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History Was Made Today Concerning 9-11 Guilt, and a Word about Grand Juries and the OKC bombing

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(L) 9-11, (C) Mick Harrison (R) OKC bombing, Hoffman's book(L) 9-11, Photo: bu.edu  (C) Mick Harrison  (R) OKC bombing, Hoffman’s book

 by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Wow. What a day. January 21, 2022. The US Court of the Southern District of New York vouchsafed to let a man from the Lawyers Committee for 9-11 Inquiry speak unto them. Indeed, to a panel of three judges. He, Attorney Mick Harrison of Bloomington Indiana, was allotted 10 minutes, which he chose to divide into 8 minutes presentation, and a 2-minute rebuttal after “The Government” spoke.

You may recall that back in the mists of time, specifically in 2018, two men, Mick Harrison and David Meiswinkle, carried their parcel– related to NIST’s poor study of the collapse of the Twin Towers — to Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney in NY (that is, the DoJ’s man).

The team of two, representing more than two thousand professionals such as architects and engineers, requested (or I guess you could say demanded, what’s the point of groveling?) that their parcel be handed to the foreman of the Grand Jury.

I have wondered about it, during the 3.5 years following the 2018 handover from the DoJ (Berman) to the incumbent Foreman (name unknown). While I did not expect the matter to ever see the light of day (come on, would the feds ever indict the real 9-11 suspects?), it didn’t occur to me that there would be no handover at all. Nada.

That is, I under-rated the power of the Bermans of this world to pocket the parcel instead of letting the Grand Jury have a look-see.

In court today was the Lawyers Committee for 9-11 Inquiry asking for reversal of the district court’s “Get lost, you don’t have standing” dismissal. The 8 minutes plus 2 minutes rebuttal consisted of Mick Harrison putting his case as beautifully as it could be put, with the three judges breaking in with the most tame, nitpicking questions you could imagine.

My Shock

I found it shocking that nothing was said in the SDNY court today about the true purpose of the grand jury, given that this is the real issue in the case. So let us now go back further in the mists of time, to, say, the 12th century. Of course I’m referring to the experience of grand juries in England, as the tribes of the native Americans do not have written history — but you can be sure they had something akin to an accusatory body.

Humans love to gossip; anthropologists put gossiping on the list of cultural universals. One major topic for gossip is criticism of the bad guy du jour. In a culture where marital fidelity is publicly guarded, a mere batting of the eyelashes could consign a woman to “fame” as a sinner. And if that society had a punishment for infidelity, the reports of her indiscretion would have to be delivered in some way to whatever party was tasked with punishing her.

Looking around for bad behavior is so normal and natural that you couldn’t stop it if you wanted to. (And who would want to?) We don’t need a formal system for it, but we do habitually create systems. Thus it’s not surprising that King Henry II, in 1166, formalized a sitting of court at Clarendon to be called the Clarendon Assize (assize is the Middle English word for sitting, from the Latin assidere, to sit down or settle).

King Henry was not the DoJ. He did not, as far as we know, want to direct the procedure. He asked the people, who sat at Clarendon, to go out and fetch information for him. That was a half-century before the Magna Carta’s words on jury trials. The assize did not try any individual. It looked to see if a trial was warranted — it looked for probable cause, so to speak.

The Grand Jury

Our modern version of the Clarendon Assize is the grand jury — grand only in the sense of having 23 members while a “petit” jury has 12. When the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth in 1620, we can assume that England’s grand jury system was on deck.

As noted in William E Nelson’s Americanization of the Common Law (1975), colonists were empaneled as grand jurors for two years at a time. Those grand jurors did more than look for crime; they looked for any problems. If you lived in the neighborhood, in the seventeenth century, and noticed a broken bridge, you could report it to the grand jury Foreman.

But in 2018, you can’t alert the nation that there’s mischief in the Report of the 9-11 Commission? WHAT? Hello? Who said you can’t?

In the title of this article I announced “History was made today concerning 9-11 guilt.” Oops, I may have pulled a bait and switch on you — the word “9-11” was barely heard in the courtroom today and “9-11 guilt” certainly did not appear. But from where I was sitting, it was historic.

(Note: “where I was sitting” was at home in comfort. Didn’t hop to Manhattan as planned, as I heard that the court would be closed other than by audio link, thanks to … Covid.)

The judges said they reserve their decision. But it could come as soon as next week. I am jumping the gun when I conjecture that they will not grant Mick Harrison’s request. But I do so because there was no conversation about the people’s right to grand jury. The history that was made (unless they surprise us) was their missing such a historic opportunity.

