A cesspool of Judicial Corruption

THIRTY-FOUR are the cowards the ones quick to judge?

I received a letter in June of 2007 from another federal inmate and then sent him the following letter:

Daily, we learn about how so many more Americans are losing their freedoms. Over seven million Americans are either in prisons, jails, or they are on parole or under the control of the System and over two million behind bars. Each year 10 million people are arrested. I suspect that 40 percent or more are either innocent or over-punished for violations of the 60 million laws of this Nation.

As you may know, it cost David and us over $3,000,000 [now over $4,000,000] to fight the criminal conspiracy perpetrated by IRS, FDA and Justice Department with the help of a black-robed prosecutor (Ninth Circuit Court Judge Richard C. Tallman). They pulled every string to achieve their goal–not to get the truth, but to convict [David] at any cost. Fortunately, Dave was acquitted of/or the charges dropped of all but the testimony of one forger, perjurer and despicable liar, Elven Joseph Swisher. Now he has been exposed, but the government is hesitant or may never willingly prosecute him [However, after we involved the right powers, they finally acted].

Your story smacks of the same sick disregard for law and order by the untouchable villains within government. Amoral judges and politicians without backbone or integrity protect rogue government agents and their informers.

However, I admonish you–as I did my son, David–to treat the guards with respect. They, in fact, aren’t responsible. They merely carry out the dictates of their superiors who mostly recruit from the ex-military who just want to earn a living. My job is to expose those who don’t treat you with respect and dignity.

About four months before they arrested David, one reader of the Lewiston Tribune (in the "Opinion Letters" on December 11, 2002) wrote about David saying:
Here is another thought on the David Hinkson issue. Along with these alleged charges, he is quite a person. I would like to see Adam Wilson do an article on the other side of the guy. There is so much that should be said. Also, I think it would be interesting.

Our company contracted some work for him and found him to be honest in his dealings. That alone says a lot. During the course of our work we had a very enlightening experience of seeing his Water Oz plant, also his equipment, shop and the building on U.S. Highway 95. [It] is most amazing.

As a major employer in the area, he could eventually rival the Grangeville hospital or Forest Service in contributing to our economy and well-being. I would rather hope all works out for the man [and] his employees, and we need him. J. Carroll Atkinson, Grangeville [Idaho]."

The Lewiston Tribune published this only because of its policy to publish letters to the editor [which they sometimes refuse]. However, governmental abuse applies not only to ordinary citizens, but also to any in government who blow the whistle on in-house corruption. Consider the case of a Congressman who dared to speak out.

THIRTY-FIVE idaho congressman george hansen– chained and thrown into prison

What has happened during the intervening years with our "system of justice?" We watch, with dismay, the transformation of our system of justice. All the truthful lawyers with whom I've conferred admit to me that our legal system is "broken." Our rights as Americans are disappearing while we sleep.

The Idaho Observer published a story of "crime, abuse and tyranny" by the Federal Government–It is the story of Former Congressman George V. Hansen. I had the good fortune to visit with Mr. Hansen after his ordeal. But the story was an almost unbelievable.

While I was visiting with David near Grangeville, Idaho, one of David's female employees told me that she had been Congressman Hansen's secretary. The story she and others told sounded too implausible; there must be a mistake of sorts; something was missing in the story, I thought.

I looked up the name "George Hansen" on the Internet and found four listings by that name. David walked into the room where I was searching on his computer, so I told him my plight–"How can I reach Mr. Hansen?" I needed to talk directly to the Congressman in order to satisfy my demand for authentication of reliability.

David knew him, put me in contact with a friend of his, Bill Call, of Pocatello, Idaho. Bill contacted Congressman Hansen, arranged a breakfast meeting, and we met and talked. I came directly to the point asking Hansen for verification of what I had heard. He clarified some misconceptions then shocked me and Faye with the intimate reality of what he endured.

Even President Reagan and Attorney General Ed Meese were not able to help George. This was the turning point in my comprehension of justice in America.

Don Harkins (now deceased), publisher of The Idaho Observer, and Edward Snook, of The Oregon Observer, covered the story as follows:

After four years of imprisonment, after ten years of persecution, after being ruined professionally and financially and after being permanently damaged physically, in December, 1995, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Hansen’s sentence for bank fraud because the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled (May 15, 1995) that Hansen’s previous conviction as a member of Congress had been overturned.

[They handed him] a prison term which describes the most inhumane, degrading and painful of punishment, [that is] normally reserved for the most violent and uncontrollable of prisoners.

A prisoner is shackled at the feet and handcuffed at the wrists, reinforced with a box-like structure which stiffens the chains and locks the wrists at a 90-degree angle. The handcuffs are connected to a waist chain that is connected to another chain which connects the shackles. Once this shackling is complete, a prisoner can barely move. The tightened manacles pinch the nerves and restrict the flow of blood causing severe pain and swelling. Legs swelling with blood are particularly damaging to the feet, as toenails under pressure from blood-blisters press up against shoes for long periods of time and soon become infected and deformed, causing such excruciating pain that they require surgery or the pulling of the nails out by the roots.

Diesel therapy gets its name–not from the "cruel and unusual" bondage. But [it gets its name] from being forced into a bus and on plane after plane, shackled as described, and being shuttled from one prison to another, for weeks on end, 20 hours per day in chains, for no other reason than to cause pain and suffering and give the prisoner a "message."

Welcome to diesel therapy and the world of seven-term Congressman George Hansen. He was found guilty in the court-room of the infamous Federal Judge Edward Lodge on bogus charges of bank fraud which were manipulated into an issue by the Idaho Department of Finance which illegally used the same agents previously employed by the IRS in their failed attempt to get Hansen.

