Who stuck a knife through the "heart" of the U. S. Grand Jury?
The Rapidly Declining Constraints on Rising Government Power
 For hundreds of years the Grand Jury was one major impediment to rising government power. Some forms of the grand jury date back to the Magna Carta of 1215 and evolved even further under Common Law. In America, it was and still should be, a constitutionally protected impediment to increasing government power, embedded in the 5th Amendment by the beginning words: “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.”
Oh, but never under-estimate the sneaky, under-handedness of our so-called wise and very clever, 545 people that control America from the top down, in each of the three branches of government. If there is a way to increase their power, they will find it ..... and they have. Most of this rise in government power has occurred in the Twentieth Century, starting way back in 1913 with President Woodrow Wilson and the 16th Amendment, the IRS and the Federal Reserve Act, but continues unabated even today with massive bank and business bailouts, trillion-dollar stimulus packages, spending bills loaded with power-usurping pork and requests for even more increases in their power, almost every day. The American people watch in awe and horror, as the tyranny and treason rise to unprecedented levels, by those who swear on solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend a document that they violate with almost every piece of legislation they pass into law.
The Fourth Estate (the press) was supposed to be our government watch dog, but does anyone today believe that the print and electronic news media is closely watching what government does? Many of us have to learn what is really going on in government, by keeping our “ear” tuned to the Internet.
The other tool in our arsenal to keep the powers of the government from increasing, one more level of oversight, was the National Grand Jury. A grand jury was usually constituted of 23 free Americans and they had the power to investigate just about anything and hand down indictments to the courts. Sometimes they abused that power but abuse did not occur as often as rooting out serious crime and government corruption. A grand jury in 1935 New York took in a prosecutor they could trust and exposed organized crime and government corruption, that ended in many crime figures and politicians in jail.
But alas, the government couldn’t stand the free nature of the grand jury. They even coined a word for a grand jury that wasn’t under the thumb of a prosecutor. They called them “runaway” grand juries. Too many in the judiciary, including prosecutors, thought that the grand jury gave citizens way too much power over the government, as well as the judiciary, so they decided to “fix” it. And “fix” it they did. All they had to do was to pass a rule and they established a whole “book” of rules under the title: “Rules of Criminal Procedure.” The deed was done with Rule No. 6. The new rules effectively outlawed so-called “runaway” grand juries and put the power of the grand jury in the hands of a federal prosecutor. In effect, the prosecutor controls what cases can be brought before the grand jury and what evidence can be presented. A stacked deck if there ever was one!
In an article written by Roger Roots about the historical role of the grand jury, he states that: “The loss of the grand jury in its traditional, authentic, or “runaway” form, leaves the modern federal government with few natural enemies capable of delivering any sort of damaging blows against it.”
But what the Federal Government fails and refuses to recognize so often, is the enterprising nature of the American people. Many Americans are fully aware of our history and the rights that came with the Constitution and before that, the Common Law. Right now, some are planning their own national grand juries with the power to hear cases of their choosing, examine evidence and hand down indictments. They will conduct their own investigations and prosecutors will be excluded from the proceedings. Their first target could very well be the current President of the United States. Here are a couple of websites wherein a few enterprising Americans are doing just that: decalogosintl.org andriseupforamerica.com.
If this trend takes off, and it probably will, it will be an increasing thorn in the government’s side, which is sorely needed at time when they are trying to increase their power exponentially, almost every day.
The emerging common-law, national grand jury could also replace the historical function of the Fourth Estate, who has, for who knows how many years, shirked their duty as the government’s watch dog. Many news outlets today are blatantly in the “tank” for a specific political party and their political bias is evident in all of their news reporting.
Nevertheless, what is amazing about this dynamic political arena we find ourselves in, is the sudden and abrupt awakening of the American people, who have been in a state of numbness for far too long. As we looked away 100 years ago, government took our silence to be tacit approval of their actions. They assumed wrong and they are finding out just how wrong they were and are.
All across America, the Silent Majority is opening their eyes, one by one, and they don’t like what they see. The so-called “Hope” and “Change” they voted for has morphed into more of the same, only worse. If that silent majority does not convert their anger into action, if they do not reclaim our institutions that were designed to hold government in check, like the National Grand Jury, the federal government, as well as all state and local governments, will continue their headlong drive into abject socialism, radical environmentalism and the one world order, and the Silent Majority will be silenced forever.
If you consider yourself a member of the Silent Majority, it is way past time to rise up. If you consider yourself a free American, it is time to take back your government. If you cherish your freedom and liberty, for you, your children and grand children and all future generations, it is time to show the hard muscle of WE THE PEOPLE.
Your first line of defense is your Property Line. If government has its way, it will not only erase your property line and all the individual rights that attach thereto, it will erase our sovereign boundaries as well, and void our constitution. It’s simple. The consequences for not acting ..... is slavery.
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