THE GREAT JURY HEIST
❖ EAARTHNET MAR 09, 2026 : How “Efficiency” Fences Off Justice from the People Who Need It Most
Picture this: you’re in a courtroom, not as a defendant, but as one of those 12 ordinary folks in the jury box. You’ve got plumbers, teachers, retirees—people like you, not lawyers in wigs or judges who’ve climbed the ladder of the system. Your job is simple: listen, weigh, decide if the state gets to lock someone away. It’s messy, it’s human, and it’s one of the last places where the public can say “no” to the powerful.
Now imagine a government shows up with fences and says, “Sorry, folks, too many backlogs. We’re taking a chunk of this commons for ‘efficiency.’ Judges only from here on out.”
That’s the UK’s Labour government under Keir Starmer, pushing a bill to strip jury trials from a swathe of criminal cases—anything likely to carry three years or less. No more choice for defendants to opt for a Crown Court jury; instead, a new “Bench Division” where one judge sits alone and calls the shots. Justice Secretary David Lammy compares three years in prison to a “scrape on the knee.” Easy for him to say—he’s not the one facing it.
This isn’t fixing a broken system; it’s using the breakage as cover to enclose justice. The backlog didn’t come from juries. It came from austerity: court closures, gutted legal aid, crumbling buildings, staff fleeing for better pay. Governments hacked at justice like a budget line item, and now they’re blaming the mess on too much public involvement. “Modernisation,” they call it. But strip away the varnish, and it’s fewer ordinary people in the room, more state-appointed professionals deciding guilt. Permanent change, not temporary. Once the fence is up, the commons shrinks for good.
Over 3,200 lawyers, including retired judges, are screaming “stop.” The Criminal Bar Association calls it a “draconian evisceration of jury trial.” The Bar Council warns of “substantial risk” with little gain. Even The Secret Barrister labels it a “dangerous gamble with liberty.” These aren’t hobbyists; they’re the people who live in these courts. Yet Labour plows ahead, bill passing second reading 304 to 203.
Why now? Look at the Filton 24. Six Palestine Action activists broke into an Elbit Systems (Israeli arms firm) site. The state threw aggravated burglary at them—life sentence potential. A jury acquitted. Prosecutors then dropped the charge against the other 18. Ordinary people looked at the evidence, the politics, the state’s heavy hand—and said no. That’s the power Labour wants to limit. Politically awkward cases (protest, sabotage, disorder) go to a single judge instead? The room changes. Biases breathe easier without 12 peers to check them.
And the optics? They scream. Courts Minister Sarah Sackman (Jewish Labour Movement member, reported clerkship at Israel’s Supreme Court—where juries don’t exist) fronts the bill. Justice Secretary Lammy (Labour Friends of Israel) oversees it. Starmer himself courts Labour Friends of Israel, calls himself a “Zionist without qualification.” Coincidence? Maybe. But after a jury denies the state a win in an Israel-linked case, and the same government moves to cut juries? People notice. Israel uses judge-only trials; Sackman has ties there. No blueprint needed—the resemblance is public.
This isn’t conspiracy hunting; it’s refusing to ignore patterns. Starmer’s authoritarian streak (banning protests, withholding Gaza aid) shows an instinct to trust the state more, the public less. Enclosure of justice fits right in.
Graeber would spot this as classic bullshit: a “crisis” caused by the powerful, solved by disempowering the rest. The commons of justice—our shared right to check the state—gets fenced off, privatised to judges shaped by the system. We lose; they consolidate.
But enclosures have always been fought. Commoners tore down fences before. We can too: demand juries stay, expose the optics, refuse the “efficiency” lie. Justice isn’t a budget item—it’s the line between freedom and state overreach.
The fence isn’t up yet. Let’s keep it down.
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eaarthnet / Gee / Zai
What most fail to understand because of the propaganda and being brainwashed is that the civilisational conflagrations being fought Iran, Ukraine, perpetrated the West, including the regime changes Bangladesh, Nepal, the kinetic conflict presently underway Pak and Afghanistan, Thailand and Myanmar, the dispute being encouraged between Azerbaijan and Armenia together most others around the globe is the result of the orchestrations and provocations initiated by the beast in its death throes that is the unipolar, colonial order..
In short Russia and Iran should they win will set the world free, free into a multipolar world, a world that is heavily centric sovereignty, non interference internal affairs sovereign states, upholding of international law, conventions, norms together a revamping and then including as final arbiter with real teeth, the U.N, the permanent members of the feckless security council and its way of conducting business completely altered, new members to include for obvious reasons African, Brazil, India, Iran, representative the largest populations in their areas of the globe, Britain Dropped, for the E.U, Russia, China and U.S invited, the ICC and ICIJ recalibrated becoming the absolute arbiter errant states and actors.. backed up by a force itself backed the collective militaries the member states of the PMSC of the U.N.
