Prosecute Him!
Vermont wackjob … I’m sorry, I mean Progressive Party candidate for Attorney General Charlotte Dennett announces her plan to prosecute George Bush for murder if elected. She’s reading from Vincent Bugliosi’s playbook, in fact had the former Manson prosecutor/fellow wackjob with her when she announced. I’ll let some other progressive wackjobs explain what a great idea it is:
Charlotte Dennett, who entered the race for Vermont Attorney General this week, readily admits that it will be an uphill battle. But the Vermont Progressive Party’s candidate does have one thing going for her – an issue with the potential to mobilize voters upset about the Iraq War. At her first press conference, sitting next to renowned prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi, she pledged to prosecute George W. Bush for murder if elected and appoint Bugliosi as a special prosecutor to take on the job.
Bugliosi had come to Vermont specifically to back Dennett’s bid against incumbent Attorney General William Sorrell, who has held the job since 1997. “There is no better state to bring this forward,” Dennett said, pointing to the fact that Vermont has lost more soldiers per capita than any other state during the war and that voters at 36 Town Meetings have called for Bush’s impeachment.
“No man is above the law,” Bugliosi argued, explaining that a state Attorney General can prosecute Bush for conspiracy to commit murder after he leaves office. The key is to establish “overt acts” that prove there was a conspiracy to mislead the country into war, he said. Bugliosi pointed specifically to Bush’s frequent public statements, which were broadcast nationally, and the recruitment of Vermonters to fight in Iraq. “Any Attorney General can do this,” he said.
Dennett, who has been practicing law since 1997, is also an investigative journalist. “When I read Mr. Bugliosi’s meticulously-argued case,” she has explained, “it struck a chord with me as a Vermonter and an American citizen.”
Bugliosi has won 105 out of 106 felony jury trials and is best known for prosecuting Charles Manson. Yet his most recent book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, has proven highly controversial. Mainstream media outlets have declined to review it or interview him, Bugliosi noted. Asked what explains the reaction, he speculated that the Right Wing in the US has frightened many people into silence. Thus, “the establishment has decided Bush should not be held accountable,” he said
I’m not sure what they mean by “frightened many people into silence.” I’m having a hard time keeping up with what all the Bush-hating, Palin-bashing, McCain-disparaging wackjobs are jawing about over the general wacked clamor. But maybe even the most shameless Obama watercarrier in the press finds Bugliosi’s level of wack embarrassing.
Here’s the picture of Bush that the progs at “Toward Freedom” ran with their article. It’s a good choice. He looks like he’s thinking, “You see what kind of crap I have to put up with?”
Anyway, it sounds like it could be a heck of a campaign strategy in Vermont. But even in the progressively wacked Green Moungtain State, which is represented by a socialist in Congress, and by an assortment of loons in its pleasant, Norman Rockwell-like villages and towns, Dennett is considered a long shot:
At this point, Dennett’s chances of victory aren’t strong. Although Vermont Progressives have elected representatives to the state legislature, no candidate has yet come close to winning a statewide race. Anthony Pollina, the Progressive standard bearer who ran for governor in 2000 and received 24.8 percent of the vote in a 2002 race for Lt. Governor, decided this summer to run for governor as an Independent in hopes of broadening his base.
Sheesh. Apparently that guy figured he’d do better if he didn’t spell out for Vermonters exactly how far left of loon he is. Good luck!
(Related, Obama camp denies it plans to prosecute Bush. Biden and Obama as United States senators apparently are aware that even in the Democratic-controlled Congress, given to pointless and destructive gestures, that was considered a dumb fringe idea. Too bad. As part of the new Obama aggressiveness, a rabid plan to put a former president of the United States on trial for murder could be an important Obama campaign plank, helping to secure victory. For McCain-Palin.)
Here’s self-taught lawyer and investigative journalist Dennett, by the way.
NYT reports her dad was an OSS and Central Intelligence Group agent who died in a plane crash in Ethiopia in 1947. It is a tragic situation, that the woman was deprived of her father as an infant. He was a Harvard Islamic Studies scholar posted to Beirut during the war. Fascinating. I wonder what the old man would make of all this if he were alive today. Not his daughter and her proposal … I’m sure he’d give her his unconditional love. I mean the rise of extremist Islam and the Bush policy of aggressively attacking it. Whether Saddam posed a threat to the world’s richest oil supplies, given his history, and the danger of his regime’s increasing involvement with al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Whether removing the threat Saddam posed of a renewed Middle East arms race was a good idea, especially given that all the top spy agencies in the world figured that was an active concern at the time. Then there’s Iran, Syria, and their nuke ambitions. You’ve got McCain who doesn’t intend to tolerate that, and Obama who thinks he can talk them out of it. Given the way various bright intelligence lights drove the bus blindfolded and then bailed once they got it up to speed, who knows where the old guy would fall.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:14 pm on Thursday, September 18, 2008
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September 19th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Some people should have the word “LUNATIC” tattooed on their forehead. Dennett is one of them. Bugliosi is another.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:48 am
They’re going to try Bush for defending the country in time of war. Riiiight. They’d bettr start with a retrospective trial of FDR for practice first.
By the way Jules, we haven’t heard anything from Ali, Ahmed, and Farouk for a long time. How are the boys doing? Are they still around or did they finally manage to hook up with those 72 virigins?
September 21st, 2008 at 1:13 am
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