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The National Association of Pro se Litigants, Inc.
is a non-profit civic organization. Our mission is as follows:
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Enable pro se litigants and fight to protect
the rights and interests of pro se
citizens TM, whether they become full fledge
litigants or not.
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Raise public awareness that a) constitutional
rights are not guaranteed, but must be fought for; b) liberty
and justice is not for all, but only those able and willing to
pay for it using money or sweat equity; and c) the three major reasons
average citizens are denied justice are:
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Judicial Corruption and Incompetence
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Lawyer Corruption and Incompetence
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Flaws in the design of the Judicial System
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Hold lawyers and judges personally accountable
when they betray public trust.
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Offset the natural impulse to become a Vigilante
by designing constructive, non-violent, legal ways to
release the anger that results from being the victim of injustice.
Our hallmark tools are Citizen
Imposed Sanctions(TM)
and the
Satirical Stress Reliever TM
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Correct the picture that the corrupt elements of
our justice system have painted of pro se litigants.
Who Are Our Members?
Our members are non-lawyers who handle their own legal matters
or want to learn how to handle their own legal matters.
How We Accomplish Our Mission
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We accomplish our mission through patent
pending tools, processes and services.
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We provide member access to
The Pro se Toolkit(TM),
a tool designed to help pro se
litigants be more efficient and effective litigating their
cases.
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We provide moral support to our members and
monitor their cases as
they make their way through the justice system.
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We lobby our elected officials and the legal
community to enforce due process and equal treatment rights
of pro se litigants.
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We take non-partisan political and legal
action to weaken or strike down unconstitutional and overbroad laws
that infringe on the rights of pro se litigants. Our
primary peeves are Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL)
which we believe creates a lawyer monopoly that eliminates a
pros se litigant's right to purchase paralegal and legal
secretarial litigation support services; unbridled judicial immunity
takes away the incentive for judges to treat pro se litigants
fairly; and the legal community's system of self regulation
which appears to be a fraud based on
numbers released in 2008 by the American Bar Association
which say that approximately 50% of total complaints made
against lawyers nationally, are dismissed before being
investigated, and of those investigated, 50% of those are dismissed.
It troubles us that self regulation also tends to
give higher consideration to preserving the legal careers of the
morally corrupt and incompetent, than it does to the rights and
interests of the public and this is what we are pushing to change.
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We advocate for legal education being
mandatory in High School.
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We provide resources through the Pro se Library.
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We monitor judge and lawyer treatment of citizens
by both covert and overt means
in order to expose corrupt or incompetent judges and lawyers.
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We put lawful political pressure on the legal community to
discipline and/or remove corrupt and/or incompetent judges and
lawyers.
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We respectfully engage the legal community to learn more
about the community and to point out problems in the legal
community and to offer them a unique perspective on their
functioning; and we make recommendations to them on how to
improve their processes.
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We support a properly functioning justice
system wholeheartedly, but we can no longer support the
dysfunction and corrupt elements in our Justice System that are
tarnishing the reputation of the entire legal system as a whole
while wreaking havoc in the lives of law abiding citizens.
As a response we design and develop citizen imposed
disciplinary measures and tools that we will use as leverage for as long as the
justice system continues to fail us. Our Citizen
Imposed Sanctions(TM)
are imposed, not only on judges and lawyers, but also on the regulatory
bodies and elected officials who enable these morally
corrupt judges and lawyers to prey on the public. These
sanctions also help reduce white collar crime because they may
also be imposed on the individuals and businesses that thrust us
into the court system in the first place and serves as an
excellent reference tool to help discern the true nature and
characteristics of people before one enters into a relationship
with them whether it be romantic, business, or platonic.
Citizen
Imposed Sanctions(TM)
are creative forms of boycotts, pickets, publicity,
disclosure of facts, public embarrassment and the public records
that we create and maintain from them, that are used to legally pressure
regulatory bodies into regulating, pressure corrupt judges into obeying their
oath of office and to pressure corrupt or incompetent lawyers to
either provide competent quality service to their clients as expected or return their
client's money, and encourage individuals and businesses to deal
with other members of society in a honest, just and moral
fashion.
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We educate the public and recruit new members
in order to strengthen our ability to execute our mission
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We develop performance measures for the legal
community and conduct research and analysis backed by
statistical data to continually answer the question - Is our
justice system up to par or does it unleash more harm than good
on society?
What We CAN NOT Do
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NAPSL
can not provide guidance or an opinion as to whether you have a
legitimate case to pursue. You have to make that decision
for yourself.
