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Just in case the mainstream media fails to report on this Gallup poll. 

Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low 

And John Nolte writes on Breitbart about how unconfirmed gossip about the Palins in Alaska has sent the mainstream media into frenzy while heavy-hitting political stories, including allegations of a government cover up in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and the evidence-destroying business by the IRS goes, mostly, unreported.

Billions and Billions

A new survey shows that 155 new billionaires were minted this year, pushing membership into the elite billionaire's club to the new high of 2,325 people.

-- The Facebook for the elite costs only $9,000 to join. Friend me.

Not quite McDonald's. Yahoo reports there are more than one billion web sites on the Internet. 

The NY Times editorial board ponders the mixed messages coming from the White House just one week after President Barack Obama laid out his plan to pump billions of dollars and more artillery into the Middle East to fight ISIS-ISIL.

General Martin E. Dempsey said that the United States’ Arab allies in the middle east are funding ISIS. #truthbomb 

  President Barack Obama says he'll send 3,000 troops and $750 million to help fight the "spiraling out of control" Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

A 5,000-year-old monument believed to honor the Mesopotamian moon god Sin found in Northern Israel. 

A Vermont city produces all of its energy by renewable resources. 

Dear elected officials and judges on Hon. Brian Mackenzie's reelection endorsement list: 

  It's possible that one of the nearly 300 people I sent three different emails to on Wednesday may have forwarded you the goods or mentioned these letters to you. If not, on this -- the 13th anniversary of 911 -- please pardon my intrusion by re-sending to all of you the letter I sent to MacKenzie.

Some names on this list I have known personally for many years. Others, I don't at all. 

And there are another set of names I've seen over and over again in my research this past year. 

Regardless, because of your position as local leaders and lawmakers, I thought it was paramount that I open up a communication line to you. 

And the general public, of course, as the book(s) I'm working on right now will feature many of them and some of you. 

When I worked for the Michigan House of Representatives many years ago I met a bunch of extraordinary people who went above and beyond the call of duty. I even met some elected officials who weren't solely in it for power and greed.

That's why I'm directly sending you this. I want to believe in you.

I'll be following up shortly with interview requests. Please feel free to respond via email but do know that what I'm starting here is an independent and experimental publishing project so replies to me I plan to post -- negative or positive. 

I have only revealed the smallest fraction of my evidence thus far and look forward to a spirited debate on what it means to be "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" as an elected official and a judge as I continue to reveal more and more pieces of the JAMs franchise and related collusion of private-public businesses.

"You're going to go to AA or NA three times a week. You will test at JAMS three times a week for 30 days, two times a week for 30 days, one time a week for 30 days: $780 fines and costs. Forty dollars a month probationary oversight expense; $300 partial repayment of your attorney's services. If you don't have the money I'll let you make payments. Do you understand that?"

-- From Judge Brian MacKenzie's legal response to Cooper's earlier allegations

    To  Hon. Brian W. MacKenzie,

  Understanding you're still being investigated by the FBI and are in the home stretch of your "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" re-election campaign to retain your seat of power on the 52-1 District Court bench, I'll try and keep my questions brief and thoughts concise.

  You and your business partners filed paperwork to establish JAMs on Oct. 27, 1997 yet you made the choice to answer "n/a" when asked to list other business interests and professional activities on your Oakland County Bar Association campaign questionnaire. Despite using the past two decades to push your special-interest courts (built around your JAMs-based alcohol-and-drug testing sentences) the Detroit Free Press' Dec. 30, 2013 article on Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney Jessica Cooper's investigation of you is the only public record reference I could find in which you actually admit to being a stakeholder in JAMs. And, of course, you addressed that by declaring there's no conflict of interest. 

  Is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" for tens of thousands of people who live, work and play in metro Detroit to have been sentenced to testing at the JAMs franchise that you've secretly benefitted from? 

  On Oakland County's Web site the JAMs (Jail Alternative for Michigan Services) description includes a section that states JAMs is funded privately. Is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" to mislead the general public by stating funds are donated privately when the reality is there are dozens of public-funded JAMs contracts (everything from $75,000 in 1999 to the more recent deals like $40,000, $45,000, $130,805)?

