Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 28 09:06:50 PDT 2004


Nathan Newman wrote:


>The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center has zero chance of eliciting such
>a response, and I think it's dangerous for the Left to fit this case into
>the general paradigm of righteous political lawyering.

Neither is defending mobsters. But that doesn't mean the government should eavesdrop on Tony Soprano's lawyer.


>The point here is that the best lawyers for those accused of being
>terrorists are people who don't sympathize with their politics.

That's not for us, or the government, to decide. You're sounding more like a State Department socialist every day.

Doug



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