Going to Jail for Being a Democrat: How Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Got Roved

It's going to take Congressional action or a presidential pardon after the election, because the federal judiciary is so loaded with extremist right wing judges that it's unlikely Seligman will get justice through the courts. This is worse than Watergate, but nobody seems to want to do anything about it.

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The Bush administration: Try 'em & Fry 'em

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Are they just an advisory board?

If they ask for documents, and then don't get them...shouldn't that be a problem?

If they ask someone to testify before them in committee and they don't...shouldn't that be a crime they prosecute?

I am so tired of hearing how anyone and everyone connected to the current administration can 'ignore' Congress. This needs to stop now.

Impeachment being off the table is itself a sign of corruption within Congress. What nonsense. I have heard whispers that actually the administration is threatening to go into Iran and invoke martial law if they initiate these proceedings. It's terrifying what the USA has become in the last eight years.

Even if the populace awakens, it may be too late to do anything. If I could post what needs to be done here without immediately acquiring a label as an inciter of violence or terrorism, I would. Too bad that's too dangerous at this stage. But I think we all know what really needs to be done if we are to survive this assault on America.

It would start with a list of folks associated with this administration that are in need of some serious secret imprisonment and waterboarding. And then it would need of course a group of courageous citizens to take on the task of doing it. Anyone?

obi

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To begin with, why aren't the Dems doing MUCH more to make sure that ALL elections have a paper trail? Even these primaries now are filled with questionable precinct and district results.

I am flummoxed and baffled and bilious.

Swear to God, if the next president/congress is Democratic, and doesn't vigorously pursue investigations of what's gone on these last 7 years, in so many various directions, they can kiss ALL my future votes goodbye for good.

All this noise we're hearing now about hope and working together will have been so much manipulative deceit if what's clearly been broken isn't carefully studied and fixed so it can't happen again.

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Rove’s a buzzard, all right! Here’s part of a hip-hop song I wrote about him:

Who can start a nasty rumor?
Give Democracy a tumor?
Character assassination –
Campaign of disinformation –
‘Screw the People! Screw the nation!’
Karl Rove. Karl Rove.

If you’d like to see the animated video, go to YouTube.com and search for
“karl rove's pitchfork”.

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That shamefull story just proves that your are no better than russia, or egypt, or Turkey, or the banana republics, or vichy, or iran, except....
If you get all those judges, prossecutors, government officials and president IN JAIL !!!

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It would be very patriotic if a popular web site
published the home address of Karl Rove in every issue.

Karl Rove
4925 Weaver Ter, NW
Washington, DC 20016

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Scrushy sitting on the Certificate of Need board is a severe conflict of interest in itself. This is a board that controls health care companies, of which he was a CEO of one. How blatant can you get?

See Ten needed fixes for the health care system

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Were it not for Thom Hartmann of Air America Radio, I would not even be aware of this outrageous story. For months Thom has kept the saga of Don Seigelman out in front, condemning the very idea that in the United States of America, a main stream politician like the former Alabama governor could be held as a political prisoner. A week ago last night, CBS's 60 Minutes finally devoted a segment to the scandal.

This is the real story behind the US Attorney scandal. For this one deed alone, George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzalez should be sent to federal prison for the rest of their fucking lives. Whon knows how many other innocent, hapless Democrats were railroaded this way? One thing is absolutely certain: very soon, people are going to start to talk.

Will not one member of the White House press corps have the courage to stand up and demand that the First Fool explain the actions of the people in his employ? Don't hold your breath.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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this case is obviously just one of the turds floating in the republican political pool. they ain't baby ruths, folks. how many others are there, that we do not and will not know about? what are the fears that are keeping the honest republicans (giving the benefit of the doubt) and the democrats from taking action against these criminals? america held hostage - going on 8 years now. will there be an election? watch for an "october surprise" - martial law might be in our future.

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Stories like this give me a sense of what has become of our nation, and a view of the obstacles we have to overcome. I am tempted to say that the answer (in the idealistic abstract) would be to outlaw the Republican Party, but that's not right either. That's essentially what they have tried to do to everyone else. What we do need (and I never thought I would hear myself say this) is a little law and order. We need to go after all the people in government, on either side of the aisle and in the employ of either party, who break the law and in so doing rob the people of their government. We need to prosecute these malefactors and punish them appropriately, remembering that their crimes effect not just the couple of people damaged by most conventional (non-white collar) crime, but dozens, hundreds, thousands, even millions of people. We have all been hurt, and hurt badly, by the current crop of "I'm above the law" creeps in high office, and by their predecessors who got away with their crimes thus encouraging this lot. We need to go after them, one at a time, with strictest honesty and adherence to the law, and set an example to future generations not of what you can get away with, but of what the people think of those who steal our government, our rights, our money, our security, our position in the world to say nothing of our very lives. We could start by forcing people to honor subpoenas.
I'm beginning to ramble, forgive me.

