Matt Weidner – Fighting For The American People

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Drink it all in, folks. Things are bad and only getting worse.  No commentary necessary here, no need to read between any lines.  You can all read the black and white.

The rapid descent into a very dark place has only been hastened as it becomes more and more certain and definite that this nation and especially this state are governed not by people or by laws or by any real justice, but by corporations supported and driven as they are by collision of corruption and cash.

The only real question remains is what happens after the full breadth and depth of the tyranny is fully expressed?  What will this world look like when the corporatacracy apparatchik has ground down and spit out every last bit of law and liberty?  What will we the serfs, the peasants, the prisoners do when clamp is tightened down just a few more screws deeper?

That truly is what terrifies me most. What the masters of the machine fail to realize is the profound danger they are placing all of us in by accelerating this descent into lawlessness.

This nation, these people will only be pushed so far.  The real problem is, the masters will not recognize they’ve pushed too far until it’s too late and there is no turning back.

From The Palm Beach Post:

Florida’s once-heralded foreclosure mill investigations have fizzled as the attorney general’s office has failed to find the right strategy to continue its pursuit and three law firms call for the cases to be dismissed.

This week, an attempt to have the Florida Supreme Court weigh in on whether the state has the authority to subpoena the Law Offices of David J. Stern was denied by the 4th District Court of Appeal.

The decision effectively ends the investigations into complaints that the firms doctored court paperwork in an attempt to speed foreclosures.

FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL

UPDATE: BUT NOW HERE’S A REAL CONFLICT THAT’S DEVELOPING…

 What are we dear people, citizens of a United States of America to make of the fact that one state (that would be Florida) has affirmed a very real wild, dangerous environment of lawlessness while other states, that would be New York, California, Nevada, Michigan, just to name a few have said,

WE WILL OPERATE UNDER A SYSTEM OF EQUAL LAWS THAT BIND PEOPLE AND CORPORATIONS

That’s right, just read the lawsuit that was recently filed in Nevada here and another bombshell, read the lawsuit that was just released a few minutes ago from New York here.

It’s kinda setting up a sort of civil war type situation where on the one hand we’ve got states that are enforcing laws while another state sticks out like a downward sticking thumb, thumbing the nose at the rule of law……

We all know Florida is developing some….ahhh, interesting “legal” theories.  One notable new legal concept from the Sunshine State is called,

“there’s no such thing as forgery, we call it “surrogate signing” down here”

(except that wait a minute isn’t that what AHMSI is suing LPS for?)

and then there’s this other one called,

“there’s no such thing as notary fraud down here we call it, “not illegal to violate the express terms of Florida’s Notary Law”

and then one of my favorites:

“banks can kick down doors whenever they damn well please, don’t worry with any court case, much less an Order”

If it all sounds rather scary and lawless and anarchy-like, well, you’re right.  It is indeed quite terrifying to live in a state where blatant White Collar Criminal Lawlessness has replaced hundreds of years worth of a state’s developed body of statutory and case law.  Where citizens and consumers lie helpless in the face of corporations and an entire system of government that is turned squarely against them, bought off and corrupted as it is by campaign cash.

Yes sir, if you want to see the very worst form of White Collar Criminal Oligarchy that bankster money can buy, well just turn your gaze down here to Florida and you’ll find a perfect case study….everywhere you turn.  And the world is indeed watching.  There are still a few people who give a damn.  A few strong and brave voices who dare to stand up and point out the insanity and danger in all of this.

I find it most regrettable and frankly terrifying that we live in a state where such lawlessness is the accepted state of affairs. I hope that our northern brothers and sisters, all fellow Americans, will not abandon all the good people who live down here and who suffer under this tyranny….take note of what some quite esteemed and authoritative sources say about the state of affairs:

Wow. So LPS used the whitewash IG report from Florida to justify the dismissal of their lawsuit in Nevada. And remember, LPS lobbyists more recently urged the Florida AG’s office to intervene on their behalf in a criminal case in Michigan. The connections between the FLorida AG’s office and LPS just continue to grow.

