ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY

I HAVE WRITTEN GUILTY AT GUNPOINT AND THIS Companion book to raise public consciousness about the fact that our government has been violating the laws of our land in a wholesale fashion, ironically in the name of enforcing law and order. Therefore, the chapters that follow are going to be about crime and corruption in the Department of Justice and the umbrella under which it serves as a loyal servant of the state sponsored corporate-welfare industrial complex.

My observations here are consistent with those of legal ethicists and current political and social philosophers in the United States. For any law to be legal and make sense, it must meet some basic criteria based on universally accepted principles by a human society and/or culture. The reason it is essential to apply these principles is that we all know that there are laws that are valid and/or moral and those that are invalid and/or immoral. For example, some laws might have been written and passed by those in power, meant to benefit those with power and privilege, the very people who wrote them. Laws passed based on self-interest by those responsible for enacting such laws without consensus from the rest of the population has been a rather common phenomenon throughout history. Because of this, all societies end up with many laws on their books that are sometimes very harmful to the wellbeing of the majority of the population that did not participate in power or the democratic process and thus was not allowed to participate in the enactment and implementation of those laws.

It is because of the this indisputable understanding of the legal system as described above, that occasionally, the CPI (Center for Prosecutorial Integrity) of the Department of Justice in its infinite quest for hypocrisy, comes up with its propaganda to show the American people how much it cares about law, order, and justice. Today is December 22, 2017, I am still under house arrest and will be for another year. When I awoke this morning, I read an announcement from the CPI which said: "On January 2, 2018, the Center for Prosecutorial Integrity will launch a national campaign to raise public awareness about the erosion of the presumption of innocence and the problem of the biased, 'believe the victim' investigations. Can you join in this effort?" The DOJ is asking the same public to join in this effort, the one that they are indiscriminately putting in prisons in violation of this fundamental principle of the presumption of innocence. How ironic is that! I hope to clearly establish throughout this book that this is just the DOJ's propaganda, there is no real intention of doing anything about reforming the Department of Justice. When the DOJ ignores due process or the rule of law, then many innocent people ending up in prison is going to be just a natural consequence of that.

What the Department of Justice is not telling you in making this announcement is that whenever the public has made the DOJ aware of prosecutorial misconduct, the DOJ has quietly swept the public complaints under the rug. The DOJ announcement says: "Presumption of Innocence in the American Justice system assumes that the defendant is innocent, the Prosecution must prove guilt, that prosecution must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the Defense must prove nothing." No amount of public awareness brought about by these hypocritical national campaigns will help if the DOJ is not willing to discipline its own prosecutors' illegal practices such as those of Delahunty who violated the public trust in my case. And I firmly believe that there are countless cases like mine out there that will never come to the surface. Compare this DOJ's public announcement with the fact that many prosecutors were reported to the DOJ throughout the last two administrations, Bush and Obama, about their questionable ethics and prosecutorial misconduct, but the DOJ did not punish anyone, no one lost his/her job, let alone went to jail for commission of what are clearly described as crimes in criminal statutes and case law. Former federal prosecutor, Sidney Powell has given many examples of this in her own book and she has publicly named many prosecutors in her mainstream media appearances since the publication of her book in 2014. Attorney Generals have repeatedly promised that they want to reform the DOJ but have done nothing. In fact, there is clear evidence that they have done the opposite.

When I was interviewed by the Probation officer, Michael Armistead before he gave his sentence recommendations to Judge Ishii, one of the questions he asked me was what made me decide to come to America. I replied, "Freedom of speech." I said that because I had always believed America afforded its citizens the greatest freedom of speech in the world. Years after my arrival I read an amusing fact, and probably an accurate observation by Mark Twain who said, "It is with the goodness of God that we have three unspeakably precious things in this country, which are freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to never practice either one of them." Otto Von Bismarck said in 1849 that there is a special providence for drunkards, fools and the United States of America. I think Bismarck's sarcasm was misplaced, there is nothing wrong with America, it is just that it is the most powerful country unmatched in the history of the world, and we all know, well understood for a long time, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Because of its unlimited power in the world, America has to fear no one but itself. It is my prediction that the United States will start dying of its own self-inflicted wounds in the next few decades, it already has in many ways, but we are not allowed to talk about the downfall of the American empire. Americans who truly love this country and want to talk about it, so we could increase the odds of having a better future for ourselves, for our children and grandchildren, and the rest of the world for that matter, are immediately shut down and labelled as unpatriotic traitors. Norman Mailer once said that America has reached a state of pre-fascism. That was then, now we suffer from a full-fledged star-spangled fascism, a clandestine fascism, unmatched in the history of fascisms.

