By Anna Von Reitz
It amuses me when Bar Association members like Larry
Becraft call me a “Fake Judge”. This is amusing because to make that distinction, they have to know that
I am the only actual "judge" in the room. And they are tacitly admitting it.
Read on. I'll explain what's going on.
And then there are those who look for me in Bar Association
registries and think that because they don't find my name, I can't be genuine.
It’s not that they are
stupid. It’s that they have never been taught anything about
Law. Instead, they’ve been taught how to practice law as if they are waiting
in the wings for their moment to enter the grand stage and do more than
practice.
I pity them. I really do.
They’ve been taught protocol and evidence
requirements and procedure until it runs from their sweat glands.
They’ve been drilled---
endlessly--- about court rules and their importance, dragged through vast tomes
of case law, trained like young bird dogs in the dance and calls of courtroom
drama and the skills of taking depositions and the art of
cross-examination.
At the end of three or four years of nearly constant
living hell, they have been deeply indoctrinated and led to believe that they
are members of a true elite, a cadre of heroes, part of a great and thriving
enterprise, graced with ever-lasting superiority over their fellow-man.
Some of them, a few, have even
gotten the idea of ‘Noblesse oblige” – that they should give back of their
largesse to the less fortunate.
In the real world these few idealists wind up
fighting a losing battle to protect people as they thread very carefully between
the rock of the Bar Association and the hard place of financial reality.
Most of them have spent between
$150,000 and $500,000 for their education. How would you like to hit the
ground running and start a young family with that kind of debt hanging over your
head?
