Op-Ed: Should Sonia Sotomayor resign in disgrace?
January 14, 2018
Opinion to the Mirror by Paul Plante:
Before I continue with this call for Sonia Sotomayor to resign from the United States Supreme Court for abusing and disregarding her judicial oath of office, I would like to make it clear that I do not know former U.S. Senator Al Franken, I never voted for him, I never was a fan or partisan of his, nor do I know what he really did to get himself kicked out of the United States Senate, nor do I really want to know, to be truthful, when it involves him trying to slip some woman some tongue when she clearly did not want it.
How icky is that, people?
And I also want to make it clear on the record that I do not condone any of the alleged conduct that caused Al Franken to get kicked out of the U.S. Senate.
Good riddance to the dude is my thought.
Which then takes us to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who should join Al Franken on his journey out of Washington and out of our government for willful violation of her judicial oath in 2005 to protect endemic public corruption in New York state.
As to the oath Sonia Sotomayor has violated, pursuant to 28 U.S. Code § 453 – Oaths of justices and judges, it is stated therein that each justice or judge of the United States, and this would include Sonia Sotomayor as a circuit judge on the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005, when she allowed then-New York State Attorney General Eliot “Longshanks” Spitzer to get away with a “slimeball” lawyer’s trick known as the “Old Switcheroo,” where compromising evidence is removed from the record in order to defeat a federal civil rights lawsuit, shall take the following oath or affirmation before performing the duties of his office: “I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ___ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
In 2005, Sonia Sotomayor, then a circuit judge on the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, turned her back on that oath, renounced it in turn for political gain for herself, for which reason she should resign from the United States Supreme Court in disgrace.
And for the record, by way of comparison, the Oath of Office Al Franken took to be a U.S. Senator is as follows:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
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Before we go further, note the huge difference between Al Franken’s oath and Sonia Sotomayor’s oath.
Franken, who got kicked out of the Senate for slipping a woman the tongue back when he was a stand-up comic on TV, not a senator, vowed to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that he would bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
Sotomayor, who sits on the U.S. Supreme Court, vowed to administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and then she didn’t, and willfully so, so that she could get noticed by the powerful people she needed to notice her, if she wanted to move up to the high court.
If Al Franken should be forced to resign from the U.S. Senate for slipping a woman the tongue, why should Sonia Sotomayor be rewarded with a federal judgeship on the U.S. Supreme Court for selling out justice in 2005 while a circuit judge on the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City?
Why a double standard?
Getting back to Al Franken, he was forced to resign over allegations of what today is being called “sexual harassment,” which the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in their wisdom tells us can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature, although harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex.
For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.
However, and this is relevant, both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex, as we can see from a New York Times article entitled “Accused of Sexual Harassment, Andrea Ramsey Ends Kansas Congressional Run” by Jacey Fortin on December 15, 2017, to wit:
A woman running to flip a Kansas congressional seat from red to blue next year is ending her campaign after allegations surfaced that she had sexually harassed, and then fired, a former subordinate.
Andrea Ramsey, 56, is a retired business executive who worked in the nonprofit sector before deciding to run for office as a Democrat in next year’s congressional midterm elections.
She was one of a growing number of women inspired to seek office in the wake of President Trump’s election.
But this month, The Kansas City Star newspaper asked her about a 2005 lawsuit that accused her of sexually harassing a man at LabOne, where she was the executive vice president of human resources, and then firing him after he rejected her advances, a claim Ms. Ramsey denies.
Ms. Ramsey is the rare — perhaps the only — woman in public life to face consequences from a sexual harassment accusation in the weeks since journalistic exposés spawned the #MeToo movement.
She said that her political opponents were using the false allegations against her, and she criticized the Democratic Party for implementing a “zero tolerance standard.”
Meredith Kelly, the communications director of the D.C.C.C., said in an emailed statement: “Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard.”
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If that is true, that “members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard,” then should it apply to Democrat judges, as well, like Sonia Sotomayor?
Or should a lower standard apply to her, because she is a judge, and they should be held to a lower standard than a congress person or senator?
Getting back to the EEOC:
Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
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And that, people, is what underlies the matter that was ultimately before Sotomayor in 2005, the creation of a very hostile and offensive work environment for myself as an associate public health engineer in Rensselaer County in 1988, when I refused to take bribes or honor bribes taken to circumvent the codes and regulations intended to be protective of life, health and safety, which campaign of harassment was then incrementally ratcheted up until August 22, 2001, when corrupt Rensselaer County, with the aid and assistance of the State of New York, including its State Police, and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York had me incarcerated in the secure mental facility of the Albany VA Hospital based on a fraudulent New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 Psychiatric Arrest Order to deter an investigation I was conducting as a New York state licensed professional engineer into endemic public corruption in the Rensselaer County Department of Health.
That I was in fact seized by Albany, New York VA Hospital staff and involuntarily confined, detained, incarcerated or otherwise committed to the secure mental health ward of the Albany, New York VA Hospital, based on nothing more than the unlawfully issued New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 involuntary commitment order which was unlawfully executed by John Christian Braaten of Samaritan Hospital of Troy, New York on August 22, 2001 was confirmed in an affirmation of Assistant New York State Attorney General Lisa Ullman to Rensselaer County Supreme Court dated August 16, 2002, approximately one (1) year after my false arrest, wherein was stated under oath as follows:
Lisa Ullman, being a duly licensed attorney in the State of New York and an Assistant Attorney General in the offices of Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, does hereby affirm under penalties of perjury pursuant to CPLR 2106:
2. This proceeding was commenced by pro se petitioner Plante under Article 78 of the Civil Procedure Law and Rules (“CPLR”), who requested a court order compelling the release of certain mental health records.
Specifically, Petitioner had been involuntarily committed to the Veteran’s Administration Hospital pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 for several hours on August 22, 2001, and had obtained redacted versions of documents pertaining to that commitment.
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With that sworn affidavit in the record, the State of New York and Eliot Spitzer were confronted with a major problem, since that sworn affidavit by an Assistant New York State Attorney General was the proof of unlawful incarceration I needed to commence a federal civil rights lawsuit, which in New York State has a three-year statute of limitations.
So what was Spitzer to do?
Ah, yes, find a judge who would make that evidence that I was unlawfully incarcerated disappear.
POOF, one day, there was a fire.
So, enter Sotomayor, who I was actually face to face with, and I admit, she scared the hell out of me.
“God help the nation if she is a federal judge,” was my thought at the moment.
So, Spitzer and Sotomayor did a deal, and Sotomayor allowed Spitzer to make that August 16, 2002 affirmation of Assistant New York State Attorney General Lisa Ullman to Rensselaer County Supreme Court disappear as if it were never there in the first place, even after I was granted standing in district court based on that sworn admission by Ullman in 2002.
Instead, on August 16, 2005, three (3) years to the day after Ullman submitted her sworn affidavit to Rensselaer County Supreme Court, an Assistant Solicitor General under Spitzer named Julie M. Sheridan was allowed to submit a letter to Sotomayor, where she called for my Amended Petition to be dismissed because my “constitutional claims were not viable, because the very premise of those claims – namely that plaintiff had been involuntarily committed – was false.”
POOF!
Just like that, there went Ullman’s sworn affidavit!
Sotomayor let the truth be replaced with a blatant lie, which is a real statement about who Sonia Sotomayer really is.
And of course, since Spitzer at the time was a very powerful Democrat who became New York’s next governor before stepping down after being caught protecting a high-priced hooker ring whose services Spitzer was availing himself of, who was rumored to be on the presidential track, so Sotomayor took the dive and gave Spitzer what he needed – she bought the lie and there went my civil rights along with that lawsuit right out the window, as if I were a modern-day Dred Scott being informed by Judge Taney that he wasn’t really considered a human being in America.
So much for Sotomayor’s oath to administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.
She did not administer justice; to the contrary, she caused an injustice to persist.