FDA'S BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

I CAME FROM A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY AND THEREFORE was aware that favors of public officials were blatantly for sale. It is a fact of life that one may buy his way out of predicaments, even may get away with murder by dropping appropriate sums of money in the right places. The difference between buying off an official, a prosecutor or a judge in a third world country and buying justice in America by loading up odds in favor of the privileged is a "difference in method, not substance." That is the phrase used by the great American Criminal defense lawyer Gerry Spence in his book, With Justice for None. In either case, the outcome is the same. Those with money get away with breaking the law. Those without it, do not. And if you do not have money, then any justice at all is an unattainable dream for you. It does not matter if you are innocent, some depraved prosecutor may decide to accuse you and then unilaterally decide your fate because he is endowed with an infinite sovereign power of the government of the United States. It is a shame that many of us Americans do not have the basic understanding that it is not our government employees who are sovereign, although they make this claim in the name of the government, it is us, we the people, who are sovereign. The government prosecutors work for us, we put them out there to shield us from criminals and to do what is right, not go wild with the powers we the people, endowed upon them.

An innocent defendant's testimony explaining why he thinks he is innocent is not permitted in our criminal justice system. If you are accused, you are not allowed to be a participant in any discussion in our criminal justice system. Everyone else discusses your crimes, except you, you are not allowed to say a word, let alone speak. Any prosecutor working for the federal government can put any citizen in jail if he/she so desires any time of the day. Once a government agent or a prosecutor falsifies a statement or commits perjury, that falsification becomes a mantra for all others federal agencies involved in the prosecution of the case, while the defendant's voice is smothered at every turn because now he has officially become a sub-human not allowed to say that he/she has not done anything wrong. One would think that judges, public officials and prosecutors in our government have an affirmative duty to at least read and understand a case, let alone study it. Once a prosecutor has made an accusation in a criminal case, it becomes a fact carved in stone for everyone else in the government circles, from the judge to the Probation officer, to third-party shrinks, to the media, and prison wardens and the accused is permanently branded with a label, like we tag cattle. No one seems to care about the incredible suffering that awaits a defendant just in case he was innocent. Many prosecutors and judges do not seem to have the basic IQ to understand what it would mean if they were to be in the shoes of a defendant, or if one of their own loved ones who committed no crime was locked up in a cage for life, causing irreparable and irreversible damage personally, emotionally and socially.

Power, money, and greed wielded without conscience have become a dangerous weapon in our country. It is like placing a gun in the hands of a child. The Department of Justice often appears to be a department without adult supervision, a department where workers and supervisors work as a team in the name of being tough on crime. Any reasonable person agrees that "tough on crime" is a good idea in theory and principle; why should we not be tough on crime? We all agree, we should. Most Americans, however, don't know that many of our prosecutors do not give a fig about crime, often they do not mind teaming up with real criminals to achieve their ends; what they really care about is their conviction rate, which is what gets them the promotions within the department, while enhancing their chance for a better career through the ever-spinning revolving door between government and private law firms. Prisons are a profit-driven business, numbers matter, and it is easiest to fill them with those who cannot defend themselves. Our Criminal Justice System, our government, and our corporations have probably committed more crimes victimizing more people than all the crimes by average citizens put together in the entire 200-year history of the United States. My statement may seem a bit strange to you, but I can easily prove my point in any public debate. As Gerry Spence commented, "If such an epidemic of crimes committed by our corporations persisted among the general public, we would call out the National Guard and declare martial law."

