Oddbean

What cost is there to doing what he suggests specifically? The #secession group in #Texas has been advocating for bringing that to the ballot for some time, and they have not been “disappeared”. Has anyone you know tried suggesting that to their state “representative” and faced reprisal? What could happen to them, for example, if a significant part of retired #American “concons” , independents and #libertarians began actively seeking being on local juries and exercising their #jury #nullification power? They would crash the whole absurd and crooked #legal , #court and #prison system there! A prominent American #libertarian - Tom Woods - even wrote a #howto #book on that a decade ago: https://tomwoods.com/books/nullification/ If such an opportunity existed in my territory, i would. Point is, Americans say “they couldn’t do anything about the injustice”, even when one of them gives them effective options that would hardly cost them any effort, and certainly no individual reprisal.