. . . After Ed Snook of The Oregon Observer and I met with Hansen and he told me in a six-hour meeting what had happened to him, I was more shaken than I have ever been in my life. . . . What could an esteemed member of the U.S. Congress have done to deserve such treatment?

A series of events were triggered to allow crimes to be manufactured which led to the imprisonment and torture of Congressman George Hansen. Idaho District Federal Judge Edward Lodge, who has been used by bankers and government officials for a decade to "legalize" their unethical and criminal activities, was given the job of putting Hansen away and seeing to it that he learned a lesson.

Judge Lodge saw to it that Hansen received "diesel therapy" coming and going to prison from the judge’s court at great cost to the government, even though Hansen should have been allowed to make such trips at his own expense.

On the way from his hometown of Pocatello to federal prison in Petersberg, Vergina, Hansen was bussed and flown, nearly immovably shackled, at taxpayer expense, to jails all over the country. Not Hansen’s lawyer, his wife, nor his allies in Congress were able to locate him. Hansen had simply disappeared for a month into the custody of the Federal Marshal’s Service. Hansen’s wife didn’t know whether he was dead or alive. And even when the Supreme Court overturned Hansen’s original case and the Appeals Court vacated his current sentence, Hansen still got the Judge Lodge treatment of another dose of diesel therapy from Virginia back to Idaho. What had Hansen, who was a model prisoner, done to deserve the most brutal, torturous and barbaric type of treatment this country’s penal system is capable of inflicting on a prisoner?

Retired Congressman Tom Kindness (R-Ohio) stated, "I believe that George’s recent trial and conviction on charges of 'bank fraud' was the direct result of a campaign by various members of the bureaucracy to stop the CAP. CAP (the Congressional Accountability Project) was being launched by Hansen and a group of investors interested in good government. CAP was going to utilize nation-wide television and a national 900 number to make congress persons instantaneously accountable to the American people for their votes on the House and Senate floors."

"This was a project which would, in my opinion, have had a major impact on the votes of congressmen since it would have made them instantaneously responsible to the people by making their votes known immediately after being cast," commented journalist John Voss.

Hansen and his associates were on the verge of making CAP fully operational and accessible to the American public when the government, through the Idaho Department of Finance with the illegal help of former IRS agents, a revenge-minded Justice Department and the corrupt Judge Lodge, manufactured bank fraud charges against him.

Judge Lodge’s provably compromised court ultimately found Hansen guilty and prescribed diesel therapy to teach him a lesson. Why did the "Honorable" Judge Lodge treat Hansen like Public Enemy #1?
George Hansen was the only member of Congress able to pull the strings necessary to visit the hostages in Iran in 1979 and expose the big-bank scam behind the crises.

George Hansen was the author of the book To Harass Our People, an indictment of the IRS, where he demanded its dismantling. George Hansen was the congressman who was so outraged by what he discovered about the IRS while researching his book that he wrote and helped to pass the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights. George Hansen was the first man to propose the flat tax as a damage control alternative to protect the people from IRS abuses. George Hansen was the man who took on OSHA, WPPSS, and the INS, and George Hansen was the man who fearlessly and repeatedly made public his findings when investigations turned up government corruption and citizen abuse.

The "system" decided it had to teach Congressman Hansen a lesson because had he been allowed to continue serving on Capitol Hill, he would soon likely be the chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee. So why did Judge Lodge, whose personal reasons for needing to keep the well-documented criminal nature of the banking industry below public scrutiny, with the help of the Idaho Department of Finance, trump up a bank fraud conviction? (They did it) by denying the admission of exonerating evidence in court in order to throw Hansen in prison and make sure that he was punished severely with diesel therapy?

Was it because Congressman Hansen was getting close to the truth and accumulating the political power it would take to finally and totally expose the banking industry and government for its criminal abuses of the American people?

Judge Lodge’s Court of Kangaroos. CAP was apparently the final straw and the abusive criminal government had to shut Hansen down. On the eve of CAP becoming fully operational, powerful special interests and political enemies derailed the project and forced a domino effect of financial repercussions upon Hansen and his associates. The government then took the situation it had created and indicted, prosecuted and convicted Hansen of bank fraud. Though the treachery of Judge Lodge and government disdain, the patriotic financial sacrifices made by Hansen’s supporters for good government . . . did not prevent Hansen from publicly pledging that these law breaking government bullies could ever seal his lips, nor stop him from somehow paying back the people he owed and thereby keep his word.

Every attorney who has read the court transcripts is concerned and confounded as to how George could have been convicted on bank fraud charges when the supervising bank officers were not only acutely aware of his financial operation and transactions, but were actively assisting him in his efforts for over ten years!

George defrauded no one and we can prove it," stated Congressman Kindness. Hansen was not really imprisoned and tortured by our government for bank fraud. Although that was the government’s excuse to lock him up and shut him down. Hansen was actually a political prisoner who was guilty of attempting to provide the American people with the ammunition of knowledge so they could successfully fight back against the senseless encroachment of government oppression which more and more is ruining the lives of all of us. . . .

While in Iran, Hansen saw firsthand what happens to political prisoners, who were beaten mercilessly, who had finger and toe nails ripped out by the roots and who had been shackled until they were permanently disabled physically. Hansen has also experienced firsthand the same inhumane torture, and it happened to him in the most "civilized" nation on earth the only difference being that Hansen was denied treatment and pain-killers and had to rip his own deformed and infected toenails out.

With renewed vigor, Hansen is back and is calling on all concerned Americans, including members of Congress and other elected officials, to join him in the fight to restore accountability and decency to our stricken Nation.
Has our government repented and stopped such tactics? Let's look at what has happened in the intervening years.