No “Laughing Matter”, Bush Cheney and Rove are at it again

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(Note to readers: in an effort to be more responsible with our energy resources, I’m taking the time to blame all this on the people you hate the most: Bush, Cheney and Rove. Thus saving you energy. And helping to save the planet. You’re welcome.)



Yep, boys and girls they’re at it again! Bush, Cheney and Rove have seen to it that people go to jail and are held for two years w/o trial!

It’s true!

What? Are you sure? But, but, but…

Former Saturday Night Live star Tony Rosato has languished behind bars for two years with no trial

Well I’m sure they are behind it anyway… somehow…

Then suddenly, two years ago, Rosato disappeared.

Since then, the actor has been behind bars, with no trial, at the maximum-security Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, 30 kilometres west of Kingston, on charges of criminally harassing his wife during their marriage. It's alleged that his "reckless" behaviour led his spouse, Leah, with whom he has a now-2-year-old daughter, to be afraid for her own safety or others'.

According to his Toronto lawyer, Daniel Brodsky, Rosato was arrested after repeatedly complaining to police that, in a scenario reminiscent of the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the actor's wife and their infant daughter had gone missing, having been replaced by imposters.

The Italian-born, Toronto-based actor, now 53, has had a bail hearing and a preliminary inquiry. Both of them are subject to publication bans.

Arraignment documents show Rosato was denied bail almost three months after his arrest, after undergoing a mental fitness assessment.

He has never had a bail review, and his trial (by judge alone) isn't scheduled until Nov. 13.

Rosato steadfastly maintains that he is sane, and innocent. "I'm not pleading guilty – I'm fighting injustice" has been his mantra in phone calls with show business friends.

"The situation is unbelievable," says Brodsky, who notes his client doesn't have a criminal record and has never threatened to hurt anyone. "It's shocking."

Rosato's situation raises troubling questions. Why must he wait so long for a trial? And if he is suffering from mental illness, why isn't he in a hospital room instead of a jail cell?

Why did Bush have him jailed? Was this what he talked to the Queen about over dinner?

Is there still snow on the ground up there?

Did Dick Cheney ever shoot at a comic?

Why is this man named for an Italian rice dish?

Did those Karl Rove ‘missing emails’ really contain stolen jokes for GOP candidates to use? Some of that SCTV stuff was funny…

Brodsky explains that the Crown's expert prison psychiatrist, Dr. Duncan Scott, has told him and the Crown "that Tony Rosato is certifiable." Scott's diagnosis, says Brodsky, is a mental illness called Capgras syndrome. (No, this part I did not make up)

But if the Crown sees Rosato as mentally ill, then why has he been languishing in jail for two years instead of being moved to a hospital? "People who the Crown believes have mental disorders deserve much better," says Brodsky, a director of the Mental Health Legal Committee who has fought the criminalization of the mentally ill.

Could this be part of the Canadian Health System?

But wait ‘proof’ it was Bush! Well Cheney maybe…

Meanwhile, Crawley says the trial has been delayed "to accommodate Rosato's change of counsel." In fact, Rosato did go through six lawyers – he fired some and others quit – before hiring Brodsky. Crawley also observes that none of Rosato's lawyers has requested a bail review, so that their client might wait for trial as a free man.

Too busy ducking gun fire I’m sure…

(yes, I know it say earlier in the article that he has had a bail hearing then later that he has not. Bad lawyering or bad journalism… who knows?)

Whatever you do, DO NOT tell my ex-wives about this…