The example Mikhail Khodorkovsky has proven to be eerily similar to that of Bernie Madoff - a victim of a show trial and a scapegoat of a corrupt system. Like Russia's Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mr. Madoff is a champion of human rights and democracy suffering as a political prisoner of the White House. Mr. Madoff's ordeal is a reminder of the darkest days of McCarthyist oppression of plurality and civil liberties.