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The Spirit of Fitzmas

Oct 28th, 2005 at 4:13 pm by Susie

So in a way, Fitzmas — for those on the left so anxiously awaiting it — has been just like every other holiday from Christmas or Hanukkah to your last birthday. In other words…something of a letdown, even though you’re too embarassed to say it out loud. Sure, it was cool to see the new Gameboy DS under the tree, but what about that new puppy you’ve been hinting about? Maybe for your next birthday, they say.

Don’t be disappointed. Fitzmas isn’t all about “Scooter” Libby or Karl Rove
any more than Christmas is about a bearded fat guy in a red suit. Yes, it’s true that Rove, Bush, Cheney and the rest have been lying for a long time — maybe not to the grand jury or the FBI in a way that violates a criminal statute, but to the American people, which is much, much worse. And today, the unraveling of those lies finally reached the tipping point that — one way or the other — marks the beginning of the end of the American tragedy that is the George W. Bush administration.

I’m still happy. Because to me, Fitzmas isn’t about how many indictments we get - it’s about the spirit of justice and fair play that underpins our democracy.

It’s nice to know the heart of democracy is still beating.

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2 Responses to “The Spirit of Fitzmas”

on 28 Oct 2005 at 4:32 pm1james richardson

Fitz for Attorney General!
on 28 Oct 2005 at 10:47 pm2Tom Parmenter

I had an item on this in my web log:

I’m sick of “Saint” Patrick Fitzgerald and his “grand juries” and “indictments”! Let’s just grab Bush and Rumsfeld and Cheney and Libby and Rove and Alberto Gonzalez and a few hundred more like them and transport them off to juridical limbo and badger them night and day and whale the crap out of them for a few months and then lock them up and throw away the key. After all, we know they’re guilty, right?

This formally charging people with crimes is an outmoded luxury of an innocent age and only leads to lawyers and judges and all sorts of impediments to real justice. In other words, let’s give the George W. “W” Bush administration the same treatment they gave to American citizen Jose Padilla, the “dirty-bomb terrorist” who is so dangerous an “enemy combatant” that he couldn’t possibly be exposed to a vigorous defense by a lawyer in a fair and timely trial under specific charges before a jury of his fellow citizens and an impartial judge.

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