Has Lady Justice, blindfolded and cloaked in a persona of fair and equal justice deceived society with a wink and a nod; or has her intergrity been corrupted by others who rely on the cowardness of politicians and media sources to protect her abusers without holding them accountable?

In an earlier post on my blog, titled, “Obey or Else!, I talked about people turning a blind eye to bureaucracy’s reliance on political corruption. In North America, citizens have become distrustful of internal agency interference, causing bureaucrats to initiate rules and regulations with heftier penalties for the loudest of concerned voices. The most powerful agency in this fight is the Attorney General’s office and its array of departments within the justice system who have gotten bolder and more brazen in their demands for legislative control over society, which sadly, is now being approved with little resistance.

In Canada, bureaucractic totalitarianism had its largest expansion in 1966 when the Solicitor General’s Office created a new and powerful agency, similarly called, “The Department of the Solicitor General.” This underling department, working under a closely matched banner is where the growth of bureaucracy’s overreach planted its deepest roots. The department was been given control over four agencies, each self-regulated with unchecked power. (1) The R.C.M.P—The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (2) C.S.I.S.—The Canadian Security Intelligence Service. (3) C.S.C.—The Correctional Service of Canada. (4) N.P.B.—The National Parole Board.

Without exception, the most secretive of all government entities, the “Department of the Solicitor General” is virtually unanswerable to the Canadian public. Clouded in secrecy, it was renamed in 2005 under the heading; “The Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. And while adding two new agencies to its portfolio: (5) The Canada Border Services Agency, and (6) The Canadian Firearms Center; the department still offers little accountability to the public. All six of these revitalized agencies lack oversight and any minimal insight they endure can only be described as, “Foxes guarding the hen house.”

The Canadian judiciary has obtained control over much of the public narrative through self-serving rules and regulations. The courts, corrections, and parole regulate and release false and misleading records on a regular basis without fear of reprisal. If documents fail to meet desired narratives, they are simply blacklined or excluded altogether. Correctional and parole institutions offer up manufactured and misleading reports to degrade and dehumanize anyone seeking to expose corruption and abuse. This is particularly true in matters of sentencing, where “Parole” has become an abuse tool used by Corrections Canada and the N.P.B. Threats and denial of release are used against anyone who dares stand up to institutional corruption.

Scrutiny of this systematic abuse is pushed aside with self-serving statements like; “It’s top secret;” and “for security reasons non-discloser of the matter is for the protection of the public” or “Release of information would not serve the public interest;”

In Canada and the United States, when threats to bureaucratic control materialize, drastic rhetoric from politicians and bureaucrats ring from the roof-tops. Fear-mongering cries about how democracy is in danger sweep across the land to take eyes off the hidden dangers that lurk behind a totalitarian bureauacracy…a loss of personal freedoms.

It should be noted that what I am talking about is not restricted to any one political party. A left or right ideology has no bearing on the degree of power being sought by the bureaucracy…it is the willingness of the responder to support the administration of power that is of importance. Selling out citizens by elected officials and bureaucrats takes place on both sides of the political spectrum. In the United States, the Watergate scandal in the early 1970’s was a Republican escapade, generally known as a right-wing political party. G.O.P. bureaucracy and elected officials colluded with each other to engage in criminal and political crimes. More recently, it has been the Democrat Party, or D.N.C. that has engaged in the demonization of a political foe. Referred to as the Russia Hoax, the President of the United States, Donald Trump was falsely accused of being a Russian Agent. This absurd manufactured political ploy was used for three years to deceive the American people before it was exposed as a lie. And as in Watergate, again it was the bureaucratic state controlling the narrative with hopes of fixing the outcome of an election.

Canadian bureaucracy has also shown that it is not exempt from political interference, especially when confronted with dissent. The upheaval involving the trucker’s convoy in Ottawa in 2021, showed how quickly the fear of losing control of the public narrative can produce a group-think mentality among politicians, bureaucrats, and a supporting media. The truckers, demonized by government over a challenge to covid restrictions, were maligned repeatedly by government officials who sought to control the narrative and gain nation wide sympathy; believing it would drive the truckers into compliance.

In the United States, the abuse of judicial power is under scrutiny as colliding ideologies are battling for control of that nation. Invoking the power of the judiciary, officials have used bureaucracy to undermine fair and honest justice in the U.S. It is why the Trump saga in the U.S. …which was manufactured to create a political scandal should be looked at through a judicial lens more so than a political one. In this case, it is the corruption of the legal process that is the biggest threat to the republic.

