Several Decades of Judicial Tactics Blocking Reports of Major High-Level Corruption This page relates to a documented serious of actions by federal judges acting with lawyers and law firms to block former federal agents from reporting corrupt and criminal activities by key people in overt and covert government operations that enabled to occur great harm to the American people, to national security, and a series of catastrophic events. This not a conspiracy site or wild allegations. This information is based upon the findings by a group of former federal agents and other insiders, many of whom paid a heavy price for attempting to expose the literal Trojan Horse corruption. Over 50 federal judges are directly implicated in a criminal manner and an equal number of lawyers and law firms−some of which were fronts for the CIA and FBI. Obviously, these are serious matters. The first in a series of federal lawsuits, filed by former federal agent Rodney Stich, between 1974 and 1977, seeking to report deep-seat corruption in the government's aviation safety offices−closely linked to a series of aviation disasters. Various filings in those lawsuits for those with a more serious interest in the facts that continue to inflict such tragic consequences. These were filed under the authority of the federal crime reporting statute and the statute permitting any citizen to seek a court order requiring a federal official to perform a legal duty and halt unlawful conduct. Although federal district and appellate judges admitted the gravity of the charges, they refused to allow the information to be provided and dismissed the lawsuits. After repeatedly blocking Stich and his group of other former federal agents from reporting the corrupt activities in key government positions, federal judges then became heavily involved in 20 years of obstruction of justice legal tactics to destroy Stich's ability to continue his exposure activities. This sequence involved a long series of sham legal actions involving dozens of lawyers and law firms. Many Catastrophic Events Enabled to Occur By Parallel Legal and Judicial Schemes Although many of the judicial activities described in this and the many other related sites relate to parallel legal and judicial acts against former federal agent Rodney Stich, it is important to remember two things about these schemes: One, their primary goal was to block the reporting and exposure of corrupt and criminal activities, keeping the people from learning about these important matters that directly and indirectly adversely affects them. Two, the ripple effects of their actions. Although ripple effects have had catastrophic consequences, their existence is virtually unknown. One of countless examples in which the ripple effects occurred: Blocking the reports of corruption in the government's aviation safety offices enabled the corruption to continue, as well as the consequences. The books, Unfriendly Skies: 20th and 21st Centuries, and Blowback, 9/11, and Cover-Ups, describes the many years of airline disasters arising from the corruption, and the four airline hijackings of 9/11 were simply one-day's consequences made possible by the legal and judicial schemes focusing on silencing the former federal aviation safety agent. Last Attempt Before September 11, 2001 to Report Conditions That Shortly Enabled Multiple Terrorist Attacks The last attempt to report these criminal activities to a federal court--prior to the terroristattacks on September 11, 2001, was a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. district court, Reno, Nevada. That lawsuit sought to report criminal activities that were inflicting great harm in numerous areas of national security and national interest, including the misconduct that caused the conditions to exist that encouraged and enabled four groups of hijackers to seize four airliners on 9/11. That lawsuit also exercised federal remedies to defend against the massive violations of state and federal laws associated with the sham lawsuit filed by the CIA-front law firm. Named as defendants were lawyers, law firms, and California and federal judges, all acting in unison knowing that their misconduct was blocking the reporting and correction of corrupt activities that had left a trail of death and destruction in its wake. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Continuing years of judicial gridlock, the federal judge blocked the reports by dismissing the lawsuit. The dismissal violated federal criminal statutes and civil due process. Post 9/11 Federal Lawsuits Again Attempting to Report the Corruption Making 9/11 Possible A federal lawsuit was submitted for filing in the federal courts in New York City after 9/11, seeking to report the corrupt activities responsible for the conditions that enabled hijackers to seize four airliners on that fateful day. That lawsuit was submitted for filing to the U.S. district court at New York City on August 18, 2002. Although federal law requires filing of lawsuits upon receipt if the filing fee is paid, it was blocked from being filed for over 12 months. (Word) (Adobe) Before Stich was notified of its filing, Chief Judge Mukasey issued an order of dismissal, which blocked the reporting of the criminal activities that enabled hijackers to seize four airliners. Stich then filed a notice of appeal on October 20, 2003. Continuing Obstruction of Justice By Federal Court of Appeal Judges Appeal brief submitted to the U.S. district court in New York on January 5, 2004, which has explosive ramifications not only on the misconduct in the three branches of government that enabled hijackers to seize four airliners on September 11, 2001, but the other areas and other aviation disasters caused or enabled by the same deep-seated misconduct. (Word format) (Adobe pdf format) That appeal brief was received by the court on January 7, 2004−but not filed as required. During a telephone conversation with a clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals on January 21, 2004, the clerk stated to Rodney Stich that the appeal brief had not been filed, which duplicated the blocking action previously taken place in the U.S. district court−which delayed the filing of the lawsuit for 13 months. In response to this non-filing, Stich wrote a letter to Chief Judge John Walker, dated January 21, 2004, complaining about this latest tactic, with copies sent to each of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Word format) (Adobe pdf format) That letter outlined the pattern of criminal activities by federal judges, the links to the events of September 11, 2001. That letter contained extremely explosive information, with explanation of how the judicial coverups played enabling roles in the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11. In response to that letter, the court then filed the brief on January 29, 2004, but placing a file-stamped date on it of January 7, 2004, which was the date placed on the envelope mailed to Stich. The reason for the delay can only be speculated, but with the involvement of the Supreme Court justices, they probably played a role in these highly suspicious actions. Justice Department Lawyers Continuing Obstruction of Justice The scheduling order required the Justice Department lawyers--the same office seeking to put Martha Stewart in prison for selling stock allegedly after receiving a tip that someone else was selling (as most stock holders would have also done). There may be some contradiction in seeking to put a woman in prison for such a minor matter while the same prosecutors were continuing to obstruct justice as they had for many years related to the criminal and subversive activities that they knew existed that implicated key government personnel and politicians. Their Appellee brief would have to continue this coverup practice. The brief by Justice Department lawyers that the court's briefing schedule stated had to be filed by February 12, 2004, was not filed. No filing extension was requested, and none was granted. Stich then submitted for filing an Appellant Declaration of Filing Irregularities, dated February 23, 2004, with a copy to the U.S. attorney in New York. