Time: Tue Mar 04 16:47:58 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA09745; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:48:37 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 16:44:23 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: [jus-dare] The Price We Pay <snip> >*Jus Dare* >The Price We Pay > >From: Obwon <ob110ob@idt.net> > >freedomh@spectra.net wrote: >> >> *Jus Dare* >> The Price They Paid >> >> This piece is not new. Most of you have seen it before. >> It is worth reading again. >> >[...] > > The laws of the land are so interpreted now, in such convoluted and >unseemly fashion that they fail to represent any coherent or >discernable principal or theory which its supporters -- "The People", >those bound by it's constructs and responsible for it's force by their >own personal consent -- cannot know what it means. > > When the people express knowledge of rights, enumerated in the >Constitution, they are expressing their expectations that the >princilpals therein are enforcable according to the spirit of the >Constitution as well. Were it not for this 'spirit' of law, the laws >would dissolve into purely technical matters, to which citizen could >willingly subscribe because understanding would be lacking if not >impossible. > > The Founding Fathers of this country were very close to the >functioning oppressions they sought to protect future generations >from. The principals needed to do so, they astutely perceived, never >change one wit. They enumerated those principals and the underlying >intents that they were meant to address. They breathed into that law >a spirit that they intended, and the people decided, should be >observed. If a citizen can not understand the letter of law, they can >certainly understand the spirit! > > It is this spirit of law -- it's underlying *principals* -- that >makes the laws so acceptable to all citizens. It serves to make the >law understandable to simple lay human beings! That "All men are >endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights!", is >something on which we can all agree! It is necessary to embrace and >practice this fundamental principle if the laws are to come from the >governed! So there can be no "We the People of the United States of >America", without inalienable rights! The list of rights and >principles goes on, I won't enumerate them here except as may be >needed. > > But it is the understanding of those rights that is the most >important principal of freedom! For if a people cannot know their >rights... How can they be truely free? So the question that follows >is "How do people know their rights?" We know that we cannot be >expected to think of or examine every possible situation as to how >private rights might conflict with public intent/needs. We can not >be expected in our few alloted years to resolve the many issues >entailed. So the law is given a spirit! A spirit which even the >simplest of means can understand and abide. > > We are all very familiar with the Spirit of American law! Who among >us does not know of, or would not agree; that "Ten guilty should go >free that no innocent be convicted!" So when convoluted/esoteric and >arcane arguement is offered to deny anyone the shelter of this "Spirit >of Law" to which we have ascribed, we should not take that incident >lightly. For to do so is to allow and permit the spirit of law to be >unenforceable! > > This is more dangerous than many realize. For if the spirit of the >law is permitted to die for lack of enforceablity, then what we will >have is not a democracy! What we will have then is a Technocracy! It >is a very short step from Technocracy back to the same totalitarianism >from which our Founding Fathers once pulled us at such great costs to >themselves! We have long enjoyed the benefits of the system that they >devised! > > This enjoyment appears to have persisted too long! We are more than >100 years removed from the oppressions of other nations! Several >generations of successful endeavor have prevailed. The meaning of the >fundamental principles of law have long since escaped our intense >consideration. All has been well on the surface! But there is a >storm gathering on our horizons. A storm that the Founding Fathers >foresaw! > > "We the People", need to look back! We need to see that the Spirit >of the laws as we understand them is not lost! Not to any >partisanship, nor to any interests! We shall not exchange freedom >for security! The posts heretofore show clearly that we are being >offered the opportunity to do so by the High Court! We must >resoundingly and demonstratively repudiate this offer! For not to do >so would rob us of our inalienable rights! > > The High Court has ruled that the security of peace officers is of >greater moment or intrests to the public good, than the rights of the >citizens to be secure in their persons! To do so they permit the >"Presumption of guilt" to decend upon vehicle passengers when police >stop the drivers for various and sundry reasons! So now you have been >robbed of the mantel of innocense if police interests or concerns for >their own personal safety conflict with your interests in asserting >your rights! > > Clearly the law is robbed of it's spirit by this one decision alone! > > How else might this interpretation of the letter of law be used to >deprive you and other citizens from the exercise or enforcement of the >rights applicable thereto? How can it be demonstrated, therefore, >that such 'rights' are even in existence? Surely one must know by >now, that there are many safety/security considerations prevailent in >today's society, that can also rise to the level of 'extreme public >interest' that can then be used to remove your rights to privacy and >the security of your home. It is just a matter of time before we will >be confronted with those issues! Will we yet again allow the High >Court to contravene the spirit of the law to act on 'our behalf', to >remove and render useless our very understandings of our law? > > It is our law that is being interpreted by the High Court! It is >not 'their law', it is not the laws of the Congress! These official >bodies are there to serve us and to codify laws "By Our Consent!" >Not as some disconnected exercise to exotic for the common citizen to >understand! For in accepting that we do not or cannot understand the >laws being given, or as they are being enforced, we are in fact >surrendering the very rights upon which we claim to rely and support. > > Thank you for your time one an all. > > Obwon > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > *JUS DARE* > c/o Dave Delany's Freedom House > PO Box 212 Conklin NY 13748 > ======== > Sponsored by Mike Goldman and By.Net (http://Names.By.Net) > ======== > Perversion of the U.S. Supreme Court > *Jus Dare* means "to give or to make the law." > > To subscribe or unsubscribe to *Jus Dare*, send a message to > jus-dare-request@freedom.by.net > In the BODY, put the text "ADD" or "DELETE" respectively. > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. 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