Because of the influence of unconstrained sums of corporate money and power over the government today, any bills drafted for new legislation, are drawn up by lobbyists and lawyers for the corporations and drug companies they benefit. Congress and the Senate don't even consider it necessary to read the bill drafted by corporate lawyers. They bring lobbyists to press conferences to explain what the bill is about, because those who will be signing the bill into legislation haven't read it or don't understand it, or they don't care even if they understand it, so they cannot answer questions related to the bill. The lobbyist has to do that job for them. The government's role has boiled down to rubber stamping the bills put in front of them by the lobbyists. Advocacy and lobbying for bills create the opportunity for corporations to induce legislatures and government agencies (such as the FDA) to support their bills for the wrong reason, in exchange for money and other incentives. A drug company is even asked by the FDA, for example, to help draft the FDA regulations through the medium of "Drug advisory committees" formulated in the name of public-private cooperation. Once the bill is written, it will pass because top FDA officials' palms have been greased in one form or another. It may come in the form of gifts, golf memberships, nomination to the FDA's high positions, and campaign contributions. And then there are substantial financial contributions made to the FDA's annual budget masked as different kinds of fees from Big Pharma, meant to look like a noble cause, the benefits of which will presumably trickle down to the American consumer. Even the Supreme Court, traditionally our last resort from tyranny, now has bypassed representative democracy and created many case-laws that are unconstitutional and plain unethical. These laws make it abundantly clear that the wealthy and corporations can give unlimited sums of money to anyone in government to buy loyalty as long as they don't give or take hard cash. In other words, don't make it obvious - no quid pro quo, but feel free to use any indirect means of bribery and bribe as much as you wish, the sky is the limit.

The FDA and many other government agencies have been pre-paid for their commitment, loyalty, unconditional love and support for the drug and food industries and other private sectors that run the show behind the scenes. Unfortunately, many Americans do not understand that FDA is a cartel, just as the Federal Reserve is a cartel. The Federal Reserve is neither a reserve nor is it federal, it is a secret private banking cartel. We have been duped by private cartels with the terminology that sounds like public sector, such as Food and Drug Administration or the Federal Reserve. Every FDA commissioner ever appointed in the history of the FDA up until now has been lobbied, nominated, elected and selected as a political appointee by the pharmaceutical monopolists, someone who has already substantially lined his pockets with cash from Big Pharma well before being nominated for that position.

The FDA commissioner is expected to assist drug giants with maintaining their exorbitant drug patents for as long as possible masking under different names for the same drug, and help them price fix drugs in acting as a rubber stamp for the government regulations drafted by the drug cartel's own attorneys, who specialize in this trade of writing legislation for the government. While Big Pharma lobbyists keep their warm and fuzzy relationship with the FDA commissioner, they also treat politicians and government employees to lavish dinners, gifts of a lifetime and promise lucrative future employment after their retirement from the FDA, a win-win situation, because now the government retirees, as new employees of the drug company, will continue to help the pharmaceutical company as an insider-conduit with direct connections with the inner circles of the FDA. Financial ties with the Drug cartel are a presupposition and have now become a pre-requisite and a pre-condition for being appointed as the next head-honcho of the FDA. Because of these illegal and unethical practices, agencies like the FDA have failed to act as the consumer protection agencies that they were meant to be. The FDA, for example, will delay for years the approval of life saving drugs that need to be pushed through to save thousands of lives if the applicant hasn't yet lined the FDA's pockets enough. The same FDA will push through other drug applications and speed up the approval process without adequately investigating to see if the drug is safe, if enough people on the FDA's decision committee have been bribed or incentivized by the Drug and Food cartel. Sure enough, the FDA will then ban the drug a few years later, after a few thousand Americans have lost their lives, and Big Pharma has made a few billions from the poison that should not have been allowed on the market in the first place. It is a good financial decision by the pharmaceutical company to make five billion from a block buster drug and then pay 400 million in class action if it got caught. They still have a profit of 4 billion and 600 million, not a bad deal.

The FDA will look the other way when its approved drugs and devices directly or indirectly kill hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. It often approves drugs that are not yet proven to be safe and then fudge or withhold research data for unsafe drugs with FDA employees actively colluding with the Big Pharma applicants. It does not stop there – the FDA will allow price fixing for drugs that were primarily the result of publicly funded research at our universities by researchers who work for little, research that was funded with our tax dollars. Criminally passed corporate Agreements like NAFTA come in handy for the FDA to justify price fixing by their financial sponsors, the drug and food industry. Nearly 90 percent of the research and development for drugs is funded with the tax payer's money in our country. The benefits of publicly funded research are not passed on to people, where the benefits belong, but instead, the FDA passes on these benefits to Big Pharma because it directly financially supports FDA operations. This has resulted in the imprisonment of advocates and dissidents who stand in the way of a food and drug monopoly that led to predatory profiteering on the backs of the poor and those in need for life-saving medications.