THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA'S LEGAL
TECHNICIAN ERADICATION PROGRAM IN ACTION
NOTE: This is the same ethically and morally challenged state judiciary that sentences people to death in this state, upholds their death sentence(s) on appeal and then allows Florida's Department of Corrections to kill the accused.
The practice of law in Florida, and in other states, is nothing more than a government-sponsored and government-protected racket. It is protected in Florida by the Supreme Court with the help of The Florida Bar with the use of the Court's "contempt of court" powers, under color of law. Such activity is a clear abuse of the power of the state to protect the cash cow of the elite and powerful. The Sherman Antitrust Act and our inalienable rights granted by the First Amendment are ignored if they stand in the way of The Florida Bar's monopoly. It is obvious that the citizens are being denied "honest government services" by their judiciary.
Historically, efforts of the legal profession to
prevent the unauthorized practice of law to perfect a monopoly of legal services have long
played a role in American jurisprudence. Throughout the years, the common justification of
such efforts has been a legitimate interest of the state in protecting the public from the
unskilled and dishonest but this expressed concern for the public interest is not the true
motivator. Equally, those efforts have also been coupled with an emotional, if not
outright, appeal that such is necessary to protect the legal profession from intruders.
As artfully put by a former chairman of Florida's State Committee on Unauthorized
Practice:
The unauthorized practice of the law as it
flourishes today presents a ringing challenge
to the members of our profession; and if it is
not stamped out, root and branch, every
ethical and self-respecting lawyer, sooner or
later, will have to close his office and
abandon the hopeless task of making a living
in the practice.
Yates, Milton. A Challenge - The Unauthorized Practice of the Law; 9 Fla.L.R. 560 (1935).
In his article, Yates sought to re-emphasize the role played by local attorneys in assisting the profession to prevent UPL. This was an important endeavor because, at that time, UPL was addressed by petition in chancery at the circuit court level, with a local attorney as petitioner. Yates, supra (discussing the impact of a Tampa newspaper article critical of the efforts of the attorney organization in Tampa, which had sought an injunction to prohibit the practice of law by certain non-lawyers.)
After years of the Supreme Court of Florida's usurping the Legislative Branch by creating legislation by rule of court and by manufacturing case law in UPL cases, the definition of "the practice of law" has been so expanded that every nonlawyer (98.5+% of Florida's population) is in violation at some time or another. For Citizen "A" to communicate free factual information about our laws, our rights or remedies at law to Citizen "B" constitutes the unlicensed practice of law in Florida. Another example of UPL upon which prosecutions have been brought and injunctions rendered is where a nonlawyer citizen conveys his or her factual knowledge on the subject of law, that is not the common knowledge of others, to another person. If you have committed the above acts, you are subject to investigation by The Florida Bar's private UPL police and prosecution in the Supreme Court of Florida! The Supreme Court of Florida is used as the court of first impression, therefore the accused is denied an appeal to a disinterested, higher court, a grave due process deprivation.
Though, only persons who are perceived as competitors to members of The Florida Bar are singled-out and "prosecuted," without any sense of fundamental fairness and due process of law afforded them. What the accused does receive is a lot of ceremonial inquisition, intimidation and procedural excesses that only attempt to legitimize the already-conceived final disposition of the alleged transgression. If you are accused by a member of The Florida Bar of UPL, you will ultimately be found guilty and then "enjoined" for life by the Supreme Court of Florida without the right of a jury trial. Even though state law conveys the right to a jury trial in a prosecution under the UPL statute (Section 454.23 F.S.), the Supreme Court of Florida does not allow it. The Supreme Court of Florida has effectively killed our state and federal constitutions and has rendered certain annoying, pesky and troublesome inalienable citizens' rights null in Florida.
If this situation is troubling to you, contact Governor Jeb Bush and your nonlawyer legislators immediately. Tell them you want The Florida Bar's private UPL police shut down. Tell them you want the rendering of "honest government services" by our Judicial Branch restored and the dishonorable and dishonest judicial officers and officers of the court removed from our state government.
This matter deserves your urgent attention. This same tyrannical state judiciary is sentencing people to death. If a judiciary is corruptible in one area of law, what prevents it from being equally corrupt in another area, such as in death penalty cases. Such a court system is capable of sending people to their death just for sport or for political reasons!
Do you want to know how the legal profession became so powerful in Florida and in other states? If so, click here. It was quite a scheme, developed and promoted by the American Judicature Society.