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Octafish

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22. Hiya, madfloridian! Beyond weird. The late pedo US Attorney John Atchison hails from Alabama...
Tue Oct 29, 2013, 05:38 PM
Oct 2013

...John David R. Atchison, the GOP father and husband who was arrested after soliciting sex online with a minor? The family man promised what he thought was the 5-year old girl's mother he wouldn' t hurt the child -- stating he'd done it before. In reality, he was corresponding with an undercover deputy in Michigan. He showed up at the airport with toys. Originally from Alabama, the guy was a riser in the Dixie GOP. Like so many of the evil ilk, after his arrest he tried suicide in jail, the second time successfully.

I wondered if he was friends with Bob Riley, Mark Fuller and the rest of the Alabama Old GOP Boys. What Metacrawler turned up:



The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department

Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.

Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?

Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.

Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:

This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.

A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.


CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html

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Margie Burns detailed how the guy rose up through the GOP ranks, warts and all. When this is the kind of person putting people behind bars on behalf of Uncle Sam, these are worse than NAZI times.

For some reason, the First Amendment means less and less with each passing day. Only raising awareness of Legal Schnauzer's plight -- the guy who wrote about Mark Fuller the ENRON Judge -- can protect him from these satanic warmongers and traitors. It's up to us as, obviously, Alabama and the United States of America 2013 can't or won't.

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"Liberty Duke?" You can't make this up n/t zazen Oct 2013 #1
She's a lobbyist. Octafish Oct 2013 #11
Alabama actually seceded and no one noticed. annabanana Oct 2013 #2
Have you been? WilliamPitt Oct 2013 #3
Agreed. DU can be very tiring some times. Coyotl Oct 2013 #6
Sorry Will.. I'm just still pretty ticked off annabanana Oct 2013 #7
Don is a friend of mine. WilliamPitt Oct 2013 #10
Gets personal for all of us who live here. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #8
Intimidation Of Law Blogger Tied To Alabama GOP Primary Octafish Oct 2013 #12
The Alabama Republicans are corrupt to the core as the Don sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #14
Can You Help an Alabama Journalist / Political Prisoner / Don Siegelman Defender? Coyotl Oct 2013 #4
Thank you! Please include as many threads as possible. Octafish Oct 2013 #13
Is there anywhere to donate to him to get him out of that jail? sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #15
The great DUer Zorra got an email from Dana Siegelman, Don's daughter... Octafish Oct 2013 #19
YES. Follow the link above. Coyotl Oct 2013 #23
Great, thank you I will do that. sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #29
Good to see this resurface hootinholler Oct 2013 #5
Justice demands it... Octafish Oct 2013 #17
This is not helping the powers that be, not at all. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #9
I wish more people would 'rant' about this egregious miscarriage sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #16
Sooner or later, the pendulum will swing. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #18
Karl Rove and the Alabama BFEE have done all they could to destroy Shuler... Octafish Oct 2013 #20
It's a small club dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #25
We have our own club, or we thought we did. It just isn't willing to fight the sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #30
Thanks for this, Octafish. madfloridian Oct 2013 #21
Hiya, madfloridian! Beyond weird. The late pedo US Attorney John Atchison hails from Alabama... Octafish Oct 2013 #22
Karl Rove set his sights on Alabama and judges. From 2007.... madfloridian Oct 2013 #24
One's on the Supreme Court. Octafish Oct 2013 #27
What keeps our party from speaking out and taking this on? madfloridian Oct 2013 #28
Fear Octafish Oct 2013 #36
How could anyone, who had any knowledge of this case, argue to keep Don Siegelman sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #35
More than 100 state attorneys general signed a statement to that effect. Octafish Oct 2013 #37
Shame on any Dem especially, who is not clamoring for a thorough investigation sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #46
Too bad there are not more like Shuler, if there were, they wouldn't sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #31
It seems as though the Democrats are fearful of standing up for him. madfloridian Oct 2013 #34
It's a fucking police state down there. gopiscrap Oct 2013 #26
How Karl Rove Took Over the Alabama Supreme Court and Created a ‘No Win Zone’ for Citizens Octafish Oct 2013 #38
Have you noticed how little interest there is now in Karl Rove as compared sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #47
K&R Coyotl Oct 2013 #32
DU remembers Don Siegelman... Octafish Oct 2013 #40
^ Wilms Oct 2013 #33
DeLay gets off. Siegelman still in prison. Octafish Oct 2013 #42
I know the feeling! arthritisR_US Oct 2013 #50
Write to Rachael Maddow, good chance she would take it up. nt arthritisR_US Oct 2013 #39
Rachel Maddow has covered Don Siegelman story... Octafish Oct 2013 #43
I could be wrong but I thought she was the only one of them, to date, that has arthritisR_US Oct 2013 #45
Even 60 Minutes covered it. Coyotl Oct 2013 #48
I wil thanks. I wasn't aware... arthritisR_US Oct 2013 #49
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #41
DURec leftstreet Oct 2013 #44
K & R historylovr Oct 2013 #51
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