Why was 16 Am Jur 2d seemingly quietly revised?
Lets go through a little thought experiment (nightmare) dystopian real-life experience of many in certain captured courtrooms in the era of the unlawful Flock camera c/o BIG BROTHER, 2026.
You walk into a courtroom. Before doing so, the security portal as guarded by two gruff security professionals who seem annoyed that you’ve interrupted their watching of Cops, a tv show from the 90’s (not really requiring an introduction, is it?) which bombards the viewer with unlawful arrest after unlawful arrest in prejudiced, color-of-law fashion. Just what is decorum, anyways? They seem wholly ignorant and/or disinterested in the true and proper law, but that is just hearsay, right, and as you walk into that public / not-public place it all becomes hearsay without a witness, at best, where it’s your word against that of public official(s).
After all, no electronic recording devices nor laptops are permitted on the campus, so it really is your word against that of a public official…
The sign on the front door reads “NOTICE: ALL PERSONS AND THEIR BELONGINGS ENTERING THESE PREMISES ARE SUBJECT TO SEARCH”
Alternatively, there is an “ORDER APPROVING APPEARANCE BY ZOOM” whereby…
“Participants must identify themselves when in the ZOOM waiting room.
Anyone who does not have their name listed will not be allowed to
participate in the hearing and will be removed from the waiting
room.”
The victim is faced with a choice of cattle trough - experience fear in asserting right by addressing men with guns, men with black robes, color-of-law court “orders” just to attempt to restore previously guaranteed right. Acquiesce to the prejudice of the Zoom attendee having the advantage of access to ChatGPT, screen recording, and CTRL + F search functionality in 2026 while you are fumbling through dusty books - your laptop and recording device confiscated if utilized. No 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th (etc.) Amendment right in the courtroom; or risk acquiescing to a strange jurisdiction in the digital realm.
Big Brother peering into your private house, home, abode.
The toil and burden and getting up early to shave and shower and press the laundry which had traditionally been associated with going to court being removed as a naturally-cured burden designed to prevent the frivolous now touch-of-button by way of remote-lawyers who might not be in the same state, might not even be in the same country, and how to face such an accuser? Does that guy even need to wear pants in this strange new world?
Court of Record?
A court recorder who would lie to your face with a smile, feigning lack of knowledge that this 4th and 5th Amendment violation at the security entrance had ever occurred, or that words or actions verbed behind this sound-proof barrier were the same as when they were manifest, the very design of the recording stifled by systemic reduction of right? Stealthy blending of law and equity to make it all seem as though it’s on the up-and-up? A systemic corruption known as sedition which the public official is incentivized to protect the moment they show up to work under banner of color of law? Regulation conflated with law, this is normal, this is fine. The alarm went off, we may need you to take off your belt and be touched, next your shoes, you may place your phone and laptop in the locker, you won’t need that, where you are going…
Show trials and show judges pretending they are overburdened, or being genuine the same, didn’t they buy this when was conflated that equity and law, tried twice, being civil but not criminal (per se) were not double-jeopardy?
Why can’t we just have vanilla?
On your way out, assuming you are not more tampered goods than has been normalized, the same security professional who had grumbled about having to turn the security machine back on when you arrived minutes before close to drop off a document is smoking a cigarette right at 4:30, standing at rested attention and holding the door for you, the smoke licking the edges of the threshold of the security portal. The new age.
Regulation Conflating with Law
^ The usual suspects? ^