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) That submission for filing was also blocked by the court of appeal judges. Continuing Complicity by Federal Judges Blocking Reports of Corruption Enabling 9/11 to Occur Most of the 9/11 lawsuits seeking to determine the legal blame for the events of 9/11 have been filed in the U.S. district court for the Southern District of New York. This is the court where two of the top judges have blocked reports of the corrupt activities that enabled four groups of hijackers to seize four airliners. By blocking these reports these same federal judges: Deprive the victims' families of the truth behind the deaths of their family members. Deprive defendants in 9/11 lawsuits of evidence showing the reckless misconduct by others, as highlighted here, created the conditions that encouraged and enabled the hijackers to seize four airliners. Without these offenses, there would be no 9/11 litigation. Deprive plaintiffs the information to show that the people primarily responsible for the deaths and property damage arising from the catastrophic events of 9/11. Ensure the continuation of the deep-seated misconduct in certain government offices, and the decades of deja vu catastrophic consequences. Similar Obstruction of Justice by Judges in the Washington Courts An earlier federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. district court at Washington, D.C., seeking to report federal crimes under the federal crime reporting statute, some of which played key roles in the events of 9/11. The lawsuit also exercised federal remedies seeking relief from the massive violations of law that were part of the scheme to halt Stich's reporting of criminal activities. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) In violation of law, including the crime reporting statute, Judge Henry Kennedy dismissed the lawsuit immediately after filing, preventing the reporting of the criminal activities and continuing the dual judicial practices of blocking the reports and blocking federal remedies for the massive violations of federally protected rights. A notice of appeal was then filed, which three court of appeal judges refused to recognize, holding that in 1991 Judge Sporkin (former CIA legal counsel) issued an order permanently barring Stich from district and appellate courts. It was this pattern of judicial misconduct that the corruption existed, that created the conditions enabling four groups of hijackers to seize four airliners on 9/11. Another view of the pre/911 and post/911 tactics by federal judges blocking the reporting of corruption in government offices that enabled 19 hijackers to seize four airliners. Nutshell Description of Corruption Enabling Terrorists to Easily Hijack Four Airliners on 9/11 Examining documented facts in reverse, starting from the events of 9/11, reveals a level or arrogance, duplicity, and criminal acts that have been implicated in decades of continuing harm upon national security issues and the lives of the people harmed by the misconduct--and the coverups: The terrorists seizure of four airliners on 9/11 was made possible by corruption in the government's aviation safety offices that created the conditions enabling hijackers to seize four airliners. This corruption blocked the simple and inexpensive preventative measures that federal inspectors had been reporting for years, that would have halted the decades of airliner hijackings, for which the authority and responsibility to perform. Blaming "intelligence failures" for not discovering the plans by a close-knit group of hijackers appears to be a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the primary blame. Coverups by members of Congress. Members of Congress had been repeatedly notified of the corruption by government insiders, including former federal agent Rodney Stich. During a lawsuit filed against certain members of Congress addressing their felony coverups, they admitted knowing of the charges of criminal misconduct and related consequences and of doing nothing in response, claiming they were immune from the consequences. Butterfly Effect and 9/11 Hijackings and 3,000 Deaths From seemingly remote acts by people in the government's aviation safety offices, misconduct in the offices responsible for intelligence, coverups, and retaliation against whistleblowers, the "butterfly effect" made possible catastrophic consequences for years, including on September 11, 2001. An outsider could not be expected to understand how corrupt people in the government's aviation safety offices, blocking the known preventative measures to block hijackers, could result in 3,000 deaths and the peripheral consequences from those hijackings. Nor could an outsider recognize the catastrophic consequences made possible by federal judges blocking the reporting of corrupt actions by key people in government offices. Or the outcome from misusing judicial power to harm the one former government agent who continued his efforts t report and halt the corrupt activities. Another name for the "butterfly effect" is the well-known "blowback effect," a term that should be household words in the United States where the blowback effect of corrupt and covert activities by America's politicians and CIA operations has been repeatedly catastrophic--but not recognized. Continuing Complicity by Supreme Court Justices Also playing key roles in the misconduct, the coverups, the retaliation, and the consequences, were Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. They had supervisory responsibilities over the judges blocking reports of criminal activities, the judges inflicting harm upon Stich to halt his exposure activities, and the judges who converted Stich to a literal man without a country by terminating his civil and constitutional protections. Further, Supreme Court Justices also refused to receive reports of the criminal activities that they had a responsibility to receive under the federal crime reporting statute. They violated many federal statutes by their misconduct. If they had exercised