Ten Principles of
Christian Separatism

6. Populate Juries

Do whatever is necessary to serve on juries. The first Americans knew well that criminal prosecution is the ultimate form of political persecution. That is why four of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, protect "the accused in a criminal case" [Amendments 4, 5, 6 and 8]. The Constitution goes to great lengths to protect the accused in a criminal case. Not because the Framers were liberals who wanted to coddle criminals. Not because the Framers were heedless of the need for public safety. Rather, they knew that a criminal prosecution is the only legal way for government to take a man's freedom, and that governments for political purposes always want to deprive certain persons of their freedom. Therefore, the Framers resolved, and the first Americans voted, that government's use of criminal prosecutions must be checked and restrained.

If you don't already know, please realize - the Constitution provides for public safety from criminals with one Amendment - the Second Amendment. Your right to keep and bear arms gives you the necessary and sufficient means to defend yourself from criminals. The government's supposed promise to protect you from criminals is, naturally, a lie. That it is a lie is demonstrated by the fact that neither common law, nor federal law, nor any State law requires police to protect any particular individual. And absent any special duty volunteered by police in a particular case, no person, or their Estate, can sue any government for the injuries or death caused by the willful failure of police to protect that person. Those are the cold, hard facts of the government's supposed obligation to protect its citizens.

The purpose of this lie is to cajole you into surrendering as much of your freedom, and your neighbor's freedom, as possible, all under the guise that the government will protect you and guarantee your safety if you and everyone else surrenders their freedom.

Of course, certain persons deserve to be convicted of crimes and incarcerated. At common law, there were only seven serious crimes, called felonies: murder, manslaughter, robbery, rape, burglary, assault, mayhem. All were crimes of violence committed against individuals. Defendants proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have committed such crimes should be punished and restrained.

Be aware that the overwhelming majority of crimes prosecuted in federal courts, and many of the crimes prosecuted in State courts, are not crimes of violence committed against individuals. They are "victimless" crimes, "political crimes," "crimes against the government," that is to say - they are not crimes at all!

The United States Constitution states that Congress has the power to punish only four crimes: Counterfeiting, Piracies and Felonies on the High Seas, Offences against the Law of Nations and Treason. United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8; Article 3, Section 3. The federal government's attempt to punish other crimes is unconstitutional. Jurors in federal criminal cases should vote accordingly.

Do not allow your own legitimate disapproval of certain behavior or conduct, such as drug use, to cloud your mind about what really constitutes a crime. Do not allow the government to foster envy or resentment in your mind so that you can become its unwitting accomplice to deprive your fellow citizen of his freedom.

Three Constitutional Amendments of the Bill of Rights guarantee the right to a jury. The Fifth Amendment provides that no person can even be prosecuted for a serious crime unless a Grand Jury says so. The Sixth Amendment guarantees the accused will be tried by an impartial jury. The Seventh Amendment guarantees the right to trial by jury even in civil cases, where property and not liberty is at stake

Given the singular importance of the right to a jury in the Constitution, most citizens' unwillingness to sit as a jury is shameful. So do everything possible to sit on juries, for the right reason - to restrain the government's desire to deprive your neighbor of his freedom. To ensure that your neighbor is treated as you yourself or a family member would want to be treated, with fairness and justice.

For more information, consult the Fully Informed Jury Association: http://www.fija.org.