Rot in Hell, America

Jesus must have had a malicious little turd like Nikki Setzler in mind when he gave his opinion of lawyers: "And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers." Luke 11:46 KJV. Appropriately, the description fits Turd Nikki to a T as his law firm rakes in profits from South Carolina's probate racket and as Turd Nikki stonewalls anyone who dares to complain. I understand that Turd Nikki himself doesn't handle probate cases any longer. That would make his involvement in the probate racket too obvious. So the conniving, self-serving little turd gets around that by making sure his law firm handles probate cases while Turd Nikki makes money from his probate-dealing law firm. No wonder it took the State House gang so long to agree to divulge their sources of private income. Turd Nikki couldn't care less how much misery the oh-so-quietly-passed law putting a time limit on wills inflicts on South Carolinians.

I once met Nikki Setzler.

Not long after a gang of Marine Corps thugs at Parris Island, South Carolina (thank God I'm not named after the sadistic, racist little hell-hole) drowned a screaming teen-aged recruit named Jason Tharp, Nikki Setzler appeared on my front porch looking for people stupid enough to vote for him. I told the malicious little turd that I don't vote, gave him a brief sermon on the Tharp case, the likes of which he'll never hear in the fine Christian church he attends (word has it he's most apt to show up around election time), and he never came back.

I recently found out that Turd Nikki has a closer relationship than I was aware of with the dishonest, goon thug corporation SCANA. Turd Nikki was instrumental in bringing SCANA into South Carolina, a fact which no doubt played into Turd Nikki's co-sponsorship of the infamous Base Load Review Act which ushered in South Carolina's nuclear power scandal. Anyone who thinks attorney Setzler didn't know the Base Load Review Act was a bad idea for South Carolina when he co-sponsored the legislation is a fool. He was just kissing up to a filthy-rich, crooked corporation like he's now kissing up to his own interests in the probate racket. Turd Nikki couldn't care less if South Carolina's energy bills are among the highest in America or if South Carolinians freeze to death in the winter or die of heat strokes in the summer.

This evil beast of a country went way too far when it demanded that I participate in establishing a false public record that maligns the memory of my beloved mother by making it appear that she wasn't responsible enough to leave a will. Such a false public record also invites unwarranted public speculation as to whether my mother actually intended for me to inherit her worldly possessions. My mother paid an attorney to draw up a valid will, leaving all her worldly possessions to me, and any public record regarding my inheritance should make that clear. By favoring a time limit on wills, Turd Nikki has demonstrated his contempt for making sure public records state the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Turd Nikki is only concerned about him and his law firm raking in profits from the probate racket. The financial ripoff of a time limit on wills is bad enough, the moral ripoff can be intolerable.

And then there's the abomination of turning my father's will into a club to be held over my head unless I betray the memory of my deceased mother. The law prevents me from probating my father's will until I settle my mother's estate even though my father's will reads much the same as hers, leaving all his worldly possessions to me. It will soon be ten years after my beloved father died, and he too will be "deemed to have died without leaving a will." The situation reminds me of the sadistic Nazi SS trooper in the movie Schindler's List who forced the Jewish mother to choose which one of her two children he would take to the gas chamber. When the poor woman hesitates, the sadistic bastard orders her to "Choose, fraulein, or I'll take them both." The sadism depicted in the movie and inflicted as part of South Carolina's time limit on wills differs only in degree.

All these years that I've been protesting the probate racket, as he stonewalls my inquiries,Turd Nikki has been hoping and continues to hope that I will break under the stress of knowing my beloved father will also be "deemed to have died without leaving a will," and that I will betray the memory of my beloved mother by probating her estate, thereby creating a false public record, and then probate my father's will to prevent him too from being "deemed to have died without leaving a will." That's the kind of sadistic, subhuman monster Nikki Setzler is. Calling Nikki Setzler and his ilk turds understates the case, because at least a turd can be used for fertilizer, whereas sadistic, subhuman monsters like Nikki Setzler and those of his ilk who delight in making life more miserable for people struggling through the process of bereavement have no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. Sadistic, subhuman monsters like Nikki Setzler and those of his ilk are indeed some of the absolute lowest forms of life in the universe.