their moral and legal responsibilities, it is probable that the events of 9/11 would never have happened. The evidence against the Justices includes: Petitions and letters were repeatedly sent to Supreme Court Justices notifying them of these corrupt activities, many of which were within their immediate areas of legal responsibilities. Documented records showed the involvement of Supreme Court Justices in these sordid activities. The roles of federal judges have grave implications for the United States and the system of law. Partial list of letters and petitions to Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court show a history of involvement by the Justices in cover-ups, obstruction of justice, and violations of civil rights. Petition for writ of certiorari submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 11, 2000 (one of many) that continued updating the Supreme Court justices of the corrupt and criminal activities in government and judicial offices, including those that later made possible the events of 9/11. The charges in that petition included: Pattern of blocking the reports of criminal activities that government agents discovered in government offices and obstruction of justice by federal judges over whom the Justices had supervisory responsibilities. Pattern of judicial and Justice Department retaliation against Stich for attempting to make these reports of criminal activities. These retaliatory acts were felonies under federal criminal statutes. The Justices were covering up for the criminal activities. Evidence of massive civil and constitutional violations in schemes to halt Stich's exposure activities, with concurrent aiding and abetting by federal judges and repeated violations of federal defenses against such offenses. The Supreme Court justices blocked the filing of that petition, which they had done on other occasions, despite the fact that the filing fee was submitted and the papers met the legal filing requirements. Certified letter dated January 2, 2001, was sent to each of the Supreme Court justices that detailed the pattern of judicial misconduct in Ninth Circuit federal courts, including obstruction of justice, widespread due process violations, misusing the courts to inflict great harm upon former government agents and whistleblowers. The aiding and abetting of these acts by Supreme Court justices raises many serious questions. (HTML) (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) May 2002 Petition submitted for filing with Supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas. The filing was refused, but Justice Thomas received a copy of the petition and knew its contents. Federal Crimes of Obstructing Justice And Felony Retaliation Against a Witness The criminal activities that federal judges repeatedly blocked from being reported were being reported to a federal court under the federal crime reporting statute (Title 18 U.S.C. § 4). That statute requires a federal judge to receive the information and any evidence as part of his administrative duties. Blocking the reports would be criminal acts combined with violations of other criminal statutes, including: Title 18 U.S.C. § 2. Principals. (a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal. (b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal. Title 18 U.S.C. § 3. Accessory after the fact. Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States had been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact. Title 18 U.S.C. § 4. Misprision of felony. Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. Title 18 U.S.C. § 35. A party who conveys false information, knowing it to be false, knowing an attempt or alleged attempt being made that would be a crime under Chapter 97 or 111, which pertain to aircraft and motor vehicles. Title 18 U.S.C. § 111. Impeding certain officers or employees. Whoever ... intimidates, or interferes with any person ... while engaged in ... the performance of his official duties shall be fined ... or imprisoned ... Title 18 U.S.C. § 153. Embezzlement by trustee or officer. Whoever knowingly and fraudulently appropriates to his own use, embezzles, spends, or transfers any property or secretes or destroys any document belonging to the estate of a debtor which came into his charge as trustee ... shall be fined ... or imprisoned ... or both. Title 18 U.S.C. § 241. Conspiracy against rights of citizens. If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his so exercised the same, ... they shall be fined ... or imprisoned ... Title 18 U.S.C § 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law. Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person ... to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishment, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; (check if this has been applied against a group, such as whistleblowers). Title 18 U.S.C § 246. Deprivation of relief benefits. Whoever directly or indirectly deprives, attempts to deprive, or threatens to deprive any person of any employment, position, work, compensation, or other benefit provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress appropriating funds for work relief or relief purposes, on account of political affiliation, race, color, sex, religion, or national origin, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Title 18 U.S.C. § 371. Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States. If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof, in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined ... or imprisoned ... Title 18 U.S.C. § 372. Conspiracy to impede or injure officer. If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States top leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than six years, or both. Title 18 U.S.C. § 1341. Frauds and swindles. Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, ..... places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited ...., shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Title 18 U.S.C. § 1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television. Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Title 18 U.S.C § 1503. Influencing or injuring officer or juror generally. (a) Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United States, ... on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). Title 18 U.S.C. § 1505. Whoever corruptly ... influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due the proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States ... shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Title 18 U.S.C. § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant--(b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation or physical force, or threatens another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to --(1) influence, delay or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding: shall be fined ... or imprisoned ... or both. Title 18 U.S.C. § 1513. Retaliating against a witness, victim, or an informant. (a) Whoever knowingly engages in any conduct and thereby causes bodily injury to another person or damages the tangible property of another person, or threatens to do so, with intent to retaliate against any person for--(1) the attendance of a witness or party at an official proceeding, or any testimony given or any record, document, or other object produced by a witness in an official proceeding; or (2) any information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense. Title 18 U.S.C. § 1515. Definitions for certain provisions; general provision. (a) As used in sections 1512 and 1513 of this title and in this section-(1) the term "official proceeding" means-(A) A proceeding before a judge or court of the United States. (2) the term "physical force" means physical action against another, and includes confinement; (3) the term "misleading conduct" means-(A) knowingly making a false statement; (B) intentionally omitting information from a statement and thereby causing a portion of such statement to be misleading, or intentionally concealing a material fact, and thereby creating a false impression by such statement; (C) with intent to mislead, knowingly submitting or inviting reliance on a writing or recording that is false, forged, altered, or otherwise lacking in authenticity; (D) with intent to mislead, knowingly submitting or inviting reliance on a sample, specimen, map, photograph, boundary mark, or other object that is misleading in a material respect; or (E) knowingly using a trick, scheme, or device with intent to mislead; Other links to federal laws violated by federal judges, and civil and constitutional, all perpetrated knowing that they were involved in schemes to block the reports of criminal and subversive activities. List of federal judges and justices implicated in federal crimes and their catastrophic consequences, and their documented blocking of reports of criminal activities and their documented infliction of great and irreparable personal and financial harm to halt these reports. Multiple Reasons for the Repeated Criminal Acts by Federal Judges Many reasons exist for the twenty-five years of repeated blocking of reports of high-level federal crimes associated with a series of catastrophic events. These include: The first time that federal judges were confronted by the former federal agent seeking to report criminal activities that he discovered during his official federal airline safety duties, associated with several specific airline disasters, was in the lat 1970s. At that time the continuing series of frequent airline disasters were still occurring, along with an even greater number of people killed. Because of the involvement of numerous key people in the government's aviation safety offices and the cover-ups (i.e. obstruction of justice by members of Congress and Department of Justice personnel), the decision was apparently made by federal judges and Department of Justice personnel to protect the guilty by blocking the reports. If the reports had been put into a judicial record, that would have precipitated the need for investigations and the public would then become aware of a form of corruption and catastrophic events that they had never before seen. As the former federal agent had repeatedly warned, any cover-up would continue the deep-seated culture of corruption and the catastrophic events resulting from the corruption and cover-ups. And the airline crashes continued to occur from problems that were known and covered up by FAA management. The scandal then become even larger than before and involved still more people, this time a number of federal judges−and even Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who were made aware of the criminal activities, the cover-ups, and the related crashes, through appeals (writ of certiorari) that the former federal agent filed with the Supreme Court. As time passed, the former federal agent became a confidant to dozens of other former federal agents and insiders who provided him with information on corruption that they had discovered during their official duties. Former federal agent Stich then attempted to report these crimes to a federal judge under the mandatory requirements of the federal crime reporting statutes, and was again blocked. By this time there were dozens of federal judges directly involved, and a long line of resulting harm to the American people and to national security. As these events were occurring, and Stich was getting more publicity through publishing documentary books on the matters and appearing as guest and expert on hundreds of radio-TV shows, parallel attempts were made to halt his exposure activities. These parallel activities involved over 50 lawyers and law firms from 1982 to 2006, some of whom were discovered to be fronts for the CIA and FBI. The legal actions were blatant shams, and blocked by dozens of California and federal statutes and controlling case law. Despite the violations and absence of personal and subject matter jurisdiction, over a dozen California judges continued to render illegal and unconstitutional orders separating Stich from the $10 million in assets that he used to fund his exposure activities. The orchestrators of these parallel schemes did not realize the strong defense that Stich put up, including seeking relief from the major violations of federally protected rights through federal remedies under the declaratory judgment act and civil rights violations, which included exercising federal remedies specific for the nature of the violations. The exercise of that remedy greatly extended the scope of the scandal. Despite the blatant continuing violations of dozens of state and federal laws, and the mandatory requirement by federal judges to provide a federal court forum for Stich to present evidence, and then a decision rendered, federal judges repeatedly blocked the federal causes of actions from getting beyond the filing state. In that way, federal judges protected the massive civil rights violations by the lawyers and protected the California judges from additional violations. Providing further evidence that a powerful force in the federal government had been orchestrating the parallel actions to halt Stich's exposure actions included: The ability of the CIA-FBI-front lawyers and law firm in the initial legal actions to obtain the protection of over a dozen California judges who repeatedly violated important procedural and substantive laws so as to protect the scheme. The ability of the lawyers and the California judges to escape the consequences of their gross legal and judicial corruption. The ability of federal judges to avoid the consequences of their blatant obstruction of justice actions, the felony retaliation against a witness and former federal agent, and to engage in either or both a conspiracy and a racketeering enterprise using their judicial positions and the federal courts. Also, to avoid the consequences of blocking the reports of criminal activities that enabled to occur a continuation of serious consequences, including catastrophic airline disasters and many deaths. From the very beginning, while Stich was a federal agent reporting the ongoing criminal activities, every reaction was to