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10-11-2005, 02:16 PM
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The FCDAE-FIJA not-for-profit Campaign for RESTORATION:
RELEGALISATION, AMNESTY & RESTITUTION.
The Family Council on Drug Awareness Europe incorporating The Fully Informed Jury Association International is a not-for-profit Campaign endorsed by a former official Adviser to the U.S. government Nobel laureate; by a Professor of Physiology Fellow of the Royal Society; by eminent authors, academics, doctors and judges (U.S. & U.K.).
In cannabis cases, defence counsel 'advise' defendants to plead guilty, make plea bargains, and not to go to jury trial. This is because lawyers, QCs, barristers, attorneys and solicitors are bound by a legally tenable obligation not to present evidence and defences which "dispute the legality of the law," even when the medico-scientific evidence of official Empirical Studies exonerates the accused (ref. Findings of Fact).
Over years, literally billions accrue to law firms' personnel. In order to ply their lucrative trade (one can no longer dignify this morbid masquerade by calling it a 'profession'), nowadays lawyers blithely abdicate responsibility and utterly forsake honesty. Lawyers perjuriously acquiesce to this odious denial of the duty to find The Whole Truth. They compound their malfeasance by also tacitly concealing the Jurors' Rights and Duty to judge the law and to find the Verdict according to the Juror's conscience.
In shameful, meek obedience, lawyers do not dispute the 'law' even when its enforcement is manifest injustice. Obsequious, the lawyer adopts the perjury and subreption of not presenting evidence which exonerates defendants. It is not possible for anyone who is remotely au courant with the corrupt status quo, to deem as 'true', and as 'counsel' the word of these people who collude in and profit from the widespread enforcement of injustices against innocent citizens. And the state prosecutor, who represents the totality of Prohibitionist mendacity, appears as perjury incarnate.
The educated people who comprise the 'legal profession' are, by their acquiesence and continued participation in the unlawful, perverted processes of today, more to blame than any other group in society, for the destruction of the uniquely just Trial by Jury system; and for all the inevitably ensuing totalitarian injustice that results therefrom: the enactment and prosecution of ex parte, money-motivated statutes; the abuse of innocent citizens; wrongful penalisation; and the mass incarcerations at the highest per capita rate in history.
The lawyer's is the training which prepares the person for "the bench" - the judge who takes his pay from the government only as long as he or she reliably enforces the money-motivated politicians' inequitable deceptions dissimulated under the guise of 'law'.
Wherever Trial by Jury takes place, be it in the the the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, N.Z., and numerous other countries, it is DEFINITIVE of Trial by Jury that, in finding their Verdict, the jurors judge on the justice of the law, in addition to the facts, and on the admissibility of evidence. For jurors not to do so, or for someone other than the jurors to make such decisions, is another process: call it 'trial-by-someone-else' if you will, or 'trial-by-the-state-judge' - but this travesty cannot be defined as Trial BY JURY.
Insincere, gravely wrong 'advice' and mendacity swiftly become the inscrutable, smooth practised habit of those who, for money, accept that they cannot tell the truth. Controlled by courts (judges) under threat of penalty, and as willing, paid participants in this massive Crime Against Humanity, today's lawyers cannot give truthful counsel nor veracious defence; let alone be trusted to educate people about the principal Safeguard of Democracy: Jury Nullification in the Trial by Jury.
It is called Jury Nullification when Jurors nullify prosecutions by finding the Not Guilty Verdict whenever the conviction or punishment of the accused would be unfair, according to the juror's conscience. The following quotation explains the Jury Nullification Duty:
"If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural God-given unalienable or Constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law."
U.S. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.
(See THE REPORT, ISBN 1902848152.)