Any member of the gang of sadistic little bastards and bitches who make up South Carolina's General Assembly who thinks I can be browbeaten into betraying the memory of either one of my beloved parents - the two people who have so justifiably meant the most to me in this life - is badly mistaken. I would rather die than do such a thing. Any public record I participate in establishing will state the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth regarding my inheritance, and the best way to do that - as Turd Nikki and the State House gang well knows but is too corrupt to admit - is to eliminate the time limit on wills so I can probate both of my beloved parents' precious wills as they intended when they paid attorneys to draw up those precious wills. So when you see me protesting in front of Turd Nikki's corrupt, probate-dealing law firm long after my beloved father has also been "deemed to have died without leaving a will," just consider it a reminder of what a profound lie, what a rotten, deceitful excuse for a country, what an evil beast, America has been from the get-go. Like another one of South Carolina's leading turds - attorney Henry McASSter (sic), a contrified hick who has yet to warn South Carolinians about the time limit on wills, is so fond of saying, with his repulsive, overdone southern accent for which he must surely be famous, "It isn't the dawg in the fight, it's the fight in the dawg." I can assure Turd Henry and Turd Nikki both that this "dog" has ample fight in him to carry on the good fight in this matter for the rest of my life, if need be. But the State House gang and the gang's minions - Ashley Landess of the South Carolina Policy Council, Dave Schwartz of the Freedom Action Network, and Keven Cohen, owner of Columbia's Miss the Point Radio Station, to name a few - need not worry because I turn 74 this month, and time flies, so I probably won't be around too much longer anyway. At least my death offers the prospect of bringing the relief of being rid of this evil beast of a country once and for all, and the families of Jason Tharp and Raheel Siddiqui must surely feel the same way.

I hope each and every one of the sadistic little bastards and bitches who make up South Carolina's General Assembly are proud of themselves for sneaking around behind my back and turning both of my beloved parents' precious wills into instruments of torment and coercion, which of course is the exact opposite of what my beloved parents intended when they paid attorneys to draw up those precious wills. Perhaps I deserve the nightmare my life has been turned into for being foolish enough to trust this deceitful little dump of a country to do the right thing, even by my beloved parents' precious wills. America is nothing more than an evil beast intent on destroying everything in life that can be considered precious or sacred.

I often wonder what kind of home-life, what kind of upbringing, the little bastards and bitches had who worm their way into South Carolina's General Assembly. Their parents obviously failed to instill in them even the remotest sense of fundamental decency and fair play. Maybe their parents were busy making sure the little darlings attended church and didn't have time to teach them right from wrong. If South Carolina's 2018 election wasn't rigged, I believe most South Carolinians are so abysmally stupid that they would support the State House gang politically even if the gang appeared on their doorsteps and robbed the fools at gunpoint.

Turd Nikki is too cowardly and conniving to attempt to defend the time limit on wills in a straightforward manner because he knows a time limit on wills is indefensible from the public's standpoint. So the conniving little turd filed a bill suggesting that probate court judges be given authority to decide when the time limit should be extended, deceitfully implying that the public has an interest in a time limit being applied to wills. The public has no interest whatsoever in having a time limit on wills. A time limit on wills benefits only probate attorneys, and legislators like Turd Nikki who own probate-dealing law firms, If Turd Nikki wanted to do the right thing, he would have been doing everything in his power to oppose a time limit on wills, beginning in 1986, and once the law passed, he would have been warning South Carolinians about the quietly imposed time limit.