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I am constantly amazed at the absolute corruption of this country. Until the Bush Administration, I was perfectly content believing that the government protected the people. Amazing how many corrupt people there are in this country, willing to screw others over for their own benefit, isn't it? Amazing that the POTUS can sit up there in his throne and be so corrupt and stupid and yet nothing is done about it. Karl Rove et. al. still walk around this country as free men, Bush still sits on his throne, and C. Rice still struts around yakking a bunch of mumbo jumbo. Innocent people sit in jail while the criminals run this country and murder our young in an illegal and unjust war, and it's all for money. The corruption in Iraq is absolutely dumbfounding and yet nothing is done about it. Federal prosecutors are not only willing but able to make a mockery of our justice system and here we all sit, at the mercy of these corrupt and disgusting authority figures who are supposed to be role models for the children we have left in this country. I do believe a revolution is in our future. How else can all this corruption, greed, and mismanagement be corrected? I'm so very disappointed in this country. What a shame, what disappointment to realize that what seemed like such a wonderful system isn't any better than any of the other governments we spend so much time criticizing. How could this country tolerate someone like Bush at the helm? The name Bush says volumes and defines this country's demise. Imagine, the corruption and greed so evident in our country can now and forever more be defined simply by saying "Bush."

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The Bush Administration has corrupted the Justice Department to the extent that it is a misnomer. All levels of government have been infected with cronies who are destroying fairness and justice. It is disgraceful. I hope the new administration sweeps them all out.

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Great article, because we need to know what the fascist right wing is doing BUT What do we do now?
Here is all the information. Who do we write to? Who do we email?

I have known since day one that Rove, Shrub, Cheney were all
anti-American and pro rich and powerful. The fascist part came couple of years later.

Seigleman is the one who needs help. For those who think things will get better, probably think planes that crash with democrats on board are accidents.

How the HELL does a judge get away with NOT following the RULE OF LAW???

"Siegelman has been in prison for over a year. His appeal cannot move forward, because Judge Fuller's court has not produced a transcript of the trial needed for appeal. In other words, Republicans are preventing Siegelman from being released on appeal by a higher court.
Karl Rove refused to testify about the case before Congress."

I too say they all belong in prison IN that special one we have you know the one where we don't torture and don't break the laws of humanity... they should go to Hotel Gitmo and have the same treatment... others have.

And if anyone wondered why that scurrilous Karl Rove left the white house?
Easy He needed the time to do his dirty undercover
attacks on innocent people. To clear the way for another crooked election. He is out there, working on making the voter fraud of 2004 look like a walk in the park.
And to that end.... the fact that no one is warning about it or talking about it. No democrat is saying anything, no MSM is saying anything, not many blogs are either... If it's obvious to me then that means something else is going on... the fight between dems and right wings just a show to throw us off? Why else would we not discuss the very thing that could put another dangerous Idiot Bush and his handlers in the White House?
The right to me don't seem to be getting too worked up over losing this 2008 election, knowing them you think they would be foaming at the mouth. On smearing dems more? What is that card up their sleeve?
All the defeats that will come are brewing underground and the public is unaware and those in power who know, do not speak...
The emperor still isn't wearing any clothes.

They are hitting the Siegelman's of the political world, they have their operatives in place, ideological right wing judges, congresspersons, senators, hirering family members, and most importantly operatives AT THE POLLS, no safety measures in place so they can to do what has to be done.

Soon Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World will move from the
Sci. Fi. section of the Library to the Non Fiction section.
And no one is geared up for the fight. To these right wing fascists it's " like shooting ducks in a barrel"

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Parcel of bunk! The crimes of this administration began long, long before Siegelman. Tell me what was legitimate about Lynn Stewart. After that, everyone of those dirty SOBs should have been marched out and shot on the front lawn of the White House at dawn without a trial. Even worse, do you know that a couple months ago, those crooks found an excuse to send Stewart back to prison. My guess is that one way or another they will find a way to tell us, oops, Stewart/Siegelman was killed while trying to escape. I'm surprised that they haven't declared the Democratic Party to be criminal and illegal, like the Communist Party ... and that members are subject to the death penalty as supporters of Islamofascist terrorism.

