The problem with jury nullification is that it tends to concentrate power in a small group of people. This is tolerable (even laudable) when nulification involves the frustration of a broadly unpopular governmental enforcement/prosecution, but less so when it involves nulification inspired by individual traits such as race or class. In those instances “Anglo Saxons” are likely to be the victims of jury nulification.

I can think of no better example than the income tax, a law that every single American is violating at any given time since the code is so complex and contradictory. Americans have no choice other than submitting to unconstitutional tyranny through the capricious edicts of the IRS. I certainly submit, because I’m not going to risk my liberty and property at a time when I have young children and little is likely to be gained anyway.

But if another brave soul stands on principle and defies the unconstitutional acts of the government, and I’m on a jury, I will nullify those laws to the extent of my common law rights.

Any question that a lawyer or judge asks that attempts to prevent the exercise of the right of jury nullification is basically illegitimate. And I think someone could honestly answer “yes”, since the “the law as written” would be superseded by the higher law of common law and the Constitution. Wise as serpents, innocent as doves…

The question here is “Who is Caesar?” Thanks to our forefathers’ spilled blood, “Caesar” in our country is the Constitution, not government bureaucrats or even the President. We are not Jewish or Christian peasants living under a Roman dictatorship, we are free Anglo-Saxons and should deal with illegitimate “law” in a manner worthy of our heritage.

Of course, it is a case of “use it or lose it”. I do fear we are rapidly approaching a day where we have more-or-less accepted an unconstitutional plebiscite dictatorship, which would imply submission and the death of our Constitutional and common law freedoms.

Make another promise to yourself: Lie on VoirDire (jury selection) because you’re going to be asked by the judge or prosecutor, “if a violation of the law, as written, is found, can you convict the defendant?” If you plan to nulify you must lie in response to this question or you will never make the panel. So there is a moral dilemma for most people. Do you change the laws? Or “render unto Ceaser”?

One other point, thank God there are strong, smart, financially independent lawyers willing to stand up in the face of unjust prosecutions and other tyranny. The jury system is a great inconvenience to the government, it’s agencies and big business.