And she certainly did not do equal right to the rich and poor; to the contrary she screwed the poor to make the rich even richer.
So why is she sitting on the bench of the United States Supreme Court?
If Al Franken cannot be a U.S. Senator because he slipped some woman the tongue back in his stand-up comic days, before he became a Senator, why should Sonia Sotomayor, who buried a civil rights case to protect the corrupt, be a federal judge?
Any thoughts, anyone?
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 15, 2018 at 11:20 am
Paul Plante says :
So what really does happen when a federal judge like Sonia Sotomayor decides to toss their judicial oath in the crapper for some kind of political or other gain for themselves, at the expense of society?
Does the fact (assumed, of course, since I do not know if she ever really took the oath) that when she became a federal judge, Sonia Sotomayor swore or affirmed that she “would administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich,” and that she would “faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties” incumbent upon her under the Constitution and laws of the United States, so help her God, really mean that she actually has to or would actually administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon her under the Constitution and laws of the United States, so help her God?
Suppose she doesn’t?
What then?
Will the wrath of Congress come down on her for unfitness to serve as it is coming down on Donald Trump?
Will indignant U.S. Senators stand up on the floor of the United States Senate to denounce her for denying civil rights to an American citizen the way they stand up and bellow about Donald Trump denying civil rights to illegal immigrants in this country?
Will her fellow federal judges look askance at her and demand that she be blacklisted the way she has blacklisted me?
Will anyone in the federal government stand up and question her mental fitness to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice, or will they just shrug and say she’s a judge and in the United States of America, that is what federal judges get to do – strip American citizens of their rights under the law, because we really, in the end, do not have rights under the law, unless we have the money to purchase them with?
If Donald Trump is unfit to be president, is Sonia Sotomayor fit to be a United States Supreme Court Justice?
And how are we mere mortals in this country to answer that question, people wonder, to which I reply, do we have anything recent concerning federal judges resigning from office in disgrace to guide our thought processes?
And the answer to that is in the affirmative in the NPR article “Federal Judge Kozinski Retires Following Sexual Harassment Allegations” by Vanessa Romo on December 18, 2017, wherein we were informed as follows:
Alex Kozinski, a distinguished federal appeals court judge, announced his retirement Monday, effective immediately, after sexual misconduct allegations continued to dog the once-respected justice.
In a statement released by his attorney, the 67-year-old Kozinski partially apologized for his behavior but also tried to frame parts of it as a misunderstanding.
“I’ve always had a broad sense of humor and a candid way of speaking to both male and female law clerks alike.”
“In doing so, I may not have been mindful enough of the special challenges and pressures that women face in the workplace.”
“It grieves me to learn that I caused any of my clerks to feel uncomfortable; this was never my intent,” he wrote.
“For that, I sincerely apologize,” he added.
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If this now-departed Alex Kozinski, a distinguished federal appeals court judge, owes his staff an apology for acting like a jerk, what about Sonia Sotomayor?
Or should a different standard apply to her because she is a Latina?
Getting back to Alex Kozinski, according to NPR, the judge’s career, which included 32 years on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, appeared to have been undone over 10 days, as 15 women continued to step forward with personal accounts of Kozinski allegedly making explicit remarks about them, exposing them to pornography or touching them inappropriately.
Accounts from a combination of former female clerks and junior staffers about the abuses by Kozinski were first reported by The Washington Post.
They subsequently led to a formal inquiry by the 9th Circuit — later reassigned to the 2nd Circuit.
It is unclear what will happen with the investigation.
Kozinski expressed regret over leaving the bench under the current circumstances, writing:
“Family and friends have urged me to stay on at least long enough to defend myself.”
“But I cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle.”
“Nor would such a battle be good for my beloved federal judiciary.”
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What about our federal judiciary?
Getting back to NPR, NPR’s Ina Jaffe had reported earlier that week that Kozinski was also investigated in 2008 for inappropriate behavior.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Kozinski had an email list that he used to distribute rude jokes, some of which were sexually explicit.
The Times also reported Kozinski maintained a publicly accessible website that contained pornography.
A judicial investigation determined that Kozinski had not intended for the public to be able to access that website and that the judge’s “conduct exhibiting poor judgement with respect to this material created a public controversy that can reasonably be seen as having resulted in embarrassment to the federal judiciary.”
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Which then raises the question of whether a federal judge like Sonia Sotomayor taking a dive and selling out justice results in any kind of embarrassment to the same federal judiciary.
Any thoughts, anyone?
The candid world would certainly like to hear them.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... -disgrace/
Paul Plante says :
So what really does happen when a federal judge like Sonia Sotomayor decides to toss their judicial oath in the crapper for some kind of political or other gain for themselves, at the expense of society?
Does the fact (assumed, of course, since I do not know if she ever really took the oath) that when she became a federal judge, Sonia Sotomayor swore or affirmed that she “would administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich,” and that she would “faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties” incumbent upon her under the Constitution and laws of the United States, so help her God, really mean that she actually has to or would actually administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon her under the Constitution and laws of the United States, so help her God?
Suppose she doesn’t?
What then?
Will the wrath of Congress come down on her for unfitness to serve as it is coming down on Donald Trump?
Will indignant U.S. Senators stand up on the floor of the United States Senate to denounce her for denying civil rights to an American citizen the way they stand up and bellow about Donald Trump denying civil rights to illegal immigrants in this country?
Will her fellow federal judges look askance at her and demand that she be blacklisted the way she has blacklisted me?
Will anyone in the federal government stand up and question her mental fitness to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice, or will they just shrug and say she’s a judge and in the United States of America, that is what federal judges get to do – strip American citizens of their rights under the law, because we really, in the end, do not have rights under the law, unless we have the money to purchase them with?
If Donald Trump is unfit to be president, is Sonia Sotomayor fit to be a United States Supreme Court Justice?
And how are we mere mortals in this country to answer that question, people wonder, to which I reply, do we have anything recent concerning federal judges resigning from office in disgrace to guide our thought processes?
And the answer to that is in the affirmative in the NPR article “Federal Judge Kozinski Retires Following Sexual Harassment Allegations” by Vanessa Romo on December 18, 2017, wherein we were informed as follows:
Alex Kozinski, a distinguished federal appeals court judge, announced his retirement Monday, effective immediately, after sexual misconduct allegations continued to dog the once-respected justice.
In a statement released by his attorney, the 67-year-old Kozinski partially apologized for his behavior but also tried to frame parts of it as a misunderstanding.
“I’ve always had a broad sense of humor and a candid way of speaking to both male and female law clerks alike.”
“In doing so, I may not have been mindful enough of the special challenges and pressures that women face in the workplace.”
“It grieves me to learn that I caused any of my clerks to feel uncomfortable; this was never my intent,” he wrote.
“For that, I sincerely apologize,” he added.
end quotes
If this now-departed Alex Kozinski, a distinguished federal appeals court judge, owes his staff an apology for acting like a jerk, what about Sonia Sotomayor?
Or should a different standard apply to her because she is a Latina?
Getting back to Alex Kozinski, according to NPR, the judge’s career, which included 32 years on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, appeared to have been undone over 10 days, as 15 women continued to step forward with personal accounts of Kozinski allegedly making explicit remarks about them, exposing them to pornography or touching them inappropriately.
Accounts from a combination of former female clerks and junior staffers about the abuses by Kozinski were first reported by The Washington Post.
They subsequently led to a formal inquiry by the 9th Circuit — later reassigned to the 2nd Circuit.
It is unclear what will happen with the investigation.
Kozinski expressed regret over leaving the bench under the current circumstances, writing:
“Family and friends have urged me to stay on at least long enough to defend myself.”
“But I cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle.”
“Nor would such a battle be good for my beloved federal judiciary.”
end quotes
What about our federal judiciary?
Getting back to NPR, NPR’s Ina Jaffe had reported earlier that week that Kozinski was also investigated in 2008 for inappropriate behavior.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Kozinski had an email list that he used to distribute rude jokes, some of which were sexually explicit.
