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07/28/2007: "Democracy fails as people avoid jury duty"

Courts across the country have been going to extraordinary lengths in recent years to get people to report for jury duty -- a cornerstone of democracy and a civic responsibility that many citizens would do almost anything to avoid.

[ Our fellow citizens are mostly morons and we don't want to have to argue it out with them after days of boring testimony. Democracy doesn't work, as usual. ]




http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/07/27/reluctant.jurors.ap/index.html

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on Monday, July 30th, Osama bin Laden said

Not to mention the fact that jurors are selected without concern for IQ, ability to think rationally, wisdom, or experience.

Then, once you get selected, meaning that you were not bright enough to figure out how to *not* get selected (or happened to be highly idealistic enough to want to be selected), you get herded around like cattle, paid a pittance for your time, and only allowed to participate as passive observers in the courtroom (Hardly civic involvement right there).

The justice system is messed up. Getting a mish-mash of regular people involved is horrible.