J'accuse

You will not hear the following analysis on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, the BBpC, or Skybollah. You will not read it in Time magazine, Newsweak, the Washington Compost, etc etc.

Governor Rod Blagojevich is blatantly, arrogantly and arrantly corrupt.
He is a key player in an endemically corrupt section of the Democratic Party which has manipulated power in Illinois and surrounding areas for seventy years.
The corruption of the Democratic Party in Illinois involves an alliance with corrupt elements in local manufacturing trade unions and national trade union organisations.
The unions are capable of helping the corrupt segment of the Democratic Party which is centred in Illinois, to project its power outwards.

Let me be clear.
The Democratic Party of the United States is not corrupt.
The Democratic Party's political and managerial organisation in Illinois is hugely corrupt.
I wish to assert that the Democratic Party in Illinois is corrupt both at an individual and insititutional level.

I wish to pose the possibility that the corrupt Tammany Hall style Illinois Democrats may be capable of manipulating the electoral process outside of Illinois itself and across the United States through a system of influence involving duplicitous trade union activity and manipulated voter registration rolls.

The corruption of Governor Blagojevich has been revealed this week by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Mr Fitzgerald had a duty to reveal it.
But my analysis is that Mr Fitzgerald is not the knight in shining armour which Fox News, CNN and others, say he is.
Mr Fitzgerald's only real prior claim to fame is his incarceration of a Bush Administration official Mr Scooter Libby for what I believe to be trumped up charges of obstructing an investigation and perjury.
Mr Fitzgerald pursued Mr Libby in what was either a politicised attempt to discredit the Bush Administration, or worse, a grandiose and egregious act of self promotion motivated solely by Mr Fitzgerald's own overleaping ambition.
Scooter Libby had done nothing wrong.
At the time Mr Fitzgerald successfully incarcerated Scooter Libby, Mr Fitzgerald was investigating trumped up allegations that the name of CIA employee Valerie Plame had been leaked to the media by Bush Administration officials.
Mr Fitzgerald did not investigate the real scandal surrounding Valerie Plame.
Namely that she, as a partisan Democratic Party supporter who happened to be employed in a CIA office, had attempted to impede President Bush's policies in the War On Terror by recommending her Democratic Party supporting anti war husband Joe Wilson for the job of checking up on the late great Saddam Hussein's attempts to acquire nuclear weapons materials in Africa.
Valerie Plame's husband Joe Wilson duly reported, as she had intended he would, that Saddam had not been engaged in procuring such material.
Scooter Libby went to jail while Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson became the toasts of the anti Bush media.
Mr Fitzgerald made it happen.

Mr Fitzgerald found no evidence that Valerie Plame's name had been leaked by Bush Administration officials. Nor has he been able to demonstrate convincingly that if her name had been leaked, such a leak would have been against the law.

Mr Fitzgerald ignored Valerie Plame and her husband's attempts to divert US foreign policy towards their own personal agendas.
Mr Fitzgerald instead incarcerated Scooter Libby through frivolous and arbitrary contrivances of judicial polity.
Mr Fitzgerald is no hero.
Mr Fitzgerald is no white knight.
Mr Fitzgerald is an ambitious amoral legal professional.
We should not expect too much of him in the present imbroglio.

Mr Fitzgerald's supporters in the media have contended that Mr Fitzgerald played a significant part in the conviction of Al Qaeda terrorists following the first World Trade Centre bombings in 1993 and the subsequent bombings of two American embassies in Africa in 1998.
The few terrorists who were convicted received jail terms.
Al Qaeda must have nearly wet themselves laughing.
"Jail terms!" the Jihadi's must have crowed. "How many human beings do you have to kill in this town before the Americans get serious?"
In any case I would suggest that Mr Fitzgerald's role in these cases was marginal as he was at the time merely Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
His own publicity machine might be exagerating his heroism in these matters.
Mr Fitzgerald has never taken down any terrorists directly.
He has though incarcerated Scooter Libby and attempted to run pass defence for Saddam Hussein's American would be rescuers, to wit Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson.

There is one other consideration we should weigh.
The corrupt Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been under investigation for several years.
His corruption is documented and would have necessarily come to light eventually.
We should not look up to Mr Fitzgerald too much for bringing it to light this week.
In fact we might reasonably wonder why Mr Fitzgerald did not make any moves to bring Governor Blagojevich's batent, arrogant and arrant corruption into the public domain before the Presidential election.

I am postulating that Mr Fitzgerald, the supposed white knight of the American legal system, deliberately delayed the emergence of information about the investigation of Governor Blagojevich until after Governor Blagojevich's protege from Illinois Senator Barack Obama had been elected President of the United States of America.