The Times also reported Kozinski maintained a publicly accessible website that contained pornography.
A judicial investigation determined that Kozinski had not intended for the public to be able to access that website and that the judge’s “conduct exhibiting poor judgement with respect to this material created a public controversy that can reasonably be seen as having resulted in embarrassment to the federal judiciary.”
end quotes
Which then raises the question of whether a federal judge like Sonia Sotomayor taking a dive and selling out justice results in any kind of embarrassment to the same federal judiciary.
Any thoughts, anyone?
The candid world would certainly like to hear them.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... -disgrace/
Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 16, 2018 at 11:35 am
Paul Plante says :
As to “civil rights,” which I do not enjoy in this country thanks to Sonia Sotomayor, in “Landholder VI,” in a reply to Virginia’s Col. Mason, Oliver Ellsworth, in the Connecticut Courant on December 10, 1787, stated as follows:
Bills of Rights were introduced in England when its kings claimed all power and jurisdiction, and were considered by them as grants to the people.
They are insignificant since government is considered as originating from the people, and all the power government now has is a grant from the people.
The constitution they establish with powers limited and defined, becomes now to the legislator and magistrate, what originally a bill of rights was to the people.
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How very wrong subsequent history has shown him to be.
Neither the Constitution nor its so-called “Bill of Rights” in actuality confer any absolute rights, as is obvious from this case.
Now, instead of a king granting us rights, we have federal judges like Sonia Sotomayor fulfilling that kingly function, with the untrammeled right to deny us those supposed rights according to any whim which strikes them.
In this case, Sonia Sotomayor had a chance to make nice to some very powerful politicians whose approval she would need to move up to the supreme court, and so, out the window my rights went, which takes us to the out-dated concept of RULE OF LAW, which we enjoy less and less in this country, if we enjoy it at all.
According to Wikipedia, the rule of law is the legal principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to being governed by arbitrary decisions of individual government officials, such as Sonia Sotomayor.
But the obvious problem with rule of law is that it is only a legal principle, which is defined as “a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence,” where “jurisprudence” is the philosophy or science of law.
So, okay, law should govern a nation, but what if it doesn’t?
What then?
Who do you call?
Ghostbusters?
And while nations should not be governed by arbitrary decisions of individual government officials, such as Sonia Sotomayor, what if they are?
Rule of law primarily refers to the influence and authority of law within society, particularly as a constraint upon behavior, including behavior of government officials, and when there is no rule of law, then there are no constraints whatsoever upon the behavior of government officials, which is what underlies this Sotomayor saga.
Rule of law implies that every citizen is subject to the law, including law makers themselves, so when every citizen is not subject to the law, which has become a mockery in this country, there is no rule of law, plain and simple, and Sonia Sotomayor is a poster child for that proposition, that there is no rule of law in this nation.
Which takes us to New York State Penal Law § 460.00, “enterprise corruption,” dating from 1986, which states in relevant part as follows:
Organized crime in New York state involves highly sophisticated, complex and widespread forms of criminal activity.
The diversified illegal conduct engaged in by organized crime, rooted in the illegal use of force, fraud, and corruption, constitutes a major drain upon the state’s economy, costs citizens and businesses of the state billions of dollars each year, and threatens the peace, security and general welfare of the people of the state.
The money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors is increasingly being used to infiltrate and corrupt businesses, unions and other legitimate enterprises and to corrupt our democratic processes.
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As we consider Sonia Sotomayor, focus on that phrase “corrupt our democratic processes,” as that is exactly what she has accomplished here with her 2005 ruling in this matter involving myself and my unlawful incarceration in the secure mental ward of the Stratton VA Hospital I Albany, New York on 8/22/01.
What happened on 8/22/01 stems directly from the passage of New York State Penal Law § 460.00, “enterprise corruption,” when then-New York State governor Mario Cuomo directed then-New York State Health Commissioner Dr. David Axelrod to get an uncorruptable licensed professional engineer to go in and clean up the over-flowing cesspool that was the Rensselaer County Department of Health at that time.
Enter myself.
My marching orders were to go in and clean up the swamp and to gather evidence for indictments that were never to come, such is the power of organized crime in New York state, which involves highly sophisticated, complex and widespread forms of criminal activity which constitutes a major drain upon the state’s economy, costs citizens and businesses of the state billions of dollars each year, and threatens the peace, security and general welfare of the people of the state, with the money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors being used to corrupt our democratic processes.
The only head which rolled was mine.
As to the endemic public corruption in the Rensselaer County Department of Health itself, in a March 27, 1989 Report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning a federal Hobbs Act investigation of corruption in the Rensselaer County (State of New York) Department of Health based on my testimony, which made me a marked man in Rensselaer County, it was stated as follows:
“According to (name deleted), the results of the State’s investigation were that New York State laws were not being followed by the Rensselaer County Health Department, Rensselaer County laws were not being followed by the Rensselaer County Health Department, and there was very little ‘enforcement activity’ even in the face of illegal sales.”
“(Name deleted) advised that the Rensselaer County Health Department’s oversight of realty subdivisions in that county is ‘unsatisfactory’!”
“(Name deleted) also faulted the State of New York Health Department for not auditing Rensselaer County’s program.”
“(Name deleted) advised that he would not expect to find a worse county in the region (the Capital District region which comprises 17 counties)!”
“According to (name deleted), the object of any county health department is to protect the public and not to facilitate development.”
“In the case of Rensselaer County, it appears that the Rensselaer County Health Department was in business to facilitate developers and development rather than to protect the public.”
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And thanks to Sonia Sotomayor, today, it still is!
So why is she now sitting on the United States Supreme Court?
Any thoughts, anyone?
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Paul Plante says :
As to “civil rights,” which I do not enjoy in this country thanks to Sonia Sotomayor, in “Landholder VI,” in a reply to Virginia’s Col. Mason, Oliver Ellsworth, in the Connecticut Courant on December 10, 1787, stated as follows:
Bills of Rights were introduced in England when its kings claimed all power and jurisdiction, and were considered by them as grants to the people.
They are insignificant since government is considered as originating from the people, and all the power government now has is a grant from the people.
The constitution they establish with powers limited and defined, becomes now to the legislator and magistrate, what originally a bill of rights was to the people.
end quotes
How very wrong subsequent history has shown him to be.
Neither the Constitution nor its so-called “Bill of Rights” in actuality confer any absolute rights, as is obvious from this case.
Now, instead of a king granting us rights, we have federal judges like Sonia Sotomayor fulfilling that kingly function, with the untrammeled right to deny us those supposed rights according to any whim which strikes them.
In this case, Sonia Sotomayor had a chance to make nice to some very powerful politicians whose approval she would need to move up to the supreme court, and so, out the window my rights went, which takes us to the out-dated concept of RULE OF LAW, which we enjoy less and less in this country, if we enjoy it at all.
According to Wikipedia, the rule of law is the legal principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to being governed by arbitrary decisions of individual government officials, such as Sonia Sotomayor.
But the obvious problem with rule of law is that it is only a legal principle, which is defined as “a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence,” where “jurisprudence” is the philosophy or science of law.
So, okay, law should govern a nation, but what if it doesn’t?
What then?
Who do you call?
Ghostbusters?
And while nations should not be governed by arbitrary decisions of individual government officials, such as Sonia Sotomayor, what if they are?
Rule of law primarily refers to the influence and authority of law within society, particularly as a constraint upon behavior, including behavior of government officials, and when there is no rule of law, then there are no constraints whatsoever upon the behavior of government officials, which is what underlies this Sotomayor saga.
Rule of law implies that every citizen is subject to the law, including law makers themselves, so when every citizen is not subject to the law, which has become a mockery in this country, there is no rule of law, plain and simple, and Sonia Sotomayor is a poster child for that proposition, that there is no rule of law in this nation.
