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Attorney Dedicated to ‘Justice for All’

Attorney Gregory Hession of Belchertown always knew he wanted to be a constitutional lawyer.

But it wasn’t until he actually began practicing law in 1993 that he realized what he really needed to do. His vision goes beyond the individual situations he defends on a case by case basis. His goal, said Hession, is to “try to change the system itself; to restore justice for all.” 

Father and stepfather of five, Hession sees his law career as an opportunity “to fight back against government corruption and tyranny.” What motivated him to concentrate on these issues were the extreme cases that flooded his office, the pervasive corruption in the legal system and the amount of injustice that the state is using against people.

The areas that he focuses on are: restraining orders against parents, families whose children have been taken by DSS illegally, those whose property rights have been violated by local conservation commissions and free speech by religious groups.

“My law practice now is primarily to fight the ‘tyranny’ of the state. That comes in several different areas, both in criminal defense and some civil law and administrative law. They keep pushing the average citizen more and more and regulating him more and more.”

Hession says there are very few lawyers who really believe any more that the Constitution is an objective restraint on government. He said that they believe that it’s fluid, that it changes with the wind of the politics of the moment. “So it’s very hard to find people who simply want to stick with the Constitutional text that is written.”

He explains that the legal profession has managed to compromise many of his fellow attorneys. For instance, a lot of attorneys are paid for by the state. If they’re going to take a position against the state, they’re going to lose the opportunity to work for them. “So they compromise the willingness of lawyers to really stand for constitutional liberty by paying them off, in essence; by making them wait in line for continued appointment with the provision of course that you won’t get too uppity.

“If you don’t play by the unwritten rules of not opposing the system, you lose a lot of favor with the system. You’re not well received and it’s a lonely sort of situation because you’re not fighting only your opponents but oftentimes you’re fighting the system. Judges don’t appreciate that and the prosecutors don’t appreciate it. In some cases, they have been fairly rude.”

In certain cases, the political issues overshadow the legal issues. “It’s very frustrating when there should be a clearly established principle and a law under the Constitution,” Hession said.

A good example of this is how DSS will go into a home and take a child out without a warrant. “They can’t go in your home and take drugs out without a warrant or anything else out without a warrant. But they can take your child without a warrant. The child is not protected from being taken from a family.”

Hession said that DSS exemplifies the worst in police state tactics. He said they’re the people that take children from families without due process, keep them and adopt them out. “They are the people that come with guns and literally pry a child’s fingers off their Mom and steal them right out of the house. You may never see them again. And that is so far from what John Adams and the people who wrote our Massachusetts constitution contemplated in the search and seizures provision.

“And with a new law that’s been passed recently, they now have adoption quotas upon which they are working. If they exceed those quotas they get bonuses. So we’re dealing with a system that has an incentive to steal as many children as possible.”

To contact Gregory Hession, go to his website at massoutrage.com or 413-323-7508.