"12 Years a Slave": A Case for Reparations

*The wicked flee when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. ~Prov. 28:1* ~This verse explains one reason why America's systemic racism continues 148 years after slavery. White supremacists see all African Americans as a threat, not because we have earned their fear, but because of the great sins done against us. A movie to help one understand (trailer):

"12 Years a Slave"

http://youtu.be/vUQNjfhlREk

Congratulations to the "12 Yeas a Slave" Director, Steve McQueen; Writers: John Ridley (screenplay), and Solomon Northup (author).

Some cannot rest easy living among people who were treated so horribly and who are yet victimized by economic depression, prison slavery and weekly lynchings. Therefore, they say "I felt threatened" when they kill us, and even liberal whites understand. For they, too, have felt that unreasonable fear. This explains why liberals tolerate oppressive laws like Stop & Frisk, and juries comprised of otherwise decent people release murderous police officers and others who kill unarmed blacks. 

For these reasons, I believe paying reparations for slavery and Jim Crow would be good for this country. Everyone who has ever fallen behind in bills knows the apprehension an indebted man feels when his phone rings, and we can relate to his sense of dread about opening mail delivered "certified." Overdue bills cause dis-ease. 

THIS IS AN UNEASY PEACE. Although apologies were made, there exists a sense that no real repentance or forgiveness occurred. Every other group that suffered oppression received compensation, but Africans in America were given empty-handed apologies and told to "get over it." Texas is so uncomfortable with the idea of slavery that its history books for public schools will replace “slavery” with a dishonest term, “unpaid interns.”

A video by Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is embedded below to announce another feature film: "Seize the Time; The Eight Defendant." Some members of the Black Panther Party were set up on false criminal charges, and numerous others were killed by police. Many Caucasians say, "Why should African Americans be paid for something our great grandfathers did?" But in truth, neither enslavement nor lynchings of black people ever stopped in the United States for a single week.

Three Petitions for Reparations

1. MoveOn Petitions - Reparations - African slave trade

   petitions.moveon.org/sign/reparations-african-slave‎Reparations - African slave trade. By Wifiyah EmpreZion Hakim (Contact). To be delivered to: The United States House of Representatives, The United States ...

   
   

   THE NDABA Movement National Reparations Petition Campaign: A ...

   www.petitiononline.com/ndaba/‎THE NDABA Movement National Reparations Petition Campaign: A Petition in Support of Black People's Demand for Reparations from the United States ...

   
   

   Petition to Demand the United States Congress to form ... - Change.org

   www.change.org/petitions/petition-to-demand-the-united-states-congress ...‎ Let it be known, we are demanding that United States Congress hold Congressional Hearings and that a Task Force, or Commission, be formed for ...

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Bougie Negroes v. Real Change

A couple of years ago, we received tragic reports from Cynthia Johnson, an online friend and member of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI). Cynthia alleged that she was raped by a New Jersey police officer in 2008 when two officers went to her home to arrest her on false charges levied by a drug addicted cousin whom she had reported for child neglect. Johnson claims the violent sex crime was hushed up in New Jersey just like my brother’s murder was hushed up in Memphis, Tennessee. She alleged that she was denied a rape kit when she reported the sexual assault to the duty sergeant upon her arrest and that she was deliberately kept incarcerated until the semen dissolved in her body to prevent prosecution for the offense. Please familiarize yourself with the allegations by reading this article, which cyberstalkers refused to allow me to open on May 23, 2012:  “New Jersey v. Cynthia Johnson for Being Young, Gifted and Black” – at this link http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-jersey-v-cynthia-johnson-for-being.html . Police officers who are rapists and murderers must be prosecuted with the same or greater zeal than average citizens. It is particularly disturbing that black women can be raped by Caucasian police officers and a handicapped black man murdered by police without censure in cities that have African American representatives in major offices. This article has five links, which you may not be able to see or access using a cell phone like many blacks rely on for their Internet access. That may have been a tip to white supremacists by the bougie Negroes in their employ.

Unfortunately, the response to African Americans who report major crimes done under the color of law is often censorship and persecution. My online reports about crimes by police officers are censored in Georgia by a team of at least four cyberstalkers at a time who were appointed by and/or are protected in their illegal cyber censorship by officials over justice. In fact, my computer is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week to interfere with reports about crimes against humanity that are allowed by officials in cities across this country and by the United States Department of Justice, which is also under the jurisdiction of an African American, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. When police officers are not censured for criminal conduct, more crime against citizens is encouraged. It is unacceptable that as more of America’s decision makers became black people, respect for the rights of African Americans regressed to the point that unarmed blacks like Kenneth McDade are regularly killed by police, usually without penalty. The brutality and murders of inmates like Larry Neal are covered-up by officials and the media, black women like Cynthia Johnson are raped and elderly veterans like Mr. Chamberlain are killed by police officers who they were commanded to admit into their homes.

