Bio on the Foolish David vs. Goliath Character This is a quick thumbnail sketch of the corruption and deadly tragedies discovered and documented by one of several former government agents who sought to fight a David vs. Goliath battle to protect national interests and lives. From here, the other pages detailing and documenting the corruption will be more easily understood. Here goes for the tour; first, the person at the center of the battle, Rodney Stich, as a navy patrol plane commander (PPC) in World War II. Then as a captain for Japan Airlines and later at recurrent jet training in the FAA: A few of the airline disasters that occurred on the program for which he had primary federal air safety responsibilities: A few of the victims of the corruption and cover-ups: And a quick advance, skipping over many other fraud-related airline disasters and to the present, made possible by the corruption in the government's aviation safety offices, those who knew of the corruption and did nothing, such as members of Congress, and the over 100 lawyers and judges who were directly involved in criminalizing the courts in their obstruction of justice cover-ups and retaliation against former federal agents: Into the Hornet's Nest First stage of discovering corruption in the government's aviation safety offices: In 1962, Stich left his work as an international airline captain and went to work for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as an air carrier operations inspector.. His hands-on job was anything to do with airline safety, conducting flight checks of airline pilots, issuing ratings, inspecting operations, making safety recommendations, and anything else related to airline operational safety. His first assignment was to the FAA offices in Los Angeles, where he worked with such airlines as America, TWA, and Western Airlines. In those days, airline crashes were a common occurrence, sometimes occurring every few months in a steady series. Most of the worst airline crashes were those of United Airlines. In 1963, he was approached and asked to take the assignment to correct the conditions responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history, especially as it related to United Airlines. This required moving to Denver, where United Airlines had its main training operations. He still remembers a key statement that was made to him: "Rod, it's a difficult assignment but we are right behind you." Shortly before Stich arrived in Denver, United Airlines had two major airline disasters (among others). One was the world's worst airline disaster, a United Airlines DC-8 that crashed into the Brooklyn section of New York City after first crashing into a TWA Constellation. Stich took the assignment, and soon discovered what other federal inspectors had discovered. Key people at United Airlines, and within the FAA, were engaged in a culture and corruption that caused or allowed many of the air disasters to occur. Deadly Corruption at United Airlines He discovered that key people responsible for training and competency at United Airlines were engaging in corrupt activities. These included a practice of denying legally-required training to cockpit crew members and then falsifying records to indicate that the training was done; denying corrective training to pilots and flight engineers that were dangerous deficient, thereby saving the company money; threatening federal safety inspectors with transfer and removal from their safety assignments (through their influence with key FAA officials). Deadly Corruption within the FAA Stich also discovered corruption of key people within the FAA that were complicit with the corruption at United Airlines, and that federal inspectors who reported and attempted to take corrective actions suffered retaliation. Stich's reports of these deadly problems to higher FAA management did not correct the problem. Instead, Stich suffered retaliation for making the reports and attempting to carry out the federal government's safety responsibility. His many reports and safety recommendations were ignored, and often, the official reports would be removed from the government files and destroyed. Because of the deadly nature of the corruption, the aiding and abetting by the checks and balances within the FAA, Stich had several choices to make. (1) He could simply look the other way and ignore it, as most government inspectors had done, realizing they risked their careers if they spoke out; (2) they could transfer to another assignment where the corruption was less; or (3) he could fight it, as no other federal inspector had ever done. The gravity of the consequences were such that he decided to fight it, making creative use of the law. This caused him to act similar to an independent prosecutor, conducting four months of administrative hearings, subpoenaing witnesses, and during adversary courtroom procedures, questioning the witnesses and introducing official documents into the proceedings. The hearing officer, acting as judge, was a lawyer on the FAA administrator's' staff, William Jennings (who would later be responsible for safety at the Airline Passengers' Association). During the hearings, three more major airline disasters occurred, each one caused by the very same safety problems that Stich had repeatedly reporting in writing, and for which he was criticized for making the reports. One accident, which was a classic example of the close ties between corruption and deaths, was the United Airlines crash at Salt Lake City; another was a United Airlines crash into Lake Michigan; and the third was an American Airlines crash at Lexington, Kentucky. At the end of the hearing, expecting the hearing officer to engage in a cover-up when he made his decision, Stich included strong warnings in his final closing brief submitted in writing. Jennings, whose continued employment depended upon pleasing his boss, misstated the facts and the evidence, and covered up, stating he was confident that all safety requirements were being carried out. A long series of airline disasters then followed. The FAA then made life miserable for Stich, causing him to leave government service. He then went to work for Flying Tigers, single-handedly writing the operating manual for the stretched DC-8 aircraft the airline had on order. that employment continued until the manual was completed and the aircraft started arriving. During this period, Stich had invested in the fast-growing California real estate market, and