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All,<BR>
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FYI,<BR>
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Beverley<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><B>From: </B>Mark Crispin Miller <<A HREF="mailto:mark.miller@nyu.edu">mark.miller@nyu.edu</A>></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Date: </B>April 17, 2009 5:14:56 PM EDT</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Subject: [MCM] "The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove"</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B><BR>
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While we're all focused on Obama's willingness to let Bush/Cheney's torturers take a pass,<BR>
let's also note another of his shocking failures to bring that criminal regime to justice. It is<BR>
a failure just as grave, although it doesn't have the blogosphere on fire, or Rachel Maddow<BR>
and Keith Olbermann and John Dean freaking out.<BR>
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That other failure will, however, raise another national ruckus if and when the facts about<BR>
it get around--and that will happen, if we circulate "The Political Prosecutions of<BR>
Karl Rove," a staggering documentary by John McTiernan:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.politicalprosecutions.org/">http://www.politicalprosecutions.org/</A><BR>
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Although McTiernan is a master of suspense and horror (he directed<I> Predator</I> and<BR>
<I>Die Hard</I>), this 52-minute film is certainly the scariest he's ever made, since its story is<BR>
no fiction, and concerns a massive strike against the rule of law, and democratic<BR>
government, right here in the USA. This documentary lays it out as clear as day:<BR>
Karl Rove's careful orchestration of at least<I> six hundred</I> partisan prosecutions by the<BR>
Department of Justice, so as to give the GOP a big leg up on this or that Election Day.<BR>
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Watch this film, then ask yourself: Why all the outrage over the misconduct of the<BR>
prosecutors<I> only</I> in the case of Sen. Ted Stevens? Is it not because he's a Republican?<BR>
(It's not because he happened to be innocent, as careful readers of that story know.)<BR>
Is that why the Attorney General dismissed all charges against<I> him</I>--while making<BR>
<I>no attempt</I> to deal with all those Democrats who've been illegally, and groundlessly,<BR>
harassed and punished? And, if that's the case,<I> why</I> is this president allowing Bush<BR>
and Rove, and their accomplices, to skate? Although he used to promise "change,"<BR>
and frequently invoked the sacred memories of FDR and Lincoln, this guy's looking<BR>
more and more like Gerald Ford.<BR>
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Now, every time Obama pulls some stunt like this on Bush &Co.'s behalf, his defenders<BR>
tell us that it's merely "tactical," and that he's doing it in order to accomplish this or that<BR>
Good Thing, etc. <B>But what Good Thing could possibly outweigh, or justify, acceptance</B><BR>
<B>of a government that just keeps winking at enormous violations of the law? </B>And, to<BR>
speak in more pragmatic terms, what exactly does Obama think the right will give him<BR>
in return for such surrenders? If he thinks they're going to cut him any slack, he is<BR>
radically misjudging them--and that's why they have not been rightly judged.<BR>
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So let's not let Obama, or his party, off the hook for that huge abdication of<BR>
responsibility. Watch this stunning film, and then see to it that a lot of other people<BR>
watch it, too.<BR>
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MCM<BR>
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