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I've been following Dr. Roberts words for nearly a year now and continue to be amazed and inspired by his clarity of thought and expression. I once e-mailed him and told him, that he would be a good choice for Secretery of Treasury under a Ron Paul administration. He was nice enough to respond to me and I felt honored. In a perfect world, we would have great leaders like Ron Paul and Paul Craig Roberts. Honest, intelligent, truthful. Instead we are given choices selected for us by the MSM and the Militery-Industrial Complex. Candidates who lie to us and perpetuate the status quo. The next four years of more of the same, may well be the end of America that we all grew up to know and love. If only this was a more perfect world!

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Siegelman's airplane didn't suddenly burst into many small pieces in mid-air, which is normal for planes flying in winter, according to investigators of the Paul Wellstone crash.

Siegelman didn't die of US military anthrax mailed to him, like the photographer who once published a photo of a drunken Jenna Bush did.

Siegelman wasn't found dead in a motel room after vowing to expose election theft, he wasn't shot up in a car full of Italian diplomats on the road to the Baghdad airport, he wasn't burned up by phosphor bombs in Fallujah, and he wasn't found crushed by his own car up against a secret service building on Marvin Bush's estate. Like the Bush family nanny was, another case that was immediately deemed an accident and never investigated.

Siegelman is lucky, because American psychopaths are now operating completely out in the open, with total impunity. They could have tortured the guy to death on the front steps of the Supreme Court and it would never make it to the news.

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That same Karl Rove is running the campaign of Barrak Obama today.Obama is saying that he will appoint republicans to his cabinet,if elected.He is the Republican candidate.He has divided the Democratic party as it has never been divided before.If Obama wins the nomination,as it looks like he will,Rove and the swift boaters will desrtoy McCain again.Then they will have another puppet president controlled by Cheney/Rove and Bush.

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This should come as no surprise. Politically motivated prosecution has been the order of the day for quite some time now. When DOJ could not get a convication against LaRouche from a Boston federal jury, they finagled a mistrial there and docket shopped the case to the Northern Virginia jurisdiction. (The Boston jury was polled after the fact and the majority would've voted to acquit.) The Northern Virginia jury was stacked with administration toadies and LaRouche was packed off to jail. No one was willing to step up to the line to call DOJ on this travesty. But it was OK both with mainstream Democrats and Republicans because LaRouche is a political pariah. So now, politically motivated prosecutions are part of the game. Maybe if the Dems win the Whitehouse and thus control of DOJ they can pack a few Republicans off to prison. Woe betide the vanquished.

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These people(DONNY and KARL included)need to be severly punished for something. Might as well be this. It's a given that no one has what it takes to put the true "axis of evil"("w", DICKY, DONNY, KARL, Condo, and others)on trial for war crimes, murder, and thievery. I want these horrible people in a real prison for a very long time. I can't think of a better place for these jerks to observe just how low their legacy is going to be. Ken

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And this is what we know about. Imagine what goes on that's kept quiet. It might even explain why McCain is running for president. I don't believe he wants the job any more than I do. He's following orders. Laura is nothng more than a White House mole like Nancy Reagan was and still is. This whole crowd has to go and take Kissinger with them. Obama and Clinton
both deserve alot of credit. Thanks, ANNA

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Nothing will happen to these SOBs unless we stop being consumers and start being citizens again. Someone needs to take responsibility.

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It has been going on for many years. I served four years in federal prison, plus three more years of "supervised release" for a crime I did not commit. My prosecutor committed perjury and obstruction of justice. When I confronted him with this, he simply sneered at me, laughed in my face, and said "WE don't have to FOLLOW the law, we ARE the law!"

Needless to say, no one involved, except me, was interested in pursuing this.

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PS. This was in Georgia. There is a string of federal courts in the South who do this.

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Somebody really needs to take a closer looks at the way the Special Prosecutor went after then Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker to make room for Mike Huckabee.

Tucker had to cop of plea to what was almost certainly not a crime because he was dying of liver failure. He was able to avoid a trial and get a transplant.

Huckabee may have been the prototype for prosecuting a Democrat to have him replaced with a Republican.

