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Subverting the justice system with Jury Nullification: too radical for radicals?

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Here’s our spiel for those burned out on the reformist treadmill. Jury Nullification is not about reforming the justice system or asking power to temper its abuse. This is about convincing ordinary people that as jurors they can upset the whole racist classist for-profit applecart.

Ordinary citizens serving their jury duty can refuse to be par† of the system which funds municipal coffers and supplies the prison system. They can listen to the jury instruction and the legalese box outside of which they are restrained from thinking, and they can say no.

When jurors refuse to convict, prosecutors can’t press charges and cops can’t make arrests.

Jury Nullification doesn’t reform law so much as explode it from within. Not via the legislator, nor civil servant, but through ordinary conscientious people.

Jury Nullification has the potential for radical change. When more people figure this out, these juries will be the pitchforks and torches that riot police can’t stop.

You want to make Black Lives Matter, put them in the hands of subversive jurors.

You want to defeat Denver DA Mitch Morrissey? Load his juries with people who don’t support him.

Undermine the cases authorities bring against people, don’t become preoccupied with prosecuting cops. That’s just reinforcing the power of the prosecutor.

Take away the authority of the police state by denying them guilty verdicts. Acquit arrestees so they can sue for false arrest. Acquit accused people of color on principle. Defeat the racial incarceration problem by halting the conviction of minorities.

End the war on drugs. The war is over if you want it. Just say no to one more mandatory sentence. Tell the judge and prosecutors and your fellow people that the war is over.

The spreading wave of Democracy… threatens Oil Companies.

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To the point that Oil Corporation workers in Bahrain and throughout the Persian Gulf, North Africa and the Indian Ocean are on high alert. The people there know which side of their toast is buttered and they’re plenty swoll about being ripped off, enslaved, targeted by Oil Company hired goons like the Blackwater Thug assassins, Drone Operators bombing them from secret rooms halfway around the world: Video Gamers who were recruited from living in their moms’ basement with the promise that they can Kill Humans for real and not face any consequences or put their own cowardly lives in danger. Now the oilfields, refineries and shipyards of the world are under security lockdown. The ever-nearby British-American military bases also in danger.
The tactics– IEDs, car bombs, hijacked airplanes? nope.
People. There have been reports throughout the long long long Imperial Wars of the Imperial Stormtroopers being fired on by the Imperial-armed Slave Soldiers of the local provinces. BP and the old Standard Oil allegedly broken up, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Texaco, Gulf.. getting back together again just in time… They’ve spent trillions of other people’s dollars (guilders, francs, marks and pounds too) and hundreds of millions of other peoples’ lives and more than a century of time building up their Business Empire or Empire Business whichever term better suits.
The Slave Rebellion that can overthrow the Empire,

People. Pure and simple. Their fellow slaves in the Provincial Armies and police forces, even in the Home Provinces of the Emperors, like America and England, joining in with their fellow slaves, tired of fighting their fellow Working Class at the orders of the Big Boss Man.
Only to be spat upon, despised, and impoverished by their Masters.
Such has happened in Wisconsin. And now, in Denver, and Colorado Springs, workers are coming together to support their brethren, across America and around the world.

The Imperial Powers love ignorance, they love an uneducated populace, and have fought hard to dismantle Public Education, Public Communications Systems like PBS, NPR, and the Internet. Cut and cut and cut but they weren’t fast enough.

Now, just when they were close to their goal of privatized access to anything, especially information… from deciding who would be allowed to attend school to who can say what on the airwaves, and even on the Internet, “Freedom of the Press but only for those who own the presses”.

Wham, Bam, Jan25 comes along, Wikileaks, and the base of the Imperial Wealth, the provinces and satrapies, where the “president” or “prime minister” or even “king” of each, including America and Britain, was just a provincial governor appointed by the Empire and tolerated only as long as he or she did the bidding of the Empire.

All these latifundium slaves from beggar to so-called Kings, under the supposedly unbreakable grip of the Empire, have a window of opportunity. The Empire is collapsing under the weight of its wealth and greed, now is the time for everybody to get out from under their landing zone. Let the Giant fall but don’t be under it when it crashes.

Saint Paddy’s Day Massacre… with a slice of Turkey on the side.

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There’s also Turkey. “Model Democracy” of the Muslim world according to the Pentagoons and the Terror-State Department. Shaped and molded with American Taxpayer dollars since the end of World War One.
My brother-in-law the Air Force Sergeant lets slip a little more than the Air Force would be comfortable divulging, but hey, they used to sell tee-shirts and bumper stickers at the BX saying “Peace is our profession –Killing is our Hobby.”(Everything after the dash is an add on, the motto is that of Strategic Air Command, {defunct} which is now split into Space Command, Bomber Command and Missile Command… The ones with the nukes) and the ever-popular “we are here to win your hearts and minds (actual mission statement courtesy of General Westmoreland) … Or just burn down your God-Damn huts.”

