If anyone has been following the antics of the National Liberty Alliance (NLA) of late, you know they've started a common law grand jury movement by which they plan to take over the government, indicting corrupt official by corrupt official, working their way up to President Obama sometime this century. Actually, their time frame is in the 60 day range, but I don't think things are going according to plan. A couple of years ago Larry Klayman tried to indict President Obama for treason via a "common law" grand jury out of Ocala, Florida. After the humiliating reaction to that, you'd think this movement would have died a quick but painful death. You'd be wrong.
If you haven't been following said debacle, here's the plan in a nutshell. Based on some half-wit's interpretation of a comment Scalia made in 1992 in US vs. Williams regarding grand juries, they've decided any person can go off half-cocked, form their own grand jury, indict and convict anyone they see fit, and judges/sheriffs, etc, are legally obligated to comply.
The National Liberty Alliance, and its founder, RWNJ extraordinaire John Darash, have managed to convince a significant number of people this will work and they've been working diligently filing what they believe are true bills stamped ever so officially with seals they've purchased at Staples and any day now they'll be proudly announcing the first wave of many arrests to come.
The best known of the most recent spate of common law (also called citizen's or people's) grand juries was announced throughout RWNJ-land August 13, 2014. It involves recent common law grand jury shenanigans in Dixie County, Florida. I prefer not to link to any of the crazy sites but most are easy enough to Google. If you want to read this particular announcement, google "common law grand jury Dixie County Florida" and you'll have plenty to chose from, mostly crazies but a few sane ones will pop up as well. The facts behind this grand jury are as follows. A court-sanctioned grand jury was convened in Dixie County and Terry Trussell (of Operation American Spring drone attack fame) was chosen, or volunteered, to be foreman. Once foreman, he attempted to hijack the legit grand jury for his own agenda. This was heralded as a breakthrough with high expectations from the looniverse.
Now for the schadenfreude: State Attorney Siegmeister obviously didn't take too kindly to Mr. Trussell's mutiny and requested he be removed from the grand jury. This was granted by Judge Greg Parker. Mr. Trussell then formed his own CLGJ, indicted Mr. Siegmeister for treason (yes, apparently in NLA World, having irreconcilable differences with a grand jury foreman is treason) sending his own "true bill" to the state supreme court with a copy to Justice Scalia (Scalia is apparently getting copies like this from all over the United States if the NLA boards are to be believed.) On August 28, an update from Mr. Trussell was posted. He remained optimistic despite not yet receiving acknowledgement of his true bills. He also said, "Apparently our law enforcement has taken a long Memorial (sic) Day holiday. We have a plan to wake them up." That was a reference to his expectation State Attorney Siegmeister would be arrested for treason at any moment. Ironically, the following week Mr. Trussell himself was arrested for "simulating a legal process."
The announcement of Mr. Trussell's arrest is slowly making its way across the looniverse, with only scant postings here and there. If you want to read one particularly pearl-clutching post from the RWNJ point of view, Google "Dixie County American Patriots Radio."
Well, that's all I have for now. Once OAS died off, I've been entertaining myself by following this common law phenom which seems to have replaced the American Spring movement. I'd been hesitant to post a diary on it because, well, it's just so silly, but today I couldn't help myself.