[CitizensTruth] ARTICLE - Rove

[Walterb306 at cs.com]

All,

FYI,

Beverley



> From: Mark Crispin Miller <mark.miller at nyu.edu>

> Date: April 17, 2009 5:14:56 PM EDT

> To: newsfromunderground at googlegroups.com

> Subject: [MCM] "The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove"

> Reply-To: newsfromunderground+owner at googlegroups.com

> 

> 

> While we're all focused on Obama's willingness to let Bush/Cheney's 

> torturers take a pass,

> let's also note another of his shocking failures to bring that criminal 

> regime to justice. It is

> a failure just as grave, although it doesn't have the blogosphere on fire, 

> or Rachel Maddow

> and Keith Olbermann and John Dean freaking out.

> 

> 

> That other failure will, however, raise another national ruckus if and 

> when the facts about

> it get around--and that will happen, if we circulate "The Political 

> Prosecutions of

> Karl Rove," a staggering documentary by John McTiernan:

> 

> 

> http://www.politicalprosecutions.org/

> 

> 

> Although McTiernan is a master of suspense and horror (he directed 

> Predator and

> Die Hard), this 52-minute film is certainly the scariest he's ever made, 

> since its story is

> no fiction, and concerns a massive strike against the rule of law, and 

> democratic

> government, right here in the USA. This documentary lays it out as clear 

> as day:

> Karl Rove's careful orchestration of at least six hundred partisan 

> prosecutions by the

> Department of Justice, so as to give the GOP a big leg up on this or that 

> Election Day.

> 

> 

> Watch this film, then ask yourself: Why all the outrage over the 

> misconduct of the

> prosecutors only in the case of Sen. Ted Stevens? Is it not because he's a 

> Republican?

> (It's not because he happened to be innocent, as careful readers of that 

> story know.)

> Is that why the Attorney General dismissed all charges against him--while 

> making

> no attempt to deal with all those Democrats who've been illegally, and 

> groundlessly,

> harassed and punished? And, if that's the case, why is this president 

> allowing Bush

> and Rove, and their accomplices, to skate? Although he used to promise 

> "change,"

> and frequently invoked the sacred memories of FDR and Lincoln, this guy's 

> looking

> more and more like Gerald Ford.

> 

> 

> Now, every time Obama pulls some stunt like this on Bush &Co.'s behalf, 

> his defenders

> tell us that it's merely "tactical," and that he's doing it in order to 

> accomplish this or that

> Good Thing, etc. But what Good Thing could possibly outweigh, or justify, 

> acceptance

> of a government that just keeps winking at enormous violations of the law? 

> And, to

> speak in more pragmatic terms, what exactly does Obama think the right 

> will give him

> in return for such surrenders? If he thinks they're going to cut him any 

> slack, he is

> radically misjudging them--and that's why they have not been rightly 

> judged.

> 

> 

> So let's not let Obama, or his party, off the hook for that huge 

> abdication of

> responsibility. Watch this stunning film, and then see to it that a lot of 

> other people

> watch it, too.

> 

> 

> MCM

> 

> 

> 


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