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A federal judge has ruled that a man broke no law by standing outside a courthouse distributing pamphlets regarding jury nullification, the power of the jury to acquit a defendant based on the decision that the law itself is unjust.

Jury nullification goes back a long way in legal history, but took quite a beating during the Civil Rights era as white southern jurors used it to acquit people of lynchings they were clearly guilty of. Nowadays the court system doesn’t even want to admit that jurors are as powerful and important in the judicial process as they actually are, and certainly don’t want them acquitting people of non-violent offenses like simple possession of marijuana because they consider the laws stupid and more harmful than the drugs themselves.

What British Petroleum has done to our planet is rephrensible and should be considered crimes against humanity. See the report on Al Jazeera here.