Reply #11: Ernest Partridge: The Gulag Comes to America: The Don Siegelman Case

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The Gulag Comes to America: The Don Siegelman Case
by Ernest Partridge January 30, 2008 at 09:33:27
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A Political Prisoner

Today, Don Siegelman, former governor of the state of Alabama, sits in a federal prison, sentenced to a seven year term for bribery.

Every day that Siegelman remains in prison every American citizen who openly dissents from the policies and protests the criminality of the Bush/Cheney regime is less free and more vulnerable to politically motivated prosecution.

For the plain fact of the matter is that Don Siegelman is, in effect, a political prisoner. The formal charge against him was bribery. But, practically speaking, his offense was his political success as a Democrat in a "red" Republican state ........