scene: courtroom…
the action: someone is charged with a crime:
and the final summation is this:
I have been charged with a crime… the state as decreed that
a crime has been committed and there must be a trial to discover “justice”…
to see that “justice” will been done…
but this case is not about “justice”. this case rises about the mere
notion of “justice”… for we must think about this case as a case
against everything our modern state stands for… the judge and
the police inside this courtroom stand for something that isn’t talked
about or understood… this case is about something other then
the mere act of “Justice”… I stand here today and will make a
startling call… I say, to reject the case againt me on grounds different
then just innocent or guilty…for I stand here, as a partisan of something
that is exhibited here… the court, the Judge says justice is what is going on
here but I say unto you, that is not what is going on here…
The Judge, the DA says, that a law has been broken and the guilty
must be punished… but I say, that something greater then the law
is being broken here… The Judge says, that the laws are created by
you… but that is a lie… you didn’t create the laws and you didn’t
have anything to do with the creation of the law…think about it,
the entire basis of the judicial system is that laws are created in
the “peoples” name…but I say to you that they are not……the entire
governmental system we have is based upon a lie…
or said another way, the government doesn’t work for you, you work
for the government… the judge and the police working in this courtroom
don’t work for you… the Judge can tell me how to talk, how to act, how
to exists and if I don’t follow him, the police in the courtroom are authorized
to act for the judge to punish me……and at what point does the judicial system
work for me? One might say, the laws created by the legislators are the
basis of the right of the judicial system to tell me what to do, but once
again, I say a lie is being told…….
if the government is bought for by special interest and big business
and the legislators work for them, who exactly works for us?
certainly not the legislators and certainly not the President who
is also bought and sold by special interests like the NRA and big
pharmaceuticals that have bought Washington and our state capitals……
if no one works for us, the people, then by what right should we
be held to obey laws? If we no longer have a government of the people,
government for the people, government by the people, then by
what right should we obey that government……. the very same
argument that our founding fathers used against England, now exist
for us to use against the government that rules us, that we serve,
that holds us in bondage…if we no longer have a government
that serves us, then we no longer have a government that we must
listen to, we no longer have a government we must obey…
the allegiance that is demanded of us by the government is null and void
because the very foundations of the government is tainted. For we no longer
have a government that is, of the people, for the people, by the people…
and that nullifies our allegiance to the government…the court will claim
that my argument is outsides of the bounds of this case and you must,
must think only of the crime committed but I say unto you, the very
heart of this case lies within the fact that our very allegiance demands
that the government and the courts and the very policemen in this courtroom
work for us and we do not work for them… and as this is not the case,
you must, you must find me innocent…… for this case is not about some
petty crime committed and the search for justice for that crime…
no, I say unto you, that this case is systematic of a larger crime committed
against the citizens of this country……. if you no longer have an say or control
over the government of which this court is part of, then the allegiance that
is demanded of you is forfeited……. the larger crime is that this courtroom
has control over you and that the government has control over you…
either the system works for you or the system doesn’t…
and clearly you as an individual, has no say or control over what happens
in the government, then the government has lost your allegiance to it……
for it is no longer a democracy, it is a dictatorship………. and that is
what we have today… a dictatorship… deny my words all you want,
but recall how your legislators and the president and the judicial system
no longer answers to you or even cares about what you want and you have
no say over the government… that is a dictatorship………
The judge demands I speak about the case, the trial ongoing right now,
but of course he does, he is part of a system that doesn’t care or want
any response from you… the courts, the bureaucracies, the police,
the president, the congress, who exactly works for you? No one…
for they have been bought and sold by the highest bidder…
Justice in this country is no longer justice for it is influenced
by money, titles, influence, status… and if those things can influence
justice, then we have no justice…
if money buys laws and has legislators doing big money business, then
you have no say, no control over the congress, then why must
government have our allegiance? We cannot and must not offer our
allegiance to a government, to the courts, to the police, if they
do not work for us…as they must in a democracy……
they have lost our allegiance, but the judge and the DA both claim
that this leads to anarchy, to chaos, to the loss of order… good,
for if we live in a dictatorship as we now do, then I will take
anarchy over a government that no longer serves the people……
either we take the proposition seriously that "government
is of the people, for the people, by the people, or we don’t and if we don’t,
then a dictatorship is all we deserve.
it is not about some petty crime committed that is on trial, but
the entire system… for I say unto you, if the system no longer deserves
our allegiance, then they cannot, cannot try me for a crime committed because
this government is no longer my government and my allegiance is no longer
given…yes, they can force me into jail… but it isn’t about whether I am in
jail… this entire trial is about whether the government should have our allegiance
and I say, no, not until it is “government of the people, for the people, by the people”…
the court and this judge can send me to jail by force, and I cannot stop that, but
if force is all the government has, then it has lost my consent… don’t accept their
flimsy argument that by voting innocent, you will cause anarchy or chaos… that
is another lie… the truth is I am not fighting to destroy property and I am not fighting
to tip over cars and burn them, no, I am fighting for a government that the people
have control over and that the people have a say over… I don’t work for the government
and you don’t work for the government… they work for us… they serve us…
and we the people, we are in charge… and that is what I am fighting for…
vote me innocent and send a message…the message is simple and clear…
because it isn’t about my guilt or innocence, but the message is about
saying no to a government that we have no control over and have no say about……
we must say no until we can say yes… and that yes means, we have a “government
of the people, government for the people, by the people”… not the dictatorship
we have today… democracy in name only is not a democracy…
we can no longer have representative democracy because sooner or later,
the representatives become servants of those who can buy the representatives,
not the people… take that first step to becoming free of a dictatorship…
and say no…… until we have a true democracy, a democracy that is
of the people, for the people, by the people, say yes to that, but
say no to our current dictatorship…… vote innocent to begin the long
battle to reclaim the government for the people…… a crime has been committed,
but the crime is the lie of how our current government works for us… that
is the crime…………
one might say, my call is a “radical” one and every call for
control over our lives is a radical one because it is radical
to those who have control over our lives… big business and
special interests like the NRA…my call is certainly radical for them
because it means they will lose their control over the government,
over the judicial system, over the police state we have today…
my call for us, the people, to control our lives is a radical one to be
sure, but to do otherwise is to be silent over our dictatorship,
to do nothing is to assent to the current dictatorship and I will never
give my assent to our current dictatorship… for that is what it is…
if the people don’t have any control over the system and have no say
over the current system, then we have a dictatorship…not a democracy…
it can’t be any simpler then that…
if someone can call up the president and because of wealth or influence
or title gets an interview with the president, then we don’t have
a democracy, we have a government of the wealthy, by the powerful,
for the influential… because I cannot call up the president and get
an interview with the president and you can’t call up the president
and get an interview with him… it means wealth, power, influence
has control over and a say with the government…that is something besides
a democracy……… and I believe with all my heart that we live in a democracy
and if we don’t, then the system of government, our judicial system,
our bureaucracies no longer warrant our consent……. the court will of course
act without any regard to my or to your wishes, but that is because the court
system is no longer a part of a democracy, it is bought and sold just like
the politicians and the court system simply works for those with money or
a title or influence………….
I am innocent, but that is irrelevant to the court system… because justice
is no longer the goal, but control and domination of the people is the
point of the judicial system and it does it bidding very well……
I am innocent, but that isn’t the point… justice is no longer the point…
democracy is no longer the point… so what is the point?
To deny you any control over or any say over our government…
I stand innocent… but that is irrelevant in this modern day and age…
Kropotkin