Subject: I.N.S. GUILTY OF VIOLATING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY 
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Trygve's title on reprint and post script:

INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHOR/INTRODUCING TRYGVE BAUGE.
THE I.N.S. GUILTY OF VIOLATING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

Originale title by Paul Danish:

LOSING THIS NORWEGIAN WOULD 
BE A LOSS FOR AMERICAN IDEALS

(Reprint of an article by Paul Danish originally  published  in 
Colorado Daily March 2nd 1994. Copyrighted by Paul Danish. 
All rights reserved.)

It is a long standing tradition of the American justice system -
extending back to the Zenger case of 1735, more than 40 years
before the country was founded - that juries decide both the fact
and the law.
     This means that if the members of a jury decide that the law
a defendant is tried under is arbitrary, unjust or
unconstitutional, it is within their power to acquit the defendant,
even if the defendant violated  that law. The decision of the jury
carries no legal precedent with regard to the constitutionality of
the law, but it is sufficient to let the defendant go free.
     This process is called "jury nullification," and it is one of
the least-understood checks and balances in the American system.
It exists because sometimes the lawmakers and judges and lawyers
and constables whom we charge with the writing and enforcing of law
- and who normally do a pretty good job of it - sometimes make
mistakes or sometimes get so caught up in the intricacies of the
system that fairness and justice and simple human decency drop
through the cracks.
     Not surprisingly, most judges aren't very comfortable with the
idea of jury nullification. Most of them instruct juries - wrongly
- that the jurors are to decide only the facts of a particular
case, and that the interpretation of the law is to be left to the
judge. Moreover, if lawyers try to instruct juries differently, in
most states judges will hold them in contempt. (The exceptions, if
memory serves are Maryland and Indiana, where the state
constitutions require juries to be informed of their true power.)
     During the Vietnam era, one of the things that told the
government that it could not continue the war was that juries quit
convicting draft resisters of violating the Selective Service law.
I suspect that if juries today were more aware of their real power,
the drug war would go the same way. Clearly, jury nullification is
a powerful tool for combating the sorts of abuses that are
frequently written about in this space.
     However, that isn't what's prompted me to bring this up now.
It  is, rather, the case of a stubborn Norwegian eccentric named
Trygve Bauge.
     Bauge came to this country in 1980 on a visa that ran out in
1981. He's been hassling with the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service for the past seven years. Last week, he was
supposed to surrender to the INS so that he could be deported to
Norway. He chose not to, instead gleefully declaring himself "a
fugitive from injustice" and challenging the INS to come get him.
     Which, I have no doubt, in due course it will. And when it
does, I also have no doubt, it will have the law entirely on its
side. Bauge won't have a legal leg to stand on.
     Most people know Bauge as the founder of Boulder's polar bear
club.
     Or the guy who is experimenting with cryogenically freezing
bodies in the hope that they can be revived in the future.
     Or as the builder of an experimental fireproof house in
Nederland, something he decided to do after seeing the damage
caused by the Black Tiger forest fire.
     Or as the guy who came tapping on the front door of then-CU
President Gordon gee's house late one evening, because he had an
article about cancer that he thought Gordon Gee's wife, who had
cancer, should see - and who got arrested for his trouble. Or the
guy who got arrested a few years ago as a result of an encounter
with a United Airlines baggage clerk that Bauge describes as
follows: (The following quote is copyrighted in 1994 & before by
Trygve Bauge, [trygveb@powertech.no] & is from his book Active Life
Extension:)
     "I was down at the airport to see my mother on the plane back
to Norway...
     "A baggage clerk was a little slow in grasping that only my
mother was going.
     "The clerk asked for luggage.
     "Only my mother turned in luggage.
     "The clerk asked for tickets.
     "Only my mother turned in tickets.

(Continued on different page under the heading:)
....JURY IN DEPORTATION CASE SHOULD TELL FEDS TO BUZZ OFF 

