Los Angeles, CA Full Disclosure Network® presents a unique television interview with Ron Kaye, former Los Angeles Daily News Editor (1984-2008) as a part of an on-going cable TV series covering the criminal persecution of attorney Richard I. Fine who has been in solitary “coercive confinement” in the Los Angeles County since March 4, 2009.
Full Disclosure Network’s® exclusive (9 min) video preview of the one hour interview with Ron Kaye is featured here. The complete interview is to be released soon on cable TV stations in major cities across the nation, and online. In this interview Ron Kaye shares his observations regarding the treatment of Richard Fine and the political circumstances in City and County of Los Angeles that have fostered abuse of the justice system and individual civil rights.
The veteran newsman and the once Editor Ron Kaye has become a community activist and organizer, helping to found the Saving LA Project. He also writes on Los Angeles issues on his own Blog www.RonKayeLA.com. He is a frequent speaker at community groups on the need to get informed and involved in the effort to make LA a city of great schools and neighborhoods, a city with a healthy business climate and good jobs, a city where the people are respected and have a seat at the table of power. His website www.OurLa.org is a clearinghouse for community activist journalists to share information and promote government accountability.
DVDS OF RON KAYE SERIES AVAILABLE HERE
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Joe Shea Bradenton, Fla.
Posted: 06:02 am [PST] on July 19 2010
There needs to be a realignment of the media with the truth. You are the leading edge of that process. I congratulate you once again for bringing to Angelenos and Americans these hidden and significant stories of political corruption.
Sincerely,
Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
www.american-reporter.com
Janette Isaacs Chatsworth, CA
Posted: 06:50 pm [PST] on April 01 2010
Dear joebanana: I know that you are someone of stature. I have been following your comments on blogs for a while now. Everything you say (on talk radio shows) and everything you write, i.e., “comments” are always right on target. One day, I hope that you will disclose who you are with your last name. Be well my friend. Find me on Facebook – incognito or with your true name. Even as an alias, I respect you and appreciate all of your comments. I just wish you were not an "alias". Keep up the great work - however on the "sly" it may be! Thanks!
joebanana So. Cal.
Posted: 06:11 pm [PST] on March 26 2010
Mr. Kaye say's to "email the leaders you can find", problem is, I can't find any "leaders", just criminal's.
John Lukas Green Bay, WI
Posted: 12:26 pm [PST] on March 26 2010
This is WHY we need full disclosure from the judiciary. We are working on legislation in WA State to close loopholes that allow for the judges to not subject themselves to full disclosure. Their behavior here is abhorrent.
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Dr. Natalia A. Sidiakina Santa Rosa, CA
Posted: 05:41 pm [PST] on March 24 2010
I'd like to express my gratitude to Sterling A. Norris and Judicial Watch. Without Sterling and his organization, Leslie would still have NO ACCESS and, therefore, no ability to interview Richard I. Fine in LA jail.
Dear Sterling, if you ever read this comment, please accept my deepest admiration for being THE ONLY ONE WITH HONOR AND COURAGE to take on the role of an attorney to represent Leslie and other Californians in cases like Richard Fine's case.
Without people like you, Richard and Leslie, California would descend to the level of "land of cowards and fools".
Dr. Natalia A. Sidiakina Santa Rosa, CA
Posted: 12:09 pm [PST] on March 24 2010
Dear Leslie,
Thanks for your courage and persistence. Great video!
Ron Kaye is absolutely correct when he says that CA laws DO NOT work for certain classes in CA. The truth is that there is a CLASS of Self-Represented litigants in CA (about 95% of ALL Californians) and in the US (about 95% of ALL US residents) for whom ANY laws are simply UNENFORCEABLE, the equivalent of de facto non-existing.
Richard Fine HAS NOT had any experience of being a Self-Represented litigant (one exception was in 2002 when he filed in Pro Per Petition for Writ arguing that the judge had to disqualify himself (Fine v. Superior Court (DeFlores) (2002) 97 Cal.App.4th 651).
