OAK

12/10/2020

Human Rights Day commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

07/19/2020

2020: The time for dismantling corruption that has wrongfully dismantled lives of U.S. citizens and residents for too long.

Many people seek our help in overcoming organized U.S. legal system abuse. Yes, we must wage those fights, but they are much like tackling brick walls, and that fact alone violates America's human rights treaty obligations. The U.S. is pledged and obliged to provide its citizens effective avenues of redress -- not futile charades deceptively called legal process.

It makes no sense to continually ram the brick wall that is too often America's legal system without also pressing the Trump Administration for appropriate accountability. No contemporary U.S. President has seemed more inclined than President Trump to hold our judiciary accountable for literal persecution and psychological torture imposed through legal proceedings. We accordingly encourage you to help renew strategic calls for his intervention.

If you will, please message our page for details. Our coordination is to help ensure you are part of an effort intense and well-founded enough to make a difference. Please accept our thanks for your consideration and anticipated support.

Best regards,

Chief Gordon L. Wiborg, Jr.
President - National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law
Project, Inc. (NJCDLP)

Dr. Zena Crenshaw-Logal,
NJCDLP Executive Director
and Opt IN USA Lead Strategist

Belinda Parker-Brown, CEO of
Louisiana United International, Inc.,
a civil, constitutional, and human
rights organization

Dr. Andrew D. Jackson,
Co-Administrator - National
Forum On Judicial Accountability

Brian Kinter, CEO of
JAM (Judicial Accountability Movement)

06/22/2019

Please help spread the word. Feedback is needed asap. Thank you!

ANTICIPATED UPR CONSULTATION: America’s human rights record will be reviewed by the U.N. as part of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in May 2020. In anticipation of that process, Golden Badge is exploring the prospect of co-hosting a UPR consultation in August 2019.

According to the United Nations Association of America (UNA USA), "(t)he goal of . . . organizing a local UPR consultation is to constructively set the agenda on a human rights challenge in the United States, collaborate with like minded community partners, and help catalyze change in the U.S. through a universal UN process.”

Towards that end, Golden Badge is gathering background information on alleged human rights violations accomplished through U.S. criminal justice system abuse.

Specifically, we're asking for feedback from American citizens and U.S. residents who were subjected to one or more criminal prosecutions in which:

1. probable cause was allegedly fabricated with complicity of one or more U.S. criminal law enforcement officers, a prosecutor and/or one or more deputy prosecutors, and/or one or more U.S. judicial officers;

2. in response to the targeted defendant’s whistleblowing and/or other First Amendment activity.

Has this happened to you? If yes, please, at your earliest convenience, tell us about your experience via the Google form @ https://forms.gle/hJSLDKasEm2dYSZGA

Thank you, and kindly SPREAD THE WORD!

08/05/2018

“(A)s he prepares to tidy his desk, Zeid says that he played it right: holding all countries to the same standard and using the office as a bully pulpit for leaders who do not listen, or do not meet their private pledges.

Importantly, he says that method is hard-wired into the system now. Future commissioners will struggle to ignore reports of illegal detentions and crackdowns on peaceful protesters. Excuses will be given behind closed doors, but the news releases will be sent out anyway.”

Hussein worked for UN amid Balkan atrocities of 1990s and was instrumental in setting up International Criminal Court.

01/24/2017

"More ominous than the number of Americans living in de facto exile courtesy of persistent, unbridled U.S. legal system abuse is the increasing ease with which anyone may be drawn into their ranks."

A bill was introduced early January that calls for the removal of the United States from the United Nations.

01/13/2017

"In the supposed land of the free and home of the brave, we have been conspicuously disappeared".

WE NEED A SAFE SPACE. It’s that simple for people being persecuted through U.S. legal system abuse.

Our ranks undoubtedly include hundreds of thousands of Americans if not a million or more. Most of us are part of historically oppressed groups such as the poor. But many of us led affluent lives; were people of considerable acclaim. Then for a wide variety of reasons, America’s legal establishment was met with a choice to protect our rights or allow some wealthy or otherwise powerful interest(s) to violate them with impunity.