The situation waxes downright poetic. Here we have Turd Nikki, one of the biggest and surely one of the most brazen political whores in the history of American politics caught with his pants down due to his conflict of interest in all things probate, and all he can do is clam up, because he knows the public has no interest whatsoever in a time limit on wills but he can't admit that, much less take appropriate action, because that would interfere with his law firm raking in profits from the probate racket. Talk about a conflict of interest.... I shudder to think about heirs who live out-of-state getting caught in the time-limit trap and the extra expense for the trips they're forced to make to hire lawyers in South Carolina. Perhaps the travel industry contributes to Turd Nikki's election campaigns.

Turd Nikki has been trying to shut me up about the probate racket from the get-go, first by ignoring my e-mails, and then by blocking me from his Twitter account. I wish he had blocked me from his Twitter account long ago, and I had noticed, because that's what prompted me to start protesting regularly in front of his corrupt, probate-dealing law firm. It's turned out to be a highly effective way of exposing Nikki Setzler for the malicious little turd he actually is.

Cutting back to the chase: If sneaking around behind people's backs and putting a time limit on wills - a de facto denial of due process if ever there was - is the best America can do, then as far as I'm concerned, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CAN ROT. IN. HELL.

Update 1/18/2020 - re cell phones (see 12/16/2019 update), Edward Snowden has exposed the government's interest in making sure everyone has one. Read the article, then tell me, do ya really wanna hold a cell phone next to your brain?

Update 1/6/2020 - protested from 11:30 - 1:00 in front of the Williams, Stitely and Brink law firm across from the probate court in downtown Lexington. GREAT response, 94 blog visits, MANY signals of support. Thanks to all who visited this blog and/or signaled support.

Update 1/5/2020 - I'm allowed - for the time being, at least - to publish again on Twitter.

Update 12/31/2019 - I'm still blocked from publishing anything at all on Twitter, including messages..

Update 12/30/2019 - I'm still blocked from publishing anything at all on Twitter. I'll say it again: Such harassment only increases my determination to expose the truth, especially by going to the streets and directing motorists to this blog.

Update 12/20/2019 - protested from 1:10 - 2:55 in front of the Williams, Stitely and Brink law firm across from the probate court in downtown Lexington. BEST RESPONSE EVER - A WHOPPIN' 134 BLOG VISITS, SIGNALS OF SUPPORT ALSO SET A RECORD. THANKS EVER SO MUCH TO ALL WHO VISITED THIS BLOG AND/OR SIGNALED SUPPORT. 

Update 12/19/2019 - I continue to be blocked from publishing any tweets at all (see 12/12 and 12/16 updates). This post and my post thanking Firestone for providing online chat REALLY has Amerika's corrupt power structure intent on shutting me up. No wonder prisoners have cell phones (see 12/6/2019 update). You can thank Amerika's goon thug telephone industry for that. 

Updates 12/16/2019 -
> I was allowed to publish on Twitter for one day (see 12/12/2019 update) then I had the audacity to rewrite a post, focusing on my gratitude to consumer-oriented Firestone for offering online chat and e-mail services, thereby further exposing efforts by the telephone industry to force consumers to use phones, and suddenly I'm blocked again from publishing anything at all on Twitter.
> Protested in front of the SC State House from 1:45 - 2:45, and since Turd Nikki's corrupt, probate-dealing law firm is on my way back home, I just couldn't resist protesting for about 15 minutes in front of the joint. A total of 35 blog visits, which ain't bad for a day with wind-gusts that blew me off balance once as I stood in front of the State House. All in all, it was a highly successful day, and I had a delightful 15.64 mile bicycle ride with the warm temps. Thanks to all who signaled support and/or visited this blog. SPECIAL THANKS to the two people who - on separate occasions - walked around to read my sign or stopped to talk with me.   

Updates 12/12/2019 - 
> This post hit a nerve with Amerika's corrupt power structure. Yesterday and again today I've been blocked from posting anything at all on Twitter as Amerika demonstrates its contempt for the truth by using so-called reputation management companies to shut people like me up. Wonder how much Twitter charges these goons for access to accounts. Such harassment only increases my determination to expose the truth, especially by going to the streets and directing motorists to this blog.
> Protested from 2:15 - 3:00 in front of the South Carolina State House. Windy, but a GREAT RESPONSE: 42 blog visits and many signals of support. Thanks to all who visited this blog and/or signaled support.

