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NOTE: Any activities considered by law to be
"legislative" or "educational", Redress, Inc. may participate in
without jeopardizing 501c3 status. Those activities considered
"political" are defined by FEC and IRS law, and Redress, Inc. must
adhere to those laws. Therefore, any item included herein
which is deemed to be political in nature will be reviewed by an
attorney prior to implementation in order to avoid any conflicts in
law.
ATTORNEYS
- As a group, Redress,
Inc. needs to form a coalition of fair-minded attorneys who will
work with us to file our class-action lawsuits.
- Well-focused
class-action lawsuits incorporating us a group of plaintiffs will
cost less than our individual battles and will have more impact on
the court systems. Creative litigation can go a long way to
resolving corruption.
- Also, see Law Suits,
below.
BOYCOTTS
A
group-endorsed boycott can be an effective means to change.
Even in the court setting, the use of peremptory challenges to an
assigned judge deemed by any group of people to be incompetent,
malicious or worse can get a message across. An insurance
company which routinely forces litigation without merit or basis
in law can be boycotted nationally.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, NEVADA
Regarding civil
immunity of authorities, we need to prepare a Constitutional
Amendment and get it on the books. We need a formal means of
ensuring the removal of judicial offers and extend it to alleviate
immunity to "qualified" or "proven" immunity against civil and
legal court action. Needless to say, this will not be a
popular stance. Current authorities such as they are
have continuously failed us. Only through law can we rectify
this.
See Proposed
Laws Page, and Nevada Anti-corruption Initiative Law
(NAIL).
Also, see Ballot
Initiative Strategy Center, at http://www.ballot.org/ and
http://www.Ballotfunding.org.
COMPLAINTS
We must document our
complaints and submit them to the authorities (see Authorities
Page). A clear-cut documentation of our attempts to
obtain justice and a pattern of failure to achieve it, empowers
our credibility. It also allows us to affiliate with others
in the same positions. There is power in numbers.
Showing the authorities lack of responsiveness to our plight will
aid us in our fight. Complaints will be noticed on this web
site.
COURT WATCHING
The organization
Judicial Watch is effectively monitoring our courts for abuses,
which requires training and perseverance. We must set
up a Nevada Judicial Watch to attend court in session, and
document the abuses we witness impartially and our own
cases. We should become aware of the judicial canons of
ethics (see Authorities Page
for link). When we see violations of the canons, we must
obtain evidence in the form of transcripts and tapes. Some
of us are aware of tape tampering, and it will be crucial that we
take good notes, and prepare affidavits.
Documenting bad
behavior by our judges gives us credibility when pursuing
Impeachment Proceedings and in filing complaints with the Nevada
Commission on Ethics and the Judicial Council. Because
attorneys are often flagrant violators of the professional rules
of conduct, we need to document their behavior also, to gain
credibility with the State Bar which generally favors attorney
explanations over those of pro per litigants.
Also, those who
violate their oaths of office must be held accountable. See
page on Oaths of
Office.
ELECTIONS
Those seeking seeking
public office at any level must know of Redress, Inc.
Citizens need to hear their promises and platforms.
Candidates must be aware of citizens' stance against
corruption, and know we will be watching them to ensure competence
and fairness. Citizens must hold them to their oaths of
office. They must know that we are not willing to tolerate
the "good ole boy" method of operation any longer. We
believe in "principles before personalities". Such a service
to our members is educational, and not political; Redress, Inc.
does not endorse any particular political party, being a
nonpartisan group. Redress, Inc. may only provide a
forum for candidates to speak at our public
meetings, but will not endorse nor oppose any
candidates, except as may be provided for by law (501c3 mandates
will be followed to the best of our ability).
In 1986, the Supreme
Court overturned Federal Election Commission regulations and
allowed nonprofit advocacy corporations to pay for independent
advertisements that specifically urge voters to support or oppose
particular candidates. Such ads cannot be coordinated with
the candidates they have endorsed.
We can collect
background information and party platform information and
disseminate it, along with complaints and kudos by citizens for
educational purposes. Citizens can offer us their
experiences with those seeking office, and we can then publish it
herein. Citizens may use it to hold discussion
groups, and thus make informed choices on their
own.
Several of these
related issues are currently under review by the U.S. Supreme
Court, and the parameters may change. Any venture regarding
politicalization of the group would first be evaluated by
attorneys specializing in the laws regarding IRS and FEC
regulations, and only those actions which would not jeopardize our
nonprofit 501c3 status would be pursued. Citizens within the
group may take whichever actions they deem necessary, as their
membership in Redress, Inc., does not relieve any citizen of their
rights under the law.