Unless informed of their duty to nullify the prosecution of unjust laws, citizens selected for jury-service cannot know of their Duty. Nowadays, courts (judges) go out of their way premeditatedly to misinstruct Jurors and deny them their proper functions, especially that of judging on the justice of the law. The Jury Nullification Principle of the Common Law Trial by Jury is not taught to Jurors or the public because FULLY INFORMED JURORS would make Cannabis Prohibition (and other incorrect and unjust laws) unenforceable.
Be it well understood:
Whenever a juror convicts a person who, according to the juror's conscience has not committed any wrongdoing, that Juror thereby commits a crime. The juror abets the crime of malicious prosecution by the state: a criminal injustice occurs (cf. Crime Against Humanity).
The jury's power to reject the instructions of the judge is confirmed by U.S. President John Adams, lawyer, who pronounced about the Juror:
"It is not only his Right but his Duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
(See THE REPORT, Ibid.)
Jurors are ignorant, servile and morally wrong if they convict against their conscience - but, above all, in so doing they commit a crime; they strike a blow against democracy and the people; and they defile the Constitutional Trial by Jury Justice System.
To convict someone Not Guilty of any wrongdoing is one of the most serious crimes it is possible to commit. This is the behaviour which drives politicians and judges to become confidently despotic beyond restraint.
At all times, every adult person has the moral responsibility, the right and the duty to resist and suppress injustice wherever it occurs, and by whomsoever it is perpetrated, governments notwithstanding. Every act of injustice is a crime, whether committed by private citizens or by governments. Government employees are accountable. See ratified Principles, U.N. Resolution, 12-10-1946:
PRINCIPLE III: "The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."
PRINCIPLE IV: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to the order of his government or a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."
In the cannabis context, the moral choice quoted above is ALWAYS possible; thus making the choice mandatory. Those involved at every stage of the enforcement of Cannabis Prohibition 'law', including jurors, must make the moral choice and judge the law.
Jury Nullification is not an 'argument' which one presents; nor can it be 'disallowed'. A Right may be illegally denied and abused, but it is inherent to the life of every man and woman: it is never 'lost'.
One does not articulate Nullification in the court or the jury-room. It is a private decision: the legal and moral responsibility and duty of Citizen-Jurors always to prevent (i.e. nullify) the prosecution of a fellow citizen when conviction or punishment would be unfair. This is done by the Juror pronouncing the Not Guilty Verdict.
Jurors do not need to give a reason ever, to any person at any time, for refusing to render a verdict of guilty in the Trial by Jury.
At jury-selection interviews, the educated citizen understands that the choosing of people prejudiced in favour of one party or the other is against the common law fairness of Trial by Jury (which is installed in perpetuity by Constitution. See "The Constitution Treatise" ISBN 1902848748.) So, at these interviews, he or she responds with intelligence.
Regarding jury selection: in the context of The FCDAE-FIJA Educational Campaign in which people are educated as to the official exonerative evidence on cannabis and to the illicit ulterior money-motive behind its political prohibition, the prosecution and court have the greatest difficulty discerning, and therefore disqualifying, the FULLY INFORMED JURORS.
And the more Fully Informed Jurors that there are, the more the unjust prosecutions will be nullified. Again, this is the purpose of The FCDAE-FIJA Educational Campaign for Justice.
In upholding the acquittal of Quakers Penn and Mead, Chief Justice Vaughan pointed out that the court (trial judge) and the prosecution can never know what evidence or reason is in the juror's mind by which he (or she) decides. See the words of the famous Plaque at The Old Bailey Court in London, which commemorates this landmark acquittal which re-confirmed,
THE RIGHT OF JURORS TO JUDGE THE JUSTICE OF THE LAW:
"Near this site William Penn and William Mead were tried in 1670 for preaching to an unlawful assembly in Gracechurch Street."
"This tablet commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury, Thomas Vere, Edward Bushell and ten others, who refused to give a verdict against them although they were locked up without food for two nights and were fined for their final verdict of Not Guilty."
"The case of these Jurymen was reviewed on a writ of Habeas Corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the opinion of the court which established the Right of Juries to give their Verdict according to their conviction."
