Hi Robin - thanks for stopping by!

Perhaps when we get through this thing with my sister and her husband, I'll start blogging more regularly again - but their situation truly has become a priority.

The abuse of power in NYS that has come against them has really opened my eyes to the corruption around me, and what big government means.  Big government means programs that become important - not for the people they supposedly serve, but for the ones in charge of the programs and their large salaries.

I have learned that these entities will do anything to stay in business, and that they do not care who they hurt.

I've learned that the courts do not want to take anything to trial.  They want alleged criminals to accept plea bargains.  If they do not - and if their defense attornies do not convince them otherwise, the court system turns against the defense in any way it can.

I watched a young black man plead with the court to allow him to change his plea.  He had been pressured heavily to accept a plea that he did not want to accept.  He was (is) innocent of the charge against him - I've been following the case, and I believe with all my heart that he is innocent. 

As he made his case in court in front of the judge - asking for his plea to be changed and give him his chance for trial - the judge clearly did not care.  He had gotten what he wanted - it would not go to trial.  Nevermind that this gentleman WAS working, and now the taxpayer would be supporting an innocent man in jail.

But for those working for the government, this is good.  It gives them their jobs.  Meantime, I can't get that young man out of my head, nor his pleading to the judge, which went unheard.

Is there anything I can do about this?  Where do I start?  I think that through the situation I've seen my sister go through, and my eyes being opened to a corruption I had no idea about, maybe I'm meant to do something.

So this is where I've been.  In court, watching injustice unfold before my eyes every single time I'm there.  Our courts are part of the problem.  Not the solution.  It is heartbreaking.