Brief Introduction Into Legal-Judicial Attacks To Silence Whistleblower Brief Former federal agent Rodney Stich and his coalition of other former government agents and insiders had sought to report the corrupt activities in the government's aviation safety offices related to a series of specific airline disasters, and also criminal activities in other areas of overt and covert government activities. The authority for doing this was the federal crime reporting statute and the statute that permits any citizen to seek a court order requiring a federal official to perform a mandatory duty and halt unlawful conduct. In response to these efforts, large numbers of federal judges, Department of Justice personnel, and over 50 lawyers and law firms embarked on multiple schemes to block the reports of the high-level corruption and silence the former federal agent acting as a whistleblower to expose misconduct resulting in major harm, many deaths, and a series of catastrophic events. Click here for more introductory information. In combination, they inflicted great harm through civil, constitutional, criminal, and human rights violations upon a former federal agent, and made possible the continuation of the prior consequences of corruption, cover-ups, and retaliations, some of which are shown below. The need to coordinate these many parallel efforts to block the reporting of very serious high-level corruption, and protect the participants, from 1982 to 2005 as they engaged in conspiracies involving massive and repeated civil, constitutional, and human rights violations, and criminal obstruction of justice and criminal retaliation against a former federal agent and witness, strongly suggests that a powerful group in the federal government was involved. The consequences of their enabling conduct is shown below. Federal judges repeatedly blocked former federal agent and whistleblower from reporting major criminal activities involving people in key government positions that were resulting in great harm to the nation. These attempts to report the crimes against the United States were being reported under the federal crime reporting statute and a citizens right to report and halt crimes by people in key government positions that were inflicting great harm upon the people and national security. Each of those actions were criminal acts under the various obstruction of justice statutes. Federal judges repeatedly blocked the exercise of federal defenses against the repeated violations of state and federal law by a hoard of lawyers whose actions also blocked the reporting of harmful corruption in key government offices. Federal judges violated major civil and constitutional protections in inflicting great harm upon the whistleblower as part of multiple schemes to halt his exposure activities. These were criminal acts arising from violating civil and constitutional rights. Federal judges repeatedly charged the former federal agent and whistleblower with criminal contempt of court for exercising the mandatory requirement under the federal crime reporting statute to report criminal acts to a federal judge, and for exercising a citizens' right and responsibility to report crimes of government officials. Each of these acts against the whistleblower were crimes under the criminal retaliation statute against a former government agent and witness. (And was also violated while a key FAA airline safety inspector.) Federal judges corruptly seized and liquidated the $10 million in assets that funded the whistleblower's attempts to halt the tragedy-related corruption, and then charged him with criminal contempt of court for exercising the legal right to file a defense against the seizure. Obstruction of Justice History by Federal Judges Federal judges engaged in a pattern of obstruction of justice tactics to halt former federal agent Rodney Stich and his coalition of other insiders from reporting high level corruption. The first obstruction of justice tactics related to the corruption of key people in the government's aviation safety offices related to a continuing series of aviation disasters. Later, the obstruction of justice tactics sought to block reports of criminal activities of people in overt and covert operations. The attempts to report the federal crimes were made under the federal crime reporting statute, Title 18 U.S.C. § 4, that requires any federal judge or other federal official to receive any information on federal crimes presented to them. Another federal statute also provided for such filing. That was Title 28 U.S.C. § 1361, which is an action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty. The judicial blocks made possible the continuation of the corruption, and the continuation of the events arising from the corruption. Some of these events were catastrophic, including a long series of fatal airline disasters, including those of 9/11. (Details in Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, and Blowback, 9/11, and Cover-Ups.) The first series of federal lawsuits sought to report the ongoing corruption in the government's aviation safety offices, and were filed in the mid-1970s. These were followed by others. Judicial Blocks to Reporting Federal Crimes Were Major Criminal Offenses With A Series of Catastrophic Consequences By blocking Stich and a group of other former federal agents from reporting criminal and even subversive activities, federal judges repeatedly were repeatedly guilty of criminal acts under various obstruction of justice states. Once they commenced the cover-up, which was followed by a continuation of major airline disasters made possible by their cover-ups, it became necessary to continue the cover-ups to protect themselves. And it also required them to engage in retaliatory acts against former federal agent Rodney Stich, seeking to halt his exposure activities. These were additional felonies. These criminal acts involved parallel efforts by a hoard of lawyers, and involvement of Justice Department personnel. These combined legal attacks constituted a criminal conspiracy, and met the legal criteria of a criminal racketeering enterprise (RICO). Bizarre Conspiracy of Judges and Lawyers Jointly Blocking Former Federal Agent Reporting Ongoing Tragedy-Related Corruption A bizarre scheme involving large numbers of lawyers, law firms, California and federal judges, continued from 1982 to 2005. These are described at the following links: