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The American Bar Association
JACOB ROGINSKY, Ph.D.
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American Bar Association (ABA) is a private "professional
organization" of lawyers and judges, run by the most powerful
interests in the legal profession, anti-constitutionally
commingling private interests (rich law firms and their
clients, special interest groups in the legal profession,
etc.) and government power (that of the third branch). It has
anti-constitutional privileges of writing model rules of
conduct for lawyers and judges that include clauses that
threaten careers of whistle blowers in the legal
profession, and have been used consistently so. Even if this
were not the original intent of those clauses — and I am sure it
was — the squelching of dissident voices in the legal
profession using those clauses has gone on long enough for
the ABA to have removed them if the ABA cared about integrity
in the legal system.
The ABA has over 400,000 members, most of whom are ordinary
attorneys. It is a given that most attorneys suffer to one degree or
another from judicial tyranny, which is a result of judicial
unaccountability. The ABA is networked at the very top of our
government. Nearly half of our legislators are attorneys,
and the big law firms maintain power through the large
corporations that depend on them for various reasons. Had
the ABA represented the interests of the majority of its
members, it would be seen at the forefront of fighting judicial
unaccountability and, given its power, would have changed the
situation on the ground in no time. However, in spite of all
the headaches, misery and even destruction
that judicial unaccountability causes the majority of its
members, the ABA jumps to vigorous and unconditional defense
of the judiciary each time voices of decency and reason call even
mildly for judicial accountability. It has even formed
committees "dedicated to the preservation of
judicial independence," but which are nothing less than
action committees for covering up judicial abuses and
preserving judicial unaccountability.
The ABA also has a stranglehold on legal education and legal
research in America. Its function for law school accreditation
is anti-constitutional, and its role in grant distribution is
corrupting and, given its agenda to cover-up abuses in the
legal system, highly discouraging of legal academics
to honestly discuss the state of the judicial system with
students and in open forums. The ABA is a meeting place for
the powerful, parasitic interests in the legal profession and
the top judiciary.
A sophisticated person familiar with the available key
information about the ABA cannot help but conclude that the
organization pursues corrupt illegal agendas, and that the
majority of its members have little say in what the ABA
leadership does. Only a blind person would not see that
the ABA is at the forefront of the defense of corruption
and unaccountability in the legal system, and more
sophisticated people must realize that it is a most
indispensable element of the system of corruption within
the legal system. Wherever there exists a legal system
as corrupt as ours, chances are there is an equivalent
of the ABA there.
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Circulated to the Internet July 16, 2005. Dr. Jacob Roginsky is president of A Matter of Justice (http://www.amatterofjustice.org) and can be reached at president@amatterofjustice.org. The statements and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Dr. Bernofsky.
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