We're all familiar with how people are being imprisoned in the US
without being charged but it has now been revealed that people who
have been charged are being tried in secret court proceedings. By
secret proceedings I do not merely mean that the court rooms are being
kept closed while the trial is taking place or that documents from the
cases are simply being kept sealed. Instead, these cases are being
tried with no record of their existence being made available to the
public.

Maybe we should rename our country and call it "The United States Of
Joseph K".

The following excerpts taken from:
http://tinyurl.com/2c4q4

"A secret docketing system hiding some sensitive Miami federal court
cases from public view has been exposed and is being challenged in two
higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court."

"Attorney Floyd Abrams, a nationally recognized expert on free press
and court access issues, said sealed documents and closed courtrooms
are nothing new and are sometimes necessary to protect national
security or investigations. But, he said from his New York office, he
was 'very surprised' to learn about cases that were fully litigated
with no public record.

'Without public docket sheets, there is no way for the public to even
know that a case has been brought or resolved,' Abrams said. 'It's a
significant infringement of the genuine public interest in knowing
what is going on in its judicial system.'"


-Romdinstler