9/11, gold, money and power are inextricably intertwined. In 1987, I met Howard Hughes’ former banker, Dr. Norman Bernard Thirion; and, in strict confidentiality, Thirion told me a story that led to a name that has now been connected to 9/11.
.. a vast international criminal conspiracy at the heart of the American government…[beginning] with the criminal prosecution of former Reagan intelligence coordinator, Lee Wanta…Charges allege that the 9/11 attacks were planned and executed in order to cover financial crimes.
…..
Read a few articles (also needing verification by historians, journalists, professors) by Dan at
AA Exposes Bush’s ‘Big Lie’: Flight 11 DID NOT FLY on 911!
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
American Airlines is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. If neither flew on 911, the Bush ‘theory’ is a lie. If the Bush ‘theory’ is a lie, there remains only one explanation and that is: 911 was an inside job given a green-light by Bush himself.
These flights are critical to the the government’s crumbling cover up! Conan Doyle, the brilliant creator of the character Sherlock Holmes, said: “When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however implausible must be the truth!” Bush’s official conspiracy theory of 911 is not only impossible, it’s absurd and insulting to intelligent people!
The Bush Conspiracy Theory is impossible! And it’s a Lie.
…………
The coalition against truth, justice and the American (at its best) way which would be the humane way:
Formerly a Republican Party strategist, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its most scathing critics.
American Theocracy (2006)
Allen Dwight Callahan[1] states the book’s theme is that the Republican Party (GOP), religious fundamentalism, petroleum, and borrowed money are an “Unholy Alliance.”[2] The last chapter, in a nod to his first major work, is titled “The Erring Republican Majority.” American Theocracy “presents a nightmarish vision of ideological extremism, catastrophic fiscal irresponsibility, rampant greed and dangerous shortsightedness.”
…………..
President of Italy’s Supreme Court to Refer 9/11 Crimes To International Criminal Court
Posted on September 9, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Says that 9/11 was “False Flag” Terror, Just Like the Strategy of Tension in Italy
Ferdinando Imposimato is the honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy, and former Senior Investigative Judge, Italy.
Imposimato presided over several terrorism-related cases, including the kidnapping and ultimate assassination of President Aldo Moro, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, other political assassinations and kidnapping cases and several cases against the Mafia. He is a former Senator who served on the Anti-Mafia Commission in three administrations.
Imposimato is also a former legal consultant to the United Nations regarding institution of laws to control drug trafficking.
This week, Judge Imposimato stated publicly in writing that 9/11 was just like the “strategy of tension” carried out in Italy.
Specifically, the former Italian Prime Minister, Italian judges, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred).
snip
Judge Imposimato writes that 9/11 was the exact same type of attack: an act of false flag terror.
Judge Imposimato announced that he is going to recommend that the International Criminal Court hold a criminal trial into 9/11.
Imposimato noted that the International Criminal Court was set up to protect the world from criminal acts of war, and that it is the perfect judicial body to hear such a case.
more
williambanzai7
This was really about what happened and/or was revealed in the aftermath. I did the first version two years ago and keep updating it every year.
Vonda Bra
The Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
…As sold to us by the U.S. Government, the mainstream media, and all the people who bought it, hook line and sinker without a second thought:
Thanks to James Corbett., Patriot for putting this together:
Bernanks at the Bank
And the devil’s in the plane.
Down fall the people like
The rain on the plain. History’s
A rewrite of the lies on the telly:
Sad the expression on Rocky’s only
Felly. Rise comes the anger at the
Criminal elite. Rise like the flames
Brunt the office working street. Who
Wore the crown when the clowns manned
The ship? A black-faced angel with a cracker
For a whip. Dawn’s never golden when the
Telephone is black: sire to the fortune paper
China with crack. Yellow like ribbons torn
And frayed by the wind. Charlatans of whisper
Born without and within. Cable the message;
Links in a chain. Pretty little kitty with a microphone
Frame. Human in proportion to the sordid horrid
Scene. Mosque in the basement with a solitary theme.