Judicial corruption is also on display in Canada, particularly when it comes to unsigned plea-bargains which allows the courts to take wide berths around due process. With ninety percent of criminal cases in Canada being settled by plea-bargains which lack accountability, manipulation of the legal-process and institutional abuse is assured. My personal experience with Canada’s unsigned and unaccountable plea-bargaining procedure, which is documented in my book, Poor Man’s Justice and in my posts at dhmitchellbooks.com, tells a frightful story of corruption and abuse which has been covered up by Canada’s justice system for years.

As highlighted in my book, a vindictive parole revocation shows how the manipulation of evidence and false documentation can result in a series of devastating consequences after sentencing; in this case it was pain inflicted on an entire family. I conducted several interviews for my book after my release, and one of the most damaging highlights of evidence against the justice system came during my interview with the counselor who was deceitfully quoted in a N.P.B. document used to support a vindictive parole suspension. In the document, the counselor was stated as saying he could not move me beyond plotting and seeking revenge. Dismayed and angered by the lie, the counselor refuted the National Parole Board’s false statement and handed me a copy of his rebuttal. His response, discussed in my book, clearly states that I never gave him any indication that I was out in the community, plotting and seeking revenge against anyone. He qualified the response by stating that I had alway maintained to him that my intentions were to pursue perceived injustices through a court process.

During this period, it became clear that my book interviews had spooked the justice system. To silence me, the judge who had presided over my preliminary hearing four years ealier, and had allowed false and unsworn testimony to be heard, used the family court process to banish me from the community believing his ruling would stop proceedings. Unfortunately for the judge, his order separated me from my youngest son and strengthened my resolve.

Two years passed before his order was overturned in the Supreme Court. And a year later I filed a civil suit against the justice system. But again, deception and manipulation of court procedures prevented two-thirds of the judicial corruption from being heard. The judge, having taken control of the case in a contentious one-sided manner from day one, then ended the proceeding without a rebuttle from Crown Attorneys who never put anyone on the stand to challenge my two weeks of tesitmony.

This is also where the vile use of institutional techniques of dehumanization and degradation became visible in written documentation. During the discovery process, I had come across a statement in a National Parole Board document which had allegedly been made by my ex-wife. It stated I had been taking inappropriate baths with my youngest son but was not sure anything had happened. This disgraceful attempt at degradation was similar to what I had heard from a correctional social worker just days after my parole suspension, which had happened less than a week before a scheduled family court hearing at which the National Parole Board feared I was about to expose courtroom and correctional abuse used to influence parole conditions, particularly those dealing with access to my children.

The vindictive and seedy attempt by Corrections Canada and the N.P.B. to dehumanize me with a false and degrading inference of abuse to my youngest son is defined in Philip G. Zimbardo’s text book, “Psychology and Life” as a ploy of changing attitudes through the coercive impact of “persuasive communication.” Behind the walls of correctional institutions this form of degradation is designed to push an individual into silence and compliance. (Initiated by a false and obscene scenario being administered without fear of exposure by those making the accusation) For myself, aware of the justice system’s ability to deceive and manipulate documentation, I had my youngest son, who was now living with me and going to high school, phone his mother and ask her about the N.P.B. statement. And as I suspected, she made it clear that no such conversation had occurred. And like the counselor who had also been deceitfully used to support Corrections Canada and the National Parole Board, my e-wife qualified her response just as he had done, saying if she believed anything as inappropriate as was being suggested had happened she would never have agreed to visitations as she had.

I left this disgraceful attempt at degradation and dehumanization out of my book when it was published in 2004, doing so because I had no desire to see my children thrown into the foul sewers that Corrections Canada and the National Parole Board were swimming in. But today, with my kids living healthy adult lives, I believe exposing the emotional and psychological abuse being practiced  inside our correctional and parole institutions is something that should be highlighted and understood…it needs to stop!

When you have a judicial system that lacks fear of being exposed for this and other unlawful deceptions, a willingness to maintain strict control over court proceeding and legal documents becomes a routine, including those coming from by our correctional institutions as just revealed. The fact is, almost all judicial rules and regulations give more protection to the trappings of the court and the judiciary than they do individuals. In my case, court transcripts were altered and deleted, including the disappearance of my first hearing before the Appellate Court where reasons for my appeal were discussed; then apparently removed from the public record.

Politicians and legal scholars in North America tell us that the stewards in charge of our justice systems are beyond reproach. But if those in control of the process really wanted to bolster the system’s integrity and fairness it could be done with enforced legislation at any time.