It appears that African Americas are relegated back into slavery and that even African American officials who were elected and appointed to positions over justice are actually plantation overseers whose dedication is to slave-catching for prison labor, holding black women still for rape, eliminating harmless handicapped and elderly blacks who cannot contribute to Master’s plantation, and killing or incarcerating young black men and women who might have been protectors of our people and are therefore considered threats and enemies. Moreover, documenting and publishing the re-enslavement of African Americans is treated like such reports are being made in a cruel dictatorship in a third world country that victimizes its own people, such Uganda under Idi Amin, where hundreds of thousands of blacks were slaughtered and some eaten by the African ruler. We live in the day of "elite integration," which started on Southern Plantations. House Negroes were slaves like the blacks in the fields, but they enjoyed an elevated living standard slavery provided just as their owners did. See the poem below, called "ELITE INTEGRATION."  

ELITE INTEGRATION, by Mary Neal (all rights reserved)

Elite white people and black people done got together against little people
And they imprisoning 'em and waterboarding 'em and executing 'em

OH, LAWD! OH, LAWD!

Elite white people and black people done got together against little people
They lay 'em off, make 'em bail out banks, laying railroad tracks to concentration camps*
OH, LAWD! OH, LAWD!
___________
*Google "H.R. 645," the FEMA camp bill introduced in January 2009 by Alcee Hastings, a black congressman from Florida, a Democrat. That bill failed; however, NDAA with its provision for concentration camps was signed into law on December 31, 2011 by President Obama. In May 2012, federal Judge Katherine Forrest, Manhattan, declared concentration camps unconstitutional. The Obama administration is reportedly trying to get Judge Forrest to withdraw her order and allow concentration camps in the United States like Nazi Germany had.

My own reports about Larry Neal’s murder under secret arrest, The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm’s fraud against  our family and minorities throughout America, abuses and murders of the mentally ill, mass incarceration, brutality, and wrongful executions are treated with enmity by officials whose job is to uphold the people’s rights to life and liberty. See Wrongful Death of Larry Neal website at http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/ . Offenders include African American officials and police officers who have their jobs only because oppressed black people, liberal whites and Jews in the 1960s faced police dogs, powerful water hoses, public beatings and murders in order to get the Voting Rights Act passed, thinking that such legislation would remove the yoke of oppression off our necks. As a result, African Americans now have black oppressors, which improved the position of racist plantation owners rather than the people. With blacks in federal and local positions over the injustice system, African Americans lack the unity that brought down Jim Crow during the civil rights movement and weakened him for decades. Jim Crow has now recovered and is in the prison gym pumping iron. He struts through black neighborhoods and down the corridors of America’s courtrooms and prisons flexing new, bulging muscles, killing, maiming and raping whomever he chooses in full confidence that African American plantation overseers will condone or conceal his crimes. The biggest mistake made by 21^st century blacks was forgetting something that white supremacists remember and use against us today: Blacks are useful for raiding and burning villages and bringing out shackled slaves. Blacks are accomplished whipping boys and plantation overseers.

African American voters forgot that Master’s strongest allies who helped him and a handful of whites maintain cruel dominance over thousands of black slaves were the Negroes like those in Master’s kitchen and carriage house, often Mulattoes with whom the master was closely related by blood. The Big House Negroes and their owners shared a common interest in keeping slaves suppressed while they enjoyed the fruits of their labors. House Negroes and supervising field hands were often the masters’ offspring, sex partners, or black-skinned slaves who had proved their loyalty to white supremacists by performing acts of deception and cruelty against other human chattel on Masters’ plantations. As a reward, they got to ride a horse through the fields and wield a whip, drawing blood from pregnant slave women who dared to stand upright while picking cotton and take a moment to rub their sore backs. The kitchen slaves were allowed to butter their children’s biscuits and take leftovers from the evening meal home to their shacks at night. Carriage house Negroes frequently got to leave the plantation when they took their owners to conduct business or to enjoy social events at other plantations. All the other slaves labored throughout their lives and died within a few miles of the slave quarters and fields where they were born unless they were sold. Regular slaves could not even escape the drudgery of their lives through books, as literacy was forbidden. The masters’ carriage drivers were envied by slaves working in hot fields who watched them ride by holding horses’ reins in hands that had no blisters and calluses, wearing shoes and suits without holes, smiling and whistling with their stomachs full.

Big house workers and plantation supervisors were also slaves, but theirs was a more comfortable existence and elevated status made possible by the suffering and degradation of their fellows. They did, however, incur their owners’ waft whenever slaves escaped. It fell to big house Negroes and plantation overseers to learn about escape plans and inform their masters in order to curtail freedom quests and circumvent slave uprisings. The big house Negroes therefore enlisted tipsters in the slave quarters who spied on their brethren in return for small favors like extra biscuits, a bigger garden patch, or lighter duty in the Master’s fields. Therefore, slave masters developed a system of “proxy racism” that continues today. Proxy racists use sold-out blacks to suppress other blacks in order to impose and strengthen white supremacy.