  And, as previously mentioned in my letter to Ms. Cooper, one of your original franchise members, Paul Ferrell has other public-funded, directly-related to JAMs community corrections businesses , including Sequoia Recovery Services (paperwork filed Sept. 1997). 

  On top of Sequoia, which provides alcohol and drug testing, residential and counseling services, Ferrell's business-based paperwork trail includes direct connections to most of the other "recovery-based" Oakland County programs, including Completion House/Turning Point Recovery, Community Programs, Inc. (CPI), Common Ground Sanctuary, etc.

  I'm sure you're well aware that one out of three young Americans will be arrested by the time they turn 23. According to theMichigan Department of Corrections, there were 43,704 people locked into the prison population in 2013. 

  Between 1986 and 2006, despite the fact that Michigan's violent crime rate fell by 30%, the state's prison population surged by 250%, according to a 2011 report published by the Citizens Research Council.

  Since 1980, Michigan's biggest growth industry has been the prison and community corrections system. The $2 billion the state uses to annually fund the program makes Michigan No. 6 in the nation on corrections spending. Ranked No. 1, the USA's prison industrial complex is the biggest in the world with about 7 million people (nearly 3% of the country's population) in jail or prison or on probation or parole.

  Certainly you must be aware of the 2008 judicial "Kids for Cash" kickback scandal in which two Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from the builder of two private, for-profit juvenile facilities in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh sentences on juveniles brought before the courts to increase the number of inmates in the detention centers. 

  How is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" for a judge to use his intimidating sentencing powers, legislative influence, growing business resources and private foundation friends to help grow the target population of his special-interest courts and related businesses that spirals out of control through multiple levels within Oakland County and the state of Michigan? 

  Judge MacKenzie, please feel free to write me back your responses to the questions when you have a few minutes. I would also like to request a sit-down interview some time in October (with you and your wife) so we can talk in deeper detail about some of the history and policy questions I still have for the book project I'm working on through the election.

  Sincerely,

B.J. Hammerstein

@mediahammerink

[email protected]

To: Oakland County and state of Michigan Candidates, Incumbents, Delegates and co.,

From now through the Nov. 4 election I'm going to make as much noise as possible about a theory I have that we can fix a majority of the American people's problems because of what we do together right here in Oakland County. 

Exciting right? And you have maybe the easiest part to play in the solution. All you have to do is step down from your elected post.

Here's a sampling of why you're going to be voted out: As far as I can tell, and I've been watching, not one of you have had the courage to speak out against 52-1 Court Judge Brian W. MacKenzie and his influential MADCP (Michigan Association of Drug Court Professionals) organization and the Community Corrections and recovery-based businesses he's been lobbying for and building since the JAMs alcohol-and-drug testing franchise was established in 1997. 

Some of you on this list, as you know, have thrown your full support behind the JAMs judge and endorsed MacKenzie for his "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" reelection campaign. And yes, there are others on this list who, like MacKenzie, hold public office while simultaneously benefitting from personal side business interests.

Not all of you, of course, are caught up in this web of deceit that earns its profits from targeting the very people the government is supposed to serve and protect. Some of you are completely unaware of this fraudulent Monopoly game altogether. 

But, unfortunately, many of you do know about this under cover collusion between big banks, private companies, special interest groups and our "elected public officials" and -- for a variety of reasons -- have decided it's best to not rock the "too big to fail" boat being funded on the backs of metro Detroit and Michigan residents.

If you're looking for evidence of my claims, please reference my two earlier emails sent to Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney Jessica Cooper and Judge MacKenzie. Also expect more email letters to a variety of people connecting more of the dots. 

Oh, and look up "Kids for Cash." (I suggested to Ms. Cooper that Oakland Count's Community Corrections program should be suspended immediately, by the way. What do you think?)

Last homework assignment: Please also look at this report on this new study that found Americans have a "near zero" impact on U.S. public policy. 

