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Status of Case as of March 30, 2007

Ignorance Is Bliss

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit - and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
(Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged)

You have never seen a bigger pain in the ass than the father who wants to get involved; he can be repulsive. He wants to meet the kid at three o'clock, take the kid out to dinner during the week, have the kid on his own birthday, talk to the kid on the phone every evening, go to every open school night, take the kid away for a whole weekend so they can be alone together. This type of father is pathological.
(Judge Richard Hunter (former Chief Judge of the King's County (Brooklyn) Family Court))

I quit when the court of appeals reversed my ruling. The purpose for which I had chosen my work, was my resolve to be a guardian of justice. But the laws they asked me to enforce made me the executor of the vilest injustice conceivable. I was asked to use force to violate the rights of disarmed men, who came before me to seek my protection for their rights. Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept. Now I saw that one man was bound by it, but the other was not, one was to obey a rule, the other was to assert an arbitrary wish - his need - and the law was to stand on the side of the wish. Justice was to consist of upholding the unjustifiable. I quit - because I could not have borne to hear the words 'Your Honor' address to me by an honest man.
(Judge Narragansett, Atlas Shrugged)


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Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down

Dearest Samantha,

"The [Illinois] Supreme Court today DENIED the petition for leave to appeal in the above entitled cause.”

Short, to the point, and ignoring every word I’ve said: that’s the letter I received today. A mere 3 months after my request. (What does it mean daddy?) It means, sunshine, that there can no longer be any doubt that all Illinois judges, including and especially the most senior ones (i.e., Robert R. Thomas, Charles E. Freeman, Thomas R. Fitzgerald, Thomas L. Kilbride, Rita B. Garman, Lloyd A. Karmeier, and Anne M. Burke), are 100% intent on destroying your father’s love for you and your love for me. They don’t want me to see you… they don’t want me to make decisions about your life… just as they ignore me, they want me to ignore that you exist and, if I won’t, they will keep you from me. (Promise you won’t ignore me daddy? I like being with you.) I promise baby. But I hope that, though people with guns are keeping you from me and me from you, you won’t ever think I’m ignoring you. Though I expected them to do exactly what they did, it still knocked the wind out of me today, I must tell you sweetheart. (Do you remember when that happened to me with a basketball daddy? I cried for a long time.) Yes pumpkin, I do remember. Guess what? I just cried too, for, I now am but a mere one step from the end of my legal fight. I have gotten nowhere fast and am facing the final firing squad – the U.S. Supreme Court.

While the government and, specifically the courts and attorneys, are having their good times destroying my freedoms, my savings, and my life, I constantly am asking myself what I should be doing that I’m not already. Silence. (Want me to make some noise daddy? I’m a very good screamer.) I love hearing your voice munchkin, but I’m feeling too weak right now to hear your screams. Besides, I’m doing enough screaming on my own right now. (You are? I don’t hear anything daddy.) No, beautiful, you won’t – all of my screaming I keep inside of me. I wouldn’t want it to hurt you. (Besides, as another terrible judge, Veronica B. Mathein, ordered, I’m not allowed to mention a word of it to you anyway.) I offer myself no viable answers for what else is to be done because all of the ideas have been tried throughout history; yet, I still am where I am – sinking so deep into the abyss that light can no longer reach me. Darkness. Directionless. Trapped. Like a dead body in a coffin. I do know this: there is no “silver bullet.” There are only the bullets that those seven terrible, terrible judges are shooting at us.

I have no guilt about the decisions I’ve made in life and won’t live with regrets. But, I must confess to you, my dearest, that it is hard to wake-up in the morning when you live without happiness. One day, I might be able to be happy again. But, please always remember, I loved you with everything I had and everything I am – it was a mere seven terrible people that wouldn’t let my love reach you. If my love wasn’t strong enough to prevent the destruction from those who seek to keep me from you, blame it on me – not your mom, even though she asked them to do this. It is solely my fault for not being strong enough to withstand their attack.

(Sigh.) I guess the Beatles were wrong – love isn’t all you need.

Love always,

Daddy

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