Category: The Meaning of America by Robb Fickman

June 14, 2022 Friends This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Martin Luther King Jr. The Senate and others are patting themselves on the back for their proposed new gun laws. They should not pat themselves on the back. These proposed new

6-5-22 Friends After every school shooting the Gun lobby argues we should have more armed guards at schools. That is not the solution. You do not stop gun violence & mass shootings with more guns. Military style guns like ARs and AKs are the weapons of choice of mass shooters. Common sense dictates that we

May 18, 2022   Friends People say I am unforgiving. Sometimes that is true. When the damage done is for a lifetime and when it’s done to the poorest among us by those who should have known  better, then I am unforgiving.   I am unforgiving to those who for a time sat on county

4/20/22 Friends I have practiced law in Harris county for 38 years. For most of those years the judiciary was comprised of extremely pro-prosecution judges. The District Attorneys Office now has the Audacity, the Unmitigated gall to attack a judge for alleged defense bias?!? Consider the mind-boggling, extraordinary hypocrisy of the the HARRIS COUNTY DAO:

Friends – It was 2003 and we were climbing Rainier. We left Camp Muir, at 10,000 feet, around midnight climbing with the aid of our headlamps and the moonlight. We had over 4000 feet to climb. At around 11,000 feet LB, did not feel well, so we walked back down with him until we knew

ROBERT FICKMAN’S 2022 HARRIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY JUDICIAL ENDORSEMENTS Friends – The Harris County District Attorneys Office has SHAMEFULLY encouraged assistant district attorneys and pro- prosecution candidates to run against some of our best incumbent judges in the Democratic Primary. The bench does not belong to the DA’s Office. It belongs to the people. A

February 13, 2012 Friends Ignorance breeds Ignorance. Someday , maybe, this country will leave racism behind. Sadly it’s still part of our society. I favor teaching the truth about historical events. We should love our country for all our many great achievements. We should love our country for the good it has done. We should

February 10, 2022, Friends- The Houston Chronicle says, “More than 100 criminal cases have been refiled as part of an initiative Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman’s office has started, he announced in a Wednesday news conference. “The message today that I want to give out is if you come out here to Precinct 4, and

February 7, 2022 Friends From the movie “Lincoln”: Thaddeus Stevens: “Oh, how you have longed to say that to me. You claim you trust them, but you know what the people are. You know that the inner compass that should direct the soul toward justice has ossified in white men and women, North and South,

February 6, 2022 Friends – I read with interest City Council member Michael Kubosh’s recent condemnation of the release of the accused on PR Bonds. Did he ever hold a press conference and read a list of the names of the many thousands of Houstonians who’s lives were forever stained by the systematic denial of