Re: jury duty
info@pulpculture.org wrote:
At 11:43 PM 5/16/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
jthorn65@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I agree with Doug in his last sentence that the jury system idea is great but far too many citizens are fear filled racists for me to call it great in practice.
Again that’s the society’s problem, not the jury system’s. The US constitution, for example, is full of fear of the masses’ judgment; everything has to be checked & balanced. The jury system is conceptually high on the masses’ judgment. The bourgeoisie would never go for a jury system if it were designing things today.
Probably a lot like . . . the comments section at a blog, eh?
Not really. The jury is part of a structured system; the comments section is just a free-for-all which self-selects for boisterousness.
Doug