Petition to Amend Massachusetts Constitution to Allow Recall of Judges

HOLYOKE, MA ...Chief of Police Scott is attempting to have the people amend the Massachusetts’ Constitution requiring judges to be certified by the people every six years. He is basing his efforts on Article V and VII of the Commonwealth’s Constitution, the outrages perpetrated by judges he has personally witnessed and those brought to his attention by others in trying to make Massachusetts’ judges accountable to the people.

It is the Chief’s belief that judges in the Commonwealth are not accountable to anyone, let alone the people. They are appointed for life and on numerous occasions make extremely liberal decisions that negatively impact the lives and safety of the citizens of the Commonwealth.

Under the amendment proposed by Chief Scott, judges will continue to be appointed by the Governor and certified by the Governor’s Council. However, after six years and every six years thereafter they must be certified in an election by the citizens of Massachusetts.

Please download a copy of the petition contained herein, get twenty signatures of registered voters and mail the signed petition to Chief Scott by the middle of February 2003. The Chief will utilize the signed petition as evidence, when he testifies before the Joint House/Senate Committee on the Judiciary, that citizens of the Commonwealth want judges accountable to them.

I was a witness in a trial here in Mass. The judge, after postponing several court dates had everyone involved come in for a 10 Am start.
He didn't get to us until the afternoon. Then he heard the snyopsis of the case and said he didn't have time to hear it that day.

He said I want everyone involved back here Monday morning at 10 AM. I was close enough to hear a conversation between the judge and a lawyer. The lawyer told the judge he had to be in another court on Monday morning on another case. The judge told him I don't care about your personal problems. If you are not here in this court Monday at 10 AM I will hold you in contempt of court. And the judge just walked away. Just an anecdote but I have several others dealings with arrogant Mass. judges. - Tom

Article V. All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several magistrates and officers of government, vested with authority, whether legislative, executive, or judicial, are their substitutes and agents, and are at all times accountable to them.

Article VII. Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it.

Would you belive that this is part of the written Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? Get's better, look at this:

Article I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. ah, but that couldn't be not in the state of kennedy and kerry, nope, they had to get politically correct, so....
Article CVI. Article I of Part the First of the Constitution is hereby annulled and the following is adopted:-
All people are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed or national origin.

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