Highlights of Corruption & Cover-Ups, And Ripple Effects on 9/11 Over 20 years of documented corruption involving large numbers of federal judges has been developed as a result of efforts by former federal air safety agent Rodney Stich. The facts show corruption, cover-ups that make the victims expendable collateral damage. And the collateral damage goes far beyond the aviation environment, Endemic corruption and endemic cover-ups do not occur in a vacuum. Rodney Stich, a former federal air safety agent, was asked to accept the assignment to correct the conditions resulting in the worst series of air disasters in the nation's history. In this position he discovered deep-seated misconduct that caused or made possible a series of continuing airline crashes, including years of hijackings, all of which could have been easily prevented. These corrupt conditions prevented the federal government from meeting its air safety responsibilities and were responsible for hundreds of deaths. Included in the number of airline crashes that prompted government officials to ask Stich to take over the program was a crash into New York City that was the world's worst at that time (based upon the number of people killed). That crash occurred within one mile of where the World Trade Center would be later built. The conditions that Stich discovered, which had been discovered by earlier federal air safety inspectors who found themselves powerless to function in their air safety positions, included warnings not to make reports of air safety problems or violations, destruction of official reports made by inspectors, harassment and threats against inspectors who made the reports or who attempted to take corrective actions. The continuation of fatal airline crashes and the continuation of the arrogance and corruption that bred these disasters caused Stich to take actions that were never before taken. He exercised the law in a creative manner and took on the position of an independent prosecutor, conducting hearings that last for four months, and included taking sworn testimony during the hearing of key FAA officials. The 4,000 page hearing transcript proved Stich's charges that major misconduct within the FAA was responsible for an ongoing series of fatal airline crashes. The final closing brief warned of the consequences if the hearings resulted in a cover-up (which they did). Three other major airline disasters occurred during the four-month hearing, each caused by the same safety problems and misconduct that Stich had previously reported in writing, for which preventative measures were blocked. The result of that hearing was further cover-ups by the FAA, the NTSB, members of Congress, and others. Stich circumvented the block by Justice Department personnel and appeared before a federal grand jury in Denver. The mechanics of how a grand jury functions, controlled by the U.S. attorney, prevented an investigation. Stich refused to work under these conditions and left the FAA. This change was made possible by the fact that Stich had acquired a considerable quantity of real estate while an airline captain prior to working for the Federal Aviation Administration. The crashes continued to occur from the FAA misconduct, causing Stich to become an activist against corruption related to aviation matters. He published books, appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, and gave speeches, in an attempt to inform the public of these matters and in anticipation that there would be a sufficient number of people outraged and with sufficient courage to help bring about changes. The first book that he wrote was the first of several editions of Unfriendly Skies. Stich also filed federal lawsuits against the FAA to report criminal activities to a federal court under the federal crime reporting statute (18 U.S.C. § 4), and under the statute (28 U.S.C. § 1361) providing any citizen the right to seek a court order to force public officials to perform a legal duty. He also filed a federal lawsuit against the NTSB to seek a court order requiring the political board members to receive material evidence related to several airline crashes that they were covering up. The clear wording of Title 18 U.S.C. § 4 states that federal judges (or any other federal officer) must receive the information and evidence of federal crimes being offered to them, as part of their administrative duties (not judicial decision making authority). Instead of receiving the information, federal district and appellate judges in the Ninth Circuit courts blocked Stich from providing this information and evidence of crimes against the United States that involved people in key government positions. In the first action against the FAA, district and appellate judges admitted in the record that these were serious charges but that receiving this information was a function of Congress and not the courts. The clear wording of the crime reporting statute shows that federal judges do have this responsibility. Further responsibility arose under Title 28 U.S.C. § 1361 in which Stich sought a federal court order forcing FAA officials to perform their legal duty and halt their unlawful conduct. Justice Department lawyers filed objections to the introduction of this evidence and moved to have the lawsuits dismissed. The lawsuits were dismissed, and Stich filed appeals and then petitions to the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who also had the responsibility under the crime reporting statute to receive