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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand READERS OUTLOOK June 7, 1 973 The UTAH Independent Page 3 TOM ANDERSON Suggestion The Stumps Are Alike think that our country is advanced beyond all the European nations: in fact, it has ratified the laws for the I ' Dear Editor: During federal fiscal years from 1946 to 1971, inclusive, the U.S. Govt, gave 1 27 foreign nations "fiscal assistance" totaling $138 billion. With the $74 billion the U.S. has paid in interest on money eight-hou- . s. is high time that the U.S. Government stopped all foreign aid and instead demanded that these 127 foreign governments, which include England, France and Germany, pay the U.S. what they owe us. Read this booklet and leaarn how successive indifferent U.S. Congresses are heading the U.S. to bankruptcy. The easiest way to protest to your Congressman and two Senators is to send each a copy of this booklet with your message on this "Personal Committee" page. BEFORE IT IS TOO ACT NOW anarchies, and all anarchies end in dictatorship and despotism. It took 450 years for Rome to come to "one-ma- n one-votBut we made it in only 80 years. for diversion and adult education, and finally for obligatory insurance against tuberculosis. All this shows how, in every detail in the world of labor, I stand by our working classes. All that was possible to do without doing an injury to the principles of solidity in our economy I have set out to do, from the minimum wage, 1 A regulation duly constituted a representatives of of and interests of the minority. A democracy, is majority privileges rule, period, or, to mobocracy. are military Dear Editor: April 18, 1973. President Nixon to Congress on our Energy 93-85- "More than half of the world's total reserves of coal are located within the United States. This resource alone would be enough to provide for our energy needs for well over a centruy. We have potential resources of billions of barrels of recoverable oil, similar quantities of shale oil, and more than 2,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Properly managed, and with more attention on the part of consumers to the conservation of energy, these supplies can last for as long as our economy depends on conventional fuels." Yet, there is definitely a severe Energy shortage in the United States. According to Congressman Wm. Scherle of Iowa, The Enviornmentalists themselves had an indirect but noticeable hand in worsening the energy shortage. The environmental movement has halted projects to release trapped oil and gas by nuclear explosion, delayed the Alaska pipeline, building, prevented forced dam- power companies to abandon river and Continued on Page 4 EXPOSE YOUR FRIENDS to the Utah Independent 20 Assorted Back Issues I for ONLY $L00 all . men. Ambrose Bierce said: An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereigns power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by Republics which are governed by chance. Even constitutional parliamentary so, and Republic clean, Christians er WATERGATE SOAP OPERA Nixons TV soap opera on Watergate reminds me of the dean of women who was making a special announcement to the student body. The political leaders throughout history are bad. Not bad rulers, necessarily, but bad people. In the highest echleons of our present government are crooks, perverts, atheists, traitors, philanderers, and whatever else bad there is. We are being ruled by bad law, in government. We have few. There are great differences between the trees of a land forest, but in cut-ovthe stumps are much the same. Our government and our Congress is a vast expanse 'of rotted stumps with an occasional giant oak here and there: Rarick, Rousselot, Crane, Gross, Helms, Curtis, Fannin. inspiration. The country was Italy; the form of government Fascism, and the leader was named Benito Mussolini. Of course, history shows us, if we will only look, that most political leaders are bad men, not good men. The men who seek power are the men who dont deserve it. The men who yearn to rule are the men who should be ruled. A goodly percentage of Resources. 119 Congressional ). Record H2886 (H.Doc.No. by need untainted, . Energy Shortage ruled We so generous an opportunity that work will be done, not as a pain, but as a joy of life . . .But . beyond the States labors, is our form of government, hermonizer and dominator of our national life, standing as the United States War Veterans 3675 Monon St, No. 103 Los Angeles, Ca. 90027 (Republics democracies are ruled by men, and even worse, by women.) woman and majority the voters, while protecting the rights, service. There is little which social welfare studies have appraised as wise for social happiness which has not already been advanced by me. I want to give every man in limited powers are vested in against illness; from income for old age to the proper of is a which Republic government continuity of employment; from the insurance against accidents to the indemnity LATE - democracies become e. s, had day, - afterwork to give such assistance, the total cost to U.S. as of June 30, 1 971 , was $212 billion. The total cost of this "assistance" must now be at least $250 billion to U.S. It r - obligatory insurance, for regulation of the work of women and children, for assistance and benefit for borrowed Tax-payer- such as we once had, is the least reprehensible of all forms of government. All Republics eventually become- democracies, all In his autobiography a famous national leader said: Bankruptcy Tax-payer- PARTI Address Correspondence To Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863 Dear Editor: Why not put an advertisment on the back of the address label so we won't ever lose any valuable information. Sincerely, Wallace M. Bates Salt Lake City, Utah Editor's