[JUD] Allow Pro Se Litigants to Litigate for Changes in the Law / File Class Actions

 - Jake - 03-17-2023

Currently, the law does not allow pro se litigants to litigate for changes or file class action suits.  Such may have been a good measure in the days before widespread education and high tech.  Now, with public skills and knowledge more ubiquitous, especially considering tech and the internet, pro se litigants should be able to litigate for changes in the law and file class actions.  Texit.pro’s suggestion would be to combine the two for citizens to more realistically attain changes in the laws in a timely manner.  As of now, lawyers recognized and allowed by the government to practice law (Esq) are the lowest level of litigants allowed to litigate for changes in the law, which was likely a good idea in the days before widespread modernity (this law dates from the days when many people could not read or write).  Nowadays, it still wouldn’t be a good idea to let just any pro se litigant alone be able to litigate for changes in the law, but it might be a good idea now to allow that type of grassroots litigation to be done via a pro se type class action (which does not yet exist) by allowing such complaints to proceed if there are enough pro se litigants litigating under the same Complaint—a “pro se class action,” if you will.  
 
Once a pro se class action is brought forth by enough plaintiffs, the law could have further provisions for it to be required to be assisted by a professional lawyer of their choosing, with stipulations of how that lawyer is paid, which would be a set value for those litigating normally and subsidized by those meeting the informus pauperis requirements…this would ensure professionalism and commerce, similar to how the courts must provide court appointed lawyers, though in a different, better light, considering it would be civil pro-action…so litigants should have a choice of lawyer, being plaintiffs and not defendants (not having been charged with a crime).  Even further, the law could be extended with stipulations to allow such suits to be statutorily organized, instead of those litigants having to coordinate unofficially, which could be seen moreso as a deprivation of time in general (an amendment violation).  The law is there to help organize the public according to logic, so hey why not?...would it, could it, be seen as less of a deprivation to do so?...that could be argued either way. 
 
The way the law stands now, aiding the general public with respect to their cases is not allowed, and that is in the name of freedom and equality under, which so encourages the public to learn and achieve on our own and not become dependent on governmental assistance.  One might argue that such an organizational precept and provision as aiding in the organization of class actions, pro se included, would be too great of a governmental concession, especially in the traditional regard.  Many court officials have more of a “the law should evolve us rather than help us” stance, which is becoming antiquated by more modern standards, one being sheer plausible deniability, and the other more unitary, if not greedy, though but in a greater aspect more logical…being evolved standing as being helped—and so chooses to treat the law as having capacity unto duty to both harm and help when and where it’s needed (in the sheerest of logic, why should the law not help foremost, cp?..would that not be the antithesis?).  Such theory would make more sense; the law serving to relieve, innocent and guilty—past and future: of the present; one second to the next…state and federal under one roof, one nation under God. 
 
These days though, there might be a different atmosphere, and certain provisions could be modified, with the potentials of mass disorganization becoming too great a threat from sheer population sizes and advanced technology, warranting similar safeguards or help if you will, in the same way that provisions have been made for people submitting filings under indigent status and being granted waivers of payment by the Court.  In times past, it might have been better to let people starve to death to preserve life…these days though, with so many people with access to guns, that might not be a good option.  In times past before modern government, keeping the delinquent out of modern affairs might have been better, whereas now, most of us are descended from those who worked hard to ensure modernity, so it could be seen as more of a curse to disavow those descendants without some sort of dowry, just like all gentlemen deserve a proper burial.  As society burgeons, the courts can decide where and how to operate and stint accordingly, in the same way that permission to proceed in forma pauperis can be granted, other provisions can be made if they are indeed seen as appropriate, this is the beauty of modern government…which is derived from the word itself, to govern.  Just like a driver governs a throttle for different terrain, a good government should adapt to the terrain of the present and future, to steer us from death—democracy the evolutionary constant and not the other way around—the functionality of government thereby being, functional, as in even if that society fails it would be overall more beneficial in nature’s eyes, given that control, and so therefore could only fail by lack of proper participation in that government, implying that a perfect government need only be exercised (tongue in cheek).  That is of course ceteris paribus, because there is nothing you can do about stupid…though if on occasion stupid people even remotely, accidentally participate correctly in government, they would by course use it to transmute themselves inthrough intelligence…when done proactively, evolution might be through things like social security, education and upkeep, or even things like sterilization of chronic sexual offenders, or requiring government approval to bear young, but usually it’s done in a crass, last-minute, forced sorts of ways, which usually means war, genocide and death, like a garden being weeded or like more primitive slash and burn techniques.  Those days should be t hings of the past, with so many options now to metaphorically prevent weeds altogether, and we could see this pragmatically through government’s affects, in technology.  AI programs and robots could easily be used to make things like weeding passe, and so likewise, the advanced government should be able to reduce more arcane methodology.  An evolutionary government doth help, does it not?  Pro se class action should be moved forward in the cue.
 
