Brian’s Column: The Truman Prophecy (2015), Excerpt #10

From Part 1: Dorothy. Weaverville, Northern California, Segment

Justice[Excerpt from The Truman Prophecy, due for publication 12/25/15.]

The Trinity River was running higher than normal for the season, making it doubly difficult to locate smaller runoffs that might be productive… not to mention for setting up his equipment.

Clarkson Hodges, civil engineer, author of The Hidden 4th Branch (about the natural grand jury and its proposed American recovery)—and as a way to help make ends meet and occupy time he couldn’t be spending with his son (thanks to a less-than-pleasant-or-even-halfway-fair divorce deal)— had developed a gold extraction system that was beginning to pan out. 🙂  At least with sales of the extraction machinery itself.

Here he was on the cusp of a personal gold tremor, if not rush. Meaning he can now pay the cable bill and even make a dent on the back rent. Half of what he made from the county surveying job went straight to ‘her.’

Why all this hardscrabble in his life?

Frugal, not saintly, Kelly (40-something) enjoyed an occasional stop at the brew pub, dated irregularly, was known to play a pony or two, but kept to a budget—that included regular donation to his community church. Continue reading

Guest Column: Why the State Suppresses Jury Nullification

Jury Nullification and Why Ross Ulbricht’s Prosecutors Are Trying to Evade It

Jury Nullification and Why Ross Ulbricht’s Prosecutors Are Trying to Evade ItEditor’s Note: A microcosm of everything scary and wrong about the out of control criminal injustice system, but soon to be rectified by the people as they reassert their grand jury authority for indictment (presentment) against government and government-associated criminals–telling all the officers of the court what to do (instead of the other way around)–and, in this case, they fully empower themselves by understanding their inalienable rights to decide facts and law in any criminal prosecution. [Though they almost always have good reason, they can let a man go free for whatever reason they wish… because the prosecutor is inflicting them with bad breath. The people have the power, they’ve been fooled into thinking they do not.] — bw

Excerpted. Full column here. Check out information re Ross Ulbricht and the case here.

There is a basic principle that underlies any honest attempt at good governance: Continue reading