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"Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<D_y89.1880$Il4.601004@news2.telusplanet.net>...
> "Scott Helms" <shelms1@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:756bd789.0208201207.67ea58f2@posting.google.com...
> > Barbara Bomberger <barbarabomberger@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>  news:<oj5alu4hgfmu4621bnkucfgsv6tgl4esas@4ax.com>...
> > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:47:44 -0400, "catlady"
> > > <lovemycats*meowmeow*@postmark.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >"Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.com> wrote in message
> > > >> "Scott Helms" <shelms1@charter.net> wrote in message
>  
> > > >> > Tell them you moved away and are no longer a resident of Oakland.
>  And
> > > >> > do cancel your voter registration there, for Pete's sake.
>  
> > > >> Counselling someone to commit a felony, I see. You are one fine
>  citizen.
> > > >
> > > >Skipping out on jury duty is a felony???  Oughtta be fun picking the
>  jury
> > > >pool for *that* trial....
> > >
> > > In general, I'm finding this thread pretty appalling.
> > >
> > > Both the seeming lack of respect for what is a fundamental process of
> > > our judicial system, and the "situation ethics" of avoidance.
> >
> > Do you consider your civic duty to be more important than taking care
> > of your family?
> 
> That attitude results in a "everyone out for themselves" result, in other
> words, "the law of the jungle" vs. civilized society.

Looking out for yourself and your family first is what American way is
all about.  Duty to the state is entirely secondary.  Actually, in
theory, the state has a duty to the people, not the other way around.