Comments | alluralioncourt: I live for times like these

alluralioncourt

I live for times like these

Jan 25, 2006 22:17

This weekend and up to today just totally has kicked some serious bootah! Friday kinda sucked for me but Tyler decided to play hookie from celebrity catering to come hangout and bring me cheer (not the laundry detergent). We were supposed to go see Underworld2 and I can't remember why we didn't, I think we just fucked around and it got kinda late ( Read more... )

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jfargo January 26 2006, 15:06:15 UTC

(which omg that's such a crock of shit!! Just because you want the right to vote, you're automatically put on a list for duty. That's such bullshit because if you don't want to go they can fucking arrest you for it. Fuck all that shit. If you wanted to do it, cool..but if you didn't, they should just let you go)

So, you want the right to make decisions about who's in charge of our country and laws, but you don't want to be held accountable for that decision making power by having to do something that ultimately helps society?

Wow, you'd hate my plan where you don't even get a vote unless you spend a year at a job working for the government, be it military, or just something on the federal level.

Of course, that also gets you free health care, the right to Social Security when you get older, and a few other small perks that I really haven't come up with, and it's your choice whether or not to do it, but without doing it? Nope, no vote for you.

jfargo January 26 2006, 18:13:35 UTC

No, what I don't get is the fact that they force you to do it. To be put in the position to lose pay from work or get arrested for it. If I were an attorney, I'd want people in there who actually wanted to help. I wouldn't want anyone in there who was like 'Lets just get this over with, everyone say 'guilty' so we can go home.'

Some people LOVE to be on juries, which hey, more power to them. I just don't get the fact that you're forced to be there with very little help towards the wages lost

jfargo January 26 2006, 18:36:42 UTC

Okay, I get that, you want to be compensated for your time, and I'm completely with you there. And yes, lawyers would prefer to have people that want to be there over people that don't want to be there, which is why they have a chance to say "Nope, send him/her home." Sometimes, unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way.

Unfortunately, most people don't love being on juries. If we only went with them, we'd have a pretty small selection, so they need to do random polling (or whatever you want to call it) of the rest of us. If they did something to make up for time lost, I think there would be much less of a problem in the public's eye with serving jury duty. I could be wrong, of course.

alluralioncourt January 26 2006, 19:22:19 UTC

Now that I agree with you on. Last time my mom was on jury duty she wound up losing 5000$ in wages. That just really can mess with a persons livelyhood.

Anyway, we all wound up getting dismissed. The key witness had a heartattack and died. Kinda ironic if you think about it

fleta888 January 26 2006, 20:28:31 UTC

What old friend? Anyone I know...?

alluralioncourt January 27 2006, 02:30:29 UTC

Ayup

toxic_watts January 26 2006, 23:26:27 UTC

hey a few months dosen't count for shit....but the mentality probly does i'm a fucking 16y/old in an oversized 22 y/old body....so fucking what...i have couch rights lmao

alluralioncourt January 27 2006, 02:30:03 UTC

Yes Yes Yes... you have never-ending couch rights