The jury has the right to “veto” the law by voting “not guilty.” This practice was built into our system to prevent people from being punished by laws that have no right to exist, or laws that are being enforced unfairly.

If I file someone’s nails on the street, without a license, and they don’t complain about the service, and they cannot show harm from the service, then who has been hurt? If the state punishes me for doing so, then they’ve created a victim where no victim existed. When you give the state the power to victimize innocent people, watch out. The state rarely stops where you think it should, and your enemies often gain control of the apparatus of the state. In Soviet Russia, over 50,000,000 innocent people were murdered by the police state. In communist China over 60,000,000 innocent people were murdered by their police state. In Hitler’s Germany, over 20,000,000 innocent people were murdered by the police state. (In each of these countries, one needed to be a government employee in order to own or carry a gun.)

Alternately, if I file someone’s nails on the street, and infect them with nail fungus, I can be sued for harm caused, or falsely selling my services as “safe.” If a jury agrees, then they may award me damages. –All without a license or regulation that enslaves business owners or forces them to beg permission from the government to work. Also, in a free society, there are voluntary standards organizations that one can belong to, and things like groupon and the BBB consistently improving the customer feedback of the services rendered by the coalition. If there is actual harm done to someone, they can also retaliate by besmirching the name of my business with a boycott or a bad online review.

For more information about jury rights, Please See:

http://www.fija.org

and

http://www.jurorsforjustice.com

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Walmart knowingly sells goods made by slaves in China. Anyone that advocates for Walmart’s existence is an enemy of human liberty.

Hell, anyone that advocates for large-scale corporate entities in any form is an enemy of human liberty.

http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate_subsidy/walmart.cfm

“The Constitution of these United States is the supreme law of the land. Any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void of law.”
Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137:

“The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.”
Miller v. U.S., 230 F.2d. 486, 489:

“Your rights must be interpreted in favor of the citizen.”
Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, 1974:

“No state shall convert a liberty into a privilege, license it, and attach a fee to it.”
Murdock v. Penn., 319 US 105:

“If the state converts a liberty into a privilege, the citizen can engage in the right with impunity.”
Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, 373 US 262:

“Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation, which would abrogate them.”
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436:

“An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.”
Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425:

“Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance.”
–US. v. Minker, 350 US 179 at 187

“The court is to protect against any encroachment of Constitutionally secured liberties.”
Boyd v. U.S., 116 U.S. 616:

“Officers of the court have no immunity, when violating a Constitutional right, from liability. For they are deemed to know the law.”
Owen v. Independence, 100 S.C.T. 1398, 445 US 622:

“Federal law & Supreme Court cases apply to state court cases.”
Howlett v. Rose, 496 U.S. 356 (1990)

that is the law, and the only reason gubmint gets away with what it does is because most of the population are a bunch of mindless spongeheads who do as their told, too ignorant and too busy to be bothered to learn their rights and stand up for themselves (they are happy with having their rights stolen and sold back to them as government privileges) so it falls on the irate tieless minority to make things rights again… f*cking sad, many died to give them rights they don’t care about, and they use things like memorial day and veterans day to honor them but then dishonor everything they did the other 363 days by pissing away all they fought for… pathetic, Americans truly get the govenment they deserve, problem is the few of us that know better have to be subjected to it as well…

Anyhow, great article. Many thanks to Sarah Schweitzer and the Boston Globe for the professional write-up.

Thank you for your cooperation.