Just as a side comment, there are so many people on Social Security these days who would not be if society were fit and not becoming disabled.  It should be no surprise that as our society degrades, so do its people directly, with disorders more likely manifesting from the unsanitary disorganizations resulting from lagging in the technological and bureaucratic backbones of our government, where they could be helped, which makes sense because the energetics of nature should not be able to afflict someone innocent.  Perhaps these new-fangled disorders are karma’s way of touching those unaware of the inavoidable criminality of their lack of adult participation and stewardship, which is slightly scary, but would make more sense to the adult or even to any kid who has seen something die harshly in nature, or even killed it, like a bug…life is valuable and even just casually being in the wrong place at the wrong time can get you, even if you are just a happy normal bug.  Psychological disorders surrounding societial depression are more likely the subconscious instinct subtly influencing our paths like the butterfly effect towards our futures as the allegorical feet of karma intersect our paths, so that the strong survive.  To the casual observer, it might seem random which bug gets stepped on, but to someone who has followed the time leading up to mortal events, likely it would seem much less so, with the less innocent coming into contact with the edge of the scythe at just the perfect time, and the innocent seeming to be missed by every foot. 
 
One might could get confused and think that good policies have not helped us, when they have, because we do have successful technology now outpacing those systems which gave rise to that success, don’t we?  It’s only the unsuccessful upkeep of successful systems which makes us seem to fail.  But yet, we have alot of collective detritus, and probably roque psyche doctors in back rooms handing out disability checks to people they might, or perhaps even should treat preferentially, having no democratic oversight or crosschecks…for people who so much as have bipolar disorder, which to me more resembles astrology rather than medicine, though I digress.  Not one person really knows what bipolar is, other than just “ups and downs,” as if you acted like a Virgo or a Taurus at just the right time.  There’s an old saying: throw enough mud on the wall and some of it’s going to stick, but I digress again.  The point of the matter is that the poor arrangement in and of the matters of actual matter could be causing interceived energetic dysfunctions manifesting as incontrollable ups and downs in the psyche, just like how too much play in a steering wheel would have the same type of effect on a driver: poor control.  What our system seems to be doing is labeling the driver a poor driver, instead of the vehicle—our government—as an improper, poorly maintained vehicle, when in actuality the driver might actually be more skilled at steering than the average driver, due to the play forcing greater skill, yet would appear worse.  As time wears on and such a driver is forced to concentrate on compensating for poor maintenance instead of expending that on repair, his skill and time would likely decrease in other areas, which should be seen as a general deprivation…though conversely, if caught at the right time, handing someone now who is very skilled and very appreciative of a working vehicle might be ever more beneficial, in the same way that stressing a plant before harvest can yield better fruit, counterintuitively enough. 
 
