Litigiaphobia - The Fear of Being Sued

by Brent Johnson

Fear has become one of the most prolific mechanisms used to influence people to take a particular action, or refrain from taking a particular action. In today’s world, people everywhere - in just about every country on Earth - are bombarded with propaganda - on television, radio, news media, and possibly worst of all, through their smart phones - telling them that the next great crisis is upon them and they need to be afraid of its consequences.

We are told that we are going to die if we do not deal with climate change, which is facing us because we are destroying our planet. Never mind the fact that the vast majority of legitimate scientists on the planet have concluded that there is no existing threat from climate change; our planet has been around for a very long time, and it has survived numerous changes to its climate.

We have a food crisis; we are all going to starve unless we take immediate action to stop eating food unless governments approve of it. Insects, lab-grown food, and manufactured food are our only hope to avoid starvation, while mega-corporations continue to make endless amounts of money off poisoning the food supplies.

Every day we are told of a new or ongoing crisis of major proportions that is destroying our world. There are always emergencies that require our only hope - the government - to come in and save the day. Meanwhile, our fundamental freedoms are consistently violated by governments that seek to rule our world for their own nefarious purposes, and major corporations help those governments in order to increase their profits.

We have been trained to fear the current crisis de jour to the extent that it causes us to doubt our abilities to determine how we will live our lives, and then those doubts are used to further enslave and impoverish us.

In the midst of this attack on the populations of the world by fear-mongering corporations and governments that seek to rule over everybody, there is a fear that has been especially promulgated inside the Fascist Police States of Amerika * (i.e. United States - FPSA) under the radar, so to speak, because unlike the other fears mentioned here, this one is not promoted through propaganda, nor is it advertised in order to generate fear in the people; rather, it is quietly installed in the public over long periods of time through careful manipulation of the news.

It is one of the most prevalent fears that we face in this dysfunctional world, and particularly in the FPSA; I call it litigiaphobia; the fear of being sued.

In Amerika today there looms over everything in life the fear of being sued.  Banks - which regularly engage in fraud and misrepresentation along with illegal securities trading - design their policies in order to minimize the likelihood that they will be sued.

Schools craft their policies and procedures to minimize the likelihood that they will be sued (though today it seems that adoption and promotion of deviant ideologies is even more important to them, which is why many schools and educational institutions are being successfully sued due to their discriminatory acts).

Hospitals and doctor offices make sure that patients sign away their individual rights before medical professionals will even see them, in order to ensure that when (not if) the patient’s rights are violated, he or she has no recourse to sue.

Governments and corporations are quick to sue or threaten to sue people in order to influence them to do what they (the governments and corporations) want, while ordinary people are forced to sign away their rights to sue them if they are violated (see terms and conditions that require Arbitration - which is not a judicial process - instead of suing in a judicial court of law, which carries with it protection of your rights).

This below-the-radar fear has been so well entrenched into Amerikan society that people automatically act in ways that undermine their rights.  They waive their rights to sue if they are violated in order to obtain the services they seek.  They also agree to terms and conditions inimical to them in order to avoid being sued.

How many times have you read a story or watched a news program or podcast about someone being pulled over for a traffic stop and then the cop ends up accusing the driver of a crime?  Then, when the accused criminal is brought to court, the State agrees to drop the charges if the accused party pleads guilty to a lesser crime.  In most of those cases, the truth is that the accused party would get off completely if he or she pursued the matter but in order to avoid the cost of a lengthy trial (and to address the possibility that he or she might lose the case), the accused party agrees to plead guilty.  In such an instance, the State gets a conviction, which makes the State look like it is successfully fighting crime and thus scores points for the State, while the accused party gets recorded as a criminal offender.

Plea bargains are designed to ensure that the State gets a conviction; the State does not care about the details of the charges, verdict or sentence, it only wants the conviction, which makes it seem like the State is doing a good job fighting crime.  Meanwhile, the convicted party is happy that he or she did not get 100 years in prison (or whatever other threat the prosecution may have made) and so agrees to accept the guilty verdict even though he or she may have done nothing wrong.  Better to be guilty of a minor offense than to fight it and take the chance on a conviction for a major offense.  This is due to Litigiaphobia.

Civil settlements operate along similar lines.  Better to accept a settlement of some kind rather than play out the case on the chance of winning but the possibility of losing far more than the settlement provides.  This is also due to Litigiaphobia.

In such cases, justice has not been served.

That is what Litigiaphobia has done and is doing to Amerika.  The justifiable fear that government (or in civil matters, corporations) have virtually unlimited resources that allow them to drag out legal proceedings until they force a win for their side has resulted in few individuals receiving justice in their criminal and civil cases.  Litigiaphobia has all but destroyed the original American dream of Liberty and Justice for all.

How do we fight against this underhanded and despicable disease that threatens our very existence as a Land of Truth and Justice?  What can we do to combat this dastardly enemy of our fundamental rights?

Well, the first thing each of you can do is stop caving in to threats by the criminals who staff the government and run the corporations.  If you are offered a plea bargain… refuse it.  Call their bluff.  Force the State to prove its case (which all too often it cannot do).  Make the bureaucracy show that it has behaved correctly and done nothing wrong in bringing this matter forward (which it can never do).

I know that doing what I suggest encompasses more reasons to be fearful - fear that you will lose your case, fear that it will cost you too much to prosecute your case, fear that all the cards are stacked against you and you cannot win.  If you succumb to those fears, then you have already guaranteed that you lose your case and all your God-given Rights along with it.

The way to fight fear is to refuse to be afraid.  Trust that your Father in Heaven does exist and is watching over you.  Believe in yourself… in your ability to stand tall and true and thereby attract those who will support you in achieving your honorable objectives of truth and justice.

Brent Johnson is Director of Freedom Bound International, a common law service center dedicated to the preservation of personal freedom, privacy rights and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.  He may be reached at 1-888-385-FREE or on-line at www.freedomradio.us.