In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.”

Born 1776, Died ????

For some of our modern-day political  and socioeconomic thinkers, concepts of limited resources, self-responsibility,work and preparation have shown themselves to be difficult concepts to  integrate into their political belief systems. To give some mass to these concepts, I always find it useful to provide  a real-life story; or better yet, a myth that speaks in the language of  archetypes, and so has the power to bypass the critical mind and implant its  truth directly into the subconscious indelibly. Maybe my good collectivist friends never had the benefit of this  childhood story as I did but here it goes…

In a field one summer’s day a  Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An  Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to  the nest.

“Why not come and chat with  me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?”

“I am helping to lay up food  for the winter,” said the Ant, “and recommend you to do the  same.”

“Why bother about winter?”said the Grasshopper; “We have got plenty of food at present.” But  the Ant went on its way and continued its toil.

When the winter came the Grasshopper  had no food and found itself dying of hunger – while it saw the ants  distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the  summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for days of need.

~ The Ant and the Grasshopper by  Aesop

Despite what the judge may tell you, your constitutional duty is to judge not just the guilt or innocence of the accused but to more importantly judge the constitutionality of the law. Don’t be duped by the instructions of the judge.

The only Supreme Court Justice to ever be impeached–Samuel Chase– was impeached for what our Judges do on a regular basis in our court systems today.

What can you do to help?  If called for jury duty, your constitutional duty is not just to judge the accused but the law(s) under which the accused has been charged. Your constitutional duty is to judge both the constitutionality and the fairness of the law. Judges consistently take this right from you due to your ignorance of the law.  Do not take their bait or their improper  instructions. Protect your rights and your fellow citizen’s rights.

DAs consistently over-charge to scare the accused so that they will take a plea to a lesser crime.  Never take a plea bargain to a lesser charge (unless you are guilty); always demand your 6th amendment right to a trial by jury.

From the link below:

“[In] 1795, Justice James Irdell declared: “[T]hough the jury will generally respect the sentiment of the court on points of law, they are not bound to  deliver a verdict conformably to them.” In 1817, Chief Justice John Marshall said that “the jury in a capital case were judges, as well of the law as the fact, and were bound to acquit where either was doubtful.”

In more recent times, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held in1969:
If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused is unjust,or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic and passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide that decision.

Three years later, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals noted: “The pages of history shine on instances of the jury’s exercise of its prerogative to disregard uncontradicted evidence and instructions of the judge.”
In a 1993 law journal article, federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein wrote: “When juries refuse to convict on the basis of what they think are unjustlaws, they are performing their duties as jurors.”

6th Amendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and  public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

http://disinfo.com/2010/03/juries-are-allowed-to-judge-the-law-not-just-the-facts/

Some Founding Fathers were strongly opposed to the formation of a central banking system; the fact that England tried to place the colonies under the monetary control of the Bank of England was seen by many as the ‘last straw’ of English oppression and that it led directly to the American Revolutionary War. If you read your American history, you will find a long battle with the central bankers.

1)      Assassinated:  1865 Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States (1861 – 1865)

“The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums in interest.  Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. “

“The money power preys upon the nations in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity.  It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.”

–          Abraham Lincoln

The London Times 1865: “If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost.  It will pay off its debts and be without debt.  It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world.  The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America.  That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”

“The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth should become their inheritance.”

– Otto von Bismarck

2)      Assassinated:  1881 James A. Garfield

President of the United States (200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881)

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”

–          James Garfield

American Banker Association 1891: “On September 1st, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any consideration.  On September 1st we will demand our money.  We will foreclose and become mortgagees in possession.  We can take two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi and thousands of them east of the Mississippi as well, at our own price…Then the farmers will become tenants as in England.”

3)      Assassinated:  1963 President Kennedy

United States President (1961 – 1963)

On June 4th, 1963, President Kennedy signed a presidential document, called Executive Order 11110.  It gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: “to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury.”  Five months after Kennedy’s assassination all Series 1958 “Silver Certificates” were removed from circulation.

 CONCLUSION:

“Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

Woodrow Wilson

28th President of the United States (1913–1921)