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"Our Democratic Congress is ineffectual and can't fight its way out of a paper bag." "Dems are fraidy-cats." How many of us have heard or said this about our Congress, which doesn't really seem to want to do anything?

Could it be because they are running scared for VERY good reasons? I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories, and am not convinced (though I am not UNconvinced either) that Paul Wellstone was deliberately murdered. However, the evidence that Don Siegelman was railroaded into prison is damning. Our Dems might not be just wimps - it could well be they are truly afraid for their lives and freedom and with good reason. No wonder they don't stand up to Bush and his merrie crew of pirates and plunderers. Things have gotten a lot worse than most people realize.

The unfortunate Siegelman will probably need a presidential pardon to walk free. In the meantime - at least he's in a minimum-security, "country-club" prison and not doing truly hard time in a maximum security hell-hole on a chain-gang at risk of prison rape.

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There are worse things then being a democrat - what is the real story behind this

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Are you all 'shocked, simply shocked' to find that we have political prosecutions in the US? Get real, people.

I live in Nebraska where two innocent men have been incarcerated since 1970 in a COINTELPRO murder frame-up. One was just last summer denied a new trial; his request was based on the government's failure to provide exculpatory evidence to the defence at trial--sound familiar?

Amnesty International in Bremen Germany has adopted David Rice (now Mondo) and Ed Pointdexter as 'prisoners of conscience'-- prosecuted only because they were Black Panthers running an anti-poverty program in North Omaha.

This kind of thing goes on all the time in Amerika--and not just in the South, either.

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Innocent people are being thrown in prison for purely political reasons (in what has literally become Fascist America).
But hey, the TELECOMS (and various Bush officials) need immunity, according to the Bush administration.

These crime-bosses who rule over us wouldn't know justice if Lady Justice herself sent them all to Gitmo to be tortured.

And, oh yeah, only ranting about the injustices on Alternet won't change things. Writing letters to our representatives is a folly at best.
(And, don't hold out hope for a Democrat president -- McCain is leading Obama and Clinton in the polls.)
No, what we need now is a true revolution.
But that won't happen, will it?

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He was wrongfully prosecuted just because an Elephant couldn't beat him in an election. Then sent to prison on trumped up charges for a crime he didn't commit. This sounds like the old days of the Gulags in the Soviet Union. There is no difference.

This country is doomed.

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This nation has passed the point of no return to justice for anybody. It's gone and getting worse every day. They're coming for the leaders now, and soon, if dissenters speak out, they'll come for them too. It's like watching Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" in slow motion.

Amerikans are not waking up to the fact that our government has been taken over by criminals who make Hitler look like a saint. Until the Amerikan people come out of denial regarding that fact, things will proceed as the criminals wish.

The criminals are in control of all the weapons! It's like the foxes are in charge of the henhouse, and chickens are being mangled and killed, while the other chickens sit in denial that anything is even amiss. It makes me sick to watch, and nearly everybody I tell in my local world either doesn't believe me or looks at me like I'm a freak because I'm so distressed about losing my country.

Denial has killed America and turned it into Amerika. Seeing stories like this one just confirms it more every damned day. Who can make them behave and hold them accountable? It looks like the answer is - nobody, that's who. They're the most powerful people in the world and they've got all of our stuff, including massive mercenary armies, to back themselves up if we revolt.

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The crooks in this administration should be investigated (no more PROTECTED BY KING GEORGE II) then prosecuted, then jailed for lengthy terms. Wiping your ass with the U.S. Constitution won't be tolerated, even by Bush and his cronies. They are apparently above the law, now, but now won't last forever. I suspect that's why Bush is frothing at the mouth in order to get immunity for he, his clan, and the telecom companies that broke the law. If Bush and his cabal were as thoroughly investigated as Clinton, the list of felonies would make Vito Corleone proud. I wouldn't envy the next person who takes over from Bush, the WORST PRESIDENT EVER, as the work to repair the Bush damage will be monumental in scope and almost impossible too achieve. Hopefully President Obama will be up to the challenge

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This is more evidence that the Republicans are a coalition of aristocracy and theocracy. Neither one has any use for secular institutions such as "the rule of law". Kevin Phillips is RIGHT, the "Cousins Wars" continue and freedom is losing.

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Seligman is just taking the heat for the SEC, and the bush administration is just likely to do the bidding of metaphysics without thinking about integrity.
The real deal is blacks are not better athletes than whites. And that's the first thing you lay on the governor there.

