March 27, 2008 journal, political prisoner former governor of Alabama is ordered to be released by their appeals court due mainly to a report on it by CBS 60 Minutes recently. Faggot Carl Rove was involved in prosecuting this innocent man because he was a good Democrat. What a shame & disgrace that our freedom is in shambles as our nation falls. Merck Pharmaceutical prescription medicine Albert R. for asthma is suspected to be causing suicide even in children. 30,000 doses prescribed with 5 reported suicides so far. another shooting this time in a hospital with 3 killed. The political imprisonment of Don Siegelman the governor of Alabama by Karl Rove. "A telephone interview shortly after he walked out of a federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, Don Siegelman said there had been "abuse of power" in his case, and repeatedly cited the influence of Karl Rove, the former White House political director. (It is all about to be over very soon now.) His fingerprints are smeared all over the case," Siegelman said, a day after a federal appeals court ordered him released on bond and said there were legitimate questions about his case. Rove has strenuously denied any involvement in the conviction of the former governor, who was sentenced to serve seven years last June after being convicted in 2006. He could not immediately be reached for comment Friday. Siegelman served nine months while his lawyers appealed a federal judge's refusal to release him on bond, pending the ex-governor's appeal of his conviction. That refusal was overturned by the The former governor, a Democrat, said he would "press" to have Rove answer questions about his possible involvement in the case before Congress, which has already held a hearing on Siegelman. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee signaled its intention to have Siegelman testify about the nature of his prosecution. In June of 2006 he was convicted by a federal jury here of taking $500,000 from Richard Scrushy, the former chief executive of the HealthSouth corporation, in exchange for an appointment to the state hospital licensing board. The money was to retire a debt from Siegelman's campaign for a state lottery to pay for schools, and the ex-governor's lawyers have insisted that it was no more than a routine political contribution. On the telephone outside the prison Friday, Siegelman said he had confidence that the federal appeals court, which will now consider his larger appeal, would agree with his view of the case - that he was convicted for a transaction that regularly takes place in American politics. Otherwise, Siegelman said, "every governor and every president and every contributor might as well turn themselves in, because it's going to be open season on them." His case has become a flash point for Democratic contentions that politics influenced decisions by the Justice Department, fueled by testimony from an Alabama campaign operative that suggested Rove may have had some involvement. In Alabama, the Siegelman case has inflamed partisan passions with Republicans insisting that Siegelman's term from 1998 to 2002 was deeply corrupted, and Democrats furious over what they depict as a years-long political witch-hunt. Before his release earlier in the day, the ex-governor completed his prison chores for the day - mopping a barracks area - and waited for his wife and son to pick him up for the eight-hour drive to his home in Birmingham, Alabama "It feels great to be out," Siegelman said. "I wish I could say it was over. But we're a long way from the end of this." What a pity.