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I, The Jury

Jeff Jarvis at Buzzmachine is engaged in a little battle with the political idealogues. Heres my two bits...

In this country, there are two dominant parties of almost equal size and scope. Both parties work in the political sphere as the District Attorneys and the Defense Attorneys do in a court of law. The citizens of this democracy are called to sit in the jury box at each election and judge who makes the better case at that time and place.

We have an adversarial political system in this country, but as a member of the jury, I do not "belong" to either of them, nor do I "belong" to any third politcal party. If I am to be a good citizen and fulfill my function in the jury box, I must listen to the case the Attorneys from either side put into evidence in the court to make their case.

For this moment in time, the Republicans are making a better case to the majority of the jury. This is not an indictment of the people who belong to the Democrat party or a prize to those in the Republican party, it is simply an indication of how well their lead attorneys on each side are doing translating the evidence of daily life into information that the jury can use to make its decision at the polls.

In our roles as members of the jury, it is essential that we judge each side with healthy skepticism and try to avoid our personal feelings in the matter before us in the court as much as possible.

What I see from over here in the jury box is a Defense Attorney being ill served by a set of loud mouth hectoring spectators in the back of the courtroom, who rather than helping the Defense Attorney make his case are about to make 'Good Judge Jarvis' bring the gavel down on the whole sad spectacle.

Whenever someone says that the success of their party matters more to them than the functioning of the court itself, then we can judge them as having stepped beyonds the bounds that the oath they gave when they became an 'officer of the court'. Several members of the Defense Attorneys firm are, in my opinion, violating their oaths. Rather, Jordan, Mapes, Markos and Rall have stepped beyond their charters and it is my opinion, that they should be ignored. The longer the Defense Attorney associates with their like the more difficult the Defense Attorney will find it to make his case with the members of the jury.

Judge Jarvis is a smart honest man and I trust his judgement. I also know on occaison he has been known to play a game of golf with the members of the Defense Attorneys Firm. I do wish they would listen to his advice when he gives it, its free, and frankly he's more right than wrong on most occasions.

Another wise old retired judge once told me that he could generally tell who had the better case by how much "gorilla dust" was tossed into the air during the presentation of their case.

The Liberal wing of the Democrat Party is now tossing so much "gorilla dust" into the air that the streetlights have come on even though it is mid day.

Posted @ February 27, 2005 12:35 PM | Current Affairs