Mississippi Justice: Bush US Attorney targeted my wife, supporters and friends

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Source: Raw Story


Republican effort jails largest Democratic donor in Mississippi, helps put ex-RNC chairman in governor's chair

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Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. was indicted in 2003 on charges relating to his receipt of a loan guarantee from trial lawyer Paul Minor – a personal friend and the largest Democratic donor in Mississippi – to help defray campaign debts. A Bush-appointed US Attorney, Dunnica Lampton, brought charges of bribery against Diaz, Minor and two other Mississippi judges.

Diaz was acquitted of all those charges. A jury acquitted Minor of the charges related to Diaz, but was unable to reach a verdict on other charges. Within days of his acquittal, Diaz was indicted a second time. He was again acquitted.

“Normally, a criminal investigation begins after a crime is committed,” Diaz told me. “Investigators are sent out to gather evidence and a list of suspects is drawn up. Sometimes an investigation is begun after a complaint is made about suspicious activity. In our case neither of these things occurred.”

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Diaz_placeholder_0408.html

[bluevoter4life]

1. Whoa Whoa Whoa.....

There's Democrats in Mississippi??????

[pleah]

3. Yes! Me!

:)

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5. There were more than 417,000 votes in the Democratic primary, compared to only 75,000 in the 2004

A couple.

[merh]

17. You may recall our discussions about this case.

My boss/best friend was not as fortunate as my friend, Justice Diaz.

The prosecution was allowed to put on evidence that we were not allowed to refute, we were not allowed to call witnesses to dispute their claims and the government proved no quid pro quo, but that doesn't matter to the court and the jury didn't understand because the court gave horrible instructions verbally, not allowing them to take them with them as they deliberated.

That was my office torched, my office in his office, and his attorney had his office broken into at least 1/2 a dozen times and files were taken from the hotel room he was staying in during the trial.

Yes, there are democrats in Mississippi despite the efforts of the republicans in power to crush us and our leaders.

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28. I didn't see this post until now... just the one down thread.

I don't check my reply posts thingie. I just look at the thread.


I wasn't going to address this out your concern ...wasn't quite certain either. I still don't think many people get just how close this article is to you.


I did snatch those turn out numbers from a post you made in the Mississippi forum, by the way of looking for a response to the other poster ...and to kick the thread when she first started. Wasn't trying to be cryptic or anything...he he. It was right there at the top and seemed a sutiable reply.


Things are well.

[merh]

30. don't worry

I didn't think you were trying to be cryptic or anything.

I kinda figured you recognized the connection, I do appreciate your posting this.

and I am glad things are well

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32. Cool

I have been rereading this article... Originally I was looking at this for the Siegleman info.

It's quite disturbing.

[merh]

33. if only I were a writer

what tales I could tell.

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35. Find a ghost writer

Like there no writers here on DU.

I've seen you write... your quite good, certainly when comes to debate on this board anyway.

[merh]

36. I do appreciate the compliments relative to my efforts on this board

In a way, this board is both my therapy and my refuge.

I've compartmentalized a great deal. I'm not in a place where I can stop and dissect it, pull it all down off the shelves and look at it again, 5 years of so much, often too much of too much. One day perhaps ...

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37. I think your due a break. Sit back, relax and smell the magnolias...

enjoy spring. Stay away from the "light screen", read books, enjoy friends, listen to children playing.


Being a hermit it highly overestimated.

[merh]

38. to borrow from Frost

I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep

too much to be done, it's amazing how soon people forget friends when dark clouds encircle them, someone has to remember, not everyone is a Siegelman, that doesn't make their suffering any less unjust or any less crucial to our collective freedoms ...

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39. Thunderstorm coming in... first one of the year

Lightning just flashed out the window, seems fitting.

Just take some time for yourself dragon slayer. Things seem to be on the right track.

Peace.

[merh]

40. I hope you take your own advice

and step away from the light box (and turn it off during the t-storms)

not dragons, windmills always tilting at them it would seem

oh - did I mention my new abode has a faulty roof x( - another windmill - damn warranties don't seem to be worth the paper they are written on

take good care and pet the cats - stay safe and dry

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Rove has been leading the charge against Dems in Miss and Ala

and I suspect in other states where Dems are a threat.

Him and local DOJ USA attorneys...hand in hand.
That is what the "Attorneygate" firings were all about back in 06...

[MasonJar]

4. Now we are finding out about the Attorneys-general who did the Bushco bidding.

There are a lot of states left!

[yardwork]

12. We're also finding out how bushco uses the info from illegal wiretapping.

They aren't looking for terrorist. They are the terrorists.

[alfredo]

14. You know they are tapping DNC phones and internet.

[fascisthunter]

6. The Republican Party=American Neo-Nazis

or the American Fascist Party

[JDPriestly]

7. My husband and I recently watched the Griffith movie: The Birth of a Nation

(warning: disgusting film). It is a 1915 film about the birth of the Klu Klux Klan in the south after the Civil War. The attacks on Democrats in the south remind me of the kinds of things that the Klu Klux Klan did. I wonder if the people involved in the indictments and accusations against some of the Democratic politicians in Mississippi and Alabama are organized in the secret way that the Klan was organized? There may actually be RICO violations here.

[pscot]

8. Some of them are probably Klan members

n/t

[provis99]

13. Definitely Council of Conservative Citizens members. CCC=KKK, get it?

aren't they a lovable bunch of scoundrels? The CCC is the direct decendant of the White Citizen's Councils of the 1960's, the Klan for the middle class. Trent Lott likes to show up at their meetings from time to time to talk about the good ole days.