Update 12/10/2019 - protested from 2:30 - 4:00 in front of the Williams, Stitely and Brink law firm across from the probate court in downtown Lexington. GREAT RESPONSE - 75 blog visits and MANY signals of support. Thanks to all who visited this blog and/or signaled support. SPECIAL THANKS to each of the two people who stopped - on separate occasions - to talk with me and said they would visit this blog.

Update 12/6/2019 - protested from 10:30 - 11:30 in front of Nikki Setzler's corrupt, probate-dealing law firm. WAY, WAY ABOVE AVERAGE number of blog visits, probably due in large part to the lady who stopped by yesterday and put my protest on her Twitter feed (see yesterday's update). It's only fair that I return her kind favor by promoting a cause she's interested in and one that I support. Please visit gopetition.com and search for "stop cell phones in the state prison systems" and follow her on Twitter @JoAnnSa57270428. Thanks to all who signaled support and/or visited this blog.

Update 12/5/2019 - protested from 11:45 - 1:15 in front of Nikki Setzler's corrupt, probate-dealing law firm. WAY ABOVE AVERAGE number of blog visits. Thanks to all who visited this blog and/or signaled support. SPECIAL THANKS to the lady who stopped by, interviewed me, produced a video, and put all the info on her heavily followed Twitter feed. See the video @JoAnnSa57270428

Update 12/4/2019 - protested from 12:00 - 1:00 in front of Nikki Setzler's corrupt, probate-dealing law firm. Thanks to all who visited this blog and/or signaled support.

Update 12/3/2019 - protested from 12:30 - 2:00 in front of Nikki Setzler's corrupt, probate-dealing law firm. WAY ABOVE AVERAGE number of blog visits and signals of support, including a motorist who stopped to talk with me. Thanks ever so much to all who visited this blog and/or signaled support.

Update 12/2/2019 - sent a link to this post to all South Carolina legislators via SC legislature online and to the Judiciary Committee and Ethics Committee (as though there is one), and tweeted a link to Henry McMaster.

Senator Setzler can run, but he can't hide

You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Last year, I sent an email to the senator asking what he had done to simplify probate requirements, and I encouraged him to support Kenny Bingham's bill. After two weeks without a reply, I published a blog post, sent the senator a link to it, published the link on Twitter and Facebook, and made two appearances in front of the senator's law firm directing people to this blog. Almost immediately thereafter, I received the reply from Senator Setzler stating that he was "inclined to support Representative Bingham's bill."

Nice try at making it appear that you would like to help your constituents, Senator, but it was late in the 2016 legislative session, odds were overwhelmingly strong that Bingham's bill would never make it out of committee, and "Ethics" Chairman Bingham had announced his intention to retire. Bingham's bill was, as I noted in an update, too little too late, and of course Senator Setzler ignored those pesky questions I asked him in my blog post.

By the time Senator Setzler got around to replying to my email, the legislative gang's attitude toward victims of South Carolina's probate/trust racket had been underscored by the repulsive charade put on by "Ethics" Chairman Bingham and attorney Emma Dean of the House Judiciary Committee. Only the profoundest of clods would pull such a stunt.

The main interest in Bingham's bill seemed to be in making sure the bill was kept as quiet as possible.

This year, I decided to see just how sincere probate-attorney Setzler actually is about simplifying the probate code, and on 1/30/17 - over three weeks ago - I sent him an e-mail suggesting that he introduce a bill similar to Kenny Bingham's for the current legislative session. And wouldn't ya know it, just like last year, I have yet to find any replies from the senator.

