GL>  GL> And from the "we figured that department".. most lawyers now
GL>  GL> feel that McVeigh will not be able to get a fair trial anywhere
GL>  GL> in the country
GL>  MS>
GL>  MS>     If he is tried in Oklahoma or anywhere else in farm country, 
GL> McVeigh
GL>  MS> will be tried before a jury which will almost surely have at 
GL> least one
GL>  MS> farmer who either was a victim of a Farmers' Home Administration
GL>  MS> foreclosure or who had a relative or close friend who was a 
GL> victim of 
GL> a
GL>  MS> FmHA foreclosure.
GL>  MS>     As a lawyer, I predict a hung jury for that reason.
GL>  MS>
GL> I'm not so sure.  Even though the above may be true, that person
GL> would view it as a terrorist act against civilians, more so than
GL> an act against the government.
    All it takes to get a hung jury is for just _one_ juror to hold out for 
acquittal.  Even if you're right that about the other 11 seeing it the way 
the prosecutor will want, that other single juror will make for a hung jury.
GL> FHA office, it may be different.  On the other side of the coin,
GL> which is a *very* important side, is that McVeigh will be either
GL> Acquited or a hung jury which a few agent provocateurs (such as
GL> in the L.A. Riots) would stir up the people to riot, allowing
GL> ALL government troops in to control it. A very possible senario.
    You're not observing a key difference: the rioters in L.A. were from 
neighborhoods chronically prone to crime (including rioting), but OKC showed 
no looting after the bombing.
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