FIJA moves away from Supreme Court decisions and Founders’ quotes
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by bile Tags: FIJA, Founding fathers, Fully Informed Jury Association, jury nullification, natural law, Supreme CourtDear 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.
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