cover-up, which compounded the problem at every step by the continuing harm and catastrophic events, requiring even more people to become criminally involved by either cover-ups, obstruction of justice, felony retaliation against the former government agent, and to misuse the courts and judicial positions as a racketeering enterprise. The great number of other people shown to be complicit through law suits and communications covered large areas of Congress, Department of Justice, media people and media corporations. Nothing like this had even happened in the United States. And Stich's continued attempts to halt the corruption greatly enlarged the original guilty parties. Complicity of Lawyers and Law Firms With Parallel Efforts to Halt Exposure actions The complicity of lawyers and law firms started in 1982 and continued through 2006. Their actions hindered the attempts to expose the corruption, enabling a continuation series of harmful events to occur, including the hijackings of four airliners on 9/11. Their sham actions: Repeatedly violated state and federal laws and constitutional protections, under color of state law, thereby violating Stich's civil rights for which federal remedies exist under the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 1983-1986), and other federal statutes. Repeatedly violated state and federal laws and constitutional protections, under color of federal law, thereby violating Stich's civil rights for which federal remedies exist under Bivens. Repeatedly violated civil RICO, for which federal remedies exist under the RICO act. And their actions knowingly blocked a witness and federal agent from reporting major high-level criminal activities, making them accomplices in the underlying crimes and enablers to the resulting catastrophic events. Lawsuit Naming Supreme Court Justices as Defendants The basis and purposes of the lawsuit were to: Seek a court order requiring the Justice to perform their legal duties with response to receiving the reports of criminal activities. To act as legally required to halt the obstruction of justice and related massive violations of civil due process by judges over whom they had supervisory responsibilities. To receive evidence of the criminal activities. To make a record that they knew of these crimes and that they covered up for them, committing felonies in the process. Lawsuits filed against Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1990. Complicity of Smith and Collins Law Firm in South Carolina Twenty years after the start of the sham legal attacks upon Stich, and after the 9/11 attacks, made possible by the corruption Stich was exposing, another sham lawsuit was filed against Stich and the publishing firm of Diablo Western Press by the Charleston, South Carolina, law firm of Smith and Collins, and their attorneys, David Athell Collins and Steven L. Smith. The lawsuit was filed in a small county court where judges are even more corrupt than in the larger city courts where there is more attention to what judges do. The allegations in the lawsuit were immediately disproved by the facts to which they referred. The lawsuit used as the plaintiff a former resident of Elko, Nevada, whose wife was murdered a wife after she confided to her doctor that if she were found dead, her husband will have done it. A week later she was murdered. Her husband, Steve Gratzer, left the state, and at the time of the lawsuit against Stich, he was reportedly a prison guard in South Carolina False Claim of Libel in a Remote South Carolina Jurisdiction Among the many people who provided Stich with information about corruption in government was a former physician from Elko, Nevada, who was also a Lt. Col. in the Idaho National Guard: Dr. Geza Cserno, M.D. While discussing retaliation by Justice Department prosecutors against him, as a result of his position as the medical director in the Idaho National Guard and the refusal of the Guard Unit to join in the attack upon the Ruby Ridge family, the doctor described a conversation he had with a patient, Doris Gratzer. Dr. Cserna described to Stich the retaliatory actions taken against him by Justice Department prosecutors after the Idaho National Guard, in which he was a medical officer, refused to provide a helicopter to attack the Ruby Ridge family. In the book, Drugging America, Stich included this reference to Doris Gratzer to complete the contents of his discussions. Nowhere in the book was it stated, or implied, that Steve Gratzer murdered his wife since that was not the nature of the subject being discussed. (However, based upon what the doctor told Stich, Steve Gratzer should be a prime suspect in the murder of Doris Gratzer.) The following is what was stated in the book: In 1997 I started receiving information from a physician who had been targeted in a similar gun-charge. Dr. Jed Cserna was an MD with a private practice in Ely, Nevada, and a Lt. Colonel in the Idaho National Guard, with 16 years of military service behind him. His problems started in Ely, Nevada, where he was a physician. Cserna told me how it appeared to start. While he was treating a patient, Doris Gratzer, she told him, "If I'm ever shot, Steve [her husband] did it." Dr. Cserna told this to the hospital staff and they said that she always had problems, and this occasion was no different than others. A week later, she was found dead, killed by a bullet wound to the head. Cserna said her husband, Steve Gratzer, was influential in the town, especially with the sheriff, who was responsible for conducting an investigation into his wife's killing. Cserna was now a danger to Gratzer. According to Cserna, false statements were made by a government informant, seeking to justify his position and pay, that resulted in a raid by ATF agent Doreen on his doctor's office. His home was broken into and possessions disappeared. Participating in the ATF raid was the sheriff who he referred to as Burnie (Ronero), who would soon participate in sham charges filed against the doctor. Cserna said her husband, Steve Gratzer, was influential in the town, especially with the sheriff, who was responsible for conducting an investigation into his wife's killing. Cserna was now a danger to Gratzer. According to Cserna, false statements were made by a government informant, seeking to justify his position and pay, that resulted in a raid by ATF agent Doreen on his doctor's office. His home was broken into and possessions disappeared. Participating in the ATF raid was the sheriff who he referred to as Burnie (Ronero), who would soon participate in sham charges filed against the doctor. Government agents arrested Cserna a short time later and charged him with possession of a machine gun and a short-barreled rifle. The guns in question were an AR-15 that was not an automatic, and a Uzi 9mm that had been sold to him with a folding stock and various barrels. He had used both guns two and three times a week at the local police firing range and was never questioned about their legality. DOJ Retaliation for Refusing Ruby Ridge Participation? Cserna told me about an event that happened in Idaho