by the judicial branch without any investigation.”

Actually, Sensenbrenner comments were less than honest, for the complaint system never worked, not even after the 1980 Act. Thenno changes have been made to the non working complaint system. Certainly no results have been seen.

That a bunch of lawyers working for the cartels dare to extort money in exchange for not filing frivolous lawsuits says it all. The judiciary need not be feared or respected because it can be manipulated at will.

Certainly nothing good can be expected from the judiciary until all the incopetenet or corrupt rotten apples are removed.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7475/comment-page-1#comment-28409 Reader's Write Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:55:36 +0000 #comment-28409 THE REAL DANGER IS IF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY RESPONDS NOT BY ACCEPTING THAT THEY NEED TO TRUST THEIR CUSTOMERS MORE BUT BY TRYING TO EXERT EVEN MORE CONTROL, AND PERHAPS USING THEIR LOBBYING POWERS TO CHANGE LAWS TO MAKE THEIR SYSTEMS UNAVOIDABLE. In that one sentence, the author has emerged as a modern day Nostradamus; there is no doubt that the entertainment cartels have more money than they know what to do with, that elected legislators always need more money than they have, and that the two go together like hand-in-glove; thus the REAL DANGER he refers to is, in fact, a VERY REAL fait-accompli. Our only real hope, as a free society, is that the judiciary will fish around inside its collective underwear and find (shall we discretely call it: ) the cojones to rule in accordance with common law and common sense, in favor of freedom and justice for the common man, as opposed to privilege for the rich and powerful. As for that, my faith in the judiciary is rapidly failing (witness its endorsement of the FISA and PATRIOT Act). Time to ascribe a Quatrain number to the above quoted paragraph. THE REAL DANGER IS IF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY RESPONDS NOT BY ACCEPTING THAT THEY NEED TO TRUST THEIR CUSTOMERS MORE BUT BY TRYING TO EXERT EVEN MORE CONTROL, AND PERHAPS USING THEIR LOBBYING POWERS TO CHANGE LAWS TO MAKE THEIR SYSTEMS UNAVOIDABLE.

In that one sentence, the author has emerged as a modern day Nostradamus; there is no doubt that the entertainment cartels have more money than they know what to do with, that elected legislators always need more money than they have, and that the two go together like hand-in-glove; thus the REAL DANGER he refers to is, in fact, a VERY REAL fait-accompli. Our only real hope, as a free society, is that the judiciary will fish around inside its collective underwear and find (shall we discretely call it: ) the cojones to rule in accordance with common law and common sense, in favor of freedom and justice for the common man, as opposed to privilege for the rich and powerful.

As for that, my faith in the judiciary is rapidly failing (witness its endorsement of the FISA and PATRIOT Act). Time to ascribe a Quatrain number to the above quoted paragraph.

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