the evidence of the criminal activities. They also refused. The refusal to perform their duties under the federal crime reporting statute caused the internal FAA misconduct to continue, which was followed by even worse airline crashes due to problems that the FAA should have corrected. Stich then published the second edition of Unfriendly Skies, which named the federal judges and Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, as holding blame in the subsequent crashes and deaths. This book and Stich's continuing appearances on radio and television threatened to expose many people in key government positions with the criminal misconduct, crashes, and deaths. United Airlines was also threatened with exposure since much of the misconduct was by management personnel of the airline. Discovering Other Areas of Criminal Activities in Government Operations Stich's books and frequent radio and television appearances caused other government agents to contact him, providing him with information and documentation on criminal activities in other areas of government operations. The federal crime reporting statute required that Stich, or any other person who knows of a federal crime, to promptly report it to a federal judge (or other federal officer). Since Justice Department personnel and members of Congress had repeatedly refused to receive the evidence, Stich again exercised his right and his responsibility to report the crimes to a federal court, which he started to do in 1986. Again, federal judges refused to receive the evidence. They then compounded this crime by issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich, for the remainder of his life, from filing any papers in the federal courts. Refusing to receive evidence of criminal activities, obstructing justice, were federal crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 3, and 4. These injunctive orders were void on the basis that they violated each of the four legal requirements for such orders and were unlawful and unconstitutional by depriving Stich of the legal rights, legal protections and legal defenses guaranteed to all citizens. Further, their result, and surely their intent, was to obstruct justice. The Injunctive orders blocked the reporting of criminal activities and were therefore criminal in intent and consequences. As Stich received additional information on additional criminal activities, he against filed papers in the Ninth Circuit federal courts at San Francisco and Sacramento, seeking to report these crimes, which even included subversive activities. Justice Department lawyers and federal judges then charged Stich with criminal contempt of court for violating the orders that terminated Stich's right to federal court access. He was denied a jury trial, and the same group that was criminally implicated in the criminal activities through their cover-ups then sentenced Stich to federal prison for six months. He was 69 years of age at that time and had just undergone six-coronary bypass open heart surgery. During this imprisonment he was put in solitary confinement for eight weeks. It is a criminal offense to inflict harm upon a former federal agent or witness for seeking to report criminal activities. Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1510, 1512, 1513. Start of 20-Plus Years of Obstruction of Justice Tactics by a Hoard of Lawyers and Judges Simultaneous with federal judges and Justice Department personnel blocking the reporting of these criminal and subversive activities, the CIA-front law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross in San Francisco filed a sham and bizarre lawsuit against Stich in the courts at Fairfield, California, focusing on the $10 million in real estate assets that funded Stich's exposure activities. the lawsuit sought to immediately deprive Stich access to these funds while acting to destroy the assets. In law, there are two ways to immediately place a person's assets in control of a judge. Either through probate or in a divorce action in a community property state where the court holds that the property is community. Stich wasn't dead so the probate route was out. Stich had been legally divorced for the prior 20 years and that route should have been out. No problem; when you have control of judges and have a powerful source high in government supporting your unlawful conduct, the victim has no defenses. The CIA-front law firm filed a divorce action against Stich, claiming that their client in Duncanville, Texas wanted to terminate the marriage and was claiming most of Stich's personal and corporate assets. That lawsuit was barred by dozens of state and federal laws and constitutional protections. Included in the obstacles to that lawsuit was the fact that the parties had been legally divorced for over 20 years, as established by a January 31, 1966 divorce judgment that had been entered as a local judgment in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada, and California. Both parties had been declaring themselves divorced throughout this period in real estate and other legal transactions. The parties' divorced status was recognized in over 100 title insurance policies. In addition, the Texas resident continued to declare herself divorced in her resident state of Texas while the CIA-front law firm was claiming she was married and wanted to terminate that marriage. By placing lis pendens on all of Stich's properties and refusing to allow mortgages to be rolled over when they came