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LEGAL ABUSE SYNDROME
Where do the estimated thousands of victims of the judicial system turn to? Author Karen Huffer M.S., M.F.T., warned in her book "Legal Abuse Syndrome" about the victimization going on in the judicial system and the evolutionary consequences of this abuse. Perhaps it would not be possible to describe the victims of the judicial system better than Karen has done in her book;
If you are deeply disillusioned and feeling oppressed resulting from experience with our justice system, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If you've reported a crime and found that you were punished instead of the criminal, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If you've been a litigant in court and justice was not to be obtained at any price, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If you feel the system will defeat you at every turn and there is nothing you can do about it, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If you feel that you have been victimized twice, once by a perpetrator and then by your protective system, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If you fantasize about an act of vigilante vengeance because it seems like the only recourse, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If creativity and dreams have been left in the past because their development was ripped from you and torn to shreds by your judicial system, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If you feel numb, disconnected and vulnerable, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
If you feel that you are a decent and honorable taxpayer who's been subjected to "cruel and unusual punishment" by lawyers, judges, and officers of the court, you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
LEGAL ABUSE SYNDROME, Beyond Rage, Karin Huffer M.S., M.F.T.
Email - legalabuse@adelphia.net
Phone - 702-528-9588.
WARNING: Protracted litigation can be hazardous to your health. Legal abuses are invisible to the average citizen, are found readily in Legal Abuse Syndrome victims' assaults and lance the heart of a healthy society. Justice substantially validates the worth of the citizen and reaffirms his positive social identity. More and more, crime is being recognized as a major health problem. In a climate where it is predicted that every citizen will be a victim of violent or nonviolent crime at some point in his life, the future will be teeming with psycholegal issues.
Four attitudes need to be adopted by the community of American citizens to insure healing from Legal Abuse Syndrome.
Abuse of Power
Oppression and abuse of power are injurious to the health of victims. Domination by abusers of bureaucratic power threatens the very functionality of the public and private sectors in our country. (Beguai).
Victims and Volunteers
Victims are not self-interested, narcissistic folks who sit around and wallow in their losses. They are courageous individuals who face their pain and care to right the wrongs. They participate in the collision of evil and good as it is classically intended in order to achieve balance. Denial is popular, but far less responsible.
Lying Judges, Prosecutors and Public Officials
Trust is a social staple that must be protected just as earth and water be protected to provide for survival. When trust is damaged, the community suffers and society as a whole will eventually falter and collapse (Bok).
Veterans of crime must exude zero tolerance for lying in courtrooms, lying in political campaigns, lying to cover-up, and deceptions through omittance and non performance by public officials and public servants.
Oath of Office
An oath is a person's word to faithfully serve. United States Code, Title 18 Sec. 1621 states: Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury and shall be fined no more than $2,000.00 or imprisoned not more than five years or both.
Oaths add that touch of personal responsibility that requires a public promise to execute a job according to the law and in good faith. Each case of Legal Abuse Syndrome is a result of a violation of sworn duty. Oaths are usually required to be taken and then are kept on file. They seem to have become a forgotten formality in the course of public service.
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