It is probably my paranoid mind: Ever since my wife got selected for Grand jury duty We've been

[diabeticman]

noticing our computer acting weird. At times our cursor seems to fight our mouse movements and even at times it seems the cursor is being moved either on it's own or by someone else.


At times our computer is so slow I feel like I'm dealing with dial up.


Please ease my mind and tell me that the Government DOES NOT spy on Jurors.


And speaking of which this jury duty is making my wife's job harder. She works with physically challeneged people in their homes. Her job is to help them lead independent lives and beable to live on their own instead of going to nursing homes.

Her clients need her there and she lost out on one job because the woman needed my wife to be able to travel at a moments notice for days at a time because she does a lot of work in Harrisburg fighting for aid and phyiscally challenge rights to stay independent.


This whole 18 month thing is just a waist of her time and mine. The more she is there the more she doesn't want to vote again. The more she sees how the laws are specificially to either entrap a person or purposely put them behind the bars of a for profit prison system she is sick that she has to vote the way she does sometimes because in the eyes of the laws written the person is guilty but she would LOVE to see these people who write these laws a certain way behind bars.

How do I help her through this situation so she can be sane her whole life.

[nebenaube]

1. Secure your computer...

then request the ISP change your IP address if it's a static address.

[diabeticman]

8. I will look into doing that.

[KT2000]

2. A friend has had similar things happen

she found that someone is using her computer for wireless.

[diabeticman]

5. We do have a wireless wire system as well. I will try and figure out if someone is.

[msanthrope]

3. Tell Agent Mike this is a joke!!!

Seriously, though.....please delete this post. I've just figured out where, and probably which grand jury your wife is on. And what she's telling you is most likely a violation of Rule 6(e), which is explained in detail in the Handbook she was given on the first day.

[diabeticman]

7. She HAS NOT told me details. She has just told me her feelings. She is basically fustrated as hell

Anything she hears she doesn't say a word to me. She has just said after serving she is seriously thinking of renoucing her citizenship.


I don't know how you can tell which Grand Jury she is on considering in out Federal judicial area there are 5 different grand juries rotating.

[bemildred]

4. She can vote any way she wants to.

She just can't SAY that she is. I mean they might kick her off the jury, but it doesn't sound like that is much of a threat.

[darkangel218]

6. O.O

.....

[AnnieBW]

9. You've probably got a virus

Did you run an updated virus scan? I'd guess that option more than I would someone in the Guvmint spying on a grand juror.

[diabeticman]

11. you are probably right.

[FSogol]

12. or bad Spyware. n/t

[hootinholler]

10. She is allowed to vote her conscience

It's a little known fact that is the foundation of the jury system. If the jury disagrees with the law or the law's purpose, or even if they don't, the jury may do what ever they want.

[diabeticman]

14. I will remind her of that. Maybe it will help her.

[H2O Man]

13. Yep.

You are paranoid. But they still might be watching you.

I'd suggest that you NOT listen to Bill Cosby's classic, "Monster Chicken Heart." Bump-bump. Bump-bump.

It's outside your door. Bump-bump. Bump-bump.

[WillowTree]

15. In the first place, a grand jury doesn't decide guilt or innocence.

A grand jury only decides if enough evidence has been presented to warrant that a trial should take place.

And while I think 18 months is more than a bit much (here a grand jury sits one day a week for three months), I'm a huge proponent of people sucking it up and serving whatever jury duty is required of them. Not much is asked of us as citizens and if good people don't accept the responsibility of serving jury duty, then Heaven help the people who are accused, particularly if they're not guilty. Let us not forget that one day any of us could find ourselves sitting on that side of the courtroom.

And I'd be willing to bet cold, hard cash that it's some sort of virus or malware that's messing with your computer.

[diabeticman]

18. Yes I am aware that she doesn't decide guilt or innocence SHE decides IF the case can go forward AND

she feels the government is manipulating her into forcing the case to go forward by the way these laws are written.

This grand jury is in session every month for 1 to 3 days. we are traveling 110 miles round trip they don't pay enough in milage. She is missing work and isn't getting compensated for the difference that she is loosing out on a day's wages.

You may feel a person should suck it up and deal with it BUT my wife does not having that feeling and I do not!

[Tallulah]

16. my laptop

started doing all you posted. I updated Java and it stopped.

[HipChick]

17. I have a black helicopter that flies over my house at night....

It hovers..