Scheme started by a San Francisco CIA-FBI-front law firm, Friedman, Sloan and Ross, and their lawyers. Then expanded with a South Carolina group of lawyers. Finishing up with lawyers the Los Angeles area. An overview of the combined schemes. Despite the massive and repeated violations of state and federal laws involved in the legal attacks, state and federal judges combined to protect them from the consequences of the violations, the conspiracy, and the racketeering enterprise−while their acts enabled to occur a continuing series of great tragedies upon the American people and upon the United States. Former Federal Agent Seeking Relief in Chapter 11 and Again Coming Under Attack by Federal Judges Former Federal Judge The series of constant sham legal actions by the hoard of lawyers and law firms, and the repeated violations of blocks of state and federal laws, and the violation of every procedural defense in the California and federal courts forced the former federal agent to seek relief in the bankruptcy courts. At that time, he was unaware of the massive corruption in the nation's bankruptcy courts. Federal judges then seized and liquidated the $10 million in assets that they knew he was using to fund his exposure of the ongoing and deadly corruption. Under controlling U.S. Supreme Court decisions, orders rendered without jurisdiction, or that violated constitutional due process, are void orders, and remain void, and continue to be void even when affirmed by appellate court decisions. Jordon v. Gilligan, 500 F.2d 701, 710 (6th Cir. 1974)("a void judgment is no judgment at all and is without legal effect.") Lubben v. Selective Service System Local Bd. No. 27, 453 F.2d 645 (1st Cir. 1972). "a court must vacate any judgment entered in excess of its jurisdiction."); U.S. v. Holtzman, 762 F.2d 720 (9th Cir. 1985) A void judgment is not entitled to the respect accorded a valid adjudication. All proceedings founded on the void judgment are themselves regarded as invalid. A void judgment is regarded as a nullity, and the situation is the same as it would be if there were no judgment. 30A Am Jur Judgments §§ 43, 44, 45. It is attended by none of the consequences of a valid adjudication. It has no legal or binding force or efficacy for any purpose or at any place. ... It is not entitled to enforcement ... All proceedings founded on the void judgment are themselves regarded as invalid. 30A Am Jur Judgments § 44, 45. An illegal order is forever void. An order that exceeds the jurisdiction of the court, is void, or voidable, and can be attacked in any proceeding in any court where the validity of the judgment comes into issue. (See Rose v. Himely (1808) 4 Cranch 241, 2 L ed 608; Pennoyer v. Neff (1877) 95 US 714, 24 L ed 565; Thompson v. Whitman (1873) 18 Wall 457, 21 l ED 897; Windsor v. McVeigh (1876) 93 US 274, 23 L ed 914; McDonald v. Mabee (1917) 243 US 90, 37 Sct 343, 61 L ed 608. Powerful Force in Government Orchestrating The Multiple Cover-Ups and Retaliatory Actions To understand the following subject, take a look at the introduction to systemic corruption in the United States, the efforts of several courageous former government agents, and the enormous number of people and groups protecting the guilty. That will help understand the existence of a powerful group in government that was orchestrating the retaliatory actions to prevent the information becoming known to the American people. The evidence indicates that a powerful force in government was orchestrating the multiple parallel actions that blocked the reporting of high-level corruption, and that force was properly key people in the U.S. Department of Justice. Examples of these indicators included the following: Years of cover-ups by Department of Justice employees when informed of the corruption. Years of cover-ups by members of Congress when informed of the corruption. Repeated cover-up by federal judges when former federal agent Rodney Stich filed federal actions under the federal crime reporting statute seeking to report to a federal judge the major corrupt and criminal activities in key government positions associated with a series of major aviation disasters and later involving national security harm. Series of sham lawsuits filed by a hoard of lawyers that involved massive and unprecedented violations of state and federal laws, followed by repeated additional violations by a large number of California judges. Unprecedented judicial retaliation for exercising legally-prescribed defenses. Repeated protection of the massive violations of state and federal laws by federal judges. Series of illegal and unconstitutional orders by federal district and appellate judges permanently barring Stich from filing any papers in any federal district or appellate court. These orders knowingly blocked Stich and his coalition of former intelligence and law enforcement personnel from reporting as required by law the federal offenses that they discovered during their official duties, and blocked Stich from defending against the massive violation being inflicted by a hoard of lawyers and California judges. Corruptly, and in gross violation of federal laws and constitutional protections, federal judges corruptly seized, without a hearing and without cause, the $10 million in assets that funded the attempts to halt the tragedy-enabling high-level corruption. Charging Stich with criminal contempt of court for attempting to report criminal activities that were enabling to occur a series of major aviation disasters—and other harm—and would make possible several major terrorist attacks, including the 9/11 hijackings. That retaliation against Stich enabled the corruption that had already enabled many deaths to occur, enabled the corruption in such areas as the government's aviation safety offices, the FAA, responsible for preventing aviation disasters, including terrorist attack, and within the Department of Justice to continue. Evidence that is little-known to the American people shows gross misconduct in these two groups as having been the primary enablers of a series of horrific terrorist attacks, including the hijacking of four airliners on September 11, 2001. 