court trial against me - the outcome

[mark485anderson at eml.cc]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:05:00 -0600 (CST), "Scott Bennett"
<bennett at cs.niu.edu> said:
>      On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:10:43 -0700 mark485anderson at eml.cc wrote
> 
> >I agree. But here is what one judge in Colorado did to a juror who told

Agree that jury nullification is a right and should be exercised.

> 
>      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
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