American Just Us

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman’s been in jail for 247 days without the ability to APPEAL HIS CONVICTION. Although the trial ended 20 months ago, the court hasn’t seen fit to provide his counsel a transcript. Siegelman got 7 years for bribery on a bogus charge created from inuendoes and "indications." And it’s got Karl Rove's greasy fingers all over it. There's a 60s Minutes video included in this post. And if your interest grows, go to www.donsiegelman.com, the “Online Archive for Researchers, the Media & Scholars Interested in the Abuse of Jurisprudence for Political Purposes.” This case was given major attention by Dan Abrams of MSNBC, not just a 10 second sound bite but an investigative report titled: Bush League Justice: Alabama Outrage.
The railroading of Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman
Posted February 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Back in October, a nationally known print journalist told Harpers’ Scott Horton, “I’ve never seen anything quite like this. Everything I’ve been told by the convicted defendants checks out as the gospel truth. And everything I’m told by federal prosecutors who pushed the case turns out either to be an outrageous lie or at least a very serious distortion. And the local journalists who wrote the most about the case all behave like they’re accessories after the fact in a criminal investigation.”
The journalist was describing the Don Siegelman case in Alabama, and doing a pretty good job of it.
There’s been quite a bit of buzz in recent weeks about the report “60 Minutes” had been preparing on the controversy and, after having seen it, I’m delighted CBS has made it available for embedding. Please take a few minutes, even if you’ve heard the Siegelman story before, to take a look.
We haven’t struggled for examples of the Bush White House and the Republican Machine making a mockery of our justice system and the rule of law, but this is one of those examples that just leaves one shaking one’s head. No one wants to believe GOP corruption on this scale is even possible, and yet, it’s not only possible, it actually happened. [I want to TESTIFY!]
[...] We haven’t struggled for examples of the Bush White House and the Republican Machine making a mockery of our justice system and the rule of law, but this is one of those examples that just leaves one shaking one’s head. No one wants to believe GOP corruption on this scale is even possible, and yet, it’s not only possible, it actually happened. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14685.html
And Jack Abramoff is involved!