Talk:Americans for Supreme Court Safety and Integrity
Information was also taken from the following email press release, received on April 27, 2010:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Remington Dahl
Organization: ASCSI
Phone: 805.458.4002
Email: dahl.ascsi@yahoo.com
FB Petition: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=370256211394&v=info
'Citizens United' Fallout: Congressional Review of High Court Corruption Safeguards Aim of Petition
Washington, DC, April 27, 2010 - The American judicial watchdog ASCSI ("Ask-See") announced from the nation's capital this morning it will make available a social network petition on Thursday which requests that the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform upgrade safeguards protecting the federal Supreme Court against corruption. Encouraging Americans to join the ASCSI Facebook page is only half the mission, however, for Sacramento-based Americans for Supreme Court Safety and Integrity. Cautioning that the Court's recent Citizens United v The Federal Election Commission verdict is the most significant US policy victory yet for numerous multinational corporations with a history of sponsoring the unlawful coercion of public officials, ASCSI hopes also to raise awareness that the growing private military industry has begun to undermine both American Homeland Security efforts and the integrity of US democratic functions.
Most striking among revelations gleaned from interviews ASCSI held in March with multinational executives and private military personnel is agreement among insiders that corporate-funded acts of coercion once largely confined to countries notorious for government corruption now take place with increased regularity in democratic nations. Former employees of the Rhode Island private military company Custer Battles insist, for example, that two recent attacks on officials in newly-democratized Iraq attributed to terrorist groups are instead common examples of 'false flagging' responsibility for a fatal result that can transpire during a business-to-business coercion maneuver.
"The post-coldwar exodus of staff from government intelligence positions into higher-paying private sector employment, along with a blurring of lines between traditional private security firms and the now $100 billion a year private military industry were real game-changers for transnationals seeking greater policy-making clout," ASCSI spokesperson Anastasia Alpert stated before noon Tuesday from steps outside the US House of Representatives. "Increased vulnerability for our public officials to coercion by multinationals is a greater concern than anything implied by the recent Blackwater USA scandals."
ASCSI has pronounced the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United decision "a historical and logistical curiosity, unnecessarily overturning decades of established legal precedent, crafting corruption nearly as a function of design and ushering forth an era that ignores fundamental lessons learned during America's robber baron period." ASCSI will offer Facebook visitors a list of concerns raised by legal scholars since the Court's January 21 verdict.
"As a tradition, Americans form watchdog groups when we suspect that our core democratic values of 'a level playing field' and an honest interpretation of 'the rules' have become vulnerable to players looking to purchase an advantage," says Alpert. "Having recently been left with the tab for record-sized scandals in business and government, many Americans are beginning to take a closer look at Citizens United: Those corporations funding the international rise in acts of illicit coercion are among the biggest beneficiaries of Citizens United."
Research available on the ASCSI Facebook site suggests that the global expanse of private forces has also begun to hamper the efforts of agencies responsible for America's national security. ASCSI links the ambitions of private military to a US intelligence body now "tailored to the narrow policy goals of the Pentagon, short on expertise in crucial civilian disciplines, deficient in dynamic problem-solving skills, predisposed to unwieldy military solutions to global challenges and increasingly vulnerable to large-scale infiltration from ubiquitous private operatives."
Though ASCSI warns that continued international investment in private security and military means that public officials at every level and in all three branches of the American government will gradually become more vulnerable to coercion, the organization's single concern is ensuring the safety and integrity of the US Supreme Court. When facing challenges this multi-facetted, it's helpful to maintain some measure and some focus," explains ASCSI national coordinator Remington Dahl. "ASCSI is focused only on America's federal Supreme Court. We know our group's Facebook petition is one humble step in a larger staircase, but we feel it's a worthwhile step. We value Facebook as a medium because it's action-oriented, it's easy to participate in and our success will depend on a kind of grass-roots collaboration."
The 133-word ASCSI Facebook Petition will read as follows:
We are a group of American citizens urging a review by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the safety and integrity of our Supreme Court following its ruling in Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission (No 08-205).
Members of ASCSI request that the House committee:
A) review:
1) procedures for oversight into reasonable avenues of unlawful coercion of our Supreme Court justices 2) current protective service detail and protocols used to safeguard our Supreme Court judges and their extended family
B) recommend:
constitutionally viable laws our congress should enact to... 1) limit spending on US elections by domestic collectives 2) eliminate spending on US elections by international or multinational collectives, or by concerns partly or wholly owned by foreign governments.
We join this ASCSI Facebook group to petition our congress for action.
The ACCSI Facebook Petition will become linked to the group's searchable Facebook site at facebook.com/asksee on Thursday, April 29. The petition already can be visited directly at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=370256211394.
About ASCSI Americans for Supreme Court Safety and Integrity is a federal judicial watchdog organization headquartered in Sacramento, CA. Diverse ASCSI membership includes lawyers, corporate managers, educators, former members of the military, university students, community activists, retired citizens and the disabled. The common bond among all members is a commitment to the honest and healthy function of our federal judiciary.
Contact: Remington Dahl Organization: ASCSI Phone: 805.458.4002 Email: dahl.ascsi@yahoo.com FB Petition: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=370256211394&v=info
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Alicia Pulley
Media Coordinator
ASCSI - "Ask-See"
pulley.ascsi@yahoo.com
facebook.com/asksee
Americans for Supreme Court Safety and Integrity
3427 Evergreen Cir - Unit 16
West Sacramento, CA 95691-2935
Anne Landman, CMD Editor
