PIML 96050502 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: [The jury, and especially the fully informed jury, is the last protection of the rights of the people. Take action when you hear of any attempt to dilute our jury system. For information, call 1-800-TEL-JURY, Fully Informed Jury Association.] PIML ================================================================== All the interesting news seems to be reported by the patriots now a days. >From Carol Moore in D.C., belly of the beast, cmoore@upx.net Date: 21 May 1996 07:32:37 U From: John Burr Liberty Law , Subject: LLAW: FWD>Judges protect "Judicial Discretion" Date: 5/18/96 1:46 AM From: R.L. Cheney Jr. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE POST FAR AN WIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **NEWS RELEASE** Dear People, Today, I went to the Enloe Confence center in downtown Chico, California to attend a conference held by the Judges and State Assemblymen in which to radically change our present court systems. They were quite successful. Such actions taken here today, adumbrate a future dark, and replete with injustice and even more Court corruption. First, I watched completely amazed and dissapointed as they passed a resolution to virtually stop all camera coverage or any form of electronic recording ability in court. Now, with an assured shadow over the courts, Judges can even more readily 'change' the transcripts behind closed doors and thus change testimony, decisions, facts, even many more sublime records of the court. Essentially, the Judges of this State in a clear move to protect "Judicial Discretion" are turning out the lights, and locking the doors of the court room. This can only do one thing: and that is hurt the defendant, and assure the courts of unrestrained injustice. Indeed, one Judge testifying made the absurd comment "I can see no First Amendment right or protections in allowing any type of electronic recording in the courts." With such clear, party-line stupidity and bias placed forwards by 'experts' as this, we: the Citizens of California are factually doomed. In a vote of 13 to 6 the measure passed to bar camera's from California court rooms! This is but one staggering feature of this militant Judicial tribunal that assembled today in Chico, California. Also under consideration by the Judicial elite are even more draconian measures to aid courts, Government and Judges, and to simply deny citizens their Constitutional rights. Things being proposed for passage are: > Having a TWO juror hung jury minimum, rather than a ONE juror hung jury system. > Allowing massive increases to Court Budgets > PROactively surpressing the Fully Informed Jury initiatives. > Cutting Juries from 12 Jurors to 8 Jurors. > Not naming the Jurors, just numbering them so that they be 'unidentified'. > Not allowing Jury trials for low level crimes and infractions. (Example cited: Less than 1 gram marijuana=NO JURY TRIAL.) Right now our present 'incarceration' rate per persons charged stands at approximately 93%. When these measures get passed, then the conviction rate for Government will go up to 99%. We will join the illustrious ranks of Communist China, North Korea, South Africa and other oppressive regimes. Our rate of incarceration will to jump up to 99%, thereby assuring our 'benevolent' government that if it all but CHARGES you with a crime--it will a virtual probability that they will win. This is a far cry from Abraham Lincoln's attestment that he would "rather let 500 innocent people go rather than unjustly incarcerate 1 innocent person." In fathers rights matters, and other 'Social Engineering" venues, such as environmentalism, or feminism...Government will all but have to send you mail; in which to destroy your life and have you incarcerated, or worse. This Judicial convention that occured here today, was one of the biggest crimes ever to be committed against the American Public. It is all being done by a high, untouchable strata caste of this society, that no longer obeys the Constitution, and now; through their self-serving designs are shredding all constitutional infrastructures in which to place their interests supreme over that of the Constitution and the rights of the People and the Individual themselves. What transpired in that polite colloquim of concentrated power, was really a last shot fired that indeed, will have PROFOUND and CANCEROUS effects upon this society. What they have hewn out of paper and pen strokes, is a false god, a golden calf that will be but a cancer to this nation. Today, all citizens will regret the actions of these high powered priests and priestesses that shelfishly, only protect themselves. Surprizingly, at a time when this nation is experiencing great Political duress, when this nation is bifurcating due to the applied injustices and unlawful oppressions of government itself, the Judicial system should have taken this opportunity to critically review its sad and conpiratorial performances, and should have moved towards an more enlightened and Constitutional view of providing more justice, more openness, more leniency and Liberty within the law! Instead, like the unseeing tyrant it is, it moved 180 degrees in the wrong direction! It moved towards imbuing itself with more power, more injustices, more darkness, more money, more control, more 'Judicial Descretion" capabilities. All while turning out the light of providing easy and readily available electronic technologies that would help the defendant (especially poor defendants) do one small thing: keep an accurate account of the record being used against him or her, in trial proceedings by government. A great click was heard here today from Chico, California. Like a cannon shot that started a revolution 250 years earlier, the switch that turned off today is a direct affront to every freedom loving American. That one small action taken by these power elites, could be yet; one more quiet sound heard across this county, that may in the end, sadly precipatate revolution. I was disgusted and repulsed by the actions taken here today by the Judges, and Government "Representatives." What they participated in here, can be seen as no more than a crime against all of us. More importantly, after leaving the assembly today, I'm sincerely convinced they are no longer acting in our interests. Only their own. Respectfully Submitted, R.L. Cheney Jr. Executive Director The Sovereign Patriot Group In Defense of the Constitution Lest We Forget c/o 975 East Ave., STE 112 Chico, California Republic PZ 95926 E-Mail = spg@ecst.csuchico.edu WWW = http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~spg/index.html TV Show= Sovereign America (c) A weekly TV show on Constitutional Issues. ================================================================== Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:33:38 -0700 (MST) To: fija@teleport.com From: "L. A. ANDERSON" Letter to the Editor The Dear Abby columns of June third and forth, point out a glaring need to educate the American people of the need and right of American citizen jurors to be the final judge of any application of this countries laws. Last week's vicious persecution by the Pima County Prosecutors Office, of Donald Vanover, was stopped by a conscientious jury... which, by rendering a verdict of NOT guilty, said No... the power and force of the County Prosecutor's Office will NOT... be used as a magisterial bludgeon to yet again victimize a heart broken father, whose son was accidentally killed by a gun. Bravo ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have performed as anticipated by the wise men who founded our country. You can bet the family farm that this thwarted persecution was not about the unfortunate Mr. Vanover, nor was it even about the death of his beloved nine year old son Jesse. NO... not at all... It was about the enforcement of a political agenda regarding guns, held by those in official power. Hooray for the magnificent jury system which the founding fathers of the this great country set into place. Hooray for its protection against such tyranny this case exemplified. Remember this my fellow citizens, before you think to shirk you civic right and moral responsibility to sit as a juror... the next such trial may be your own. Accept you responsibility to sit as a juror, and when you do, vote your conscience. Your job is NOT to enforce the law... but it IS... to do justice. A quality that is all to rare in today's theatrical, and lawyer controlled, court rooms. L. A. Anderson landers@azstarnet.com 298-8775 ================================================================== * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.