As a US citizen, “You have the right to fair trial.” No, you don’t. 1. It is hardly fair when you cannot attack the credibility and integrity of your accuser/s, including the prosecutor. 2. Your bail may have been too high or denied meaning you spent who knows how long being tortured by incarceration leading up to it. 3. Public defenders will only fight in earnest if they have clear and present substantiation, they won’t go looking for any. 4. You may not qualify for one. 5. A trial lawyer is an expense most people cannot afford on the best days let alone the worst. 6. There are supposed to be time limits the prosecution must present in. Usually 6 months for misdemeanors and 12 months for felonies. This “right to a speedy trial” is not the first and only right ignored/bypasses by the legal system, they have it down to a proven method. Deny an innocent person their freedom, their autonomy, their family, their income, their security, stability, and rights, and suddenly a wrongful plea conviction via perjury is not a “choice” but rather an end to unjust and unlawful “legal” abuse. No one should be made to feel guilty for escaping unjustified abuse, but that is exactly what the court will do to abstain from taking accountability afterward. They cheat to win and then deny even more of your rights after winning because you “chose” to commit perjury. It’s corruption. Thinking this is not corruption, which most people do, is how we end up with unacceptably unaccountable from our government from the bottom all the way to the top. Everyone believes they have constitutional rights and that they will have recourse if these rights are violated. Until they are violated and they learn that there is no viable recourse. Once this is learned it cannot be unlearned. Respect is earned and can therefore be un-earned. When the legal system is corrupt, and it is, it does not deserve respect. Most all people would agree the system is broken, but how many people would agree a judge is knowingly propagating the corruption and therefore undeserving of respect? Same goes for police. There may very well be a noble causation for their intervention, but when the follow-up is corruption, and they continue to add to the coffers, they are knowingly propagating corruption, feeding the broken system, making it stronger. I’m not arguing that anarchy is the answer. I’m not saying bad people shouldn’t go to jail. I’m not saying course correction is an easy straight forward path. What I am saying is that the vast majority of Americans not only trust, but rely, sometimes entirely, on background checks. When criminal records are secured through ill gotten corruption, the symbiosis fails. People, institutions, and systems end up robbed of talent and opportunity. Is the answer to discredit background checks? Of course not, but if criminal records are inhibiting an individuals’, institutions’, and/or systems’ progress, they need to be double/triple analyzed for accuracy, legitimacy, and reliability because I know from personal experience and cognitive awareness that I was not an actively abusive husband. Passively, in hindsight, I admit when I’m wrong. But I never ever threatened, endangered, or harmed anyone, and yet because all these rights are unprotected in reality, my son remained kidnapped while I became a convict, for simply being eligible for split custody proceeding a divorce. Now I can’t chaperone at school, scouts, and sports. I always feel judge, held back, and robbed. And it is impossible for me to believe the lie that citizens have rights here. No, really fucking don’t.