This system of racism by proxy did not crumble after slavery officially ended. Many slave owners bequeathed land to their mulatto relatives and former slaves, giving them a distinct advantage over other blacks. Benevolent white churches and organizations helped to establish black schools. Some of the black schools required entrants to pass a “paper sack test,” limiting admission to lighter-skinned blacks with close blood relationships to their former owners. Blacks with Caucasian rather than Negroid features and those who carried benign messages were promoted and allowed to make significant educational financial and social gains, while “radicals” were persecuted, arrested, and killed for propounding revolutionary messages that were contrary to the interests of white supremacists. People with the best education and contacts tend to rise in business and government. As a result, African Americans are largely represented by sell-outs who still take their orders from white supremacists like house servants did during slavery. Many black journalists publish what white supremacists tell them to and censor news as instructed. Major civil and human rights organizations follow white supremacists’ dictates, and so do many black politicians. Although scores of African Americans excel in business and government and despite large organizations founded on the principle of equal rights for blacks, real progress is hampered by these “gatekeepers” for white supremacists whose order was to “come on in and make America look democratic, but shut the door behind you.” Enough sell-outs are in major positions now that average African Americans feel we as a race have "overcome," which is a fallacy. We as a people believe the mirage that has no basis in fact. See the poem "Mass Hypnosis," by Mary Neal below:

Mass Hypnosis

This is how we'll win the game

Let just a few live the dream

Marches, sit-ins all in vain

Make 'em think they overcame

Show 'em an empty Jim Crowe grave

Apologize for making 'em slaves

Rising tempers, we must tame

Make 'em think they overcame.

Let a few experience success

Toms come aboard and control the rest

Millions will be left in pain

But they'll think they overcame.

        ("Mass Hypnosis" - All rights reserved by Mary Neal 11/13/10)

I have had numerous run-ins with house Negroes since my brother's murder, whose death is their responsibility to keep hidden from the public. At first, I was not aware that “civil rights for blacks” was a game. There are so many blacks in decision making capacities that I thought America had nearly overcome prejudice until my handicapped brother was secretly arrested and murdered in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003. Memphis is a “chocolate city” with many blacks in decision making capacities. I did not know so many Negroes with titles are merely plantation overseers for white supremacists until I began seeking open disclosure and justice regarding Larry Neal’s murder. It surprised me when the “head Negroes in charge” engaged in a cover-up regarding Larry Neal’s murder by police. That is when I learned that proxy racism is an issue in local and federal government, the media, and civil rights organizations in the 21^st century. House Negroes still do their masters’ bidding in order to keep the privileges that go along with their positions and avoid getting on Master’s “bad side.” Negroes in this century continue being white supremacists’ facilitators just as their counterparts in the 1800s suppressed field slaves because doing so provides an elevated living standard. Bougie Negroes get together and compliment each other on what a “credit to their race” they are, give one another awards, etc., and help white supremacists carry forth a false semblance of  American “equality” to the world. Reality for the masses of blacks in 21^st century America is quite different from what is projected. We experience runaway rates of unemployment and mass incarceration, unchecked police violence, and endangerment of truth-tellers by blacks and whites who benefit by continuing slavery - under cover.

There is little to no difference between how police violence is handled in America in the 21^st century and mob lynchings that occurred immediately after slavery “ended.” This is true although numerous police departments, cities and county governments now have blacks in office and the U.S. Department of Justice itself is headed by a black man. Check this blog later this week, and I will provide details about some of the house Negroes I encountered during my justice quest regarding murders and oppression. I do not know if Georgia is more corroded with sell-out Negroes than other places, but some followed me to the DeKalb County Library to take over the computer I am using now for input. Reporting such crimes to police is useless. Last June, Negro police officers came to my home and told me I had better not report that crimes against me are allowed and that I am never to try to see the black CEO of DeKalb County, Burrell Ellis. This happened after police refused to investigate the car tag belonging to a Negro stalker who said he is "paid well" to follow me. Mayor Kasim Reed, another Negro, is mayor of Atlanta, a city with many blacks on the city council. Last month, I received notice from the city that it takes no responsibility for two Negro Atlanta police officers who threatened to Taser and arrest me for telling people about my brother's lynching and the Cochran Firm fraud against Kathryn Johnston's family and other African Americans throughout the country. America continues to enlarge on slavery, and more house Negroes than ever before are performing their duty to ensure that white supremacy reigns. Meanwhile, misguided African Americans continue to envy the well-dressed, well-fed Negro coachmen who ride by oppressive fields in Masta's carriage with smiks on their faces, holding the horses' reins with uncalloused hands. Field slaves promoted those house Negroes they admired after emancipation, especially mullatos, and the beat goes on.  See an excellent dipiction of the Negro coachman by John Carroll Doyle at http://www.johncdoyle.com/repro_detail.asp?repoID=49  .

Advocacy article by Mary Neal, a Christian human rights activist against hypocrisy, racism, and injustice in America. This article is dedicated to Rev. Edward Pinkney and residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan as they OCCUPY THE PGA http://occupythepga.wordpress.com/ , which was reportedly a great success. Meanwhile, my quest for freedom of press is ongoing. I learned this morning that the cyberstalkers, probably that Negro Michael Moon who came to my home (see "Home Invasion"), removed the link for the Kelly Thomas video from my blog about the homeless man's murder by police in Fullerton, California. See the blog in Dog Justice for Mentally Ill blog at http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com . Thomas was a Caucasian man. Mental illness eliminates white skin privilege, which is losing relevance for all working class whites throughout the country as corporate imperialism replaces the semblance of democracy.

