UPDATED: 9/8/12 - 10/24/2010 - Strategy 3: Citizen Empaneled Grand Juries

III.   Strategy 3:  Citizens Empaneled Grand Juries (Updated 10/24/2010)

VN:  9/8/12 -  This is very  important and an update.  Its a very good discussion on on how to exercise our constitutional Right to approach the Grand Jury.  This video is very educational on how and what to do.   Its worth the watch..... good questions and practical advise on how to do this.  Its important when law enforcement or any judicial figure has committed a crime and no one is enforcing the laws with respect to these officials.   Citizens should be able to enter and present evidence of a crime without going through the Prosecutor, to the Grand Jury, it belongs to the Citizens and not the enforcers.   Listen and try to implement this information.   Its a critical part of regaining our power back. 

We the people need Grand Juries, Civilian Oversight of Police, and a court system that is not run like organized crime.

Take Back America w/ Grand Juries


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SvenVonErick | June 07, 2008

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Nancy Lazaryan speaks with her co-host, from many public access broadcasts, that they have done together out of the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.

This or other video clips might be used in our "In the Interests of Justice" documentary series co-produced by Steven G. Erickson and Francis C. P. Knize.


VN: 10/24  This update has included whole sections on history, research and processes for empaneling a grand jury, and is part of the education we need to be able to effectively pull off this process against oppositions from the system.  Since this is the fourth branch of Gov, is important we begin to seriously consider using it to bring justice and remove daily criminality out of our governing system.   This is one of the few ways the Constitution gives us on the judicial side of the system.   If we can make this work, we can get control back and send messages far and wide, that the people are back again.   We have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

1. Introduction

 Its time we reintroduced "JUSTICE" back into our system.   Remember, what is occuring according to experts in the field of markets and economies, is "FRAUD AND ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TERRORISM".   Such terrorism is based on threats and acts of violence agaisnt those who resist the FRAUD that is occuring.   Thus our system in held hostage by those doing this.   It then becomes our responsibility as citizens to take action.

So the third strategy is to begin as the constitution states,  to enpanel "Citizen grand juries", no where in the constitution does it say "Prosecutor empaneled grand juries" rather "citizen grand Juries".   Thus we are legally covered in attempting to do this.

2.  Research and Bankground of American Grand Juries - Updated 10-24-10

American Grand Jury - Research and Background

http://americangrandjury.org/history_power.html
by Leo C. Donofrio, J.D.
January 22, 2009

All of us may one day serve as grand jurors in federal court, and I hope this article will educate the reader to his/her true power as granted by the Constitution. For that power, despite having been hidden for many years behind the veil of a legislative fraud, still exists in all of its glory in the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. The US Supreme Court has confirmed and reinforced that power.

So please, copy this report and paste it far and wide. It is not spin. It is not false. It is not for sale, it is not copyrighted by me, so paste and quote it freely. This report is the truth and we need truth, now, more than ever.

The Constitutional power of "we the people" sitting as grand jurors has been subverted by a deceptive play on words since 1946 when the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure were enacted. Regardless, the power I am going to explain to you still exists in the Constitution, and has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court despite the intention of the legislature and other legal scholars to make our power disappear with a cheap magic trick.

Repeat a lie with force and repetition and the lie becomes known as truth. In the case of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution, the power of the grand jury, to return "presentments" on its own proactive initiation, without reliance upon a US Attorney to concur in such criminal charges, has been usurped by an insidious play on words.

Most of this article is going to quote other scholars, judges and legislators as I piece together a brief but thorough history of the federal grand jury for your review. But the punch line is my personal contribution to the cause:

UNITED STATES CITIZENS SITTING AS FEDERAL GRAND JURORS ARE THE FOURTH BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

My input into this vital fight is no more than the analysis of a few carefully used words. It only took a small sleight of pen back in 1946 to hide our power, and it won't take more than a few words to take that power back. But a proper overview is necessary for most of you who are unfamiliar with the issue at hand. So let me provide you with some history and then we'll see what went wrong and how to correct it.

HISTORY OF FEDERAL GRAND JURY POWER
I want to draw your attention to a law review article, CREIGHTON LAW REVIEW, Vol. 33, No. 4 1999-2000, 821, IF IT'S NOT A RUNAWAY, IT'S NOT A REAL GRAND JURY by Roger Roots, J.D.

"In addition to its traditional role of screening criminal cases for prosecution, common law grand juries had the power to exclude prosecutors from their presence at any time and to investigate public officials without governmental influence. These fundamental powers allowed grand juries to serve a vital function of oversight upon the government. The function of a grand jury to ferret out government corruption was the primary purpose of the grand jury system in ages past."

The 5th Amendment:

Strategy 1:Change Our Map of Internal Reality

This strategy requires daily work, and maybe twice a day depending on your commitment to it.  This will not only change our external world ultimately, but will change our personal lives as well.   When you enter into any venture with your whole being, then it becomes critical that "wholeness" is grounded in the right energy. 

This piece of strategy and tactics was given to us anonymously and thus I am passing it on to you in the same way.   Please read and implement as a beginning and continue daily while we work on the other strategies and tactics that will be coming down the line.   There is a part II to our internal work which will follow this first part.   I deeply believe, when I read this,  that this is and was the foundation for what lies ahead, it can only happen this way as a beginning "BY FOCUSING AND BECOMING THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE". .

