The American Coward

First let us qualify the title of this page, "The American Coward". This page focuses on the character of the American people, how they help those preyed upon by an out of control system that they sponsor. Lets define what we are talking about:

• Coward  a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.; a timid or easily intimidated person.
• Bully  a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.

On this page I identify professionals that abuse their services, their bosses that ignore the failure and a general cover-up of allegedly illegal activity, I call this professional cowardice. Then there are a people who will go to bat to protect criminals that were abused in the act but avoid supporting cases where there is reasonable doubt, when claims of innocence are made they respond as programmed with "that is what they all say" followed by "sure you are". When asked to "prove one guilty" they get mad. These people I call cowards, ignoring requests for "due process" and "innocent till proven guilty" with anger, as an American this angers me.

Our experiences can identify a trend to "bully" those that may have a case, when their programmed response of "that is what they all say" followed by "sure you are" are questioned threats are made, is this "rule of law"?

Letters are probes for expected results, experiments. The author expects certain results from an activity if the hypothesis is correct. What our collection of experiences represent is two decades of "experiments" starting with my girlfriends divorce, what were the roles of the participants? what were the responses? what were the results? were the results expected in the context of their role? what social process was supposed to ensure that the roles fulfilled their function? In context to the societies claims are these services supposed to apply only to certain demographics, ethnicity, gender or economic class?

Our two decade social experiment was not intentional, it turned out to be an exercise that does identify a gamut of issues in an environment that is supposed to be proactive in supporting the needs of the community. Over these two decades I have probed with letters several groups and had less than satisfactory results for the roles that they were supposed to represent.
The following can identify the reason for the failing:

• The individual [me, Jowey Styxx] did not effectively communicate the issues - not a good reason for a negative or no response from an allegedly responsible society and its institutions whose mission claims are to ensure that functional services are provided to all citizens of a community. This includes those citizens such as Jowey Styxx who may be stupid and cannot communicate effectively. Jowey Styxx claims that a failure to communicate lies with the alleged professionals.
• Negligence, those executing the process are too lazy to do it competently, a good niche to fleece easy marks with minimal work. Added to it the rat race of bureaucratic paperwork that results in the loss of focus on the strategy and assets of the game.
• Intentional fraud, deceiving the public into believing that a solution is available if they follow a certain process. Then obfuscating the process with such things as not retaining grievance metrics, ignoring complaints and passing the buck. A perfect niche for fraud because the victim is never heard and addressing such issues is excused by the professions responsible.

There are four identified groups that supposedly service the community:

• The American people - a society that claims such things as "freedom", "rule of law" and ideals such as "Integrity"....
• A business performing a service for clients.
• Government services that are supposed to protect the citizens.
• Press referred to also as the Fourth Estate allegedly purveyors of information to the population. Hitler and Bush used the Press as instruments "for mass instruction" and control. What amazed me was censorship being applied at the local level to items that fell far below issues of "National Security". Over the decades it appeared to us that the press was a tool of corrupt politicians at all levels of our democracy, avoiding the discussion of civil issues and responsibilities of the American society in the local community.

