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If The Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
You and I have the power to end Nixon's failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it's our constitutional right to do so. Imagine for a second that you've been selected as a juror for the trial of someone like Jacob Lavoro, the 19-year-old Austin, Texas man currently facing anywhere from five years to life in prison for making a pound-and-a-half of pot brownies.
You know that based on the all evidence presented by the prosecution that the defendant is probably guilty, but you and other jurors on the case have serious doubts about convicting him because you know that doing so will ruin the defendant's life. You're trapped. The law says one thing, but your conscience says the other. So what do you do?
Easy - you use your power of jury nullification. You declare the defendant "not guilty" regardless of the evidence and let him walk free, "nullifying" the unjust or unfair law. Just like the Supreme Court has the power to strike down laws, you too as an American citizen have the power to reject laws when you're serving on a jury.
If you haven't heard of jury nullification before, that's not all that surprising. The powers that be really don't want anyone to know about it because it represents a direct threat to the status quo. Defense lawyers, for example, aren't allowed to talk about a jury's right to nullify during a trial and saying that you know about nullification is actually one of the easiest ways to avoid jury duty altogether.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Time to amend the Second Amendment? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Daily Take: Why it's important to be subversive while on jury duty...
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:     campaign site.
Hour Two: It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday Hour Two: Help Ben & Jerry's get the $$$ out of politics!***- Ben Cohen, StampStampede.org / WAmend.org IV>
Article: " Joaqu�n Castro" (Juli�n's identical twin brother) by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: GMOs...pesticide toxins in our food?- Paul Achitoff, Earthjustice Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. " These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power." Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred" Article: "" by . |
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-6pm ET
Hour One: guns don't kill people...culture does
Hour Two: Time to get rid of open carry gun laws?- Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter
Hour Four: Bubbles and Piketty- Economist L. Randall Wray, New Economic Perspectives.
Hour Five: If The Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
Hour Six: Honor the peacemakers
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-6pm ET
Thom debates a constitutional amendment to limit political speech with conservative radio host Peter Schiff...
Plus, the latest on the situation in the Ukraine - Thom speaks with Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine
And...when will we stop bailing out the banksters? Thom talks with UMKC Economist Professor William Black, Author-The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
Together with the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will the latest mass shooting have any effect on gun policy?
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Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 5/22/14: Congress Passes Bullshit NSA Reform Bill
Thom discusses the passing of the watered down USA Freedom Act with Code Pink's Medea Benjamin, North Carolina's push to jail people for disclosing details on fracking chemicals with Jessica Ennis of EarthJustice and how women are commonly exposed to chemicals linked to breast cancer with the Silent Spring Institute's Ruthann Rudel. Thom takes viewer video questions and comments in "Your Take, My Take Live" and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how to solve America's college debt crisis.
The Thom Hartmann Program - May 22, 2014
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