Do Alaska’s Judges and Officials Need Oversight by We-The-People? (No statutory PFD, no capital move after citizen vote (twice!), OCS violations, etc. etc. etc.) Then Join Our State-Wide Alaska Courthouse Sit-in! Wednesday, March 15, starting at 8 AM – continuing until the power to investigate, indict, and recommend judges, officials, agencies, and court cases is completely returned to our citizen Grand Juries; and until individual citizens are allowed to appeal directly to the Grand Jury with their concerns.
Where? Any local courthouse. A large group of us will be at the Kenai Courthouse. Please join us! We will have extra chairs, signs to wave, and flyers, but feel free to make and bring your own!
Why? To defend the guarantee by, and vision of, the 55 Delegates who carefully wrote Alaska’s Constitution: a Grand Jury (1) with completely unsuspended power to investigate, indict, and recommend anything the Grand Jury ITSELF decides – including judges, officials, agencies, and court cases; (2) with a clear and well-known duty to conduct independent oversight of all government; (3) able to be accessed directly by an individual citizen; and (4) able to protect individual citizens from judges, officials, agencies, and corrupted court cases.
For 8 months and ongoing to this day, a Kenai Grand Jury has been investigating misconduct and corruption in Alaska’s judges, officials, agencies, and court cases. Immediately after this Grand Jury started issuing subpoenas, the Alaska Supreme Court issued Order 1993, unconstitutionally suspending this Grand Jury’s (and all future Grand Juries’) power to investigate, indict, and recommend judges, officials, agencies, and court cases – and eliminating the constitutional right of citizens to appeal to the Grand Jury “directly”. Evidence now indicates citizen Grand Jury investigations have been unconstitutionally suspended since 1988. Thirty years of no government oversight could explain many of the problems Alaskan citizens now face.
What Those Who Wrote Alaska’s Constitution Said! 1. “The power of grand juries to investigate and make recommendations concerning the public welfare or safety shall never be suspended.” Article 1, Section 8, Alaska State Constitution 2. “The grand jury is preserved, for all purposes, particularly for investigation of public officials.” Delegate Commentary to Alaska State Constitution 3. “The power of grand juries to inquire into the willful misconduct in office of public officers, and to find indictments in connection therewith, shall never be suspended.” Alaska Constitutional Convention Committee on Preamble and Bill of Rights to Alaska State Constitution 4. “The grand jury in its investigative power as well as for the fact that it is sitting there as a panel sometimes is the only recourse for a citizen to get justice. [T]he investigatory power of a grand jury is extremely broad…a grand jury can investigate anything. The grand jury can be appealed to directly, which is an invaluable right to the citizen.” AK Constitutional Convention, transcript pages 1328, 1406
Our Right to Assemble and Protest the Constitutional Violations! “The right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government shall never be abridged.” Article 1, Section 6, Alaska State Constitution – United States Constitution virtually identical.
How? Peaceably sit, stand, and/or wave signs in front of the courthouse (no chance of arrest on sidewalk, small chance near entrance – you will likely be warned prior). Or peaceably enter the courthouse and state that you are there to appeal “directly” to the Grand Jury for an investigation of the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional suspension of Grand Jury powers to investigate judges, officials, and court cases -and its unconstitutional elimination of a citizen’s right to appeal to the Grand Jury “directly”. If you are told the Grand Jury is not present, sit and wait for them. (Grand Juries usually meet on Wednesday in Kenai, Palmer, Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Juneau courthouses.) Once before the Grand Jury, present your concerns and evidence.
A Supreme Court “Memorandum” indicates they even bypassed required oversight by their own 13-member Rules Committee – so their violation of Grand Jury and citizen rights could not be stopped. This, and other evidence of judicial corruption, is on AlaskaGrandJurorsAssociation.org. Bring copies for the Grand Jury to investigate. Also, print the Original Alaska Grand Jury Handbook for more info on your right to do this.
If You Are Stopped! Peaceably state that you have a constitutional right to enter and appeal to the Grand Jury “directly”. If you are still stopped, peaceably state that your constitutional right to appeal “directly” to the Grand Jury is being violated (see #4 on front) and ask for written documentation on what authority is being used to stop you, and names/contact info of everyone responsible (including those present/not present). If you can, video everything.
Immediately write down what occurred: date, time, where, what your intent was, who was present, who stopped you, what you were told, what you said, who witnessed it, and who may have a recording of it. This may be critical for arresting, prosecuting, and/or firing the officials responsible for stopping you. When finished, peaceably join others in front of the courthouse petitioning the government to obey our constitution.
If You Are Arrested! (Hopefully you are warned first.) Be peaceable! Document/video everything. While I nor AK Grand Jurors Association can give legal advice, I will ask for a citizen jury trial. My defense will be that I was exercising my and Grand Jury constitutional rights to battle judicial corruption greatly endangering AK’s citizens, and that I was illegally arrested/prosecuted by the government to keep the corruption covered up. Websites below have evidence supporting this defense.
What Happens if We Do Nothing? If we don’t fix this now, it will be far harder, and maybe impossible, to fix it later. Simply put, We-The-People may permanently lose our constitutional right to independent citizen oversight of government. Corruption will run rampant, and government officials will be able to take our freedom, property, and kids whenever they wish. “Millions yet unborn”, including our own unborn grandchildren, may bear the brunt of our cowardice to stand tall and say “NO!”. United States Founding Father Samuel Adams sums up the incredible danger we now face:
“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards: and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger, and expense of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”