Penn was subsequently Founder of Pennsylvania.
The educated good democratic person, THE FULLY INFORMED JUROR, adopts the overriding legal and moral duty to prevent injustice from being inflicted by the judge on the accused - one does not "ask" a lawyer, a QC or the judge for permission to perform this paramount duty. Educated citizens are aware that nowadays, the courts (judges) go out of their way premeditatedly to misinstruct Jurors and deny them their proper functions, especially that of judging on the justice of the law.
To acquire a thorough understanding of the sheer scale of the massive ulterior (i.e. covert illegal) money-motive - the real reason behind Cannabis Prohibition, it is helpful to see the page on MOTIVE on The FCDAE-FIJA website. This explains why the politicians and their paid accomplices, the judiciary, obstruct and pervert the sublime Trial by Jury Justice System. (URL below.)
Today, the state education system fails to teach people their most important secular adult duty: that of Juror in the Trial by Jury. Hence, the raison d'être and rôle of The FCDAE-FIJA as a not-for-profit Educational Campaign - FULLY INFORMED JURORS do not go wheedling to the judge to ask whether he grants them the right to their own conscience! and begging 'permission' - when it is their legal and moral DUTY to judge on the justice of enforcement. And they do not cowtow when he does try to deny them their Rights and Duty...
Consider the 1972 Ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals:
"The jury has an unreviewable and irreversible power to acquit in disregard of the instruction on the law given by the trial judge. The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge."
(See THE REPORT, ISBN 1902848152.)
Incidentally, although there are countless trials-by-the-judge (i.e. false 'trials by jury', which are the modern corrupted activity of misgovernment where jurors do not know of, and are not instructed to do their duty to judge the law, the facts and decide on the admissibilty of evidence), nevertheless, in a variety of cases including cannabis trials where the evidence against the defendant has been overwhelming and irrefutable, there are also ACQUITTALS by juries which are modern examples of Jury Nullification. Such acquittals do not receive veracious media coverage pointing out the Jurors' duty of Nullification where appropriate.
To counter the anti-democratic behaviour of modern politicians and judiciary, The FCDAE-FIJA campaigns for The Fully Informed Jury AMENDMENT; see FCDAE-FIJA Campaign webpage. (URL below.)
So, People! Get active with The FCDAE-FIJA! Save others and potentially yourself from wrongful penalisation by educating citizens about the genuine Trial by Jury. Make the crass injustice of Cannabis Prohibition utterly unenforceable. DOWNLOAD (for free) the authoritative FCDAE-FIJA FULLY INFORMED JUROR Pamphlet EIS3 - photocopy and circulate it widely. (URL below.) We welcome new Activists and Members. Defendants, refer to Amicus Curiae webpage (URL below).
Whilst on our site, you will be interested to see the page which relates the Clinical Findings of Fact on Cannabis, of world-respected U.S. academic and research institutions. These exonerate cannabis from allegations of 'harm', exempting cannabis from all legislative criteria of Prohibition - click on URL below.
Free FULLY INFORMED JUROR pamphlet:
http://www.democracydefined.org/fcdaefijamaterial.htm
Ref. The Fully Informed Jury AMENDMENT on the
FCDAE-FIJA Campaign webpage:
http://www.democracydefined.org/fcdaefijacampaign.htm
Ref. EXONERATIVE CLINICAL FINDINGS OF FACT page:
http://www.democracydefined.org/clinicalfindings.htm
Ref. MOTIVE website page:
http://www.democracydefined.org/1report.htm
Ref. DEFENDANTS Amicus Curiae page:
http://www.democracydefined.org/amicuscuriae.htm
Astra, Joanna and Kenn d'Oudney, Directors, FCDAE-FIJA.