America a country of cowards

• Population - that encompasses all the groups that we have issue with. Are all Americans cowards, I do not think so - but, they do claim to adhere to "rule of law" at the same time giving the key of the city to sociopaths. The phrase "Innocent till proven guilty" is professed but if one claims that they are "innocent" the response they get is "sure you are". Where is the courage to actually try someone based on the evidence, to stand up when those under their authority overstep their bounds. The practices that we have observed, faced and experienced are those of a coward, a bully, a thug, of an implementation I would expect in the third world.
  • How do the enlightened "Americans" that attack those that claim innocence, know that these people are not innocent, do they research a incident ? - No...
  • How do they know that the individual professing to be innocent was not framed by a corrupt police officer ?
  • Do these sheep believe the biased propaganda provided by the profession ?
  • How do these enlightened individuals know that there is not a cover up ?
  Now I have been told that not all "Americans" are bad, in fact we get this from all the populations confronted. They claim that we were unlucky and experienced a "few bad apples". So what are all the "good apples" doing about the "bad apples" ? I believe that they are covering for the "bad apples" making the "good apples" complicit in the abuse/failure.
• Results/Observations - This country is doing nothing about the "bad apples", if there was concern about their "bad apples" our issues would have been addressed a long time before this site was created. If the people were truly concerned with a functioning society we would not be undergoing an economic crisis, have war criminals and profiteers walking the streets. At the same time persecuting people based on ethnic, religious, gender orientation or those that just made a mistake. Just imagine if there were really professionals executing their positions diligently, corporate executives that are really responsible for a company thriving, diligent attorneys that actually uphold the law. Instead we have scammers processing "marks", desperate people, harvesting the victims. A functioning society still requires effective oversight to address the allegedly "few bad apples" that are in all populations. But Americans keep giving their sociopathic buddies breaks, ignoring and justifying crimes as long as they are profitable. An example is President Obama protecting President Bush/administration from being tried for "war crimes" (I hope that I am wrong about this) and the minor punishments of the predatory corporate executives who scammed billions from the American people.
  Consider the consequences of these social failures. To survive our experiences we associated and did things that we would not have normally done, alliances made. The concept of "the enemy of my enemy is my ally today" identifies our situation, one does what is necessary to survive in a dishonorable society. I can only wonder at the numbers of others that have had to make similar choices. If one survives their experiences the mistakes and associations that were made are used to demonize the survivors, victimizing them a second time around. Rather than addressing the issues of addressing events like we have experienced this society turns its back on the individual. Then the population whines and cowers about the consequences of their avoidance, dishonor - when someone is rude to them, when they are stolen from or assaulted, there is no respect for the dishonorable. The failure to function is not ensuring a secure society, the claim of National Security is just an excuse to generate fear and control people, which actually accomplishes the opposite.
• References/Experiences - Just read the newspapers and consider that this site gets a few responses like "aw shucks", your experiences are "sad" and an admission that our judicial system is dysfunctional and in disrepair. But what is being done about fixing it? The American collapse did not happen overnight, we observed the trends leading up to the events of this year through our experiences of the last two decades.
  
  Consider a dictatorship where the rulers edicts are dismissed or ignored. In this Democracy we have experienced the mixing of church and state in the courtroom in the 90's to cops framing me. Then there is the avoidance by those who allegedly oversee these systems, notably the Virginia State Bar and the Manassas Police Chief. These activities are supposedly inappropriate and illegal in a free society that claims "rule of law". We petitioned the Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine with our issues, his response was that ours was a "local matter". Imagine a true ruler being told that a province was dismissing their edicts - I am sure that it would not be a "local matter". It is true we are not a totalitarian society, we are a dysfunctional one.
  
  There have been experiments such as The Miligram Experiment which was an experiment whose lessons can be applied to societies. We also have historical examples - I am sure that there were some "good apples" at Auschwitz  officer scrapbook -- 'the banality of evil'.
  
  We have individuals and groups attempting change and willing to address the social causes specific to us the justice one. Maybe they will be successful and achieve some change in the future - will these initiatives help the current victims? Until a client has leverage over their representative there will be little change, failures will be covered up by blaming the client and the client will be silenced.
  
  We have the drops in the bucket, those that fall from the failures of this society. For example here is one guy that is upset that he cannot obtain the records of his fathers last days, his site is called What's Your Life Worth, the only reason for not providing information, evidence is cover up of medical or procedural failures. Is avoidance and cover up helping this society or tearing it apart, it is not helping this individual, how many others is it NOT helping? I can say that there are two more that have been damaged by our dysfunctional system. Add those that are losing everything in the current economic crisis, how many drops in the bucket.
  
  Consider if the courts, this society did its job. The abusers would be punished and have to pay the consequences, who would they be paying? the damaged citizens in the community. The abusers would alter their activities to mitigate future risk, improve their service. If the issue was substantial the abusers would no longer be allowed to execute the service or provide the product - a negligent corporation destroyed, an individual fired. The damaged party could go on to be a productive citizen, spending money collected in community activities. We have had courts and attorneys protecting the elite from legal action and the abusers became fat and bloated.
  
  Still the attorneys feed off the carcasses of the desperate, the professional blaming the client for the loss. Without leverage the client will continue to be dismissed, there is no incentive for the attorney to be diligent. The "tool" represented by the courts will continue to be dysfunctional and the people will be fed into the cogs of the system.