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I wonder how many politicaly blackmailed and imprisoned there will be in the final count. Who will be writing American history books?

If we count all the NeoCons that have been busted protecting Bush and Co.........

.......Hell, we have to get list going. NoOne has compiled one yet of all the Bush criminals. Too, now we have to list all the blackmailed and political prisoners "they" have taken.

It just fathoms me how unconcerned the masses are of what is going on in this country. Yet as the primaries have shown, voting doesn't mean a damn thing, as well, that candidates as Kucinich have been barred from debating issues, thereby austensibly keeping the voters distrsacted by rhetoric.

What in this world can we do if revolution is not enacted?

I want to know why those that are in the military and in political office can't seem to get it together and unite to protect this country, an orgasnized coup de tate?

This is out side the fact that all the nations protecting forces have been sent abroad and there is no body here to protect us from the pirates that have taken over the country. (I mean the only militasry I have seen is a bunch of nibble kids in camophlaged fatigues).

Are we not suppose to have a "Home(Fauder)land SSecurity"?

SIDEBAR:
Did you see "Dateline's" little fear tactic last night showing the militaries new Microwave heat weapon for dispersiing (cooking) crowds. I guess we are going to have to become disidents.
Mask sure you all get task your mirrored shields to the next protest!
Gawd, it's going to start looking like 300 Spartans! Back to the Shield warfare on the home front.

(When will it be against the law to passively protect yourself ? Are Paint ball guns concidered lethal. David and Goliath tactics may be our only defense. But hell, spitting can get you busted too. How about farting? It may be our only hope!)

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If Obama gets the Democratic nod, as seems likely. and if he survives the swiftboating and other rovian dirty tricks, designed to bring out the worst in rascist degenerates, and if the election is too much of a landslide for even the rethug goon squad to falsify, then President Obama will have some REAL work to do in order to set our house in order. If prosecution of the bushies for their manifold capital crimes is not "on the table", then Obama's election victory will be one in name only. The ONLY way to get things started in the right direction and get us re-united as Americans again is to completely clean up the putrid mess created by the worst criminals ever to disgrace their offices.

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are we going to read all the details of this trumped up conviction while the Sielgleman languishes in jail? Is there no one who can fast track this investigation and get the man out?

Considering the suspicious burglaries, fires and car accidents involving Siegleman and the whistle blower, I can understand that Alabamians would be hesitant. But what about others in the rest of the country, all those 52 RETIRED US Attorneys, why aren't they actively campaigning to get the man out. So there is no use following the case, just sit back and wait until the next decent human beings inhabit the White House. They will have him pardoned with restitution.

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The jailing of this Democratic Governor is the perfect opportunity to "lance the facist boil" if someone-in the government-has the stomach to do it. Unfortunately the mainstream media is in the facists' pockets, however since this situation has so many OBVIOUS wrong-doings the media "maybe" forced to follow through on an investigation, retrial, and final resolution. The reason why is high-profile people are involved and touch this "American wound" in numerous ways. From Alabama to the US Justice Department to Bush and back again to federal judge appointments. You can unearth allot of "stuff" just with this one situation. The facists are not hiding any longer, and in situations like this they are testing the American people's complacency plus the media's ability to suppress...this is one step in many small steps and if unchecked will march future US citizens who disagree into prison.

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Wow...where have all the trolls gone? Where are the smug, self-righteous defenders of the Republican party now? Is there finally something bad enough, that stinks high enough that they don't dare show up to bark their pathetic, tired, cliche platitudes? To spew their filth at all who still believe in rule of law and Constitutional government? I was wondering how bad it would have to get...*sigh*.

A political party capable of this is capable of anything.

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1. Please find another phrase other than "crystal clear."

2. The plural of attorney general is "attorneys general." President Bush made that same mistake repeatedly in an address the other day.

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Don't you know by now that everyone connected in a favorable way with a fascist government such as ours is immune from any prosecution? That's just the way it is and the sooner you realize that the better for all of us. Why all these articles? Why all these comments? Shut up and go back to sleep.

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3. Gov. Don Siegelman was only a so-so governor. He wanted to have a state lottery; the majority of the voters said no. He did little for the state for the final three years of his term. His prosecution may have been politically motivated at the start, but a jury found him guilty. Our legal system is not completely controlled by anyone -- the administration or the defense lawyers. HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy was responsible for the collapse of a major company; he too was found guilty by a jury that was given a chance to consider the evidence for and against him.

