Comments on: This just in: Americans are stupid http://www.blagnet.net/2009/06/19/this-just-in-americans-are-stupid/ Discussing libertarian philosophy Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:24:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.blagnet.net/2009/06/19/this-just-in-americans-are-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-1505 John Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:31:00 +0000 http://www.blagnet.net/?p=732#comment-1505 I'm reminded that crap like this is the only reason I'd ever want to serve on a jury. What if you could have been the stalwart defender of individual rights in that jury room, and insisted on a verdict of not guilty without budging an inch? You could have forced a hung jury and the defendant would be spared this travesty of justice until at least another trial, and gotten one more chance to free herself from this evil insanity. Or how would you feel if you were conscripted to be on this jury but you asserted your right to live your life freely, and you finagled your way out of jury duty and you later saw these 12 clueless, soulless morons hand down a verdict like this on this innocent woman? True, you wouldn't have done anything <i>wrong</i>, but I'd still feel bad about it. I'd feel bad about not suffering a small part of the predations of the State along with this woman in order to help her break free of the predatory RIAA and its accomplices in the government. It's something to think about the next time you're conscripted to a jury. No, it isn't right, but you could help someone who is in even graver danger from the predations of the State. I’m reminded that crap like this is the only reason I’d ever want to serve on a jury. What if you could have been the stalwart defender of individual rights in that jury room, and insisted on a verdict of not guilty without budging an inch? You could have forced a hung jury and the defendant would be spared this travesty of justice until at least another trial, and gotten one more chance to free herself from this evil insanity.

Or how would you feel if you were conscripted to be on this jury but you asserted your right to live your life freely, and you finagled your way out of jury duty and you later saw these 12 clueless, soulless morons hand down a verdict like this on this innocent woman? True, you wouldn’t have done anything wrong, but I’d still feel bad about it. I’d feel bad about not suffering a small part of the predations of the State along with this woman in order to help her break free of the predatory RIAA and its accomplices in the government.

It’s something to think about the next time you’re conscripted to a jury. No, it isn’t right, but you could help someone who is in even graver danger from the predations of the State.

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