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Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction... if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.
-- Alexander Hamilton, 1804

House Lawmakers Seek To Curtail Terrorism Laws
Ashcroft Limits Prosecutor Discretion
Target: 'Narco-Terror' - ABCNews.com

When it shall be said in any country in the world, my POOR are happy,
neither distress nor ignorance is to be found among them;
my JAILS are empty of prisoners, my streets of BEGGARS;
the AGED are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive . . .
when these things can be said,
then may that country boast its constitution and its government."

I PUT the following work under your protection.
It contains my opinions upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember,
that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion,
however different that opinion might be to mine.
He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion,
because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
-- Thomas Paine



As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances,
there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged,
and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air,
however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

Ashcroft Nation

The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against others who claim that if such things are to be allowed their own rights are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
-- Former Lord Chief Justice Halisham



The Tribunal of US Drug War Crimes
US Drug War Crimes Cartoon
Nazism or WoD

There are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from attempting to shake it off.... These are in fact the men who, possessed of clear minds and far-sighted spirit, are not satisfied, like the brutish mass, to see only what is at their feet, but rather look about them, behind and before, and even recall the things of the past in order to judge those of the future, and compare both with their present condition. These are the ones who, having good minds of their own, have further trained them by study and learning. Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would reinvent it. For them slavery has no satisfactions, no matter how well disguised.
--Etienne de la Boetie, The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Village Idiots & Rebel Cures

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments ... The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments ...that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity. --John Hospers

Our Duty Jdg Harlan
Atlas Shrugged

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court. --John Adams, 1771

Free Speech: Void Where Prohibited
Planned Pownal Pot Event Canceled

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