# William L.

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William L. Anderson and Candice Jackson at LewRockwell.com –

Ashcroft Gets His Pound of Flesh – on the

conviction, in a federal kangaroo court, of Martha
Stewart. [lew]
bq.
No doubt, at this very minute, the mainstream press is hanging onto
every word of the “victorious” federal prosecutors who tried this
case. Being that John Ashcroft at this moment is in intensive care in
a hospital, we suppose he cannot stride up to a bank of microphones
and crow to the press. However, his number two man, James Comey, the
U.S. attorney who first gained the indictments against Stewart and her
broker, no doubt right now is telling the awestruck press how ” the
system works.”

Indeed, this system does work — it works as well as anything Josef
Stalin created in the 1930s with his infamous “Moscow Show Trials,” in
which guilt was assured, and the only question was the mode of
execution. In retrospect, we realize now that the Stewart trial was
indeed a show trial. Most likely, Stewart had convinced herself that
she would be taking part in a real trial with real evidence and an
impartial jury. Even her post-trial statement, “I believe in the
fairness of the judicial system and remain confident that I will
ultimately prevail,” reflects the naïveté of someone who
actually believes that federal courts are real courts.
[End the War on Freedom]