2025-11-26
The administrative government, seemingly oblivious to the constitutional need for our citizens to be judged by a "jury of our peers", now proposes, in order to cut the administrative backlog now denying justice to criminals and victims alike, to abolish the right to a jury for "non-serious" offences.
Magna Carta? What's that? How old-fashioned! We need to be modern, and grasp the benefits that modernity offers! Who would not want justice delivered promptly and without fear? Ancient and outdated tradition must not be permitted to stand in the way of progress!
This is how the ignorant and the mendacious want to convince us to abandon what remains of our Constitution so that they may better rule the people by decree. No matter that it is the people themselves who were sovereign, have always been sovereign, still are sovereign, and will always be sovereign unless and until they give up their sovereignty for the "mess of pottage" loosely but misleadingly known as "Progressivism" (AKA modern Parliamentarianism). And yes, we are well down that road today already ...
And yes, indeed we do need "progress", but toward what end? Is it to be toward the sovereignty of the people over their government, or toward the sovereignty of those self-righteous scoundrels miscreants (AKA politicians) and technocrats who would set themselves up to rule over the people for their own ends?
