Selective Public Hanging

Illinois’s Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich is so corrupt that the Bush DOJ has had to investigate him for three solid years to finally come up with something to pin on him. His crime---he reportedly solicited bribes in exchange for a Senate appointment. This accusation from the same Injustice Department that swore that ex Alabama Governor Don Siegelman deserved to rot in jail, because he solicited bribes in exchange for a committee appointment.

That is because whenever the current DOJ indicts an enemy of the Bush State, the MSM portrays them as guilty until proven innocent. I will not rehash the Siegelman case. We all know the truth now. However, once railroaded, it takes years and endless appeals to undo the harm the a few days of biased media coverage and a bunch of good little sheep can do.

It is a good thing that Fitz has not been investigating criminal activity among the elected officials in Texas. What has been going on down there for the last eight years under Governor Rick Perry (R) would blow his mind.

However, I do not think that Bush or Cheney would ever appoint someone like Fitz to oversee Republicans in Texas. The DOJ in Texas has a different job. Rather than stamping out crimes, those good ol' boys are entrusted with the task of covering them up.II. Gov. Rick Perry (R) Accessory to Child Sexual Abuse in Texas, Where is the Federal Prosecution?

The Texas Youth Commission story is an extremely sordid one.

Two high ranking officials at a facility for adolescents had been sexually abusing children for several years from 2002 to 2005. Complaints about their behavior to Austin had been ignored or covered up, until finally the Texas Rangers got involved and decided that there was enough evidence to prosecute.

The two were fired. The case was handed to a local prosecutor, but then it was moved to the jurisdiction of a Bush DOJ federal prosecutor, who did nothing with it for a while before sending it back to the local prosecutor a year later. Meanwhile, one of the defendants had gotten another job supervising children.

During all this time, every effort was made to keep a tight lid on the story to avoid embarrassing the Republican administration of Gov. Rick Perry in Austin. Perry was due to run for re-election in 2006, and he faced a challenge from the right this time.

http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2428 In an article entitled “Texas Youth Commission: Why Did It Take Perry So Long To Act?” the author writes:

Texas Governor Rick Perry, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, and Texas House
Speaker Tom Craddick all knew about the acts of sexual violence being
perpetrated on youthful offenders at the Texas Youth Commission as early as last
fall.But none bothered to act until this week.

“This week” was after the 2006 elections, in which Perry won, just barely. More:

Perry spokesman Ted Royer said the governor, the lieutenant governor and speaker
were notified of the original investigation in 2005, but he said the results
were given only to TYC.

If the results were only given to TYC but Perry, Craddick and Dewhurst knew about it, then why didn’t they do something?

Perry could have directed the TYC governing board to conduct an inquiry. Any one of them could have established a Joint Select Committee of the Legislature to look into it. Any one of them could have picked up the phone and called the head of TYC and asked, “What the hell is going on down there?”

I can see Perry not being notified if, say, someone over at the Texas Building & Procurement Commission misplaced a case of paper clips, but the staff not notifying the governor (if that is the case) that there are allegations of sex abuse in a youth correctional facility is a dereliction of duty to the taxpayers of Texas, the children confined therein, and the justice system for it not to have been reported to the governor.

If, however, his staff reported it to Perry and he personally did nothing, then the fault lies with Governor Perry. In an administration full of scandals and mini-scandals, this will stand out as one of the worst.

Forget that he handed the Texas Legislature to Tom DeLay for half of 2003. Forget that he basically gave a utility company carte blanche to pollute Texas skies for generations to come. He stood by while children were sexually abused. That these are incarcerated children doesn’t make it any better. The reason for the Texas Youth Commission is, primarily, to rehabilitate offenders, not send them out in to the world in a worse state than when they came in.

Once again, the Republican Administration has failed Texas and the bush administration has failed America.

Fitz.......OH FITZ......Where are you Fitz?