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guccilvr, I read your blog post on jury duty. And, as kutulu and other posters bring up, those that want to avoid jury duty or are aware of laws and rights of private citizens are almost sure not to serve on a jury. One of the surest ways to avoid jury duty is to admit to having a cop or lawyer in your family. Automatic pass - you know too much about how the system works, we don't want you. And yes, you end up with a jury made, not of your peers, but of the chronically unemployed, the lonely elderly, etc.
I used to feel like some of you have opined, that jury duty is the very last thing that you want to be stuck doing. Now I'm starting to feel like it is last hope for a people in a supposedly free society to make their will known. Many of the laws enacted today are not in the public's interest, but favor select subsets of the population; ultra-rich get to write the tax code, industrial corporations author laws on clean air and water conservation, religious groups write laws granting them presumptive immunity from all law and favorable land use treatment. I think that if called to serve on a jury today, I'd do my duty willingly. On the off chance that the law was unjust, then I would work with the jury to nullify the law for that case.
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