Reply #136: I know politics, not the law, but I say this was another Eliot Spitzer--a political stunt.

[McCamy Taylor]

A year from now everyone at DU will pretend that they never called for Blago to resign and that they never ever thought that he was guilty of all the charges that are being leveled against him and that they always thought that the timing was fishy, the way that you can not find anyone now who will admit that they fell for the DOJ lies about Spitzer spending public funds for his call girl when there was never any evidence of this (his dad is a friggin billionaire). Or the way that no one will admit that they ever called Siegelman a scumbag politician who had it coming, even though you can do a google and find people at DU posting just that when he was indicted.

Unfortunately, Americans are very naive. In Europe, people know that the government indicts innocent people all the time, but here, if you are arrested you are probably guilty and if you are indicted you are definitely guilty to most people, even a fair number of progressives. Until we can convince people otherwise, the elite class will have a powerful weapon to stop the revolution, since prosecutorial discretion allows them to persecute anyone.