Which takes us to New York State Penal Law § 460.00, “enterprise corruption,” dating from 1986, which states in relevant part as follows:
Organized crime in New York state involves highly sophisticated, complex and widespread forms of criminal activity.
The diversified illegal conduct engaged in by organized crime, rooted in the illegal use of force, fraud, and corruption, constitutes a major drain upon the state’s economy, costs citizens and businesses of the state billions of dollars each year, and threatens the peace, security and general welfare of the people of the state.
The money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors is increasingly being used to infiltrate and corrupt businesses, unions and other legitimate enterprises and to corrupt our democratic processes.
end quotes
As we consider Sonia Sotomayor, focus on that phrase “corrupt our democratic processes,” as that is exactly what she has accomplished here with her 2005 ruling in this matter involving myself and my unlawful incarceration in the secure mental ward of the Stratton VA Hospital I Albany, New York on 8/22/01.
What happened on 8/22/01 stems directly from the passage of New York State Penal Law § 460.00, “enterprise corruption,” when then-New York State governor Mario Cuomo directed then-New York State Health Commissioner Dr. David Axelrod to get an uncorruptable licensed professional engineer to go in and clean up the over-flowing cesspool that was the Rensselaer County Department of Health at that time.
Enter myself.
My marching orders were to go in and clean up the swamp and to gather evidence for indictments that were never to come, such is the power of organized crime in New York state, which involves highly sophisticated, complex and widespread forms of criminal activity which constitutes a major drain upon the state’s economy, costs citizens and businesses of the state billions of dollars each year, and threatens the peace, security and general welfare of the people of the state, with the money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors being used to corrupt our democratic processes.
The only head which rolled was mine.
As to the endemic public corruption in the Rensselaer County Department of Health itself, in a March 27, 1989 Report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning a federal Hobbs Act investigation of corruption in the Rensselaer County (State of New York) Department of Health based on my testimony, which made me a marked man in Rensselaer County, it was stated as follows:
“According to (name deleted), the results of the State’s investigation were that New York State laws were not being followed by the Rensselaer County Health Department, Rensselaer County laws were not being followed by the Rensselaer County Health Department, and there was very little ‘enforcement activity’ even in the face of illegal sales.”
“(Name deleted) advised that the Rensselaer County Health Department’s oversight of realty subdivisions in that county is ‘unsatisfactory’!”
“(Name deleted) also faulted the State of New York Health Department for not auditing Rensselaer County’s program.”
“(Name deleted) advised that he would not expect to find a worse county in the region (the Capital District region which comprises 17 counties)!”
“According to (name deleted), the object of any county health department is to protect the public and not to facilitate development.”
“In the case of Rensselaer County, it appears that the Rensselaer County Health Department was in business to facilitate developers and development rather than to protect the public.”
end quote
And thanks to Sonia Sotomayor, today, it still is!
So why is she now sitting on the United States Supreme Court?
Any thoughts, anyone?
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 16, 2018 at 5:48 pm
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says:
"So why is she now sitting on the United States Supreme Court?”
Because identity politics reigned supreme during the period of 2007 to 2017.
Because PC is all to the Left.
Because men of like minds can be torn asunder by conspiracy theories, subverting the natural resistance to such actions inimical to the health of the Republic.
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Mike Kuzma, Jr. says:
"So why is she now sitting on the United States Supreme Court?”
Because identity politics reigned supreme during the period of 2007 to 2017.
Because PC is all to the Left.
Because men of like minds can be torn asunder by conspiracy theories, subverting the natural resistance to such actions inimical to the health of the Republic.
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 16, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Paul Plante says :
No justice, no peace, Mike, and by the way, it is good to hear from you on this subject of why Sonia Sotomayor now sits on the United States Supreme Court.
She is there, Mike, because she made it clear to the right people that she was politically reliable, which is a form of political correctness that is very powerful.
She is there because she made it clear to the right people that should there be a need to bury some incriminating evidence, she was the one to trust.
That is why she is a United States Supreme Court Justice.
That she was a Latina was only window dressing.
She is there because of what she can do for the politicians who put her there, not because of her gender or ethnicity.
That is the plain and simple of it.
As to the Republic, Mike, I do not think it really exists anymore, except as a lost memory.
This is like the opening scenes in I, Claudius, where the lost souls from the Roman Republic were bemoaning its loss in front of Augustus Caesar, who put the Roman Republic in its grave.
The Republic is dead, long live the Republic.
And I will tell you, Mike, never have I experienced such a slipshod affair as the federal court system.
It is like something you would expect to find in some third-world ****hole, not the United States of America.
It is an embarrassment, not something to be proud of.
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Paul Plante says :
No justice, no peace, Mike, and by the way, it is good to hear from you on this subject of why Sonia Sotomayor now sits on the United States Supreme Court.
She is there, Mike, because she made it clear to the right people that she was politically reliable, which is a form of political correctness that is very powerful.
She is there because she made it clear to the right people that should there be a need to bury some incriminating evidence, she was the one to trust.
That is why she is a United States Supreme Court Justice.
That she was a Latina was only window dressing.
She is there because of what she can do for the politicians who put her there, not because of her gender or ethnicity.
That is the plain and simple of it.
As to the Republic, Mike, I do not think it really exists anymore, except as a lost memory.
This is like the opening scenes in I, Claudius, where the lost souls from the Roman Republic were bemoaning its loss in front of Augustus Caesar, who put the Roman Republic in its grave.
The Republic is dead, long live the Republic.
And I will tell you, Mike, never have I experienced such a slipshod affair as the federal court system.
It is like something you would expect to find in some third-world ****hole, not the United States of America.
It is an embarrassment, not something to be proud of.
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 17, 2018 at 4:30 pm
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says:
I resigned from a position with the 3rd Circuit because you and I agree on the state of the Fed courts.
It’s been almost 25 years, and except for the pension I burned, miss it not a whit.
Sotormayor’s lack of recusal on several cases only bolsters your arguments.
It is a sad state of affairs we live in nowadays.
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Mike Kuzma, Jr. says:
I resigned from a position with the 3rd Circuit because you and I agree on the state of the Fed courts.
It’s been almost 25 years, and except for the pension I burned, miss it not a whit.
Sotormayor’s lack of recusal on several cases only bolsters your arguments.
It is a sad state of affairs we live in nowadays.
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 17, 2018 at 8:03 pm
Paul Plante says:
January 17, 2018 at 8:03 pm
Indeed, it is, and let me salute you for your integrity, Mike.
It is respected.
And that is a very tough choice you made, Mike.
When confronted with corruption, or incompetence, or ineptness in one’s place of employment where one expected professionalism, what is one to do?
You chose to not lose yourself.
That is what I salute.
Many would have stayed and blended into the corrupt system.
In my case, I must say that I was naïve as to the control corruption would gain over my life when I accepted the assignment as a licensed professional engineer to clean out the over-flowing cesspit that was the Rensselaer County Department of Health in 1986.
I was naïve as to how far its tentacles had already spread throughout not only government in New York state, but the federal Northern District of New York, as well, when I accepted that assignment.
What was supposed to be back-up turned out to be back-stabbing, instead.
What I was supposed to do was to find the evidence of corruption and prepare criminal informations for indictments.
As it was to be, when I had uncovered that evidence, and people became aware of it, it was buried, along with myself, but for some records I had in my possession as insurance.
On October 13, 1988, Kenneth Van Praag, the corrupt Rensselaer County Public Health Director who was to be brought up on charges based on my investigation, wrote to Dr. Ian T. Loudon, M.D., the Regional Health Director of the State of New York Department of Health, Albany Regional Office, Building 7A, State Office Building Campus, Albany, New York 12226, and he told him thusly:
As of October 13, 1988, our Director of Environmental Health/Associate Public Health Engineer has been placed on a paid leave of absence status for thirty working days.
end quote
That, of course, was not true.