Ghostbuster, by Mary Neal

13 links, 1 poem, 23 paragraphs
Ghostbuster

SATAN, OUR GOD, remove this cup!
We send police to make her shut up
But she films our computer attacks
Word's getting out - that's a fact

So we destroy her computers
And position stalkers around her home
They even follow her to libraries
And took over her telephones

Our plan was working oh so well
Defrauding minorities, but she tells
The truth is spreading coast to coast
We hide our hoods behind a dead lawyer's ghost
         by Mary Neal (all rights reserved)

ARE BLACKS BEING PUNISHED FOR O.J. SIMPSON MURDER TRIAL VERDICT?  Many people disagreed with the verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. They felt that justice was not served for Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman and continued to believe O.J. was guilty.  The longest trial in California history ended with the jury returning a verdict of not guilty on October 3, 1995, after only four hours of deliberation.  Some blamed Johnnie Cochran for successfully defending Simpson in a racially charged trial.  In 1997, former Black Panther Party member Geronimo Pratt was released from prison after 27 years served for a murder he did not do, having been set up by COINTELPRO.  Cochran was on Pratt's defense team and cited Pratt's release as the most significant event of his legal career.  In 2000, Cochran announced plans to build a Reparations Dream Team and to bring a class action lawsuit against the United States Government for slavery.  Cochran was offered a partnership with an Alabama law firm, which he accepted to fulfill a vision of establishing a nationwide plaintiffs law firm that would have wide appeal among minority persons seeking justice after police brutality, wrongful deaths, and corporate wrongs.

Shortly after entering the new partnership, Cochran became ill.  After Cochran died in March 2005, there were disturbing changes in the firm. Attorneys and staff who had worked alongside Cochran for years were fired or forced out of the firm for refusing to deliver substandard legal services to minority clients, according to former firm attorney Shawn Holley, who sued the new owners for race discrimination. Another former partner sued The Cochran Firm for fraud. A link to Holley's NPR interview is below.

The injustice system seems to be conducting a race war against blacks seeking justice after murders by police and other crimes.  Johnnie Cochran is dead, hopefully due to natural causes, and O.J. Simpson is imprisoned. It is unethical and illegal for racist whites and unprincipaled, sellout black attorneys to use the firm bearing Cochran's name to pervert justice for minority clients of The Cochran Firm.  One can review the firm's verdicts and settlements online that document unprecedented successes.  The problem is that clients do not know until it is too late if their cases are intended for failure.  Defrauded clients who sue The Cochran Firm after attorneys "throw the fight" in their cases (and side with the clients' defendants) are likely to find the firm is not held to ethical standards set by their State Board of Professional Responsibility.

Below are a few examples:

Wrongful Death of Larry Neal - http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/
54-year-old lifelong schizophrenic heart patient was secretly incarcerated for 18 days in Memphis Shelby County Jail while police repeatedly denied his arrest to social workers and family members who searched for Larry to administer life-saving heart and psychiatric drugs.  The Cochran Firm signed contract to represent his elderly mother and family in a wrongful death action against the jail and negligence case against the State of Tennessee, hiding a conflict of interest - Julian Bolton, Esq., The Cochran Firm's managing partner in its Memphis office, was a Shelby County Commissioner, and the Commission owns and operates the jail.  David McLaughlin, the Neal's assigned attorney,  wrote Larry's family false status reports about legal work that was not actually being done in order to allow the Tennessee's statute of limitations to pass without any lawsuits being filed, and used U.S. Mail fraud to mail the lies.  When the Neals sued The Cochran Firm for fraud and deliberate malpractice, Superior Court Judge Wendy Shoob dismissed the lawsuit on the defendant's claim that there is no Cochran Firm office in Georgia, although the law office is open and operating under that identity at 127 Peachtree Street and is prolifically advertised.  Federal Court Judge Batten dismissed the Neal's lawsuit against the traitor lawyers, claiming the firm's fraud did not prevent the Neals from suing Shelby County Jail, despite holding their file secretly inactive for nearly 11 months of Tennessee's 12-month statute of limitations while sending clients false status reports to prevent their finding another attorney in time to sue the jail for Larry's secret arrest and murder. 

Wrongful Death of Corey Ward - http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/corey-ward-police-and-cochran-firm.html
An 18-year-old was out with friends driving his mother's Tahoe in the Atlanta area on July 14, 2002, when two men did a maneuver to stop Ward's vehicle.  Ward and his friends thought they were being carjacked.  Officer Raymond S. Bunn shot and killed Ward. Bunn and his partner said they thought the van the young man drove was a stolen vehicle.  Bunn was indicted for the youth's murder, but the case did not go before a judge until 2010.  By that time, Georgia legislators had enacted a law in 2006 providing that police officers did not have to face a jury if they were indicted for murder but claimed self-defense, which virtually all police officers claim when citizens are killed.  Georgia Superior Court Judge Newkirk dismissed Bunn's murder charges. "For Judge Newkirk to step forward, without hearing any testimony, without interviewing any witnesses … to look at paperwork and not give a Fulton County jury an opportunity to deal with this case is a grave injustice," Hutchinson said.  The Cochran Firm reportedly recovered zero for Ward's family's wrongful death action.  Was Ward's lawsuit even filed? 

