On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:10:43 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >I agree. But here is what one judge in Colorado did to a juror who told
Agree with what? Some context would help here. >others about nullification: >http://www.levellers.org/jrp/orig/jrp.natllawj.htm > >She was jailed for a period of time and after a lengthy defense, >eventually release. Laura Kriho was definitely victimized by both judge and prosecution. My recollection is that she was not jailed for more than a few hours at most, but that memory could be faulty. The judge took many months to get around to issuing a decision. Colorado law places a time limit upon judges for such decisions. If the time limit is exceeded, the law says the judge forfeits his/her salary for that quarter and must return the money to the state. AFAIK, Judge Nieto never returned the money and is probably guilty of defrauding the state of Colorado or some similar charge, but he will not likely ever be prosecuted or removed from office for his offenses. As tyranny advances, it becomes more painful for those who would resist it. If the tyrants are not corrected, then eventually their policies toward resisters become so draconian that a majority of the people finds the situation intolerable. What happens next after that is always a gamble. Like going to the dentist to get the cavities filled before they get so bad that they necessitate extracting the teeth, it is better to resist like Laura Kriho did when resisting is not life-threatening than to let the situation deteriorate to the point where the situation *becomes* life- threatening. > >The question maybe we should be asking is not "what are the rules" but >"how are we going to take back our Country and Freedom"? I, for one, do >not trust government employees, who are frequently the bottom of the >barrel, imnsho, to decide what is legal and what is not legal. > You will recall that the Founders left us four boxes to use in defense of our freedom, right? There are many countries wherein the People are denied all of those boxes, so we in the U.S. are among the fortunate. It is up to us to use those boxes as needed and as appropriate. Box #2 appears to have been circumvented at last by one branch of the War Party, and the other branch is undoubtedly beside itself with desperation to gain the use of the same technology. That still leaves us boxes #1 and #3 to use for now. tor is one technology that helps us to hang onto that first box. PGP is another. I hope that we don't have to open box #4, but it may well be that some individuals have already opened it once or twice in recent years. We do have the historical record of the Battle of Athens that occurred shortly after the end of World War II, so we know that it has happened on a larger scale within living memory as well, but that sort of thing really has to be the last resort. Use tor, and stay informed! [stepping down from box #1...] Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************