Forejustice
The Inhumanity of Government Bureaucracies
By Hans Sherrer
Essay published in the Fall 2000 issue of The Independent Review. This essay explains that inhumane treatment of people not a part of a bureaucracy is an inherent, predictable and inevitable feature of government bureaucracies.
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Rule By Punch Cards
or: How Computers Are A Menace to Liberty
By Hans Sherrer
This essay was published as a chapter in the anthology, National Identification Systems: Essays in Dissent. (McFarland Publishing, 2003)
The essay explains from a historical perspective why computers are the greatest menace to human liberty yet created by mankind. Computers were conceived and first developed in the late 1800s as a device for the federal government to efficiently compile, analyze, and store data about Americans. The very nature of the computer is to impair a person’s liberty by undermining their “right to be let alone.”
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The Myth of Foreign Terrorism : the events of 9/11 weren’t the acts of terrorism they are portrayed as being
By Hans Sherrer
(Dec. 2002)
This 27,000 word essay explains why there is no definitional basis to justify blaming the events of September 11, 2001 on foreign terrorism. In contrast, the most conspicuous beneficiaries of 9/11’s events have been politicians, police agencies, and defense and security oriented businesses associated with the federal government. It also discusses an important but little known episode in American history that helps to explain the fervor with which influential people associated with the federal government have seized on the events of 9/11 to obliterate the Bill of Rights and the liberty of Americans.
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(This essay was expanded into a book that was published in 2018.)
Professor Philip Zimbardo: The Interview
Hans Sherrer interviewed Stanford University Psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo on August 27, 2003. Professor Zimbardo created and conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971.
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This interview is included in Hans Sherrer’s book, Dehumanization Is Not An Option.
Read Hans Sherrer’s review of Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment in HTM.
Prosecutorial Lawlessness Is Its Real Name
By Hans Sherrer
Justice Denied, Vol. 1, Issue 6
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Gerry Spence & The Ring Of Truth
By Hans Sherrer
Justice Denied, Vol. 1, Issue 7
Elmyr de Hory as a barometer of the privacy and liberty that has vanished since the mid-
By Hans Sherrer
(Aug. 2006)
This essay explains that the privacy and liberty of people has effectively vanished since the mid-
Homeschooling: A Hope For America
Comment by Hans Sherrer about the book
(2010)
A general theme of the book is direct education of children by their parents provides a hope for keeping the spirit of individual independence alive in America.
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Voters Are Accessories To Murder And Other Crimes
By Hans Sherrer (2011, revised 2014)
Voters bear responsibility for the criminal actions of elected officials, since they provide the legal basis for those officials to act.
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The Clinton Foundation Has Collected More Than $1.34 Billion Operating As A Fake Charitable Organization
By Hans Sherrer
(Oct. 2016)
Details the Clinton Foundation operated as a de facto fake charitable organization, with only 3% of its expenses from 2005 to 2014 spent on non-
The Complicity of Judges in the Generation of Wrongful Convictions
By Hans Sherrer
Published Oct 2003
Northern Kentucky Law Review
Vol. 30, No. 4
Published October 2003 Northern Kentucky Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 4
The first critical analysis of the central role layed by judges in contributing to wrongful convictions published by a major legal journal in United States history.
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Articles
Forejustice Copyright 2002-
Why Justice Denied Magazine is Important: A Historical Perspective
By Hans Sherrer
Justice Denied, Vol. 2, Issue 1
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Why Books and Movies about Innocent People are Important
By Hans Sherrer
Justice Denied, Vol. 2, Issue 4
Why Books and Movies about Innocent People are Important in HTM.
Obedience To Authority Is Endemic
By Hans Sherrer
January 2006
The Double Edge of Computers
By Hans Sherrer
(Published in The Voluntaryist, Number 87, August 1997)
The Scourge of False Confessions
By Hans Sherrer
(2003)
The Mental Torture of American Prisoners: Cheaper Than Lab Rats, Part II
By Hans Sherrer
Published in April 1999 issue of Prison Legal News (Written March 1999).
This essay details that American prisoners all across the country are routinely being used as guinea pigs in psychological experiments, and increasingly being subjected to sensory deprivation techniques that have been known since at least the time of Charles Dickens to drive people mad.
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Cheaper Than Lab Rats: Can Prisoners Glow in the Dark?
