Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!holt From: holt@parsec.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Hypocritical state of the Union. - (nf) Message-ID: <5551@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 22:56:46 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5551 Posted: Sat Feb 11 22:56:46 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 03:57:47 EST Lines: 25 #R:pyuxqq:-58200:parsec:40500015:000:819 parsec!holt Feb 10 17:12:00 1984 Dear uname, The choice is not between jury duty and travel overseas. It is between jury duty and the right to a fair trial. If you are willing to make that trade, then, it seems fair to me. We should add a line to all income tax forms, right at the bottom. 1332e: Check here if you wish to give up your right to a free trial in exchange for exclusion from jury duty: _____ People like you could sign up for it. If you get charged with a crime, we can lock you up, throw away the key, and not have to read your silly entries to the net. Maybe the sentence should include forced labor. That would make up for the tax revenues which would be lost because of your absence from the labor force. Silly, silly, silly. Dave Holt Convex Computer Corp. {allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!parsec!holt