The FCDAE-FIJA campaigns for RESTORATION:
RELEGALISATION, AMNESTY & RESTITUTION.
http://www.democracydefined.org/
The FCDAE-FIJA not-for-profit Campaign for RESTORATION:
RELEGALISATION, AMNESTY & RESTITUTION.
The Family Council on Drug Awareness Europe incorporating The Fully Informed Jury Association International is a not-for-profit Campaign endorsed by a former official Adviser to the U.S. government Nobel laureate; by a Professor of Physiology Fellow of the Royal Society; by eminent authors, academics, doctors and judges (U.S. & U.K.).
In cannabis cases, defence counsel 'advise' defendants to plead guilty, make plea bargains, and not to go to jury trial. This is because lawyers, QCs, barristers, attorneys and solicitors are bound by a legally tenable obligation not to present evidence and defences which "dispute the legality of the law," even when the medico-scientific evidence of official Empirical Studies exonerates the accused (ref. Findings of Fact).
Over years, literally billions accrue to law firms' personnel. In order to ply their lucrative trade (one can no longer dignify this morbid masquerade by calling it a 'profession'), nowadays lawyers blithely abdicate responsibility and utterly forsake honesty. Lawyers perjuriously acquiesce to this odious denial of the duty to find The Whole Truth. They compound their malfeasance by also tacitly concealing the Jurors' Rights and Duty to judge the law and to find the Verdict according to the Juror's conscience.
In shameful, meek obedience, lawyers do not dispute the 'law' even when its enforcement is manifest injustice. Obsequious, the lawyer adopts the perjury and subreption of not presenting evidence which exonerates defendants. It is not possible for anyone who is remotely au courant with the corrupt status quo, to deem as 'true', and as 'counsel' the word of these people who collude in and profit from the widespread enforcement of injustices against innocent citizens. And the state prosecutor, who represents the totality of Prohibitionist mendacity, appears as perjury incarnate.
The educated people who comprise the 'legal profession' are, by their acquiesence and continued participation in the unlawful, perverted processes of today, more to blame than any other group in society, for the destruction of the uniquely just Trial by Jury system; and for all the inevitably ensuing totalitarian injustice that results therefrom: the enactment and prosecution of ex parte, money-motivated statutes; the abuse of innocent citizens; wrongful penalisation; and the mass incarcerations at the highest per capita rate in history.
The lawyer's is the training which prepares the person for "the bench" - the judge who takes his pay from the government only as long as he or she reliably enforces the money-motivated politicians' inequitable deceptions dissimulated under the guise of 'law'.
Wherever Trial by Jury takes place, be it in the the the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, N.Z., and numerous other countries, it is DEFINITIVE of Trial by Jury that, in finding their Verdict, the jurors judge on the justice of the law, in addition to the facts, and on the admissibility of evidence. For jurors not to do so, or for someone other than the jurors to make such decisions, is another process: call it 'trial-by-someone-else' if you will, or 'trial-by-the-state-judge' - but this travesty cannot be defined as Trial BY JURY.
Insincere, gravely wrong 'advice' and mendacity swiftly become the inscrutable, smooth practised habit of those who, for money, accept that they cannot tell the truth. Controlled by courts (judges) under threat of penalty, and as willing, paid participants in this massive Crime Against Humanity, today's lawyers cannot give truthful counsel nor veracious defence; let alone be trusted to educate people about the principal Safeguard of Democracy: Jury Nullification in the Trial by Jury.
It is called Jury Nullification when Jurors nullify prosecutions by finding the Not Guilty Verdict whenever the conviction or punishment of the accused would be unfair, according to the juror's conscience. The following quotation explains the Jury Nullification Duty:
"If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural God-given unalienable or Constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law."
U.S. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.
(See THE REPORT, ISBN 1902848152.)
Unless informed of their duty to nullify the prosecution of unjust laws, citizens selected for jury-service cannot know of their Duty. Nowadays, courts (judges) go out of their way premeditatedly to misinstruct Jurors and deny them their proper functions, especially that of judging on the justice of the law. The Jury Nullification Principle of the Common Law Trial by Jury is not taught to Jurors or the public because FULLY INFORMED JURORS would make Cannabis Prohibition (and other incorrect and unjust laws) unenforceable.
