The Seattle Times newspaper staff reporter, Mark Rahner, recently interviewed the prosecutor who bagged Charlie Manson, Vincent Bugliosi, age 73, about his new best selling book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" [Vanguard Press, 2008]. You will learn of the author encountering unexpected resistance in publishing and promoting the book. Bugliosi has been at the top of the New York Times best seller list before with his authoritative review of the O. J. Simpson murder trial. This book is now at 12th and still may go to the top. How can a book be that popular, and encounter resistance in the publishing industry? Now he's dealing with opposition from people, places and things he never expected.
He tells the Seattle reporter in this interview that he has learned that, "the left wing fears the right wing." There is a certain anxiety ridden insecurity in the reporter's work here, perhaps it's true - they're sleepless in Seattle, also maybe clueless.
I'll attest to running into the same "left wing fears" Mr. Bugliosi mentions, in my ten years as a licensed private detective one of my tasks entailed protecting medical professionals in Kansas who performed safe, legal abortion procedures. It was only a determined tiny few, usually women old enough to remember "the bad old days" in the back alleys, who were brave enough to really get involved in what is called "clinic defense" work. When the abortion wars and the far-right militia movements rolled through Kansas during the nineties, I and those wise others used to say to the pro-choice coffee table liberals, "see, terrorism works."
And terror still works in Kansas click here.
Ironic in Kansas there are few prosecutors, judges or elected officials with the courage like Vincent Bugliosi to stop the political juggernauts, if anything as in the case of the former Attorney General Phill Kline and Republican turned Democrat Paul Morrison - who followed him into the Kansas Attorney General office; both searched for the poisoned chalice of the political spotlight, abused their elected offices, were party to the waste of millions of taxpayers' dollars and like Kenneth Starr, who Bugliosi exposed ($70 million spent in a prosecution of Clinton over a blowjob with a trailer park gold digger) failed .
Yet, in the case of President George W. Bush and his tens of millions of supporters in the heart of America, like Kansas - it has become a failure of such monstrous proportions; destroying the lives of so many hungry children, wrecking the economies of so many nation-states and cities, ruining the lives and marriages of so many in the U. S. armed services with endless draconian "tours of duty"
and commiting crimes so vast that even the loyal opposition is too frightened to impeach him and his torturing, mass wiretapping cohorts in office.Prosecuting President Bush, when he becomes Mr. Bush, seems almost poetic and as ethereal a notion as Fate on the cosmic scale of Simple Common Justice, if such an animal exists. Call me a romantic idealistic sucker, but I believe there's something to Mr. Bugliosi's legal arguments.
I feel for Mr. Bugliosi, big time:
[excerpt] "... Bugliosi, 73, told me (Rahner) by phone from his Los Angeles home I was the only one from a major paper to interview him so far, and no TV either. Said he's been "blacked out" for the first time.
Q: I know someone who can expect an audit this year.
A: (Laughs.) Oh boy, that's funny. I don't know, that's not too serious a response to me. People say to me all the time, "You've got to be crazy to take on the president of the United States, you've got to have a lot of courage." I don't think in terms of courage, I don't think I'm the craziest guy. This is all motivated by anger.
Q: Your reception for this book has been a little different from previous ones. ..."
Many thanks to the savvy reader for sending along the original forward link to Bugliosi's pathbreaking work. To read the rest of the interview with this author about his most important book to date, click: Seattle Times Newspaper
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