[fleagle]

My new way is perfect. You look like a good and responsible citizen, happy to be there, hungry to do your civic duty, and they let you go with a smile and a pat on the head.

Absolutely correct googa. I've been called to jury duty three times (I'm one of those nerds who actually wants to serve on a jury) and each time I've done what you suggest above and each time I've been summarily dismissed (often w/o even a perfunctory pat on the head).

Then I look back at the remaining simpletons and dipsh*ts who will serve as some shlub's "jury of peers" and can't believe the sad sad state of our legal system. We need to go to a professional juror system.

[fleagle]

Sorry for the double post...

[RJR_fan]

When I pray “for kings, and those in authority,” I begin with the most important civic official in our nation, the jurors. The jury system, and common law, are remnants of the liberties enjoyed by people living under a Biblical theocracy. Hence, the “12 good men and true.” Like the patriarchs of Israel, and the apostles of Jesus, the jurors are foundational to a godly social order. I then work my way down the chain through progressively less important civil officials, and end my prayers with the least important of all, the one with the least liberty to affect the course of events, a certain George W. Bush.