Tactic and Practice:  

A peaceful tactic to begin manifesting a new world is to visualize the world we would like to live in....doing this every day for five to fifteen minutes. As many of you are aware, this is a powerful "action" to take "together". Some suggestions to visualize are:

(Please post your additional suggestions so they may be shared with all who are willing to participate in this "action".).....

a.  Peace. Love, Harmony, Joy, Goodwill, Prosperity and Abundance for ourselves, our families, our neighbors and finally,  for all.  Image that this has occurred already and meditate on how that would feel and enjoy the process of feeling that change already in place.   Begin within you,  then like a blanket bring in others in your family to the comfort, peace, love, and abundance that you have fully visualized for yourself.  Once that is completed and you have it firmly visualized as a reality, then begin to "NOTICE" that others around you and their families also have this wonderment within their lives.  

Strategy & Tactics Introduction

The People to People initiative was begun to unite the people of various countries together to stand against the few and to do so within their POWER as a United Force for Good for themselves, their cultures, religions, and nation states.   We completed and approved a Mission statement that still has some kinks to work out, but essentially, it is done.   Now comes the strategy and tactics to implement that mission/goal of the group.

In dealing with this part of the agenda, it became clear early that this entire project will need to be taken on from many different levels.  Any strategy has to begin with each of us within ourselves before we can change our world.   The world we are inheriting is because we created it with  manifesting ourselves into the reality/life in the condition we are each in.  We need to change how we see and believe about our world, then we can bring the rest of the world with us.   Once we "begin" work on our internal selves, then we can simultaneously begin adopting the actions and behavior we wish to see in our new world and begin to lead by example.  Return to the values of integrity, caring, loving and helping our neighbor,  leave fear and hate behind. 

How do we do this?   Well fortunately when we called for tactics and strategy, we were lucky enough to get responses from some who believed that "change first comes from within" and they provided those suggestions as a foundation for all other changes that will be derived from our own changes within.   These suggestions can be applied by all of us through whatever religion, philosophy or beliefs we carry and simply need to be adopted by ourselves to our beliefs.   That is easy to do since almost all beliefs with the exception of satanic or Molech beliefs, are geared toward the human spirit and its nurturing and wonderment.

Strategy 2: Buy Local

I. INTRODUCTION

As we investigate these strategies and before investing in the tactics, Its important to know if this appeals to you and if you can think of an alternative.   If so, please use the chat room LOCATED IN THE PTP LINK ABOVE THE BLOG, ITS THE FIRST LINK IN THE SERIES, sign up and leave your ideas, opinions on any of these strategies and simply indicate the title to each one that you are commenting or recommending for inclusion, none of these are finalized yet, waiting on additional input.  This one up for consideration was submitted by someone else and is based on this person in this video along with her own words, so please review it and tell me if any part of it is ok with you or all of it.   Enjoy the read and the video.


http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/industrial+cooperative.html

Business Definition for: Industrial Cooperative

a group of individuals who together produce goods or provide services and share any profits that are made. Industrial cooperatives are an extension of the cooperative movement that developed during the 1800s.

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I personally, one of my big aspirations is to support and create more worker-owned industrial cooperatives. I feel like, and I've appealed, I got invited to speak at Nike to 50 different garment companies a couple of years ago and I appealed to garment companies at all levels in saying you know, what's wrong with having a cut and sew contractor that has workers that are empowered enough to sew orders on time without any mistakes.

Is there anything wrong with that because nobody owns their facilities at small level or large level in the apparel industry, so I personally think that it's a perfect fix for the apparel industry for what's wrong with the apparel industry now. Now, we're running into growth problems right now with our worker-owned cooperative in Nicaragua that are numerous and very challenging, so it's certainly not a perfect world and we go through complete frustration on a daily basis with this project, but I think that it's the first one, it really has worked, it is empowering the lives of 90 families now in this ghetto in the bowels of Nicaragua, of Managua and it's an idea whose time has come.

I'm from Detroit, I can see it working in the auto parts industry that we are from as well and you know I could see it's implications in a lot of different places. What I'm trying to do right now is get a worker-owned cooperative to make our socks, former worker-owned cooperative in North Carolina to make our socks. We had a start-stop on the whole project due to equipment issues, etc., but I totally think it's an idea whose time has come.

I met with a group of women from Southern Africa last fall that a consumer group out of DC put together a conference to speak to them about alternatives because as the multi-fiber initiatives wind down there, China is taking more and more of their business and ... who's poorer than these Southern African countries? I mean just unbelievable. So that's one of my personal goals. I also am gonna go on record now saying that I would love for my employees to buy me out of my company. I think that Maggie's is just doing fantastically well. I put it out there a little bit to our current group, I think we need more people to get attracted to the project and come onboard before it really takes hold, but now people ask me often if you're selling to worker-owned cooperatives, why do you own 90% of your company and I'm like it's a good question. It's challenging to convince even my core group of people that it's worth it, but I really think it is, so those are my ... that's what's on my horizon.

Also Employee coops.

http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/corporations-employee-cooperative/

Corporations Employee Cooperative Law & Legal Definition
 
a group of individuals who together produce goods or provide services and share any profits that are made. Industrial cooperatives are an extension of the cooperative movement that developed during the 1800s.


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