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In our Country of Laws, our Mass Media pushes the case for Jury Nullification

Guy T. Sturino
January 29, 2006
This from ABC News, January 29, 2006, regarding a recent poll. “. . . A better result for Bush . . . is the apparent lack of traction for critics of the warrantless NSA wiretaps. A clear majority now says such wiretaps are acceptable, 56 percent, compared with 43 percent who call them unacceptable.”

As I read that I immediately thought of the headline from the Daily Mail, "How can 59,000,000 people be so dumb?" Has the country really become suddenly stupid? Or, is it more likely that because of a barrage of jabberwoky nonsense from the White House, more than half the people have been stunned into a comatose ‘deer in the headlights’ state of brain malfunction.

The President broke the law. Since it has become known that the President broke the law he has been lobbying incessantly to convince us it was necessary. I wonder where he got that idea. Even his supporters fall short of calling what he did legal, but they are hell bent on making us believe it was necessary and therefore OK. Wake up America! It is not OK! It is wrong! Wiretapping Americans without the court’s permission is against the law! Why, on earth, is this so hard to understand?


Just because people sometimes feel sympathetic to the plight and drive of vigilantes, they still get convicted in court. We all recognize that their actions are illegal no matter how heart string plucking sympathetic. The President’s actions are no different. So, how large a pile of bovine feces will we allow to collect before we yell, ENOUGH!?

Yes, this is a rant. But, rather than just dismiss it, take this to the bank: if we don’t yell ENOUGH very loud and very soon, the President will continue to assail our senses until we yell UNCLE, after which it won’t matter a tinkers damn what anyone thinks.
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Guy T. Sturino

My Name is Guy Sturino and I came to be in November of 1940 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. By the time I reached six years old my dad was back home and we had defeated both Germany and Japan.

The country was riding high. Sure, times were tough. Both my parents worked fairly regularly, but still we moved often and we spent a few of those early years in government project housing. TV came to our house when I was eleven.

When I was twelve I became an alter boy at Holy Rosary Catholic Church. Like all alter boys, I even thought someday I'd become a Priest. By the time I finished high school that illusion was gone and with it my fondness for the Catholic church. But, that's another story all by itself.

In high school Civics class we learned that we were the greatest. We learned that Democracy meant capitalism and Communism was the same as socialism. We were taught that Democracy was good and that socialism was bad. At the same time Joe McCarthy was telling us that Communists were hiding under our beds and if the bomb didn't get us those Commies sure would.

I took all that with me when I joined the Marines in '59 when my education really got started. In Thailand I learned about Buddhism, and how people who had very little and worked from dawn to dusk every day were the happiest and most sharing as a group that I had met up until that time. In Japan I saw and lived in a culture built around working together to achieve great things as opposed to the do-it-yourself rugged individualism expected in the American culture. Along the way I got to visit the Philippines and South Korea.

When I came home in '63 I drove a bread truck for a while and then hand poured aluminum in a foundry until the GI bill was signed in '65. I got a degree in Applied Science and Technology and went to work for American Motors. After a few years as a chassis engineer I moved over to quality control and eventually traveled Europe assessing quality systems in supplier manufacturing facilities. By the time I had interacted with workers in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy, as well as China, South Korea and Japan, I had a totally new perspective on what was a fair return for a days work.

I worked for a couple of other companies before vacationing in Virginia Beach with my daughter and deciding that the tickets in my pocket for Riyadh and New Deli were simply too much after just returning from Beijing. I found a pizza shop for sale and bought it. Unfortunately I wasn't very successful as a restaurateur, and took a job as a substitute teacher for a year.

Undaunted, I applied for a job as a teacher assistant the next year and got it. Two years later I was teaching algebra in an alternative high school where, at 62 years old I retired.
I already had a serious interest in politics, but having the time to actually watch the House and the Senate on Cspan really got my interest. I learned things about our government that I certainly never heard about in school and I had to wonder why not. About 2005 I decided to begin sharing my thoughts on the web. By the middle of 2007 I sort of lost, not the interest, but the drive to communicate.

Recent events have changed that.

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