If we find those
elected have violated their oaths of office or are acting against
their promises or established law, we can publish that information
in order that those citizens interested in starting recall efforts
may do so. In this way, Redress, Inc., again serves as an
education source, through the publication of citizens'
rights.
IMPEACHMENT, COUNTY JUDGES & OTHER ELECTED
OFFICIALS (RECALL PETITION)
Entirely overlooked in
our society are the citizens' abilities to recall elected
officials from office. Although Redress, Inc. cannot
participate due to 501(c)(3) strictures, we CAN provide the
educational means to enable citizens to take such action through
publicizing applicable procedures. And, of course, employees
of Redress, Inc., may act of their own free
will.
Nevada Revised Statute
306 states process for impeaching elected officials, including
judges. Citizens put them IN office; citizens can
take them OUT of office. This process does not apply, of
course, to federal judges, who are appointed. Through our
Rate Judges page, perhaps it is time to find the worst judicial
officers so that interested citizens may begin impeachment
proceedings. Although the means to do this has been
established in law, apparently the law has never been
used.
This is one way to get
the judges to be aware of its actual and not perceived duties to
the citizens. Campaign promises, abandoned upon taking
office, is a way for fraud to perpetuate. Grounds for
impeachment often include terms such as "malfeasance",
"misfeasance", "gross misconduct", "gross immorality", "high
crimes", "habitual intemperance", and
"maladministration".
The office of Larry
Lomax (702-455-8683), Clark County Elections Department, is our
resource for procedure in addition to the NRS
statute.
The NRS web site is
found at http://www.leg.state.nv.us, and we select law library to
located Chapter 306.
Copy of the State of
Nevada Recall Guide may be obtained by contacting Larry Lomax'
office. Redress, Inc. is in possession of a copy
now.
JUDICIAL COUNCILS
The Judicial
Councils hold the responsibility to respond correctly to
complaints against judges. Many of us are painfully aware of
the Judicial Councils' lack of responsiveness to citizen
complaints. This must change. We must publicize
current means, and create and implement new legislative
strategies to get this entity to respond correctly, or make
efforts to either shut them down, go around them, or in any other
legal way force them to become accountable to us. This
could be done by implementing the Nevada
Anti-corruption Initiative Law.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
The Justice
Department is charged with investigating patterns of abuse.
We must document our cases and submit them to the Justice
Department en masse, after which we need to pursue them doggedly
to take action on our behalf. In this way, we may be able to
force the Justice Department to protect our citizens'
rights. Groups of citizens could review the RICO Act to
file criminal charges where applicable. To see link to RICO
Act, See Authorities
Page.
LAW CHANGES
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We need to
create laws to protect us. Proposed
Laws page; in
many instances, this will require a petition drive to put laws
on the ballot for vote.
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If we are
able to find a legislator who is sympathetic to the cause of
anti-corruption initiatives, this will greatly assist us.
We should not abandon our need to develop initiatives however,
in the event the Legislators drop the ball or our proposed laws
become mangled at the hands of a
Legislator.
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We also need to
remove laws that are unconstitutional and poorly written, and
thus unenforceable. Although we know that unconstitutional
laws are void from their inception, the authorities may be
unaware of this; therefore, citizens can still be held to laws
which are invalid, causing us great distress and financial
hardship.
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All laws, rules
and procedures should be rewritten in an easily
understandable manner, without Latin, which simply obscures our
understanding.
LAW SUITS
COURTS,
JUDGES, AUTHORITIES, INSTITUTIONS, COUNTIES, CITIES AND
STATES
Using our case
citations against corrupt entities, citizens can file class-action
lawsuits. There is power in numbers. Individually,
cases get dismissed as without merit. It takes money to file
suits, however, and it is imperative that we create a means to
finance these suits.
Those cases of
great social merit may be considered for representation through
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), or through Judicial
Watch (see Affiliations) ;
however, they will not do so unless we can demonstrate the need
and application on a large scale.
Carolina
Advocates for Legal Reform (CALR) is now researching filing class
action suits on behalf of those who have suffered injustice and
corruption in many areas. Contact them by e-mail through
their web site at http://www.hometown.aol.com/Calreform/pet.html to share your story and join
the litigation.
We
suggest you contact Big Class Action and sign up for their
newsletter. http://www.bigclassaction.com/cgi/sub_BCA.org. We intend to begin a number of class action
law suits against our courts for multiple causes, our State Bars
and Judicial Councils, and more, unless we can get positive
changes without litigation.