The judges indicated that everything, for them, depends on predecdent. Well, how about the precedent from US v Williams (1992)? In that US Supreme Court decision, Justice Scalia wrote the opinion of the Court, opining:

“The grand jury is mentioned in the Bill of Rights [the Fifth Amendment] but not in the body of the Constitution. It has not been textually assigned, therefore, to any of the branches described in the first three Articles. It ‘is a constitutional fixture in its own right.’ In fact the whole theory of its function is that it belongs to no branch of the institutional government, serving as a kind of buffer or referee between the Government and the people.”

Yay buffer! Yay referee! Above, I described the role of a grand jury in enabling a prosecution, but in fact, thanks to the people’s essential prerogative of nullification, a grand jury can also defy what it considers bad legislation.

Famously, a publisher named Zenger was to be indicted for seditious libel — he had offended the royal governor of New York. (Yes, I said royal, this was prior to the American Revolution.) In a 2007 article in the Fordham Law Review, Kevin K Washburn tells us:

“Consistent with prevailing practice, the Crown presented its case to a grand jury in New York and sought an indictment. When the grand jury declined to issue the indictment, the Crown presented the case to a second grand jury, which also refused to indict.

“The Crown then bypassed the grand jury altogether and prosecuted Zenger on the basis of a charging instrument called an ‘information,’ which, unlike an indictment, was not the product of a grand jury. Following a jury trial, Zenger was acquitted of the offense.”

In short, the colonists “weren’t having” it.

Are You Having It?

In the federal system, the DoJ prosecutors have made short shrift of the citizens’ authority in their role as grand jurors. The Prosecutor today sits in the grand jury room dictating what the members can and cannot do. (In many of the 50 states, too, the situation is like that.)

In my opinion, history was made today at the SDNY — or will be made as soon as the judgement comes down, if the Court reinforces the silly idea that US Attorney Geoffrey Berman did not have to “pass the parcel” to the Foreman.

Years of meticulous work by the Architects and Engineers went into the making of that parcel. It is about the right of Americans to find out the truth of 9-11. It’s hard to find words to express the wrongness of throwing out Mick Harrison’s perfectly sensible plea for standing.

I think the word “egregious” will suffice for now.

Memories of Timothy McVeigh

Update: I sent a draft of this article to a friend this evening who amazed me with the fact that a grand juror, named Hoppy Heidelberg, got kicked off the Grand Jury investigating the April 18, 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

It is recounted in the excellent book written by David Hoffman in 1998. I had read that book but did not absorb the significance of this item. Also I was ignorant, until the SDNY judge mentioned it today, that “the grand jury is an arm of the court.”

The guy in Oklahoma City had questioned the lead prosecutor, Joseph Hartzler, over the fact that the explanations of the event in local OKC newspapers differed from what Hartzler was presenting to the grand jury. (Seems reasonable, doesn’t it?) Hartzler then told Hoppy Heidelberg to write to the US District Court Judge David Russell. This is the reported letter:

October 5, 1995
1210 Federal Court House
200 N.W. 4th
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

Dear Judge Russell:

Pursuant to instructions from lead prosecutor, Joseph Hartzler, I write you this letter to express my concerns about the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. January is coming upon us fast and I am concerned that there will then be no one in authority with sufficient motivation to pursue the case. The families of the victims deserve to know who all was involved in the bombing, and there appears to be an attempt to protect the identity of certain suspects, namely John Doe II, evidenced by the following:

— The hoax perpetrated by authorities that John Doe II was a Ft. Riley private who rented a truck on a different day. The Ft. Riley private was not with Tim McVeigh, nor does he remotely resemble the police sketch of John Doe II.

— The lack of witnesses relating to John Doe II, namely:

  1. a) the manager of the Great Western Inn on I-70 in Junction City, Kansas, where John Doe II registered using a foreign name and reportedly stayed in room #107. This manager apparently reported that John Doe II spoke in broken English and was driving the mystery “second Ryder truck.” Strangely, this manager has reportedly “disappeared” and cannot be found;
  2. b) the Elliott’s Body Shop employee that reportedly gave the FBI artist the description of Tim McVeigh and John Doe II. The McVeigh sketch was almost perfect and there is no reason to doubt that the John Doe II sketch is less so;
  3. c) the Oklahoma City tire shop employee who saw John Doe II in the Ryder truck with McVeigh shortly before the explosion.

— The lack of the use of the John Doe II sketch in interviewing witnesses that had apparently seen him in locations other than those previously acknowledged.

Perhaps a new Grand Jury should be empaneled in 1996 dedicated to this investigation. If so, I suggest the following list of witnesses that need to be subpoenaed for testimony:

The manager (at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing) of the Great Western Inn on I-70 in Junction City, Kansas, if he is still alive and can be found.

