I'm back, and your initial comments are the same as mine, basically. How do you know for sure? Like you, I'm not certain of the veracity of this information. I found it on a Daily Kos diary that Crooks and Liars was linking to. I've watched the comments at C&L and it's the usual trolling concern over there--people going after Siegelman and the like.
The bottom line is this--it's not whether Siegelman is guilty or not. It's about the dignity of his treatment and did he have a fair trial. If there are indications that he is not being treated with dignity and that he didn't have a fair shake, that's an outrage.
What seals the deal is the image on Crooks and Liars and on the DKOS diary, which is Siegelman forced to write a letter to someone on a printed page like it was being snuck out of the gulag--pretty powerful stuff.
As always, view with skepticism and view with a critical eye towards what could be happening.
Start spreading this around...
DailyKos:
All roads lead to Rove. That was the message scrawled as an afterthought in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope I received in yesterday’s mail. It contained a letter from an old and dear friend of mine. His name is Don Siegelman. He is the former governor of Alabama and he is being held as a political prisoner of the Bush administration in a Federal prison in Louisiana.
They don’t allow Don the luxury of stationary so he must write his letters on whatever he can find. He wrote me on a xeroxed article he wanted me to see. [..]
When I first heard of Don being prosecuted for corruption my heart sank. I didn’t know what to think. It had been years since we’d spoken and the press made it sound awful for Don (what else?). Of course I had no idea what was really going on. Now that I do I am horrified…and furious.
Don is a formidable force in Alabama politics. His friends are loyal and his supporters enthusiastic. They re-elected him Governor in the midst of a bogus corruption trial engineered by the Bush Justice Department at the behest of Karl Rove who takes orders from you-know-who. Don campaigned for re-election throughout the early phases of the trial. On election night he was declared the winner, but Karl Rove’s minions stole the election overnight by manipulating the ballots in Baldwin County. It was classic Rovian/Republican election theft. They did it with computers and electronic voting machines. Don went to bed the re-elected Governor of Alabama, and woke up an unemployed defendant. [..]
Something that has not been reported is that they have been physically beating Don. I don’t know the extent of his injuries or exactly how many times it has happened – but it has been multiple times.
There are no words for the fury I feel. This is an outrage. And it is the most un-American thing I have ever heard. I cry bitter tears of frustration and rage.
Please everyone. We have to help Don, and we have to crush these thugs and put them out of the business of perverting our democracy. We must investigate and prosecute the responsible parties, not for political reasons, but to actually serve the interest of justice. The cause of justice calls upon us to hold these criminals accountable. We must bring them to justice and stop such travesties from ever again happening in our United States of America.
A new review of evidence suggests that an aligned group of Republican interests were pressing for — and seeking to profit financially from — the trial of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on charges of bribery, according to Sam Stein of HuffPo.
Please contact Rep. John Conyers and Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairmen of their respective Judiciary committees and ask them to appoint an Independent Investigator. You can also donate to Siegelman’s Defense Fund.
Filed Under: Republican Party, Scandals
Have you ever heard of a man so dangerous, he was denied blank sheets of paper in prison?
What is THAT all about???
Don Siegelman
#24775-0001
Satellite Prison Camp
Post Office Box 5010
Oakdale, LA 71463-5019
UPDATE I - Warren Street (adding image from Crooks and Liars/DKos story)
Pretty powerful image, huh? Definitely NOT appearing in the GWB presidential library.
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