According to FBI records at pages 202,203 of the Record submitted to the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City in this matter on behalf of defendant Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino and her co-defendants in or about November of 2005, this is what really happened:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE – FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
JUNE 30, 1989
On October 6, 1988, “an Ad Hoc Engineering Committee” held a closed door meeting in the Rensselaer County Office Building which started at approximately 4:00 p.m. and which was the result, according to Plante, of a “deal” between [DELETED BY F.B.I. CENSORS] and the Rensselaer County Developer’s Organization.
In Plante’s view, the purpose of this “Ad Hoc Engineering Committee meeting” was to tell Plante how to do business in the Health Department, or else he “would not do business”.
According to Plante, he was instructed as to how business was done in Rensselaer County in 1983 and was further instructed to abide by agreements made in 1983 wherein, Plante understood, Health Department officials certified projects in return for contributions to various politicians.
******
Shortly thereafter, Plante was placed on thirty days sick leave and the Rensselaer County Executive went on local television announcing that Plante was suffering from stress related to his service in Viet Nam.
Plante was replaced, in the Health Department, by one Claude Rounds who, according to Plante, immediately certified many of the projects which Plante had refused to certify because in Plante’s view they were uncertifiable.
Plante stated that he was told by Rensselaer County Public Health Director Kenneth Van Praag on October 12, 1988 that he, (Plante) had “upset some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County” and that Van Praag could no longer “protect” Plante.
end quotes
There is where this matter before Sotomayor in 2005 actually had its roots, Van Praag telling me in October of 1988 that my law enforcement efforts had “upset some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County” and that Van Praag could no longer “protect” me.
The so-called thirty days sick leave was a ruse.
I was supposed to literally resign and get out of town and not come back, in exchange for which I would get a month’s pay.
Like hell said I, and the rest is now history.
In his October 13, 1988 writing to Dr. Ian T. Loudon, M.D., the Regional Health Director of the State of New York Department of Health, Albany Regional Office, explaining to Loudon why I was no longer at my post enforcing the Public Health Law in Rensselaer Coumty and continuing with my investigation, Van Praag wrote these classic lines right out of a John Gruiham novel like “The Firm”:
Although there are other options available for dealing with this issue, I have hopes that the least painful and most humanitarian approach has been initially taken.
Whether Paul Plante sees it that way or not, I can’t say.
end quotes
That is an actual official government record in New York state, and it served as the basis before Sotomayor in 2005 for determining a starting point for the on-going retaliatory course of conduct by Rensselaer County officials between October of 1988, when it became apparent that the least painful and most humanitarian approach Rensselaer County officials had initially taken with me had not done its job of intimidating me sufficiently to deter me from securing those indictments, and 8/22/01, when Rensselaer County escalated the retaliation by securing the fraudulent New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 involuntary commitment order that was before Sotomayor in 2005.
Why it was necessary to destroy my credibility as a witness with the fraudulent certification that I was mentally ill and dangerous is made clear at page 203 of the Record submitted to the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City in this matter on behalf of defendant Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino and her co-defendants, in or about November of 2005, as follows:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE – FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
JUNE 30, 1989
During the time that these hearings were proceeding, the New York State Department of Health produced a report which was predicated on a request by [DELETED BY FBI CENSORS] to investigate allegations of “misfeasance and malfeasance made by Paul Plante against the Rensselaer County Department of Health.”
This REPORT, dated March 15, 1989, advised that, “the investigation found significant deficiencies in the Rensselaer County residential subdivision program and individual sewage program.”
“We conclude that there has been inadequate oversight by the county Board of Health, inadequate supervision by the county Director of Public Health, insufficient support by the County Executive Office (the position of Environmental Health Director was vacant for four years) and failures of previous environmental health directors to enforce and follow the county sanitary code during the time period studied.”
******
Under the “FINDINGS” section of this report, the report stated “whenever documentation could be found, Paul Plante was found to be accurate in his statements of inappropriate code reviews.”
end quotes
Kiss of death right there, Mike.
There was my end right there as a professional engineer, and in 2005, Sonia Sotomayor took pains to let me know that to my face.
As one of the witnesses to the encounter in 2005 between myself and Sotomayor was later to describe it, when I showed up for oral arguments, there was some confusion with the clerk, as he recalled it, which was true.
Before the judges came in, he wrote, he heard the clerk tell me that they had already decided what they were going to do, and that I was not supposed to be there that morning, which was also true.
A day or so before oral arguments were scheduled, I received a call at home from a junior court clerk in New York City telling me she had been instructed to inform me that the Court considered me a piece of ****, and that oral arguments had been canceled, to which I replied, like hell, because of Rule 34(e) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, entitled Nonappearance of a Party, which provides in clear and unambiguous language that “If the appellee fails to appear for argument, the Court must hear appellant’s argument.”
As that witness later recounted, when Sotomayor walked in and saw me there, she exploded as both of us recall it, as if a dog with **** on it tail was running loose in her courtroom.
Talk about judicial demeanor or temperament, hers was that of a thug.
She humiliated and objectified me in front of a crowded courtroom.
“What is he doing here?” she said to the clerk when she saw me therer, which came across to me and the witnesses to the encounter in the courtroom as “WHAT IS THAT DOING IN HERE?”, as if she was confronted by a black man asking for justice in a white man’s court of law.
Then Sotomayor openly scoffed at the notion that I had been harmed by being falsely branded as an alleged dangerous mental patient and by being incarcerated in a cage at the Stratton VA Hospital and that was it – dismissed, get out of her court and don’t come back, or I would be harmed.
As that witness was to later recount, and I do not dispute it one bit, it was his belief that if I had actually been standing there before her in NYC, as opposed to appearing via closed-circuit court TV, Sotomayor would have had the marshalls throw me down on the floor so she could hoist her bulk from behind the bench to come down and **** in my face, as her personal message to me from her court.
And that sums up my face-to-face encounter with Sonia Sotomayor in 2005.
Needless to say, I am damn glad I was in Albany that morning, as opposed to New York City.
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Paul Plante says:
January 17, 2018 at 8:03 pm
Indeed, it is, and let me salute you for your integrity, Mike.
It is respected.
And that is a very tough choice you made, Mike.
When confronted with corruption, or incompetence, or ineptness in one’s place of employment where one expected professionalism, what is one to do?
You chose to not lose yourself.
That is what I salute.
Many would have stayed and blended into the corrupt system.
In my case, I must say that I was naïve as to the control corruption would gain over my life when I accepted the assignment as a licensed professional engineer to clean out the over-flowing cesspit that was the Rensselaer County Department of Health in 1986.
I was naïve as to how far its tentacles had already spread throughout not only government in New York state, but the federal Northern District of New York, as well, when I accepted that assignment.
What was supposed to be back-up turned out to be back-stabbing, instead.
What I was supposed to do was to find the evidence of corruption and prepare criminal informations for indictments.
As it was to be, when I had uncovered that evidence, and people became aware of it, it was buried, along with myself, but for some records I had in my possession as insurance.
On October 13, 1988, Kenneth Van Praag, the corrupt Rensselaer County Public Health Director who was to be brought up on charges based on my investigation, wrote to Dr. Ian T. Loudon, M.D., the Regional Health Director of the State of New York Department of Health, Albany Regional Office, Building 7A, State Office Building Campus, Albany, New York 12226, and he told him thusly:
As of October 13, 1988, our Director of Environmental Health/Associate Public Health Engineer has been placed on a paid leave of absence status for thirty working days.
end quote
That, of course, was not true.
According to FBI records at pages 202,203 of the Record submitted to the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City in this matter on behalf of defendant Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino and her co-defendants in or about November of 2005, this is what really happened:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE – FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
JUNE 30, 1989
On October 6, 1988, “an Ad Hoc Engineering Committee” held a closed door meeting in the Rensselaer County Office Building which started at approximately 4:00 p.m. and which was the result, according to Plante, of a “deal” between [DELETED BY F.B.I. CENSORS] and the Rensselaer County Developer’s Organization.