had acquired a great amount of property, including truck stop, motel, golf course, apartments, and various other properties. Corruption-Related Airline Disasters Continued After the Cover-Up The continuation of major airline disasters from the culture and corruption caused Stich to again address the problem. He had already sent letters to members of Congress advising them of the relationship of the corruption to the continuing airline disasters, but encountered the same cover-up that he would encounter throughout the 40 years of attempting to expose corruption in key government offices. He now used federal law to report the criminal activities. The federal crime reporting statute requires that anyone knowing of a federal crime report it to a federal judge or other federal officer. Another statute provides that any citizen may seek a court order requiring a federal official to perform an official duty and to halt unlawful conduct. the first of several lawsuits against the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were filed in the mid-1970s. Although federal judges admitted the gravity of the charges, upon motion of Justice Department lawyers, the judges refused to receive the information about federal crimes and dismissed the lawsuits. Circumventing the Continuing Cover-Ups Stich then used his assets to fund other actions seeking to publicize the corruption, the tragedies, and the cover-ups. He published the first of several series of the book, Unfriendly Skies, in 1978, and started appearing as guest and expert on hundreds of radio and television shows. The publicity arising from these appearances and the books caused a continuing series of other former government agents to contact Stich and provide him with highly explosive information about corruption in other areas of government. Stich started writing other books on the basis of this information. Naming Federal Judges That Were Complicit Opened Up a New Can of Worms After the second edition appeared in the early 1980s, in which Stich named the federal judges who had covered up, and the crashes made possible by the cover-ups, there started a series of bizarre events involving over a hundred lawyers, law firms, California and federal judges. All of these events acted to halt Stich's exposure actions, preventing the public from learning about the corruption that had now expanded far beyond the areas that Stich originally discovered. In 1982, the San Francisco CIA-front law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross, and their lawyers, filed a sham lawsuit against Stich that had the effect of immediately separating him from the assets that funded his exposure actions. California judges then issued a series of orders for the next six years that violated dozens of state and federal laws, insuring the success of the scheme. Since these repeated and massive violations constituted violations of federally protected rights for which there were several federal remedies giving federal judges the authority and requirement to provide a federal court forum. Instead of providing relief, federal judges then acted to protect the CIA-front law firm and the California judges that were implicated, violating many federal laws and constitutional protections. The Most Probable Source in Government Orchestrating The Legal and Judicial Violations: Federal Judiciary! The involvement of federal judges expanded the area of corruption still further. As their violations were now matters of judicial record, invoking still further federal causes of action in which could file lawsuits to seek relief, federal judges responded by first issuing a series of unlawful and unconstitutional orders permanently barring Stich from filing any papers in any federal district or appellate court. Then, when Stich sought to report additional criminal activities (and sought relief from the violations that were part of the scheme to silence him), federal judges and Justice Department prosecutors responded by charging Stich with criminal contempt of court, denying him ma jury trial, and at the age of 67, shorting after undergoing multiple bypass coronary surgery, sent him to federal prison for six months, of which two months were in solitary confinement. While in prison, federal judges ordered the seizure of Stich's entire life's assets, without any hearing or legal cause. They then rendered an order barring him from filing objections to the seizure and liquidation. When Stich did file an objection, it was unlawfully unfiled, and he was again charged with criminal contempt of court and sentenced again to prison. When Stich published still other books exposing these criminal activities, other law firms and lawyers joined the attacks upon Stich, and these are ongoing at this time. The intent of the latest legal attacks were to seize the books.. There is more more involved, but this is a general outline, from which the many other files at this Internet site go into far more details. Suffice it to say, the American people and the country are being subverted from within by a literal Trojan horse secret government, and most media people are keeping the lid on the corruption. Significance of Federal Courts as Criminal Enterprise If these statements are true about the involvement of so many federal judges, up to and including Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, the facts and the law would identify the federal courts as a criminal enterprise. this is no exaggeration. And if these facts were true, then the people of the United States have even worse problems then the little bit they know. And the "ifs" in this paragraph are supported by the extensive judicial records, and the details in the books written by insiders that have received very little attention to this date. The above pattern will probably continue. Over 3,000 radio and TV appearances by that former federal agent, and publishing books at his expense, hasn't been able to motivate the people to act, including those who subsequently paid with their lives for the corruption that they ignored. And this pattern will continue, helped by the lawyers and judges who continue to corruptly misuse the courts to prevent the prior deadly conduct, and their involvement, from being known by the public. Free books: Segments of each of the 14 books revealing the continuing history of corruption and cover-ups, and related tragedies, are available by clicking here. 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