Now you’ve gone and done it, Commissioner Jim Eckstein. You have alleged a grand conspiracy.

You’ve accused fellow Commissioner Dale Pinkerton of cutting the two elected jury commissioner posts to gain leverage in defamation lawsuits that he and others have filed against you. And you’ve claimed Pinkerton’s real motivation was to enable county President Judge Thomas Doerr to taint the jury pool for those lawsuits.

You said, “I don’t have a crystal ball, but I have a theory of just how far this county government has regressed into an unethical abyss.”

The thing about theories, Mr. Eckstien, is that they don’t hold up in court without evidence. And the evidence stacks up against your conspiracy theory.

For starters, the elimination of the jury commissioners was to save money. Improved technology has rendered the office redundant, according to state legislation allowing counties to eliminate the posts. The county court administration previously stated it could absorb the duties of the part-time jobs without hiring additional staff.

Second, as Judge Doerr pointed out in response to your allgations, “It is not possible for anyone in any way to alter the process.”

Doerr can’t taint a jury because judges don’t pick jurors; rather, the attorneys for both sides of a lawsuit select them from a pool of prospective jurors. The jury pool is derived using a computer system drawing names from voter registrations. And all of this is done in public. There is nothing to hide; in fact, there is nothing that can be hidden.

Your comparison of potential jury tampering with the infamous 1980 rigging of the Pennsylvania Lottery is a little ridiculous, too. As you should recall, the “triple six fix” conspirators were caught and sent to prison — convicted on the evidence of their tampering.

Finally, you draw the third county commissioner, Bill McCarrier, into your theory, alleging he conspired with Doerr to issue a court order directing a sheriff’s deputy be stationed in the commissioners office.

You maintain Doerr’s order was politically motivated. The judge, McCarrier and others who work with you say your agitated and aggressive conduct warrant the additional security.

The evidence they cite indicates additional security might be a good idea.

Well, Commissioner Eckstein, if a county judge and commissioners are conspiring against you as you contend, then show us the evidence, not theories.