But one of the things that he let cross his lips, as he was trying desperately to berate me for my Anarchist “A” on my beret, “You know what they do to people like you in Turkey?
(yeah, bro, they kill us in the streets and jail us and torture us on drummed up charges the same way they do here)

“I watched as a the Turkish cops just blew one away”
(meaning, they not only had him outgunned but outnumbered, Real Brave Men, they are…)

and dragged his body away”
(While a group of American “service”Men who were allegedly Protecting Freedom in Turkey stood guard and BY THEIR VERY PRESENCE ENABLED THE TURKISH PIGS TO MURDER A CITIZEN FOR EXERCISING FREE SPEECH)

But they’re fighting for “freedom”.

The lying sons-of-bitches don’t fight for freedom there, they damn sure ain’t going to fight for that freedom here either.

Like the St Paddy’s Day Massacre.
Where they took an Anti-Imperialist Holiday and turned it into into an orgy of Imperialistic Mutual Congratulations and elevated the Military to the level of Christ on the Cross.
Turkey figures into that as well, there was an incident not long after the (suppressed) St Patrick’s Celebration in Ireland, before then it was a vassal state to the English, being forced to pay reparations to the English for the cost to the Imperial Crown to conquer them in the first place.
And to pay the Crown for the cost of occupying Ireland and murdering the Irish subjects.

Calling British subjects “citizens” is a misnomer, they’re living in a Monarchy where the Top Bitch got her job by being born.

But there’s a Turkish island, Gallipoli. The Crown, represented by Winston Churchill, used the Colonial Conscripts from Australia, New Zealand, and IRELAND in what was and still is the most costly and brutal failed Amphibious Assault, ever. “That Small nations might be free”
April 25, 1915.

To show how successful this monstrous waste of human lives was/is, Gallipoli is still Turkish.
And the Turkish government is making a “Killing” selling ANZAC Day tours of the battlefields.

This was one of the breaking points of British and by extension American Imperialism in Ireland.
A short 5 weeks after the Irish were forbidden to wear green or march in any parade for St Patricks Day, by their British Slavemasters.
A brief musical interlude,
“Foggy, Foggy Dew”
I chose the Sinead O’Connor one because it’s easiest for those whose first tongue is English not Gaelic.
“While Britannias Huns with their long range guns
sailed into the Foggy Dew”

There’s another one by The Fureys called “Gallipoli” done from the Irish perspective, and one other they play (often) “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” from the Oz perspective.

Wanna bet not one of these songs gets included in the playlist at THIS years Official Mutual Admiration and Masturbation Society Parade?

They played “God Save the Queen” immediately after the Massacre and I would swear one of the bands ahead of us was playing Rule Britannia while the CS Gestapo Department were “doing their thing”.. and the crowd of Mostly Military were “defending freedom”, mostly by their silent acquiescence to this brutal scene, and a few “brave” ones yelling that the Pigs should kill us and that other entries in the Parade should run us over.

O, Brave New World, that has such creatures in it! O, Brave, BRAVE New World!

A few things that tie it together…
The United States Government considers the Republic of Ireland to be a Terrorist Organization.
The DHS considers them not only as a standalone Terror Group but as an affiliate of
Hezbollah, Hamas, the PLO, Red Brigades, Baader Meinhoff, the Weathermen,(seriously), Iran, the Ba’ath Party of Iraq, Front National Algerique Liberte, Libya, and the Democratic Party (US)

With that they’re in Hallowed Company, because they also consider (still) Martin Luther King jr, the NAACP, Nelson Mandela, the Mahatma Mohandas Ghandi, and if He were alive today they would consider Jesus Christ to be Terrorists.
The FBI lists them under RICO statutes.
The Irish Republic flatly refused to join the Koalition of the Killing in the Deconstruction of Iraq.
The Turks were on the British Hit List before the assassination, Some Say At The Instigation of The British and the Tsar, of Archduke Ferdinand.

They were on the Hit List because of a study Winston Churchill had done for the Admiralty, suggesting that coal-fired ships be phased out and OIL fired ships phased in, with the notation that the Arabian Peninsula and Persia had quite a lot of oil.
The problem being that the Turkish Empire controlled the oilfields, and that meant that the Crown would have to deal with a Foreign Power as equals in order to obtain that oil, or they would have to Seize the Oilfields by other means.

Winston Churchill also commanded the Conscript would-be-conquerors at Gallipoli.
After the disastrous invasion attempt, he did the “Noble” thing, Resigned his flag rank and took a Field Officer commission instead.
How Noble. Nobility, by the way, is a Rank and not any condition of personal honor and integrity.

A more “noble” thing in the more commonly used sense, would be to take out his service revolver and put it in his mouth so he couldn’t miss the brain. Too bad for History that he didn’t.

Ireland, enraged at not only being considered a Slave State by the British, and used as Cannon Fodder to literally give their lives and their blood, once more, for the Glory of The Imperial Crown, rebelled. That’s what the St Patricks Parade is SUPPOSED to represent.

We were chided and none too gently, on “Making POLITICAL Statements” At a St Patricks Parade WTF?

From whose rectal orifice, exactly, did they pull that one?