10-08-14 pétition lancée, appelant l'ONU à émission honnête et efficace Rapport sur le système de justice des États-Unis, droits de l'homme aux États-Unis

10-08-14 Petition Launched, Calling the UN to Issue Honest and Effectual Report on the US Justice System, Human Rights in the United States

Los Angeles, August 14 – Human Rights Alert (NGO) launched an online petition, calling upon the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) to engage in a thorough review of the justice system in the United States as part of the first ever - November 2010 -  UPR (Universal Periodic Review) of Human Rights in the United States,  The petition further called upon the UN to issue in November 2010 an honest and effectual UPR Report, asking the United States to take effective measures to restore integrity of its judiciary and its justice system.

The petition stated that conditions now prevailing in the United States amounted to large-scale abuse of the people by the government of the United States. Moreover, such conditions posed risks that were difficult to assess to world peace and welfare.  

The petition cited conditions, which were documented in both state and United States courts, be it civil, criminal, bankruptcy, or family courts, and which were documented in reports filed by stakeholders as part of the UPR process, providing evidence of widespread corruption of the justice system in the United States: 

·        Executions continue, at times, as the outcome of judicial conduct that would be deemed unreasonable by any reasonable person.

·        Torture was allowed to become part of government conduct, and confessions extracted through torture were admitted in courts.

·        With privatized, for profit prisons, the United States holds a prisoner population that is entirely out of proportion with any other developed, democratic nation; Minorities are imprisoned in vastly disproportionate numbers.

·        Large-scale false imprisonment of juvenile was exposed in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, as part of the Kids for Cash scandal, and is yet to be fully corrected; Large-scale false imprisonments were exposed in Los Angeles County, California, as part of the Rampart scandal a decade ago, which the US government is refusing to correct.

·        Regardless of United States government promises, detentions in Guantanamo Bay were never brought to an end; Proceedings, which such detainees were subjected to, violate international conventions.

·        Attorneys, who represented clients in civil rights matters, or in causes that were not favored by government or by judges, suffered harsh retaliation, or even imprisonment.

·        Whistleblowers were routinely subjected to harsh retaliations, while the perpetrators - be it government officials, large corporations, or others, suffered no consequence at all.

·        Racketeering by judges in the United States was and is prosecuted in some courts, but in other cases, even when exposed with indisputable evidence, the United States government refused to take action.

·        Large banks and financial institutions colluded with judges in looting of homeowners across the United States under the current financial crisis; Even when fraud in the courts by financial institutions and law-firms was exposed and acknowledged by the Courts, such financial institutions and law-firms suffered no consequences at all.

·        Credible evidence was provided of racketeering by judges, attorneys, and/or judicial officers in receiverships and conservatorships.

·        Judges, all the way from state courts to the Supreme Court of the United States, introduced the practice of issuing rulings, orders, and judgments, that were not signed by judges and/or were not authenticated/attested by the clerks; Such rulings, orders, and judgments could not possibly be deemed valid court records; They were enforced nevertheless.

·        Computerized case management and online public access systems were installed in the US and state courts, which effectively denied public access to true and honest court records  - to inspect and to copy; Such systems effectively concealed what the courts deem effectual signatures and stamps that were required to set such records honest, valid, and effectual court records.

The petition called upon the UN to engage in such review of the justice system of the US, if not for the sake of the safeguard of the Human Rights of the people of the United States, then out of concern with dysfunctional banking regulation in the United States. The petition claimed that there was no way to establish honest and effectual banking and corporate regulation under current conditions at the United States courts today.  Reckless conduct by United States banks inflicted harm on workers and investors worldwide. Therefore, an integrity crisis was at the foundation of the current economic depression, and economic conditions were not likely to improve unless integrity of government was restored.

LINKS:

Please Sign The Petition:

Calling Upon the UN Human Rights Council to Issue an Honest and Effectual 2010 Report on the US Justice System and Human Rights in the United States

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/calling-upon-the-un-human-rights-council-to-issue-an-honest-and-effectual-2010-report-on-the-us/

WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?

*     "Innocent people remain in prison"*     "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/

*   "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit." 
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001) 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/

*   "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."     
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001) 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/274339