For those that are influenced by the hostile, over protective nannies concerning legal lititgation without a lawyer, here is a link to get you started reading about pro se, which means for self, without a lawyer. Obviously when you see the thousands of sites devoted to this you will see that I am not alone. I do not mean the number of lawyers working hard for a better society and a better world. Like certain military soldiers in Iraq, everyone gets tarred with the same brush when the barbarians are loose on the world.
I am not going to write any more specifics as they are difficult to understand without understanding the entire theory in this seminar. It is also about making the vicious ones accountable for the grief and tragedy they wreak. The text is Sun Tzu The Art of War as that is what we are in with the justice system. One of my first diaries was about David Kairys a Constitutional lawyer from Philadelphia who helped us back in the 70's with the anti war movement and strategies of protesting.
I have been taking a legal seminar all week that many people here are screaming about. So let them scream. That is why I have included the link to a pro se search on google above. The movement for people power in the courts is growing. And this seminar I am taking is detailed in how to do it successfully. With lots of case studies where it has already been successful and also where it has not when people got afraid of not having a lawyer to protect them (fleece them) and hired one only to goop up things for them. I'm sure there are good ones out there and if you know of one you are lucky. Most of us have known only a small percentage in our litigating lives. But all the professions are like that. As are members of Congress etc.
I am taking the seminar with a class of right wing fundamentalists and while it is a different experience for me to be in a class with them, it is also interesting from another point of view. They are almost all lacking in formal education. The things they don't know are boogling my mind. They are interested in all the rote aspects. Can I use it for x, how do I write that kind of letter. The teacher said something had to be sent first class registered return receipt requested and hardly anyone knew what that meant! Well, that astounded me. One rather gruff, hard sexy type thought that if you got a registered letter and refused it you were off the hook. She didn't know that a refusal still made you responsible for what was in it. Now imagine a woman with children her hair going grey who doesn't know a basic fact like that, and you can see why FOX is able to pull off what they do with them.
But they are concerned about the environment. The fishing industry as one is going to Alaska for the salmon for the summer. Water and its purity is another issue for them. They have big problems with property lines, rights of way, access, and boundaries. They resent any government interference in their lives and with the small town government around here and its corrupt practitioners, a very understandable feeling. Quite a few teens who are being homeschooled by these uneducated parents were there, hating every minute of it. Sullen faces, and tight angry mouths, like Hillary Clinton's. Looking as if they are ready to burst out, but to what. No skills, no education, no career or job possible, nada ahead. So even if they find the strength to break free, they feel they can't. They are a lot like quiet teens in the 1940's and 50's, polite, unimaginative, uninterested in learning, with no plans for the future except to stop being controlled all the time. These parents are ultra concerned with freedoms, but it is a freedom from, a defiant freedom they have defined for themselves, not a joyous going forth in freedom to explore the world. They are against having Social Security cards, so how far can these teens get without one. So they are being set up to be controlled all the rest of their lives. And they somehow know I am different so they get apprehensive when I talk to their kids for more than a few minutes about the weather. Exposure to difference is anathema as we all learned in Altemeyer's The Authoritarians and my behavior in the classroom is something they couldn't dare. I ask funny questions, push him deeper, connect dots, and generally am having a wonderful time with the material. Their questions are very literal and how to even though he keeps pushing them to think outside the box. But their ignorance is appalling and to reflect on the fact that they vote and influence events is frightening. Oh Plato how right you are these two thousand years later.
The issues addressed are all Constitutional ones. And new techniques and tools as well as more mainstream ones for addressing violations. I expect to be using them and telling you about them. Because we need to learn them also. So I won't describe them any more here until they are in action. Then I get to say those sweet sweet words, I told you so! I can wait.