[dogfacedboy]

15. Trailer Trash With Cash. That's all the CCC is.

I'm working up a list of subversive rightist organizations such as the CCC which I plan to use toward publicly humiliating these kinds of undesirables. I can think of nothing more disgusting and subhuman than rightist, racist, Southern US trash like Trent Lott, and his ilk. Their days of anonymity are numbered. I am going to name names. Stay tuned. Timing is everything.

[pop goes the weasel]

16. don't insult working people that way

You been to a trailer park lately? They tend to be some of the most integrated communities you'll find in the US. But the CCC types? Ethnic monotony, gated communities, and big houses, whether they can afford them or not.

[dogfacedboy]

27. I'm a working stiff myself, pop. I speak of the poor, dumb, racist crackers.

[RebelOne]

18. Please do not use the term "Trailer Trash."

I live in a mobile home and whenever I see or hear this term, it offends me. Why do people look down their noses at those who live in mobile homes?

[dogfacedboy]

26. Not everyone who lives in a mobile home is looked down upon.

However, all the attention seems to be thrown upon the trash who happen to live in trailer parks.
Ever seen the Jerry Springer show?
Full Disclosure: I'm a working stiff myself.

Sorry if you were offended. I will not, however, apologize for my dislike of racist trash.

[Devlzown]

9. I wouldn't be surprised.

There's a lot of shit going down in MS right now, what with the Dickie Scruggs case, who was a friend of Paul Minor. I've personally known people who have gone down for "crimes" here. The common denominator is Trent Lott (either friend or foe). Notice how he retired when there was plenty of time left in his term and it was just before the Scruggs case began (Scruggs is Lott's brother-in-law).

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Not exactly the KKK

This organization doesn't have a name. Let's call it the Rovers.

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11. More from the article

Oliver Diaz

"There has been a good deal of focus on the fact that several U.S. Attorneys were fired because they refused to participate in what they considered to be political prosecutions. However, there has not been much focus on the flip side of this proposition. In other words, were there U.S. Attorneys who were not fired because they did in fact engage in political prosecutions? Did some U.S. Attorneys actually bring political indictments? Have politicians who were seen as opposed to the incumbent political party’s agenda in fact been prosecuted for political reasons? Do we now have political prisoners in the United States?"

"These questions are much more subversive than the original question of whether some U.S. Attorneys refused to engage in political prosecutions. If any of these questions are answered in the affirmative then it means that our entire system of justice has been compromised for political reasons. Unfortunately, the evidence that has come to light since this scandal began seems to indicate that this is exactly what has occurred."

[merh]

19. thank you friend for posting this

and thank you Larisa for continuing to look into it and for not letting it fall through the cracks.

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23. Your welcome friend.

Saw the pics of the new abode... very cool.

Thought you might stop by. Good to see ya.

[merh]

24. new abode is very cool

I never want to leave it - wish the damn real world would stop fooling with my escape world.

I'd be a hermit if my mortgage company wasn't so insistent I finish paying them. :silly:

hope you are well -

thanks for keeping this out there -

[Selatius]

20. I live in Mississippi. I can attest that people are simply misinformed or uninformed.

I would say, though, that they're more misinformed than ignorant about things. This is a place where one side gets heard very often, and the other side is not heard much if at all. In terms of national politics, this is a very one-party state.

[EFerrari]

21. Diaz makes a good point about the question, were some attorneys

not fired because they did bring political prosecutions.

[Doctor_J]

22. Time to start calling Rove a terrorist, which is what he is

and Horowitz, and Lynn Cheney, and Mukasey. These people are terrorists. Terrorists. Start calling them terrorists.

[darue]

25. who was doing the break-ins? time to find and identify these animals, then spay or neuter

arson, car's run off roads... how long before they just start shooting us? When is someone going to do something about this? We need a special prosecutor on this shit day one of the next administration. Heads must roll. the responsible parties need to spend the rest of their lives in jail and the republican party needs to be investigated under RICO laws.

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29. Noel Hillman - info

Did Hillman’s deep involvement with the prosecution of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, Wisconsin administrator Georgia Thompson, and a growing number of other cases in which political manipulation of prosecutions are involved cost him a court of appeals judgeship? This is what sources close to the process on Capitol Hill are telling me.


http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000509



Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1770148&mesg_id=1777862

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31. Paul Minor - info

Hauled off in shackles like Siegleman and like Siegelman STILL waiting for a transcript after 12 months




Paul Minor is the son of Bill Minor, a legendary Mississippi journalist and chronicler of the civil rights movement. He is also a wealthy trial lawyer and a mainstay of Mississippi's embattled Democratic Party. Mr. Minor has contributed $500,000 to Democrats over the years, including more than $100,000 to John Edwards, a fellow trial lawyer. He fought hard to stop the Mississippi Supreme Court from being taken over by pro-business Republicans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101107O.shtml

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34. Here's a good one ---Assistant Attorney General Fisher and I quote...

“The jury’s conviction of attorney Paul Minor and former Judges Walter Teel and John Whitfield sends an important message – we will not tolerate the bribery of judges to influence matters before the court,” said Assistant Attorney General Fisher. “The American people expect and demand a system of justice that is free of corruption. We will prosecute those who attempt to buy or sell positions of high public trust for their own financial benefit.”

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/April/07_crm_210.html