Politicians

• Mission - elected represent the citizen.
• Results/Observations - Two politician's responded to my letters, one was our representative who just referred us back to the attorneys which we were having problems with. The second one was Governor Tim Kaine who responded that ours was a "local issue". I was thinking here was a leader being told that subordinate regions were not adhering to established edicts, specifically "law enforcement" and members of the Virginia State Bar an agency of the Virginia Supreme Court. The response is that this is a "local matter"....
• Future - All the civil rights political wins will be meaningless unless the client has leverage over their attorney. Without such leverage the attorney will bow to personal and political convenience, the judges/courts will continue to "interpret" the law in a prejudicial manner without being contested. The victim of the abusive process will continue to be ignored, it is the classic "divide and conquer" - the slaves were allegedly given citizen status in the 1860's yet they were not given the protection of citizenship because of the courts "interpretations" of the law.
• References/Experiences - Governor Tim Kaine's response, Ms. Leslie Byrne.

Virginia State Bar

• Mission - Supreme Court that claims responsibility for its members who are supposed to represent clients.
• Results/Observations - Does not ensure that their members provide their service to society in a competent manner. It just ensures that its members can pass the test but does nothing to ensure that they execute their profession with integrity. The loss of diligence appears to have occurred in 2000 with a change of ethical policy. I had expected a professional institution that would protect its members and the population that they serviced.
• References/Experiences - Prolog, The 2000 change, Code of Professional Responsibility to avoiding "strategy" with Professional Guidelines and Rules of Professional Conduct

Attorneys

• Mission - In Virginia all attorneys are members of the Virginia State Bar an agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Professionals that are supposed to represent their employers, clients. With ten our experiences identify that there is no oversight, that this profession preys on desperate marks.
• Results/Observations - A performance business without documented grievances, regulation or oversight. There is no incentive to perform, no incentive to provide quality representation. Customer grievances are silenced. One observed behavior used in discussions with their clients to avoid diligence is to use the "business" excuse, that to research something would be cost prohibitive. We found that if the attorney is motivated by bias or crusade they will become an "officer of the court" or "friend of the court" to execute the persecution or justify avoiding an issue. This is especially interesting when the opposing counsel is observed using a tactic and one tries to get their own attorney to execute a similar tactic using available materials - they will reply as an "officer of the court" that is unethical....
• References/Experiences - (Mr. Alveine G. Halago & Mr. Mason   Mr. A. Strode Brent   Ms. Judy A. Dugger)
  Mr. J. Michael Sharman  This was my girlfriends husband's attorney, we question his integrity, he brought religion into the courtroom with rhetoric similar to that of the Bush administration, the fear and prayer preached by the administration echoed this attorney in court.
  Mr. Thomas E. Burks  An attorney that stole from their clients, one would expect that the oversight institution that claimed to protect the citizens would actually perform this service.
  (Mr. Raymond D. Kline   Mr. Donald R. Daugherty)   Mr. Thomas R. Breeden and Mr. Douglas E. Mataconis

Law Enforcement

• Virginia Police (Fairfax / City of Manassas)
  • Mission - Protect and Serve ?
  • Results/Observations - What we have found is that the current implementation of "law enforcement" is an effective deterrent to law abiding citizens. It is NOT an effective deterrent against individuals that disregard the "rule of law". In our history we have been stalked, threatened, vandalized harassed, my girlfriend assaulted and raped. We have called the police for a lot of the incidents, they showed up long after the event and then were dismissive. After several events they, the professional, asked what we wanted them to do about it - they did not identify what they could do. I was thinking that they could follow up visit the aggressor and at least identify that there was a consequence to their actions. In several cases I knew that the perpetrators had an illegal lifestyle, if the cops had gone to their place they would have found drunk, with drugs and a child in their presence.
    
    A notable incident that I observed was after my girlfriends husband had assaulted her in our community, a neighbor had broken it up. I came home to see several cops around my girlfriend, I watched them, they were dismissive, "oh it was the husband" <wink>. I had talked to our neighbor and found out that his cousin had scared the husband off with a tire iron. So I approached the cops and my girlfriend, wrong move. These observant "law enforcement" officers became fixated on me, I had been at work all day.
    