The Pro se Library has resources, such as a
complaint checklist, that can give you insight into making a
decision. Once you make the commitment to litigate a bona fide
legal issue you may JOIN US and receive
access to the Pro se Toolkit
(TM)
, a tool that will make your litigation experience more
bearable.
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We can not respond to requests for help from
non-members. As much as we empathize with the pain you are
suffering from your individual situation, we can not allocate any
of our resources to help you if you are not willing to help us
help you by becoming a member. Membership is necessary
because it pays for the cost of providing the personalized
assistance you are seeking, and in the eyes of our elected
officials, our membership numbers dictate how well they listen
to us. We
know, it is a shock when a judge or lawyer does something
egregious, but due to unbridled judicial immunity and the fact that self
regulation of the legal community is a fraud, egregious acts
conducted by judges and lawyers are now common place.
Unless you JOIN US and help us politically to put a stop to it,
it will continue. As a
result we believe our energies are better spent on efforts that
will help distinguish good judges and lawyers from bad, so that
we can push for judicial immunity restraints to be placed on bad
judges with repeat offenses, and push for enforced and
strengthened disciplinary measures against bad attorneys. This, we believe,
is in the best interest of the public and the most effective way
we can be of help to individuals in their personal situations.
Why We Do What We Do
We are tired of being victims of our own justice system; paying
outrageous attorney fees, and still receiving substandard service.
In addition, even when we can afford an attorney, we often become
victims of our own attorney's greed, laziness or incompetence.
For every case that goes to litigation, 50% of the
attorneys will lose their case, so right off the bat if we hire an attorney we only have a 50-50 chance of winning
our
case. We
have come to realize that an attorney can never be as passionate
about our case as we are, and when you factor in attorney greed,
laziness or incompetence, and judicial corruption, then the chances of us being satisfied
with the outcome of our case is far below the 50-50 ratio. So, why should we pay
exorbitant fees for an outcome that has a higher probability of
yielding a dissatisfactory outcome than yielding a satisfactory
one? What other industry in the world can get away with
charging $225 an hour while having such horrific odds of yielding
a result that their client is satisfied with? None that we
can think of.
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addition, we believe that for no other purpose than greed and
abuse of power pro se litigants' rights are constantly trampled,
by the very people entrusted to uphold or fight vigorously to
protect our rights.
The character and quality of the
American Justice System has eroded. Pro-se Litigants are routinely
discouraged and denied rights. Pro-se litigants receive no respect
-- and yet are held to higher standards than
attorneys. Corruption is as blatant as a Court Clerk manipulating
the record to a Judge issuing a ruling that is designed to
intentionally block a pro-se litigant's access to justice.
We will no longer tolerate judicial dysfunction.
Our message to the Legal Community
We have had enough! We will follow the rules of the system, but
we now demand that you follow those
same rules. If you conduct yourself with honesty and
integrity, then we have no qualms with you. But if you are
one of the corrupt, overpriced, lazy or incompetent members of the
legal community who prey on the public; we will shine a spotlight on you.
Every blunder, every unjust ruling, every dirty trick you've ever
played, every incompetent, unethical act will be broadcast to the
public. Every case you handle will be publicly scrutinized until
you make right the lives you have ruined or you are out of
business, whichever comes first.
We are not afraid
to call you out! We are not afraid to picket in front of
your law offices or any place where you present yourself as a
respectable, credible, trustworthy member of society, which you
are not. We are not afraid to boycott you; and we will not
be intimidated by defamation or any other type of lawsuit or
harassment techniques that you cook up.
Despite our disgust at the corruption that has overtaken our
justice system, we will treat you more fairly than you've treated
us, so we do not need to defame you. If we put a spotlight
on you, you have already defiled yourself. We will simply
convict you in the Court of Public Opinion using your own words
and deeds.
And we will leave it to the public to
sentence you. Loss of business, respect, credibility,
standing on the Bench or in the Bar, or denial of political
advancement are what we predict the sentence will and
should be.
THE
BENEFITS
We
provide benefit to pro-se litigants through our services; to the
legal community by pointing out and providing solutions to
corruption and inefficiencies in the system (so that you may fix
them) and we provide
benefit to society by facilitating an alternative for aggrieved
people -- who without equal access to the law -- may take
justice into their own hands -- as vigilantes. Therefore, it is
in everyone's best interest that pro-se litigants be treated
with respect, and fairly.
Our message to the World
If you would like to help our cause or interested in
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