30-years of federal judges blocking the reports of high-level criminal activities in which they themselves become complicit through cover-ups. Repeated complicity, from 1980 to 2005, by the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, as they aided and abetted each of these and many other instances that were brought to their attention through legal filings and letters. For these monumental repeated violations of criminal statutes, of major civil and constitutional rights, to continue, knowingly sacrificing lives and national security, required a powerful force in government. And that is believed to be primarily within the U.S. Department of Justice, easily accommodated by a culture of systemic corruption and systemic cover-ups in the United States. The lawyers, whose actions hindering the exposure of the high-level corruption by activist Rodney Stich, paralleled the block by federal judges and Department of Justice personnel, appeared to be acting for a powerful force somewhere in the federal government. Their actions were similar to the thugs in Egypt hired by the government officials in power, called "Baltagiya," or the hired thugs in Iran called "Basij." Sampling of Events Made Possible by Corruption And Legal-Judicial Attacks Upon Former Federal Agent As a result of the widespread corruption in overt and covert government operations, the systemic cover-ups that treat high-level corruption as the "third-rail," and the retaliation against whistleblowers, great American tragedies have repeatedly occurred, and will continue to occur. Harm to the American public in non-violent areas. Harm to people of other countries. Harm to the few people in the United States fighting the high-level corruption in a meaningful manner. Harm in general. Sampling of Early Consequences TWA Flight 800 U.S. Embassy Bombings 9/11 Easily-Preventable Multiple Hijackings These few examples of the horrors associated with airline disasters enabled to occur by documented corruption withheld from the American people. The standard culture of cover-ups in the United States enabled the corruption, cover-ups, to mutate into different areas. In the aviation area, although the continuing series of airline disasters eventually came to a halt for other reasons, the culture continued, and enabled to occur a number of easily preventable airline disasters. The inbred culture created the conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to easily hijack four airliners within a few hours of each other and kill nearly 3,000 people. One of Over 200 Victims Choosing This Way to Die— Made Possible by Many Enablers in United States Consequences of Corruption, Cover-Ups, And Retaliation Felonies Not Limited to Aviation There were many other forms of victims from the systemic high-level corruption. These included for instance victims of the: Department of Justice prosecutorial misconduct, people being falsely charges with crimes in order to improve the prosecutors' career. The explosion of violent crime related to drug smuggling into the United States, in which CIA assets were major players. Series of financial frauds appearing every few years, with the latest housing and financial implosions surfacing in 2008. Seizure of assets from innocent people. And many other forms. These offenses are described in the books written by insiders. Corruption of the Type Described at this site does not occur in a vacuum. High-level corruption in one area is simply one tentacle of a widespread culture of corruption. And the consequences of that corruption−and the endemic cover-ups−have consequences in other areas. The culture of corruption affects the people and the nation in many other ways, That includes the latest series of financial frauds that has occurred in the housing and financial sectors. Also, the effect of the endemic corruption and endemic cover-ups−major parts of the culture in the United States−that enablers successful terrorist attacks upon U.S. interests. Harm to People Overseas From Culture Of High-Level Corruption and Lies in the United States In addition to the decades of harm resulting from the systemic corruption of key people and groups in the U.S. government, affecting aviation safety, financial, human rights, in the United States, there is the harm from outside sources brought about by the actions of U.S. politicians affecting people in other countries—such as the history of invading and killing foreigners—there are the successful "terrorist" attacks made possible by high-level corruption, and then there are the foreigners who are also victims from the same high-level corruption that adversely affects the American, but in a different form. Remains of a girl—about the age of the 9-year-old Killed in Tucson in January 2011. In criminal law, people are accomplices, and guilty, if they know of a criminal act and fail to report it to proper authorities and also to take efforts within their capability to halt their continuation. And there are endless numbers of accomplices that are complicit in these crimes and enablers of the consequences. Suggestion to people outside the United States. Become familiar with the documented systemic corruption in the United States and show the outrage lacking of people in the United States, and: Help expose the endemic corruption that seem to be acceptable to the American people, and maybe wake them up. Help to protect yourselves against the decades of ham inflicted upon people of other countries by the actions of U.S. politicians—supported by much of the American public. Examples: Serial lying by U.S. politicians to use as a pretense to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, killing tens of thousands of innocent people. U.S. politicians shifting enabling blame from their own corrupt actions that encouraged and enabled four groups of terrorists to simultaneously hijack four airliners, and shift the blame to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan—with the help of a dumbed-down American public that is mostly too lazy to learn the truth. Books by Professionals and Insiders Revealing Systemic Corruption in Government and Consequences of Monumental Proportions All of the books are available at amazon.com, in print and on the Kindle, and at many other Internet sites. They bring together the various pieces of the puzzle to better understand the overall picture, and why the same conditions continue year after year. Information on the books by former government agent Rodney Stich Sampling of early books reviews Sampling of complimentary letters/faxes to author/activist Rodney Stich. More information about these books by clicking here. 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