If Its Not A Runaway, Its Not A Real Grand Jury
...grand juries as the 4th branch of government...
The criminal syndicate is global. Powerful though they are, they depend on their credibility and our consent.
So what do we do, where do we turn? Do we just not depend on anyone, turn our backs on our neighbors and dig gardens at our condos to feed ourselves?
Or do we, in the U.S. at least, revitalize our institutions?
"In theory, the grand jury is supposed to act as a check on the government
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Prior to the emergence of governmental prosecution as the standard model of American criminal justice, all grand juries were in fact "runaways," according to the definition of modern times; they operated as completely independent, self-directing bodies of inquisitors, with power to pursue unlawful conduct to its very source, including the government itself."
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