The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“
However, as the First Amendment Center states:
“The right to petition, however, requires only that the state receive complaints and grievances, not that it respond to them. Historical practice aside, as the Court explained in Minnesota Board for Community Colleges v. Knight (1984): “[N]othing in the First Amendment or in this Court’s case law interpreting it suggests that the rights to speak, associate, and petition require government policymakers to listen or respond to individuals’ communications on public issues.”“
Compare that to the Magna Carta, signed by King John in 1215, that allowed for a group of 25 barons to seize the king’s property to redress their grievances, if redress wasn’t provided within 40 days. In the words of King John:
“And if we, or in our absence abroad the chief justice, have not corrected the transgression within forty days, reckoned from the day on which the offence was declared to us (or to the chief justice if we are out of the realm), the four barons mentioned before shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five barons. Together with the community of the whole land, they shall then distrain and distress us in every way possible, namely by seizing castles, lands, possessions and in any other they can (saving only our own person and those of the queen and our children), until redress has been obtain in their opinion. And when amends have been made, they shall obey us as before.“
Why is it that 794 years later, in 2009, 303 million American people (the sovereign) can’t even expect a response to their petitions from their servant government of, by, and for the people, whereas 25 barons could seize any and all property from their sovereign, that they deemed proper to redress their grievances?
Comments at http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9zyvx/25_barons_had_more_redress_of_their_grievances_in/
and http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=217203
That situation can be remedied.
Virginia has some beatiful laws that can give the nation that remedy if Virginians reposseess thier duly authorized law as propossed. Please review the “PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES” and so upon your oath to support our Constitutions (See http://members.cox.net/russell_p_davis/A23-09-Petition4RedressOfGrievances20091114.htm )
1) ask Our Governor, Tim Kaine, to act according to his oath to support our Constitution by suppressing insurrection and enforcing our law upon the VA Justices and the Judges of Chesapeake VA with all force and speed due their evidenced habit of felony wherein they operate far outside the duly authorized law of Virginia and show intent to perpetrate additional 18USC1513e felony in felonious process of removing a citizen from the protection of Virginia Law in violations of our US and VA Constitutions and in violation of VA§19.2-10. Outlawry abolished” by means of an extensive web of VA§18.2-111 felony. A Virginia assistant attorney general, Mike Melis, has perpetrated VA§18.2-111 statutory embezzlement and adulteration of the law, VA§18.2-481(5) statutory treason, §18USC1341. Frauds and swindles and 18USC1513e felony retaliation for said judges and justices upon which they became principals as accessory-before-the-fact;
2) and ask Our Governor, Tim Kaine, to have a special prosecutor appointed, one with exceptional integrity and transparency, such as Harvey Bryant, with combined jurisdiction of Virginia Beach and Chesapeake and order an investigation to raise said legion of multi-jurisdiction felonies to a grand jury as is required in Virginia by VA§ 19.2-191(2) and VA§ 19.2-200. “Duties of grand jury. The grand jury shall inquire of and present ALL felonies”. . .”committed within the jurisdiction of the respective courts wherein it is sworn”;
3) And ask the US attorney to order an investigation and raise that matter to a grand jury as is required in Virginia by VA§ 19.2-191 (2) and VA§ 19.2-200. “Duties of grand jury. The grand jury shall inquire of and present ALL felonies”. . .”committed within the jurisdiction of the respective courts wherein it is sworn”.
The JIRC is a thoroughly inadequate and untimely response to a continuing felony enterprise of insurrection with force of arms to our Constitutions and Laws.
Your oath to support our Constitutions requires that the rebellious judges and justices must be promptly removed from office and eventually indicted, arrested and convicted upon their record if they do not earn their redemption in such “Well-Formed Settlement and Accord” as offered and such as our Governor eventually authorizes.
Your oath to support our Constitutions requires no less.
Thank you.
Sincerely and in obedience to Virginia’s duly authorized laws and the higher law under which Virginia’s laws were born.
Russell P. Davis 1521 Quail Point Rd., VA Beach, VA 23454 757-651-2234 Russell_P_Davis@cox.net
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This post was mentioned on Reddit by hobbers: I don’t think having people running around seizing property is respecting individual liberties….