Wrongful Death of Billey Joe Johnson - http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/12/18/billey-joe-johnson-death-gains-conspiratorial-steam-as-family-hi/
Johnson, 17, a highly regarded football player at George County High School was killed after he was pulled over by George County Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Sullivan for a traffic violation.  Sullivan said Johnson shot himself with a 12-gauge shotgun while Sullivan was at his patrol car conducting a driver’s license check.  Johnson had reportedly been dating a Caucasian girl whose family had connections with the police department.  His family refused to believe Johnson died by his own hand.  The Cochran Firm was employed to conduct an investigation. Johnson's death was later ruled to be accidental by the grand jury although Officer Sullivan had gun powder residue on both his hands.  The family recovered no damages for what they perceived to be a wrongful death.  Was a lawsuit filed?

A murder indictment or conviction is not necessary to pursue and prevail in a wrongful death civil action, as was won by Ron Goldman's father in his lawsuit against O.J. Simpson.  The fact that there were no convictions in Ward's and Johnson's deaths did not prevent The Cochran Firm from filing and winning lawsuits for its clients.

Wrongful Death of Kathryn Johnston - http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/to-sarah-dozier-fraud-against-kathryn.html
A 92-year-old black Atlanta resident was killed by police on November 21, 2006, during a home invasion wrongly referred to as a "botched drug raid." There is no evidence that police had reason to suspect Johnston's home of being a drug house.  Police planned to falsify evidence by presenting false testimony from an informant, and officers planted drugs in Johnston's home while she lay handcuffed and dying from six of the 36 rounds police fired at her. Authorities intended for the informant to say that he had bought drugs from Johnston's home, but the informant refused to lie on the murdered elder and instead went to the FBI and media and reported the police plot.  Three police officers were indicted and sentenced to prison for Johnston's murder in 2009.  The Cochran Firm contracted with Johnston's survivors to represent them in a wrongful death action with an $18 million demand - Sarah Dozier vs. City of Atlanta.  However, The Cochran Firm settled the case for only $4.9 million on August 17, 2010, without allowing the matter to proceed to jury.  Any jury convened in Atlanta would have been sympathetic to the plaintiffs and likely to render the entire $18 million demand, if not more.  The Cochran Firm reported that it filed lawsuit for Dozier on November 21, 2007, in Georgia State Court; however, clerks conducted a thorough search of State Court records on August 18, 2010, and were unable to find evidence that the lawsuit had actually been filed. Superior Court is Georgia’s general jurisdiction trial court. State Court is used only for cases that do not fall under Superior Court's jurisdiction.  This writer knows of no reason why Dozier was filed in State Court (if it really was) except that Superior Court had wrongly pronounced The Cochran Firm nonexistent in Georgia in order to help the devious lawyers escape accountability when sued by the Neal family for fraud in 2006.  The record shows the managing partner of The Cochran Firm's Atlanta office, Hezekiah Sistrunk, removed the  Dozier case from State Court to federal court in January 2008, where it was presided over by Judge Marvin Shoob.  He is the father of Wendy Shoob, the Superior Court judge who had ruled there is no Cochran Firm in Georgia.  Incredibly, the Complaint that The Cochran Firm drafted for its client (?) actually put forth the police defense about a "Suspect X" fingering Johnston's home as a drug house.  That allegation that had already been disproved a year before Sistrunk's Complaint was drafted when the informant exposed the murder coverup. 

The Johnston case is not the first time The Cochran Firm helped police at its clients' expense.  For instance, The Cochran Firm begged USDC Judge Batten not to make Shelby County Jail tell how Larry Neal was killed - http://3.vu/acIEA  - The court honored the lawyers' request - lawyers who had been hired by the decedent's family as his wrongful death attorneys. Thanks in large part to the murder coverup engineered by The Cochran Firm, the method of Larry's murder is still a secret kept by the United States Justice Department and Shelby County Jail, as the jail was allowed not to answer federal subpoenas and the DOJ refuses to answer the Neals' Freedom of Information Act request for records at this link:  http://www.nowpublic.com/health/foi-request-usdoj-re-larry-neal-and-cochran-firm-fraud

Martinez vs. The Cochran Firm. The Cochran Firm defrauded its client, a Latino woman, of the opportunity to recover $27.1 million in a civil action she had already won.  When she sued her traitor lawyers, her case did not go to court; she was forced to accept less than $300,000 in damages through mediation.  The Cochran Firm's insurance companies refused to pay the settlement, leaving the firm to pay for its unethical conduct regarding Ms. Martinez's case itself.  Insurance policies are for accidents, not deliberate fraud.  http://alturl.com/9krtv  The Cochran Firm filed suit against its insurance companies.  That matter is unresolved to date, to my understanding.