The Ft. Riley private identified by authorities as John Doe II.

Architects, structural engineers and explosive experts selected by the Grand Jury.

Area seismologists and geophysicists, including Ray Brown.

All video surveillance tapes from cameras near the Murrah Building, including the one made by a Southwestern Bell camera which reportedly shows John Doe II getting out of the Ryder truck before McVeigh drove it to the Murrah Building.

Ralph McPeak, Jr., Vickie Beemer, Tom Kissinger, Hilda Sostra, Mike Moroz, James Rosencrans.

Time may be of the essence before witnesses disappear or lose their memories or their materials. The truth is as important to you as it is to me, I trust; therefore your response will be eagerly awaited.

Very truly yours,
Hoppy Heidelberg, Rt. 6, Box 164, Blanchard, Oklahoma 73010. Tel. 404-485-3030.

According to Hoffman’s book, “the Judge … dismissed Hoppy from the Grand Jury and had the nerve in his dismissal letter to remind Hoppy of his secrecy obligation…. [and] The FBI came to his house to threaten him with violence should he go public with his information.”

Note: In my (Maxwell’s) opinion, today’s lockout of the truth was a throwback; it’s not the wave of the future. The wave of the future, thanks to the Covid overreach, is that thousands of us at-home researchers are coming out, noticing our numbers, and deciding not to put up with this nincompoopery anymore.

Also, here is a de-incentivizer for nincompoopery:

18 USC 1503 “(a) Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror … in the discharge of his duty … shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). If the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal case, and the act in violation of this section involves the threat of physical force or physical force,

“the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.”

McVeigh got execution, did he not?

Finally, here is the audio of Mick Harrison’s oral argument in New York today, which was broadcast live on YouTube:

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34 COMMENTS

  1. Thankyou Mary, lawyers would/should be obliged for the education…… yea right💁
    And my neighbour could/did not give a stuff.
    Oh well, maybe the neighbours might have a reformed insight by Australia Day?

      • Please see Ant56 comment below “The system is absolute BS” etc.
        The more you deal in the existing system (in this case legal) the more power you give the corruption it was set up to proffer. (the corrupting system within the organisation) It is exactly the same in all these social systems that have been foistered upon society. everything from banking to education and a dozen in between. Why do you think your birth cert has CAPITAL letters Hmmm? The correct Blacks Law term is BASTARDISED.

        The only way people truth will win is in the creation of a completely new system,
        My suggestion is to spend the time and energy spent on dealing in and/or hoping to change existing systems on inventing and implementing new ones!

        • Corruption within the extant system is being given free reign as a means of alerting mankind to the need for Divine intervention
          So there’s an obvious benefit to anything that pinpoints how bad it actually is.

          NB: The nature of the humanly devised “clean-up” on the horizon is spelled out in the Book of Revelation

          • The central figure is called “the antichrist” not by virtue of overt opposition to the real one but by attempting to arrogate the respective authority

          • “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

            That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

            Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

            Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
            2 THESSALONIANS 2:1 – 4

  2. At least one state in Oz has grand juries: Victoria. Listen to this odd fact about NZ, taken from Greg Taylor’s 2018 article “The Grand Jury of New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century,” in American Journal of Legal Hisory:

    “The grand jury of New Zealand developed from an imported institution in 1844 to one that somewhat more closely reflected New Zealand’s needs. Nevertheless, from the first there were voices calling for its abolition and considerable diversity of opinion about its aims and usefulness. It was never comprehensively overhauled to meet local conditions. A survey of its make-up and functions is given along with a survey of the judicial charges given to it and the presentments it made on matters of public importance. Often, and especially in the first few decades of the grand jury’s existence, the impression is given that making presentments on a great variety of topics of public interest was the most important function of the grand jury, eclipsing its role in the criminal law proper.”

    ‘mazing.

  3. Off Topic — 5g rollout. From an article at lewrockwell.com by Dr Richard Gale and Dr Gary Null:

    “The roll out of the new C-Band 5G service by AT&T and Verizon scheduled for January 19, has raised alarms for major airline executives who have warned that it will create “catastrophic” interference with flight navigation systems and pilot safety during take off and landing. The risks will be greater during bad weather. Among the warnings are major disruptions in commerce and supply chain, the overriding of aircrafts’ electronic safety systems ….

    “Chief executives from American Airlines, United, Delta, Southwest and Jet Blue have demanded that 5G be blocked within a two-mile radius of major US airports. FedEx and UPS have also joined the airlines’ complaints. Foreign airlines such as Dubai’s Emirates, Air India, Japan Air, Lufthansa and British Airways have already changed or canceled flights to the US. Two of the world’s largest plane manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, have also issued warnings.