while he was the physician assigned to the Idaho National Guard air wing. During the Ruby Ridge attack that killed Mrs. Weaver and her son, ATF agents had gone to the Idaho National Guard base and told the Commander of the helicopter division, "We are ordering you to activate your choppers to go north and strafe Ruby Ridge." The colonel refused, stating, "This is against the law, the constitution, and finally, Randy Weaver is an Idaho Citizen. Either you get out or I'll have you thrown out." The quotation by Dr. Cserna that was in the book, Drugging America, was privileged under law. Also, in no way did the statements imply that Steve Gratzer murdered her (although the information Stich obtained raised a strong probability that Steve Gratzer did in fact murder his wife). It is common for prosecutors to threaten people with punishment if they don't cooperate in giving testimony, fabricating testimony, or to join a lawsuit against a particular target, and the question arises whether Steve Gratzer, who may have been threatened with being charged with his wife's murder, did not cooperate. This is only speculation, but it is entirely possible. Continuing Legal Attacks, Knowing No Possibility of Money Damages Before the South Carolina law firm of David Collins filed their lawsuit against Stich, the law firm knew that neither Diablo Western Press, nor Stich, had any assets that could be seized, nor insurance. The only assets were the books, and taken from the publisher, these would be virtually valueless. Despite this knowledge, several dozen attorneys and half a dozen law firms had put hundreds of hours into this action during the past several years. The latest attorney was John Guerrini and his law firm. The most probable reason for the enormous expenditure of time and money was to halt the distribution of books, which exposed the corruption and the many people implicated―including dozens of lawyers, law firms, California and federal judges. A description of the various schemes can be found in a various legal filings, including lawsuit filed by Stich in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) The Smith and Collins law firm knew that Stich had no assets to pay for legal counsel 3,000 miles from his home near San Francisco, before a judge who is often in the pocket of certain law firms and attorneys. They knew that the publishing company had no assets other than the books, and that it was literally a non-profit operation. Their goal apparently was to obtain a default judgment and then seize control of the books and the name of the books. This scheme would protect the California and federal judges, the legal fraternity whose involvement in the corruption goes back 40 years, as stated in each of Stich's books, would protect Justice Department personnel, members of Congress, and the corruption at United Airlines that caused such brutal consequences for the victim of its fraud. Stich had no connection to the State of South Carolina. Neither did Diablo Western Press. It had no office there and solicited no business there. And the charges were clearly disputed by the clear wording in the book. Although the lawsuit was directed at Stich and the publishing company, people who would be harmed by it would be those who are victimized by the corruption Stich seeks to publicize through his book publishing. That includes the victims of fraud related to air safety; the victims of the arrogant and corrupt was on drugs; the victim of the bankruptcy court fraud; and the victims of the many other criminal activities implicating people in key government positions, federal and California judges, and many others. Attorney David Athell Collins first contacted Stich through a June 8, 2000 letter, falsely stating that "Stich makes certain accusations against my client. Essentially, Mr. Stich has accused my client of killing his ex-wife and that the murder was covered up." The book clearly did not make any such statement or insinuation. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Stich responded with a June 29, 2000 letter, making it clear that no such charge was made by the clear wording in the book. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Disregarding the absence of jurisdiction over a California resident, the South Carolina judge rendered a $3 million default judgment against Stich and Diablo Western Press. Smith and Collins law firm then paid California lawyers to file an action in the California courts to enter the South Carolina default judgment as a local California judgment, which would enable them to seize the books exposing the corruption detailed between their covers. Collins knew that federal judges had seized all of Stich's assets and that he had none to seize; only the books. For more details of this legal scheme, click here. Proposed statement of decision in the California court opposing the entry of the California judgment as a local judgment. April 15, 2001. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Objection to entry of the South Carolina $3 million default judgment as a local California judgment. April 14, 2002. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Index to involvement of Pasadena law firm, Guerrini, representing Gratzer and the South Carolina law firm. June 29, 2002. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Notice of appeal filed in the California courts. February 13, 2003. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Federal complaint showing the scheme that commenced in South Carolina using as the plaintiff a former resident of Elko, Nevada, where Stich obtained evidence strongly implicating the South Carolina plaintiff with the murder of his wife. Interrogatories sent to Steve Gratzer via the South Carolina law firm of Smith and Collins. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Reentry of California Judges In the Scheme to Halt Exposure Activities The same California judicial system that had played key roles to silence Stich, in unison with a CIA-front law firm, then refused to recognize California law that barred the filing of the South Carolina default judgment. One of the protections was the anti-SLAPP legislation, that provides defense against lawsuits retaliating against people exposing misconduct or corruption in government offices. Further, the South Carolina judge had not personal jurisdiction over a California resident who never appeared in South Carolina. California judges then entered the $3 million default judgment as a California judgment. Stich first sought relief against the SLAPP action in the California courts, encountering the same massive judicial block that he had previously encountered. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Stich then filed a lawsuit in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada (March 28, 2002), and again, encountered the same judicial block as in prior years. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Among those involved in that scheme were the lawyers David Collins, Troy Guerard Knight, Jerome M. Yalon, Irwin J. Eskanos, Barry Adler, and Jeff Daniel; the law firms of Smith and Collins in South Carolina, and Eskianos and Adler; and the person used as the Plaintiff in the action, Steve Gratzer, who moved from Nevada to South Carolina, where he was a prison guard, and whose wife warned that her husband was threatening to kill her. The Collins law firm hired numerous local attorneys to collect on the judgment, several of whom refused to proceed. Another Participating Law Firm With CIA-FBI Ties An article in the San Francisco legal newspaper, Daily Journal, strongly indicated that Collins and his law firm were acting for unknown sources in government, not only against Stich, but against those who were exposing President George Bush's delinquent air national guard record. Similar acts were done to discredit Operation Tailwind. Seeking Court Order to Seize Books Exposing Corruption in Key Government Positions On January 3, 2007, Pasadena lawyer John Guerrini filed a motion for a court order seizing the books exposing decades of corruption implicating key people in government. The motion was the latest tactic in the scheme initiated in a South Carolina court. Stich filed an objection to the seizure of the books (January 3, 2007). (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Years of Continuing Lawyer Complicity Years of continuous complicity by lawyers and law firmssome with CIA connections, have been parallel efforts to halt the efforts by a former federal agent from reporting and exposing the corruption in certain government offices. By their documented acts of deception, massive civil rights and RICO violations, attention was diverted from these federal crimes, enabling to continue the corruption that had tragic, sometimes catastrophic, and sometimes deadly consequences. In one area, the ripple effects were felt on September 11, 2001. On January 3, 2007, Stich filed an objection to the seizure of the books, knowing that the same California judicial fraternity that had become involved with the CIA-front law firm would continue denying and violating every defense existing in law. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Stich had earlier filed a lawsuit against Guerrini in the California courts at Martinez, California, but due to failing health he had to cancel it before Guerrini was served. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) The lawsuit, at least, made a judicial record of the charges in the event anyone ever wanted to know the sordid history of events that had such grave catastrophic consequences. The latest Guerrini scheme reminded Stich that he had information, from Dr. Cserna, that implicated the plaintiff that had been used to initiate the law suit: Steve Gratzer, who may have murdered his wife, Doris. Stich then sent several letters (Jan. 1, 2007) to Nevada law enforcement personnel advising them that he had information showing that Steve Gratzer may have murdered his wife in Elko, Nevada (before Gratzer moved to South Carolina, where he is reportedly a prison guard). (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) The Smith and Collins law firm, that had been orchestrating four years of continuing legal actions against Stich, the sole purpose being to halt the available of the books exposing widespread corruption. That same law firm filed a lawsuit seeking to discredit CBS 60-Minute exposure of President George Bush II Texas Air National Guard record, suggesting a connection with some government source. Evidence of a Powerful Force in the Federal Government Tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, half a dozen law firms, and dozens of lawyers, were spent just in these latest actions to silence Stich. Before that, continuous legal actions, since 1982, against Stich, had involved over 100 lawyers, law firms, California and federal judges. Apparently the urgency of silencing Stich supported the Herculean efforts. The evidence, including the repeated violations of large numbers of state and federal laws and constitutional protections, thee total denial of all procedural defenses, and the involvement of state and federal personnel, strongly indicated that a powerful force somewhere in government had been orchestrating these events from the beginning, using the CIA-front law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross in San Francisco and their lawyers. The most probable location of this power, strange as it may seem, and based upon the control over state and federal judges and lawyers nationwide, is the federal judiciary. Whatever the source, it would add still another area of corruption subverting the United States from within. That force orchestrated the multiple parallel efforts at the state and federal levels−all intended to halt the exposure of high level corruption−and acted to protect the perpetrators repeated violations of criminal and civil rights statutes. Sampling of Other Legal Postings Legal action filed by Steve Gratzer, the husband of a woman who, a week before her murder, told a physician and Idaho national Guard doctor, that if she was found dead, her husband will have done it. The husband then left Nevada and moved to South Carolina, where he is reportedly a prison guard, and who was used in a sham lawsuit to try to halt former federal agent Rodney Stich from continuing his exposure activities. Question arises as to whether he was forced to allow his name to be used in the lawsuit to avoid possible prosecution in his wife's murder. The question applies to the over one-dozen lawyers and half a dozen law firms that got involved in carrying out the scheme, the latest bring Pasadena, California lawyer, John D. Guerrini, and his law firm, The Guerrini Law Firm. History of judicial corruption, obstruction of justice, and the deadly consequences. Emergency brief filed with Judge Anthony Kennedy just prior to his placement on the U.S. Supreme Court, showing his complicity in the corruption and cover-ups. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) List of various lawsuits. Sampling of filings with the U.S. Supreme Court showing that the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were aware of the criminal activities, the judicial cover-ups, the judicial retaliation, and the tragedies arising from this conduct. Sampling of the judicial tactics used to block the reporting and exposure of the tragedy-related corruption implicating people in key government positions. Sampling of the many laws that were violated by lawyers, law firms, California judges, and federal judges, during the many years of blocking the reporting of the corrupt and criminal activities. Sampling of the laws violated by California judges at every level as they supported the scheme by the CIA-front law firm and lawyers. Sampling of the laws violated by federal judges at every level as they joined in the multiple schemes to silence the former federal agent. Sampling of criminal obstruction of justice statutes that were repeatedly violated by lawyers and judges in the multiple and parallel schemes to silence the former federal agent. Sampling of criminal statutes violated by federal judges as they retaliated and inflicted great harm