    After a series of assaults I nearly stepped over the line, one time I saw the stalker in my back yard and I had my rifle, I thought one shot. Then I thought this is America, we have rules here - the police reports, social services and documentation. Two decades later, here we are death threats, vandalism, numerous attacks, court orders, incompetent attorneys - we just outlasted our "enemies"...
    
    Who do you call when in trouble ?  - Has been a response on several occasions to my criticism of "law enforcement". Of course I would call the police to address an incident, they are the only choice we have, unless I took care of it myself and my training is military and outdated. The issue is not in the training it is in the character, judgment and missing oversight over these individuals wearing a uniform. A public example of character and judgment failure is in the Police Raid Berwyn Heights Mayor's Home, Kill His 2 Dogs.
    
    
  • References/Experiences - What happens when one reports police abuse in the City of Manassas?, Prince William County Magistrate and of course that first police assault in Reston, what were they doing in my back yard that night ? Professionals that cannot identify themselves, do not know why they are accosting citizens and have no controls. Then they are stupid enough to wonder why those that know them hate them.
• FBI
  • Mission - Recently I found that the FBI was addressing something called Color of Law Abuses which states the following:
    U.S. law enforcement officers and other officials like judges, prosecutors, and security guards have been given tremendous power by local, state, and federal government agencies-authority they must have to enforce the law and ensure justice in our country. These powers include the authority to detain and arrest suspects, to search and seize property, to bring criminal charges, to make rulings in court, and to use deadly force in certain situations.
    
    Preventing abuse of this authority, however, is equally necessary to the health of our nation's democracy. That's why it's a federal crime for anyone acting under 'color of law' willfully to deprive or conspire to deprive a person of a right protected by the Constitution or U.S. law. 'Color of law' simply means that the person is using authority given to him or her by a local, state, or federal government agency.
  • Results/Observations - I sent an email to the Richmond Virginia Branch office. They responded telling me to contact the Washington D.C. office, so on November 8, 2008 I tried again, today it is March 5, 2009 and there has been no response from the Washington D.C. office. I expected that they would request further details or state that too much time had passed for them to address our concerns. I would have been upset at the latter response because we have been attempting to address our issues since each of the events, that ours is an ongoing conspiracy to conceal criminal activities of law enforcement and attorney fraud concealed by an Agency of the Virginia Supreme Court, the Virginia State Bar.
    
    I also wrote to the Department of Justice - no response from them either.
    
    So why the avoidance? Why behave like the local law enforcement? Is this branch of law enforcement trying to incriminate us, the victims? The failure to respond reminds me of some of the forums when someone commented that I should be shot at a traffic stop by a police officer and especially when I was assaulted by the police in that CVS store and I could not obtain the store video.
    The question's flow:
    • How many others are these alleged "law enforcement" institutions "ignoring", "dismissing" without responding?
    • What does this do to the individual that finds themselves ignored?
    • What would these upset individuals attempt next to have their issues recognized, to be heard?
    • Is the FBI's/Law Enforcement failure to respond keeping the citizen safer?
    • Is the intent to incite violent responses from the disenfranchised which they would use to justify further infringement on our civil rights, that their jobs remain relevant and maintain a level of fear and despair among the population....
  • References/Experiences - No response from an organization that makes the above claim. Assume that I did not communicate effectively or that they are just a facade, a button to push that provides no results.
    Again the failure of the FBI, "law enforcement", to address crimes identifies their role in American society. "Rule of Law" does not apply only the rule of the corporate dictatorship exists - well whatever looking the other way on crimes against the citizens implies in the context of this country and the organizations/"law enforcements" stated mission. Who's law are they enforcing anyway ?