Hatred called sacred, sacred profaned. For want of a
Lion place the jackal’s wired mane. Howl all ye
People. Howl at the moon. Pray to the god of
The regency spoon. Spoon not of silver, nor of
Mere gold. Spoon found on ebay for an auction
Was sold. Last of an empire, call it 9-11. Call it
What you like, for now justice will be done.
Randyrocker
I feel for those that died on that tragic day eleven long years ago, but that doesn’t change my belief that the 9/11 Commission was a farce and that there was a Twin Towers World Trade Center weight full of evidence that has never seen the light of day in a truly honest and open investigation of what took place and really occurred on that fateful day. Too many factors have been ignored and passed over, that have a deeper relevance on the future and well being of the country then has been allowed to come foreword during the passing years. This is mostly from fatigue in the American psyche with the enormity of the matter of 9/11 and the heartache in going over once again solemn ground, to exhume the body of evidence and do a proper forensic. The people of the United States have turned the page on the tragic events of that day, and haven’t got the nerve or desire to re-open the case, to examine properly its content. All that’s left is sad ritual, and false belief that the culprits have been dealt with.
Yet Homeland Security, the NSA, CIA and the newly created TSA see boogie men everywhere, and because of this behavior on their part, along with their further intrusion into the lives of everyday Americans, a real honest to goodness forensic of 9/11 should be demanded by the entire country, to stop this freedom loving nation from further turning into a police state.
The video clip shown was brilliant and only goes to show the decadent state the the post 9/11 world of the United States of America, and what it has now turned into.
Bev
Political prisoner # 1 Don Seigelman goes to jail today, Sept. 11. His supporters say his only “crime” was belonging to the Democratic Party in a state with a Republican majority.
Did Judge on Siegelman Appellate Panel Act Out of Fear From a Failed Attempt on his Life?
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman is due to report to federal custody today in Oakdale, Louisiana, providing absolute proof that large chunks of Americans are perfectly willing to accept the idea of political prisoners in our “democracy,” circa 2012.
We have written probably several hundred posts about the Siegelman travesty, and you might think that we wouldn’t have anything left to say at this point. But you would be wrong, and that’s largely because the case was so profoundly screwed up on so many levels that the news just keeps on coming.
In fact, the following question is on our mind today: Was the appeal in the Siegelman case botched in part because one member of the three-judge panel operates out of fear from being the target of a failed assassination attempt more than 20 years ago?
Ex-Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Speaks Out on Karl Rove, Witch Hunt Hours Before Returning to Jail
AMY GOODMAN: We begin our show with the man who the American Trial Lawyer magazine calls America’s “Political Prisoner #1.” That’s Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, who returns to federal prison today to resume his six-and-a-half-year sentence. He was convicted on bribery charges stemming from his appointment of a campaign donor to a non-paying government board.
However, his supporters say his only “crime” was belonging to the Democratic Party in a state with a Republican majority. Siegelman’s supporters say he was the target of a political witch hunt, in part orchestrated by former Bush administration deputy Karl Rove. They claim the federal prosecutors and presiding judge decided to destroy Siegelman’s career.
Siegelman was once touted as a possible Democratic presidential candidate. In Alabama, he served in four of the state’s top elected offices. He was governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state.
Siegelman’s supporters already include 100 former states’ attorneys general—both Republicans and Democrat—as well as former presidential candidates Al Gore and John Kerry. Last week, he actually attended the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, not as a politician or candidate but as a man seeking a presidential pardon.
Pace Law Professor Bennett Gershman says Siegelman’s case is, quote, “one of the most egregiously bad faith prosecutions by the Justice Department ever.”
Siegelman has already served over nine months in prison, a month in solitary confinement, three weeks in a maximum security prison. He now has to report back to federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, by this afternoon.
For more, we’re joined by Democracy Now! video stream by former Governor Don Siegelman. He’s joining us from a hotel room in New Orleans on his way to jail.
Governor Siegelman, welcome to Democracy Now!