    “This has become an ongoing battle between the Federal Aviation Administration and the private telecomm industry and its Washington lobbyists….”

  4. New Hampshire state constitution re “standing”:

    “All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted.

    “The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government. Therefore, any individual taxpayer eligible to vote in the State, shall have standing to petition the Superior Court to declare whether the State or political subdivision in which the taxpayer resides has spent, or has approved spending, public funds in violation of a law, ordinance, or constitutional provision. In such a case, the taxpayer shall not have to demonstrate that his or her personal rights were impaired or prejudiced beyond his or her status as a taxpayer. …”

    • The problem with the State’s ‘Control System’ is that those in positions of power are no longer ‘allowed’ to be held personally accountable. There is zero compliance for our wise overlords, whilst we the people have a never ending list of rules to subjugate us, to keep us in fear of debt and to distance us from freedom.

      The State’s courts serve to protect Vested Interests rather then protect the Public Interest.

      The http://www.commonlawcourt.com is freedom with responsibility. Evolution and not revolution.

  5. If The State Court does not allow the people justice, in the form of a ‘Legal Remedy’, the people have jurisdiction to convene their own court to obtain a ‘Lawful Remedy’ in a fair society there must always be a lawful remedy.

    The http://www.commonlawcourt.com is free at the point of need and holds people personally accountable for their conduct, which was how it used to be, and is higher than any court in the land because it follows First Principle Law, the law of the creator, preserving the cause no harm, loss or injury, as it requires a unanimous decision by a jury of peers to be found, again, the way it used to be.

    • If you care to, Neil, give us an example of a case in Australia where the person went to commonlawcourt and got satsfaction.

      who were the judges? who pays for the venue?

      Neil, that website says: “Currently, the only existing record for you [birth certificate] is a legal fiction which the state has attached to you; this means that you fall under their rules.”

      Surely that is nonsense. To name one exception, there are breeders, women who produce babies for the bad guys. Their kids, while not registered for a birth certificate, are under the state’s rules like nobody’s business.

      To name another exception, me. I have a birth certificate. But when next the po come to my house to arrest me, they would not care if I was birth-certificate-less. They would still subject me to their power.

  6. After experiencing just ice in NSW courts, I could never understand why during 80% of the event, precedents occurring 100years ago took up most of the time in the trials. Only 20% focused on the current actual facts presented with the case at hand.
    The only conclusion I came to is that it’s a good money earner for the players involved.
    Anyway, I won two court cases, plus interest over years waiting to actually get to court, with appeal and retrial three more years of waiting. In the end, after winning both, had to pay over 70 thousand dollars in legal fees, otherwise the lawyers were going to sell the house to get theirs. The developer owing me hundreds of thousands simply bankrupted one company of the dozen he had set up.
    The system is absolute BS, avoid courts at all costs.
    911 truth will not be heard as long as the perpetraitors are the judges employers.

    • Brilliant insight Ant56
      You know one can apply your summary to pretty much ALL the so called ‘social systems’ that have been foistered upon an innocent (and ignorant unfortunately) society.

      Right from the fiat currency system which has transferred 90%of wealth to a few hands, to the dumbing down systems of childcare and education, or the power transfer systems of international trade agreements, or the political capture power play of the Mason’s, Pilgrims and Fabian cults, right up to the CAPITAL BASTARDISATION of our human identity and plenty more where they came from.
      They can all be classed as satanistic insertions into social systems.

      My advice to Mary (above) and anyone really is – The only way people truth will win is in the creation of a completely new system and suggest our time and energy is better spent NOT in dealing in and/or hoping to change existing systems but on inventing and implementing new ones!

  7. ‘Israel’ Did 9/11, Not Muslims, And Anyone Who Thinks Otherwise 17 Years On Is An Idiot

    by Jonathan Azaziah

    It’s been 17 years. 17 long, hard and savagely bloody years that have left tens of millions murdered, maimed and displaced in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Yemen, occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Mali, Nigeria and occupied Kashmir. GWOT, the Global War on Terror, has raped the world. And it’s all because of what happened at the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on this day, September 11th, in 2001. T.H.E.Y. — The Hebrews Enslaving You — told you, the Goyim, i.e. the 99% majority here on this beautiful little sphere of blue and green called Earth, that Muslims did it. That’s right. Those damn Muslamics. Hating ‘Murica for its freedom. Being all towel-headed and terroristy! Moozlemicals bypassed the half-trillion dollar air defense system of the US in the most closely-guarded, maximum-security airspace in the world all to trigger an unending war on the Islamicate. Makes perfect sense. Right? I mean… Seriously? Like… for real, for real? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

    Read on –

    https://mouqawamahmusic.net/israel-did-9-11-not-muslims-and-anyone-who-thinks-otherwise-17-years-on-is-an-idiot/

    • The “5 Dancing Israelis”
      The 5 Dancing Israelis weren’t involved in the terrorist attacks which took place that day. They were just there to “document the event.”
      But wait!
      How did they know the “event” was going to take place?
      And how did they know to be there with their cameras to “document” it?
      And why, above all else, were they celebrating?