In Plante’s view, the purpose of this “Ad Hoc Engineering Committee meeting” was to tell Plante how to do business in the Health Department, or else he “would not do business”.
According to Plante, he was instructed as to how business was done in Rensselaer County in 1983 and was further instructed to abide by agreements made in 1983 wherein, Plante understood, Health Department officials certified projects in return for contributions to various politicians.
******
Shortly thereafter, Plante was placed on thirty days sick leave and the Rensselaer County Executive went on local television announcing that Plante was suffering from stress related to his service in Viet Nam.
Plante was replaced, in the Health Department, by one Claude Rounds who, according to Plante, immediately certified many of the projects which Plante had refused to certify because in Plante’s view they were uncertifiable.
Plante stated that he was told by Rensselaer County Public Health Director Kenneth Van Praag on October 12, 1988 that he, (Plante) had “upset some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County” and that Van Praag could no longer “protect” Plante.
end quotes
There is where this matter before Sotomayor in 2005 actually had its roots, Van Praag telling me in October of 1988 that my law enforcement efforts had “upset some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County” and that Van Praag could no longer “protect” me.
The so-called thirty days sick leave was a ruse.
I was supposed to literally resign and get out of town and not come back, in exchange for which I would get a month’s pay.
Like hell said I, and the rest is now history.
In his October 13, 1988 writing to Dr. Ian T. Loudon, M.D., the Regional Health Director of the State of New York Department of Health, Albany Regional Office, explaining to Loudon why I was no longer at my post enforcing the Public Health Law in Rensselaer Coumty and continuing with my investigation, Van Praag wrote these classic lines right out of a John Gruiham novel like “The Firm”:
Although there are other options available for dealing with this issue, I have hopes that the least painful and most humanitarian approach has been initially taken.
Whether Paul Plante sees it that way or not, I can’t say.
end quotes
That is an actual official government record in New York state, and it served as the basis before Sotomayor in 2005 for determining a starting point for the on-going retaliatory course of conduct by Rensselaer County officials between October of 1988, when it became apparent that the least painful and most humanitarian approach Rensselaer County officials had initially taken with me had not done its job of intimidating me sufficiently to deter me from securing those indictments, and 8/22/01, when Rensselaer County escalated the retaliation by securing the fraudulent New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 involuntary commitment order that was before Sotomayor in 2005.
Why it was necessary to destroy my credibility as a witness with the fraudulent certification that I was mentally ill and dangerous is made clear at page 203 of the Record submitted to the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City in this matter on behalf of defendant Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino and her co-defendants, in or about November of 2005, as follows:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE – FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
JUNE 30, 1989
During the time that these hearings were proceeding, the New York State Department of Health produced a report which was predicated on a request by [DELETED BY FBI CENSORS] to investigate allegations of “misfeasance and malfeasance made by Paul Plante against the Rensselaer County Department of Health.”
This REPORT, dated March 15, 1989, advised that, “the investigation found significant deficiencies in the Rensselaer County residential subdivision program and individual sewage program.”
“We conclude that there has been inadequate oversight by the county Board of Health, inadequate supervision by the county Director of Public Health, insufficient support by the County Executive Office (the position of Environmental Health Director was vacant for four years) and failures of previous environmental health directors to enforce and follow the county sanitary code during the time period studied.”
******
Under the “FINDINGS” section of this report, the report stated “whenever documentation could be found, Paul Plante was found to be accurate in his statements of inappropriate code reviews.”
end quotes
Kiss of death right there, Mike.
There was my end right there as a professional engineer, and in 2005, Sonia Sotomayor took pains to let me know that to my face.
As one of the witnesses to the encounter in 2005 between myself and Sotomayor was later to describe it, when I showed up for oral arguments, there was some confusion with the clerk, as he recalled it, which was true.
Before the judges came in, he wrote, he heard the clerk tell me that they had already decided what they were going to do, and that I was not supposed to be there that morning, which was also true.
A day or so before oral arguments were scheduled, I received a call at home from a junior court clerk in New York City telling me she had been instructed to inform me that the Court considered me a piece of ****, and that oral arguments had been canceled, to which I replied, like hell, because of Rule 34(e) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, entitled Nonappearance of a Party, which provides in clear and unambiguous language that “If the appellee fails to appear for argument, the Court must hear appellant’s argument.”
As that witness later recounted, when Sotomayor walked in and saw me there, she exploded as both of us recall it, as if a dog with **** on it tail was running loose in her courtroom.
Talk about judicial demeanor or temperament, hers was that of a thug.
She humiliated and objectified me in front of a crowded courtroom.
“What is he doing here?” she said to the clerk when she saw me therer, which came across to me and the witnesses to the encounter in the courtroom as “WHAT IS THAT DOING IN HERE?”, as if she was confronted by a black man asking for justice in a white man’s court of law.
Then Sotomayor openly scoffed at the notion that I had been harmed by being falsely branded as an alleged dangerous mental patient and by being incarcerated in a cage at the Stratton VA Hospital and that was it – dismissed, get out of her court and don’t come back, or I would be harmed.
As that witness was to later recount, and I do not dispute it one bit, it was his belief that if I had actually been standing there before her in NYC, as opposed to appearing via closed-circuit court TV, Sotomayor would have had the marshalls throw me down on the floor so she could hoist her bulk from behind the bench to come down and **** in my face, as her personal message to me from her court.
And that sums up my face-to-face encounter with Sonia Sotomayor in 2005.
Needless to say, I am damn glad I was in Albany that morning, as opposed to New York City.
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 18, 2018 at 6:55 pm
Paul Plante says :
There was a time, Mike, when I thought the federal courts were next to God when it came to providing equal justice in this country.
You know how that goes, truth, justice, and the “American Way,” as if there really was such a thing as the “American Way” that we all believed in equally.
Sonia Sotomayor has thoroughly disabused me of that silly notion.
It was the oath, I think; I was seduced by the oath that federal judges take:
“I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ___ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
Compare that federal oath to the weaker version a justice of the supreme court in New York takes:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Supreme Court Justice according to the best of my ability.”
end quote
That phrase “to the best of my ability,” of course, is an escape clause for a corrupt judge in New York state so they cannot be held accountable – their built-in excuse is that they really had no ability, at all, so the crappy job they did was to the best of their ability.
Thus, the oath was never violated.
Now, it has to be considered that New York State, perhaps unlike Virginia, has been corrupt since the early 1800’s, if not earlier, and that corruption comes though across all spectrums of state and local government in New York state, including the judiciary, especially today in the age of Young Andy Cuomo who is stocking our supreme court up here with what are known as “Andy Judges,” political hacks who are made “acting” supreme court judges by Young Andy, when our state constitution mandates elected judges.
Corruption in New York state government dates back to the Albany Regency, which was a group of politicians who controlled the New York state government between 1822 and 1838.
It was instituted by the “red-headed fox” Martin Van Buren, who remained its dominating spirit for many years, and who became Andrew Jackson’s vice president, bringing New York state-style public corruption to Washington, where it is now firmly entrenched.
The Albany Regency was among the first American political machines, and it spawned the machine-style politics that so many years later produced Sonia Sotomayor as one of its outstanding products.
According to local history, and as Wikipedia tells it, the Albany Regency was a loosely organized group of politicians with similar views and goals who resided in or near Albany, New York, the state capital.
They controlled the nominating conventions and patronage of their party within New York State, and by dictating its general policy, exerted a powerful influence in national as well as state politics.
The Regency developed party discipline and originated the control of party conventions through officeholders and others subservient to it.
end quotes
So that is the political world Sonia Sotomayor grew up in, and that is the world she has maintained in this case involving myself.
I was attacking the corruption she was there to defend, and defend it she did, by making what amounted to a judicial proscription of myself, declaring me to be mentally ill and dangerous so I would never be taken seriously as a witness ever after.
We country people are naïve, Mike.
