An Open Letter to "Judge" Brian House, Part II

Well, "judge," I see that you have a new Facebook page, this one dedicated to your re-election. Since no one of which I know is running against you, I guess that makes your re-election about as certain as the "re-election" of Kim Il-Sung back in his day. Perhaps that is fitting, since your view of "justice" is about the same as that of a North Korean dictator.

Your "house" logo with all of your qualifications is cute. No doubt, your membership at Peavine Babdist (as we Southerners pronounce "Baptist") Church goes far and I am sure that the church is proud to have a judge, even a corrupt judge like you, and I am sure that the members of that church all sympathized with you when jurors two years ago acquitted Tonya Craft and then told the media that your obviously being in bed with the prosecutors was one of the reasons for their decision.

However, somehow I doubt that your preacher ever has done a sermon on Matthew 23 with you in the congregation, as it might hit too close to home. Yes, when Jesus accuses the pharisees of being like "whitewashed tombs," he might as well be referring to you and the other judges in the LMJC who parade about in their robes, have the bailiffs give the "Oh, yea" announcement, and enter the courts with the fanfare they don't deserve.

You see, "judge," you really are like one of those whitewashed tombs who is full of "hypocrisy and lawlessness" of which Jesus spoke. You regularly break the very rules that the State of Georgia has set for judges, and you don't even try to hide your actions. You claim to be independent, and then do little more than sit in your chair and perform your duties as Buzz's sock puppet.

And don't tell me that isn't true. People see what is happening and they let me know. No, I doubt you accept money under the table, but corruption isn't necessarily about being bought off. No, corruption is the presence of pre-determined outcomes that are presented as the outcomes that happen after there has been careful deliberation.

As I see it, instead of a house for the campaign symbol, you need to show the clean, white exterior of an ancient tomb, like I am showing below:

And, in order to provide truth-in-campaigning, I think the photo below gives the perfect touch:

Furthermore, you might want the following bullet points to go along with all of those wonderful things you put in your "house" logo:

• Speaks with prosecution witnesses before they testify without notifying the defense, which is a violation of the law and a violation of the judicial ethics that govern judges in the State of Georgia;
• Allows the prosecution to introduce knowingly (and obviously) fabricated "evidence" during a trial in order to fill holes in the case;
• Permits prosecutors to engage in disruptive and obnoxious behavior during trials, another breach of judicial ethics;
• Permits the admission of obvious perjury during a trial, including the admission of "I just remembered" testimony from a prosecution witness already proven to be a liar;
• Makes disparaging statements about the defendant and defendant's attorneys during a trial to others in the courtroom, which also is a violation of judicial ethics;
• Has secret (and even not-so-secret) ex parte meetings with prosecutors before and during a trial without notifying the defense, a violation of judicial ethics and an obvious attempt to work closely with prosecutors to rig a trial;
• Permits and even encourages prosecutorial intimidation of defense witnesses in breach of judicial ethics rules;
• Allows for the admission of obviously-false "jailhouse snitch" testimony in court despite the legal prohibition against testimony that knowingly is perjured;
• Orders bailiffs to seize cell phones and computers from people who say they favor the defendant, but permits supporters of the prosecution to have such things;
• Orders security checks for supporters of the defendant, including defense witnesses, but permits prosecution witnesses to enter the courtroom in another entrance without security, and then provides a room for them where they can have laptop computers and cellphones.

This list is partial, and only partial, but it speaks to your corrupt handling of the courtroom and the fundamental dishonesty that is the basis for everything you do. Yet, as I look at the Facebook page, I see "friends" who apparently love corruption.

There is Vickie Scoggins, a belch from a bad onion if ever there were such. (God help that poor horse she is riding in the picture. Enough said.) Scoggins was the "brains" behind the bogus Higgenbottom prosecution in which Alan Norton planned to use testimony from a "snitch" that he knew was outright perjury. Unfortunately for Norton, Scoggins, and you, "judge" House, the defense managed to find a letter that the snitch had written to Higgenbottom claiming that he knew the man was innocent.

Hmmm. You were preparing to put a man on trial knowing that the very "witness" against him already had put into writing that Higgenbottom was innocent. (Mr. Snitch changed his mind, apparently, when the prosecution offered him a nice deal of reduced time, something I am sure that you, "judge" House, knew about.)

As I noted before, I don't think you will have opposition and I'm sure that the good folks at Peavine Babdist and Oakwood Babdist will turn out in droves to vote you another term of corruption on the bench. And I guess a check of the pew Bibles there will find that the pages containing Matthew 23 and similar passages in the Bible have been torn out.

Channel 3, which provided the best coverage of the Tonya Craft case and trial (as opposed to Channel 9, which kissed the posteriors of Chris Arnt, Len Gregor, Tim Deal, Brian House, Sandra Lamb, and Joal Henke and called it "news"), has run an interview with Tonya on the second anniversary of the "not guilty" verdict against her.

As Tonya notes so well, the people who broke the law, committed perjury, and Brian House, who tried to rig the trial, have not been held accountable. Sandra Lamb has enrolled her daughter at Girls Preparatory School, which places every teacher there in danger, given that Lamb and her actress child have no scruples against lying when someone makes them mad.

Joal Henke committed perjury in Judge Marie Williams' court and Hamilton County DA Bill Cox ignored the felony committed in the building where he works. Henke also admited under oath to mortgage fraud, but apparently the U.S. attorney in Chattanooga was too busy pursuing non-crimes to deal with a felon in his midst.

As I see it, the Tonya Craft case presents a perfect picture of "justice" in Northwest Georgia and Hamilton County. The authorities there will move heaven and earth to pursue false charges and to prop up lies and even suborn perjury, but apparently they are incapable of actually going against people who commit real crimes.