In 2002, Richard was also FOUND IN CONTEMPT OF COURT by the LA Commissioner Bruce E. Mitchell as punishment for requesting the recusal of Mitchell 9 TIMES. And the CA Court of Appeal DENIED Richard’s Petition for Writ. The message of the CA court system was CLEAR: a) a Self-Represented litigant is NOTHING in the eyes of CA judges and b) it is DE FACTO IMPOSSIBLE to disqualify ANY CA judge, no matter how prejudiced the judge is and REGARDLESS of what the CA and US law says.
I’ve learned this message INDEPENDENTLY when was a Self-Represented litigant and tried to disqualify a prejudiced Sonoma Superior Court judge James Bertoli. I have a cognitive disability- anxiety and panic disorder, which, naturally, get exacerbated during the enormous stress of litigation in the adversary settings of the US and CA court system.
As a cognitively disabled litigant, I was denigrated, abused, persecuted and even tortured by the county judges. At one hearing before judge Bertoli, on 9/14/07, I had a panic attack and pleaded the hearing to stop because I had horrible physical pain and emotional sufferings, but judge Bertoli ENJOYED abusing his power and punishing me for my attempts to disqualify him by making me SUFFER, EXACTLY what is going on with Richard Fine- the LA judge Yaffe ENJOYS abusing his power and punishing Richard for Richard’s attempts to disqualify judge Yaffe by making Richard SUFFER in timeless coercive confinement in LA jail.
Due to unbearable pain and suffering, I lost consciousness in the court-room at the hearing on 9/14/07. The abuse and torture of me on 9/14/07 caused a traumatic injury to my brain, and a few months later I was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Now I become COMPLETELY DISFUNCTIONAL in the litigation process- my brain dissociates from reality, I cannot concentrate, cannot think, cannot speak, have dissociative amnesia, etc.
All of this PTSD happened because I was Self-Represented and was abused by the county judges. And I’m STILL in the same litigation because I physically CANNOT GIVE UP and walk away and let the injustice stand. And in a couple of months, I will sue the CA court system for discrimination, abuse, and torture of me under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title II. I recently filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate in the CA Court of Appeal arguing that the CA court system discriminated against me (case A127852 filed 3/12/10) and that I should be provided legal counsel as “accommodation” under the Federal law, ADA Title II. So far, the CA Court of Appeal apparently read my Petition for Writ (such a surprise, really, because this is my 4th Petition for Writ and my 7th attempt to get attention of the CA Court of Appeal to the issue that Self-Represented litigants GET ABUSED by the county judges!).
If anyone knows of cognitively impaired indigent litigants that were forced to represent themselves in CA courts, please let me know, because I intend to file a class-action complaint for discrimination against the CA court system, so the more people can join me, the better for Californians. My contact address is info@SelfRepresentedFool.org .
With regard of DE FACTO IMPOSSIBILITY of disqualification of a prejudiced judge in California, I wrote an assay a few months ago, which was posted on Leslie’s fulldisclosure.net on 9/25/09. Since the topic remains the one of interest, I’d like to post my essay here as well.
Originally posted on 9/25/09 at http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/77.php :
I've been having a terrible experience in the family court of Sonoma County (divorce action), then in the CA Appellate Court, then in the CA Supreme Court.
My conclusion is that self-represented litigants are not only ignored by the CA courts at all levels, but judges intentionally denigrate, abuse, and even torture self-represented parties to make sure that they lose the physical and emotional abilities to seek justice.
Since Mr. Fine is self-represented, it absolutely does not matter that he is the best lawyer and that his arguments are as strong and convincing as the law of gravity. The law DOES NOT matter in CA courts because, thanks to the judicial impunity, what the judges say is De FACTO the law.
What I've learned during the 4 years of my divorce litigation is that 1) judges are the most corrupted people in CA because they have DE FACTO absolute impunity; 2) it is DE FACTO impossible to disqualify the judge from the proceeding because the disqualification procedure, designed by CA Legislation, is intentionally violated by judges and DE FACTO becomes futile, as Mr. Fine's and my cases clearly demonstrate.
Here is how it goes:
1) The party ("justice seeker") requests disqualification of the judge by filing Request for Disqualification.
