[Hoppean]

"This was the most egregious example of the complete reverse of a sense of civic responsibility."

I've never been a big fan of forcing people to serve. Wish they could take volunteers. I was called up for jury duty and I went (because I didn't think it was worth going through what this guy is now--jail isn't a nice place, I hear). Fortunately they didn't need me, I sat in a room with like 20 other people all day (the TV was set to Rosie O'Donnell's show, of all things) and at the end of the day they told us all we could go home.

A military draft on the other hand, and I'm sure I could come up with even more expletives than this guy did.

[Petruchio]

When I was called for Jury Duty, I went. I quietly sat there and read Unintended Consequences. I wonder why I was not called?

[flying Elvis]

The problem with volunteers is you'd end up with a bunch of activist jurors volunteering for every potential death penalty case in the hopes of nullifying the death penalty. Rather than trying to avoid jury duty, we conservatives need to welcome it. After all, where can we be most effective in our battle against trial lawyer scum than on one of their juries?

[helper]

The reason the TV was on Rosie is the fact that it is the favorate show of most people that actually end up serving on juries. Thus we get the O.J. juries and the Billion dollar awards for spilling coffee.