Quite often, while writing an article, my heart is heavy over the actions of government that is suppressing the rights that are our birthright, as posterity of the Founding Fathers. However, as I sit at my keyboard, today, it is with a sense of pleasant surprise and extreme joy that so many felt, yesterday, when the verdict was announced in the Ammon Bundy, et al, trial.
The pleasant surprise comes because for the first time in over twenty years of watching Patriots stand trial for pretend crimes, the jury came back with a verdict that was not what the government wanted.
In a recent article, "The Bundy Affair - #16 - The Legal Shotgun", I explained how there is a tendency for juries to find defendants guilty of something, especially when many charges, or counts, are a part of the prosecution. This seems to be based upon the infallibility of government. If they say that someone did something wrong, then we, the jury, must find them guilty of doing something wrong.