News and Thoughts #Trial by Jury

The overlay constitution is basically one which can change itself. How can such a thing be safeguarded from its own destruction?

Update from Criminal Bar Association regarding their position as the Jury Abolition Bill (Courts and Tribunals Bill) proceeds to the Lords for second reading on Tuesday 27th October. It contains a useful summary of what is still problematic about the Bill following the amendments made in the commons.

Without Trial by Jury in place, no dramatic event is required for democracy to be replaced by tyranny: men and women become enslaved by their indifference to the ambitions, and plight, of others; and by allowing their minds to dwell on distractions. Roman emperors knew well that sufficient “bread and the games” generally kept populations tranquil and subject to their bloody, capricious rule.

I am sick of people reducing our laws and customs to ‘a piece of paper’. These are principles. Principles will not enforce themselves, and neither can a handful of people restore them alone.

If the main mechanism by which your fellow citizens protect you from arbitrary legislation and punishment is removed, you’ve now entered the most dangerous phase yet of a development of tyranny.

The more hidden feature of our Common Law Constitution: Cost-free Private Prosecution. A devastating weapon.

View the conversation with Damien and Calvin in which we get into the latest issues re. Trial by Jury and Constitutional matters

Get a grip people, and get behind these causal principles if freedom is what you really want. As always it’s completely up to you. Your freedom is yours for the taking, but only by facing truth and reality

This is a profoundly important and interesting conversation with Lou in which we analyse Justice Saini's Judgement which is extremely revealing about the state's attitudes, beliefs and awkwardness surrounding the central issue of Jury Independence or Jury Equity.

The mistake that Larken has made is thinking that the jury is just a fact finding mission only when in fact the jury is the people governing themselves in conscience. We’re all part of a community so crime is answerable before the community, through a jury, so that correction can take place to ensure societal cohesion...

"Across the Darling Downs it went, across the Liverpool Plains, It swallowed up the open runs, it swallowed up the rains. It thickened into walls of green that no man’s horse could breach, It took the land the selectors held and all beyond their reach."

Some thoughts and suggested arguments and approaches