upon Stich for attempting to report the federal crimes. Other criminal statutes involved. Sampling of criminal activities covered up by federal judges and DOJ lawyers, assisted by lawyers, law firms, and California judges. How do they get away with it? How do they get away with it? A few reasons: The powerful force, apparently in the U.S. Department of Justice, that orchestrated the multiple schemes, also applied pressure at the state and federal levels to protect the state and federal actors. State and federal judges are as corrupt as most lawyers. Media people have for years covered up for the more serious forms of corruption in government offices, some of whom have been on the secret payroll of the CIA an other government offices for years. Members of Congress engage in all forms of corruption, and cover-ups would fall right in line with that culture. The public. Those who are misinformed or kept uninformed by the media; those who are too lazy or indifferent to exercise their responsibilities as a citizen; the general decline in the morals of the people. Check another web site. Are the Lawyers and Judges Complicit in 3,000 Deaths? Are the lawyers and judges complicity in 3,000 deaths in only one of the many catastrophic events that they conduct assisted in occurring? Consider the following: Without addressing the other areas affected by the criminal activities that Stich and his group of former government agents sought to report, and addressing only the corruption that affected the aviation environment: IF the culture and corruption within the FAA did in fact exist (as overwhelming documentation shows), which included a history of blocking the implementation of procedures addressing the known safety problems, such as hijackings); It would explain why the known and obviously long overdue measures to prevent the hijackings of the four airliners on 9/11 were not taken; And the preventative measures to prevent airline hijackings did exist (and Stich made such recommendations); And the need for such preventative measures was obvious from years of airline hijackings, plus the knowledge that airline hijackings were planned by Middle East terrorists); And if lawyers did engage in legal actions knowing that they were blocking reports of the deadly misconduct, and most probably, intended to block the reports; It becomes obvious that the long overdue preventatives measures were blocked by the legal tactics which constituted criminal obstruction of justice; It then becomes obvious that if a citizen had perpetrated a minute fraction of these offenses that he would be criminally prosecuted for complicity in events that led to the 9/11 hijackings and 3,000 deaths. If these lawyers are guilty of any complicity in these events, we also have the complicity of the dozens of members of Congress who knew not only about the underlying criminal activities, but also the criminal obstruction of justice and criminal retaliation against the former federal agent. And the others, in the media and elsewhere, who also knew! Talk about the ugly Americans, what about the criminal Americans! The next question: What are you going to do about this blatant criminal and even subversive conduct by dozens of lawyers? U.S. Enablers More Guilty Than the Taliban− Especially Judges and Lawyers Are the lawyers and judges far more complicit in the 9/11 deaths than the many Taliban and other prisoners held in secret prisons without trial? The lawyers and judges aggressively acted to block the corruption that enabled a continuing series of tragic events to occur, while the Taliban−certainly no angels−had no such enabling influence on the events of 9/11. This is a question with a simple answer. While the Taliban harbored the terrorists, they had no direct influence on conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to hijack four airliners on 9/11. But the corruption in the government's aviation safety offices, the corruption of people in FBI-DOJ offices−including the withholding of advance information on the terrorist attacks−and the lawyers and judges who prevented this information from being acted upon, had a direct role in the success of the 9/11 hijackings, the 3,000 brutal deaths, and the catastrophic events that followed. Are the lawyers and judges far more complicit in the 9/11 deaths than the many Taliban and other prisoners held in secret prisons without trial? The lawyers and judges aggressively acted to block the corruption that enabled a continuing series of tragic events to occur, while the Taliban−certainly no angels−had no such enabling influence on the events of 9/11. This is a question with a simple answer. While the Taliban harbored the terrorists, they had no direct influence on conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to hijack four airliners on 9/11. But the corruption in the government's aviation safety offices, the corruption of people in FBI-DOJ offices−including the withholding of advance information on the terrorist attacks−and the lawyers and judges who prevented this information from being acted upon, had a direct role in the success of the 9/11 hijackings, the 3,000 brutal deaths, and the catastrophic events that followed. Sampling of Catastrophic Consequences The below pictures are only a sampling of the consequences from the documented corruption that are able to be portrayed graphically. The tragedies in other areas resulting from the corruption, cover-ups, and public indifference, are not shown here. 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. Among the "Least" Guilty of the Enablers Sampling of Closely-Related Files Parallel actions to those by federal judges, also knowingly blocking the reports of high level and deadly corrupt activities, were the lawyers involved in a continuing attempt to silence the former federal agent. As with the federal judges, a high force in the federal government protected the lawyers and law firms from the obstruction of justice tactics combined with massive and repeated violations of state and federal statutes, controlling state law, and constitutional protections. This group would be key enablers to such catastrophic events as the deaths of 3,000 on September 11, 2001, holding a greater blame than many of the prisoners subjected to inhumane torture by the United States. Index of legal schemes. Years of legal fraternity harassment. Involvement of South Carolina law firm and lawyers. Involvement of Los Angeles area law firm and lawyers. Dangers of Americans learning the truth. Email address for the author and activist against corruption in government: stich@unfriendlyskies.com. For more information relating to the author and his activities put "Rodney Stich" into a search engine such as Google or yahoo.com. The links run into many tens of thousands. Download DVD videos from amazon to rent or to buy, onto your Windows XP operation system computer. For more information, click here. To order a DVD video download, click on the following amazon link: Cellphone and service deal from amazon.com, with 30-day return if not satisfied. 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