Note: A very good suggestion. We shall do that. Thanks. CONSTITUTIONAL TRIAL BY JURY - President of the University and I, she said sternly, are determined to stop necking on the campus. Gales of laughter ensued and she hastened to correct her statement. I mean, she said, all this kissing thats been going on under my nose must stop! Richard Nixons most forthright statesmanlike declaration has been: Now let me just say this and make myself crystal clear: I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but Im not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. I hate to say it, but I wouldnt believe Richard Nixon on a stack of Good News for Modern Man" (or anybody1 else for that matter). wouldnt believe Richard Nixon if he said Jane Fonda was a traitor. The American Ilbv Features Almost every American Citizen today fears and shuns the very thought of appearing as a defendant in a court of law. Mass indoctrination has taught us the false notion that " only criminals go to court." This common "psychosis" has caused us to overlook an essential process provided in the Constitution for the preservation of our personal liberty. We have not only the right but the duty to test before a JURY the applicability of any statute or regulation we maybe accused of disregarding. Our CITIZENS JURY is the bulwark of our liberty. Without the jury to protect us we would be slaves of the government. THE ROLL OF THE CITIZEN IN GOVERNMENT In the United States adult persons, natural born or naturalized, function as Citizens in the structure of government when they vote or in other ways oversee and support or oppose activities of their government's officials. They are the foundation and strength of the government structure. Persons who function as officials in government get their authority by delegation from the Citizens. Thus all officials of government are accountable to the Citizens from whom alone they derive their authorization and direction. THE CITIZEN'S JURY Under our written CONSTITUTION, the Citizens of the Country make the final and ultimate decision on whetiit,. or not a person shall be held and punished for disobeying their laws. Under ARTICLE Three, Sec. 2 Par. 3. it says. "The trial of all crimes, excepting in cases of impeachment, shall be by JURY;. " There is no provision in the Constitution that allows for a trial by a judge. Nor there the slightest hint of authority given to the executive branch of government to try a person for a crime. It says, "The trial shall be by JURY". Nor is authority given by the Constitution to a judge to tell the Jury what it must decide. The Jury is an independent part of the structure of government. It represents the Citizens of the Country as a whole. Its verdict is an expression of the law of the land that applies to the case it tries in court. Once the jury has decided and expressed its unanimous verdict the case is closed. is THE LAW AND THE FACT In most, if not all trials, two questions must be examined. The whole function of the Court is to make this examination by the Jury possible. These questions are The Law that applies to the particular case, and The Facts of what actually happened. It is currently fashionable among attorneys and judges to claim that matters of law are to be left for the judge to decide while the jury can consider only the facts. It has not always been so. At the time of the founding of our Nation, as indicated by Noah Webster's dictionary, 1 828 ed., a JURY (was) "A number of freeholders, selected in the manner prescribed by law. empanneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact and to declare the truth on the evidence given to them in the case. Grand Juries consist usually of 24 freeholders at least, and are summoned to try matters alleged in indictments. Petty Juries, consisting usually of 12 men. attend courts and try matters of fact in civil cases, and decide both the law and the facts in criminal prosecutions. The decision of the Petty Jury is called the verdict. " A truly major question before the Citizens of our country today is this What is the Law of The Land, and how shall proper CONSTITUTIONAL TRIALS FOR CRIMES BE CONDUCTED ? JURY? JURIES AND CONSTITUTIONALITY The CITIZEN is the bulwark of our constitutional process. His first CIVIC DUTY is to protect his liberty. To do this he must obey the Laws of God and be responsible for his own conduct; for. his own sins and for bis own survival. As a means of self protection, the Citizens select representatives and authorize them to conduct the business of government. These he first causes to take an oath of office in which they covenant and promise to obey and support the Constitution of The United States and to defend it against all enemies. Next, if he fulfills his own obligation and trust as a citizen, he rides herd on his representatives and sees to it that they do in fact obey The Law of The Land. Finally, he brings to Jury trial all persons properly accusable before the law for malfeasance either as citizens or as officials of government. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKIN- G The process of making and maintaining laws that are constitutional takes several steps. First, all including Senators, Representake an oath to uphold the should and do or tatives, others, Constitution. Thus they should never propose or vote for a statute that violates it. The Administrator, such as the President or Governor, being likewise under oath should never sign an unconstitutional bill. . The third step in this process has been almost universally overlooked and ignored until it is almost entirely erased from the minds of our countrymen, both citizens and lawmakers alike. Continued On Page 11 law-maker- s, 01113 lnd.pncl.nt published by the Utah Independent each 84115. 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