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Corruption Alabama Style
March 12, 2008
If you haven't been paying much attention, and you're an American, and especially if you are living in Alabama, then listen up! There's corruption here on a level far beyond anything you've ever imagined.
Yes, that's right. It's corruption on such a grand scale, and on so many levels, that it's almost impossible to believe or comprehend. Yet Scott Horton of Harper's Magazine has been doing a brilliant job putting the pieces of the puzzle together. In one of his latest bits about the recent fiasco whereby federal Marshals attempted to serve subpoenas to targeted members of the Legislature during the middle of a session, he says:
Indeed, the modern Alabama G.O.P. doesn't believe in going into the field the old-fashioned way-by identifying a strong candidate to stand in the district, raising money for a campaign, and contesting the seat on the issues. This approach is entirely too expensive and speculative. The new strategy involves using tax-payer resources to trash political opponents. The U.S. Department of Justice is to conduct criminal investigations, the essence of which is meticulously leaked to the cooperating press in an effort to smear Democratic political figures....
And this is just a small snippit about what's been going on in Alabama. I'm going to have to start a whole new section on this website with links and information about this ALGOP corruption, just to try and make sense out of the vastness of the issue. Indeed there's even more to it than Don Siegelman, Dem Legislators, Mike Hubbard, Bob Riley, the Bush DOJ, Karl Rove etc.
In fact, you should know, it also infects the Alabama Judicial system, with the Republican Supreme Court, who has recently overthrown two jury verdicts against oil-giant Exxon even when it was proven in court that they were guilty of intentially defrauding Alabama taxpayers millions upon millions of dollars in royalty payments.
The GOP court has also changed their rules over the years, and now denies citizens an explanation of why their case has been tossed out like dirty laundry. Instead of doing it the honest way, by giving an opinion as to why the case is not going to be heard, the court rejects case after case and gives no opinion of why. The reason; because they have no good legal reason to reject it and they know it, and a lot of times they are even ignoring the law! It's called an "affirm no opinion", and these GOP Justices are getting away with injustice, but nobody, including the press, has picked up on it.
It's time to wake up Alabama. Forget about reading the daily newspaper. They unfortunately aren't going to give you good information any more. I hate to say that, but it's true. Corporations control the media, and they have stymied real journalism. Read Harper's, and the Huffington Post, other local blogs in our links section, and online new sources, b/c if you don't, then you're just going to be living in the dark.
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Posted by: Glynn Wilson on March 14, 2008 1:20 AM
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on June 3, 2008 9:49 PM
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