We believe in fairy tales like federal judges are truly independent and that if only we could finally get a case before them, that they really would administer justice without respect to persons, and that they really would do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon them under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
But that is a fairy tale for children and the naive to believe, because the reality is that federal judges are not independent, or else they never would become a federal judge in the first place, because to become a federal judge, you have to be put there by politicians and the two political parties, not the people.
And corrupt politicians do not put honest people in office as judges, any more than they leave honest engineers in a position to expose them as being corrupt, as I was hired to do, and as I was doing, when I was locked out of my office in October of 1988, and told to get out of Rensselaer County if I knew what was good for me.
I later in 1989 was told that same thing by an FBI agent, except he told me that because I had powerful enemies, I had better get out of the state of New York, if I knew what was good for me.
As an aside, I found the FBI to be a cowardly, slipshod lash-up that is under the total control of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and in New York state, the U.S. Attorneys are put in there by the politicians, not the people.
In this case, when I was able to provide evidence linking a powerful New York State Senator to public corruption involving real estate, that FBI Hobbs Act Public Corruption investigation I was participating in as a witness was turned off like a lightbulb by an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York named Barbara Cottrell on May 25, 1989, leaving me hung out to dry.
Her name showed up later on a list of those in New York state being considered for federal judgeships.
About that same time, Rensselaer County Executive John L. “Smiling Jack” Buono issued a press release concerning myself wherein he stated:
“I cannot in good conscience condone the conduct of an employee who consistently stated that he worked for the State of New York, rather than Rensselaer County …..”
As a LICENSED engineer in New York state, which is a profession in New York state defined by law, and requiring good moral character, which is a joke, I was bound by the Rules of the Board of Regents which define “unprofessional conduct” for licensed professional engineers in § 29.1 General provisions, which states in (a) that unprofessional conduct shall be the conduct prohibited by this section, and in (b)(1) is further defined as “willful or grossly negligent failure to comply with substantial provisions of Federal, State or local laws, rules or regulations governing the practice of the profession,”
§ 29.3(a)(1) of the Rules that governed my conduct as a licensed professional engineer further provided that “Unprofessional conduct shall also include, in the profession of engineering, being associated in a professional capacity with any project or practice known to the licensee to be fraudulent or dishonest in character, or not reporting knowledge of such fraudulence or dishonesty to the Education Department”
But try to actually do that and down comes the hammer, right on your head, for in real life, in corrupt New York state, that is all nothing more than BULL**** and window-dressing to gull the pilgrims with, to make people think that the state of New York actually holds professional engineers to high standards, when the opposite is the case, a point Sonia Sotomayor took pains to make incandescently clear to me in 2005, after Rensselaer County employed its final solution to get rid of me by having a political doctor make out a fraudulent New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 involuntary psychiatric commitment order directing the New York State Police to apprehend me and take me into custody for transport to the GULAG of the Samarian Hospital in Troy, New York for some drug-induced mind-wiping that would have left me drooling and babbling like the idiot they would have turned me into.
That is what Sonia Sotomayor put the federal government seal of approval on, and for that Barack Obama made her a United States Supreme Court Justice.
When “Smiling Jack” Buono was stating in that press release that he could not “in good conscience” condone the conduct of an employee who consistently stated that he worked for the State of New York, rather than Rensselaer County, what he was referring to was my refusal to compromise my own office as a New York State licensed professional engineer, who in New York State, according to New York Education Law § 7201, “Definition of practice of engineering,” is supposed to perform “professional service such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design or supervision of construction or operation in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works, or projects wherein the safeguarding of life, health and property is concerned, when such service or work requires the application of engineering principles and data.”
Take a dive and sell out the people, or else!
Right there is the roots of the controversy that came to be before Sonia Sotomayor in 2005 – I can only practice as a professional engineer in New York state if I am corrupt.
If I am not corrupt, I cannot practice as an engineer in New York state.
If I am willing sell out people, I can practice as an engineer in New York state,
If I take my responsibility to safeguard life, health and property seriously, which I did, then as Buono said in his press release and as Sotomayor confirmed in 2005, I am barred from practicing as an engineer, because Rensselaer County has branded me as being mentally ill and dangerous.
I am branded as being mentally ill and dangerous, because I refuse to be corrupt.
And that comes direct from Sonia Sotomayor, now a United States Supreme Court justice, as a result.
To close, in a New York Times article entitled “Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg on May 26, 2009, Sotomayor was quoted as follows:
“Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” Judge Sotomayor (pronounced so-toe-my-OR) said in 2001, in a lecture titled “A Latina Judge’s Voice.”
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The “facts that judges choose to see!”
What a powerful political statement that is, and that statement of hers, of course, takes us back to the top of the thread here and Sonia Sotomayor violating her judicial pursuant to 28 U.S. Code § 453 as a circuit court judge on the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005, when she allowed then-New York State Attorney General Eliot “Longshanks” Spitzer to get away with a “slimeball” lawyer’s trick known as the “Old Switcheroo,” where compromising evidence is removed from the record in order to defeat a federal civil rights lawsuit.
As to “(P)ersonal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” in 2005 then-New York State Attorney General Eliot “Longshanks” Spitzer and Sotomayor did a deal, and Sotomayor allowed Spitzer to make an August 16, 2002 affirmation of Assistant New York State Attorney General Lisa Ullman to Rensselaer County Supreme Court disappear as if it were never there in the first place, even after I was granted standing in district court based on the sworn admission by Ullman in 2002 that I had in fact been incarcerated as a mentally ill person in the secure mental facility of the Stratton VA Hospital in Albany, New York on 8/22/01 based on the fraudulent 9.45 order, and instead, on August 16, 2005, three (3) years to the day after Ullman submitted her sworn affidavit to Rensselaer County Supreme Court, allowed an Assistant Solicitor General under Spitzer named Julie M. Sheridan to submit a letter to Sotomayor, where she called for my Amended Petition to be dismissed because my “constitutional claims were not viable, because the very premise of those claims – namely that plaintiff had been involuntarily committed – was false.”
Talk about “(P)ersonal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” there it is in black and white.
And that is how Sonia Sotomayor became a justice of the United States Supreme Court, by knowing what “facts” to bury, which as she says, is a matter of choice federal judges get to make, despite their oath of office, which in reality is empty words that mean nothing, at all.
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Paul Plante says :
There was a time, Mike, when I thought the federal courts were next to God when it came to providing equal justice in this country.
You know how that goes, truth, justice, and the “American Way,” as if there really was such a thing as the “American Way” that we all believed in equally.
Sonia Sotomayor has thoroughly disabused me of that silly notion.
It was the oath, I think; I was seduced by the oath that federal judges take:
“I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ___ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
Compare that federal oath to the weaker version a justice of the supreme court in New York takes:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Supreme Court Justice according to the best of my ability.”
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That phrase “to the best of my ability,” of course, is an escape clause for a corrupt judge in New York state so they cannot be held accountable – their built-in excuse is that they really had no ability, at all, so the crappy job they did was to the best of their ability.
Thus, the oath was never violated.
Now, it has to be considered that New York State, perhaps unlike Virginia, has been corrupt since the early 1800’s, if not earlier, and that corruption comes though across all spectrums of state and local government in New York state, including the judiciary, especially today in the age of Young Andy Cuomo who is stocking our supreme court up here with what are known as “Andy Judges,” political hacks who are made “acting” supreme court judges by Young Andy, when our state constitution mandates elected judges.
Corruption in New York state government dates back to the Albany Regency, which was a group of politicians who controlled the New York state government between 1822 and 1838.
It was instituted by the “red-headed fox” Martin Van Buren, who remained its dominating spirit for many years, and who became Andrew Jackson’s vice president, bringing New York state-style public corruption to Washington, where it is now firmly entrenched.
The Albany Regency was among the first American political machines, and it spawned the machine-style politics that so many years later produced Sonia Sotomayor as one of its outstanding products.
According to local history, and as Wikipedia tells it, the Albany Regency was a loosely organized group of politicians with similar views and goals who resided in or near Albany, New York, the state capital.