At the end of the day, likely it’s not the person, but the people at large that is the issue, which is good news for many of us (Thimerosal brain damage or not).  The key to gaining the extra edge over normalcy might very well lie in small, homeopathic increments of abuse, torture, oppression and depression, much like boot camp or special training, so that the end product becomes better.  What that means to the social animal unto evolutionary anthropologist is that these heights to achieve can lay in the future at random, which would have natural draws for us “bugs” to follow…now, which ones of us follow these paths knowingly would be of the keenest interest, because those who would do so without wit in many ways could be seen as committing criminal acts against others, who would benefit more from those lessons in the long run, in their need to be stressed foreso.  This presents us with a humorous picture…I mean, what do you do to the person who commits a random act of violence towards you, just to move you three yards to the left, just in the knick of time to miss the proverbial piano being dropped from seven stories above.  Do you hug them?...do you send them to jail?...both??...who knows?  At this point, hugs might be best, with society having been retrograde for so long now—all of us being born into the snakepit, and so at the very least excusable by a legal Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity standard, which might could mean that one should marry them to boot!!  I would bet my bottom dollar that almost each and every one of us has some sort of weird, recent or semi-recent story surrounding them being oddly or unjustly thrown into direr psychological straits, which caused some sort of normally disagreeable event to unfold that ultimately led to an outcome which outshined the initial discomfort and deviance by a factor great enough to overshadow it all, if not make it immediately forgotten…like being haunted by an angry spirit for years in a new house, just to get into a domestic altercation, punching a hole in the sheetrock, only to find a hidden cache of gold and the answer to a cold case, who turns out to be your ancestor, you the only surviving heir…presto, the ghost is gone, your wife loves you now, on the beach in Sri Lanka, problem solved.  The saying “no good deed goes unpunished” may very well have its roots in truth, as good karma flushes the heir at any rate.
 
A large number of Pro Se litigants litigating for the same causes should raise the eyebrow of a good judge or two…if I were a judge though, I would not force those cases to hearing outright, in the same way that legal officials and staff should not advise people on the law when they can go look it up themselves, as mentioned…but a large number of proper pro se litigants like that should already demonstrate a higher level of diligence, volition, education, etc…in turn due to the control that law disallowing officials to divulge legal advice provides (demonstrating its utility in just that alone), all of which speaks for itself.  Therefrom, a keen observer might conclude that some assistance by the courts could might be due, simply because such good citizens, who are worthy, who added stock and value to the future could fall victim to the mentioned extraneisms surrounding the natural eddies of imbalance found in richer waters of progress’ turbulence, where sharks do so live better too…with high-tech naturally being unable to be congruously well-implemented in government during those natural crests and troughs of our fervent pulses (frickin’ laserbeams included). 
 
It should not be beyond the realm of successful tradition to simply advise those Pro Se litigants that the courts have noted that their complaint has fallen into the same category as so many others’, whatever that number or percentage would be, and provide that list of litigants, and might provide information on professional Counsels too (lawyers), perhaps not directly, but surely could direct the public to common databases where that information should be stored.  In the past, such databases would have been more of a deprivation to maintain, likely being mostly unused before the internet, but now they would be indispensable.  The court would of course leave the leg work up to those citizen litigants, to then form their own class actions surrounding, which would keep in line with the spirit of freedom and progress, so that each man or woman does his part on his or her own, fairly, squarely, and in the spirit of nature’s most ultimate way.  Similar complaints could easily be earmarked by court clerks and augmented by AI—reading, cataloguing and performing organizational tasks on millions of documents in split seconds.  Right now, the courts are so disorganized with respect to technology that such things are less likely than a free ride.  Let’s take a more well-known case in the Volusia County, FL official court website which is www.clerk.org, and then lets look at say the Travis County, TX website which is www.traviscountytx.gov and also note that the Travis County Sherriff’s website is www.tcsheriff.org.  A few other examples from around the country give us the same disorganizatia; for instance, the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) does not have an official site, at all, which is a joke.  Going to sites which list the county websites from different States, the story is the same, with no control over format, domain suffix, etc…which means that there is a lack of upkeep occurring in the law with respect to technological organization in a huge area, which could be fatal, especially in the nature of politics, in the same way that not caring for any important aspect would be, especially for one so cutting edge, new, and revolutionary as the internet.  Government offices are set in stone by the law, the format of their physical addresses are as well, so should their websites be.  Just imagine how we look to foreigners coming over here…we need to remember to pedigree well or we might be cased for our wealth, period…that’s how things are supposed to go, the strong conquer the weak, saving the future moreso.
 