      • Israel wants a state of permanent war

        by Joseph Massad, reposted from Middle East Eye, December 30, 2021

        The irony that Israel, which is a nuclear menace and major aggressor in the Middle East region, portrays itself as a victim of its neighbours cannot be overstated. To legitimise the state of permanent war, Israel sought early on to portray its citizens as actual or potential victims of wars and persecution inflicted by Palestinian resistance and Arab states, which in turn necessitated Israel’s use of permanent war and persecution as “retaliation”.

        Over the last few decades, Israel has been threatening war against Iran incessantly. Theatrical performances have been staged at the United Nations, such as in 2012, when former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a cartoonish diagram of a bomb symbolising Iran’s alleged nuclear threat; or when, in 2018, he brandished an amateurishly labelled Google map of an alleged Iranian nuclear site.

        Such Israeli propaganda has been accompanied by much huffing and puffing by the country’s military and civilian leaderships, which have been interchangeable at least since General Yigal Allon became acting prime minister in 1969 (although earlier Israeli prime ministers, including David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol, also played major military roles).

        Israel the real nuclear threat

        Read on –

        https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-wants-state-permanent-war/

          • Wow, what an expose’ on the machinations behind gold. I started paying attention to GATA way back when (perhaps in the late 1990s).

            If the ‘movers and shakers’ and the intelligence agencies are paying that much attention to gold, the average mug on the street should start paying attention. It should be obvious that the people behind the curtain consider gold as THE real money.

            When the fiat system finally goes belly-up, I figure those holding gold will be a heck of a lot more secure. Although gold seems to be ‘high’ at around A$2,500 an oz, just wait until the price suppression ends.

          • Gold should go up as fiat goes down, and the money printing ensures fiat will go down, but gold price relates to extraction cost, if it goes up there will be more miners using more expensive processes.
            So I agree with every other banker conspiracy floating around including “paper gold” but real gold is somewhat self-limiting

    • Very strong prima facie evidence that the Freemasons and Catholics go back to Egypt and Rome, controlled by a secret society, bloodlines going back over 2000 years. I think “blaming the easterners” looks like a very old ruse, such as “the whore of Babylon” and whatever, Babylon will fall may be an authentic part of the revelations. Planting crypto jews another very old ruse, followed by Zionists post 1947. How could anyone imagine the bible to be pure when it was safeguarded by this bunch of Baal (Moloch) worshippers.
      Henry the 8th kicked it all out and made himself the English pope. Hijacked the globalist money too I would say (tithes etc). Led to the English global expansions and a massive empire which only crumbled 1947 courtesy of the puppet Hitler. How to defeat these these ancient bloodlines, well somewhat easier than one might think, everyone can guess who and where most of them are.

  8. Lukashenko: ‘International Scammers’ end the Pandemic

    January 21, 2022 — Belarusian President Lukashenko has made a public statement on Covid-19 that would be unthinkable in the West: “One should not worry” about Covid-19 and the “organizers of the pandemic” [among them New Zealand’s Ms. Ardern; Australian Prime Minister Mr. Scott Morrison and several of Australian’s Provincial Governors; Canada’s Mr. Justin Trudeau; France’s Mr. Emmanuel Macron, Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado Quesada; Madame Angela Merkel—and many more—[Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Chelsea Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy, Tony Blair, Jens Spahn, Philipp Rösler, Sebastian Kurz, Viktor Orbán, Jean-Claude Juncker, Annalena Baerbock, Gavin Newsom, Peter Buttigieg; people from Asia, Africa and South America number among Schwab’s alumni] should finally end the pandemic.

    It is well known that President Lukashenko is one of the few heads of state who has not introduced any corona restrictions in his country. Lukashenko himself has contracted Covid-19 twice, but continues to demonstratively visit the corona wards in Belarusian hospitals without a mask and gloves. At the beginning of the pandemic, he indignantly rejected a payment of $900 million offered by the IMF in return for a lockdown in his country. Full story:

    https://lorphicweb.com/lukashenko-the-international-scammers-should-finally-end-the-pandemic/

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