This also happens to be BS.

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WASHINGTON — During his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama will announce the creation of a special unit to investigate misconduct and illegalities that contributed to both the financial collapse and the mortgage crisis.

The office, part of a new Unit on Mortgage Origination and Securitization Abuses, will be chaired by Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, according to a White House official.

Schneiderman is an increasingly beloved figure among progressives for his criticism of a proposed settlement between the 50 state attorneys generals and the five largest banks. His presence atop this new special unit could give it immediate legitimacy among those who have criticized the president for being too hesitant in going after the banks and resolving the mortgage crisis. He will be in attendance at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.

HUFFINGTON POST

I have had an extraordinary number of my foreclosure cases dismissed in the last year.  The number is frankly staggering.  The foreclosure mills started dismissing or dropping them in January 2011 and they just keep on dismissing them right up until today.  This fact is a recognition of what I’ve been saying all along that their cases are so fatally flawed that dismissal is the only responsible and legally appropriate thing for the to do.

The foreclosure files currently pending in courtrooms all across this state are a mess of improper legal pleadings and sometimes fraudulent and misrepresented facts.  The more the banksters try to cover up and avoid their lies and the problems they’ve caused themselves the worse things get.  And so the only way out, the only responsible, ethical, proper thing to do is dismiss the cases.  Most are doing this, but increasingly some cases are going to trial.  Now I recently wrote that there are very few appellate decisions in foreclosure that come from trial and I wondered why this was  the case. I recognize now a big part of the reason…..

A “win” for a defendant in a foreclosure trial is not a “win” at all.

That’s right, in yet another example of the absolute unfairness and proof that there are two sets of laws, one for those with money and power and one for all the rest of us, I have discovered that even if we have a trial in a foreclosure case and even if we “win” that foreclosure case, all the Plaintiff has to do is turn around and refile the case the very next day.  It’s just maddening and entirely mind boggling and totally frustrating.  We can work for months to prove up the banksters and their fraud and the lies and the incompetence and the crimes and all they’ve got to do is shrug their shoulders, dust themselves off and start all over again.  I’m afraid  part of this analysis will come into play in the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in the pending Pino case.

But back to the “FREE HOUSE” analysis here on the ground.  Recently a transcript of a foreclosure trial hit the blogosphere. (You really must read it here.) No matter what the problems on the bank side, no matter how many errors or flaws or questionable documents or facts, the court just could not fathom finding for the Defendant in the case because the court absolutely could not stomach giving the defendant a ‘FREE HOUSE”.

Well, I have to wonder, how would that judge’s analysis have changed if the defense attorney had merely explained to the judge that there is no free house, that there is no windfall for the consumer, that the banks can get away with whatever they want and then just turn around and call ‘DO OVER’ whenever they want?  I should think this would make the judge a whole lot less concerned about issuing a verdict for the defense….after all, there is no real “harm”….harm in the sense that the banks will suffer no real consequence for their improper actions.

This understanding must make it’s way all across this state’s court system.  We must all understand that the only way to get chopping through this heavy thicket of a quagmire of a mess of a garbage dump that is most of the pending foreclosures is to chop through all the garbage, throw all the cases into the wood chipper and do them over, correctly.

Read the attached case carefully and think about the larger implications…..I see this as the ultimate response to the “FREE HOUSE” argument, and a very powerful tool for our judges.  As much as I hate the opinion and think that it is very wrong, it allows our judges the freedom to execute good judicial discretion without the ‘NUCLEAR’ option of the dreaded, ‘FREE HOUSE’!

Now, the problem with the opinion is it tosses key legal principles of Res Judicata and Double Jeopardy completely out the window, but hey, we’re all well aware that there are a second set of rules for the banks anyway…..right?

Singleton+v.+Greymar+Associates,+882+So

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