The First Amendment declares that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging ... the right of the people ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances."  This also applies to the states. Despite that clear command by the United States Constitution, a recent article demonstrates that "[m]ore and more of what we do is dependent on permission from the government." I personally have experienced the harsh truth of that statement, as I struggled to transform Equal Justice for Victims from a Facebook group into a tax-exempt non-profit corporation, as proposed in my recent eponymous book.  The purposes are (1) to educate the public about how and why judges, lawyers and prosecutors give royal treatment to murderers, while providing little justice for their victims and torturing the survivors of victims of intentional murder, and (2) to propose solutions to the vast imbalance.  As I discuss at length in my book, 130 years ago...(Read Full Article)