due, valuable properties were lost. If the CIA-front law firm was actually representing a marriage partner in Texas, they would be guilty of malpractice for allowing valuable assets to be lost. For six years, over a dozen California judges granted every motion requested by the CIA-front law firm, refused every motion filed by Stich, and continued to violate record-numbers of state and federal laws barring them from the actions they were taking. It became apparent that they did not fear the consequences of their blatantly unlawful and unconstitutional conduct that violated numerous federally protected rights for which there were remedies in federal courts. It became a standard practice of California judges to label every exercise of due process defense remedies a frivolous act, and then ordered Stich to pay huge financial sanctions for exercising these defenses. It is a federal offense to inflict harm upon a person for exercising constitutional due process rights. It is an even worse federal offense, criminal, if it is to obstruct justice by halting the reporting of crimes against the United States. The legal and judicial attacks upon former federal agent Rodney Stich then continued, and are continuing at this time, knowingly obstructing justice by seeking to halt the exposure of the corrupt activities. Single handed, that former federal agent continues to fight the David versus Goliath battle to expose a literal Trojan horse subversion of major national interests. Exercising Federal Defenses in Federal Courts Stich filed the first of numerous papers in federal court seeking to halt the personal and financial losses arising from the massive violations of state and federal laws. This right was provided by the laws and Constitution of the United States including: Declaratory Judgment Act (Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, 2202) FRCivP 57, and related law. Federal law requires that this federal cause of action receive court priority. Civil Rights Act (Title 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983-1986), for violations of state and federal laws and constitutional rights under color of state law. Despite the bar against dismissal when the facts stated in the complaint state a federal cause of action for which federal relief is available, every federal judge promptly dismissed the lawsuits, thereby protecting the CIA-front law firm and the heavy involvement of California judges, aided and abetted the violations of federally protected rights for which federal judges had a responsibility to prevent. Federal judges were now combining their obstruction of justice with a blatantly sham lawsuit filed by a CIA-front law firm to halt Stich's exposure activities through taking of his assets. These violations by federal judges were parallel judicial efforts to obstruct justice by halting the reporting of criminal activities. Forced To Seek Relief In Chapter 11 Courts Denied all due process defenses in California and federal courts, and continuing to lose valuable real estate as loans became due that could not be refinanced, Stich filed Chapter 11 for his personal and corporate assets seeking to force a federal judge to address the massive violations of state and federal laws. He sought to have the Chapter 11 judge order the removal of the lis pendens placed on the properties by the CIA-front law firm and their lawyers. Also, to have an order rendered halting the sham lawsuit in the California courts and declare the validity of the five judgment that had already adjudicated the issues 22 years earlier (the divorce). At that time Stich did not know the existence of the massive corruption in the nation's bankruptcy courts involving corrupt judges, Justice Department trustees, court-appoint trustees, lawyers, and law firms--and CIA involvement. He was to learn these matters at a later date, as detailed in Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, and Defrauding America, and other books Stich wrote. instead of performing his duty, Chapter 11 judge Robert Jones (Las Vegas) protected the CIA-front law firm. He signed orders in chambers seizing and liquidating Stich's $10 million in assets, violating the legal and constitutional due process requirement of a hearing, notice of hearing at which Stich could defend, and legally recognized cause. These due process violations were then followed by Chapter 11 Judge Edward Jellen (Oakland, California) issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich from filing any objections to the seizure and liquidation of his assets. When Stich did file an objection, the objection was unfiled and Jellen charged him with criminal contempt of court (for filing objections when this due process right had been terminated by his earlier unlawful order). Eventually, all of Stich's assets were gone, including his home and his sole source of income. A heavy price to pay for his efforts to protect a public that appears totally unwilling to exercise any form of outrage or courage to fight cancer-spreading corruption in government. From the very first attempt to report the criminal activities to a federal court in 1977, and throughout the period until 2002, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who held supervisory responsibilities over the same federal judges guilty of these crimes, refused to act. In this way, these justices aided and abetted the criminal acts that subverted major national interests, including national security, and were complicit in the various forms of