On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:40:02AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
On Monday, March 19, 2018, 5:06:39 PM PDT, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:56:40 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
so let's say that people refuse to plead 'guilty' - wouldn't they just be kept in jail forever, waiting for their turn? Do you have references showing that if the govt can't do a 'speedy trial' it will set their hostages free?
There is such a thing as the "Speedy Trial Act", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Trial_Act
However, it has as many holes as a piece of Swiss cheese. However, the Feds have a limited capacity to house pre-trial prisoners, a limited number of prosecutors, courtrooms, judges, investigators, etc. Currently they are putting on about 77,000 new defendants each year, probably convicting 76,000 of them, yet only having about 2,500 trials each year. In other words, about 30 convictions for each actual trial. I am hopeful to drop this to maybe 1.5 to 2 convictions for each actual trial.
I don't believe that the Feds will be able to put on more than about 5,000 trials, given their limited capacity. Give virtually every defendant a powerful motivation to demand a jury trial, and I think the large majority of them will do so. There would still be plea agreements, but they will be on a far better basis, for the defendants, than before. Jim Bell
Besides getting rid of government and having some sort of stable utopian anarchy, I think the "gang of 12" or trial by jury, where the jury has absolute discretion to declare "not guilty" and thereby implicitly (or explicitly) throw out legislative clauses or entire acts of parliament, is a practical way forward from where we currently be. Greater sovereignty (actual authority) simply -must- be vested in the people, one way or another. Thus far, TPTB have made much hay in every civil war, every overthrow of an existing tyrant, where the (((bankers))) fund all sides of all wars, by printing their fiat "loans" to unlimited amount, and thereby they don't care who wins, as long as all sides are beholden to their fiats. The fundamental is not compromised government. The fundamental is who is behind the compromised government, who is compromising them (in the past with homosexual compromat, nowadays pedosexual compromat, and otherwise also via murder, and threats of murder of loved ones). It is the authority/sovereignty of individuals, and checks and balances such as the gang of 12, which may be accepted by the majority in order to effect a non-compromised "revolution into the hands of the same old powers that be". Good luck,