Blanket of Justice

"That prosecutor is a shark! He has skillfully and aggressively suffocated the burden of proof with his heavy blanket of circumstantial evidence.

I admit, it is a pretty blanket. And it is tempting to cover ourselves in all the hearsay and eyewitness accounts. It is especially tempting to tune out the ring of truth in the accused’s testimony!

We, the jury, were handpicked. Make no mistake - we were purposefully planted on this panel to act as puppets in the litigators' horse and pony show.

As I see it, there are two layers to life - the justice system being no exception. The top layer is the superficial bullshit layer in which appearances are everything and we placate ourselves by playing house under the pretense of the golden rule, displaying photos of our pearly white, exotic delusion for all to see. The foundation layer... now that requires brain cells to manuever, for it is fortified by manipulation, corruption, and the imperfect underbelly of humankind.

I challenge each of you to dive beneath the face value of this case. Excavate your gut instincts and intuition. Listen to what is not being said just as keenly as to what is.

I know who the real killer is.

And I also know that not one of you wants to believe me because my neatly-pressed designer outfit, regal posture, and academia-tinged speech does not fit your image of evil.

So, fellow puppets... let's go deliver our unanimous guilty verdict to the court so that the entire surface layer of our great city can rest easy tonight."