DON SIEGELMAN: Thanks, Amy. I’m delighted to be with you this morning.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s hard to believe you’d use the word “delighted” today, but can you talk about why you’re headed to jail today?
DON SIEGELMAN: Well, no one wants to go to prison for something that is not a crime, and especially one orchestrated by Karl Rove. Everyone remembers the eight attorney—the eight U.S. attorneys who were fired by Rove during the Bush administration because they would not pursue political prosecutions. Well, the U.S. attorney in Alabama, appointed by Bush, vetted by Rove, pursued a political prosecution, and this is the flip side of that congressional investigation that stirred up a stink about how Rove was using the Department of Justice as a political weapon.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain exactly what happened. Talk about your time as governor, though you served in many different official capacities, elected positions in Alabama, and then exactly what happened to you.
DON SIEGELMAN: Well, I was raising money to get a state referendum passed that would establish a lottery so Alabama’s less fortunate kids would have a chance to go to college for free. Jack Abramoff, in his book, admits that he put $20 million of Indian casino money in Alabama, first to defeat me in 1998 and to defeat the lottery campaign in 1999 and then to defeat me again in 2002. There was a confluence of both the casino interests to get rid of me, to target me and to stop me, as well as Karl Rove and his best friend and his best friend’s wife, who was the U.S. attorney, as well as Karl Rove’s client, who was the state attorney general.
I was raising money, and I had asked a gentleman to raise money for this state referendum. He did, and later I appointed him to the same board on which he had served through three previous governors. And it’s interesting to note that all three of these previous governors had received contributions directly from this CEO. I received a contribution, but it went to a referendum campaign, yet I was targeted and convicted with—for bribery.
The other interesting note here is that the judge lowered the standard by which juries can convict to not an expressed quid pro quo or an explicitly asserted quid pro quo, but, in my case, an implied quid pro quo. So, now we have a standard in Alabama where people can be convicted not on evidence that they actually got together and decided to swap money for favors, but to allow the jury to assume or to imply that there was such a deal.
THE RAVEN (Debts No More)
(Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven)
WilliamBanzai7
Once upon a midnight dreary, while insolvent weak and weary,
Over a balance sheet covered in a cloud of debts galore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.’
Ah, distinctly I remember it was bleak as Lehman’s September,
And each despicable creditor wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I sought more to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the abundant days of yore -
And the rare and hidden debts of toxic bailout whores -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each indentured debt just
Thrilled me – thrilled me with fantastic plastic Sino-crap never bought before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
‘Tis some banksta entreating entrance at my chamber door -
My late payments entreating his entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,’
Waaaht
…9/11 and no conspiracy footage…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZmSHTiYa2M
Disclaimer: not sure if real…
Damn WB7! Plays like a nightmare…
Memory-all Service
…………………..
Scissors? check. Knives? check. Okeedokee: BEAR HUG!
Is this a pizza joint or an airport?
This is a NY state of mind.
But you’re from Chia-cog-O!
We came didn’t we? Now vote for the Bear.
Bear market?
Bear-back’t liquidity.
God no!
O! Come on. We lead the ‘free whirl’d”.
Goldman?
No G.
Just dough?
Our dough.
YUCK. I don’t like Chicago deep-dishers.
WE CAME DIDN’T WE?
Take that barbi-hair’t-puppet and leave us alone!
Not nice. Two bear hugs.
Look, I get to vote! It’s a ‘free whirl’t, remember?
O!Kay-man. But “we’ll be back”.
Next time, bring a bull!
Chia Pets
……………
Mommy?
What Ash-lee?
Can I get a Chia-O! I saw on TV @mark-to-market.dumb?
Honey, this isn’t Wall-Mark’t.
You can order it! I got the number and everything!
Look, princess. We don’t shop there. We only vote for the Chia-pet @I give you what’s best for you.love
BUT I WANT IT. O!
Honey, it’s time for our ‘time-to-remember-to-mind’.
So what. I like teddy-bears!