harm inflicted upon the American people. The 3,000 deaths on September 11, 2001, were made possible by the corruption in the FAA that resulted in the conditions insuring the success of the 19 hijackers, and the cover-ups by federal judges and others. From 1986 to 1995, Stich was continually under either house arrest or in prison for having sought to report the criminal and subversive activities to a federal court or for exercising defense remedies against the taking of his life assets (that had funded his exposure of crimes against the United States). What is stated here is only the tip of the iceberg. Much more information is on this Internet site and in the books that Stich and his group of government agents have written. Unprecedented Evidence for Those Seriously Concerned About Corruption in Government Offices In no other known case is there so much documented evidence of hardcore judicial corruption affecting national issues, and complicit in great harm to major national interests, and complicit in the deaths of many people. The many groups protesting judicial corruption will get nowhere relying solely on the misconduct of judges on individual matters. The only way that major changes can be made to remove arrogant and corrupt judges is to heavily publicize this information, and that which is found in the books, Unfriendly Skies, Defrauding America, Drugging America, Terrorism Against America, and Legal and Judicial Trojan Horses. Stich is 79 years of age, and has for 40 years fought the battle by himself. He is about to abandon future efforts. If the public is too lazy, hasn't the backbone or integrity to act, even after 3,000 deaths in only one day's deja vu consequence of the corruption Stich and his group of other government agents have presented to the public, then the public has decided it wants more of the same (just as they have decided for many prior years and many prior tragedies, including those outside of the aviation area). Footnote References Stich v. United States, et al., 554 F.2d 1070 (9th Cir.) (table), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 920 (1977)(addressed hard-core air safety misconduct, violations of federal air safety laws, threats against government inspectors not to report safety violations and misconduct); Stich v. National Transportation Safety Board, 685 F.2d 446 (9th Cir.)(table), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 861 (1982))(addressed repeated criminal falsification of official airline accident reports, omitting highly sensitive air safety misconduct, making possible repeated crashes from the same sequestered problems); Amicus curiae brief filed on July 17, 1975, in the Paris DC-10 multi-district litigation, Flanagan v. McDonnell Douglas Corporation and United States of America, Civil Action 74-808-PH, MDL 172, Central District California.)(addressing the long standing FAA misconduct, of which the cover-up of the DC-10 cargo door problem was one of repeated instances of tragedy related misconduct); U.S. v. Department of Justice, District of Columbia, Nos. 86-2523, 87-2214, and other actions filed by Stich seeking to expose and correct the powerful and covert air disaster misconduct. The other sources of information and evidence were agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, and Central Intelligence Agency, including former heads of secret CIA airlines and secret CIA financial operations who provided The author with information on drug smuggling into the United States and various forms of financial fraud perpetrated against the United States. The injunctive orders required the former federal agent to first submit any filing to the courts to determine whether they would be filed. But every attempted filing was barred despite the record numbers of federally causes of actions stated. Since there was no filing, there was no appeal remedy. Legal requirements for injunctive orders include (1) they must halt great and irreparable harm; (2) they must halt unlawful acts; (3) they must be in the public’s interest; and (4) the judge rendering the orders must issue a finding of facts showing that these requirements had been met. As repeatedly judicially perpetrated, the law was applied in reverse. The orders did not halt the harm; they protected the people inflicting the harm and deprived Stich, who was the recipient of the harm, from defenses and protections in the laws and Constitution of the United States. The orders did not halt the unlawful acts; they provided judicial protection to the continuation and escalating of these violations. Subverting the laws and Constitution of the United States and depriving a citizen of these rights was not in the public’s interest. The findings of facts showing these requirements were met were never made by any of the judges. Government agents providing The author with information and evidence of criminal activities, including terrorist activities, included agents from the FBI, DEA, Customs, INS, Secret Service, and CIA. Repeatedly violated by California judges were: California CC §§ 4351, 4554, 5004, 5102, 5103, 5108, 5110.720, 5118, 5164; California CCP §§1699(b), 1713.1, 1713.3, 1908, 1910, 1913, 915; California Rules of court Rules 1201(c); 1211, 1212, 1215, 1222, 1229(a), 1230(a)(2), 1234, 1239(a)(2), 1281, and Rule 1282; absence of personal jurisdiction arising from Rule 1230 Motion to quash, 1230(a)(2), 1234, and 1239(a)(2); absence of personal and subject matter jurisdiction under the California Family Law Act: Rules 