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In reply to the discussion: Gov. Don Siegelman returns to prison today. Meanwhile, the real crooks run free. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)20. Thank you, sabrina1! Absolutely agree we should not stop until Justice is restored.
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 Partys 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 Siegelmans 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 didnt take Caesar George W. Bush 10 minutes to wipe out the prison sentence of vice president Dick Cheneys chief aid for revealing the identity of a CIA operative, a felony under US law. But the Obama Justice (sic) Department supports Karl Roves destruction of one of its most popular governors.
It was the German left-wings 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...
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Gov. Don Siegelman returns to prison today. Meanwhile, the real crooks run free. [View all]
Octafish
Sep 2012
OP
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
Here is a link to the petition to President Obama to grant Siegelman a pardon
red dog 1
Sep 2012
#12