Update from Charlie Grapski

This was posted on Grapski Defense yesterday

I wanted to send a message to all who are supportive of myself and more importantly what I am trying to do in addressing the deep seated issues in Alachua. The events of the past two weeks clearly indicate that the problem is not limited to Alachua's openly corrupt City government.

They are enabled in their corruption by the "game" that has become the law - which enables, rather than restricts, the game that has become politics. I have known about the latter for some time and have been researching and writing on that topic. I have understood the legal game and its problematic nature as well but only through experience, such as this, does it really become clear how interdependent these two problems are.

And I believe that this nexus of the game of law and the game of politics - with the game of law enforcement in the middle - is the key to our problems nationally not only locally.

Politicians are corrupt not simply because they get re-elected as incumbents. But because they know that no one will hold them to account. The citizen ought to be the highest office in a democracy. The fact that in this country being a citizen means nothing (except the right to vote one day a year - and then only if that is actually fulfilled in the counting process and other aspects of the legal and political process) to those in these games - where they expect you to be an expert in the "norms" of their activities as a means of power (a means of excluding the citizen from directly participating) - this fact is indeed the heart of our national dilemma.

Today's election will not fix that. We have a lot of work to do.

We must not only prove that this country must be a democracy. And therefore that it must recognize the citizen as the highest office. We must begin acting like citizens now and demanding that those in legal or political authority accept our superior position as the sovereign and stop treating us like subjects.

In my case it is clear that the City committed crimes against me as well as the public. The law enforcement community, however, will do nothing as the Alachua Police Department started the ball running by arresting me (with a conflict with the fact that Clovis Watson was both a political and a law enforcement player). The sheriffs office refused to investigate. The State Attorney refused to investigate.

And instead the State is prosecuting me for what it knows is not a crime. But they also know that they are in charge of the process and can make any non-deferential subject (a citizen) go through the kinds of nonsense they are putting me through, and thus most won't dare do it, because they know that the Courts - the Judges - will play along in that same game.

It is the guild nature of the legal profession connected with the political actors that is at the root of our problem. We no longer have laws - we just have judges. We no longer have a Constitution.

We the citizens, therefore, have a real and important struggle facing us to restore our nation to its most fundamental founding principles aiming solely at Justice and the Public Good.

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