Be it well understood:
Whenever a juror convicts a person who, according to the juror's conscience has not committed any wrongdoing, that Juror thereby commits a crime. The juror abets the crime of malicious prosecution by the state: a criminal injustice occurs (cf. Crime Against Humanity).
The jury's power to reject the instructions of the judge is confirmed by U.S. President John Adams, lawyer, who pronounced about the Juror:
"It is not only his Right but his Duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
(See THE REPORT, Ibid.)
Jurors are ignorant, servile and morally wrong if they convict against their conscience - but, above all, in so doing they commit a crime; they strike a blow against democracy and the people; and they defile the Constitutional Trial by Jury Justice System.
To convict someone Not Guilty of any wrongdoing is one of the most serious crimes it is possible to commit. This is the behaviour which drives politicians and judges to become confidently despotic beyond restraint.
At all times, every adult person has the moral responsibility, the right and the duty to resist and suppress injustice wherever it occurs, and by whomsoever it is perpetrated, governments notwithstanding. Every act of injustice is a crime, whether committed by private citizens or by governments. Government employees are accountable. See ratified Principles, U.N. Resolution, 12-10-1946:
PRINCIPLE III: "The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."
PRINCIPLE IV: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to the order of his government or a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."
In the cannabis context, the moral choice quoted above is ALWAYS possible; thus making the choice mandatory. Those involved at every stage of the enforcement of Cannabis Prohibition 'law', including jurors, must make the moral choice and judge the law.
Jury Nullification is not an 'argument' which one presents; nor can it be 'disallowed'. A Right may be illegally denied and abused, but it is inherent to the life of every man and woman: it is never 'lost'.
One does not articulate Nullification in the court or the jury-room. It is a private decision: the legal and moral responsibility and duty of Citizen-Jurors always to prevent (i.e. nullify) the prosecution of a fellow citizen when conviction or punishment would be unfair. This is done by the Juror pronouncing the Not Guilty Verdict.
Jurors do not need to give a reason ever, to any person at any time, for refusing to render a verdict of guilty in the Trial by Jury.
At jury-selection interviews, the educated citizen understands that the choosing of people prejudiced in favour of one party or the other is against the common law fairness of Trial by Jury (which is installed in perpetuity by Constitution. See "The Constitution Treatise" ISBN 1902848748.) So, at these interviews, he or she responds with intelligence.
Regarding jury selection: in the context of The FCDAE-FIJA Educational Campaign in which people are educated as to the official exonerative evidence on cannabis and to the illicit ulterior money-motive behind its political prohibition, the prosecution and court have the greatest difficulty discerning, and therefore disqualifying, the FULLY INFORMED JURORS.
And the more Fully Informed Jurors that there are, the more the unjust prosecutions will be nullified. Again, this is the purpose of The FCDAE-FIJA Educational Campaign for Justice.
In upholding the acquittal of Quakers Penn and Mead, Chief Justice Vaughan pointed out that the court (trial judge) and the prosecution can never know what evidence or reason is in the juror's mind by which he (or she) decides. See the words of the famous Plaque at The Old Bailey Court in London, which commemorates this landmark acquittal which re-confirmed,
THE RIGHT OF JURORS TO JUDGE THE JUSTICE OF THE LAW:
"Near this site William Penn and William Mead were tried in 1670 for preaching to an unlawful assembly in Gracechurch Street."
"This tablet commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury, Thomas Vere, Edward Bushell and ten others, who refused to give a verdict against them although they were locked up without food for two nights and were fined for their final verdict of Not Guilty."
"The case of these Jurymen was reviewed on a writ of Habeas Corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the opinion of the court which established the Right of Juries to give their Verdict according to their conviction."
