Monroe County Tennessee Grand Jury

The Future of Freedom and the 4th Branch

By JB Williams
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Is it possible that the future of freedom rests in the hands of a Monroe County Tennessee Grand Jury? In an era of strange and hard to explain daily events, it might be more than possible.

We often speak of the three branches of the federal government and the hypothetical separation of powers between them—a separation no one could prove today.

For more than a hundred years now, we assumed that these three administrative branches, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, would provide adequate protections for the people and their future of freedom and liberty via checks and balance put in place by our nation’s Founders for that very purpose.

We assumed wrong… and the Founders were correct to assume that one day, a generation or two of Americans would fail to keep their elected officials in check, which is why they often spoke of a 4th branch of government, a branch seldom mentioned in America today.

The 4th branch of the federal government is “the people.â€