Media, the Press or the Fourth Estate

• Newspapers
  • Mission - Organizations in the business of communications. In America it is claimed to be free and provide a discussion.
  • Results/Observations - I expected some bias from this medium and ignoring the issues. What I did not expect was that when articles were written there was no interest in a follow up, a professional curiosity that might turn into a larger story. It could be that they just are tired of the sob stories, in their profession ignoring an asset could cost a winning story. They go to the trouble of writing a story in the first place they should look behind the curtain. But then I am not a professional writer - no kidding.
  • References/Experiences - Washington Post and Potomac News. Then we had WTOP censoring posts in their comments section of their news.
• Internet Forums
  • Mission - The forums and sites that allegedly allow businesses to be reviewed.
  • Results/Observations - I was amazed when I went to the legal forums and presented our issues my first concern was communicating our issues. I expected professionals who would actually provide solutions, I received rhetoric and name calling. Needless to say I did not try to hire any one of these "professionals". The performance industry that these forums represent depends on strategy and tactics, yet here these individuals identified that they were already losers and would lose for their clients, not solution providers.
  • References/Experiences - Forums, What happens when one attempts to write a negative review of an attorney?
• Internet Site
  • Mission - The creation of my site was intended to communicate two decades of our experiences. Maybe get some aid, donations for a story told as it does represent a cascade of experiences resulting from the failures of professionals whose duties include representing their clients or protecting citizens - quite an investment of experiences.
  • Results/Observations - From the legal forums I was told that I was "writing the Dead Sea Scrolls", another place told me that I was writing a "Manifesto". I have been told that I had "sour grapes" and should be "shot at a traffic stop", with "Law Enforcement's" easy access to my records this is a concern, I do know that they will cover up and lose evidence. No donations, just others asking for money to support their causes - guess we have to do something cute which is not what this site is about.
  • References/Experiences - This Site, an old 2000 News Group and of course the legal forums

Christian Churches

• Mission - Allegedly supposed to interpret and represent the Word of God, the teachings of Christ ? These organizations are supposed to be charitable, to help others, a place of sanctuary.
• Results/Observations - Some in this population will persecute a victim and protect an abuser, willing pawns of false prophets. They do not have a word for forgiveness and fail to adhere to the teachings of Christ. The ones that are not actively persecuting others remain silent on the sidelines, failing to support a victim and more than willing to help the persecutor with their sanctimonious silence - which is worse ? When I approached those in my church, surely they would be understanding. I was told that my girlfriend was a Jezebel, baggage to be discarded - this was a Christian American response from those that I thought I knew, I saw their hypocrisy.
  
  So what did the the alleged Christians that harbored the husband do? are they doing anything to help the children, No. The son told us years later after his suicide attempt, that he had been ignored after his father had won, apparently he acquired medical issues from lack of care. What the Church of God did accomplish was to defended an abusive man that wanted to become a woman. The issue was not the man's choice of gender, it was that a woman did not want to be married to a woman/man who was also abusive. Collusion of Church and State to persecute a woman trying to escape from an abusive relationship.
  
  The Bush administration reminded us of the persecution that we experienced in the 1989-1995 period. This population is more than willing to start Witch Hunts and then avoid responsibility for the consequences. Shame on these hypocrites and false prophets.
• References/Experiences - Church of God  Mr. J. Michael Sharman

Business - PrePaid Legal Service

• PrePaid Legal Service
  • Mission - To refer attorneys.
  • Results/Observations - When I discovered "PrePaid Legal Service" I thought that I would have both the business and legal worlds covered. If an attorney failed to represent, the service failed to provide a competent attorney, I, the client would have leverage. This did not happen, they provided us with the Framme Law Firm which was supposed to identify and refer a local attorney for us. The Framme Law Firm did not do this. Prepaid Legal Service avoided addressing our issues, I would complain and there would be a sales marketing response but still no results. Contacted the Better Business Bureau who later told us to contact the Virginia State Bar. After a year and the Virginia State Bar contacted the Framme Law Firm we were told that they had sent a letter of referral, the date of the alleged letter was weeks after the court date.
  • References/Experiences - Pre-paid Legal Service and Framme Law Firm (March 2006)
• Better Business Bureau
  • Mission - To establish a community of trustworthy businesses.
  • Results/Observations - They will not address attorneys performance or strategy failures, in our case they recommended that we go to the Virginia State Bar. At first they attempted to avoid my complaint, it was not in their purview. I had to explain to them that Prepaid Legal Service was a business that made a claim that their service was to provide their members with an attorney within twenty four hours, that they had several weeks notice and we never were represented for a court date - the service that I had paid for was not provided.
  • References/Experiences - Better Business Bureau for Oklahoma City

I think that Americans are "reaping what they have sown".