Penn was subsequently Founder of Pennsylvania.
The educated good democratic person, THE FULLY INFORMED JUROR, adopts the overriding legal and moral duty to prevent injustice from being inflicted by the judge on the accused - one does not "ask" a lawyer, a QC or the judge for permission to perform this paramount duty. Educated citizens are aware that nowadays, the courts (judges) go out of their way premeditatedly to misinstruct Jurors and deny them their proper functions, especially that of judging on the justice of the law.
To acquire a thorough understanding of the sheer scale of the massive ulterior (i.e. covert illegal) money-motive - the real reason behind Cannabis Prohibition, it is helpful to see the page on MOTIVE on The FCDAE-FIJA website. This explains why the politicians and their paid accomplices, the judiciary, obstruct and pervert the sublime Trial by Jury Justice System. (URL below.)
Today, the state education system fails to teach people their most important secular adult duty: that of Juror in the Trial by Jury. Hence, the raison d'être and rôle of The FCDAE-FIJA as a not-for-profit Educational Campaign - FULLY INFORMED JURORS do not go wheedling to the judge to ask whether he grants them the right to their own conscience! and begging 'permission' - when it is their legal and moral DUTY to judge on the justice of enforcement. And they do not cowtow when he does try to deny them their Rights and Duty...
Consider the 1972 Ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals:
"The jury has an unreviewable and irreversible power to acquit in disregard of the instruction on the law given by the trial judge. The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge."
(See THE REPORT, ISBN 1902848152.)
Incidentally, although there are countless trials-by-the-judge (i.e. false 'trials by jury', which are the modern corrupted activity of misgovernment where jurors do not know of, and are not instructed to do their duty to judge the law, the facts and decide on the admissibilty of evidence), nevertheless, in a variety of cases including cannabis trials where the evidence against the defendant has been overwhelming and irrefutable, there are also ACQUITTALS by juries which are modern examples of Jury Nullification. Such acquittals do not receive veracious media coverage pointing out the Jurors' duty of Nullification where appropriate.
To counter the anti-democratic behaviour of modern politicians and judiciary, The FCDAE-FIJA campaigns for The Fully Informed Jury AMENDMENT; see FCDAE-FIJA Campaign webpage. (URL below.)
So, People! Get active with The FCDAE-FIJA! Save others and potentially yourself from wrongful penalisation by educating citizens about the genuine Trial by Jury. Make the crass injustice of Cannabis Prohibition utterly unenforceable. DOWNLOAD (for free) the authoritative FCDAE-FIJA FULLY INFORMED JUROR Pamphlet EIS3 - photocopy and circulate it widely. (URL below.) We welcome new Activists and Members. Defendants, refer to Amicus Curiae webpage (URL below).
Whilst on our site, you will be interested to see the page which relates the Clinical Findings of Fact on Cannabis, of world-respected U.S. academic and research institutions. These exonerate cannabis from allegations of 'harm', exempting cannabis from all legislative criteria of Prohibition - click on URL below.
Free FULLY INFORMED JUROR pamphlet:
http://www.democracydefined.org/fcdaefijamaterial.htm
Ref. The Fully Informed Jury AMENDMENT on the
FCDAE-FIJA Campaign webpage:
http://www.democracydefined.org/fcdaefijacampaign.htm
Ref. EXONERATIVE CLINICAL FINDINGS OF FACT page:
http://www.democracydefined.org/clinicalfindings.htm
Ref. MOTIVE website page:
http://www.democracydefined.org/1report.htm
Ref. DEFENDANTS Amicus Curiae page:
http://www.democracydefined.org/amicuscuriae.htm
Astra, Joanna and Kenn d'Oudney, Directors, FCDAE-FIJA.
The FCDAE-FIJA campaigns for RESTORATION:
RELEGALISATION, AMNESTY & RESTITUTION.
http://www.democracydefined.org/