Flatearther
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2006
The only reason that a jury is still used in this 21st techno saturated century is that after the trial, no one is held accountable. It is a convenient way to clean the slate and wash one's hands of any moral responsibility. I refer to the jurors as legal condoms because they are used in a similar way to prophylactics for the protection of the corrupt legal practitioners and the guilty criminals. There is no sane reason for using 12 totally untrained, inexperienced, uneducated and ill informed people off the street to sit in a pivotal position where someone's whole life, reputation or livelihood may hang or swing in the balance.
Ask yourself which of your most important and life altering decisions you would elect to be decided on via the whim, even the caprice of a jury system. Would you be prepared to gamble:
A life threatening medical procedure?
The purchase of a house?
Your choice of partner?
Your daily lifestyle?
Your sexual preferences?
Your political choices?
Or any other of a host of choices which require informed experience. Yet we are content to have perhaps the most important element of our lives, the justice system manipulated through a pretence of order. The jury is selected on the most crass and simplistic criteria imaginable. If they show any signs of being able to reason or think for themselves, they are sniffed off and snuffed out. The jury must be as manipulable as modeling clay. A massive gang rape trial here in Australia was aborted for the simple reason that a pair of jurors had the audacity to make sense of the evidence by going to the crime scene and discussing it. Imagine buying a home on the restrictions available to jurors. You could be sold anything at all and never be allowed to complain. We do not have a judicial system, we have a legalistic 'process'. Shame, shame, shame.
Ask yourself which of your most important and life altering decisions you would elect to be decided on via the whim, even the caprice of a jury system. Would you be prepared to gamble:
A life threatening medical procedure?
The purchase of a house?
Your choice of partner?
Your daily lifestyle?
Your sexual preferences?
Your political choices?
Or any other of a host of choices which require informed experience. Yet we are content to have perhaps the most important element of our lives, the justice system manipulated through a pretence of order. The jury is selected on the most crass and simplistic criteria imaginable. If they show any signs of being able to reason or think for themselves, they are sniffed off and snuffed out. The jury must be as manipulable as modeling clay. A massive gang rape trial here in Australia was aborted for the simple reason that a pair of jurors had the audacity to make sense of the evidence by going to the crime scene and discussing it. Imagine buying a home on the restrictions available to jurors. You could be sold anything at all and never be allowed to complain. We do not have a judicial system, we have a legalistic 'process'. Shame, shame, shame.
