An Experiment in Justice

On April 20th, 018, I launched this website, https://jaxcojustice.com .

The site is based on the small southern Indiana county of Jackson. As in most of these counties, the corruption here is deep, as it has not been dealt with since the founding of the county, January 1, 1816.

Jackson County was just as wild as the wild west. After the heinous event known as the civil war, fomented by European bankers, was ended, outlaws and corruption ruled the day. The war, while being a boon for the bankers, was devastating for many a common man.

Outlawism grew rather rampant in Jackson County.

The industrial center of the county, which had been at Rockford, was crumbling. A family by the name of Reno had settled the area as early as 1813. Rockford had been the geographically obvious point for the newly ran Ohio & Mississippi railway, which would have met nicely in the town with the already existing train station on the L & I line from Louisville to Indianapolis.

This connection however, never occurred. Meedy Shields, a shrewd businessman & later politician, convinced the engineer, with some land gifts and a promise of a town named after the man, Seymour, to run the rail through his own property, much of which was little more than swamp land.

This change of fortune would spark events only a year and a half after the end of the war which would lead to a near international incident & the weighing in of outrage from the Queen of England.

A few of the Reno boys, along with some others, pulled off the first robbery of a moving train in US history on October 6. 1866.

This would lead to the rise of an infamous gang of vigilantes, known as "the Scarlet Mask Society", or here locally as the "Jackson County Vigilance Committee". The Vigilance Committee would go on to lynch several men in connection with the train robbery & other crimes in the area, including four men hung in a New Albany jail, prompting world wide headlines & a strong condemnation from Queen Victoria.

There has been little justice in this county since. I have maintained for decades that the Vigilance Committee is still in effect here. The committee claimed to disband in 1868, posting a final warning to anyone who might wish to retaliate for the vicious lynchings that had taken place.

From my perspective, people are still getting hung here, quite often contrary to any respect for Common Law, Constitutional Law, or even Human Rights for that matter. Indefinite detentions aimed at coercing guilty pleas are still the rule of the day here.

This website is dedicated to restoring justice as well as getting justice, even for those whom revisionist history has tried to write off as deserving a "short shrift and a hempen collar."

Lately, I have caught three Jackson County Sheriff candidates breaking election codes & I have called them on it as well as turning them over to the Indiana State Police, the FBI and the Office of Special Counsel which investigates violations of the 1939 Hatch Act.

It is unethical as well as illegal to use county property, including uniforms, to influence voters.

The scandal goes much deeper than this.

I am chronicling this unfolding scandal on the website, under the section labeled, "Now".

The intention of this website is to clean up one small Indiana county while inspiring people in the surrounding counties to attempt the same.

Thank you for reading & please do check out the entire story & share it with others if you think it as worthy as I do.

Peace & Love

Mike, Man on Land, of the Cockerham Clan, aka, the dread historian.