The basis of law as it is practiced in this country today is "guilty as accused, at least until you prove yourself innocent." Civil law today operates almost exclusively by monetary stripping of the innocent so that they are no longer able to defend themselves, or, if they do, they will be left worse off than before from the financial damage of the process of defending themselves. This is, unfortunately, the corrupt and unethical state of our legal system today.

We are all suffering from the moral disaster of our top leaders' corrupt choices today, but especially from the unethical and protected lawyers out to win-for-the-wealthiest client (or even non-client under the table).

To give you an example, in Missouri recently, a union managed to get the secretary to a union boss appointed to the state's Bureau of Labor Standards, then made false allegations of labor wage violations about a small non-union company that the union had been trying to destroy for years. That person with the powerful state appointment then sent letters of the allegations to other public bodies "suggesting" that they reconsider awarding contracts where this company was the legitimate low bidder on competitive bid contracts. The firm was wrongfully stripped of over $1 million in contracts and spent over $500,000 in legal fees. It was eventually able to prove its innocence, but both the firm and its employees suffered major damage and are now less able to compete on public projects, with some of the employees losing their jobs and their homes.

A second example affected my own family. Again, a construction company was courted to take on a large development project that was already in progress and having difficulty because of the two principals' major health issues. The only thing the company did not anticipate was that apparently a lawyer who had been retained early on in the project had been fired for cause after he tried to stop the project with under-the-table deals (the 'why' or for whom is yet to be determined). He had some sort of hold over one of the principals, most likely related to a lawsuit in which that principal had sued his own law partners and won millions. During the project, when that principal suffered a different family tragedy, the evil lawyer managed to back-door a deal with a crooked bankster and fraudclosure attorney at the lending bank that stopped the project at the 80% completion mark. The bottom line: the crooks announced that the developer and contractor would never even see the inside of court, because they were going to be bankrupted, and the crooks owned the judges who would be making the rulings. They made false allegations, called the contractor's bank and had his assets seized, his bonding company and had his contracts pulled, and sold the note to the good friend of the crooked bankster for nearly nothing. Hundreds of workers lost their jobs, some their homes, and many other businesses and their banks suffered debilitating losses.