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We cannot begin to inventory the tales, schemes, outright illegal activities of the Bush administration. This administration has heaped one-after-another insane, aberrant inconsistency upon the American people. However, to expect the Democrats who will be clearing out the Republicans next January, to spend all their physical energies and mental ingenuities disassembling the layers and layers of wrongs conspired to by those who used their authority to make wrongful, selfish gains, makes no sense either. While I am not a studious, knowledgeable academic on the historical, political/geographical or constitutional laws, as defined by the Constitution of this country, one need not be to feel outraged by the continuing "whatever-we-can-get-away with attitude" of those whose dealings with unbridled power (taken to tragic consequences)have left us with. There is a balance and it must be struck for us to move off this untenable fracture in everything we humble Americans hold dear. With dedicated, insightful and steady determination leading us, we will and we can. To believe anything else is not to know what it means to be an American.

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...of reprehensible conduct by Republican fiends. The author gets big ups for acknowledging the tireless reporting on this subject by Scott Horton of Harper's Magazine.

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Wow.

So - folks are just now, from this article, understanding the corruption of the feral court system.

Looks like a lot of folks just haven't been paying attention.

Of course, none of it matters. The only thing that I can think of that MIGHT get folks to sit up and pay attention and actually consider DOING something is if all television stations stopped broadcasting for a year or so.

And to think - the Democrats have gun control as an integral part of their party platform.

It's a really good idea to disarm the citizens when government can't be trusted.

And the worst part is the two-brain-celled maroons who typically end up on juries. If they actually understood the genuine powers and duties of jurors they wouldn't make it through voir dire.

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Our military is nothing less or more than a reflection of society with which it is made up. Sad.

Please wake up people! Obama is a cousin of Cheney and is a CFR mouthpiece just like the other and you people want to still deny how these criminals roll? Caught up in the crossfire of power/corruption like so many! He says only "change" allot thus proving his inexperience or will to tackle our REAL problems!!!! He is no different at ALL than the others.

The Clinton's ? watch this and WAKE UP TO THE TRUE POWER OF MEDIA MANIPULATION!

The revolution is on. Wake up to what we all have let the media do to America. They have now consolidated into only 5 corporations for everything on AMERICAN TV!!!! The news commentators on TV are either part of it, or fooled themselves!

oh yea, realize this fact too pretty damn quick people:

Coke Bush


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and watch this TRUTH too
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They do this by contolling information and by GREATLY influencing our elections with the BUSH-CHENEY connected DIEBOLD MACHINES (now PRIMIER) and all kinds of other strong arm tactics

around the nation whereby they influence or STEAL the elections!.

Wake up if you love American freedom and hate needless war for profit and/or overthrowing of governments and confusion of the masses by corrupt CIA and all the neocons!

This is what the media/government has done to us for too long. The internet and people rising up with the TRUTH after all these years of media lies is the only thin that can help America now. There is no

left or right in America at this moment. Only corruptness and media lies so big that most can't see though it.

McCain is one of the WORST puppets out there!!! His top four contributors, (like most candidates, are... BANKS!

R E S E A R C H

Ron Paul’s military contributions are greater than those of all other current candidates – John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama –combined.

The “Top Contributors” figures can be found at www.opensecrets.org.

JOIN the rEVOLution people. IT IS DUTY.

When big media blocks Ron Paul out, it blocks YOU (and all your kids and family) out.

Why do you think they spew so much about "terrorists"?

Starting to get the picture now?

No more lies. They must go. The time is now.

STAND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Join the revolution. Take back America. Shun the non-believers.

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and sure don't miss the rally on DC on June 21st.

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Bad touch!

Bad touch!



gee, maybe its possible that the Republicans or THEIR MONIED BACKERS (you know, the kind that seem to have flocked to the teat less suckled, DEMOCRATS) are actually prepared to undermine democratic processes to get what they want?

nah. its all Nader's fault. thassit!! how dare he suggest that Populist Platforms EXIST... damn him!!

no just lie back, think happy thoughts & take whatever your Democratic Party feeds you as a 'platform'... & be prepared to be left gasping & horrified by the MSM's blow-by-blow 'The Apprentice' meets 'Big Brother' personality cult political coverage ...


...you don't need to participate in democracy... your politicans take care of THAT for you... that's THEIR job, not YOURS...

go back to sleep Little Citizen, baaaaack to sleep...



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