When Barack Obama became our 44th President, we thought that things would begin to change. And they have. But not much. Yet some people might still say that these things take time and we will gradually get back to normal. That may not happen. And if it does not happen, you are not safe. Not safe in your car, your home, your workplace or your church.
We now know that there is strong evidence that the legal system has been gerrymandered. Karl Rove and Dick Cheney apparently decided that, since the courts are the last resort of freedom and justice, they would put their own people into the judiciary sot that they can have their own brand of freedom.
Infiltration of the Justice Department by all these Right Wing Neocons is not news. We know of it from the situation of the 8 U.S. attorneys who were fired in late 2006 for refusing to carry out political attacks on Democrats or back off of investigations on Republicans during elections and how they were fired for their recalcitrance. Now we know the answer to the question some of us were asking: what about the ones who did not resist instructions to prosecute cases without merit?
If these 8 refused to act, what about the others, those who were not fired? After all, we know about the loyalty tests, the selection of attorneys after review by members of the Federalist Society, and selection from a few, highly Fundamentalist, conservative law schools. We know the depth infiltration of Neoconservative operatives, that is, attorneys with identified Neocon viewpoints and activist intentions. It seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? With 93 U.S. Attorney appointments, certainly many were going to do what they were told. What happened when they did. We know what happened when they didn’t. [Read more →]
















