American Justice

I just got selected for jury duty next month. The letter had all these words about doing my duty to my country. Let me tell you that it makes me feel so great that we live in a country that feels that Richard Hatch, Bobby Fischer, and Martha Stewart are such a threat to national security. I mean Robert Blake, O.J. Simpson, and Michael Jackson are out there behaving like model citizens. But a chess match with a resident of a nation that we don't like. Bring down the hammer.
Let me tell you, that I would rather piss off Richard Hatch than Robert Blake. I definitely would leave kids in the custody of Martha Stewart than Michael Jackson.
I know what you're going to say that Jackson, Simpson, and Blake were all acquitted. I like the word "acquitted." It's not the same thing as saying "not guilty" or "innocent." Acquitted basically means that you were probably guilter than sin, but our judicial system fucked up and didn't do what it was supposed to put your ass away.
Even when we use "not guilty," we got to use it in a condescending way like "He was found not guilty" rather than "The jury determined that he was not guilty." It's almost like we're ashamed to admit that the jurors are idiots. You can't find that someone is not guilty. This is Hollywood thinking or last minute evidence. Having covered courts, I know the judicial process is full of procedures. You more than likely don't go to trial unless you're guilty.
For the most part, Simpson, Blake, and Jackson probably did what they were accussed of. Come on, Simpson was found liable of wrongful death in civil court. That means he was capable of doing the murders. Not that he actually did them, but he was capable of it.
But poor Richard Hatch. Now, it's going to become a celebrity thing. Or a gay thing. Or a nudist thing? Like they tried to play the race card with Simpson and Jackson. Richard Hatch is not a celebrity in my eyes. He's a hack. He's a game show winner. Nothing more. Nothing less.
But I will feel safer knowing that he isn't out there doing anymore tax evasion.