The Cochran Firm Fraud May Negatively Impact Victims of the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Bloomberg Businessweek reported on October 9, 2010 that a federal judge appointed four lawyers from three states to serve on an executive committee and lead a 15-member steering committee for thousands of people and businesses suing over the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The executive committee will coordinate the responsibilities of the larger plaintiffs’ steering committee representing hundreds of lawyers involved in cases against BP and other companies including Halliburton Co. and Transocean Ltd.  Phillip Thomas, of MS Litigation Review and Commentary, wrote, "My interpretation of the Order is that the steering committee will run the entire litigation. Lawyers who represent victims—but who are not on the steering committee—appear to be getting squeezed out of the litigation.  The only Mississippi lawyer on the steering committee is former congressman and Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy. . . "   Espy is a Morgan & Morgan/Cochran Firm attorney. http://www.mslitigationreview.com/articles/gulf-oil-spill-litigation/

I have met other former Cochran Firm clients who allege the firm deliberately "threw the fight,"  so I am concerned about the Gulf Oil spill victims being treated fairly.  It is bad enough that when many people were out of work because of the oil spill, prison laborers (slavery) were used for the cleanup while they remained unemployed.  As with the wrongful death of Larry Neal case, other former clients who spoke with me got no assistance ascertaining justice when defrauded by The Cochran Firm, which I believe to be a COINTELPRO operation.  After The Cochran Firm had itself pronounced nonexistent in Georgia and the Neals' lawsuit was dismissed based on that perjury, I went to the BBB, FCC, FTC, FBI, major news affiliates, local and federal elected representatives, numerous civil rights organizations.  In 2009, federal court Judge Batten ruled that The Cochran Firm's fraud against Larry Neal's family to help Shelby County Jail escape with his murder was "immaterial."  Minority citizens who were not represented by The Cochran Firm frauds were also denied justice in numerous cases since the O.J. Simpson murder trial.  I am censored and stalked to prevent my reporting these and other injustices to the public.  It appears that minority citizens are deemed too immaterial to receive consumer reports that might save them from being treated like the Cochran Firm clients in this post.

Johnnie Cochran was against his firm doing criminal defense work, according to former Cochran Firm attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, during her NPR interview. Prison owners/investors profit when people are incarcerated. Listen to Holley's interview "CONTROVERSY AT COCHRAN LAW FIRM" at this link: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12171473  - People who rely on legal traitors for criminal defense risk more than the Neal family and other Cochran Firm clients who were defrauded in civil cases. Criminal defendants' freedom and lives are at stake.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for He that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. ~Ecclesiastes 5:8

NOTE:  My uncle served in the Army in WWII, my brother served in Viet Nam, and my nephews in Afghanistan and Iraq. I do not agree with war, but many close friends and relatives have sacrificed for this to be a land of equal justice and free speech. The U.S.A. has not arrived at that goal, but it is our right and our duty to try to make it so. People who object to my writing about injustices against minorities, whites who lack wealth, and America's mentally ill need to get over it. I am on a Godly assignment against racism and classism in the justice system.

For a week I have been prevented from entering posts at my online group, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.  Over the past few years, I have spent thousands of hours developing the advocacy group that has nearly 300 members working together to decriminalize mental illness in America where roughly 1.25million sick people are imprisoned for inappropriate conduct arising out of a common, treatable health condition.  When I started the group, I did not know that prisons and jails were privately-owned enterprises and that the mentally ill account for over one-half of America's inmates.  I am reminded of movie themes with a hapless heroine who inadvertently picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport and is plunged into a tale of intrigue and espionage. 

Our justice quest began with the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal, my mentally and physically disabled brother.  In addition to The Cochran Firm defrauding us to save Shelby County Jail from lawsuit, the United States Department of Justice and courts are dedicated to preventing Larry's death from being publicly disclosed and becoming subject to normal investigative and judicial processes.  Battling censorship, I write in my FreeSpeakBlog and also publish articles online at Care2, HubPages, NowPublic.com, IndyMedia, and OpEdNews about my family's denial of justice and abuses of power that negatively impact other Americans, particularly minorities, whites who lack wealth, and the mentally disabled.  You are invited to review and share the articles in FreeSpeakBlog using the index on the left margin at http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ -

Information on the O.J. Simpson murder case that probably gave rise to a judicial race war with the justice quests of select black families as casualties is at this link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

ANNOUNCING EDENVILLE:
FICTION AND SLAVE SONGS BY MARY NEAL

Since my home computers are destroyed regularly, it is challenging for me to stay abreast of the latest cases where mentally ill people are brutalized, potentially innocent inmates face execution, and citizens' rights are trampled, which are my usual subjects.  I have already written thousands of articles and emails about individuals experiencing such horrors and thought it would be easier and refreshing to publish fiction and poetry about these subjects for a while.  Therefore, I started writing short stories to inspire and entertain about a town called Edenville. 

Edenville is a modern American boom town with a population that soured from 1,800 to 22,000 residents within six months when Edenville Private Prison opened.  Some of the principal characters are listed below.  Any likeness to real people, companies, or law firms is purely coincidental.

Commissioner Greedly
Mayor Greedly
Banker Greedly
Sheriff Lockwell
Warden Lockwell
Edenville Gazette, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Coverall
Lukewarm Sanctuary Church
Shark Clan, LLC, Clan Shark, P.C., Assumed Name & Affiliates (local law offices that all work out of a single address.  They belong to a national firm called Clandestine Purpose, LLC, a/k/a "Clan." Multiple names are useful when clients discover they were defrauded by their attorneys and sue.  No matter what defendant the plaintiffs name in lawsuits, the lawyers say, "Wrong name, judge!"  Regular criminals do not escape justice by using numerous alias names, but these are highly irregular lawyers who enjoy special arrangements with courts.  They do not always bother to register their alias names with the Secretary of States office - just claim to be "P.C." or "LLC" at will.  Not a problem.)

