Dear Senator Kirk, America is in crisis

Dear Senator Kirk,

Your ProbateShark also appeals to you to halt the assault on the dead, dying, aged and disabled by the Probate Court of Cook County. The Probate Court of Cook County has been converted into a criminal financial crime enterprise with nursing home beds being the currency of choice. Please help.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com


Dear Senator Kirk,

America is in crisis. Hundreds of senior citizens and other diabled people are being deprived of their liberty, property, civil and human rights while the political elite condone this outrage. Attorney JoAnne Denison is one of handful of attorneys who have a finger in the dike attempting to hold off the growing threat to our democratic scheme. The enemy is us! We have allowed a small group of individuals to take over a significant portion of the mechanism that administers parens patrie and turn it into a cash cow. The Gore case a million and half dollars disappeared. In Tyler seven million dollars. In Sykes a million dollars plus.

As seniors are old - what does it matter! It is apparently more important to protect the miscreants than the seniors as illustrated by the threats that appear in the Sykes transcript directed to the attorneys who might (or did) speak out and the current ARDC complaint against JoAnne Denison. The words of the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court are ignored by government (including the Illinois attorney registration and discipline commission.

The inappropriateness of this instant disciplinary case and the usurpation of jurisdiction over an attorney’s free speech is manifest by the Supreme Court cases cited supra, and the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of Supreme Court of Ohio, 471 U.S. 626, 643, 105 S. Ct. 2265, 2278, 85 L. Ed. 2d 652 (1985). The right to speak out for unpopular causes such as the right of the elderly not to be victimized by ‘judicial officials’ such as Farenga, Stern, Schmiedel, Troepe and similar persons is also protected speech in every State including Illinois. Indeed, the Illinois Supreme Court has held:

“The Constitution does not permit government to decide which types of otherwise protected speech are sufficiently offensive to require protection for the unwilling listener or viewer. Rather, absent the narrow circumstances described above (home intrusion or captive audience), the burden normally falls upon the viewer to ‘avoid further bombardment of (his) sensibilities simply by averting (his) eyes.’ Cohen v. California (403 U.S. 15,) 21, 91 S.Ct. 1780, 29 L.Ed.2d 284.” 422 U.S. 205, 210-11, 95 S.Ct. 2268, 2273, 45 L.Ed.2d 125, 131-32. Vill. of Skokie v. Nat'l Socialist Party of Am., 69 Ill. 2d 605, 619, 373 N.E.2d 21, 26 (1978)”

Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. See Buckley, supra, at 14–15, 96 S.Ct. 612 (“In a republic where the people are sovereign, the ability of the citizenry to make informed choices among candidates for office is essential”). The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. The First Amendment “ ‘has its fullest and most urgent application’ to speech uttered during a campaign for political office.” Eu v. San Francisco County Democratic Central Comm., 489 U.S. 214, 223, 109 S.Ct. 1013, 103 L.Ed.2d 271 (1989) (quoting Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy, 401 U.S. 265, 272, 91 S.Ct. 621, 28 L.Ed.2d 35 (1971));

Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm'n, 558 U.S. 310, 130 S. Ct. 876, 898, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753 (2010)

Indeed, the Blog administered by Attorney Denison might be offensive to the ‘judicial officials’ who foster or participate in Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation of the Elderly, however, in light of clear protections of Article 1 of the Illinois Constitution and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution it is respectfully submitted that the Illinois ARDC does not have either the authority or the jurisdiction to regulate Ms. Denison’s Blog or the speech of those who demand and call out for an honest investigation by law enforcement of the actions of Farenga, Stern, Schmiedel and the other judicial officials who have acted sans jurisdiction to deprive Mary Sykes and other seniors of their liberty, their property, civil rights and human rights.

Ken Ditkowsky

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/