Did the jury thing this morning. Without breaking confidentiality**, the case was on a subject that I have EXTREMELY strong emotions about. I made it clear that I wouldn’t be able to be objective, and got freed, honestly.
The ‘one day or one trial’ system means that I’m ALL FREE NOW, after one morning in hell.
On a practical level I’m just too old to handle a week of exhaustion, so the subject was fortunate. I got the feeling that oldness wasn’t going to be an excuse, but I couldn’t honestly plead emotions on most other subjects.
Back in 2014 my attitude toward all governments was a tad less ferocious. The 2014 case came close to an old aggravation, but I felt that I could be objective, and I was. Since 2020 I don’t give the tiniest fuck about abstract fakes like “justice” and “democracy”. I just want to avoid ASSISTING the monsters. Desistance, not resistance or assistance.
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Local note: This was the first time I’d been to downtown Spokane since the previous trial in 2014. Conditions there are definitely worse. Normal business types are still around, but the crackheads and meth ravers dominate. As they do everywhere, except the gated suburbs where the rulers live. The “city” “government” and the idiot urbanists are focusing on CLIMATE EMERGENCY while the real human city is dying from CRIME EMERGENCY. We had 300 overdose deaths last year and zero CLIMATE EMERGENCY deaths.
Big city downtowns were hellish in the 70s, and we’re back in hell now, with nicer buildings.
**After the case is decided I’ll write about the case itself. I respect the confidentiality rule because I know that the purpose of language is to keep things inside a circle. If I break this rule I’ll be an activist, not a desistor!
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