OCCUPY WALL
STREET SUPPORTER HUNGER STRIKES FOR JUSTICE
The rules that govern the procedures which must be followed in federal court when someone brings a civil case have allowed groups of complainants whose Constitutional rights had been violated by a single entity to come together in one lawsuit in one class. That rule is known as Rule 23 of the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (F.R.C.P. 23). The class would then bring that violator into court to answer to a judge or a jury as to why it violated the Constitutional rights of that class of individuals. That's an efficient and just American rule, don't you agree? It made it so that the court system would not be clogged up with multiple lawsuits against the same entity answering the same question every time. And it gave to all those people who had had their Constitutionally protected rights violated -- their day in court.
Great rule! The same one that was used by Betty Dukes when her lawsuit was filed against Wal-Mart in 1998. Now, 13 years later, the United States Supreme Court completely turned the rule on its head and in a 42 page tears-producing, nonsensical opinion, interpreted the rule to disallow groups from coming together in a class because differences exist between them in their claims. If that's a correct interpretation of the rule, then there could never be a class because there will always be dissimilarities or differences between individual complainants in their claims. Surely that is common sense.
This Supreme Court decision has completely dashed the Constitutional rights of human beings against the rocks in favor of the corporation. When a corrupt decision like this one comes down from the U.S. Supreme Court, to whom do the American people go for redress? Nine lifetime appointed, smug millionaires with interests in Wal-Mart, no doubt, cannot fairly decide in favor of the human being over their own greedy self-interests. Where are the alternate Justices so that recusal can be had in cases like this one and still retain a full court to review a case?
When the rules concerning the makeup of the Supreme Court were drafted, the corporation was not what it is today. The drafters could never have conceived of the kind of power wielded by today's corporation. They could never have conceived of the power of the greed that has infected and corrupted our most Honorable professions. They were coming from a truly different time and state of mind. America has changed and it is time for judicial reform in America. It is time for a Constitutional Amendment to more accurately address the psychological and philosophical changes which have occurred in our society. Back then, our Constitution's drafters believed in God. Today's leaders in America worship the Almighty Dollar.
I demand my day in court! But no lawyer will take my case because I am poor. I demand the protection of my Constitutional rights against that evil man-made god named Wal-Mart. But no lawyer will take my case for I am poor. Until I am afforded these rights as guaranteed to me by the United States Constitution, I am on a HUNGER STRIKE! After my death, my family will have a Wrongful Death action against the United States of America and Wal-Mart. Yeah, I know. My family are just poor, black folks. Hopefully, however, there will be some conscientious and fearless attorney out there who will take their case. Or better yet, the Occupy Wall Street Movement will bring about those changes in our country that will cause some justice to come through for my family and the countless other human beings who have suffered at the hand of the corporation.
