Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Peers

Jurys are entrusted to the fate of bad people. And good people for that matter. Peers have opionions on each of us. But wait, don't make your opionion so impersonal. What is your opinion of the people involved in the high profile cases in the world today? Where does the glove fit in your opinion?

Our history of hangings and lynchings, vigilante justice continues to today. Money is the smoke screen to make it seem the system is working. Maybe the system is working and that is the problem. Do you want to be judged by a system? Set free by a system? Live by the system? Die by a system? Who is innocent? Who is guilty? Impersonal is the intimacy of the system. "Just the facts" may be more than a cliche'. Reasonable doubt is as valuable as predicting tomorrows weather.

Those who convict must throw the first stone. It's personal now, but does it guarantee only the guilty die? Or that the guilty go free? Believe me I want to line up and cast a few at Nancy Grace. But that is beside the point. Or is it? Amateur humans spreading their wisdom like salt on snails. Burn baby burn. Abe Lincoln once turned to somebody and said, "Do you ever find yourself talking with the dead?

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