The defending attorney looked at the jury and wondered what was going on inside their minds. He scanned the face of each member as he stepped closer to the box. There had yet to be one gas bag case won by any defendant. The odds were stacked against them. For the sake of justice in the wake of an unjust world, Adamson stated his case for the record and made his final remarks.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have been presented with a difficult and emotional case. I said difficult because a life has been lost, a child’s life.” He stood tall as he addressed the jury. “A needless loss of life, unless you decide the child died for a cause.”

“It is up to you to tell the State that enough is enough. We want our freedom back. We want to see an end to gas bags in our vehicles. We have seen enough innocent people die as a result of very low-speed impacts. It is up to you ladies and gentlemen. You can make a difference.

“My client is innocent of the charges brought against her. You have heard the testimony of Dr. Spock. He told you it was necessary for Little Lulu to sit in the front seat beside her mother because she was subject to epileptic seizures. It was safer for the child to be next to her mother in the event a seizure should occur.

“She was doing what was best for her child, just as any of you fine people would do were her circumstances a part of your lives. Mrs. Lovewell’s concern was for her child’s safety.

“Where a child sits in a car  should not be regulated by government laws. I grew up in this country and when I was a child, I had the freedom to sit in the front or the back seat of a car.

“What has happened ladies and gentlemen? What has happened to our country? Why are our vehicles hazardous to our lives? Why are we forced to live with the threat of a gas bag exploding in our face? Why?

“Corruption! Corruption of power is the answer. Corrupt plutocratic power is driving us into an age overshadowed by darkness.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, look deep into yourselves when you leave this jury box to deliberate the fate of my client, who has been wrongly accused of the reckless endangerment and manslaughter of her only child.

“I want you to put yourself inher position when you decide what is right and what is wrong with this case presented to you. Ask yourselves, Are we to continue along this self-destructive path our country has taken  or do we stop the plundering of freedoms we hold dear and meaningful to our lives?”

John Adamson continued with his closing statement until he exhausted every word of defence he was able to put forth on behalf od his client. He returned to his seat. The judge gave the jury instructions before they left. One by one, the members of the jury walked out of the courtroom with the fate of Lois Lovewell in their hands.

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At the end of the third day, the lawyers gave their final statements to the jury.

Mr. Liarman was determined to persuade the jury to listen to reason, ready to convince them of Mrs. Lovewell’s guilt in the manslaughter of her own child.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I can see that each of you is just as intelligent as the other,” he walked back and forth before the jury in a slow deliberate stride, “and, I know that  intelligent people make intelligent decisions when they are asked to sit inside this jury box.

“This trial has been brief with testimony from experts on child safety. Experts, mind you, not the run of the mill minds, but experts!”

Liarman stopped, turned, and pointed his finger at Mrs. Lovewell seated quietly beside her attorney.

“The defendant sits before  you in the courtroom, a common woman who failed to provide for the safety of her child, a mother who did not care about safety. Someone who dared to place her child in jeopardy, by having her sit in the front seat of her All American Vehicle.”

Mr. Liarman paused, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly before he turned back to the jury.

“She  is guilty of manslaughter. She broke the law. Had she respect for the laws governing her child, she would have her daughter today. But, that sweet little child is dead. Lois Lovewell is guilty! Guilty of manslaughter!

“You ‘ve heard the testimony, now you must determine for the record the outcome of this trial. I am confidant that you will uphold the side of the prosecution in this quest for justice.”

Liarman continued with his closing argument. When he finished, he bowed his head to the jury and returned to his seat.

John Adamson stood up in behalf of his client.

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“Certainly.”

“Faster than a plane?”

“That depends on how fast the plane is flying.”

“If I understand you correctly, Mr. Starlight, you are telling the court that you created the gas bag to ex[plode when it comes in contact with its target, in order to cushion the impact of the speeding object. Is that right?”

“That is correct.”

“The gas bag is not intended to protect the surface of the planet?”

“Not at all. The gas bag is designed to explode from the outer structure of the pod to protect what is inside the pod. A gas bag, Sir, is a bomb. It is a vessel of compressed gasses stored under pressure. A bomb is in no way intended to protect its target.”

“No further questions at this time, your Honor.”

After Mr. Liarman’s cross-examination, another witness was called by the defense. It was the coroner who examined Little Lulu Lovewell.

“Dr. Corpus, please tell the court your medical findings regarding the body of Little Lulu Lovewell.”

“She was brought into the coroners office with a red tag on her toe.”

“A red tag. What does that mean?”

“A red tag indicates there is a body part missing. It’s not that uncommon with all the vehicular accidents there are on the road today.”

“What body part was missing?”

“The head.”

“Was the head of Little Lulu Lovewell ever turned over to your office?”

