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This angry juror finds government guilty — of wasting everyone’s time

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I shouldn’t get so angry. It isn’t healthy.

Last month, New York state summoned me to jury duty.

I went, of course. It’s the law, and my obligation. 

A jury may protect the innocent from government abuse: Ordinary citizens, not officials, decide if you are guilty.

But doing our patriotic duty shouldn’t mean surrendering hours of our lives to bureaucratic indifference.

Serving justice is important.

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Sitting around doing nothing isn’t.

During my 50 years of consumer reporting, I’ve watched greedy capitalists constantly make improvements and find better ways to do things.

They use computers, adjust hours, reduce wait times and so on.

If they don’t, we consumers quickly switch to competitors who will.

But government bureaucracies — courts, the DMV, the passport office — have no competitors.

So they don’t try very hard.   

Government can just operate by force.

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