Juror #4
That be ThaGierk
"Your honor, I feel at this time that I can't be fair to either the prosecution nor the defense." The judge then replies "Why is that?" "Because I just can't" Juror number 16 replied back. Well needless to say he wasn't picked for the jury. But I was. That's right, with all my bitterness at the world, I decided that it was time to step up. I've responded to the yes and no answers with proper English. "Yes, I can be fair" "No, I have nothing to do with www.thagierk.com" you know, crap like that. When the defense attorney said "Mr. Gierk#, is that correct?" I said "Correct" (no one got my last name correct all day, kept mangling it like my teachers in high school) I needed to get on. Especially after taking shit from that ahole who asked me to leave the Scott Peterson court house for supposedly making fun of the people involved. And like I said on that thought, I was mocking the media, not the people. So fate would only have me be involved with the court system on a different level. I STEPPED UP LIKE A MAN, AND DID NOT STEP A SIDE, unlike the bastard in the first sentence of this paragraph.
A lot of my friends are probably thinking, you bastard you could never be fair. On the contrary I'm sure Officer Law is sitting there reading this, thinking, "ThaGierk, on a jury?" "It's about time, he's been waiting for over 12 years." He would be right. I look at being on a jury as my civic duty. Like going out and voting. It's one of the great things about this country. Voting and Jury duty, not to many other countries have that.
Many people say that being on a jury is for people who aren't too bright. Having 12 people who can't come up with an excuse to get off. It's that very attitude that I despise. If you ask those very same people if they ever served, the reply is "No" My retort is "Then how do you know the people sitting on a jury aren't to bright? If you never sat on one?" Like a child saying I don't like liver with onions, that they never tried, it's the same thing. How do you know if you haven't tried. On the jury I was on we had a man who had a P.H.D. and was working on another. He was some sort of engineer manager for a high tech company. I know this because I asked for his business card. He seemed bright to Tha Gierk, he didn't fumble with his words, seemed pretty articulate. Didn't walk with a limp, pick at his crotch, didn't get drunk in front of the courthouse, didn't yell people down in the jury room, knew how to drive a car (he drove past me in the parking garage), worked the microwave in the cafeteria with a certain degree of knowledge, and wore some pretty nice clothes.
As a matter of fact most people on my jury, could speak English, could walk upright and were professionals in one field or another. Were they also sheeple? Yes, of course. But what's wrong with that? If you have to answer to someone other than yourself, then you're a sheep. You may be a high paid piece of meat but your still need to answer to the sheep herder. Fuck it, even if you own a business you still need to answer to Uncle Sam in the form of taxes.
The follow up excuse for these same people is "I don't have time to serve on a jury" or "My job needs me to be there" At what point is your life not busy? When you're retired? That would explain a lot because I did see many sr. citizens walking around the courthouse with jury badges. My co worker says things like that. The whole I'm to busy excuse, but I would if I had the time. I think he thinks, that one day he's going to have more free time then he can ever deal with. He may be retarded in that aspect. I haven't had any free time since I was about 13. But even then I was busy with school sports, after school commitments, and whatever I had to do to meek out some income i.e like paper routes and mowing lawns on the weekend.
Life is all about sliding. You slide this for that. That will understand if this is more important or has priority. That is why it is illegal for you're boss to fire you if you get called in for jury duty. It's the