CommentsCORRUPTION WATCH-We are ignoring the mechanism by which a predatory society brings incessant violence upon itself. The United States is one of the most abusive, predatory societies on the planet. Whether a person is sane or not, a person’s national culture is the major factor in whether he or she murders masses of people. These shootings arise from our nature.
We need to admit that a predatory culture elects a pussy-grabber as President. Predators elect someone who mocks disabled people and who openly urges violence. Such an abusive society produces extremely angry murderous young men from Timothy McVeigh to Eric Rudolph to Nikolas Cruz.
Young males attacking schools is predictable – the school is “their world.” We teach males that aggression is manly. We teach males that killing is a good solution to problems. Then, we hand them assault rifles with large magazines which maximize the kill per second ratio.
The Judiciary is the Most Predatory Institution
While abusive political leaders are obsessed to find a way to shut up the Parkland youth, people who care about what is happening to our society need to gain a deeper understanding of how we have become a violent predatory nation. Although the origins are complex, one institution bears more blame than the others – the corrupt judicial system.
The courts operate with no oversight. While the Commission on Judicial Performance is ostensibly an independent agency (Calif Const VI, § 18), it is dominated by the California Supreme Court. In the face of the federal court’s finding that California state courts had “an epidemic of misconduct” which the feds attributed to the judges, the CJP not only protects miscreant judges from exposure but refuses to allow the California State Auditor to see its records. What accounts for the discrepancy between the feds’ finding an epidemic of misconduct and the CJP’s anointing judges as saints? The ability to operate in complete and total secrecy is a huge amount of power. Power corrupts!
Judges often come from the district attorney offices where they have been steeped in the use of lying jailhouse informants, concealing exculpatory evidence, and falsification of evidence. In 1996, when LAPD Officers Rafael Perez and Nino Durden attempted to murder Javier Ovanda, the courts cooperated in framing the victim, sending Ovanda to prison. After the Rampart Scandal exploded and Officer Perez’ central role was exposed, the entire LAPD was scrutinized by the United State Justice Department and their railroading of Javier Ovanda came to light.
Later, it was discovered that Judge Jacqueline Connor and her fellow judges had presided over 100 convictions which had to be overturned, while thousands more went under review. While the nation focused on the LAPD, the true ring leaders of the framings were the criminal court judges.
The appellate court knew that judges were complicit in framing people. Years earlier, it had ordered that Los Angeles District Attorney Office to cease its use of lying jailhouse informants. Since they had done it themselves when they were assistant DAs, judges recognized the use of lying jail house informants when it occurred in front of them.
The abusive intransigence of judges who railroad people was highlighted in 2015, twenty years after the Ramparts Scandal. A federal appeals court castigated the California state courts for allowing the epidemic of misconduct. The State case, which the feds were reviewing, involved a prosecutor who had solicited a lying jail house informant and then the prosecutor himself took the stand to vouch for the informant’s veracity by falsely denying that the informant was receiving special consideration for his pro-prosecution testimony. Even after the informant’s and the prosecutor’s perjury were uncovered, the state judges did nothing.
A predatory judiciary pollutes our entire society. That’s how Eric Garcetti can get away with the destruction of thousands of rent-controlled apartments and then have the LAPD arrest homeless people for “crimes” like sitting on a sidewalk or sleeping in a car. An abusive judiciary tells other powerful people that they have free reign to abuse the weak.
Good Guys Should Kill Bad Guys
We have subjected our children to a deceitful, predatory culture where we divide the world into Good Guys and Bad Guys. The Good Guys can do whatever they want to the Bad Guys including killing them. The unspoken rule is that Might Makes Right. That belief is hidden within the NRA meme about a “Good Guy with a Gun.” That meme accepts the idea that killing other people is an acceptable solution to problems. Both mentally disturbed and sane people become infused with this notion. As Tom Ripley said, “Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it? In your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person.” Dylann Storm Roof believed it was good to exterminate nine people in a South Carolina Church.
People with power sense the threat the Parkland youth pose to their hegemony. Those youth who escaped being murdered have had their characters assassinated, but the President did not utter a single word in their defense. Donald Trump Jr. “liked” a pair of tweets attacking a teen survivor of the mass school shooting, David Hogg, as “a fabrication of the mainstream media.” Daddy Trump, the world’s most active Twitter user, did not correct his lying, abusive son.
Daddy Trump’s main solution to the constant murdering of our youth is more killing by arming teachers rather than taking the guns away from the maniacs. The message is clear, Killing People is a Good Solution.
Nothing will change as long as our culture believes that killing people is a good solution. The idea that the Second Amendment makes us free is absurd. Americans are not freer than Canadians, we are not freer than Aussies, we are not freer than Germans. In fact, by all indicators of freedom, America is way down the list of industrialized nations.
Step one is admitting that we are drunk on the idea that being an abusive, lying, murdering SOB is the manly way to behave.
(Richard Lee Abrams is a Los Angeles attorney and a CityWatch contributor. He can be reached at: [email protected]. Abrams views are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of CityWatch.) Edited for CityWatch by Linda Abrams.
