One Man’s Mission: To Have Bush Prosecuted For Murder
Ask Bob Alexander how often he’s heard the word “quixotic” recently. The approximate answer: all the time. Of all the people who read Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s best-selling “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,” this 57-year-old Seattle coffee merchant is the only one jolted to act on it in a substantial way.
The SuperBeans proprietor has become a super-activist. With the help of a handful of volunteers and donations, Alexander has sent 2,200 copies of Bugliosi’s hardcover to prosecutors around the country.
Now he and his volunteers are following up with each one of them by phone and e-mail, as well as gathering signatures for petitions urging the prosecutors to indict the former president.
Two other things Alexander hears: that he’s courageous and principle-driven, and that he’s an obsessed crackpot…. though Alexander has his supporters, some others don’t quite see things his way.
An Army vet e-mailed him, “Alas my wish that you would be dragged out in the street and shot in public then put on display for 3 days like they used to do to people like you in Iraq will never come true. And to think I actually went through hell to defend this crap.”
Another wrote him, “It’s liberal facists (sic) like yourself who will destroy this country … not George Bush.”
Yet another wrote, “One day you will be arrested and killed by the government and when that day comes I will celebrate.”