By Hans Sherrer
Published in March 1999 issue of Prison Legal News (Written February 1999).
This essay details the use of prisoners in the U.S. For medical and scientific experiments. (Part 1 of 2 part series.)
Non-
By Hans Sherrer
(2001)
Men and women who choose not to participate in politics exercise a form of personal secession -
(Orig. Published in Dissenting Electorate (2001).)
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Voting Is An Act Of Violence
By Hans Sherrer (1999)
Voting is the most violent act someone can commit in their lifetime. This little noted anomaly about voting is directly related to the state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence.
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Clifford Irving
(1930-
Author of TOM MIX & PANCHO VILLA
In Memoriam
By Hans Sherrer
(Justice Denied, Issue 72)
In memoriam to the author of Tom Mix & Pancho Villa, The Hoax (Howard Hughes fake autobiography), Final Argument, and many more books.
The Day Freedom Died In The United States
By Hans Sherrer
(2011)
The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution became effective in 1914.
This essay explains the most ubiquitous consequence of the 16th Amendment was it fundamentally altered the relationship between the federal government and every individual within the domain over which the federal government claims jurisdiction.
Under the 16th Amendment the federal government can levy any rate of taxation on income that it deems appropriate – even 100%.
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O’Brien’s Map of the World
By Hans Sherrer
Published in The Voluntaryist (Whole #113) (Second Quarter 2002.)
This essay explains that there is a fundamental difference in the thought processes of people that love liberty and engage in “free, conscious activity,” and those that mindlessly follow the dictates of those they consider to be authority figures—which is symbolized by George Orwell’s character in 1984 known as O’Brien.
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The Illusion of Tax Evasion
By Hans Sherrer
(1998, revised 2002)
To engage in tax evasion, a man or woman must engage in the deliberate evasion of a consciously and voluntarily accepted legal financial obligation. An activity may look, taste and smell like tax evasion – but the appearance of an activity doesn’t legally define that activity as tax evasion
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Landmark Study Shows the Unreliability of Capital Trial Verdicts
By Hans Sherrer
Justice:Denied magazine
Vol. 2, Issue 2
The Non-
By Hans Sherrer
(Feb. 2014)
For 108 years the non-
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Hooper Bay Is The Only Civilized City In The U.S.
By Hans Sherrer
(Feb. 2006)
Hooper Bay, Alaska is one of the U.S.’ most remote communities. The police don’t have firearms, but many Hooper Bay residents do. So Hooper Bay’s police must approach all situations with a response that diffuses its actual or potential volatility – instead of the brute force method used in cities where law enforcement officers have firearms readily available.
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Government Beneficiaries Don’t Pay Taxes
By Hans Sherrer
(July 2010)
An interesting anomaly about taxation is that no state or federal employee, contractor or beneficiary pays income, sales, use or other taxes to the state or federal government that pays them.
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Electronic Monitoring Is A Godsend To The Wrongly Accused
By Hans Sherrer
(June 2008)
Living in the modern electronic fishbowl hasat least one positive consequence. For the first time a person has the realistic possibility of proving, by electronic monitoring that he or she did not commit a crime.
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There is No Private Property in the United States
By Hans Sherrer
(June 2007)
Iin the U.S. a title to property or other forms denoting “ownership” effectively constitutes a transferable long-
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The Articles of Confederation Was Much More Pro-
By Hans Sherrer
(July 2011)
The Articles of Confederation that was a treaty between the 13 independent nations that seceded from Great Britain in 1776, was based on the idea of neighbors maintaining friendly relations amongst themselves for their mutual benefit, while in contrast the U.S. Constitution that replaced it in 1789 is based on the idea of a bully roaming a neighborhood who will punch you out if you don’t do what he says.
Why Dissolution Is Better Than Secession
By Hans Sherrer
(August 2009)
Unlike secession, dissolution is not tied to reliance on a political regime or structure. While secession amounts to arranging of who sits in the chairs of political power wielded over a geo-
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The State Is A Serial Rapist
By Hans Sherrer
(May 2009)
Etymologically rape pertains to the forcible taking of things and property, not a person. The State’s demands are imposed under the threat of a Godfather like mandate “that can’t be refused” without possible dire consequences.
State Financial Impositions
By Hans Sherrer
(October 2009)
Polices that directly and indirectly transfer wealth from those who create or otherwise own it to the State, are destructive to society and the economic well-