1201(c), 1211, 1212, 1281, 1282, 1215, 1222, 1229, 1230(a)(2), 1234, 1239(a)(2); Civil Code §§ 4351, 4503; California Supreme Court Decisions, including Rediker v. Rediker (1950) 35 Cal.2d 796.; Scott v. Scott (1958) 51 C.2d 249]; Spellens v. Spellens (1957) 498 C.2d 210; Whealton v. Whealton (1967) 67 C.2d 656; Res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines.; Title 28 U.S.C. § 1738, full faith and credit statute; Article IV, § 1, providing for full faith and credit; Article IV, § 2, against taking of previously adjudicated and previously acquired personal and property rights upon changing residence to another state; Fourteenth Amendment due process clause; Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause; Fourteenth Amendment privileges and immunities clause; Fourteenth Amendment equal protection; Fourteenth Amendment property rights; Fourteenth Amendment liberty interests; landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions: Williams v. North Carolina (1945) 325 US 226, 65 S Ct 1092, 89 L ed 1577; Coe v. Coe (1948) 334 U.S. 378; Sherrer v. Sherrer (1948) 334 U.S. 43; Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt (1957) 354 U.S. 416; Estin v. Estin (1948) 334 U.S. 541; Perrin v. Perrin, 408 F.2d 107 (3rd Cir. 1969). 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 ... Ninth Circuit appellate judges James R. Browning, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Ronald M. Gould. A court system as a racketeering enterprise was defined in United States v. Stratton, 649 F.2d 1066 (1981). Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). Sampling of Petitions Sent to Supreme Court Justices The first four petitions were sent to the U.S. Supreme Court as a result of the coverups by Ninth Circuit district and appellate judges blocking the reporting of criminal activities implicated in a series of aviation disasters, implicating people in the two government aviation safety agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. March 4, 1991, Petition for emergency relief to Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking relief from the criminal contempt of court charges for attempting to report criminal activities to a federal court under the federal crime reporting statute (and for exercising federal due process remedies against record-setting violations of state and federal laws initiated by a CIA-front law firm). From 1986 to 1995, a succession of criminal contempt of court charges confined Stich to his home pending trial for attempting to report criminal activities under the federal crime reporting statute. Numerous other petitions were sent to the U.S. Supreme Court from 1986 to the present date. Some will be uploaded as time permits. The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the cases. The significance of this was that the Justices: Were refusing to receive evidence of deadly criminal activities that were being reported under the federal crime reporting statute. Were covering up for the felony coverups and obstruction of justice by federal judges over whom they had supervisory responsibilities. Had legal and moral liability for the deaths in aviation disasters that occurred, enabled by the coverups of Supreme Court justices. (Later, as they were made aware of criminal activities in other government offices adversely affecting other areas of national interests, they became complicit in these crimes and the consequences.) Once the coverups and the consequences occurred, the decision was made to continue the judicial coverups, despite the consequences. Among the one-day consequences were the hijackings of four airliners on September 11, 2001, enabled by the misconduct in the government's aviation safety offices (and to a smaller extent, the government's intelligence gathering offices) that prevented the federal government from ordering the known and obvious preventative measures. "Expendable" Collateral Damage to Protect the Guilty All forms of human tragedies have been inflicted upon the people of the United States from the corruption discovered by the people behind this site−and made possible by enablers in and out of government. 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. United Airlines crash into New York City, the world's worst at that time. Withheld from the Amererica public were the reports by federal safety inspectors-investigators showing a continuing pattern of corruption, fraud, criminal alteration of major government required records−and the standard abuse of those few inspectors attempting to require the airline management to comply with industry standards and clear requirements of federal aviation safety requirements−and FAA management to require compliance. None of the guilty, the enablers, to these and the continuing fraud-related crashes ever were held accountable for the hundreds of deaths that they enabled to occur. 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. 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. Forewarned downing of TWA Flight 800 (and U.S. Embassies in Africa, as detailed in the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia). Forewarned bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa: Among the "Least" Guilty of the Enablers Euphoric Blissful Ignorance−Enablers of Great American Tragedies 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. Consider placing orders for any product from amazon.com through the following links. 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