I will announce the Internet home for my Edenville fiction series soon. 

Blessings!

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
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"BLACK FRIDAY" E-MAIL - I'm too black for my support to help Native Americans

I want any white people or affluent minority persons to please help the Native Americans get health care in accordance with their request below.  I explained to them in the following email that since I have been ruled an "immaterial" person in the USA, my help beyond alerting others to their need would be "immaterial." I have been told by a federal court that my black self is "immaterial," so I want to pass this request on to some of you Americans who are "material."  If I had a dog, I might call the senators and let the animal bark out a request.  DOGS COUNT MORE THAN MY FAMILY IN THE USA.  When they are murdered, their deaths are investigated and accountability is demanded, unlike my brother who died under SECRET jail arrest in 2003.

 
to:  info@firstnations.org,


cc:  Mary Neal mln@theywrong.com, cnn@cnn.com, BET bet@email.bet.com, writebackatcha@gmail.com, isf23@yahoogroups.com

date: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:22 PM  --  mailed-by gmail.com

subject:  Re: Ask Your Senator to Include the Indian Health Care Improvement Act in the Current Senate Health Care Reform Bill

Sorry, I cannot help you with your petition to the senate. In fact, my signature might make you have less of a chance of getting health care. Far as I know, they murder sick minority people and then dare you to ask what happened.

I cannot even get authorities to tell me how they murdered my disabled brother who was in jail under SECRET ARREST in 2003 - see Wrongful Death of Larry Neal at http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/  -Therefore, I don't think they care much about what I request on petitions. If authorities cared about doing what is right, moral, and legal, they would release Larry Neal's arrest records and investigate his death. However, I am black, so that makes a difference in how you get treated by the government, you know. You probably need to get someone white to help with this issue about Native Americans' health care.

We minority people don't matter to authorities, and in my experience, petitions don't matter much either. See mine below asking them to stop chasing me and censoring me to prevent the disclosure of my brother's secret jail murder. When they murdered poor Larry in Shelby County Jail in Memphis, TN, the authorities sent The Cochran Firm to defraud Larry's family into thinking we had lawyers to file wrongful death for us. The law firm signed contract to represent us, but it never filed suit. The lawyers just lied to us for almost a year (the entire statute of limitations in TN), but finally confessed the law firm had done ZERO to investigate Larry's murder, conduct discovery and file suit about his murder. Minorities are important only to pay taxes, fight "terrorists," and populate prisons. See my petition, and you will understand how powerless my signature is, being a black citizen in this "land of equal justice."

Stop Censorship and Terrorism Against Mary Neal - The Petition Site
Human and civil rights protections requested to end censorship and endangerment (60 signatures on petition) www.thepetitionsite.com/2/Justice4MaryNeal

My family is deemed so insignificant as African American taxpayers with members in active military service, veterans, and civil service employees that USDC signed an order stating that whatever people did to defraud my family to cover up my handicapped brother's secret jail death is "immaterial." Then USDC Northern District of Georgia dismissed our lawsuit against The Cochran Firm in February 2009. Shelby County Jail never had to answer its subpoenas and release records about Larry's murder, and the television stations and newspapers that advertise the Atlanta office of The Cochran Firm were allowed to ignore federal subpoenas, too. They never had to submit responsive documents about their prolific advertising of the Atlanta law office. Defrauding minorities is not a big deal in America. No one knows that better than Africans and Native Americans, I am sure.

It is hard being a minority person in a place as prejudice as America is. Dogs' get justice after their murders, but not black people. In fact, I am followed, accosted, and cyberstalked for asking WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL by up to four vehicles and a USDOT truck. See Cochran Firm Fraud videos 1 and 2 on YouTube. It is a mess. I have to stay home most of the time dodging folks who followed me home from work every night in 2008. Somebody murdered a person who planned to sue Shelby County Jail in November 2008 - Duanna Johnson. I just stayed home after I escaped those folks in cars and the government vehicle in September 2008 and found out other litigants against that jail were being executed in November. These folks don't like minority people to get uppity and ask questions and try to sue behind police brutality and murders, you see.

If you think that is bad, consider why we filed suit in federal court in 2007. We did that because when we filed suit in Georgia Superior Court in 2005, the judge told my family that we served the suit wrongly by serving The Cochran Firm's Atlanta, GA office. The Cochran Firm lied in court and claimed it had no office in Georgia (despite prolific advertising and being open for business every single day), and the judge agreed with them. The Cochran Firm's office was within sight of the courthouse, but what can you do when these white people stick together like that? (Johnnie Cochran died years ago, you see. He partnered with some Alabama FOLKS before he died, so that's that.) Anyway, Georgia Superior Court dismissed our lawsuit claiming there is no such thing as a Georgia office of The Cochran Firm. Yep - the very law office that is listed first on The Cochran Firm's website's list of offices. They did not even bother to think up a good excuse to dismiss our lawsuit, because we are African Americans, you see.