The core of corruption spreading from Judge MacKenzie's courtroom goes beyond the state of Michigan. And believe it or not, I'm quite sure what is happening right here in the suburbs of Detroit will help connects the dots with regards to this "near zero influence" study and how and why the American people, again, find themselves in a situation where there is taxation without representation.

Before you incumbents start telling tall tales about the millions of dollars you've saved Michigan residents let's look at your stellar report card in which you've received failing F grades in ethics, legislative accountability, lobbying disclosure, executive accountability, political financing, judicial accountability, etc. 

That's right: Senators and representatives at the state level, commissioners holding the county seat, and council-members from cities like Novi, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, this is most definitely about you and your rather consistently epic ineptitude. 

Deputy Oakland County Executive Matthew Alan Gibb gets a plea agreement to get his recent drunken driving charge dismissed while you incumbents give us a long line of failing grades and policies, including the super-secret cell phone spying device Hailstorm, the FBI neighborhood spy program, InfraGard, the city of Detroit gets handed a devastating bankruptcy sentence and, of course, about 30 percent of the people growing up in southeastern Michigan could look forward to Judge MacKenzie and his JAMs scams alcohol and drug testing franchise.

If the American people are ever going to have a chance at changing the ridiculously corrupt, immoral and wildly out of control collusion of political power and wealthy special interest groups, we the people have to make sure the puppet masters lose control of scripting the show right now.

This isn't personal. This isn't about Democrats or Republicans. This is about what's right and what's wrong.

That's why we all should do everything we could to make sure no incumbent, from Judge MacKenzie to Gov. Rick Snyder, wins their reelection campaign. 

And yes, for sure, there will be plenty of other corrupt officials still in office we'll have to try and throw out again in 2016. And, again; no doubt. However long takes. 

But the ideals this country was allegedly built on, basically a simple common-sense notion that each and every man and woman is free, equal and independent, was such a pure, simple and morally strong concept that the great American experiment did indeed inspire people all around the world just a short time ago.

We can and will do that again. Not just because the Fed's Wall Street cronies and their London and Vatican-based banksters are profiting off our backs as they spin our country out of control but because the world needs the fiercely independent American spirit restored.

Sincerely,

B.J. Hammerstein

@mediahammerink

[email protected]

P.S. Over the next few weeks I'll be requesting in-person interview time for my #ProjectXVI publishing experiment. Feel free to write me back in the meantime. 

P.P.S. Despite the history, all of you Incumbents could show the greatest leadership trait there is by turning in your resignation and coming forward with information to help your American neighbors get back some of what's been stolen from them.

P.P.P.S: That still image comes from the "money, money, money" MADCP special interest courts web site. Ask Judge MacKenzie or his wife, the MADCP executive director, for more info.

"You're going to go to AA or NA three times a week. You will test at JAMS three times a week for 30 days, two times a week for 30 days, one time a week for 30 days: $780 fines and costs. Forty dollars a month probationary oversight expense; $300 partial repayment of your attorney's services. If you don't have the money I'll let you make payments. Do you understand that?"

-- From Judge Brian MacKenzie's legal response to Cooper's earlier allegations

    To  Hon. Brian W. MacKenzie,

  Understanding you're still being investigated by the FBI and are in the home stretch of your "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" re-election campaign to retain your seat of power on the 52-1 District Court bench, I'll try and keep my questions brief and thoughts concise.

  You and your business partners filed paperwork to establish JAMs on Oct. 27, 1997 yet you made the choice to answer "n/a" when asked to list other business interests and professional activities on your Oakland County Bar Association campaign questionnaire. Despite using the past two decades to push your special-interest courts (built around your JAMs-based alcohol-and-drug testing sentences) the Detroit Free Press' Dec. 30, 2013 article on Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney Jessica Cooper's investigation of you is the only public record reference I could find in which you actually admit to being a stakeholder in JAMs. And, of course, you addressed that by declaring there's no conflict of interest. 

  Is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" for tens of thousands of people who live, work and play in metro Detroit to have been sentenced to testing at the JAMs franchise that you've secretly benefitted from? 

