Yay! I got on a jury. I know that it seems a lot (most?) people try to avoid jury duty, but I really wanted to get on a jury! I got picked out of like a couple HUNDRED people that were there that day. We were all there for only one trial. Anyway, I obviously cannot give out details about the trial or anything, but I just wanted to say I got on one and that I am happy and excited and interested! I just think it's so cool to live in a country where we can do that kind of thing.
So JWs don't serve on juries, right? I remember one time, my ex-boyfriend's mom said if she ever got called for jury duty, she'd write them a letter telling them exactly why she wasn't going to serve. She didn't say what she meant exactly, but she obviously was referring to some stupid Watchtower rule. I think that's so stupid. What is the rule on that? Where is it in the publications? Is it like the voting thing, where they try to make it sound like it's "up to each individual's conscience," but really if you do it, you're in trouble with them? I don't know where this jury duty thing is referred to in the publications.
I think not serving on a jury is SO STUPID. I can see trying to get out of it if you have a sick relative or child to take care of, or you're sick, or you have some kind of situation where it would really inconvenience you (like maybe a small business owner or someone who works on commission and won't be paid)... but other than that, I think trying to get out of it is so stupid. The thing that gets me with these JWs is you KNOW that if something happened to them, they'd be the FIRST to want a trial by impartial, unbiased peers. They always do stuff like that. They don't like the government or the law, yet they're forever suing everyone and threatening people with lawsuits. (Maybe they think that's how they'll obtain their money, especially considering a lot of them don't have very good jobs.) And they make it so JWs can't be police officers, but they're always the FIRST to call the police for the dumbest, most petty reasons!
So what is their deal with the no jury duty thing? It really aggravates me that people want to live in the United States of America, yet they never want to participate in any of their rights and responsibilities and obligations, yet they DO want to reap all the benefits. To them, being on a jury is WRONG... unless it's one of THEM that was on trial and they needed a trial by an impartial jury, and then it would be just fine.