Time is either speeding up or I’m beginning to slow down — and that is sort of a lead-in to the fact that I’m falling behind a bit on writing new posts. I’ve got about a half dozen started, but in various stages of completion.

One post in particular was about the superior court judge who presided over my divorce 16 years ago. Well, it began 16 years ago and ended about 15 years, 9 months ago, but I had to face him three more times because that ex of mine didn’t want to pay child support and kept suing me. She never won, though the attorneys did.

But the post was about the judge who I thought was borderline racist, an egotistical dick-head, and obviously played favorites with attorneys. I knew that I was sticking my neck out, but I felt it needed to be heard. He was not honest. I spent a lot of time writing it. Technically speaking, I do not know if he was aware of the concept of blind justice, but he was certainly continue reading…

A Reader’s Question …

Q: How can I prove someone is a psychopath in court?

Generally speaking, you probably can’t. “Psychopath” (or sociopath) typically describes a person who has been diagnosed with one or more personality disorders, such as Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD or ASPD), Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), and others.

Since they are defined illnesses, most courts will only permit an expert in the field to testify, and since it is considered someone’s private medical information, it may not be allowed at all. The most common test is the PCL-R assessment, continue reading…

A sociopath in the White House.

Many sociopaths are admired by a portion of the public. For example, someone in great power: George W. Bush. He took advantage of his power throughout his presidency and lied to everyone in the world.

Bush: “Just a one-finger victory salute.”

Bush’s lies are documented in a vast number of books, and journalistic articles, including some written by those who had once been his most loyal supporters. His own press secretary resigned continue reading…

Synopsis :: The secret to a sociopath’s successful destruction of an innocent person’s good character is due to the abundance of the truly gullible and ignorant.  P.T. Barnum made a good living from them.

Majority Rules … Universally-Accepted Decision Making.

Majority Rules have long been equated to fairness in determining the outcome that would most favor the multitude. On the surface, it would appear flawless in its ability to consistently satisfy those parameters.

But just below the surface, something is flawed. Ideally, individual votes should all be from individual thinkers. Critical thinkers. So if all the voters are truly individual, critical thinkers, each analyzing the candidates thoroughly and determining the best candidate the fill the actual need, then the Majority Rules will perform flawlessly. But that will never happen.

Instead of a country of leaders, we have a country of followers.

The Fact is, we are all headed in the Wrong Direction.

More and more, we are getting by with less individual thinking. How? [that was a pun] By accepting and allowing others to do our thinking for us. continue reading…

By Neal Gabler
October 31, 2009

YOU MAY be wondering how it is that this week the financial industry, which was on taxpayer life support, announced it would be doling out more than $140 billion in bonuses to the very executives who created the mess in the first place. Or how it is that some of these same institutions recently began raising the interest rates on your credit cards to unprecedented levels. Or how it is that there are now reports of new and risky financial skulduggery afoot.

To answer these questions, it may help to consult the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” the handbook for psychologists. The manual describes a broad category called antisocial personality disorder, which includes those whom we commonly describe as sociopaths. According to the manual, this disorder manifests itself, among other ways, in “deceitfulness” as indicated by “conning others for personal profit or pleasure”; “irresponsibility”; and “lack of remorse as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.”

One could easily make the case that Bernie Madoff, R. Allen Stanford, the subprime mortgage pushers, the derivatives dealers, and the rest of the Wall Street gang were all economic sociopaths who were actively hostile to the interests of the American people and wholly devoid of conscience. What they did was not just the result of miscalculation or even greed, but of something much deeper and darker.

Garden-variety sociopaths – say, rapists or serial murderers – are reviled and typically punished. But when economic sociopaths were plundering the country, they were being lionized as bold entrepreneurs, financial buccaneers, even rock stars. In the financial press, they were gods …

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Back in June 2009, an Illinois state prosecutor declared that Senator Roland Burris [D] will not be charged with perjury for less-that-truthful statements he made before an Illinois House impeachment committee.

Well, of course not, he’s a senator. Isn’t that clout enough? [sic]

This next one — a true favorite — I’m stating entirely from memory. I do not recall the details, but the rest will be difficult to ever forget.

Elect to lie.

I believe it was during the summer of 2008, when White House-sitter, George W. Bush [R] was asked (or subpoenaed) to testify before a Senate sub-committee. In his formal reply, Bush agreed to testify as long as he was not required to be under oath. Privileged?!

Ironically, he was honest about intending to be dishonest. Maybe it’s my own naivety, but why do people need to take an oath just to tell the truth?
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Remember, NOTHING gets in the way of a determined sociopath.

Nothing … not even perjury.

How was I to know? For some reason, I was led to believe that determining TRUTH and administering JUSTICE was the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY and goal of our Justice System … the most powerful branch of the Federal government.

Hey! Maybe it was the name “Justice System” that threw me.

But now I know that TRUTH apparently can take a very distant second place. In my case, very questionable legal ethics, and of course money, made it initially appear that I had virtually no chance. That makes them easy to surprise.

I faired much better than my ex-wife’s attorney had expected, as I kept them from winning — even though it was based entirely on lies. In the end, though, the judge made it seem almost a risk for me to continue the case.

Much more on this in its context.

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