  On Oakland County's Web site the JAMs (Jail Alternative for Michigan Services) description includes a section that states JAMs is funded privately. Is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" to mislead the general public by stating funds are donated privately when the reality is there are dozens of public-funded JAMs contracts (everything from $75,000 in 1999 to the more recent deals like $40,000, $45,000, $130,805)?

  And, as previously mentioned in my letter to Ms. Cooper, one of your original franchise members, Paul Ferrell has other public-funded, directly-related to JAMs community corrections businesses , including Sequoia Recovery Services (paperwork filed Sept. 1997). 

  On top of Sequoia, which provides alcohol and drug testing, residential and counseling services, Ferrell's business-based paperwork trail includes direct connections to most of the other "recovery-based" Oakland County programs, including Completion House/Turning Point Recovery, Community Programs, Inc. (CPI), Common Ground Sanctuary, etc.

  I'm sure you're well aware that one out of three young Americans will be arrested by the time they turn 23. According to theMichigan Department of Corrections, there were 43,704 people locked into the prison population in 2013. 

  Between 1986 and 2006, despite the fact that Michigan's violent crime rate fell by 30%, the state's prison population surged by 250%, according to a 2011 report published by the Citizens Research Council.

  Since 1980, Michigan's biggest growth industry has been the prison and community corrections system. The $2 billion the state uses to annually fund the program makes Michigan No. 6 in the nation on corrections spending. Ranked No. 1, the USA's prison industrial complex is the biggest in the world with about 7 million people (nearly 3% of the country's population) in jail or prison or on probation or parole.

  Certainly you must be aware of the 2008 judicial "Kids for Cash" kickback scandal in which two Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from the builder of two private, for-profit juvenile facilities in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh sentences on juveniles brought before the courts to increase the number of inmates in the detention centers. 

  How is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" for a judge to use his intimidating sentencing powers, legislative influence, growing business resources and private foundation friends to help grow the target population of his special-interest courts and related businesses that spirals out of control through multiple levels within Oakland County and the state of Michigan? 

  Judge MacKenzie, please feel free to write me back your responses to the questions when you have a few minutes. I would also like to request a sit-down interview some time in October (with you and your wife) so we can talk in deeper detail about some of the history and policy questions I still have for the book project I'm working on through the election.

  Sincerely,

B.J. Hammerstein

@mediahammerink

[email protected]

  Dear Ms. Cooper ([email protected])

It was disheartening to read last month that Oakland County Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Colleen O'Brien had dismissed your complaint seeking to hold City of Novi's 52-1 District Court Judge Brian MacKenzie in contempt of court for failing to provide you with records of certain domestic violence cases.

In the Aug. 20, 2014 Detroit Free Press article, published one day before O'Brien's dismissal was announced, it seemed like the tax-paying residents of Oakland County might actually be protected from an over-reaching judge. 

"The problems are far worse than we could have imagined," you wrote in an Aug. 6 filing, according to the Free Press. You added that upon review of MacKenzie's case files you found conduct "that ranges from outright dismissals of valid criminal convictions to the falsification of official judicial records; issues that compromise the very integrity of the criminal justice process of that court."

Peter Henning, a Wayne State University law professor and expert on criminal procedure, judicial ethics and the legal profession, even told the Free Press that defendants kept on probation longer than two years could sue the county because their rights had been violated.

And, almost as quickly as that article hit the public, O'Brien ruled MacKenzie won't be charged with contempt.

I don't want to take up too much more of your time at the moment but here are a couple compelling pieces of information I have uncovered that led me to leave my job at the Free Press in February and open up my own independent investigation on a private-public collusion that targets everyday State of Michigan and Oakland County residents. 

Judge MacKenzie, who is up for re-election this November, denied to the Free Press in its Dec. 30, 2013 article that there is any conflict of interest with JAMs (Jail Alternatives for Michigan Services), the largest alcohol-and-drug testing franchise in metro Detroit. According to the Free Press, MacKenzie said he "receives no financial benefit from any facility and has been ordering testing for years."

