Introduction to 20-Plus Years of Attempts to Prevent Exposure of High-Level Corruption Starting in 1982 and continuing without letup to this day, over 50 lawyers and law firms have filed sham lawsuits against the activist behind this Internet site, using various tactics to halt the exposure of corruption that continues to inflict great harm upon individual Americans and upon the United States. This page refers to the attempt in February 2009 by unknown individuals to deplete the assets used to continue exposing vast areas of corrupt and criminal activities related to numerous tragedies. Over 50 lawyers and law firms have filed sham lawsuits against former federal agent and activist against corruption in government, Rodney Stich, starting in 1982 and continuing to this date. The effects of the activities were to strip Stich of assets that funded his exposure activities, or to seize the books detailing the various forms of corruption. With the cooperation of over a dozen California judges, and over 50 federal judges, and in repeated gross violations of major state and federal statutes and controlling case law, Stich was stripped of his assets that in 1987 were valued at $10 million, and valued today at about $18 million. As Stich continued his exposure activities, minus his assets, lawyers, law firms, and state judges in South Carolina, and then in California, filed lawsuits to seize the books (at that time, Unfriendly Skies, Defrauding America, and Drugging America). They failed to do this, despite the help of California and federal judges. Seeking funds to continue with the publication of the non-profit books and continued gathering of additional evidence, Stich formed an IRS non-profit 501(C)(3) corporation. Meager donations from a few individuals provided minimum funds to continue these efforts. That corporation was named Ombudsmen to Promote Government Integrity, with a web site for donations at www.ombudsmen.org. Bogus Bank Check to Deplete Exposure Funding In February 2009, unknown people sought to deplete the assets in the non-profit corporation that funded Stich's exposure activities. The sequence of events were as follows: At 8 a.m. on February 22, 2009, Stich received a phone call from a woman claiming she was with Wells Fargo Bank and that she wanted to confirm the details on the bank account for Ombudsmen to Promote Government Integrity. Stich did not respond as the caller wanted, and said asked, "Aren't you the head of Ombudsmen to Promote Government Integrity?" Stich responded that the caller must think he was an idiot to provide any such information to someone on the phone and then hung up. Immediately thereafter, Stich's "copilot" of many years, Glenda Guilinger, received a phone call from the same person, seeking information about the bank account. Several hours later, a representative of the bank that had the account, Ombudsmen for Government Integrity, called Stich and advised him that someone had tried to cash a $15,500 check for the Ombudsmen account. In trying to analyze who could have been trying to drain the last remaining account that provided funding for the exposure of the criminal activities and the people directly and indirectly associated with them, the following facts suggested some of the people behind the latest attempts: The only people who would know, or suspected, that Stich controlled the bank account would be the lawyers and law firm in South Carolina and in the Los Angeles area that had been seeking since 2001 to halt Stich's activities through further stripping him of any remaining residual assets and to seize the books. Their actions expanded on the earlier actions by the CIA-FBI-front San Francisco law firm, their lawyers, and other lawyers who played significant peripheral roles, plus California and federal judges and Justice Department personnel. Obviously, they would have the ability to gain access to the information concerning the bank account funding the continued exposure activities. These were the same people who would suspect that Glenda would have information about that account. More details on these two groups are at: www.gratzer_index.html. www.guerrini_index.html Additional Information People and groups that since 1982 have taken various actions that they knew would hinder or halt Stich's efforts to continue exposing the high-level corruption. This group includes, for instance, lawyers and law firms; California judges; federal judges; members of Congress; Justice Department personnel. People and groups that since 1982 knew of the corrupt and criminal activities and the resulting harm, and who, instead of using facilities at their control to report or act to expose them, instead, acted to cover up, becoming enablers in the continued corrupt and criminal activities and the resulting consequences. Lawyers and law firms. Members of Congress. Key Justice Department personnel. Media people. California judges. Federal judges. Supreme Court Justices. As it relates to one-day's consequences, occurring on September 11, 2001, made possible by the corruption Stich sought to report, the people either complicit or those whose silence made it easy for four groups of terrorists to so easily hijack four airliners and kill 3,000 people within a few hours of each other. Criminal statutes that would be associated with preventing a witness or former federal agent from reporting federal crimes under the obstruction of justice statutes. Criminal statutes that would be violated by anyone seeking to inflict harm on anyone seeking to report federal crimes. Consequences suffered by countless numbers of people from the corruption that Stich sought to report How Their Actions, Inactions, and Cover-Ups, Have Harmed Americans and Major National Interests What is stated here is only a miniscule example of their misconduct and the harm that they have either directly caused, or enabled to occur, upon the lives of countless Americans and upon the government of the United States. Very briefly, they have enabled to continue such human tragedies as: The most visible of all resulting tragedies, the hijacking of four airliners on September 11, 2001. More people were enablers than virtually anyone can imagine. Most of these details are in two books with unlikely common titles: Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, and Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia. Other of the books referred to at this site also play a role, but these two are the most direct. Financial scams that involved the savings and loan corruption of the 1980s, in which CIA assets played key roles (see Defrauding America), other financial scams, and the present financial debacles in which the list of enablers is seemingly endless. The corrupt war on drugs that covers up for the large role in drug smuggling by CIA-related personnel, covered up by virtually every government and non-government check and balance; innocent people being routinely charged with sham drug offenses, using perjured testimony to destroy lives and families. (See Drugging America.) More areas than you can possibly imagine. See the books! One Other Group Making These Tragedies Possible There is another group that has, and continues, to play a role as enablers in the many tragedies that continue to harm millions of people and continue to subvert the government of the United States. And that group is that portion of the American public that has the intelligence to understand the information provided by many insiders but who for various reasons refuse to help fight the corruption. They are also the ones calling anyone who breaths a hero: a professional ball player, a professional golfer who scores one point less than his or her rivals; a pilot who does what is expected of him during an emergency; passengers cringing in their seats while the plane is directed to a fiery end at the hands of hijackers. Enablers fit into different categories: Those who lack the intelligence to understand anything more complex than their grandchildren, their favorite professional ball player. Their mental shortcomings excludes them from blame. Those who voice their displeasure with government actions but who focus on subjective matters that please their fellow "choir" members but do nothing to address the hardcore corruption. They delight in protest, but are too lazy to take the time to read and understand the serious matters that inflict horrendous harm upon the lives of the American people (and people in other countries). Those who have no background or associations to make the wild accusations that they made, and who take attention away from those few who make great sacrifices and suffer great personal and financial harm to bring information to the public. Those who have the capability of reading and understanding, but who choose to read such simplistic matters as Harry Potter, novels or other material that requires no mental activity. Those who do have the capability of reading and understanding, but who are either too lazy to exert any outrage, or are in a pathetic state of denial. There appears to be a overwhelming amount of this type in those who are very religious. Those whose character is so flawed that to expect them to show any outrage would be out of character, and whose conduct is criminal in many ways.