Nice to see some good news coming from Texas, for once.

Dayum!

Texas?

Wonder why not Bush too?

What did they do in Texas? Piss on the Alamo?

Ah yes, Crazy Town.

Willacy Co. is a little bonkers...but it's the thought that counts, right?

from the article --

...Cheney's indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies....

And how would Cheney's investment in that same Vanguard fund constitute "misdemeanor assaults" on the detention center's detainees? Did Cheney personally go down to that Texas detention center and clobber all the detainees over the head with a copy of his Vanguard stock portfolio?

While I believe if the evidence ever came to light there are probably many reasons to prosecute Mr. Cheney, this sounds like a very weak case, and probably a severe abuse of power on the part of this grand jury.

Millions of Americans hold stock positions at Vanguard. It's the world's number one provider of index funds for retirement and mutual funds.

You'll excuse me if I don't take this very seriously. At all. Unless, of course, this douchebag prosecutor is also willing to prosecute 10 million other Americans.

A death penalty state! Will he go crying to Bush that he doesn't WANT to die? herm

Just the first of many coming indictments.

As big a douche as Cheney is-this indictment doesn't pass the sniff test.

Yeah Herm. They're going to dull the point of the needle before they jam it into his arm. Hubba hubba.

Bush will just pardon him.

Wasn't the district attorney involved in this under indictment himself and didn't he lose in the primary this year?

I wonder....can politicians still be hung for high crimes and treasion in America?

Wouldn't it be ironic.......

"I wonder....can politicians still be hung for high crimes and treasion in America?"

Thank God for Paraguay!

George W. Bush

This part is interesting:

"The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons."

If Gonzales abused his authority at Cheney's request, I can see how Cheney's name came into this indictment.

This probably doesn't have anything to do with Vanguard, per se, other than the possibility their stock would suffer and Cheney would lose some money.

I think it's time for Gonzales to flip.

I wonder; would Gonzales flip if Obama offered to make him AG?

Yeah, as much as I'd love to see Cheney and his gang spend some serious Greybar Hotel time, I'm not of the thought that this is a worthy use of anyone's time.

What! And they didn't name Bush?

What is the DA drinking down there?

This will be slapped down and dismissed.

What a collosal waste of time and money and resources.

Shoot--I think I have Vanguard--or a part of it.

Are we Americans with Vanguard going to be named as well?

I have no problem with this indictment. The unfortunate reality of the American system of justice [sic] is that sometimes a lesser charge has to be made against someone. While Cheney is responsible for the deaths of millions, the starvation of children, the raping of the planet's natural resources, the destruction of the Constitution, the repeal of the Bill of Rights, and other crimes too numerous to list, you have to charge him with crimes that he can actually be convicted of. Remember that Al Capone was sent to prison for tax evasion, not bootlegging or murder. Hopefully the Obama Administration will have the courage to fully investigate Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and others. The major problem that I forsee is building a prison to house them. The people of the United States thoroughly despise them; the security at the prison will have to be super-tight for the safety of the prisoners.

Are we Americans with Vanguard going to be named as well?
#20 | Posted by MURPHY

Murphy, you're probably irrelevant to the matter at hand.
Just like here.

What a collosal waste of time and money and resources.
#19 | Posted by MURPHY

The first words you heard as a hatchling.

Millions of Americans hold stock positions at Vanguard. It's the world's number one provider of index funds for retirement and mutual funds.

Oh piss on Texas and the Alamo what a bunch of ACLU loving queer embracing faggots, it has often been said there are only two things that come from Texas Queers and steers and this pathetic band of pukes proves it. Texas should be given back to Mexico and redraw the new border around it...

"Cheney is responsible for the deaths of millions"

It appears that this grand jury was full of freaks like KnowsTooLittle. Care to elaborate on this gem?

Hopefully the Obama Administration will have the courage to fully investigate Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and others. The major problem that I forsee is building a prison to house them. The people of the United States thoroughly despise them; the security at the prison will have to be super-tight for the safety of the prisoners.

I hope the Obama administration is afraid to do anything at all as a direct result of bullshit like this.

"Just the first of many coming indictments."

#9 | Posted by briwo

Followed by a string of Bush pardons. No big deal.

Followed by a string of Bush pardons. No big deal.

Reminds me of the Bill Clinton pardon escapade, he signed so many pardons his Doctors thought he would get carpel tunnel syndrome.

In the week in which General Patraeus reports back to US Congress on the impact the recent surge' is having in Iraq, a new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003.

Previous estimates, most noticeably the one published in the Lancet in October 2006, suggested almost half this number (654,965 deaths).

The updated number of dead Iraqis since 2003 is 1.3 million. This does not count the number killed in Afghanistan, and it also ignores the deaths that occurred during the American-led embargo of Iraq.

**** Followed by a string of Bush pardons. No big deal.
...#27 | Posted by BiggieDan ****

........the President can't pardon an indictment, only a conviction........

.......if there is a conviction, it will be long after Bush is out of office.......

Just the first of many coming indictments.

#9 | Posted by briwo at 2008-11-18 10:05 PM

I agree. And I hope they are all tied up the court system for the rest of their lives or are convicted and spend the rest of their lives in jail.

That would be justice. I have no pity for any of them.

They should have indicted Bush for felonious mopery.

"Just the first of many coming indictments." "Followed by a string of Bush pardons.'

Bush's time to pardon the miscreants runs short. If EVERY criminal in the Bush White House, including Dubya himself, were indicted, the Texas penal system would have to expand into Oklahoma. That won't happen. They didn't get blow jobs; they only screwed over their country, their laws and all humanity, herm

HERM - as usual taking a party line - let's see who the last democrat pardoned:

BORDERS, William Arthur, Jr. Washington, D.C. Conspiracy to corruptly solicit and accept money in return for influencing the official acts of a federal district court judge (Alcee L. Hastings), and to defraud the United States in connection with the performance of lawful government functions; corruptly influencing, obstructing, impeding and endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice, and aiding and abetting therein; traveling interstate with intent to commit bribery

AND

Your point, Cidney, being what? herm

Your point, Cidney, being what? herm

#35 | Posted by herm

They didn't get blow jobs; they only screwed over their country, their laws and all humanity, herm

Clinton committed perjory and was impeached for it - Billy Borders was also convicted - what have the so called "miscreants" been convicted of? Can't be pardoned without being convicted of something. You cast a perjorative tone towards any pardons Bush might make without accounting for the fact that all presidents make stupid pardons. Marc Rich is another.

So Cidney thinks Clinton was guilty of something but the White House mafia runs free because it has not been accused of anything - probably because its crimes are so enormous as to defy enunciating. Borders runs a book chain, right? Rich writes columns impeaching this White House? herm

"Nutjob "Barnyard" DA Behind Cheney & Alberto Gonzales Indictment"

"Last year Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra was arrested after a grand jury handed down three indictments for first-degree felony charge of theft by public servant."

"In response to his arrest Guerra parked a motor home in front of the Willacy County Jail and camped for nine days in protest. He also surrounded his campsite with livestock. First he took a goat with two kids that were born the day of his arrest, Guerra said. A day later, he added a rooster. Then he hauled in a white horse along with two bales of hay. Sheriff Larry Spence wondered, "Is he building an ark? It gets weirder every day. I've got a barnyard out there now."

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.