House of Paine

we the jury

recall


"no taxation without  representation"

here try

"no  civil judgements without
                       juries "

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                              " the anglo-amerikan  jury          
                  is a profoundly
                    popular  organ
                         that tumor like
                                  grew inside
                                        a profoundly
                                          elitest  body "
                                                   
                                             lord bolinggreen      
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  recently
  
      our nasty
                top downer   system 




(under various 
banners like "tort reform"
   or
"binding arbitration")

   yes our nasty top down "bench  dominated "
                                              court system

                 has worked  hard  
                 to de activate 
                      its    popular organs

  its juries    
                               

           its 
                   like britain
                   circa 1640

                when 
                     
                 an "at will" house 
                                of commons                           
                         
                             faced
                                a time of  regal
                                        absolutist   
                                incursion/subversion /usurpation 

 
  "its easy isn't it 
to see
  the jury as
              a captive tributary 
                       struggling to get free......"
                                          ken kesey 

i prefer the analogy
   of 
            a company union 
struggling to bust out of managements hands  

                      okay
so juries aren't 
              the  free and reasonable
                              act  of             

                                no they are not 
                                       like our
                                   continental     congress

                                  so what !

my point :


given the recent history here
and the immediate  threat 
        to the jury system's  
                    substantial existence 

  all empaneled  juries         
                     must 
                               stand up now 

                declare their
                 sovereign right  
  as 
citizen  deputies 
         of the people as a whole                         
                         to not only
                       determine 
                        the facts in all civil cases 
                                 but interpret 
                                            all  law as well 

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                        " buck the  bench
                                   no
                             fuck the bench "

                         we the jury
                          proclaim
                    judges kiss our ass
                                
            and wait in the next room
                                till we call for ya  

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shit 
handle this right
and we
  got ourselves  
       a   never ending series 
            of  pocket 
                lexington and concords
 
    i'd say                                 

 10 thousand  sovereign jury actions
along these lines
           
                 add up to 
                               one big 
                                  unmediated 
                           popular take over 
                             of the civil justice system 
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 minimum reforms:


 juries picking juries 
juries on appeal 
mandatory juries 

the bench as jury agent

on all civil cases

motto
a civil legal system

where its 
juries all the way up to the top ...........