It Does Happen in America; The Political Trial of Don Siegelman By Paul Craig Roberts

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Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_paul_cra_080301_it_does_happen_in_am.htm



Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration.

The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorney generals from across America, both Republicans and Democrats, have urged the US Congress to investigate the Bush administration's use of the US Department of Justice to rid themselves of a Democratic governor who "they could not beat fair and square," according to Grant Woods, former Republican Attorney General of Arizona and co-chair of the McCain for President leadership committee. Woods says that he has never seen a case with so "many red flags pointing to injustice."

The abuse of American justice by the Bush administration in order to ruin Siegelman is so crystal clear that even the corporate media organization CBS allowed "60 Minutes" to broadcast on February 24, 2008, a damning indictment of the railroading of Siegelman. Extremely coincidental "technical difficulties" caused WHNT, the CBS station covering the populous northern third of Alabama, to go black during the broadcast. The station initially offered a lame excuse of network difficulties that CBS in New York denied. The Republican-owned print media in Alabama seemed to have the inside track on every aspect of the prosecution's case against Siegelman. You just have to look at their editorials and articles following the 60 Minutes broadcast to get a taste of what counts for "objective journalism" in their mind.

The injustice done by the US Department of Justice (sic) to Siegelman is so crystal clear that a participant in Karl Rove's plan to destroy Siegelman can't live with her conscience. Jill Simpson, a Republican lawyer who did opposition research for Rove, testified under oath to the House Judiciary Committee and went public on "60 Minutes." Simpson said she was told by Bill Canary, the most important GOP campaign advisor in Alabama, that "my girls can take care of Siegelman."

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Authors Bio: Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, is forthcoming from Random House in March, 2008.

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1. Thanks for posting. I've been following Roberts' writing for the past few years. I've

tried to post a few here, but they usually got deleted because of the source sites. Seems there were few "no-fee" sites that would post his stuff, and DU has a problem with the couple that would. :shrug:

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2. That is pretty damn direct. Good. Someone has to hit the mainstream

over the head with the truth.

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3. Why haven't more Dem members of congress spoken out?

I have only found a few Dems in the House and Senate who have spoken out in the Siegelman case. Why the timidity in this obvious injustice?

Even if they are too timid to declare him innocent, there certainly were enough obvious improprieties to deserve a new trial with a fair judge.

How can he be held in prison for 7 years when the Feds can't even produce a transcript of the trial? Without a transcript, he can't appeal.

www.donsiegelman.com

Thank 60 Minutes and ask them to do a follow-up report at:

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4. AL Democratic Party have called for a probe.

Alabama Democrats Call For Siegelman Probe

Posted: March 3, 2008 04:32 AM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The State Democratic Executive Committee has approved a resolution calling for an investigation of former Gov. Don Siegelman's conviction and for Siegelman to be freed from federal prison while the investigation is conducted.

The executive committee passed the resolution on a voice vote Saturday in Montgomery.

The resolution, proposed by committee member Vi Parramore of Birmingham, calls for "a full investigation into the mishandling of evidence in Don Siegelman's case" and the prosecution of anyone who incarcerated Siegelman due to political motives.

A jury convicted the former Democratic governor of bribery and obstruction charges in 2006. He is serving a sentence of more than seven years at a federal prison in Oakdale, La.

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