2) The judge refuses to recuse himself because he has interest in the outcome of the case and, naturally, wants to control it.
3) "Justice seeker" then files a Statement of Disqualification (CCP section 170.3).
4) The judge either orders it stricken, or ignores it and proceeds with the case. Additionally, the judge punishes "justice seeker" by ordering him/her to pay some unreasonable sums of money to the other party on whatever grounds.
5) "Justice seeker" then must file a Petition for Writ in the CA court of appeal to have them review the unlawful denial of the judge to recuse himself (CCP section 170.3(d)).
6) The court of appeal summarily denies "justice seeker's" Petition for Writ in violation of the CA Constitution Article 6 Section 14.
7) Then "justice seeker" has to file "Petition for Review" in the CA Supreme Court. CA Supreme Court has discretion to grant or deny the review. As one can predict, the CA Supreme Court DENIES the review.
After completing steps 1 through 7, "justice seeker" is ruined financially and emotionally, and does not believe in justice any more, which is EXACTLY what the judges wanted "justice seeker" to accept from the very beginning. Judges' goal is achieved.
Mr. Fine is NOT an ordinary person who can accept DE FACTO injustice and abuse from the CA judges because his self-esteem is very high. For him to accept steps 1 through 7 is equal to suicide. He is not there yet. So he takes further steps:
8) "Justice seeker" files request for Certificate of Appealability in the US District Court.
9) The US District Court's judge denies the Certificate of Appealability on whatever ground.
10) "Justice seeker" files in the US Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Appeal of denial of Certificate of Appealability.
11) If the US Circuit judge AFFIRMS the denial of Certificate of Appealability, that's the END of disqualification story.
12) If the US Circuit judge REVERSES the denial of the US District Court judge and grants the Certificate of Appealability (Mr. Fine's case), "justice seeker" will proceed with Appeal.
13) The judges of the US Courts of Appeal for the Ninth District ARE PREJUDICED against annoying self-represented "justice seeker" (naturally, no attorney in his sound mind will agree to represent "justice seeker" because attorneys' success in courts depends on good relationship with judges, i.e. attorney's kissing judges' a... and taking judges' s...). Most likely, the Ninth Circuit judges will find NO GROUNDS for reversal and AFFIRM the CA Court of Appeal denial of Petition for Writ.
14) "Justice seeker" files a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court has discretionary authority to deny or grant the review. It is EXTREMELY UNLIKELY that the US Supreme Court will grant the review because the US Supreme Court judges know that the due process rights of SELF-REPRESENTED parties (about 95% of the US population or 237.5 million people) are being violated in ALL COURTS IN ALL CASES IN THE US, thanks to capitalism and survival of the fittest. Most likely, the US Supreme Court will deny the review. END OF STORY.
As I just proved above, it is DE FACTO IMPOSSIBLE to disqualify a prejudiced judge in CA. I suspect the same is true for other states of the USA.
For Mr. Fine, the disqualification process became the way of life simply because he psychologically unable to give in to injustice.
For all other residents of the US, it's helpful to pray that they never get dragged into a court, especially when the judge is prejudiced against them or their attorney for whatever reason.
What is interesting to see is that the US capitalism leads to the creation of a self-destructing society, i.e. the society that purposefully destroys its own children regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Please read the Petition in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights filed on May 11, 2007 on behalf of the USA's abused children and mothers:
http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/sites/documents/0000/0096/Web_Petition-C.pdf
Please read the Petition above, it is the EYE OPENER on what kind of VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS are taking place in the family courts across the US.
Janette Isaacs Chatsworth, CA
Posted: 12:24 pm [PST] on March 24 2010
As you are aware, I hold you in the highest esteem of any News Journalist in the County of Los Angeles. I have to tell you that this interview is truly a "Masterpiece”. It is one of my most favorites. I know that you will receive the Peabody Award and I know that you will be nominated for another EMMY. And, I predict that you will receive that 2nd EMMY. You are the most remarkable woman I have ever met. You don’t trail the pace for news reporting, you set it.
lane Georgia
Posted: 09:50 am [PST] on March 24 2010
We know that these same types of event happen across the United States and in my own state of Georgia