LAWYERS
We need to put
bad lawyers out of business. We can do this by using their
own tool (presumably the law, although often it isn't that at
all). We can cultivate a group of Legal Malpractice Lawyers,
and bring them our cases. Where possible, we can sue
class-action for civil rights violations, and criminal charges of
fraud.
Lawyers have
no fear of litigants without attorneys; they merely fear their own
kind. This is a valid tool for productive
change. Many of us are convinced that State Bars and
Judicial Councils, while ostensibly created for the purpose of
policing their own, actually serve to protect their members.
There is implied conflict of interest in allowing judges and
lawyers to investigate other judges and
lawyers.
LOBBYING
Although
an expensive proposition, we must create the means to lobby for
our interests at the highest levels. Some feel special
interest groups are destructive to our society as a whole;
however, we must work within a structure that already
exists. Bottom line - lobbyists are effective.
However, as a pending-tax-exempt corporation, we are bound by
limitations to lobbying as defined by IRS code, covered in IRS
Form 5768 (http://www.irs/gov).
MEMBER SUPPORT
No member
should attend any court proceeding alone. We must attend
hearings with our members to document abuses. For those of
us who have been forced to endure hearings where only the judge,
the other attorney and ourselves are present (not even a court
clerk), we know that such strategies are used to commit illegal
abuse without witnesses.
NEWS COVERAGE
In order to
get our messages heard, we absolutely need media assistance,
although we do have concerns regarding the nature of the
coverage. We must exercise care to obtain unbiased
coverage.
We must
develop, implement and submit information to on-going media
contacts.
PICKETING COURTHOUSES, STATE BAR, JUDICIAL COUNCIL,
ETC.
The Coalition
for Family Court Reform held a picketing event regarding judicial
incompetence; unfortunately, it was held the same day that the
Columbine Shootings took over the news. This event
consequently did not receive the media attention
necessary.
This activity
is a way to get the courts' attention to assert citizens'
power regarding elected judges and a stance against
corruption. A structured program of picketing the
authorities is a way to garner media attention to the abuses we
are often forced to endure. This issue speaks to civil
rights and not to politics. Citizens have a right, under the
First Amendment, to petition the government for redress of
grievances.
Any proposed
picketing/demonstration event planned would be noticed first to
the ACLU of Nevada for review of our legal rights and
determination that such demonstration would not jeopardize our
501c3 status.
POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (PAC)
As a
tax-exempt corporation (pending), we are unable to
participate in political action although the owner/employees of
Redress, Inc. do not surrender their constitutional rights to
participate on a personal level.
We can
participate as an organization in changing laws such
as organizing to obtain signatures for the Nevada
Anti-corruption Initiative Law (NAIL). We will need people
in a minimum of 13 of Nevada's 17 counties to collect the
needed signatures for their counties.
In order to
get the initiative on the ballot, we need to collect 10% of the
voter turnout for the November elections. However, due to
the transient nature of our state, we must obtain more signatures
than the law requires because during the verification process, we
will lose some signatures due to relocations.
As a 501c3
organization, we are allowed to participate in the legislative
process; political activity, however, is restricted by IRS code,
and we must adhere to those
restrictions.
PROBLEM SOLVING
We operate
within our alliance. This provides actual assistance, along
with hope, to form a a network of support for each other. As
a group, we can problem solve for the individuals both of which
keep us going during the stresses of our
battles.
SENATE HEARINGS
The U.S. House
of Representatives on the Committee for the Judiciary must know of
us. Many victimized by our courts are aware of the Senate
Hearings held regarding abuses against citizens by the IRS.
This resulted in some behavioral changes. This speaks to
civil rights enforcement and legislative changes, and not to
political activity.
We feel
we need to force Senate Hearings regarding the abuses we are
forced to suffer in our courts without real redress. This
will involve a letter writing campaign, organized to clearly
document our plight. We need to obtain a fair study of the
court problems, unlike the Report of the National Commission on
Judicial Discipline and Removal - go to Newspapers/Magazines under
Judicial Misconduct and
then to Without to read Elena
Sassower (of Center for Judicial Accountability) article on this
topic and more, published by the Massachusetts School of
Law.
We need a
realistic and implementable system of
redress.
STATE BAR
It is crucial
that we become educated about the ways and means that this entity
fails to address our valid concerns. Many of us have
experienced the total frustration of being ignored in our valid
complaints by the State Bar. This must change. We will
create and implement strategies to repair it.
EVENTS:
This
section will be used to publicize public meetings (to be addressed
in the ) and fund raisers, rallies and
demonstrations, as allowed by law.
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