The Mob Rules: How The Casey Anthony Case Is A Doubled Edged Sword

Wow people are pissed. Not about the fact that our economy is about to crash in a way few people could imagine. Not about the fact that the rich are getting richer and richer while the rest of us starve. Not even about the fact that corporations are making a staggering average of 88% profit and translating that into 1% wage gains. No what people have become a mob about is the unbelievable verdict in the Casey Anthony trial. Jurors and the judge have all received death threats, prompting some to quit their jobs, move and basically hide their identifies from a furious public.

As much I despise the verdict they gave, none of these people should be getting death threats. Let's look at the pros and cons of this case.

Pros- The verdict shows that people are capable of joining together, democrat or republican, in a single idea that this spoiled bitch got away with murder. And while we may disagree on how to voice that displeasure, we all agree the jury was retarded. From this maybe some good will come. Can we please end trial by jury already, an outdated idea whose time has come and gone. Our constitution has many many good ideas, most of them under siege, but this is not one of them. The reason for trial by jury was that the government, particularly the Monarchy they were escaping from, would have kangaroo courts were the verdict was known before the trail began. To get a fair trial a jury of random people was the best way to get a verdict. But in those days, a jury would be all land owning men, some of which were actually well educated. No slaves, no women, no dregs of society. Plus, there was no such thing as science to be debated. Today, all we get in our juries are the dregs of society; those not smart enough or important enough to get out of it. Have you ever sat on a jury? I have. The IQ level in that room was barely in triple digits.

We now have intricate science being introduced to people with at best a high school education to understand graduate level work. I have a degree in Anthropology, spent years learning about DNA, and even I had trouble following the OJ Simpson case. The subject matter is too complex for the average person to understand and, therefore, justice is not being served.

Plus, we have this great invention called television. We all watched the Casey Anthony trial. Did our observation of said events influence it in anyway? No. It did not. Television will eliminate the need for protection against kangaroo courts as there will be visual proof of said wrong doing, an impossibility at the time of the Constitution. As most prosecutors are subject to the same political will of the people as an elected official (and in some cases are elected) and malfeasance will wind up with them out on the street, just like the prosecutors after the OJ Simpson trial and the Anthony trial.

End trail by jury like the rest of the world. We needn't fear kangaroo courts as long as we remain vigilant. And judging by the attention on the trial, I think my point is made.

Cons- We now have to fear that this idiot jury may make it harder for innocent people to get a not guilty verdict, especially in high profile cases. This may lead to more people going to jail as jurors fear for their lives if they give a not guilty verdict. The Anthony juries should be called out for the morons they were, but all the same, idiocy is not a punishable offense. If it was, we'd all be dead.

As for those jurors, you guys do suck and suck hard. Some have come forward to explain their reasoning for the not guilty verdict and not one of them holds water. They said as cause of death couldn't de determined, accidental death couldn't be ruled out. Cause of death is irrelevant. She's dead. Who had the most to gain? How about the Mom who went and partied hard for thirty days rather than spending every waking minute looking for her? NAAA. We can't find a motive, they said. If motive wasn't clear enough, maybe you are too stupid to live. The CSI effect was in clear view here. I should point that CSI is A TV SHOW. Most of the stuff on that show is made up. It's not real, okay. So when chloroform doesn't show up on the car door, weeks after it may or may not have been there, it is irrelevant. And why would the father have a motive to kill his granddaughter as some on the jury thought? Christ, if this isn't evidence enough that people are too stupid to be on a jury I don't what is.

End trial by jury so justice may be better served.