By Graham Dugas
“Without justice, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers?” — St. Augustine
USA –-(Ammoland.com)- The jury system is one of the few remaining checks on the system available to those of us who love freedom.
We must utilize this tool to the fullest measure if we ever hope to non-violently fight tyranny.
Yes, it is a hassle but we needn’t look far to see all the evils visited upon us when this righteous check on tyranny and lunacy is neglected. With freedom comes responsibility. The jury system is the government coming before you asking for permission. In that sense we are not “tainting ourselves by participating in the system” as some would have us believe.
Rather it is “The System” coming before us seeking acquiescence and we need not cater to their wishes.
The evil of laziness:
Let’s get a little closer to home. Let’s take a good look at our hearts. We who espouse human responsibility, we who decry envy, we who are educated and refined, have we by our neglect enabled those who would tyrannize us?
OK, so jury duty doesn’t really pay that well, it is grievous and it gives the righteous freedom lover agita to no end. Is that reason to neglect it? When those who work real jobs that require intelligence all seek to get excused from jury duty so they can go about their normal affairs, the void is filled by those who might typically watch Jerry Springer…. or Oprah. (Which is worse?) Who would you want on your jury should the IRS target you? Thomas Paine or your average boob-tube watcher who is on food stamps? So we who love freedom, must overcome our laziness and endeavor to get seated on the jury because it is we who have studied history, it is we who have studied the precepts of liberty and it is we who have obtained a righteous and non-conformed ideal of justice. If it is not our view of justice that is represented, it will be someone else’s view that gets represented. We should therefore see to it that we persevere through all the odious crap and overcome all the things they put in place to dissuade our participation.
The evil of pride:
Pride, zeal, and even the love of the truth often trap unwise freedom lovers. They know the doctrine of nullification. They know the history of men such as William Penn (after whom Pennsylvania is named). They know Blackstone, they know the Constitution and… they can’t wait to let others know they know it too. Herein is their undoing. They get bounced from the jury pool, and maybe marked for life, just because they fail to grasp the true goal of having the magistrate subjected to them. And that is exactly what it is.
The power elites still have to come before the common man to obtain:
- 1.) an indictment via a Grand Jury, and
- 2.) a conviction via a common jury.
A righteous soul on a Grand Jury can shield his fellow man from the rigors, expense and capricious risk of a criminal trial. Just one person of conscience on a regular jury can prevent an evil outcome. Sadly, such stand-alone faith and fortitude are rare ingredients these days. Let’s change that.
The power of a juror:
A single juror has unlimited and unreviewable power that cannot be reversed…. if he is wise. Just one juror can hang the jury and prevent a conviction. And his reasons need not be explained, nor must he even let them be fully known to a single soul. He can just vote to acquit and say nothing else. He can keep his reasons entirely private should he so desire. The juror is a judge of the facts (he didn’t pay his taxes, he had a gun, he protested outside the designated “free speech zone”) and he is also a judge of the laws forbidding such actions. Mid-nineteenth-century jurors often refused to convict those who were charged with violating the Fugitive Slave Act. If just a few jurors refused to convict in tax cases the whole phony mess could be defanged. This power is so great because that way we don’t need 51%, we only need one out of twelve and they are powerless to overcome us.
(An important side note: The juror also has the right to ask questions during the trial but it is best to refrain exercising in our times lest he get bounced from the jury by an arbitrary evil “Judge” for “misconduct.”)
The goal:
Very simply the goal is to get seated. Suppose they pass a law that absolutely forbids the possession of any type of a gun whatsoever. Suppose all the courts and judges are all stacked and beholden to evil. (Is this a big supposition?) Suppose Joe Patriot was found with a gun. Suppose the penalty was death. Suppose you were on the jury and the defendant openly admitted that he had the gun and the facts are beyond dispute. The “Judge” instructs the jury as to what the “current law” is and tells you to apply it to the facts.
Now off you go with eleven Oprah/Jerry Springer drones to the deliberation room. The jury foreman goes through the facts and the law, and then you all vote either to acquit or to convict. You are the lone hope for a righteous outcome, the lone hope for justice to prevail. Here is the point of conscience. Here is the point of real power. You can simply vote to acquit and give your fellow jurors no reason at all. Or you could tell them anything they want to hear. Tell them you think Joe Patriot was framed. Tell them you think he was pressured or hypnotized into confessing. Tell them you think he is being drugged by CIA mind control drugs. Whatever you do, don’t wave your nullification flag. You may get tossed from the jury because the judge arbitrarily accuses you of misconduct or of being “tainted.” The best bet is to act dumb, and with a glassy-eyed stare, say you just have doubts. You may be the lone hope to protect Joe Patriot from life in the gulag.
