To: Wall Street Journal
Subject: Assaults on the First Amendment
Date: December 13, 2014
From: Ken Ditkowsky
The lock step world of the college campus and of political correctness is fast become a norm, rather than an exception. The most egregious assaults on the First Amendment emanate from the Courthouse itself. I am not speaking of proceedings wherein a litigant or a lawyer acts in a disrespectful manner, but, wherein ethically challenged judicial officials have created cottage industries such as ‘elder cleansing.’ (Elder cleansing is the railroading of a senior citizen into an abusive guardianship, isolated from his/her prior life, and systematically separated from his/her liberty and property.)
Incidents of elder abuse and elder cleansing abound and have been reported by the Government Accounting Office to Congress only to receive bureaucratic benign neglect. Citizens by the score have reported incidents of jurists (and lawyers) totally ignoring the Constitutional protections that form the core values of America and isolating targeted seniors from their life savings and the life that they enjoyed prior to coming into contact with the judicial system. The Mary Sykes case pending in Cook County Illinois is a poster board example. (09 P 4585). Therein Mary a 90 year old senior who did her own Banking, had an audience with President Clinton, was active in her church and garden club was herded into a questionable guardianship by lawyers and a judge who totally ignored every safeguard that Illinois and Federal Statutes provided. The Sheriff could find no evidence of a return of prior summons, prior notifications to close relatives (jurisdictional). Jurisdiction was considered a technicality and thus ignored. Immediately Mary was totally isolated from her two elderly siblings, her younger daughter and life friends so that she could be denied an attorney and objections being made concerning the felonies that she was enduring. When Mary’s treating physician refused to certify her as being incompetent the judge counseled the elder cleansers to find a co-operative doctor. After Mary was removed from her home and her prior life her assets quickly disappeared and she became a captive.
Mary was not alone in this outrage! Alice Gore was herded into a guardianship, separated from her family and her 1.5 million dollar estate reduced to zero. The exhibited avarice included harvesting the gold filings from her teeth. I have been copying the law enforcement and whomever will listen with the reports that I receive on a daily basis of this elder cleansing.
I and other lawyers joined in the chorus of complaints to legal authorities of breach of civil rights. My first foray was to have the temerity to attempt to investigate the facts of the Mary Ship to the court proceedings the two guardian ad litem and the attorney for the guardian sought to intimidate me with a sanction motion. They brought the spurious motion and the court rubber stamped their request to sanction me. The Appellate Court had to vacate the sanction as there was no jurisdiction and did so. As pursuant to 18 USCA 4 I continued to investigate and call for an investigation by law enforcement Mr. Larkin and the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission stepped in to attempt to stop my complaints and retaliate for my demanding an Honest intelligent complete and comprehensive investigation of the elder cleansing going on in Illinois.
Grant Goodman, an Arizona attorney, observed elder cleansing in Arizona, and filed suit. The Arizona lawyer regulators tried to stop him in his tracks. He was sanctioned by them. JoAnne Denison published a blog wherein she made web=time available to report the abuses and felonies that are common place. Again Jerome Larkin stepped in with a ‘star chamber’ disciplinary complaint. Larkin ignored the SCOTUS cases ofUnited States v. Alvarez 132 S. Ct 2537, Brown v Entm’t 121 S. Ct 2729, Ashcroft vs ACLU 124 S. Ct 2783 Synder v Phelps 131 S. Ct 1207, Citizens United v FEC 130 S. Ct 876, McCutcheon v FEC 2014 WL 1301866. He also ignored Peel vs ARDC of Illinois 496 US 91 wherein SCOTUS made it clear that even Illinois lawyers were entitled to the protection of First Amendment.
I understand that the Denison record before the IARDC can be accessed at
https://drive.google.com/
https://drive.google.com/
When lawyers cannot speak out as to corruption in the Courts no citizen can be confident that the First Amendment has any meaning whatsoever. Illinois in Operation Greylord enjoyed more than a score of our judges being sentenced to prison for criminal conduct and scores more having to resign, yet, right now in Illinois a lawyer who speaks out and complains (not in the courtroom, but in the public forum) that a particular elected judge is corrupt risks losing his license to practice law. Attorney Lanre Amu complained to judicial authorities concerning several judges. He received a three years suspension from Mr. Larkin and the Illinois Supreme Court.[2]
The assault on the First Amendment is not limited to the college campus.
[1] Attorney Denison’s situation is protected by 47 USCA 230 in addition to 320 ILCS 20/4 and various other State and Federal Laws including the Bill of Rights and the Illinois Constitution of 1970.
[2] Mr. Amu is a special case. Amu is an immigrant from Africa who fortuitously has a dark hue to his skin. He is guilty according to the Illinois Supreme Court and Mr. Larkin’s cadre of rubber stamp panels of practicing law while ‘black!’ Mr. Amu has filed a Petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court.
Ken Ditkowsky
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