Okay -- I get it; I truly do. MacKenzie is one judge people are afraid to criticize; let alone investigate. MacKenzie leveled claims of McCarthy-ism at you in his press release following O'Brien's dismissal.

He's the president-elect of the American Judges Association, founding partner of the Michigan Association of Drug Court Professionals (MADCP) and "award-winning" judge behind the special-interest court movement in the state of Michigan (and Oakland County) dating back to when former Gov. John Engler appointed him to Novi's 52-1 District Court back in March of 1988.

The Hon. Brian W. Mackenzie even co-edited the book, "Michigan Criminal Procedure."

However, if you or anyone at all in Oakland County truly wants to serve and protect its citizens I offer you one of MacKenzie's JAMs business partners Paul Ferrell. Ferrell was mentioned in the original Freep article on JAMs but the investigative reporters covering that story neglected to report on Ferrell's background and longtime connection to the Oakland County Community Corrections program.

Ferrell, the pastor of the Recovery Church, is not an elected official like you or MacKenzie. But, I'm listing him here because he's one of MacKenzie's JAMs' business partners and an interesting piece to MacKenzie and co.'s wide-spreading program.

If you take the time to review the history of the Oakland County Community Corrections program, read this Oakland Press article about residents worried about sex offenders, past MADCP and Oakland County Board of Commissioner minutes, etc., you'll see Ferrell is connected to multiple AOD (alcohol and other Drugs) businesses outside of JAMs that are used and funded by Oakland County. 

Besides being on the JAMs original paperwork as the CEO of Sequoia Recovery Services, Ferrell (and MacKenzie's JAMs alcohol and drug testing franchise) has business ties to virtually every substance abuse and recovery services organization offered by Oakland County, including Community Programs Inc., Completion House/Turning Point, Common Ground Sanctuary, etc.

Ferrell, as far as I can tell, isn't guilty of anything except wanting to take advantage of a situation that presented itself. MacKenzie, leading the MADCP's takeover of the local court system in nearly all 83 counties of the state of Michigan is, however, the community leader who misused the public's trust. 

MacKenzie, while telling the general public that he's "Caring, Compassionate and Fair," has used his power and influence to make sure his secret business agenda camoflauged special-interest courts, including the "adult drug court" and "sobriety court" and "opiate court," etc. all received funding and whatever resources he deemed necessary to lock down the program.

All of these special-interest courts, of course, rely heavily on strict probation sentences that include 2-years of JAMs and ordered stays to other places like Sequoia or CPI. 

It seems that much of the history I've learned about the United States of America and its legal system while going through the Oakland County Public Schools system might have been a little -- hmm, off? So, I will not claim to know much -- if anything about the ABA-driven legal system of the 21st century. 

But if Judge Brian W. MacKenzie and his secret business partners own and operate almost all of the places that he and the special-interest court systems order people to ... well, isn't that an abuse of powers, a conflict of interest, and fraudulent business practice that is equal to (if not worst than) what happened just a few years ago in Pennsylvania with the shameful Kids for Cash scandal?

What do I know? I could've sworn Judge Colleen A. O'Brien would've recused herself from hearing your case against MacKenzie months ago based on her history with the MADCP and her work overseeing the 6th Circuit Court's Female Adult Sobriety Court. 

Silly me believing in that Constitution and Bill of Rights and Due Process and Conflict of Interest and Ethical thing they hammered into my head so long ago while I was studying at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunications at Arizona State University so many years ago. 

If, however, such ideals that this country were based on actually do exist my suggestion would be to do everything in your possible to suspend the current practices of massive probationary sentences to virtually everyone who gets targeted and placed into the Oakland County Community Corrections immediately.

I have to go write some more email letters but I promise to write you back shortly. I would also like to request an in-person interview for my book-and-video package that I'll be working on over the next two and a half years. Don't worry, this initial Oakland County stuff I want everyone to know about before the November election. The first book should be done shortly after that.

Sincerely,

B.J. Hammerstein

@mediahammerink