Shot from a few years ago at Three Rivers Petroglyphs in south central NM
Okay, kidz, here’s the deal: I’m devoting today and tomorrow almost exclusively to pulling together the background story (New Mexico edition) on the prosecutor purge. I’ll post throughout both days, but I’m spending a great deal of time pulling links to sources, etc., so if you don’t see an update when you visit, check back in an hour or two.
I think I said once that this goes back to the 2004 election. That’s true, but really a misstatement on my part. This goes back to the 2000 election, and it was a constant undercurrent throughout the first [illegitimate] Bush term. It seemed to peak in the 2004 race; after Kerry conceded [also illegitimately; that was not his decision to make when we knew what had happened in Ohio], it seemed to disappear. However, a lot of us kept expecting to see fallout - and the prosecutor purge is it. Serendipitously for this pack of criminals, staging the purge now and in this way gave them the chance to stop several investigations (like Carol Lam’s) dead in their tracks. It has thus expanded to encompass a whole host of administration goals - goals that are as illegitimate as they come. Strike that; goals that are as criminal as they come.
Anyway, some of the coming posts may seem a bit disjointed in the larger scheme of things. Bear with me; they’ll all tie together nicely in the end. And for those of you who are blogging yourselves on these issues, please: Take these stories and run with them! Use them as a guide to digging up what happened in your own states. Spread these accounts far and wide. Because I guarantee you, these eight prosecutors are just the proverbial tip of the iceberg. This pattern and practice exists in every single contested state (in fact, probably every single state, period). Since the MSM won’t do their jobs, it’s up to us (following the lead of the incredible TPM guys) to make sure that the Bush/Rethug Titanic smashes to smithereens.
First up: Bush BFF Mickey Barnett.
