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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
20. Thank you, sabrina1! Absolutely agree we should not stop until Justice is restored.
Wed Sep 12, 2012, 01:09 PM
Sep 2012

Anyone who goes along with Siegelman returning to prison might as well vote for Karl Rove. Among their law breaking, these criminals and traitors stole the presidential election in 2000; failed to defend the United States before September 11, 2001; lied America into two illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars; looted the Treasury and banks; and enriched their cronies through perma-war, bailout, and welfare for the wealthy. Until they and their enablers are behind bars, we're not done.

This guy's a puke, but one of the old school that believes in Justice and stuff like Democracy:



The Party of Hate

Republicans Cross the Rubicon

by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
CounterPunch SEPTEMBER 05, 2012

Control is the operative word. We have seen for a number of years now that the Republican Party is power-addicted. Remember when the Bush administration fired the US Attorneys who refused the order to indict only Democrats? Remember the Republican Party’s transparent frame-up of popular Alabama Democratic governor Don Siegelman? Evidence indicates that the Republican operative Karl Rove took advantage of a Republican federal judge, vulnerable according to news reports to corruption charges, and a compliant Republican US attorney in Alabama to railroad Governor Siegelman. The message to Democrats was: if you get elected in our Southern Territory, we will get you.

But never fear, we have “freedom and democracy.” George W. Bush told us so himself.

The weak, chicken-hearted Obama administration has not commuted Siegelman’s outrageous sentence. The inability of the Democrats to stand up for their own members and their own principles is the best indication we have that Republican tyranny will prevail.

It didn’t take Caesar George W. Bush 10 minutes to wipe out the prison sentence of vice president Dick Cheney’s chief aid for revealing the identity of a CIA operative, a felony under US law. But the Obama Justice (sic) Department supports Karl Rove’s destruction of one of its most popular governors.

It was the German left-wing’s weak opposition to the National Socialists that gave the world Hitler.

CONTINUED...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/05/republicans-cross-the-rubicon/



Wish more were like you, too. Let's go ahead with your idea. Peace and Prosperity for ALL. Ripples, as RFK said...
President Obama: Please pardon this man! CanonRay Sep 2012 #1
Please do, CanonRay. Prison can be deadly for the innocent. Octafish Sep 2012 #2
I'm sorry to say I knew nothing of this ryan_cats Sep 2012 #4
Here's an excellent summary... Octafish Sep 2012 #7
Thank you for keeping this story alive. We should not stop until this innocent man is sabrina 1 Sep 2012 #17
Thank you, sabrina1! Absolutely agree we should not stop until Justice is restored. Octafish Sep 2012 #20
Thank you, I've seen that many Republicans have joined in the effort to end this sabrina 1 Sep 2012 #21
Maybe we should all sign the change.org petition red dog 1 Sep 2012 #13
I have signed that but thanks for posting it again. sabrina 1 Sep 2012 #18
K & R no_hypocrisy Sep 2012 #3
On the Siegelman Scandal, Rove Offers a Very Suspicious Non-Denial Denial Octafish Sep 2012 #5
Don Siegelman interviewed this morning by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now no_hypocrisy Sep 2012 #6
Thank you, no_hypocrisy. It's on the monitor now... Octafish Sep 2012 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #9
Excellent question, AnotherMcIntosh. Octafish Sep 2012 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #11
One of my most favorite of subjects... Octafish Sep 2012 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #16
Here is a link to the petition to President Obama to grant Siegelman a pardon red dog 1 Sep 2012 #12
Thank you, red dog 1! Here's background on why we should give a damn about Gov. Siegelman... Octafish Sep 2012 #14
The roots of corruption go deep in our government and society. LongTomH Sep 2012 #19
Thanks for this info red dog 1 Sep 2012 #23
kr HiPointDem Sep 2012 #22
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