“No, Sir.”

“Do you know where it is?”

“No, Sir.”

“No further questions at this time, your Honor. Your witness, Mr. Liarman.”

Adamson sat down next to his client who sat silently with eyes fixed on the table, tears sliding down her cheeks. Little Lulu had been cremated without her head. It made her sick to think of her daughter’s head being blown off by the deadly power of the gas bag.

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“Let me see, Officer Brunt, if I understand you correctly. The federally mandated gas bag decapitated Little Lulu, but according to the law, it was Lois Lovewell who is responsible for the death of the child.” Adamson looked at the officer.

“That is exactly right, Sir.”

“Officer Brunt, isn’t it really the federal government who killed Little Lulu, by forcing the public to drive vehicles with concealed explosives that can kill, maim, or disfigure once they are triggered?”

“Your Honor, I strongly object!”

“Sustained.”

“No further questions at this time, your Honor.”

Attorney Adamson sat down next to his client. For the rest of the day, the prosecution called witness after witness. At the end of a long day, Lois was taken back to her cell.

She had lost more than ten pounds during her imprisonment, and the clothing Luke brought her to wear in court was noticeably loose. The burn scars on her forehead and cheeks had softened into pink patches that no one in the courtroom could see because of the make-up she had been given to improve her image before the judge. Unfortunately, her nose was disfigured forever.

Court Resumes Again

The defence called its first witness, a planetary probe engineer from NASA. After Mr. Starlight was sworn in, John Adamson began his examination of the witness.

“Nr. Starlight, please tell the court just what it is you do at NASA.”

“I design planetary probes to explore the surface of uninhabited planets. I also design the pods that transport and land the probes on the planet’s surface, after the pod is released by the mother ship.”

“Are you saying that a planetary probe is carried inside a pod?”

“Yes, and once the pod lands on the surface of the planet, it opens up to free the planetary probe to mobilize.”

“Please describe to the court what a pod looks like, Mr. Starlight.”

“It’s a geodesic pod made up of panels designed to work together as a whole. It is made from light weight durable materials. The outside surface of each panel is covered with an individual gas bag.”

“A gas bag? Like gas bags installed inside automobiles?”

“Oh yes,” Mr. Starlight smiled. “The automobile industry is using the very same technology I developed for landing pods on the surface of distance planets.”

“Why is the entire surface of the pod covered with gas bags?”

“To protect every inch of of the pod from the impact that will occur, when the pod lands on the planet’s surface. Think of the pod as a large ball that will bounce about before it comes to a stop.”

“I see.”

“The entire surface must be covered with the gas bags  to protect the pod and the probe inside. Gas bags help to soften the blow of the impact against the hard surface of the planet.”

“How fast is the pod traveling when it meets the planet’s surface?”

“Many hundreds of miles per hour.”

“Faster than an automobile, correct?”

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Nova Southeastern University was the hub of activity and security last week, when 2500 people gathered together to listen to my hero, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, discuss the rights of free people living in a free society and the recognizable patterns of behavior associated with FASCISM!

His presence created a stir and a bit of unrest for those who were either shocked by or disagreed with the content of his speech, which was accentuated by the startling visual effects created by the brave doctor: A flag, a regulation size American flag with a white star-studded swastika boldly displayed in the blue corner!

A swastika, the official emblem of the Nazi Party!

Why would a highly educated, intelligent physician associate the Nazi swastika with the government of America? Because he is a highly educated, intelligent man who understands the difference between a free society and a powerful fascist regime, that is why.

Do you believe you have the right to determine the manner and timing of your own death?

Eighty percent of America’s population believe they should have the right to make that determination without government intervention and/or prohibition. The rest of the population is fearful of meeting with their own destiny with death and driven by dogmatic religious fanaticism.

Those driven by religious hatred of Dr. Kevorkian have targeted the doctor with threats on his life. Their madness created the need for the university to create a large presence of police and security for the doctor’s protection.

Police protection for an innocent man, who has evolved into America’s martyr for the cause. Dr. Kevorkian is a man who believes in (1) the protection of human rights against government tyranny, (2) the need to reform America’s penal system to include a humane sanctuary system, and, (3) the necessity to reform public education.

Was there justification for the good doctor to put a swastika on the American flag?

I think so and I will tell you why in my next post.

We, the people of a very imperfect union, are being served an unprecedented amount of rhetoric as we transition into the Obamanation of the 21st century.

Yesterday, I saw the president posed in front of a video camera for Youtube distribution. He offered a one-sided conversation on what we need to do to “remake” America. Again, I heard that the change we need doesn’t start at the top, but, rather, at the bottom, for the government belongs to the people.

I went to the comment box to express my assessment of what needs to take place to save this nation from ruin, where we teeter at this moment. I believe we need to stop the pharmaceutical industry from advertising on television, from advertising period!

