In defense of the Kansas Grand Jury by Petition

Phillip Cosby

In defense of the Kansas Grand Jury by Petition: a system Of, By and For the people. Americans are dismayed at the decreasing number of citizens engaged and participating in our government. Is it that they feel increasingly disconnected or powerless to effect change?

In four years Kansas has had nine grand juries petitioned by the people. Some would scream "abuse" even when the majority of those grand juries, after examining the evidence are delivering indictments. Is the unpredictable chaos of common people being within reach of a lever of power so unsettling?

Let's compare apples with apples. In Kansas Grand Juries are only impaneled by a petition of the people or by a majority of the judges in a particular judicial district. In Missouri County grand juries are sworn in every six months. In Missouri on any given year there are hundreds of Grand Juries. It is commonplace, routine... almost boring. Nine grand juries in Kansas in four years vs. hundreds annually in Missouri. "Abuse" is not the correct word in Kansas, it is novel, rare and unique.

Who would demand that such a pure form of access to the judicial branch of government be moved further out of reach of the people? Kansas legislators believed that the common people should have access to power and have put within their reach one way to touch the system. Just because some special interests don't like a subject of investigation, would they deny the people that right of access to power? Sometimes you just need to trust common people to move when elected officials don't have the political character, a true measure of citizen concerns or the will to enforce the law. Do we really want to relegate all power to the state?

Have you noticed in Missouri where they have standing grand juries, those prosecutors have not delivered a single indictment against the pornography industry while Kansas citizens have indicted twenty-one sex shops to date. Do the math, which system is truly responsive?

Don't panic, the sky is not falling, after a long dormancy Kansas citizens are just getting involved in their system as it was designed to function.

Phillip Cosby
913-787-0075 or 913-839-1643
11936 W. 119th St. # 193
Overland Park, Kansas 66213

KS supreme court suspends petition statute

Phillip Cosby

Flash …KS Supreme Court suspends Kansas law…Citizens Grand Jury by Petition usurped…

According to today’s news story below the Kansas Supreme court has issued a temporary injunction against a grand jury in Wichita from being impaneled to investigate allegations of abortionist George Tiller…

Indications seem to be that the KS Supreme court wants those same Wichita judges that found the citizen petition to be in proper form to now go beyond the boundary’s set by the legislature, stop the summoning of a lawfully petitioned grand jury and have select judges inquire now into the allegations. This crosses the line as stated by the KS Statute that the judges only authority at this point is to find the petition in order, or not. The very intent of the grand jury process is for the people to inquire into probable cause when authorities will not. Corruption is at the heart of the reason for a citizens grand jury petition system.

Excerpt from KS Statute 22-3001 “The judge or judges of the district court of the county shall then consider the petition and, if it is found that the petition is in proper form and bears the signatures of the required number of electors, a grand jury shall be ordered to be summoned.”

Possible legislative showdown in Kansas? Federal court intervention?

Stay Strong,
Phillip

Court temporarily halts Tiller grand jury

The Associated Press

Published Friday, October 26, 2007

The Kansas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the start of a Sedgwick County grand jury to investigate abortion provider George Tiller.

The court’s order today stops the grand jury from starting its work until the court can decide if the panel should convene. The grand jury had been scheduled to begin its work next Tuesday.

The order by Chief Justice Kay McFarland was in response to a petition filed by Dr. Tiller, who is one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers.

Abortion opponents accuse Tiller of violating a 1998 state law restricting late-term abortions, an allegation his attorneys repeatedly have said is unfounded.

Evolutionists, Abortionists, and other culture of death bedmates

COMMENTARY--Rick

The news on the pro-life, versus the pro-abortion, uh excuse me, political correct police, I mean pro-choice, which means a woman has the choice to take her unborn baby’s life. Make no mistake about it, the fetus, a live baby prior to birth, is alive, and if left to term, will be born a live baby human being. What I notice from the news is that those officials and loud-mouths who promote pre-born infanticide, pro-choice, which is pro-abortion, are also the same ones who promote the teaching of evolution only in our schools according to the science-standards, as set up by the state board of education. They can not afford to acknowledge a God who holds them accountable.

Evolution teaches Survival of the Fittest. The woman choosing to abort her child, must believe that her choice, as the fittest, is superior to the choice of the unborn, the unfit. Darwin taught the theory of Natural Selection, which teaches us that, as life ‘evolves, "natural selection," picks out the fit alone, to survive and to reproduce. Now, let me think about that for a minute. Am I right in thinking that the pregnant woman has more right to decide the life or death of her unborn, than the unborn itself, who is thought of being unfit, and has no choice at all? That is one reason we, as pro-lifers, have taken on the responsibility of ‘choosing’ for the unborn, to have life.

Interesting also, natural selection is responsible for the growing support of euthanasia, however not called that, but the pc crowd calls it the right of each one of us to choose when to die, as we saw in the Terry Schiavo case. It never was determined for sure whether is was indeed her choice or her estranged husband who was living in adultery with another woman. As we see in some countries in Europe, there is a progression (Natural Selection, anyone?), that we begin with abortion, then progress to voluntary euthanasia, then–as some are now suggesting, mandatory euthanasia for the elderly, who are sick with no chance of recovery. Some are also suggesting this in the United States.

Those who reject creation as a basis for education, promote all of the above, and in addition, support pornography under the guise of free speech. (Studies have proved a connection between pornography, adultery, and pedophilia). Gay marriage is supported under the mis-application of civil rights amendments. Will we soon see legalized plural marriages, bestiality, man-boy relationships? According to the history of nations that have gone down this path–yes!

It is not only important–but mandatory–that we return to creation by God as the basis for our education. We need to register. We need to vote. Some need to run for public office. We must be involved!