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Here is something else to keep in mind regarding the D.C. madam death: Hanging is a fairly unusual form of suicide for a woman. According to statistics at suicide.org, the two most common methods of suicide for women, by far, are poisons (overdosing, etc.) at 37.8 percent and firearms at 32.4 percent. Hanging, strangulation, and suffocation are grouped together and come in third at 19.7 percent. But if we can assume that true hanging makes up only one-third of that group, it seems that only a little more than 6 percent of female suicides use the method found in the D.C. Madam case. Note: In our first post on the Coughlin matter, we noted that one news source had identified Coughlin as a member of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section and that he had been involved in the Paul Minor prosecution in Mississippi. A source close to the Minor case tell us that the quote that led to that report was misunderstood. Our source says Coughlin apparently was not part of the Public Integrity Section and had no role in the Minor prosecution. www.legalschnauzer.blogspot.com I live in Birmingham, Alabama, and work in higher education. I became interested in justice-related issues after experiencing gross judicial corruption in Alabama state courts. This corruption has a strong political component. The corrupt judges are all Republicans, and the attorney who filed a fraudulent lawsuit against me has strong family ties to the Alabama Republican Party, with indirect connections to national figures such as Karl Rove. In fact, a number of Republican operatives who have played a central role in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (a Democrat) also have connections to my case.
I am married, with no kids and two Siamese cats. I am the author of the blog Legal Schnauzer. The blog is written in honor of Murphy, our miniature schnauzer (1993-2004)who did so much to help my wife and me survive our nightmarish experience with corrupt judges.
I grew up in Springfield, Missouri, and I am pretty much a lifelong St. Louis Cardinal baseball fan. I've lived in Birmingham for almost 30 years and have adopted the UAB Blazers as my Southern college football and basketball team to follow. Also, follow East Tennessee State basketball.
An avid reader, both fiction and non-fiction. Influential writers on public affairs are Kevin Phillips, Michael Lind, Thomas Edsall, E.J. Dionne, Molly Ivins, and Scott Horton.
Abramoff? Cheney and beyond! Abramoff's sticky web has already been mentioned, along with VP Dick Cheney, LA Senator Vitter, Bush AIDS Czar Randall Tobias, ABC anchor Sam Donaldson, a law partner of Rudy Giuliani and many more Pentagon, DC and corporate insiders on a list of 10,000 calls. by
Gustav Wynn (47 articles, 33 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 224 comments)
on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 10:36:07 PM
I work in the medical field, have a degree in education. I've been a fine artist professionally for thirty years.
The corruptible reach of Team Abramoff, what it looks like We face tremendous challenges in addressing the corrupting by Team Abramoff. The former associates and firms, deals and scams in which Abramoff is/was involved are not necessarily his creations. And so the extent of his influence is sometimes not apparent. Throughout his 'career' he has made use of corrupt systems and individuals. There have been rumblings about how our government is involved in slipping a noose on the world's oil. A must-read article on this is "Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire" by Ken Silverstein of Harper's. In the case of my family, after years of experiences with al qaeda in South Florida, including experience in a "school program" with Jack Abramoff as one of its BODs (attacks on my family were integral with that 'school' experience), we experienced many further predations which can be as clearly tied to al qaeda as to the caging by Team Abramoff/Team Education. In fact, the US Attorney and US Marshal brought mirrored prosecutions in 1997 which should have been further pursued. Scooter Libby required the US Marshal to stand down from further investigations and prosecutions in Miami relating to the Team Ed. When my mother died, it was discovered that our family trust advisor was a Team member. He advised us that our trust was hopelessly constructed; then commenced attempts to turn family members against each other, perhaps to further reinforce the notion that no one would ultimately profit. This Team member then told us that if we signed powers of attorney, he could have his fellow team member, who was an officer of a Coral Gables trust company, get a judge to look the other way regarding trust requirements, and could place out trust with the Coral Gables trust company he recommended. In researching the matter, I learned his associate was not an officer of the Coral Gables trust company recommended. BUT, one of the officers of an apparent funding company related to that trust company was an officer of the company in Texas involved in the Ghanian pipeline and storage depot deal; a deal which committed the Ghanian government to a revolving credit deal which could have been developed by Africans for Africa. And so Team Abramoff has participated not just in the caging of schoolchildren in various locations throughout the world, in the caging of immigrants in sweat shops in the Mariannas, not just caging of justice in the United States through Griles et al, etc. The article I recommended discusses well the need to define United States foreign policy and the need to remove dirty tricksters from our government. At some future time I will post, discussing the nature of our experiences. This will give insight into how federal employees in most-high places exercised their Constitutional abilites to thwart federal prosecutions. While these folks had the right to act, they had the responsibility to act in support of lawfulness. Perhaps more importantly, this discussion will include how lobbyists used their abilities to coordinate federal non-response...and the results of their actions. The dots connect. We are not dealing with ethical violations, we are dealing with organized crime involving our government. by
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on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 8:55:36 AM
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