The Intimidation continues
Lynne Stewart veteran civil rights lawyer known for taking clients no one else would serve has been convicted of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, defrauding the government and making false statements. I'm surprised they didn't throw in a charge of sexual deviance and spitting on the easter bunny.
At issue is not if Stewart is guilty or not, she is not, because the government violated the law in gathering it's so called evidence and judges violated the law in allowing that so called evidence.
Stewart was targeted because she fulfills the requirements of the Constitution for people that are are accused of crimes, in many cases these defendants would have been murdered by a system for lack of her help.
The other issue is pure intimidation, represent the rights of a Moslem and go to Jail just like moslem chaplins at camp X-Ray.
posted at 3:25 PM
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Filthy little land of the free we live in, isn't it?
By the way... I had a nightmare last night... Dick and Dubya kissing on the beach. Thanks, Paul. I owe you one.
2/11/2005 10:03:00 PM
They stopped at kissing?
Trust me, you didn't have a nightmare compared to what they did in mine.
The worst thing is that what they did to each other in mine they are doing to Americans and children of the world every day.
2/11/2005 11:04:00 PM
So where are they going to throw her? :(
2/11/2005 11:14:00 PM
This lawyer in our peace discussion group posted this link about the story:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=720&e=10&u=/ap/20050210/ap_on_re_us/terror_trial
2/12/2005 01:46:00 AM
Sheryl,
One of the BIG things that the news stories generally don't report about this is that Lynne was convicted not by a jury of peers, but by an ANONYMOUS jury. Faceless nameless shills for a government to cowardly to gather evidence by legitimate means, and too convinced to the weekness of it's case to hold a legitimate trial.
This is the police state that I was warned of in my youth.
Cooperation with the likes of this is death.
2/12/2005 01:17:00 PM
Well, I still intend to go to law school.
2/12/2005 02:27:00 PM
The following was posted by someone at dummocrats on the topic.
To clarify: here is what Lynne Stewart said about her decision to issue the press release:
"You know, it was not a decision that was just made off-the-cuff. We thought about this for awhile before we made the press release, and it was considered that it was important to him, considered important to our handling of the case, that this press release be made to keep him a figure on the world stage. If he had lost that, we would not have any bargaining power, we would not be able to do anything that would move him from this really torturous situation in which he was being held a blind, sick man who did not speak any English. And so the decision was made, and it was considered. Of course, I had no notion of this kind of consequence. Actually, these prison regulations, these SAMs said you know, “If you break these regulations, you may be cut off from your client.” That was our greatest concern, that we would be cut off from the client. The idea of prosecution never entered our minds. But the fact of the matter is, even with what has happened, it was the right decision. You can't start saying, “Well, maybe I will do this, but I won't do that.” It has to be that within the rules of ethics, what vigorously and zealously defending a client means you carry through on it and you do so wholeheartedly. I believe with my mind and heart that it was the right thing to do. I don't like the consequences. I feel for the people who care so much about me personally and the terrible destruction that has brought. But I do feel that it was the right thing to do and that that is what we do. I think that Ramsey said it very well on the witness stand. It was the right thing to do for the client."
His previous lawyer, Clark, did the same thing, and the gov't noticed but did nothing, as at the time, it was not considered, it seemed, conspiring to defraud the gov't, and certainly not conspiring to help any terrorists (which she is not accused of...)
Stewart was trying to negotiate getting the Sheik transferred to a prison in his own country, so she wanted to keep him on the world stage.
If you look at the press release, the Sheik didn't say 'cancel the ceasefire' at all.
It is the government exxagerating the consequences of this press release. (and the corrected version of it, in which it was emphasized again that the Sheik was not calling for an end to the ceasefire but told his followers to hold a discussion about it, particularly in the media.)
None of this points to Lynne Stewart as a "terrorist lawyer." None of this should have any meaning at all to the "war on terror" as Atty Gen'l Alberto Gonzalez squawked about today.
Did you realize that none of the charges even mention the word terrorism???
What we should be talking about is the gov't's growing attempt to keep the trials and the defense of those accused of terrorism a secret. That's what the SAMs were all about.
If it were any of us in the jail cell, I'm sure we would all feel differently about these prison restrictions on our ability to communicate with the outside world.
That's why so many people, "liberal" or otherwise are deeply disturbed by this case.
if you aren't, you have missed the point.
2/12/2005 05:40:00 PM
Here's a Democracy Now interview with her:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/feb/audio/dn20050211.ra&proto=rtsp&start=14:01
2/12/2005 11:26:00 PM
Thanks, Paul, for talking about the people that our government is trying to silence. If we keep talking about them, they will not be made quiet.
2/13/2005 01:13:00 PM
This guy in Pittsburgh emailed our Peace Coalition that people interested in helping Ms. Stewart should contact him. If anyone wants his email address, drop me a line.
2/17/2005 12:35:00 AM
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