Getting seated and staying seated is the goal. You are then above the judge, the prosecutor, and even the written law. They have to come before you to get a conviction. You can vote however you wish and you need not account to anyone for it but God. You don’t have to explain yourself, the history of the Second Amendment, the Sixteenth Amendment, the Magna Carta, English Common Law, Natural Law, William Blackstone, Samuel Rutherford, or anything. In fact it is better if you don’t. You want to remain under cover so you can get seated again in the future. This is very important. Why would you want to surrender such power?
A general premise:
In times of declension such as ours, “Judges” have no honor nor is any due them. Please strongly consider using any available means including misdirection, shaded statements, etc. as an effort to get on the jury. Hide from them the fact that you have ever read the Constitution. Say you read it in school and leave it at that. Make statements about how you trust the system, trust the police etc. If you are specifically asked about nullification, or fully informed juries, tell them you would listen to what the “Judge” had to say about it and let them believe what they want. Act like the typical conformed, publicly schooled, Ritalin-consuming drone and make no waves. Tell the “Judge” or Prosecutor what they want to hear in order to get seated. Tell them you love Jerry Springer and Oprah. Keep mum, you don’t need to show off any knowledge or instruct the evil judge in the plain meaning of the English language. He has spent a fortune and devoted many years in an effort to become as stupid as he is. He is a sad creature that is now fully conformed and impervious to logic.
The fact is that the government still must come before the people (juries) in order to convict. You have unreviewable power once you cast your vote as a juror. Resist the temptation to give the judge a civics lesson. Don’t wrangle with evil men. Assume that such a judge, by virtue of his holding that office, is likely an evil man. He has toted too much political water to get there. If he were an exception to this assumption, if he was a just man, he would stand out and you would know it. He would also not make such an effort to screen righteous people and independent thinking from the jury. So, presuming him to be evil, do what you must to get past him without being exposed.
Truth telling, conscience and cunning:
Now as to “lying“… and honor… The knock comes on the door…. “Are there any Jews here” is the question. What is unstated is “Are there any Jews here that we can take and kill.” So you may freely reply in the same vein: “No there are no Jews here” and also leave unstated “that you can take and kill” even as they left it unstated.
Words have a spirit behind them. We talk about the essence of something written, the intention, the gist of something, and the “spirit of the law.” When you say: “No, there are not any Jews here (that you can take and kill),” you are the only one in the exchange that is telling the truth.
The Hebrew midwives of Moses, Rahab hiding the spies from the inquisitors in Jericho, the Magi misdirecting Herod about Christ’s whereabouts and others were lauded for what they did.
During jury examination, what the judge is asking you is this… “Will you be my puppet and apply the laws as I see them regardless of the plain meaning of the Constitution (or higher Natural Law)?” “Will you become my vassal?” What he is saying is: “Will you join me in applying the law?” and he leaves unstated “Will you join me in applying the law unjustly?” You can, with a free conscience reply, “Yes I will join you in applying the law” and leave out the adverb “unjustly” even as he left it out.
I have often wondered how someone’s conscience could be bothered if they told a policeman or a judge a “half-truth” but they are not bothered by voting to convict their fellow man of some evil law and subjecting him to draconian punishment for it. If I am going to err, let it be on the side of my fellow man.
Conclusion:
Jury trials are one of the non-violent ways our republic still affords us to resist evil. Use it to the full. We may get a proud feeling as we are giving the judge a righteous civics lesson but that is not the goal. The goal is to get to a place (the jury) where you are the “decider.”
Many Christians and people of conscience are easily bamboozled by cunning evil men who want to smoke them out and deprive them of the opportunity to further righteousness/justice. Stay undercover. Be wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove. Aim to get seated, and to remain unmarked so you can get seated again. Avoid the traps of laziness, of pride, and of being an unsophisticated simpleton who gets smoked out. The juror is above the lawmaker, above the prosecutor, and above the judge. Who would not seek to embrace such a position of reforming power?
March 14, 2009
Graham Dugas [send him mail, dugas1223@gmail.com] is 49 yrs. old and works as a kitchen designer in the Hilton Head, SC area. He has participated in non-violent civil disobedience, he has been to their jails, he has experienced their crooked courts and he has never trusted a gov’t official of either political party since. He has successfully defended himself in court and in 1996 he single-handedly defeated a court injunction that the US Supreme Court previously upheld.