This week's WTF - The Unified New York Common Law Grand Jury

by Graham Email

Aside from the assorted collection of individuals currently fighting Federal government land ownership and stewardship, there are a collection of groups attempting to re-assert that they argue is a fundamental right of the people - to form Grand Juries at a local level.
One such group is the National Liberty Alliance. Their aim, based on a reading of their web site, is nothing less than the establishment of a complete replacement US government. In fact, there appear to be vacancies for government roles in 40 states of the Union. Anybody want to be a Governor or Attorney General without pesky requirements like elections or experience? This may be your chance...
The National Liberty Alliance is part of a collection of groups attempting to set up local Grand Juries and "shadow" legal systems at State and local level in the USA.
The founders and leaders of this group appear to be what I call armchair lawyers. There is no evidence that they have law degrees or any legal experience. However, they do like writing densely packed pseudo-legal documents, and they love Latin. They are relying on legal arguments derived in part from ancient Common Law, which allows them to (a) use Latin everywhere in their documents and filings and (b) issue fines denominated in archaic measures such as pieces of silver (I kid you not).
The current popcorn amusement under this group's umbrella is a body they have created which goes by the snappy name of the Unified New York Common Law Grand Jury.
Nobody could accuse this body of lacking in ambition. Currently, they are attempting to cite a laundry list of New York state legal officers for contempt at the same time and date. This is their latest filing, an omnibus "show up or else" demand that they present themselves for arraignment on contempt of court charges on June 2nd. Here follows a small snippet of their confident assertions:

This is an Extraordinary Special Procedure to answer Writ Quo Warranto, demanding that the Peoples’ stewards give account of their stewardship, therefore NO motions will be considered.
APPEARANCES ARE DEMANDED, failure to appear constitutes contempt. As a government servant you have a duty to answer. “Silence can only be equated with fraud where there is a legal or moral duty to speak, or where an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading.
This is a common Law procedure executed Coram Nobis, the Magistrate has “NO” authority to approve requests for time extensions or postpone said summons, Grand Jurist will be laying aside all business and will be traveling from across the state, likewise is expected of the accused.

Notice that, like many internet commenters who are suffering from an attack of shrillness, this Grand Jury team believes that ALL CAPs will magically endow their sentences with more weight and gravitas.
The citing for contempt apparently is their response to being denied facilities by the state of New York to run their Grand Jury system.
Make sure you watch this one unfold. Even by the standards of fringe group activity, this one is more interesting and potentially more entertaining than a lot of them.