Re: TWA 800 - Serious thread.

[Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>]

Greg Broiles wrote:
> 
> At 03:30 PM 9/9/96 -0700, Dale Thorn wrote:
> 
> >If govt. protects its "sources and methods", however nefarious, to the
> >extent that the public is never asked to assent to these methods (even
> >though a few of us know about them anyway), then the public doesn't have
> >to become overtly cynical about what's going on.
> 
> But the public *is* asked to assent to those methods - your chance to vote
> on them is known colloquially as "jury duty".

Ah, but isn't "jury selection" the process of selecting those that don't
know they are judging the law as well as the case?

Gary
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than what we have now."  -- Unknown.

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