Tyranny and oppression still alive and well in Navajo County – White Mountain Independent

Tyranny and oppression still alive and well in Navajo County

Jury summons, by definition, invokes power from the court to demand your presence under penalty of law. Many claim that jury duty is a privilege or civic duty, but I assert that it is more than that an honor and the ultimate exercise of true democracy.

When serving on a jury, you exercise three votes. The first vote is when you elected a judge or legislator to enforce and create the laws. The second vote is to protect fellow citizens from overzealous prosecutors (government tyranny), and the third is when your decision has more power than the judges, the legislators, Congress or President.

Your decision is only answerable to yourself and God.

This was the safety valve and equalizer that our wise and noble forefathers placed into the Constitution, specifically to fight tyranny and oppression against We, the People and to preserve our freedoms. This is the greatest exercise of freedom and is a democratic honor. Freedom is unalienable as it comes from God not a privilege granted from government and to deny freedom to a man is the greatest sin and crime of mankind.

On July 18, I reported to the Navajo County Superior Courthouse as required per the summons, and there is a process and series of qualifying questions by which prospective jurors are eliminated. The first round of elimination is conducted by the judge (there were more than 100 citizens present as prospective jurors) as people are advised of any conflicts that would objectively disqualify them to serve.

Lawyers and judges select juries by a process known as voir dire, which is Latin for to speak the truth. In voir dire, the judge and attorneys for both sides ask potential jurors questions to determine if they are competent and suitable to serve in the case. The reasoning for this is obvious and logical as jurors should be ethical, impartial and fair.

However, Tuesday morning I was summarily dismissed without the due process of qualifying questions and/or conditions that would exclude me from exercising my right as a citizen of Navajo County. If a superior court judge can do this, then why even bother with legislators, lawmakers, or constitutional processes? We wouldnt need laws, prosecutors or defense attorneys, just one supreme monarch that solely make all the decisions for society and mankind.

Is this the type county or country that We, the People desire to live in? If we dont have the right to participate in the process of government, is it still a democracy? I swore an oath to the Constitution and it guarantees individuals their right for self-governance in a representative democratic republic and to be free from these abuses of controlling tyranny and oppression.

Sterling Smith,

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