By the way, I noticed that that alleged rape at East Ridge Middle School was a hoax, and that was what I thought when I first read the article. Notice that the rape crisis center along with Child Protective Services AND the police were involved. And how much does one wish to bet that the people at the rape crisis center and CPS believed the girl from the beginning?

What we have is a system out of control. Government agencies are full of people who will believe lie after lie and pursue the innocent. It does not just happen in the Chattanooga area, but from what I can tell, Northwest Georgia and Hamilton County are pretty hopeless when it comes to "justice."

Justice for James? Certainly not in the LMJC or Hamilton County

Honest and decent people do live in the United States, but they no longer work in the "justice" system. Instead, we are seeing a system that is populated with liars, criminals, bullies, and people who have no place in a decent society.

If there is any place in the USSA where that especially is true, it is in the heavily-churched and supposedly "Christian" area of Northwest Georgia, the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit. On Sundays, many of the players in the LMJC go to church and sing about Jesus, and then the rest of the week, they worship their real god, the Devil.

Why do I wrote so graphically? Let me quote Jesus (whom Brian House and Tim Deal claim to worship) who told the Pharisees in John 8:44:

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (ESV)

 Deal has lied under oath and at least on one occasion, fabricated a document in which he claimed to be somewhere where he was not. House has lied about his ex parte meetings with prosecutors and went along with Chris Arnt when Arnt openly lied to jurors in the closing arguments of the Tonya Craft trial. In other words, both of these men, along with prosecutors like Arnt, Len Gregor, and Alan Norton are all about lies, and according to the Jesus these men claim to follow, Jesus said that people who lie (and lie consistently) have Satan as their father.

All of this leads me to the present situation of James Combs, who agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in House's court because, to be frank, he could not trust House to run a fair trial, Norton and Deal to tell the truth, and a Catoosa County jury to listen to evidence. That is a damning indictment upon the people of Catoosa County and Northwest Georgia, who have put these people into power.

From what I have been hearing, Deal and Norton have tried to get James listed as a "sex offender" in Tennessee (where he lives and will be under probationary supervision) even though the misdemeanor to which he pleaded guilty does not carry the "sex offender" label. Nonetheless, dishonesty rules not only in Catoosa County and the LMJC, but also in Hamilton County, home of gang warfare, brutal (and dishonest) cops, and prosecutors who look the other way when felonies are committed in front of them.

From what I also understand, local cops are constantly harassing the Combs family. What can I say except that this kind of behavior from those who wear the blue costumes can be expected.

When Joal Henke testified in October 2010 in Hamilton County Circuit Court (Judge Marie Williams), he committed perjury and then admitted to having committed mortgage fraud, which is a federal offense. In fact, today, I just signed a paper in which I acknowledged that mortgage fraud is a felony punishable up to 30 years in prison.

So, Henke committed two felonies in Hamilton County, one a state crime and the other federal. But does Bill Cox or the local U.S. attorney care? Well, of course not! Why pursue criminals when one can harass and imprison innocent people?

If people wonder why I am so cynical about Chattanooga and North Georgia, all I can say is to look at the liars and thugs that inhabit "law enforcement" and "justice." I continue to wonder if there are any decent people left in public life in my old hometown, but I am having my doubts.

Brian House: Sock puppet for the prosecution

Reading comments on my last post, I was not surprised to see someone describe Brian House's courtroom demeanor. The descriptions given me by others who have watched this disgrace of a public official matched the latest I read and tells me that House really is not fit to be a judge.

House, it seems, takes all of his cues and direction from prosecutors, and especially Chris Arnt. What Arnt tells him to do, he does, period, which proves that Brian House is nothing more than the sock puppet for Buzz Franklin and his outlaw gang. That is pathetic, but Brian House is pathetic and is a pathetic excuse for a judge.

Wait a minute! Should I not be showing respect at least for the office? House may be incompetent and even craven, but should judges not receive respect?

My answer is this: Brian House does not respect his office and his place in the "justice" system, so why should I respect House or his office? Each day House purposely seeks to make a mockery of justice, knowing that even if he helps the prosecution frame innocent people, it will be years before the guilty verdict is overturned -- if it is overturned at all. (The Georgia Supreme Court and its appeals allies are notorious for twisting the law to fit whatever prosecutors in that state want.)

When a man or woman puts on the black robes of a judge, that person is under obligation not only from the people but also from God Almighty to do right, not to be a lying prosecutor's sock puppet or ventriloquist's dummy. When the Bible says that "to whom much is given, much is expected," it means just that. Much is expected from House, and he gives very little except what Buzz tells him to give.

He will answer one day for what he is doing, but in the meantime, one hopes he answers to the voters this year. However, I have my doubts that voters in the LMJC even care, and if they return this slice of refuse to the judge's bench, they will get the justice that they deserve -- none.

Welcome to Hell! (Or, Demopolis, Alabama)

Will Grigg has this week's biggest outrage, a farce of a drug trial in Alabama in which Alabama jurors send an innocent woman to prison. A woman buys three boxes of Sudafed and goes to jail, where she is tortured by Alabama's finest.

While I grew up in the South and went to graduate school at Auburn University, I must say that Alabama is a most shameful place. It was the state that gave us the 16th Street Church bombing in 1963, numerous murders of innocent people (for which there never was even a criminal charge brought, much less a trial), and now it is a full partner in the nation's disgraceful Drug War.

One cannot read this story without hitting a boiling point. My advice to people is just for them to stay out of Alabama (and the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit in Georgia), as the police and prosecutors there are crooks and pathological liars, and the judges are not any better. I once referred to Demopolis as "the very bowels of Hell," and I realize that I must not have been joking.

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