June 2008
3 posts
Jury Duty
“There is one curious thing that the courts’ own exit questionnares show. And that is that the people who actually get to sit on a case, hear evidence, get to a verdict, say they like the experience way more than the people who just show up, don’t get a case, and actually get to go home earlier.
Something kicks in for the people who actually get on the juries. Suddenly it seems...
“They [the FBI] don’t have the kind of people that really understand who these people [terrorist organizations] are, where they come from, and what they’re fighting for.
Who is in the FBI, especially in the headquarters, 7th floor, in Washington? Irish and Italian guys. And if you look at the history of that organization, which made its reputation fighting the mafia and to some...
“…the very freedom that made this culture such a noble experiment was precisely what made it vulnerable to someone like him [Charles Manson]. ‘The flower movement was like a valley of thousands of plump white rabbits surrounded by wounded coyotes. Sure, the “leaders” were tough, some of them geniuses and great poets. But the acid-dropping middle-class children from...
