An absurd notion seems to prevail in the minds of men and women of the court—many of whose familiarity with the Internet begins and ends with shopping for bargains on eBay or Skyping their grandkids—that people who “blog” about being abused in court have nothing better to do.
No, they do it because they’ve been screwed, blued, and tattooed, and the peace of mind needed to do what they’d rather be doing has been denied them.
Their sanity, dignity, and good names, if not their children, have been sacrificed to the false idol of justice. They’ve been railroaded through one or more gimmicky, derelict procedures that confounded their lives for nothing…excepting politics, that is, and cash.
(Seriously, what pinnacle of pretense does a person need to surmount to entertain the idea that someone would expend dozens, hundreds, or thousands of hours decrying inept, lopsided policies of law merely because s/he was “miffed” or “disappointed”? )
Demonstrating the ability to write isn’t proof of anything but the attainment of a third-grade education.
Wake up and smell the Folgers: Not everyone knows to or has the means to enlist a lawyer to swat down some false or hyped allegations whose only ascertainable basis is that they were scrawled on a bureaucratic form in 10 minutes with a Bic Round Stic by someone displaying anxiety.
If you’re a veteran of process, you know very well the obstacles people face (even if they have representation) in disentangling themselves from accusations after a judge has once signed off on them. Tell yourself what you want, but this isn’t deliberative stuff (an order of the court can be delivered sooner than an order of waffles at Denny’s).
This stuff is, however, saprogenic. That’s a fancy word—and we know judges favor fancy words—that means producing decay and putrefaction.
What may be a few moments of your workday can profoundly influence years (or all) of a person’s life. It can hasten a body into the grave.
If this is news to you, that’s probably because you began your career before a medium existed in which the legally abused little guy could publicly air his or her grievances. That doesn’t mean you haven’t been arbitrarily trashing lives all along; it just means you didn’t have to hear about it before.
Probably you felt securer on your pontifical peak before casualties of slovenly adjudications could complain about them.
Probably, too, that’s why orders of the court are routinely issued that prohibit the exercise of free speech by complainants of procedural abuse, orders that have recently fallen under stern scrutiny.
The reason people “blog” or “video-blog” (“vlog”) is that the courts fail them, and the court’s miscarriages exact a grave toll that endures and compounds over the months and years. The victims of those miscarriages live in limbo, and speech is the only recourse left them to air truths the court disdained, ignored, edited, or quashed.
Copyright © 2015 RestrainingOrderAbuse.com
*Doctors may get to bury their mistakes; judges don’t. “Public record” doesn’t mean only as public as you want it to be.
New Jerseyite Bruce Aristeo was cited for violating an “indefinite temporary restraining order” for, among other things, using his accuser’s image and that of her “pet Belgian Malinois.” He has been arrested at least four times.
TALKING BACK to restraining orders 
I am a heart broken mother whose oldest son is in jail after being accused of child abuse. His ex girlfriend cheated on him after being together for six years so he decided to leave her,she refused to let him take his belongings which was just about everything in the house. When his brothers heard this they rented a u haul truck and got his things,she told my oldest son she would make him pay for this,she called the police and told them my son abused her and her children my son is still in jail waiting for a court date.
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Make sure the brothers have an opportunity to testify. If your son can’t afford a private attorney, he should move the court to appoint him counsel.
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Saw this great article on the true cost of abusive lawsuits, and thought it was an interesting take: http://www.minnesotansala.nonprofitoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BA7DCFBBD-E080-4329-BC8A-BC4FF2DB3023%7D. While this is specific to Minnesota and lawsuits, it is still an interesting consideration in these cases.
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If any of you, and our fearless blogger Todd, have been reading in Volokh Conspiracy lately Prof. Volokh has presented quite a few shocking narratives about bloggers who have been persecuted by totalitarian judges who must look on us citizens as helpless pawns.
So go and read and be aware that you are not alone. A growing angry throng of Americans has been grievously abused by judges and prosecutors with no respect for our inalienable rights. A reader commenting in Prof. Jonathan Turley’s blog, another great resource, has lamented that we are approaching a time of such civil unrest that it may erupt into the violence which Thomas Jefferson recommended to fertilize the Tree of Liberty.
There’s the case in Florida of the blogger ordered by a Floridiot judge to stop criticizing a corrupt police officer, another in Montana of Ronald Glick ordered not to speak her name online of the woman with whom he had litigation, and then another wild and crazy, AND illegal, restraining order in Arizona which was vacated in the appellate courts of that state.
In courts of law and equity it’s not the season to be jolly. ‘Tis the season to be crazy.
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These are the co-conspirators of the Volokh Conspiracy that Larry mentions (all but three of them are professors of law):
Dale Carpenter, University of Minnesota.
David Kopel, Independence Institute.
David Bernstein, George Mason University.
David Hyman, University of Illinois.
David Post, Temple University (ret.).
Eugene Kontorovich, Northwestern University.
Eugene Volokh, UCLA.
Ilya Somin, George Mason University.
Jim Lindgren, Northwestern University.
John Elwood, Vinson & Elkins.
Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve University.
Ken Anderson, American University.
Nick Rosenkranz, Georgetown University.
Nita Farahany, Duke University.
Orin Kerr, George Washington University.
Paul Cassell, University of Utah.
Randy Barnett, Georgetown University.
Russell Korobkin, UCLA.
Sasha (Alexander) Volokh, Emory University.
Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson.
Stuart Benjamin, Duke University.
Todd Zywicki, George Mason University.
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Larry, if you talk with Prof. Volokh through his site, tell him the link on the WP to his brother (Alexander Volokh) is wrong (the “/” at the end should be removed):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/who-are-we/
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Thank you for continuing to fight the good fight. It is more appreciated than you can ever imagine, whether just for the education, or the knowing that none of us are alone. I wish you the very best for the end of this year, and hope that next year will be a better one for those of us who have had to deal with all of this trauma.
Besides having to have therapy for the PTSD, my health has gotten rather bad, and most of it I would say is from stress. And now I realize that it is not safe to tell what we believe to be friends either, for when someone gets mad at us, they want to turn it all around and make us look like WE are the monsters. NOT!!!
It is difficult to be 74 and have to deal with this kind of stuff, not that it is better at ANY age. I am finding ways around it, but there could come a time when it DOES affect my ability to get or keep a job. Right now it hasn’t affected me but then I have worked at one place for a long time and they know me.
There are always fantasies about them getting their just desserts. They become a sort of unreal comic evildoer that can be seen as fighting between themselves until they do each other in, etc.
Lately, I have taken up watching wrestling and martial arts fighting with friends on TV, something I would never in a thousand years do in my normal mind. But somehow I become the winning wrestler, and enjoy all the kicks, hits, throws, etc as if I were there in person beating down the opponents. It has been a lifesaver from the stress. Not perfect mind you, but beats taking all sorts of addictive meds for PTSD. So tiny step by tiny step, things can get better. Will I ever believe that someday the justice system will be just and that the bad guys will not win? Likely not. But I am going to do everything I can to make people stop being such bullies and find ways to make it a criminal act.
Peace and many blessings, Anne Copeland
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Reblogged this on Falsely Accused.
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