Realizing that, if the candidates had been reversed, the opinion would not have been the same, I attributed the contrived arguments to the ravages of unconscious bias. Unwittingly, I had assumed without evidence that, as justices of the Supreme Court, the Five would not abuse their positions knowingly to appoint a U.S. prime executive.

Then "The Nation" published Bugliosi's "None Dare Call It Treason" and distributed it over the Internet. I read this essay on-line and realized my error. Throwing off my unwarranted assumption that the bias had to have been unconscious, and retaining what else I already knew from my studies, I came to the same conclusion as Bugliosi: that the Five had committed a deliberate act of perfidy.

"None Dare Call It Treason" has been spreading among Americans for but a short while. Now in book form, as "The Betrayal of America", the essay's distribution will increase many times over, and perhaps many other readers will be able to cast aside the one assumption that blocks their most rational conclusion. This document will outlast the terms of the Five and become historic as one of the most useful things said publicly, at the time, about the Five's unfathomable imposition. This essay will not go away.


Don't read this unless you're willing to be upset!   May 21, 2001
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Unfortunately too many people are going to see this book as a partisan thesis in support of Gore and against Bush. Although Mr. Bugliosi is clear and up front about the fact that he would prefer Gore to Bush, that is not what "The Betrayal" is about.

What Bugliosi does, simply, is put forth with irrefutable logic how the Supreme Court stole the election for their favored candidate. The evidience is clear from their own self contradictions, lack of support in law, and bizzare conduct, which mainstream media is far too timid and/or superficial to properly report.

Most of the content has shown up on The Nation's web page under the title "None Dare Call it Treason," and this edition fills out the basic text with footnotes. You can read that if buying this volume is too much of a burden.

My favorite line, which is in response to those very confused souls that thought the Florida Supreme Court was trying to steal the election and the noble U.S. Supreme Court merely stopped them, is as follows (paraphrased): You do not steal an election by wanting all the legal votes counted, which is what the Florida Supreme Court wanted. You steal an election by stopping the counting of all legal votes, which is exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court did.

Tough to get around that kind of logic, although many try.


Vincent Bugliosi speaks for American democracy.   May 3, 2001
 112 out of 141 found this review helpful

In this book, America's finest prosecutor explains the legal reasons why the Supreme Court's December 12, 2000 decision is the worst crime ever perpetrated against our country. Americans watched aghast as the Supreme Court blatantly destroyed the very foundation of our democratic republic. Bugliosi dissects this decision, peeling it apart layer by layer as one would a rotten onion. He puts words and sound legal reasoning behind Americans' gut response of supreme betrayal on that day.

Over 700 law professors from across the country, including conservative supporters of Robert Bork, protested this decision in a petition published in the New York Times. This is not a partisan issue.

Bugliosi's article in "The Nation" was entitled "None Dare Call It Treason." Perhaps it is time we called it like it is.


None Dare Call It Treason   May 2, 2001
 108 out of 139 found this review helpful

If you want a feel for what Bugliosi has to say in this book I would suggest youtake the time to read the article (available on the web) for The Nation titles "None Dare Call It Treason".

Bugliosi lays out the law and the evidence that the US Supreme Court acted in a partisan political fashion in elevating George W. Bush to the position of Resident Select and, as of January 20th, Resident in Chief.

The book as well as the article in The Nation are fascinating reads that ought to give pause to all Americans no matter their political affiliation or who they voted for in November. The danger is that the court has become an instrument of politics and control rather than a dispassionate arbiter of law. Had the shoe been on the other foot there is little doubt that the conservatives would not be willing to "get over it".

It's a great book as is "The Hunting of the President" by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons (also available on Amazon) and anyone who decries Bugliosi's conclusions based on partisan politics instead of sound reasoning does themselves or their country no favors.

Gore won.


Bugliosi Tells a Harsh Truth   May 14, 2001
 103 out of 131 found this review helpful

What if? That is the question which haunts Democrats in America today. Yet, the traditional question of "What if" in Bugliosi's book is turned on its head. The author asks the question, "What if the shoe had been on the other foot?" What if it were Gore who had been awarded the presidency by a liberal Supreme Court? What if more voters had gone to the polls to elect Bush, yet Gore had been handed the election? What if, indeed! Bugliosi is a rare breed today. He is a lawyer/journalist who is willing to tell the truth about treason, and crime, and hypocracy with an unflinching ability to expose the truth. Sorry, I know it hurts, but Gore won. We now live under an appointed government.