Updates on America’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner, Gov. Don Siegelman

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Updates on America’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner
Scott Horton - Nov 27, 2007 - http://harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001784

Raw Story Looks at Siegelman

Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane at The Raw Story (http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_1125.html)
launch their series looking into the prosecution and imprisonment of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman. The opening piece
takes a look at the Siegelman case from the perspective of Republican electoral politics, and it opens with this salvo:

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.

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... Raw Story also presents a well-researched chronology of the Siegelman case. http://rawstory.com/news/2007/timeline_don_siegelman_1126.htm

More installments in this series coming, but the opener is very impressive.

Alabamians Believe Siegelman a Victim of Political Prosecution
The view taken by Raw Story, that Don Siegelman is a political prisoner, may have emerged as the view of the people of Alabama. In any event, a new Rasmussen poll shows 56% of Alabamians surveyed believed that politics played a role in the prosecution ........

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