Jackson Jurors just look stupid

Two of the jurors on Michael Jackson's much hyped criminal trial this year are speaking out against the acquittal of Jackson. Which is really stupid, considering it was unanimous. One of these now-dissenting jurors, Eleanor Cook, was asked if she was worried about the other jurors getting mad at her for her new public statements. Her reply was truly shocking: "They can be as angry as they want to. They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones that let a pedophile go." No, Eleanor, you're the one who let a pedophile go. You voted to let him go. I cannot believe that we trust justice to someone who acts so ridiculously irresponsible and ignorant. The other juror, Ray Hultman, made a similarly stupid comment saying, "The thing that really got me the most was the fact that people just wouldn't take those blinders off long enough to really look at all the evidence that was there." If this was 'getting to you,' Mr. Hultman, why did you go along with a "not guilty" verdict? The verdict was unanimous, these two people voluntarily voted for Jackson's acquittal. Yet here they are, acting like it was passed despite their best efforts. And they just sound stupid. There are only two possibilities that I see here: either they're lying and they thought that Jackson was innocent all along and now they just want attention. Or they're so lazy that they voted to let a guilty man go so that they could go home sooner, and they're not willing to stand up for their convictions, even to the point of releasing a pedophile back into the public, against peer pressure. Either way it doesn't say much about them or our justice system.

So why would any one behave like this? Yes, that's right, money. It turns out they're both writing books about 'the experience.' This leads to a much more important question: who is going to pay to read a book written by people who sound so stupid? And of course the answer: millions of Americans. I need to do something high-profile so I can write a book and get rich. Apparently its the American way.

Here is my final scary thought: if 'get out the vote' efforts are largely successful then the same people that pay money to read a book by somebody who sounds really stupid about a court case (that they probably followed closely on TV) involving an eccentric, out-of-fashion pop star are the same people who are going to elect the most powerful man or woman on the earth. That scares me.