Distinct patterns of legal irregularities emerged. Classic evidence of retaliation, unlawful bias, and concerted action against many of us was quite apparent. Yet from one level and branch of U.S. government to another for decades -- no matter the caliber of our advocacy -- we have been met with silence or denied relief on explicit terms, all of which was arbitrary and capricious.

In the supposed land of the free and home of the brave, we have been conspicuously disappeared, i.e. removed from our careers and the family lives as well as friendships to which we aspired and perhaps had at one time. The plight and its life altering damage rarely go away, even in the rare instance when our difficulties attract major media attention.

Apparently a proverbial line has been drawn in the sand between our government and us; targets of persistent U.S. legal system abuse. But this act which denies us the privileges and immunities of American citizenship is NOT a sovereign act. Instead, it is the rogue conduct of unscrupulous individuals acting under color of law. Nonetheless, in failing to rise above their treachery, America as a sovereign violates its Constitution and international human rights treaties.

The world needs to know of America’s rather cavalier failure to protect a substantial and growing segment of its population from persecution and psychological torture imposed through U.S. legal system abuse. Opt IN USA is carrying that story to the world and in doing so, endeavors to be and carve out a safe space for its constituents.

Opt IN USA is part of THE LAW PROJECT, a proud member of the:

• Global Net 21 Network,
• U.S. Human Rights Network,
• MAHB (The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere) of Stanford University, and
• United Nations Association of the United States of America, Council of Organizations.

12/16/2016

Coveted opportunity for oral arguments before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has been extended to our comrades at Opt IN USA . . .

ORAL ARGUMENTS on the ineffectiveness of workforce protections for federal agency whistleblowers to be heard by the FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS in Washington, D.C. on February 8, 2017 at 10:00 ET.

Summary of Opt IN USA's initial press release on the matter:

"Briefing in Carson v. MSPB before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has become a referendum on four federal workforce oversight agencies. The briefs reveal an ominous gap in federal whistleblower and merit system protection, honed through the agencies' actions and inaction. Proposed amici briefs suggest the matter is part of a constitutional and international human rights crisis being addressed by Opt IN USA, a grassroots U.S. foreign policy reform and international human rights campaign."
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Full Story @ https://www.prlog.org/12553910-four-federal-workforce-agencies-linked-to-international-human-rights-violations.html

12/09/2016

OAK members and supporters are encouraged to make Opt IN USA part of their U.S. judicial reform advocacy . . .

This Saturday - December 10, 2016 is National Human Rights Day of Action. Kindly make part of your action a commitment or re-commitment to challenging persistent U.S. legal system abuse as an international human rights violation.

In addition to pressing for relief through U.S. political and legal processes, we challenge through Opt IN USA the difficulty and, for too many, impossibility of securing that relief, even when it is clearly deserved.

Opt IN USA submits that America has violated its international pledge to provide all Americans EFFECTIVE relief from persecution and psychological torture imposed through persistent abuse of the country's legal system. Instead, we are left chasing metaphorical tails for years, sometimes decades.

Our campaign also contends that Americans should have the option of addressing persistent U.S. legal system abuse as an international treaty violation before UN Working Groups.

Learn more @ www.thethirddegree.net

Sign up to lobby @ https://airtable.com/shrRMaFsAwmaXZwk0

Practical considerations shared @ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/winning-trial-your-life-zena-crenshaw-logal

12/02/2016

Opt IN USA is OAK's successor to a substantial extent.

08/24/2016

"Going forward, The Law Project will limit its case-based advocacy to helping people who want SOLUTIONS; not merely the satisfaction of continued dissent or the comfort of being assisted, even if ineffectively. Our ranks need reasonably prompt relief, ultimate vindication, and maximum healing. Yet most of us pursue other goals, hoping to attain all we need nonetheless. Perhaps our community is overwhelmed by the magnitude of what its members need to succeed (whether individually or collectively) instead of being focused on the manageable roles through which our success can be achieved. Somehow our efforts get divorced from considerations of what they achieve. Enough with the disconnect!

In Memory of the Late Rodney A. Logal -- National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. a/k/a The Law Project (TLP), will celebrate its eleventh year as a U.S. nonprofit legal reform

07/31/2016

"To thoroughly understand the problem of persistent U.S. legal system abuse is to perceive all of its complexities, which is helpful in devising solutions through which Opt IN USA constituents can be made whole."