claiming that people are too stupid to disregard previous information about a trial when they're selected for jury duty is shameful and disingenuous. i could believe the moon is made of cheese, but if i'm asked to do a scientific examination of a rock sample from the moon i'm not going to claim it's cheese despite the evidence i'm collecting from the machines. in a courtroom jurors aren't expected to be blank slates, they are known to have biases in thinking and perception, democratic justice only requires that they leave those biases aside for the purposes of deliberation and decision making. it is absolutely my right to prejudice my fellow british men against terrorists, it is absolutely the court's right to demand that they ignore me when they get sent to the jury room. to try to silence me because you don't trust jurors is evil and wrong.
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