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Bush, Manson, and the Media Blackout

An Interview with Vincent Bugliosi - Part 2

"More dead since the war was declared won. A war based on lies and deceit." Image cc

Michael Collins
Washington, DC
(Also See Part 1

If a man carefully plans and executes the killing of another, we call him a murderer, arrest and try him, then send him off to the nearest death chamber. In many states, individuals convicted of three felonies are subject to an automatic life sentence under a program quaintly referred to as the "three strikes and you're out law." Justice for ordinary citizens in the United States may not be swift but when executed, it is final and unforgiving.

Michael Collins: An Interview with Vincent Bugliosi - Part 1

Prosecuting George W. Bush for Murder

Hat-tip Johnny Venom.

It's a horrible story¹ -- a 14 year old girl dies of wasting away under the most piteous, awful conditions:

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District Attorney Lynne Abraham said any of the nine could have foreseen the horrific fate of Danieal, whose emaciated body was found in her mother's squalid house covered with bone-deep, maggot-infested bedsores in August 2006.

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A 258-page grand jury report recommending the charges said not only that Andrea Kelly refused to get her daughter food, water and medical treatment, but that she repeatedly prevented one of her other children from calling an ambulance "for his obviously dying sister."

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The mother was not the only one who got charged. A total of nine defendants were charged with counts ranging from involuntary manslaughter to perjury.

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Two employees of MultiEthnic Behavioral Health, a now-defunct company that DHS hired to provide social services to Danieal, falsified documents to cover up the fact they rarely, if ever, checked on her, the grand jury said.

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Children are supposed to be our future, perfect or not. Danieal Kelly had cerebral palsy, and couldn't act in her own best interest; apparently, even the efforts by one of her own siblings who tried to aid her were thwarted.

What kind of a world have we wrought, and what will the future be like if we don't spur ourselves to get up, stand up and push to correct the things that are broken within the systems we've built and upon which those who cannot help themselves depend?

This is an Open Thread, in memory of Danieal Kelly -- may she rest in peace, and may we act swiftly to ensure that no other child is left behind to die such an ungentle death.

The New York Times' ran the headline for the story out of the Associated Press today: 'D.C. Madam' Is Found Dead, Apparently in a Suicide

The tragedy occurred Thursday, May 2, at her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, FL -- about 20 miles northwest of Tampa.

I suppose there will be no more revelations about her client lists now.

Two of the powerful Republican officials who were stung by the release of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's telephone records were freshman senator David Vitter -- still serving -- and a senior State Department official named Randall L. Tobias, who resigned.

Related, some indirectly:

This morning on NPR's Morning Edition they had this report:

Iraq Vets Charged with Murder of Fellow Soldier

A soldier who had survived two tours in Iraq and had been sent home after suffering traumatic brain injury was murdered in December in Colorado Springs near Fort Carson, Colo. Army Spc. Kevin Shields was killed, according to police, by three fellow soldiers who had served with him in Iraq.

Army Spc. Kevin Shields was laid to rest on Dec. 15th. 2007