The Cochran Firm tricked the family of Kathryn Johnston, too. That's the 92-year-old black woman that Atlanta police murdered during a home invasion in November 2006. I don't think her survivors got a dime, either. If they did, the Cochran Firm just kept the matter out of court so Atlanta would not have to pay a jury verdict. Those lawyers sued for NEGLIGENCE, not wrongful death in Ms. Johnston's murder. Isn't that something? Keeping things in check for THE MAN. There have been other families tricked, also. They're opening Latino law offices now, and I hear they represented the Native Americans in a matter this year. It is a shame how that law firm runs around to trick the minorities in Johnnie Cochran's name. I think they're government agents, because the media won't even report how they went to Georgia Superior Court and denied their own identity. The FCC, FTC, FBI, HS don't care. I reported the consumer fraud to all of them. The FCC took a report, but did not really do anything. The BBB refused to even take the complaint.

Look at my petitions, and you will see the authorities don't care about what petitions I endorse. They see me as an "immaterial" black person, you understand. If I had money, maybe that would make a difference. But I don't. So that's that.  Frankly, I don't think white citizens matter much if they don't have money, either.  Prisons are full of sick, indigent black and white people, and sometimes they execute innocent white men.  It is a long story. Read more about it at the links after my signature below.  I used to think these things would change.  Now, I don't know.  Good luck with your attempt to get Dog Justice for Native Americans.

Mary Neal
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/


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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:59 AM, First Nations Development Institute info@firstnations.org wrote:

Ask Your Senator to Include the Indian Health Care Improvement Act in the Current Senate Health Care Reform Bill

Indian Country needs your immediate support of and action on the reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2009 (IHCIA of 2009), S. 1790. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, introduced the bill with 15 bi-partisan co-sponsors in the Senate on October 15, 2009. S. 1790 proposes a reauthorization and extension of the IHCIA of 1976 (last reviewed by Congress in 1992). During his introduction of S. 1790, Senator Dorgan recognized, "Native Americans suffer staggering health disparities due to an outdated, strained and underfunded health care system. We have a federal health care system for Native Americans that is only funded at about half of its need. Clinician vacancy rates within this system are high and misdiagnosis is rampant. Only those with 'life or limb' emergencies seem to get care. Native Americans die of tuberculosis at a rate 600 percent higher than the general population, suicide rates are nearly double, alcoholism rates are 510 percent higher, and diabetes rates are 189 percent higher than the general population."

If passed, the IHCIA of 2009 would:

Extend the life of the IHCIA, which has served as the underlying programmatic and legal framework for carrying out the federal government's trust responsibility for health care in Indian Country, and

Provide essential updates to the IHCIA by addressing modern methods of health care delivery that are urgently needed in Indian Country such as:

Authorizing programs to increase the recruitment and retention of health care professionals in Indian Country health care settings;

Authorizing long-term care, including home health care, assisted living, and community based care for the elderly in Indian Country; and

Establishing mental and behavioral health programs that address a wide spectrum of problems in Indian Country including fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, child sexual abuse and domestic violence, and high rates of youth suicide.

Current Status of the IHCIA in Congress:

Indian Country health care advocates have been working for a decade to improve the delivery of health care to Indians. As of today, Indian Country has seen measured success in the IHCIA of 2009. On November 7, 2009, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962, "the Affordable Health Care for America Act," which includes the language of the IHCIA of 2009. However, the next critical step in the reauthorization of the IHCIA of 2009 lies with the Senate. The Senate is currently considering a broader health care reform bill, "the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Although this proposed Senate bill does contain some important health care protections benefiting American Indians and Alaska Natives, it does not incorporate the language of the IHCIA of 2009. The proposed Senate health care reform bill needs to be amended to include the IHCIA of 2009, which would strengthen the probability of Congress passing the IHCIA this year. Your action is needed now to avoid further delays to improving substandard health care in Indian Country.

What can you do?

To help make the IHCIA a permanent law of the United States, we ask that you act today by contacting your Senator.

Tell your Senator that you support immediate meaningful, comprehensive, and long-term health care reform in Indian Country and that you support an amendment to the current Senate health care reform bill to include the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2009.

You may contact your Senator today by:

Calling the Capitol Switchboard toll-free at 877-851-6437 and asking to speak to your Senator, or clicking the button below and following the simple steps to email your Senator.

On behalf of tribal governments and the Native nonprofit sector across the nation, First Nations Development Institute thanks you for your time, effort, and support of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2009.
First Nations Development Institute 703 Third Ave, Suite B Longmont, CO 80501

tel 303.774.7836 fax 303.774.7841 info@firstnations.org
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SORRY I COULD NOT DO MORE TO HELP IN THIS HUMAN RIGHTS EFFORT, BUT BEING A COURT-DECLARED "IMMATERIAL" AFRICAN AMERICAN WHO LACKS WEALTH, THE BEST I CAN DO IS PUT YOUR PETITION WHERE SOME WHITE PEOPLE MIGHT SIGN IT OR SOME MINORITY PEOPLE WHO ARE ALLOWED TO FEEL LIKE THEY MATTER BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEGREES AND A LITTLE MONEY (UNTIL THEY OFFEND A POLICE OFFICER LIKE PROFESSOR GATES DID).

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