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Are we ready for the JURY System?
Topic Started: Oct 9 2011, 08:39 PM (183 Views)
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Someone I know responded with this message to a woman who was inviting him to join their advocacy to adopt the Jury System in the Philippines:
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Thank you for inviting me to your passion for a jury system. Well, my personal circumstances hinder me from joining you. For one thing, while your passion is worthy there is, from my perspective, a prerequisite, an anchor if you will, for its success: a healthier economy.

By the way, yes, in spite of my advancing age and in spite of having lived longer abroad than in the homeland, I still have a loyal and nostalgic interest in what is happening there. It would be unusual for any homegrown Filipino to lose interest in how the homeland is faring no matter how hopeless things seem to appear and even if this is not only the generation that has been hoping for change for the better.

Since forever I remember that people had been screaming for change, change, change - always hoping, hoping, and hoping...

It seems that not much has happened.

The explosion of the population has run far ahead of any improvement in the economy. It has to be noted that, indeed, there had been economic improvements, albeit modest. Ice cream, as a euphemistic example, was unheard of by Filipino children a century ago. Today, ice cream is as ubiquitous as the common cold to their noses.

Do-gooders - unfortunately a frustrated minority - have particular agendas in trying to help correct the wrongs in the country. They are all agendas with merits, but each agenda, by itself alone, may not be a cure-all wonder drug for the sick country.

There are people who want to concentrate on quality education for the masses to correct a flaw in the national mindset of "going with the flow" that encourages graft and corruption. But quality education is a frustrating goal as long as a poor economy inhibits the government's ability to achieve that goal.

Some others, out of compassion for the underclass, do all kinds of charity which, in some instances, promote undesirable mendicancy. There are public relations-oriented distribution of goodies every Christmas.There are medical-dental missions that merely offer band-aid help to the destitute. The goodies will be good for a few days. The band aid immediately falls away as soon as the medical mission leaves because people cannot afford maintenance follow ups.

One leader tried autocratic governance but such kind of governance led to more frailties to the country in the form erosion of protection of human rights and corrupt enrichment of abusive characters in authority. Abusive leaders will thrive over people who, because of being in the underclass, have no choice but to kneel before the powerful.

There are people who prefer violent resistance. This is repulsive to people, rich or poor. Repression of violence drains government resources that are much needed more for productive purposes.

Then there are the legal minded people who may want to rearrange the mechanics of the legal system to give more teeth to justice in punishing the bad for the good of society. So here comes your passion to set up a jury system in the country.

But a jury system, whether pregnant with merits or not, may be of less priority to people who are more concerned with where to get the next meal.

Economics, in other words, may seem to be the anchor of the various agendas including a campaign for a jury system. Without a healthy economy all other agendas may not be enough to solve the country's problems. How to improve the economy? That is for economists to solve. They should be listened to.

With this dreamy utopia people may then have the luxury of studying carefully and objectively a legal system that includes trials by jury, a health care system that may last longer than band aids, an educational system that makes people idealistic as to avoid voting for inept characters, etc. etc.
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