Do You Have Confidence in the Current Judicial System?
Posted: Sunday, April 2nd 2006
Citizens continue to support the jury system, despite frequent false and misleading attacks by a few corporate lapdogs masquerading as various concerned organizations.
The most recent unbiased survey was conducted by the American Bar Association (“ABA”) and can be found here. One important finding is the large percentage of support for the system from those who have actually served on a jury.
87% of those called for jury duty believe that jury duty is an important civic duty even if it’s inconvenient.
The majority of those who served were willing to serve again.
We are at a time when our country’s dedication to and confidence in our legal system remains constant, in spite of the non stop attacks of many front groups pretending to be concerned individuals and businesses. This raises the question of who are these fringe groups attempting to change the legal system and what's in it for them? Unless you’ve been living under a rock you probably already know the answer because of the millions of dollars they’ve spent to convince you that you and your neighbors shouldn’t be allowed to hold corporations responsible for the injuries they do to people, other businesses and the environment.
Here are a few of the biggest polluters:
- Chamber of Commerce
- llinois Civil Justice League (essentially Ed Murnane & Allen Adomite)
- Hospitals
- Insurance companies
- Republican party
Here are some links to information about how these front organizations are joined at the hip:
- StealthPacs.org
- StealthPacs.org - Coalition Partner
- Lawsuit Abuse Reform
- Legal Reform in the News
- Institute for Legal Reform
You can also do your own searches and you’ll see the same groups, in fact, the same people surface time and time again. You won’t have any problems finding information on these groups because they spend their time and lots of money putting out misinformation and disinformation about the legal system. Apparently, one goal of their propaganda is to get the average person to lose enough confidence in the legal system, so these extreme corporate groups can change the rules to guarantee they and their clients are never again held accountable for their actions in a court of law.
A 2004 survey performed by the Americal Bar Association showed that average working people continued to reject the strained arguments pushed by these fringe groups despite the concerted effort to destroy confidence in the current judicial system.