We are the only nation in the world that permits the advertising of pharmaceutical drugs.

In my comment, I said the people need to be re-educated in the areas of common sense health issues, personal hygiene, proper diet and exercise. General practitioners need to be the doctors they were and we need to end this proliferation of specialists.

If we don’t stop using medicine for capital gain, the medical tyrants will continue to dictate our lives and we will not be able to escape the ruination of this country.

“comment pending approval”

Here it is, the next day, and my comment was not posted.I guess it didn’t fit into the Obamaspeak rhetoric.

The American people are being systematically drugged by the powerful Drug Lords of Washington. The government is not going to stop this cancerous branch of power that also supports the war chest. I ask you to fight this all important battle to regain personal freedom over your body.

Change begins with the people!

Court adjourned for a two hour recess. Attorney Adamson took the Lovewells to lunch. When they returned to thee courtroom, the prosecution called another witness to testify against Lois Lovewell.

“Officer Brunt,” Liarman cleared his throat, “please tell the court what you saw when you came upon the crime scene.”

“Seated on the passenger’s side was a child. The gas bag had deployed and was in a deflated state, across the child’s lap. Her torso was on top of the deflated bag, bloody from the child’s open wound.”

“Was the child dead?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“How did you know the child was dead?”

“She didn’t have a pulse, no one beat.”

“Was the child seated in the vehicle according to federal compliance laws which govern child safety while in transportation?” Liarman asked with an air of authority.

“No, Sir. She was not. Federal regulations clearly mandate that every child in the State of America, up to and including the age of ten, must ride in the back seat of the vehicle.”

“Are you telling me that Mrs. Lovewell failed to comply with the law?”

“Yes, Sir. She failed to comply with the law. She had her child seated in the front seat of the vehicle, rather than restrained in the back of the vehicle as is required by law.”

“No more questions, your Honor.” Attorney Liarman bowed to his opponent and sat down.

“Officer Brunt,” Adamson questioned, “what happened to Little Lulu?”

“What do you mean, what happened?”

“I mean, what happened to Little Lulu when the gas bag was activated and exploded into the front seat of the passenger side of the Lovewell’s All American Vehicle? I want you to tell the court how the child died.”

“She was decapitated.” Officer Brunt muttered his response.

“What did you say? Speak up.”

“I said, she was decapitated. Her head was torn off her body.”

“How did she lose her head?”

“I object, your Honor.” Liarman spoke up quickly and lased his words with acrimony, “How she lost her head has no bearing on the case at all.”

“Overruled.” The judge turned to the witness and said, “You may answer the question.”

“The force of the gas bag ripped her head off her neck and sent it out the back window, into the thick of trees far from the site of the crime scene.”

“You’re telling the court that the product manufactured by Gas Bags of America, in cooperation with the rules and regulations of the State, is the instrument of death in the case of Little Lulu Lovewell. Is that correct, Officer Brunt?”

“Yes, if that is how you want to interpret my words.”

“You arrested Mrs. Lovewell. Why?”

“Vehicular manslaughter. The law states that the child must be restrained in a child safety seat in the back seat of the vehicle. Mrs Lovewell broke the law.”

“Go on.”

“She had her child in the front seat of a moving vehicle. She put her child in the face of danger, just the same as if she had put the barrel of a gun to her daughter’s head in a game of Russian Roulette.”

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The trial was underway. A witness for the prosecution was called to the witness stand. It was Mr. Rich, President and CEO of Gas Bags of America.

“Please, Sir, tell the court why gas bags pose no harm to the public and how, in fact, they benefit people by saving lives.” Liarman and everyone in the courtroom waited for Mr. Rich to answer.

“Gas bags are designed to protect the motor vehicle driver and passenger when a collision occurs between two or more vehicles. They are designed to keep people from smashing into windows, dashboards, each other, etc.”

Mr. Rich looked directly at Liarman and then turned to the jury.

“Gas bags remove the potential for danger, leaving the passenger safe when the impact takes place. They have been tested and  proven to be the quintessential form of protection for automobile transportation. Gas bags are designed with people in mind, they save lives.”

Liarman examined Mr. Rich to extract from him exactly what he wanted the jury to hear, then turned the floor over to Adamson for cross examination of the witness.

“Mr. Rich, who established the safety standards for the manufacturing of your product?”

“The federal government.”

“The government, the State.”

“Yes.”

“So, as long as you follow the established guidelines set by the government, you are free to produce and sell to the automobile industry exploding devices that jettison like bullets from their chambers. Exploding devices that blow up instantly in one’s face. Is that right?”

“That is not the way I would put it, but, yes.”

