Peorgie: Don't get excited!
Alvarado: Who's excited?

So, the pretext for this is that Cheney owns Vanguard mutual funds? Jeez--I wonder when *my* indictment will come down? I just checked; my 403(b) holds a tiny fraction of Corrections Corporation of America through Vanguard Explorer. I can't say I'm happy about this, but really--this gives a whole new dimension to the notion of an immense conspiracy.

As much as it sounds good, stuff like this should be hard to do. Any town and any town attorney can put something like this together. This is like one step away from mob justice. Next?

what I liked about it was how right wing talkers were all frothed up about the "politicization" of the judicial process. all I wanted to do was scream "2 words: Don Siegelman"

If the indictment came from Den Hague, I'd get excited but, Texas? It's just as nutty as Alaska, except warmer. The only interesting bit in the whole story was to discover that Vanguard -- where most of my husband's and mine savings are -- invests in privately-owned prisons. Which I really don't like but don't see that there's much we can do about it.

OK... devil's advocate here. While it's true the judge would have sign off on this.... what gives a judge the authority to throw anything out that has passed the grand jury test? Should that one person in power have all the control? I don't know. I'm just throwing this out there.

The problem here is that it's a well known fact that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he wants to. Silly indictments like this should be thrown out as they will never stand up in a real court of law. This prosecutor simply whipped the grand jury up into a frenzy and got his indictment, but he knows that this will never go anywhere. He just wants to make a name for himself so that when he opens his private practice he'll be known as the guy who indicted Dick Chaney.

Didn't stop the extra chromosome HuffPosters from fantasizing about Cheney's execution. Nothing like typical leftwing kook overreaction.

As a person about ready to have CCA thrown in our front yard, we are disgusted. They treat the prisoners poorly, keep them longer than early release even when they are able to be released, they have poorly trained guards - just read their news releases on their on stock portfolio. Usually when you do something for profit, quality suffers - not always but usually. Prisoners escape, riot, etc from the poor conditions they live under - I would never want my 401 plan to have a private prison in it because my conscience would not allow it. I am not a leftwing liberal - I am a conservative - but believe in the constitution strongly. Human rights are human rights. If Cheney, Gonzales or anyone else abuses that, you or me - we should be ashamed.

Regarding my previous post, I said when you do something for profit, I meant something like a prison or an Army for profit - something that determines the outcome of people.

I like the way the corporate media jumps in and dismisses things like this before people can get "excited" about them. The truth is, Cheney is a criminal. Democracy was stolen in this country, and hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Cheney and the people like him who stole our country. People have been tortured to death in dungeons that we "Americans" were never supposed to have. Our own government is spying on us, the citizens of this country, largely because of Cheney's "walk on the dark side," as he himself described his own policies. So he deserves to be in jail for the rest of his life. We all know he does. And no, I'm not a democrat, I merely speak the truth.

Not “Bush administration detractors� but “supporters of the rule of law.�

This matters. I think the Bush policies that were lawful were mostly wrong or misguided. The actions that broke the law should be punished, no matter what one thinks of the goals.

OMG! I live in this county and this DA is CRAZY! I can't believe that this is going through. This guy was also indicted and was not allowed to go into his own office. Therefore he decided to setup camp outside the court house and for some weird reason he had a goat with him. I guess that was his second chair. I'm not a Cheney fan but this county doesn�t need any more bad media attention. We are already the laughing stock of our area. I can't wait to move away from this corrupted county.