Scott Horton: Alice Martin’s War **** DoJ = "machine for the purpose of manipulating elections"

[L. Coyote]

Alice Martin’s War
Scott Horton - March 9, 2008 - http://harpers.org/archive/2008/03/hbc-90002578


Imagine this scene. A wannabe autocrat faces a legislature dominated by his political opposition. He fixes elections with gusto, throws his opponents in the jail with regularity, and an opposition leader is even viciously assaulted on the floor of the senate. All to no avail. It seems the people like the idea of divided government. So then tyrannus rex decides to get still more ruthless—the opposition is all enmeshed in some criminal conspiracy, his sock puppet press starts to announce. And one day, law officers charge onto the floor of the legislature as it is in session to serve warrants on a large block of members, and as it turns out just the members he’s most eager to get rid of. Lukashenko’s Belarus, perhaps? Or some forgotten banana republic?

Well, no, actually. This all really happened in George W. Bush’s America. In one of the fifty states. Indeed, in the first state by roll call: Alabama.

In “Vote Machine,” my feature in the current issue of Harper’s, I discuss the steps by which the Justice Department lost sight of its principal mission of law enforcement and was converted over a six year period into a gleaming machine for the purpose of manipulating elections. ......

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[JDPriestly]

1. Kicked and recommended

[salin]

2. doing the same.

k & r.

[MelissaB]

4. K&R here, too.

This just keeps getting worse.

[Kurovski]

5. K&R. (nt)

[trof]

6. But you'd never know about it if you lived here.

And didn't own a computer.
"Sshhhhhhhhhh"
:-(

[MelissaB]

8. That's the part that scares the sh*t out of me.

:scared:

Where are the reporters/media in Alabama on this?

[trof]

10. All working for corporate giant Advance Publications.

They own the Birmingham News, Mobile Register, and Huntsville Times, the 3 biggest city dailies in the state.

One guy in the state, Glynn Wilson, with his Locust Fork Journal (and blog), both online, has been covering this in depth.
http://blog.locustfork.net/index.php

[L. Coyote]

11. Lots more links here, to AL blogs, articles, VIDEOS, more

Political Prisoner Don Siegelman: Will the 60 Minutes Spotlight Make a Difference?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2909551

[Senator]

3. Neat. He Calls "Judge Torture" Mukasey "A Cuckold"

But I'm not certain a eunuch can technically be a cuckold.

Still, pretty strong stuff when coming from a former law partner.

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[L. Coyote]

9. "from a former law partner" That was a surprise!

It explains why Horton did not object to Mukasey right off.

[pleah]

7. K&R

[Supersedeas]

12. Muk Muk Mukasey has a job to do.

[L. Coyote]

13. Mukasey, Raking the Muck under the carpet

I presume.

[L. Coyote]

14. visibility kick

[L. Coyote]

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