HOW THE JUDICIARY WRONGFULLY MERGED WITH THE PUBLICITY MACHINE
Here is a famous quote from Henry Ford:
“Quality Means Doing It Right When No One is Looking.”
Had our judiciary apparatus been focused on their duty when no one was looking, our republic would have been preserved. Instead, the judiciary, the state bar associations and the prosecutors surreptitiously married themselves to extrajudicial publicity against criminally accused defendants. Most dramatically they did it when no one was looking; this was because the public was blind to the fact that their duty was stop it. It was not to merge with it.
How this happened is a matter of historical perspective. It is a known fact that the 1950’s and the 1960’s saw the all-out emergence of a powerful force known as the mass media. Central to that emergence was the full explosion onto the scene of what is known as the big three: ABC, CBS and NBC. The combination of the three became an almost irresistible force in shaping public opinion when joined with the newspapers (print media).
Their emergence, though, was not a threat to our constitutional protections. Indeed, the freedom of the press is enshrined in our First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. No, the threat to our constitutional protections instead would come from a different direction. It would come from the judiciary. It, along with the state bar associations and the prosecutors were required to zealously protect their independence against any external force — including the influence of the said news media giants. They didn’t protect that independence.
When Media Giants and Judiciary Duty Collide
Understandingly, the news media giants want news. The bigger the news the better. The problem is that they are an opposing force to the judiciary apparatus when an accused defendant is charged with a crime. By the rules of conduct and the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth and Sixth Amendments, all three public official elements of the legal profession (the judiciary, the state bar associations and the prosecutors) are under one prohibition; to not gang up against an accused defendant through extrajudicial publicity.
Here is a diagram that describes this collision course:
Catastrophically, the publicity machine defeated the judiciary duty in the outcome of this collision. Catastrophically, the judiciary apparatus could not resist the temptation to merge with the mass media publicity machine. Indeed, at every critical juncture and even in everyday life, they have merged with this leviathan when it is to their advantage in one critical area: when an unpopular accused has been charged with a crime.
Here is how it works: the prosecutor charges a defendant with a crime. Then he goes through the news media giants to try his case through them and not through the court process. To make the malady complete, the state bar associations and the judiciary conveniently make no effort to stop him.
Next comes how this malady became overwhelming in a full takedown of the Rules of Conduct the 5th and 6th amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America and the sabotage that went with it.