Please Don’t Make It About Race

My skin is “white”. Okay, beige with splotches of pink. Rosacia has plagued me for decades.

My dad was an orthopedic surgeon, so I probably qualify as the recipient of white privilege.

Still, I think the police suck. And the California courts are even worse. (My experience in Arkansas courts, thus far, is that they Rock!)

It might be worse if my skin tone was darker.

But don’t give the corrupt authorities a pass on what comes down to a serious character defect and criminal conduct by claiming they are just influenced by “systematic racism”.

No, the cops refuse to take police reports or lose them out of laziness and cronyism. Both these bad practices were done to little ol’ white me.

A young police officer in Searcy County, Arkansas told me he could arrest me for taping a conversation I had with the clerk in the tax collector’s office and intimidated me into deleting my evidence. It is a public place and Arkansas is a single party consent state, anyhow.

Former Commissioner Alan H. Friedenthal appeared to have a bias and embroilment in my family law case. The Commission on Judicial Performance said so.

The mean spirited buffoon was found to be unethical toward four other litigants. Read the “severe” public admonishment attached below.

How many other families were impacted profoundly by the Court Jester masquerading as a judge?

The people who reached out to me with their stories covered the spectrum of race, religion, political affiliation and gender.

Extinguishing racism is a noble cause. But the root of the problem with law enforcement and courts is more basic than learned attitudes.

It is the fallen nature of man. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (That is from the Bible, Old Testament, Jeremiah 17:9)

The way to heal the country, the world really, is for each and every soul to dedicate itself to following Christ. But God does not want to force himself on us. It is our choice.

This side of Heaven, we need to force people to treat each other as they want to be treated. And that is the Catch 22.

How are we going to force the authorities to act ethically, if it is the same authorities who are abusing power and process?

One idea is that we inundate the courts with lawsuits based on the violation of rights under color of law, often known as 42 USC 1983 and Bivens actions.

It is your right to file a suit on your own behalf, known as in pro se.

It is not easy and each of us will get the figurative shit kicked out of us. But I have seen some huge successes and in the present climate of outrage, we will make a difference together.

Click on this link to read about the successful complaints against Alan H. Friedenthal. https://cjp.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2016/08/Friedenthal_DO_4-3-12.pdf