When you want to look up an address, you don’t get back, “over yander, around the bend across from the big tree next to uncle Joe’s house,” NO…you have the address number, street, city, state and zip.  In the same way, government web address should be the same, going from country, to state, to district, to county, so on and so forth, and be required to have the same suffix: .gov, and ONLY official government websites should be allowed to have that suffix…like such as: us.tx.western.travis.gov, for the federal civil district court it should be us.tx.western.federal.gov/civil and for the 5th circuit court it would be us.federal.5thcircuit.gov, or something along those lines.  Right now, some of the only sites which do have a cohesive nationwide format are the Federal Courts, which likely was implemented by a federal judge who was just not going to allow his courts to seem unprofessional in one of their most outward respects to the public…we need to take a hint and make the rest of the country uniform, I have no doubt that the upper courts would oblige in small changes to match, given that the format is done thoughtfully.   Government office websites within the county should take up directories in a universally mandated manner as well—the Sheriff’s office for any county in the US should be “/sheriff” and nothing else…not /tcsheriff, just /sheriff, for every office in the country.  This way, if you had an emergency and were in a different State you weren’t from, you would be able to access the website you needed more quickly without having to look it up, just knowing the county you were in.  Let’s say you were in Houston and wanted to access the city of Houston’s page, you would input us.texas.southern.harris.gov/houston.  Saving little bits of time like that are what separates good models from bad ones, not to mention saves alot of energy/carbon footprint just by people not constantly using google’s electrons to find their own government’s web addresses, and who knows how much breath is wasted by this kind of commentary due alone, in both utterance and in reading.  We are never going to get around to updating and organizing the tech in the offices below if we don’t even have their main web addresses right, that much could be said.  For eGov to come about for the next era, such things are a MUST!
 
These kinds of misses are fairly egregious, given the level of sophistication our country claims and is reputed as having, versus the amount of disregard shown in one of the, if not the most sophisticated social system of our government’s avantude.  There has been plenty of time for such things to be fixed and working well, against deprivations guaranteed by the Constitution.  That such things have not only not been well-kempt and manicured, but have almost been indelibly left to encroach upon the lives of others is a supreme signal which could mean one thing and one thing only: that all of these men and women of the government are blindingly intelligent, and have without doubt all but set the table for us, making litigation towards mending the future all the more easy, and effective.  Which again is a big clue for all…that when you see something so out of place that the only other answer would be that a person is criminally insane, take a step back for a second and think, keeping their large amount of money and property in view, “maybe this person is just so smart that I’m not getting it, perhaps they are setting something up, like a give and go for a perfect score?”  And voila, nine times out of ten, those people are…and in almost every case, it’s the only way they can do so without losing power, or causing harm.  They are in better standing than we, on paper, and in most other respects, and have already seen that there are issues coming down the line which normalcy probably won’t be able to account for, so they throw things into such an abnormal state that the common man is left staring with the conundrum, which we but only perceive as oppression, when in fact it is merely a warp in the fabric of legitimacy’s spacetime…as if a large shark has just come up to us with its mouth agape.  The initial instinct is fight or flight, but if you let in the warm light of sentient evolution and human cunning and reason in, you can quickly see that it all is more likely an informal emergency mechanism passed down from the old-world which bootstraps into the existing court system and allows those below with the wit and skill to play off the ball and pass back with their numbers and abilities to assist in much needed goals, like a good fan.  The shark is just in need of legal symbiosis—a teeth cleaning, and we are the clownfish, those who don’t comply intelligently and quickly might soon be supper.  From a neutral perspective, these processes achieve extra tasks in the same swoop vs normal progress, by not only achieving the tasks at hand, but doing a better, more thorough and complete job of it, by and through waking up normal citizens who usually would not have become involved, and by also further displacing, separating and illuminating unwanted behaviorisms for care, which normally can go unnoticed and blend back into the background, just to become more of a problem later.  The big suits on the top floor just can’t make a sign that says “Help me, I’m going crazy when I try to use my computer, or my phone…my office is a schizophrenic minefield, someone might soon be stabbed, possessed, divorced, murdered, or worse PLEASE HELP!”  You just can’t do that when you’re a big guy, all humor aside…things could be worse if you went around manually asking people to get involved to try to help your issues, even if they are common…your wife could see you as weak, for one, who knows?  Or maybe they just don’t have the time, but their lawyers might.  If all these big guys conspired by artificially compounding the smaller bumps on the road naturally driving them nuts, people in smaller vehicles might start to notice more and get the job done faster without the status quo being disturbed, which makes sense, because why should the big guy move for the little guy, from a sheer physics and conservation of energy standpoint?  Once the work is done, they take the pressure off and the road is totally smooth for them.  Some might feel disrespected, others would see those actions as a sign, reading, “please fix these issues because we are wealthy and own large weapons manufacturing and technology companies and don’t have to time to do so ourselves, nor should, because it’s your job to sweep the metalogical floor, not ours, talk to my lawyer for your recompense, have a g’day” and so you do because you know that they don’t care either way, and can just blow things up if they feel like it, if it’s not being taken care of in a timely fashion and warranting dismantling in the cheapest, funnest way, all around, for them which we then have to pick up and rebuild.  Plan B is just as good or better than Plan A for the elite, not for us…for the majority, it usually means being conscripted to serve in a war, where things are figured out the old-fashioned way, away from one’s wife and family.
 
