On this grey chilly May Day I went for Jury Duty. The Brooklyn downtown Supreme Court Building. No personal photos they took my camera while I was there. Met a bunch of nice folks.
It was like getting drafted. You meet the whole cross section.
I saw a guy,...one out of over 100 in my group with a MAGA red cap...a Trump hat. He was just a guy no one noticed,...it's New York. I could have come in my Civil War Uniform no one would've blinked.
There was a "pony show" where they explained our rule of law how it applied. The nature of our sort of democracy,...such as it is. Mostly we just sat, and waited.
It was a bit anti-climatic for me.
In the approval interview I was excused for medical reasons. Apparently health matters more now. Before if you were breathing you were in. My recent surgeries, and ongoing conditions were an issue.
In the approval interview I was excused for medical reasons. Apparently health matters more now. Before if you were breathing you were in. My recent surgeries, and ongoing conditions were an issue.
So no Perry Mason event. I think this is my last call.
I may be too old in the next round-up. We'll see.
I may be too old in the next round-up. We'll see.
“Punishment.-- A strange thing, our kind of punishment! It does not cleanse the offender, it is no expiation: on the contrary, it defiles more than the offense itself.”
ReplyDelete-Nietzsche, Daybreak, Aph. 236
"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt." -Nietzsche
ReplyDelete“Our long-range strategy has to be to abolish imprisonment ... It tends to reproduce the very problems it purports to solve.”
ReplyDelete— Angela Davis
Yes yes, and correct.
ReplyDeleteJustice, and law very rarely meet. Both are multifaceted, and usually contradict.
One the arbitrary rules of civilization built up over many generations.
The other instinctive rightness. Which is intuitive, and eternal.
In it's more extreme circumstances matter, and anti-matter. Which has an inevitable reaction when they meet.
Glad you got out of it. I've always managed to, and hope to keep it that way.
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