PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS on Siegelman's 'Political trial'

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Paul Craig Roberts ain't exactly a bleedin' heart librul conspiracy theorist.

His street creds:
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

So when a guy like that says:

"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."

Well, It gives that statement a certain amount of 'heft'.
More:

"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."

You can read all about it here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03012008.html

[acmavm]

1. One of the MOST important stories out there today. Get to the bottom

of this and you get to the nuts and bolts of the way the bush** crime machine operates.

Just the fact that the man can't appeal because there's no transcript of his trial should set off red lights with every American who truly loves his country. And the way they've moved his around from prison to prison is an outright declaration by the administration that they will openly give the finger to the rule of the Constitution and they don't care what anyone thinks.

[malaise]

2. Justice for Don Siegelman

K & R

[Melissa G]

3. Justice for Siegelman would be if this injustice was what Impeached

and Imprisioned the current sludge in the White House.
Free Don Siegelman, Now!

[midnight]

4. Didn't realize he was in prison since June of 06. This is due

to the fact of transcripts and a judge that wont read them?

[tblue37]

5. A show trial worthy of Stalin's USSR. n/t