Be that as it may, it is all perfect cause for Secession.  Something was supposed to be done, it was not done and then corruption, societal unrest, depression and recession ensued and innocent life and time was lost.  Litigating for those small things to be done retrospectively would only clog up the courts for the increasing issues coming down the line, putting their timetables of getting taken care of out into the range of perhaps forever, who knows?...which in lay terms should mean some sort of collapse or similarly devastating occurrence.  At this point, one can see that we’ve been put in great enough danger, warranting us to deploy our government’s safety mechanism: secession…and who knows, maybe these guys are doing this to us on purpose to force us to deploy it, just so that history remembers it as effective and it gets broken in, so it will be more likely used again, like a rusty hinge or a new pair of boots or a baseball glove…almost like governmental masturbation, pardon the phrase if you would, but it could be seen as a proper course of action to begin, in the same way that new brakes on a car must be tested with harsh stops that normally would be unfavorable.  Either way, we as citizens should seize this opportunity like children seizing candy on Halloween.  States could compete with eachother on ways and means of self-improvement and eventually collaborate on the most successful methods and courses of action towards a reunionization best, call it America 3.0 or whatever, but the baseline will be one that does not automatically elicit schizophrenic reactions from the general public being disorganized and throw us into an upside-down state of never never land every time we turn the corner.  The din and hum from allegorical construction will always be there…should we rather it be at a din all hours of the night and day, or at a roar during the working day and silent for the evenings and night?...the latter would be better suited for our natural schedules, sleep, health and sanity…and if done right should likely lead extra spare time for fun, memorable metaphorical vacations, which is the real legacy we need to leave here for the future’s posterity, so that as cycles repeat themselves, those future people have that last drop to push them through to the next monsoon on the serengetis of life…where the law is live and let live and the motto CYA.