     "The clerk asked how many were going.
      "I told her that only my mother was going, and my mother said
something to the same effect.
     "In spite of having received only one set of luggage, and one
ticket, and having heard both of us tell her that only my mother
was going, the clerk still managed to ask: 'Is only one of you
going?'
     "Whereupon, I, rather than getting annoyed, quipped: 'I am not
coming along. I am only here to hijack the plane.'
     "In hindsight, I might have been better off by getting
annoyed."  (End of quote copyrighted by Trygve Bauge)
     Indeed. I imagine the foregoing exchange is one of the reasons
the INS considers Bauge "deportable".
     But if the INS succeeds in deporting him, both the United
States and Boulder County will be poorer for it.
     Trygve Bauge may talk with a Norwegian accent and come across
like a slightly demented hippie, but he is one of the most American
people I know. He is a free spirit - freedom comes as naturally to
him as drawing breath - but there is more to being an American than
knowing how to live free.     
     A major part of being an American is to accept the obligation
of helping others to be free, and the best way I know to do that
is to show people that they can do things they never thought they
were capable of doing. Bauge has been doing that in his own small
way every New Year's Day for the last 10 years. Telling people to
go jump in an icy lake may not seem to have much to do with
Americanism or civic responsibility (especially if they aren't
politicians), but I suspect that a lot of people who took the New
Year's day plunge into Boulder reservoir at Bauge's urging came
away knowing they were a little tougher and a little braver  and
thus a little freer than they were before.
     Robert Kennedy once remarked that the thing that set him apart
was while that most men saw the world as it's always been and asked
'why', he saw things that have never been, and asked 'Why not?' 
I think that thought also represents an important part of what it
means to be an American - the unwillingness to accept limitations
and constraints, merely because things have always been that way
and always will be.
     Houses have been burning down in forest fires in Boulder
County since the first settlers arrived.  (Gold Hill was so
thoroughly incinerated within a few years of its founding that the
original townsite was abandoned.) Trygve Bauge saw one forest fire
and concluded that things need not go on that way, and set out to
build a house that can survive a fire storm.
     When you are the sort of person who sees things that never
were and asks "why not?" a lot of what you see may seem weird to
people who are less questioning and more accepting. But the ability
to dream audaciously and, in Camus's phrase, "to create
dangerously," to attempt to change the world, is in many respects
the essence of what it is to be an American. It requires optimism
and arrogance of towering proportions to freeze corpses in the hope
that some day someone in the future will "reanimate" them, but it
is precisely the same optimism and arrogance that led us to send
men to the moon and, God willing, will some day lead us to return
and settle the place.
     Finally, a critical part of being an American is the ability
not to take government and authority too seriously. Sticking a
finger in the eye of stupid officials is a national tradition, and
an important one, because it is a way of controlling the arrogance
of power, The INS may not understand why a wise-cracking Norwegian
may be as desirable an immigrant as a good German, but I bet
Franklin and Jefferson would.
     And that is why I rise to address the potential jurors in the
soon-to-be-filed case of U.S. vs. Bauge. I am not an officer of the
court, so I can say some things that lawyers are not at liberty to
say. As American jurors, its your right to decide the fact and the
law in this case. I don't doubt that the law gives the INS the
right to toss Bauge out of the country, but I submit that if it
does so, it will be expelling a man who, though not a natural-born
citizen, is by temperament a natural American, and who has enriched
our community by his presence in it. Justice will be best served
by keeping him here. This man is one of us, and we should not cast
him out.

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Postscript by Trygve B. Bauge:

THE I.N.S. GUILTY OF SYSTEMATICALLY VIOLATING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL
BY JURY AND OTHER UNIVERSAL UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. 
SYSTEMATIC VIOLATION OF A UNIVERSAL UNALIENABLE RIGHT IS THE
DEFINITION OF A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

Copyrighted in 1994 or before by Trygve Bauge, 
all rights reserved, copyfee charged.

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>The I.N.S systematically refuse to respect their victims
>right to trial by jury.
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by trygveb@powertech.no

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>The I.N.S. seems to be abiding by one rule: why bother to give the
>impression that justice is being served, when it isn't!
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by TrygveB@Powertech.No

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>In I.N.S. court the judge who appears to be hired by the
>prosecuting agency, also serves as the jury!
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by TrygveB@POwertech.No

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>In the United States, the Jeffersonian revolution has now lost out
>to a reactionary protectionist counter revolution.
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by TrygveB@Powertech.No

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>We have now lost to the I.N.S. the right to trial by jury, 
>the right to respect for the common law and the right to high
>standards of due process, rights that it cost us so much to
>wrestle from the British!
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by TrygveB@Powertech.No

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>Treason is the crime, and the I.N.S. is the culprit!
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by TrygveB@Powertech.No

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>It is only a question of time before the culprits are brought to
>justice and being convicted of felony crimes against humanity!
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by TrygveB@Powertech.No

In his book Active Life Extension, TrygveB@Powertech.No says:
>Maybe the I.N.S. is only guilty of obeying law and order
>but that is what the Nazies were guilty of too that we hanged at
>Nuremberg!
The above quote is copyrighted in 1994 by TrygevB@Powertech.No