“And, you declare, under oath, that the exploding devices are for the protection of the passenger. Is that right, Mr. Rich?” Adamson looked straight at the witness.

“Of course.”

“Little Lulu Lovewell is dead, a child of six short years, Mr. Rich, because of your product. Your federally approved automotive safety device killer her. Are you aware of that?”

The witness took offence to the attorney’s implication. “I’m not guilty of any child’s death,” he protested. The State has determined that all children, aged ten and under, ride in the back seat for their own protection.”

“Protection from what, Mr. Rich?”

“Protection from on-coming cars.”

“You mean protection from the gas bag, the safety device. Is that right, Mr. Rich?”

“No, from on-coming cars.”

“Why not protect them from rear-end collisions? After all, if you and the federal government are so concerned about the children you will never come to know in your lifetime, why not show some concern for their protection in the event of a rear-end collision?”

With great indignation, the witness said, “You think you’re really smart, don’t you?”

“Another remark like that, Mr. Rich, and I will hold you in contempt of court.” The judge spoke sternly.

Adamson looked at the judge and said, “I have no more questions at this time, your Honor.”

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The Trial Begins

Mr. Liarman was the prosecuting attorney. He was aggressive and determined to convince the jury that Mrs. Lovewell was an unfit mother who deserved to rot in prison for the willful and wanton act of ending an innocent child’s life.

He stood before the host of people who made up the jury and plied their minds with his version of the events that took Little Lulu’s life.

“Her very own daughter, ladies and gentlemen,” he paused dramatically as he addressed the jury. “She is responsible for taking the life of her very own child. I will prove this unequivocally. I will prove to you that she is guilty of manslaughter.

“Yes,” he paused again for effect, “her lawyer will try to make you believe otherwise, but I say to you that no loving mother would ever endanger her child by putting her child in the front seat of any vehicle. Surely none of you fine members of the jury would ever do such a thing.”

Liarman made eye-to-eye contact with each of the jurors as he spoke.

They were a hard group to read. The seven men and five women looked at the prosecutor while he spoke. Each had a poker face. No one in the courtroom could tell what any juror was thinking, as they sat ready to listen to both sides of the story. One true, one false.

After Liarman closed his opening statement, he turned the courtroom floor over to the defense.

John Adamson stood up before the court. He was a handsome figure and a man of many years who presented himself well.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” he said with a defining air of confidence, “my client is innocent of the charges the State has unjustly brought against her. She is just as innocent as her daughter, who is no longer with us, and it is not because of neglect or malice on the part of the mother. Lois Lovewell adored her daughter.

“Little Lulu Lovewell is not with us today because the State demands that our motor vehicles be equipped with exploding devices, which are known to have maimed and killed an astonishing number of innocent people.

“You will see that Mrs. Lovewell is an innocent victim of the tyranny that has worked its way into the nation and taken over the lives of the American people. You will learn what gas bags were originally designed to do and why they should be banned from the automobile industry.”

Attorney Adamson continued to talk tot he jury as his client sat quietly at the defense table.

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“Because we live in a state of tyranny, Mrs. Lovewell,” John Adamson spoke to his client.

“We must fight this tyranny and destroy its power. Slaughterman & Slaughterman’s position is that the State of America has taken over the parenting rights of the people, by dictating where children must sit in vehicles and mandating that free children be restrained while in travel within a free society.”

“We feel that way too,” said Luke.

“We have to prove that the State is responsible for the death of your child.  It’s not going to be easy, by any means. The courts are conducted by a cold methodology that has evolved little out of its ancient past. No one can be trusted and everyone can be bought.”

The Lovewells listened to the attorney, whom they believed to be above board and honest in word and manner.

“Judges are bought and sold in less than a minute. They are honored and dishonored in a wink of a camera’s lens. Juries are comprised of repressed people who live in fear of your set of circumstances happening to them.”

Luke asked his attorney, “Do we have any real chance of setting Lois free from the charges of manslaughter?”

“There have been several other cases like yours, they have all gone to the prosecution. Unfortunately, people are afraid to upset the apple cart. Some of us, though, live for our convictions and that is why we are here.”

Attorney Adamson and the Lovewells continued to talk inside the small visitor’s cell. They discussed the legal steps they would take and the possibility of getting Lois out on bond. After the attorney left, Luke told Lois that he was having Little Lulu’s remains cremated as soon as possible. He wanted to have her ashes during this very tragic moment in their lives.

Bond was set, but impossible to raise. Luke suggested they sell the house he built with his own hands in order to pay the bond, but Lois refused to lose the house on top of losing her child and personal liberty. She would remain in jail until the trial set her free or sent her to prison.

Luke visited his wife every day. The State does not pay for cosmetic surgery of inmates and his wife was forced to live with the disfigurement caused by the impact of the gas bag.

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