Such systems would give the citizen more direct control over our laws, and would flow together very well with an updated, centralized technological infrastructure revolving around an eGov type interactive interface…which would basically be like the court websites now, but with more integral, top-down organization and the ability for citizenry to have an account linked to their social that would allow them to navigate and more importantly, interact within and between any court, district, representative or what have you…naturally drawing people closer together, eliminating negative logic in-as-far, and providing more interaction between greater wills of the people and their representatives, who would also gain more of an edge in being able to more closely respond to change—eliminating the play in our collective wheels, avoiding accident.  Effectively, this would gradually work around the metastasized bureaucracy stemming from the need for a [expensive] lawyer or the need to be a lawyer to change the law, which most people in dire straits in need of relief cannot and should not afford, which is a major blockade, and especially under economic depressions when time and money is short for everyone, but especially for the law, and when that litigation is mostly needed.  In the past, it was likely less advantageous and more of a hassle to allow this type of litigation and organization, with local communities around lawyers more capable, considering information moving at the pace of a horse, but now with technology’s advent and modernity, times have changed, offering more conducive routes whilst making others less so.  Relying on those older trails like older roadways could be more hazardous and slower, even if they are less distance as the crow flies, they still cause greater losses of time overall, being paramount, which lends more towards the dangers and blockages of bureaucracy…just like a tumor, the longer it goes unremedied, the worse it gets, and the more difficult to remove and adjust to after that extrication.  All of this stands as a supreme obstacle between the average citizen and their wishes being addressed properly and timely.  In the same way, we should phase in more internet-based democracy and we should focus on phasing out other antiquated systems which used to serve better functioning but are now causing deadly bureaucratic buildup, which naturally encourages fleecing and corruption in natures natural rectifictory processes, which is undue in sentient modernity, being preternatural. 
 
Law is actually an easier subject once one grasps how it generally works, being a lesser science, easier to perform (cp) than math, biology, chemistry, physics, etc…which is its only difficulty…in wrapping one’s mind around its sheer simplicity and unexpectedly direct usage of logic and math in and of the person in real time, as truth could only be.  The incongruous padding of current lawyer pay grades could largely be due to Pro Se litigants' having been barred from litigating changes in laws and class actions, which attracts too much talent that could be of better use elsewhere nowadays.  Modern law required higher talent to bring it about in ages past, just like other legacies which are becoming less and less cutting edge and more common like Calculus.  The buildup we are seeing is just a simple sign of the systems in-between being rough and failing to provide quick, slick social mobility, like a clogged system should exhibit, though perhaps this one is due for a full overhaul now that we know.  Evolution is there and we need to evolve accordingly…which in itself would be evidenced by the Texit.pro Author hereof, possessing only a high-school diploma, though mostly able to perform at the college level and perhaps higher in some respects, simply due to having access to the internet for as many years, as if I had my own college with a library the size of multiple sport stadiums in my back pocket for years on end, which would go the same for anyone with a computer since the 90’s; standing as a massive sea change in the most important aspect of logic in understanding—which is directly related to law: information.  To my benefit though, I did come from a well-educated family who also placed alot of value on the same…but for so, so many to have the internet now, that trend will only exponentiate through the masses, just as fitness, good looks and religious excellence did so from darker ages past, which should be exciting for us all, as our mixing pot only tastes better and better…and is something to rejoice over and not to squander by burning it on the stove…all it takes is just a bit of a stove burn and the whole pot is toast from the carbon.  Now would be the time to keep the keenest of eyes on our pot…or perhaps just put it in the oven to finish now that it has been mixed well with the ingredients.  The fact stands though that the metaphorical oven does not work right and is outdated from the 70’s, along with the other appliances…why not just stick the pot in the freezer, grab a sammich and renovate the whole kitchen so we can do it justice in a few days, and then have a nice kitchen for the next generations?
 
Finally, I would say that for just simple Pro Se class actions alone (unrelated to law changes), the courts should take less stewardship, being less related to law, but though still allow pro se litigants to observe a list of similar causes, whether pro se or not, but though not allow a lawyer to be assigned.  Fairly I should say that the FIOA system already possesses the ability for such information to be found, though verily, it is difficult to use, being antiquated and unsearchable, upon request only…which is evidenced by the fact that the government web address formatting is almost non-existent…one might could argue that that fact alone has made every other government system connected to the internet difficult to use, as if we are children who hath been scarred, lackaday!  It’s high time that things get more organized and the need for Pro Se class actions could be very well be evidenced by the lacking in other areas, especially with regard to the web address disorganization…then again, it may have been left disorganized on purpose by officials in order to give litigants more weight and thrust in the courts.