The DC Madam spoke of her ordeal at the hands of government, and said she had never been arrested. It as as bizarre a tale as ever I have heard, which began October 2006, when a couple who falsely presented themselves as buyers interested in her house, did not make an arrest but evicted her from her home, and there took possession of her properties. Groceries in the fridge she could not take with her. Oh, and the bank accounts, frozen. Credit cards? Hotel? What did she do.

No matter her crimes or her intent, no matter that she was distraught and ill from her ordeal, Jeane Palfrey was railroaded through her trial, and no case was brought against 10,000 Johns. It is peculiar to me that this is a crime from which men may apologize to their constituents, but a woman gets a few years in federal prison. Yes, she was indeed a bit silly to accept her payments in the form of a traceable instrument. Oh, and of course, prostitution is an escort service, or a “High Class Fantasy Service,” as she described it to me. She had a contract (again a naive construct, to be sure) with those she hooked up, they had signed on the dotted line that sex was beyond the limit. Oh. I see. So we just hold hands. OK. Keep talking, I am very curious.

In this cruelly pious country where the very most unfeeling get their ya-yas off with the employees of the late Ms. Palfrey, are equally free to commit their illegal act as was she in being persecuted by this government. The extremes of each fate are appalling in comparison: The men get their public apology and have to go to marriage counselling, and the women hang themselves. Oh. That’s right, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Right.

So, what is a woman whose verbal claim was that she was not even shown her accuser, not given a right to her own attorney, and the constant changes in courtrooms, the strange turns with the changes in judges, and more, were uncharacteristic of a country whose target is, “innocent until proven guilty.”

Yes, of course I am naive. But I believe in the ideals of the Red, White and Blue, and I believe when the everyman steps into the courtroom, that they are able to bring justice to the rest of us, because their case will win or lose on the merits, and that certain protocol will preserve human dignity to a person under suspicion.

These things seem to me the most important aspects of Debra Jeane Palfrey’s case: Was justice served?

When I offered to create a public awareness campaign and get more of the public involved, I also asked her for the complaint by the government. She told me to go to the courthouse for what I needed. In other words, in order to help herself, she was unable or unwilling to participate. “I don’t want to be some kook on DailyKos.com,” she said dryly.

It disappointed me because of course that is exactly what her story deserved was about four million readers who actually remember “Justice for all” and know about civil rights against a brutal governement, and stand for a Justice which still had some dignity reserved for those who must claim innocence before the Law.

Naturally, we can trust this government to also make the public documents which may be characteristically lacking in the very protocol, showing (according to DJP) that in fact there were no rules followed in the treatment of the accused, she was thrown to the dogs, railroaded and dreaded facing Federal Prison, to the desperate point of suicide.

She said in her last letter to my partner that she had attempted suicide on bad wine. In the Wine Country where I live they use really good wine to do the opposite. It’s all life and death.

But then she again claims she will fight.

What time was the body found? Who found her? Her mother? I must research for this but if anyone has a link, I would be grateful.

I think we will find Justice under Cheney will not be served, and that he has very clever people working for him in the largest office of the Vice President this country has ever seen. They travel to Florida for lesser reasons. And they have associates in all walks of life.

But DJP was not reliable and or logical. She has been called “delusional.” I think if she once sold “fantasy,” then she must know a lot about it. It might have also been an escape from an awful prospect of trial in which the evidence was so overwhelmingly against her. Except that this story is magnifying a troubling trend in the American “Justice” System where not everyone is treated equal under the law.

Everyone should be shuddering. There by poor fortune go you or I.

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