Point is, nobody should have to prompt Senator Setzler to initiate efforts to clean up South Carolina's probate/trust racket. The senator - a career politician for 40 years - probably had a hand in initiating those attorney-serving complexities to the probate code, but regardless of his role at the time, Senator Setzler has had over 30 years to take action on behalf of the bereaved. I wonder if the senator ever saw fit to inform his constituents that the probate code had been turned into a money-making scheme for attorneys. It was a hoot the way the attorney I spoke with in Senator Setzler's law firm intimated that the 1986 revision to the probate code was done on behalf of the taxpaying public. Silence is indeed golden for the probate/trust racket.

Attorney-legislators must be dancing in the aisles now that the governorship has gone to one of their own. The state's new governor - Henry McMaster - is another career politician and former Attorney General who's already been embroiled in a scandal and who somehow forgot to mention the state's probate/trust racket in the much ballyhooed video he made upon taking office.

I understand this entire situation quite well, Senator Setzler. There you are a well-entrenched, career politician, and here I am, just a lowly constituent.


What YOU can do:

>  Spread the word about the probate/trust racket. Most folks don't find out about the attorney-generated horrors of probate until they are struggling through the bereavement process, and shock value is a key part of the effort to browbeat people into hiring a probate attorney.

>  If you need help with non-probate matters, avoid using attorneys who advertise that they specialize in probate. Many attorneys refuse to get involved in the probate racket, and one of them told me with a wink, "It's a 'highly specialized' area of law."

>  Refuse to be bullied by the attorney-generated horrors of probate into paying attorneys to set up trusts. Probate is financed with tax dollars, and should be an inexpensive, viable alternative to setting up trusts. Executors (now called Personal Representatives) shouldn't need a law degree to probate an inheritance.

>  Cut costs by downloading your own estate documents - especially wills - from the Internet. Paying probate attorneys outlandish fees to "draw up a will" is risky business, because attorney-legislators have a vested interest in nullifying wills.

>  Last - and what certainly shouldn't be least (but probably is) - send "your representatives" an e-mail expressing your sentiments about the probate/trust racket.

3/14/2017 update: Interest in South Carolina's probate racket is increasing, and Senator Setzler's kind would never be elected if "news" organizations like WIS-10 did their job and informed the public about pertinent issues. Not a word from the "senator" re my 1/30/2017 e-mail.

3/10/2017 update: Twitter is blocking numerous tweets re Senator Setzler and the probate racket from appearing on my profile page, which tends to reduce the number of re-tweets. Please spread the word about Senator Setzler and the probate racket.

3/9/2017 update: Picketed across the street from Lexington County Probate Court for about 2 hrs starting around 12:30. FANTASTIC RESPONSE - THANKS A MILLION to everyone who signaled support. If you were one of quite a few that took a photo, it would be GREAT if you posted it on the Internet.

2/27/2017 update: Probate-attorney Setzler sure has gotten quiet about simplifying probate. How come, Tricky Nikki? The attorney I spoke with in your law firm certainly wasn't bashful about coming up with an exorbitant, open-ended fee ($1,500 up front plus $275 an hour) for services that never should have been required in the first place regarding my mother's will.

2/25/2017 update: Bicycling home yesterday, Sen. Setzler's law firm was on the way. Jus' COULDN'T RESIST standing in front of the joint for 15 mins protesting the probate racket.

2/24/2017 update: Another round of protesting in front of the State House as Senator Setzler clams up. MANY THANKS to all who signaled support and visited this blog. Today it was an ABC WOLO, "news" crew that drove by but declined to investigate. Never mind that their studio is directly across the street from the State House  Special interests have taken control of mainstream media. 

2/23/2017 update: Still no reply from Senator Setzler, and today I stood in front of the SC State House - where the senator is probably holed up - with a sign directing folks to this blog. Many thanks to all who signaled support, and it was a hoot watching an NBC WIS-10 "news" crew nonchalantly drive by, apparently knowing better than to investigate and submit a story.

2/21/2017 update: My pleasure to e-mail a link to this post to Senator Setzler and (via Twitter) to Governor McMaster.