They controlled the nominating conventions and patronage of their party within New York State, and by dictating its general policy, exerted a powerful influence in national as well as state politics.
The Regency developed party discipline and originated the control of party conventions through officeholders and others subservient to it.
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So that is the political world Sonia Sotomayor grew up in, and that is the world she has maintained in this case involving myself.
I was attacking the corruption she was there to defend, and defend it she did, by making what amounted to a judicial proscription of myself, declaring me to be mentally ill and dangerous so I would never be taken seriously as a witness ever after.
We country people are naïve, Mike.
We believe in fairy tales like federal judges are truly independent and that if only we could finally get a case before them, that they really would administer justice without respect to persons, and that they really would do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon them under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
But that is a fairy tale for children and the naive to believe, because the reality is that federal judges are not independent, or else they never would become a federal judge in the first place, because to become a federal judge, you have to be put there by politicians and the two political parties, not the people.
And corrupt politicians do not put honest people in office as judges, any more than they leave honest engineers in a position to expose them as being corrupt, as I was hired to do, and as I was doing, when I was locked out of my office in October of 1988, and told to get out of Rensselaer County if I knew what was good for me.
I later in 1989 was told that same thing by an FBI agent, except he told me that because I had powerful enemies, I had better get out of the state of New York, if I knew what was good for me.
As an aside, I found the FBI to be a cowardly, slipshod lash-up that is under the total control of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and in New York state, the U.S. Attorneys are put in there by the politicians, not the people.
In this case, when I was able to provide evidence linking a powerful New York State Senator to public corruption involving real estate, that FBI Hobbs Act Public Corruption investigation I was participating in as a witness was turned off like a lightbulb by an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York named Barbara Cottrell on May 25, 1989, leaving me hung out to dry.
Her name showed up later on a list of those in New York state being considered for federal judgeships.
About that same time, Rensselaer County Executive John L. “Smiling Jack” Buono issued a press release concerning myself wherein he stated:
“I cannot in good conscience condone the conduct of an employee who consistently stated that he worked for the State of New York, rather than Rensselaer County …..”
As a LICENSED engineer in New York state, which is a profession in New York state defined by law, and requiring good moral character, which is a joke, I was bound by the Rules of the Board of Regents which define “unprofessional conduct” for licensed professional engineers in § 29.1 General provisions, which states in (a) that unprofessional conduct shall be the conduct prohibited by this section, and in (b)(1) is further defined as “willful or grossly negligent failure to comply with substantial provisions of Federal, State or local laws, rules or regulations governing the practice of the profession,”
§ 29.3(a)(1) of the Rules that governed my conduct as a licensed professional engineer further provided that “Unprofessional conduct shall also include, in the profession of engineering, being associated in a professional capacity with any project or practice known to the licensee to be fraudulent or dishonest in character, or not reporting knowledge of such fraudulence or dishonesty to the Education Department”
But try to actually do that and down comes the hammer, right on your head, for in real life, in corrupt New York state, that is all nothing more than BULL**** and window-dressing to gull the pilgrims with, to make people think that the state of New York actually holds professional engineers to high standards, when the opposite is the case, a point Sonia Sotomayor took pains to make incandescently clear to me in 2005, after Rensselaer County employed its final solution to get rid of me by having a political doctor make out a fraudulent New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.45 involuntary psychiatric commitment order directing the New York State Police to apprehend me and take me into custody for transport to the GULAG of the Samarian Hospital in Troy, New York for some drug-induced mind-wiping that would have left me drooling and babbling like the idiot they would have turned me into.
That is what Sonia Sotomayor put the federal government seal of approval on, and for that Barack Obama made her a United States Supreme Court Justice.
When “Smiling Jack” Buono was stating in that press release that he could not “in good conscience” condone the conduct of an employee who consistently stated that he worked for the State of New York, rather than Rensselaer County, what he was referring to was my refusal to compromise my own office as a New York State licensed professional engineer, who in New York State, according to New York Education Law § 7201, “Definition of practice of engineering,” is supposed to perform “professional service such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design or supervision of construction or operation in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works, or projects wherein the safeguarding of life, health and property is concerned, when such service or work requires the application of engineering principles and data.”
Take a dive and sell out the people, or else!
Right there is the roots of the controversy that came to be before Sonia Sotomayor in 2005 – I can only practice as a professional engineer in New York state if I am corrupt.
If I am not corrupt, I cannot practice as an engineer in New York state.
If I am willing sell out people, I can practice as an engineer in New York state,
If I take my responsibility to safeguard life, health and property seriously, which I did, then as Buono said in his press release and as Sotomayor confirmed in 2005, I am barred from practicing as an engineer, because Rensselaer County has branded me as being mentally ill and dangerous.
I am branded as being mentally ill and dangerous, because I refuse to be corrupt.
And that comes direct from Sonia Sotomayor, now a United States Supreme Court justice, as a result.
To close, in a New York Times article entitled “Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg on May 26, 2009, Sotomayor was quoted as follows:
“Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” Judge Sotomayor (pronounced so-toe-my-OR) said in 2001, in a lecture titled “A Latina Judge’s Voice.”
end quotes
The “facts that judges choose to see!”
What a powerful political statement that is, and that statement of hers, of course, takes us back to the top of the thread here and Sonia Sotomayor violating her judicial pursuant to 28 U.S. Code § 453 as a circuit court judge on the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005, when she allowed then-New York State Attorney General Eliot “Longshanks” Spitzer to get away with a “slimeball” lawyer’s trick known as the “Old Switcheroo,” where compromising evidence is removed from the record in order to defeat a federal civil rights lawsuit.
As to “(P)ersonal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” in 2005 then-New York State Attorney General Eliot “Longshanks” Spitzer and Sotomayor did a deal, and Sotomayor allowed Spitzer to make an August 16, 2002 affirmation of Assistant New York State Attorney General Lisa Ullman to Rensselaer County Supreme Court disappear as if it were never there in the first place, even after I was granted standing in district court based on the sworn admission by Ullman in 2002 that I had in fact been incarcerated as a mentally ill person in the secure mental facility of the Stratton VA Hospital in Albany, New York on 8/22/01 based on the fraudulent 9.45 order, and instead, on August 16, 2005, three (3) years to the day after Ullman submitted her sworn affidavit to Rensselaer County Supreme Court, allowed an Assistant Solicitor General under Spitzer named Julie M. Sheridan to submit a letter to Sotomayor, where she called for my Amended Petition to be dismissed because my “constitutional claims were not viable, because the very premise of those claims – namely that plaintiff had been involuntarily committed – was false.”
Talk about “(P)ersonal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” there it is in black and white.
And that is how Sonia Sotomayor became a justice of the United States Supreme Court, by knowing what “facts” to bury, which as she says, is a matter of choice federal judges get to make, despite their oath of office, which in reality is empty words that mean nothing, at all.
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 16, 2018 at 6:57 pm
Paul Plante says :
A question: should public officials really be held responsible for violations of their oaths?
Or is it a case of where since oaths mean nothing anymore, and everyone violates them, why should we care if Sonia Sotomayor does the same?
In my own polls, I find that to be the overwhelming response – so what, everybody does it.
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Paul Plante says :
A question: should public officials really be held responsible for violations of their oaths?
Or is it a case of where since oaths mean nothing anymore, and everyone violates them, why should we care if Sonia Sotomayor does the same?
In my own polls, I find that to be the overwhelming response – so what, everybody does it.
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Re: SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 16, 2018 at 7:11 pm
Paul Plante says :
“After a while, you forget there are decent, law-abiding people in life.”
That is a quote attributed to Sonia Sotomayor on her Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sot ... gal_career
and in this case, that is so very true.
She certainly did.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ment-79710
Paul Plante says :
“After a while, you forget there are decent, law-abiding people in life.”
That is a quote attributed to Sonia Sotomayor on her Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sot ... gal_career
and in this case, that is so very true.
She certainly did.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ment-79710