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I can't imagine trying to skip out on Jury duty.
As a Juror, yours may be the vote which sets an innocent man free.
Your vote to Nullify may be the vote which begins the process of striking down an unjust or unconstitutional law.
Yours may be the vote which sends a guilty man to his deserved punishment.
I simply cannot imagine trying to get out of a job which puts one directly in the position of protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty.
America's freedoms are preserved with the Four Boxes: the Soap Box (freedom of speech), the Ballot Box (free elections and secret ballot), the Jury Box (trial in open Court by a fully empowered Jury of one's Peers), and the Cartridge Box (the Right of armed self-defense) IN THAT ORDER. The Cartridge Box is the "box of last resort," and the whole point of America is that we have the other three Boxes to appeal to first. When you neglect Boxes #1-3, you make it that much more likely that Box #4 will need opening, and that's something -nobody- wants.
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