Federal Grand Juries
BY Herschel Smith
2 months ago
I don’t often do this, but I need to recommend that you watch television (or better yet, some other format).
The federal grand jury is the most corrupt abomination of justice ever to be conceived by the U.S. authorities.
The best dramatization of what can happen with grand juries can be seen on The Rockford Files, “So Help Me God,” season 3, episode 7.
The fifth amendment doesn’t apply. Despite what the founders intended, you have no fifth amendment rights in front of a federal grand jury. If you refuse to testify, you can be imprisoned for the duration of the grand jury.
That’s a short list of the infringements on rights that has been given to the purview of the federal grand jury. The whole thing is an end run around the rights inherent to being a U.S. citizen.
Of course, this also runs contrary to biblical law which forbids forced confessions and self-incrimination (see R. J. Rushdoony, “Institutes of Biblical Law).
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On September 18, 2024 at 7:46 am, BRVTVS said:
Roger Roots has written a few scholarly articles on the history of grand juries and how they ceased to protect liberty. For instance: http://www.constitution.org/2-LawRev/roots/runaway.htm