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NOVEMBER 26 2007
Part One of a Raw Story Investigates series on the architects and the
execution of backroom Republican politics
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The permanent Republican majority:
Part one: How a coterie of Republican
heavyweights sent a governor to jail
Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane of Raw Story
Part one of a Raw Story Investigates series on the architects
and the execution of backroom Republican politics
For most Americans, the very concept of political prisoners is remote
and exotic, a practice that is associated with third-world dictatorships
but is foreign to the American tradition. The idea that a prominent
politician -- a former state governor -- could be tried on charges that
many observers consider to be trumped-up, convicted in a trial that
involved numerous questionable procedures, and then hauled off to
prison in shackles immediately upon sentencing would be almost
unbelievable.
<link to source>
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Part One of a Raw Story Investigates series on the architects and the
execution of backroom Republican politics
..........................................................................................................
The permanent Republican majority:
Part one: How a coterie of Republican
heavyweights sent a governor to jail
Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane of Raw Story
Part one of a Raw Story Investigates series on the architects
and the execution of backroom Republican politics
For most Americans, the very concept of political prisoners is remote
and exotic, a practice that is associated with third-world dictatorships
but is foreign to the American tradition. The idea that a prominent
politician -- a former state governor -- could be tried on charges that
many observers consider to be trumped-up, convicted in a trial that
involved numerous questionable procedures, and then hauled off to
prison in shackles immediately upon sentencing would be almost
unbelievable.
<link to source>
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| File photo by Glynn Wilson Congress held hearings focusing on the selective prosecution of Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and others |