Bugliosi Fever

Growing up in California in the 1970s, Vincent Bugliosi was a name you heard almost every day. At least for a while—during the whole Charles Manson thing. Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the case, seeking a conviction for a man who was not present at either of the Tate-Labianca killings.
I guess people kinda like it when there are clear demarcations of good and bad. It resonates well with our cultural indoctrination to have a good guy and a bad guy. This really doesn't authentically happen often, though folks like to pretend it does. I used to have nightmares about Charles Manson and his creepy/abused cadre of hippie girls. Those crazy-assed eyes of his were terrifying, so it was very clear to me:
Manson = bad.
Bugliosi = good.

In my teens, I read Helter Skelter. It was impressive that Bugliosi wrote the whole book without a ghost-writer. It was also dignified, engaging and very clear to those of us not involved or interested in the law.
I wasn't like a fan or anything, but I did appreciate the man.

Now I am a fan.
He just came out with a new book, winningly entitled, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. I mean, really, impeachment is obviously for presidents who think up erotic uses for cigars and then lie about it.
Fucka impeachment.
This president is responsible for the death, rape, torture, displacement, injury and trauma of millions of people on the planet. Not to mention pillage of our economic infrastructure, but that is another crime.
Could possibly come up in civil court.

I am on the email list of this brilliant Jamacian journalist named John Maxwell. He sends out his articles as well as other stuff. So it was a couple weeks ago I get a link to a video interview with Bugliosi about trying Bush for murder. As this very thing is on the agenda of my daily prayer system, of course I hit the link.
It was very exciting to learn that Vincent Bugliosi wrote this book. It lays out the entire case. He did all the work for any prosecuting attorney in the U.S. with the courage to take it into the courtroom.
Oh dear god, did he really do this?
Yes, yes!
Vincent fucken Bugliosi did this!
One thing that really bothered me though, was he and the interviewer kept talking about the 4,000 U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives. I was like, "What about all the Iraqi folks, Vince? How can you not mention them? What about all the torture victims? The U.S. soldiers who have been raped and murdered by their alleged compatriots? C'mon, Vince."
It really bothered me, and kinda put a damper on the initial elation.
But then I got to thinking. Maybe Mr. Bugliosi is ACTUALLY sending a very clear message to the International Criminal Court. Could that be possible? Hmmm. Maybe he can't get convictions for people who aren't U.S. citizens? Maybe he is not a xenophobic piece of shit after all. Maybe he is, in fact, trying to get a international war crime conviction.
That would be delicious.
Ultra, velvety delicious.
And so yesterday it was confirmed that Vincent Bugliosi has done found himself another Charles Manson, except this one's cadre isn't creepy/abused hippie girls.
It's creepy/reptilian civilization-bringers.

Re; the possible xenophobia, a quote from an interview Michael Collins did with Bugliosi at smirkingchimp.com:

I spent a great amount of time at the L.A. County Law Library and the Ninth Circuit Library here in L.A. working on the issue of jurisdiction, because I realize that even if someone is guilty of murder, if you don't have jurisdiction to prosecute them, you don't have a case, really. I was unable to establish jurisdiction for the over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women, children and babies who have died so far in Bush's war. He is guilty of those murders, but I could not establish jurisdiction against him for those murders. But I definitely established jurisdiction on a federal, state and local level to prosecute Bush for the murders of the 4,000 young American soldiers that have died so far in Iraq. ( http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/16353 )

Here is what he has to say about priorities of the U.S. justice system:

I was telling my wife a couple of days ago, I said, "You've heard about these cold case files," and she said, "Of course." And they even have a TV series, I guess, on it. But I've known about them for years down at the DA's office. Very commonly you'll have just one victim of a murder, just one victim, and you'll have a detective assigned to the case pursuing the killer for 10, 15, 20, 25 years, and then after he retires, some other detective takes over. Some of these cases go on for 30, 35, 40 years. The Black Dahlia case in Los Angeles, I think, goes back in the ‘30s. They're still investigating it 75 years later. And frequently we read in the newspaper that the killer is found back East. He's living under an assumed name and he's brought back to Los Angeles and he's prosecuted. Just one victim and you have this detective tenaciously and endlessly pursuing this case.

So I said to her, "There may be as many as one million victims, not one victim, but one million victims in their cold graves right now decomposing as a result of George Bush's monumental crime." And I said to her -- "What person in authority on the face of this globe is representing these one million people in their graves, fighting to bring about justice for them, pursuing the person, the guilty person who put them there?" And she said, "You." And I said, "No, you didn't hear what I said. I said what person in authority is going after the killer of these million people?" I said, "I don't have the authority of an emaciated moth. I don't have any authority." ( http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/16353 )

And so the man is—like me, like many of us—obsessed. He wants someone to step up the the plate. He BUILT THE ENTIRE CASE already. When he was the prosecutor in Los Angeles, Vincent Bugliosi got 104 out of 105 convictions in the major cases he worked on. He knows the law. He knows crime and criminals. He is a bad ass.
So now, the act of willing Bush to prison for the crimes he has comitted is no longer part of my daily prayer system. Now I put all of that energy into forging Vincent Bugliosi along his merry way.
All in all, a much more positive focus.
Whee.