We all like Teddy, pumpkin. But we ‘must remember to mind’.
I HATE YOU FOREVER AND EVER!
Alright. I warned you. We educate, don’t legislate. No muppets for you today.
AHHHHHHHH! WAHHHHHHHH!
No bear hugs.
I WANNA CHIA-O!
Remember you-are name?
Ash-lee?
That’s right.
O!Kay. Sorry, I forgot!
Darryl Robert Schoon’s site:
http://www.drschoon.com/
quoting:
9/11, Gold, Money & Power
9/11, gold, money and power are inextricably intertwined. In 1987, I met Howard Hughes’ former banker, Dr. Norman Bernard Thirion; and, in strict confidentiality, Thirion told me a story that led to a name that has now been connected to 9/11.
pdf link at Schoon’s site:
http://www.drschoon.com/members/images/911GoldMoneAndPower.pdf
again quoting:
.. a vast international criminal conspiracy at the heart of the American government…[beginning] with the criminal prosecution of former Reagan intelligence coordinator, Lee Wanta…Charges allege that the 9/11 attacks were planned and executed in order to cover financial crimes.
…..
Read a few articles (also needing verification by historians, journalists, professors) by Dan at
http://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/
He says Romney has hired the Bush 911 “national security” people.
…………
And, that is a big problem because:
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/aa-exposes-bushs-big-lie-flight-11-did.html
AA Exposes Bush’s ‘Big Lie’: Flight 11 DID NOT FLY on 911!
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
American Airlines is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. If neither flew on 911, the Bush ‘theory’ is a lie. If the Bush ‘theory’ is a lie, there remains only one explanation and that is: 911 was an inside job given a green-light by Bush himself.
These flights are critical to the the government’s crumbling cover up! Conan Doyle, the brilliant creator of the character Sherlock Holmes, said: “When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however implausible must be the truth!” Bush’s official conspiracy theory of 911 is not only impossible, it’s absurd and insulting to intelligent people!
The Bush Conspiracy Theory is impossible! And it’s a Lie.
…………
The coalition against truth, justice and the American (at its best) way which would be the humane way:
as per Kevin Phillips:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Phillips_%28political_commentator%29
Formerly a Republican Party strategist, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its most scathing critics.
American Theocracy (2006)
Allen Dwight Callahan[1] states the book’s theme is that the Republican Party (GOP), religious fundamentalism, petroleum, and borrowed money are an “Unholy Alliance.”[2] The last chapter, in a nod to his first major work, is titled “The Erring Republican Majority.” American Theocracy “presents a nightmarish vision of ideological extremism, catastrophic fiscal irresponsibility, rampant greed and dangerous shortsightedness.”
…………..
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Go to article for working links and video:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/president-of-the-supreme-court-of-italy-to-refer-911-crimes-to-international-criminal-court.html
President of Italy’s Supreme Court to Refer 9/11 Crimes To International Criminal Court
Posted on September 9, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Says that 9/11 was “False Flag” Terror, Just Like the Strategy of Tension in Italy
Ferdinando Imposimato is the honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy, and former Senior Investigative Judge, Italy.
Imposimato presided over several terrorism-related cases, including the kidnapping and ultimate assassination of President Aldo Moro, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, other political assassinations and kidnapping cases and several cases against the Mafia. He is a former Senator who served on the Anti-Mafia Commission in three administrations.
Imposimato is also a former legal consultant to the United Nations regarding institution of laws to control drug trafficking.
This week, Judge Imposimato stated publicly in writing that 9/11 was just like the “strategy of tension” carried out in Italy.
Specifically, the former Italian Prime Minister, Italian judges, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred).
snip
Judge Imposimato writes that 9/11 was the exact same type of attack: an act of false flag terror.
Judge Imposimato announced that he is going to recommend that the International Criminal Court hold a criminal trial into 9/11.
Imposimato noted that the International Criminal Court was set up to protect the world from criminal acts of war, and that it is the perfect judicial body to hear such a case.
more
This was really about what happened and/or was revealed in the aftermath. I did the first version two years ago and keep updating it every year.
The Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
…As sold to us by the U.S. Government, the mainstream media, and all the people who bought it, hook line and sinker without a second thought:
Thanks to James Corbett., Patriot for putting this together:
http://youtu.be/yuC_4mGTs98 (4:55)
Industrial CAP
Bernanks at the Bank
And the devil’s in the plane.
Down fall the people like
The rain on the plain. History’s
A rewrite of the lies on the telly:
Sad the expression on Rocky’s only
Felly. Rise comes the anger at the
Criminal elite. Rise like the flames
Brunt the office working street. Who
Wore the crown when the clowns manned
The ship? A black-faced angel with a cracker
For a whip. Dawn’s never golden when the
Telephone is black: sire to the fortune paper
China with crack. Yellow like ribbons torn
And frayed by the wind. Charlatans of whisper
Born without and within. Cable the message;
Links in a chain. Pretty little kitty with a microphone
Frame. Human in proportion to the sordid horrid
Scene. Mosque in the basement with a solitary theme.
Hatred called sacred, sacred profaned. For want of a
Lion place the jackal’s wired mane. Howl all ye
People. Howl at the moon. Pray to the god of
The regency spoon. Spoon not of silver, nor of
Mere gold. Spoon found on ebay for an auction
Was sold. Last of an empire, call it 9-11. Call it
What you like, for now justice will be done.
I feel for those that died on that tragic day eleven long years ago, but that doesn’t change my belief that the 9/11 Commission was a farce and that there was a Twin Towers World Trade Center weight full of evidence that has never seen the light of day in a truly honest and open investigation of what took place and really occurred on that fateful day. Too many factors have been ignored and passed over, that have a deeper relevance on the future and well being of the country then has been allowed to come foreword during the passing years. This is mostly from fatigue in the American psyche with the enormity of the matter of 9/11 and the heartache in going over once again solemn ground, to exhume the body of evidence and do a proper forensic. The people of the United States have turned the page on the tragic events of that day, and haven’t got the nerve or desire to re-open the case, to examine properly its content. All that’s left is sad ritual, and false belief that the culprits have been dealt with.
Yet Homeland Security, the NSA, CIA and the newly created TSA see boogie men everywhere, and because of this behavior on their part, along with their further intrusion into the lives of everyday Americans, a real honest to goodness forensic of 9/11 should be demanded by the entire country, to stop this freedom loving nation from further turning into a police state.
The video clip shown was brilliant and only goes to show the decadent state the the post 9/11 world of the United States of America, and what it has now turned into.
Political prisoner # 1 Don Seigelman goes to jail today, Sept. 11. His supporters say his only “crime” was belonging to the Democratic Party in a state with a Republican majority.
http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-please-restore-justice-and-pardon-my-dad
President Obama: Please restore justice and pardon my dad!
by Dana Siegelman
……………
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2012/09/did-judge-on-siegelman-appellate-panel.html
Did Judge on Siegelman Appellate Panel Act Out of Fear From a Failed Attempt on his Life?
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman is due to report to federal custody today in Oakdale, Louisiana, providing absolute proof that large chunks of Americans are perfectly willing to accept the idea of political prisoners in our “democracy,” circa 2012.
We have written probably several hundred posts about the Siegelman travesty, and you might think that we wouldn’t have anything left to say at this point. But you would be wrong, and that’s largely because the case was so profoundly screwed up on so many levels that the news just keeps on coming.
In fact, the following question is on our mind today: Was the appeal in the Siegelman case botched in part because one member of the three-judge panel operates out of fear from being the target of a failed assassination attempt more than 20 years ago?
…………….
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/11/former_alabama_gov_don_siegelman_speaks
Ex-Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Speaks Out on Karl Rove, Witch Hunt Hours Before Returning to Jail
AMY GOODMAN: We begin our show with the man who the American Trial Lawyer magazine calls America’s “Political Prisoner #1.” That’s Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, who returns to federal prison today to resume his six-and-a-half-year sentence. He was convicted on bribery charges stemming from his appointment of a campaign donor to a non-paying government board.