Free trade is a central tenet of the multipolar order, sure as shit beats the Globalist agenda, beating in mind that the Chinese and now Russian social capitalist system will be the model going forward, not the oligarchic influenced overweight model…
I say bring it on, add the fact the U.S Military Industrial Complex ghastly in Ukraine, Iran been dealt a death blow resulting how hopeless their overhyped, priced offerings have been found to be, missiles, missile defence THAAD, Patriots, Hymers together all other types from F16’s through Bradley’s and all else in between, defeated and left burn8ng the Ukrainian steppe and deserts of the Gulf, ought have provided Americans coveting being freed the shackles of the lobbyists of the MIC and the truly deleterious impact upon the political system they have endured for decades, as noted finally being able to be freed from the MIC clutches.. the reverberations of such which will reshape U.S politics, hopefully the U.S will use the moment to ensure money is taken out of their political system, if I was American I would be cheering Iran, Russia to victory on this fact alone…
Whilst in Iran the defeat of Israel that with each passing hour looks ever more likely ought also end AIPACS outsized influence upon their political system across all offices elected…as noted it is shameful more in the Western world fail to understand Iran, China and Russia instead deferring the bullshit talking points forced upon them for decades, indicative of the boogie man fearmongering so endemic in the West.. if they took the time to learn, research, look into these nation, visit as I have save Iran they would realise these nations are so much more and different to that we are told… indeed it can be said Russia and China make Western cities look third world, whilst economically we are now so far behind save the U.S though the margin narrows monthly..
For those interested and as relates Iran at present I will leave this with you, some will find it of interest … read the link, it will be useful, the following is a snippet…
President “Emperor Crassus” Trump his failed War of Ego and Hubris…
A story of being born into privilege, of vanity, greed and avarice and especially of a lust for power of using people, dealing nefariously, fortune lost and rebuilt, of especially bloviating and of hubris, most especially of a love of gold, such that upon his death, the Persians treated the vile Crassus to the greatest insult imaginable, putting a hole in his skull and filling it with molten gold…. similarities abound??
I invite you to walk back in history to read, educate yourself, learn and who said history never repeats….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
Crassus received Syria as his province, which promised to be an inexhaustible source of wealth. It might have been, had he not also sought military glory and crossed the Euphrates in an attempt to conquer Parthia.
Crassus attacked Parthia not only because of its great source of riches, but because of a desire to match the military victories of Pompey and Caesar. The king of Armenia, Artavasdes II, offered Crassus the aid of nearly 40,000 troops (10,000 cataphracts and 30,000 infantrymen) on the condition that Crassus invade through Armenia so that the king could not only maintain the upkeep of his own troops but also provide a safer route for his men and Crassus.[42]
Crassus refused, and chose the more direct route by crossing the Euphrates, as he had done in his successful campaign in the previous year.
Crassus received directions from the Osroene chieftain Ariamnes, who had previously assisted Pompey in his eastern campaigns.[43] Ariamnes was in the pay of the Parthians and urged Crassus to attack at once, falsely stating that the Parthians were weak and unorganized. He then led Crassus' army into the desert, far from any water. In 53 BC, at the Battle of Carrhae (modern Harran, in Turkey), Crassus' legions were defeated by a numerically inferior Parthian force. Crassus' legions were primarily heavy infantry, and not prepared for an attack by swift mounted archers, a tactic that Parthian troops had mastered.
The Parthian horse archers devastated the unprepared Romans with hit-and-run tactics, feigning retreats as they shot to their rear.[44] Crassus refused his quaestor Gaius Cassius Longinus' plans to reconstitute the Roman battle line, and remained in the testudo formation to protect his flanks, boasting he would do so until the Parthians eventually ran out of arrows.
The Parthians brought camels carrying arrows, plenty of them, numbering more than the numbers of Crassus’s Army, you could replace such with what we know today, PATRIOT and THAAD, batteries and missiles to continuously resupply their archers, Replace with as we know today…to Defend against Iranian Missiles and Drones however, back to Crassus interaction the Parthians, Crassus… letting them relentlessly barrage the Romans until dusk. Despite taking severe casualties, the Romans successfully retreated to Carrhae, forced to leave many wounded behind to be slaughtered by the Parthians.[citation needed]
Subsequently, Crassus' men, being near mutiny, demanded he parley with the Parthians, who had offered to meet with him. Crassus, despondent at the death of his son Publius in the battle, finally agreed to meet the Parthian general Surena. When Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left all the Romans dead, including Crassus.[45] A story later emerged that, after Crassus' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth to mock his known greed, his thirst for wealth.[46]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
Just saying Kia Kaha (Stay Strong) from New Zealand
P.s Whilst those who prefer poetry let me leave you with this to exemplify how the GCC States likely feel toward the U.S.. apt I believe..…
“Just for a handful of Silver, he left us
just for a Riband to Stick in his Coat…….”
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband[4] to stick in his coat—
Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote;
They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver,
So much was theirs who so little allowed:
How all our copper had gone for his service!
Rags—were they purple, his heart had been proud!
We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,
Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,
Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,
Made him our pattern to live and to die!
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us,
Burns, Shelley, were with us,—they watch from their graves!
He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,
He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!
We shall march prospering,—not thro' his presence;
Songs may inspirit us,—not from his lyre;
Deeds will be done,—while he boasts his quiescence,
Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire:
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,
One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,
One more devils'-triumph[5] and sorrow for angels,
One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
Life's night begins: let him never come back to us!
There would be doubt, hesitation and pain,
Forced praise on our part—the glimmer of twilight,
Never glad confident morning again!
Best fight on well, for we taught him—strike gallantly,
Menace our heart ere we master his own;[6]
Then let him receive the new knowledge and wait us,
Pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne![7]
What a terrible end to the near 800 years of the Magna Carta… shame on the Israeli Trained Lawyer, Labour appointed deputy Sackman that is driving this through… guess that tells you everything though and who is behind it, another nail in the coffin of freedom being driven the Isteal/Israel Zionists in their quest one world governance… Britons need to fight this ….
Just saying …. Kia Kaha (Stay Strong) From New Zealand