Julian Heicklen/trails

==Government failure==
We have a huge prison population, huge debt, huge unemployment,
unsuccessful lengthy wars, and bad foreign policy.
We are the number one prison state in the world. With less than 5% of the
world’s population, we have 25% of the world’s prisoners. We are filling our
prisons with people who own plants, vegetables, and flowers. Our prisons are
hellholes.
We are in an economic collapse. The government gave over $1 trillion to the
people responsible for the collapse. The government continues to pass legislation
that cannot be financed. Our national debt is $13 trillion (about 90% of GDP and
growing). The unemployment rate is at 9%.
Our government failed to cope with the environmental disasters caused by
hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by British
Petroleum.
We are engaged in two lengthy and costly wars. We are sending our young
adults to Iraq and Afghanistan to be killed, thus saving Osama Bin Laden the
inconvenience of having to come to the U. S. for the killing. Our troops are
demoralized because we are not supporting them sufficiently. In Iraq there have
been more military deaths from suicide than from military action.
Our foreign policy is insane. We are catering to our enemies (Iran in
particular) and alienating our allies. Israel is our staunchest and most reliable ally.
It is the frontline defense against Islamic expansion into Europe. However the
Obama administration is going out of its way to alienate the Israelis. Turkey is a
member of NATO and was the only Islamic country on good terms with Israel. It
has now turned away from us and is siding with the other Islamic countries against
us. It was responsible for the attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. North
Korea and Iran snub their noses at us.
==Judicial failure==
Our courts are no longer courts of law, but are courts of inquisition. They
openly ignore our Constitution. In my own experience with the courts, the U. S.
District Court of the Southern District of New York denied me a trial and found
judgment against me based on “irrefutable” video evidence which was tampered by
the police. It disagrees with the police deposition of the facts.
The courts are prosecuting me for exercising my First Amendment right of
free speech and my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. The Sixth
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution states:
:“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed;”
However the federal prosecutor wants to deny me a jury trial for distribution of
pamphlets outside the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Furthermore the court hearing for my arrest in Springfield, MA, has been assigned
to the U. S. District Court in Boston, MA. I wonder why it was not assigned to
Hawaii or Alaska to inconvenience me further.