Things Random

By Kamal Elkhalil

Things Random is a collection of beautiful thoughts that discuss and address a variety of issues that range from social, philosophical and racial at times in a very unique and very un-traditional way. This view of things came about and encouraged by the fact that when I started writing my ideas I was armed and encouraged by the fact that I am writhing this particularbook to please myself. I hope you like the thoughts as I did and still do. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kamal Elkhalil
• Release date: Feb 12, 2024
• ISBN: 9781733500456

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JURY SELECTION

One day I was riding the city bus to work or to somewhere similar to that and while on the bus I somehow found myself listening to the radio or to people talking, one or the other, or maybe both, and somehow came to my attention that the unemployment rate was very high, especially among those black and Latino people. My understanding which comes from a long time of life experiences plus common sense indicate that un-employed people are likely to be with less or no money than those people with jobs, also highly likely to be in greater need of money than any other group of people, and also highly likely to have more time than what they need. Broke plus having plenty of time to do nothing with and in great need of money, again highly likely creates a situation and or a recipe for disaster. With that stated; the jury system that we as a nation use in our courts in most cases is a good system that works great, law wise, I am talking about the idea of having 12 people or so to decide the fate of a stranger. Here are some facts about most of the people who get selected for jury duty; some of them cry so much, simply because they hate the fact that they have to serve as jurors, obviously for good reasons some of which are; the selected person gets sequestered away from their dear family members and friends, sometimes for weeks in a jail like situation-a nice hotel, never the less with limited, well everything so he-she may make a decision on sending someone else to jail or worse, (can you imagine the impact of being in jail on a person who decides on putting someone else in jail or worse, likely not so good. These jurors want to get out of jail so likely they will make a quick decision regardless of fairness or not). Another fact is that most people by getting selected lose some or all of their income; a jury duty’s day pay is a fraction of the regular pay. Only these two factors might lead to making un-just decisions, not to mention other more dangerous and far- reaching factors, such as those that go directly into solving some jurors’ financial and fun problems, especially with the existence of such smart people as the following case might illustrate.

IS IT LEGAL? I KNOW IT IS INTELLIGENT

A boxing promoter got into serious problems with the law in two different cases; got two separate court dates for each case, for the first trial the jury selection went on normally and so did the trial after which the promoter ended up not liable or guilty of anything, consequently won the case. Everybody involved eventually went home, most of the jurors were happy it was over, the promoter was definitely the happiest it was over, of course with effortlessly winning the case. A week or so later every member of the jury that acquitted the boxing promoter got a round trip ticket to Barbados, a five- star hotel stay for a week plus a $1000 spending money. Of course, after self- questioning the legality of such gift every member of that jury accepted the gifts and enjoyed the vacation. The most interesting part of the story is that every little detail of it was all over the media, and more interesting is the fact that coincidently I was chosen as a juror for the next trial for the same boxing promoter. So being a financially challenged American who never dreamed of seeing any of these islands or a vacation of any sort in decades, I did not come up with any excuses not to serve in that jury, and luckily the legal questions about the legality of the gifts were answered by the previous jury, somehow I ended up in Hawaii where I stayed in a five star hotel with a $1000 spending money.

CASE IN POINT

Get the Supreme Court to make the decision of having only if possible the jury to be picked up from a pool of unemployed people, because among other reasons the jail for the chosen jurors will be a nice hotel, and whatever the pay I am sure it will feel like a real pay- day. And hopefully by doing that everybody will be happy and produces a just judgment. One more thing, the Supreme Court’s decision would be more popular than that of it Okaying to limitlessly donate to politicians.

What I will do

Here is what I will do when I get or make my first five million dollars

I will buy a house

Two brand new cars

Set aside my son’s college expenses

Buy a DOLLAR TREE franchise

Donate some $$$ to my charity

Experience the comfort of such hotels as the RITZ-CARLTON, HILTON and the likes, and I don’t mean for a night or two.

Visit the Great Wall of China, the Yosemite Park and those presidents on the rocks.

Experience the long sun-less days of the Winter Alaska, and the dark-less nights of summer Alaska.

Experience the joy of paying off the mortgage of a struggling family.

I will try to prove to at least to one person that racism is a state of ignorance.

And then when I get used to being rich and get tired of it, I will invest a considerable amount of money to explore the reason behind giving our billions of dollars to countries with a few or no homeless people compared to us, countries with free medical care to all of its citizens regardless of income.

SIDE NOTE

I am not against immigration, I am a result of it, but help me make sense of this; we claim that we cannot secure our borders when we have our armed forces and all this technology used all over the world to secure other countries’ borders. And I don’t mean separating kids from their parents as a tool.

MARRIAGE

To my understanding there is no such a thing as same- sex marriage, because marriage is about the very meaning of life itself, reproduction is what I mean and bringing about new people, again I know you can bring new people to life without a traditional marriage, after all in most cases a man and a woman can do, and it has been happening many times over and over again, but again to my point- only through two of the opposite sex relationships new people come about, which explains my point, because the very relationship that brings new people to life is the best explanation of what marriage really is. So again marriage is not or should not only be about, or limited to love, sex, and companionship and definitely not to that paper, and certainly not limited to societal or any other rights, simply because if those noble life characteristics are sometimes hardly achieved through traditional marriage, they will definitely likely to be achieved through same- sex type of relationship, why not in case you ask. Which strengthen my point evident in the fact that a relationship whether formed out of two of the same- sex or two of the opposite sex has the same chance of achieving the same goals equally the failure to achieve such goals? So marriage to me is the one that brings about new life aside from all the extras however, the way a person chooses to live should not negatively