This lack of accountability in the administration of justice is a direct result of power-seeking rules and regulations that have the opposite effect; and move society away from fair and equal justice. To make this point I will insert a short segment from my post “Obey or Else, showing the Appellate Court’s self-serving presumptions of fairness in court rules and regulations, titled: ACCESS TO THE COURT RECORD

1. 1. Presumption of Access

The Court of Appeal recognizes openness and accountability to the public as critical to democracy and the rule of law.

The open court principle is of crucial importance in a democratic society. It ensures that citizens have access to the courts and can, as a result, comment on how courts operate and on proceedings that take place in them. Public access to the courts also guarantees the integrity of judicial processes in as much as the transparency that flow from access ensures that justice is rendered in a manner that is not arbitrary but is in accordance with the rule of law.

Now let’s briefly highlight the relevant inclusions that followed this alleged presumption: The court writes: “A right to access to court records is thus presumed.However, the presumption of access to court records must be balanced with protecting the rights related to the protection of the dignity of individuals involved in court proceedings and with the ensuring of the proper administration of justice: Providing automatic access to court records in all cases would not thwart the court’s jurisdiction and obligation to protect important social values.

The above wording is subtle, but it appears that the hidden protections given the justice system become more visible in the follow-up: “Potential breaches of privacy related to the protection of personal dignity and security are risks that may require the restriction or denial of access to court records in certain circumstances.”

In the summary shown below, the Court of Appeal highlights it’s guiding principles

1. 1. Recognizes the open court principle as a fundamental constitutional protection by providing a “presumptive” right of access to court records.

1. 1. Recognizes that restrictions on access are justified where serious risks to privacy or other important interest such as the proper administration of justice, outweigh a presumptive right of access, and,

1. 1. Recognizes that where restrictions on access are necessary, such restrictions should minimally impair the presumptive right of access.

In short: inferences of open access to court records, despite the justice systems attempt to hoodwink society, are in fact, a farce!

In closing, lets look at where North America’s society is headed today. It is no secret that the middle class in Canada and the United States is shrinking. For the most part, people in both countries go about their daily lives; they pay their taxes and carry on without government intrusion, not knowing, or even worrying about the rules and regulations that define their ability to exist. This quiet citizen defines the first forty-one years of my own life. A husband and father of three children with a good job, a comfortable home, two family vehicles, not to forget, a cat and a dog. It was a life that all changed when my future was put into the hands of judicial officials who chose to define my life, not as it was, but to degrade it into one that suited their desire to control the public narrative.

Before I came into conflict with the immense power of the justice system, questions about the intentional abuse of the law, including its rules and regulations never crossed my mind. But today I ask the question; Has the achieved power of bureaucracy become a breeding ground for corruption in the justice system? It is a fair question when you consider that life-time careers have become the norm in public service, whether it be elected officials or hired bureaucrats.

These people’s eyes never stray far from anyone in society who is willing to challenge their control. In the United States, parents raised concerns about class teachings, they were immediately demonized as, ‘Domestic Terrorists—in these cases the method of control used by judicial officials was optional to extreme, but imprisonment was a threat in almost all cases. In Canada, the government has given its military civil authority to engage in domestic law enforcement. One must wonder if the country’s armed forces would have been used against its own citizens when the truckers honked their horns in Ottawa.

Throughout history, national uprisings have risen out of the pain and suffering inflicted on citizens by overbearing governments. In recent years, elitists around the world have become nervous about the growing unrest and have banded together to form a new world order. I don’t wish to be over dramatic or alarming, but it is worth noting that the purging of individual rights is already under attack around the globe. Martial law is becoming the norm for power seeking globalists who are attempting to quiet the ill winds in society by using wide reaching global laws.

Shouts of saving democracy by politicians and their surrogates have become a rallying cry, used to silence anyone who expresses a different perspective that goes beyond that of a narrow mindset. Blinded by a need to be right, many of the loudest voices we hear have lost sight of their humanity. Striving to hold onto positions of power and control has proven to be a dangerous drug, and those who enter public service are easily intoxicated by its overpowering scent as we see in our institutions today. If we are to survive in a free and open society, we must go beyond demands for simple accountability, and push for unfettered access to government records, which in a free democracy or republic belongs to the people. Any politician asking for a vote, should receive support only if he or she signs a pledge to support open legislation that gives every citizen the right to look through public records without fear of reprisal.

As of today, prying eyes are discouraged from making such demands. Why you ask? Could it be, that the most secretive of all public building has a lady statue standing on its doorstep, guarding the place where oversight is needed most.

This expose is designed to raise a multitude of questions about the harm of unchecked power within North America’s judicial hierarchy. As you read and debate the pros and cons, my hope is that you will search for and find the answers needed.

David Mitchell…a father, grandfather and proud citizen of Canada.