Grievance 16 - Defeasances
The U.S. Constitution failed to provide persons deprived of their legal
rights with immediate and automatic recourse. The 1st Amendment
provision for "redress of grievances" required a deprived party to
"petition" the government that caused the annulment, and even then a
case could be ignored without penalty against the individuals in
government responsible for the action.
The most flagrant case of U.S. citizens being stripped of all of their
constitutional "Bill of Rights" occured at the outset of World War II.
About 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were arrested, taken from
their homes and held under guard in "concentration camps" for several
years as alleged "security risks". The right to a "speedy and public
trial" was, in effect, nullified.
Almost 55 years after the war, it was learned that 2,200 Japanese
citizens of Latin American countries were similarly interned in the U.S.
at taxpayers expense, but the government never disclosed the reason for it.
American taxpayers were held responsible for "reparations" to all of the
invalidated prisoners. $20,000 was paid to each American internee and
$5,000 to each of the foreign internees who applied, for a total of $1.6
billion.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, individuals in government are held directly liable for
violating constitutional provisions, and complainants are guaranteed immediate processing of grievances by the Judiciary Branch.
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