However, his supporters say his only “crime” was belonging to the Democratic Party in a state with a Republican majority. Siegelman’s supporters say he was the target of a political witch hunt, in part orchestrated by former Bush administration deputy Karl Rove. They claim the federal prosecutors and presiding judge decided to destroy Siegelman’s career.
Siegelman was once touted as a possible Democratic presidential candidate. In Alabama, he served in four of the state’s top elected offices. He was governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state.
Siegelman’s supporters already include 100 former states’ attorneys general—both Republicans and Democrat—as well as former presidential candidates Al Gore and John Kerry. Last week, he actually attended the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, not as a politician or candidate but as a man seeking a presidential pardon.
Pace Law Professor Bennett Gershman says Siegelman’s case is, quote, “one of the most egregiously bad faith prosecutions by the Justice Department ever.”
Siegelman has already served over nine months in prison, a month in solitary confinement, three weeks in a maximum security prison. He now has to report back to federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, by this afternoon.
For more, we’re joined by Democracy Now! video stream by former Governor Don Siegelman. He’s joining us from a hotel room in New Orleans on his way to jail.
Governor Siegelman, welcome to Democracy Now!
DON SIEGELMAN: Thanks, Amy. I’m delighted to be with you this morning.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s hard to believe you’d use the word “delighted” today, but can you talk about why you’re headed to jail today?
DON SIEGELMAN: Well, no one wants to go to prison for something that is not a crime, and especially one orchestrated by Karl Rove. Everyone remembers the eight attorney—the eight U.S. attorneys who were fired by Rove during the Bush administration because they would not pursue political prosecutions. Well, the U.S. attorney in Alabama, appointed by Bush, vetted by Rove, pursued a political prosecution, and this is the flip side of that congressional investigation that stirred up a stink about how Rove was using the Department of Justice as a political weapon.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain exactly what happened. Talk about your time as governor, though you served in many different official capacities, elected positions in Alabama, and then exactly what happened to you.
DON SIEGELMAN: Well, I was raising money to get a state referendum passed that would establish a lottery so Alabama’s less fortunate kids would have a chance to go to college for free. Jack Abramoff, in his book, admits that he put $20 million of Indian casino money in Alabama, first to defeat me in 1998 and to defeat the lottery campaign in 1999 and then to defeat me again in 2002. There was a confluence of both the casino interests to get rid of me, to target me and to stop me, as well as Karl Rove and his best friend and his best friend’s wife, who was the U.S. attorney, as well as Karl Rove’s client, who was the state attorney general.
I was raising money, and I had asked a gentleman to raise money for this state referendum. He did, and later I appointed him to the same board on which he had served through three previous governors. And it’s interesting to note that all three of these previous governors had received contributions directly from this CEO. I received a contribution, but it went to a referendum campaign, yet I was targeted and convicted with—for bribery.
The other interesting note here is that the judge lowered the standard by which juries can convict to not an expressed quid pro quo or an explicitly asserted quid pro quo, but, in my case, an implied quid pro quo. So, now we have a standard in Alabama where people can be convicted not on evidence that they actually got together and decided to swap money for favors, but to allow the jury to assume or to imply that there was such a deal.
more
QuoTH THe RaVeN, DEBTS NO MORE!
THE RAVEN (Debts No More)
(Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven)
WilliamBanzai7
Once upon a midnight dreary, while insolvent weak and weary,
Over a balance sheet covered in a cloud of debts galore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.’
Ah, distinctly I remember it was bleak as Lehman’s September,
And each despicable creditor wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I sought more to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the abundant days of yore -
And the rare and hidden debts of toxic bailout whores -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each indentured debt just
Thrilled me – thrilled me with fantastic plastic Sino-crap never bought before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
‘Tis some banksta entreating entrance at my chamber door -
My late payments entreating his entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,’
continued…
The Falling Man
Never Forgotten…