Spring 2008 Newsletter

Dear Friends,

As we roll along into summer, this issue is finally going to the printer, a bit later than usual, due to a series of meetings we had here to begin the work to revamp the FIJA web site to make it more user-friendly and to hold more content, and to begin the work on the FreedomLaw.com web site, which recently came under FIJA ownership.

So, may I assume that everyone is well-versed in our new brochures on the Second Amendment and Body Ownership? You have probably noticed that in these two new brochures, there are less quotes of Founders and Supreme Court decisions.

You may also be aware of the evolution of FIJA from an organization relying strongly on Supreme Court decisions and Founders’ quotes, towards an organization which places much more emphasis on individual initiative, conscience, and individual common sense. Not to negate the prior, but to affirm the latter, we must come to rely less and less on the role of government in rendering justice, and more on the individual.

As I am sure you can see around you every day, the legitimacy of every branch of the government diminishes daily right before our eyes.

Bureaucrats, politicians and their sycophants have become a society of scofflaws with respect to the intent, the words, the laws, and the covenant, that was so very cautiously, considerately, and conscientiously set forth in our Constitution so that this day would never arrive.

But it has arrived. We see decreasing legitimacy in our courts: jurors, those proper masters of the government, including the corrupt court officials, are treated with disrespect, lied to, threatened and sometimes even jailed or prosecuted for exercising their conscience.

Judges routinely lie to jurors about the legitimate authority of the juror. They no longer tell jurors that each individual human, while serving on a jury, has the absolute authority to determine the correctness of any law as well as the guilt or innocence of the defendant.

Therefore, we can no longer expect any reliance by the courts on those laws which were earlier enforced in this nation. We can no longer expect that those who stand before us as authorities on the law have even the least understanding of the law. How much less can we count on the for a sense of justice, fairness, equity, or protection?

As we watch the decline of the government, let us remember, that we, the people, are not the government any longer. The government is no longer a representative, nor yet a protector, of the people who formed it. It is debased and depraved.

Yet, for as long as these courts continue to exist and pretend at justice, some juries will still be formed. So we must educate these jurors. We must inform all these jurors – and potentially, that is most of us – of our individual authority, rights and opportunity when serving as a juror.

When the jurors know their power and their individual human rights, then all the laws, previous court decisions, even virtually all the words taught or preached to those jurors, will be a weak echo compared to the songs of reasoning, logic, common sense, compassion, and ethical consideration, which we call thinking. Informed jurors can consult their own minds, think about all the facts of the case, such as whether or not the person on trial has harmed any other actual human being. They can think about whether or not this law breaks a law of the common law, or the natural law, or their personal set of ethics, or the Constitution. They can forget all the recent statutes, many of those laws being simply signs of the increasing frenzy of a government which is quickly losing all control. Because people are beginning to think. When they think, they realize that there is no reason to punish or lock up anyone who has only ticked off some government fee-collector or slaver. But I repeat myself. Thus informed, The verdicts of these informed jurors, Throughout our country’s story both in the past - and as shall continue today, and forward for as long as there are juries - one juror being enough to hand a jury.

This is a significant shift for FIJA, in its message, that we now work harder to inspire, challenge, and  motivate individuals who are serving as jurors to do more independent thinking and reasoning, to have more courage to quietly follow their own sense of justice and to rely less and less on anything any government representative may tell them. While FIJA has long stood with the concept of individual
human initiative, as well as with civil disobedience of a peaceful nature, these last few years have convinced me that we must do more to ignore the pretended authority that government officials think they have over our lives, our bodies, our minds and our creativity. So, our two newest brochures are less kind to government.

The strategies have changed a bit in the last few years as well, which I hope you will use and enjoy.

It’s nice to see them move to a more fundamental level for their argument. Doing so should sidestep some criticism they have received regarding jury nullification.

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