I hope Stewart wins her appeal, but once again, this makes the left look like we favor terrorism.
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> On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:33 AM
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Lynn Stewart convicted of aiding terrorists
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >This is blaming the victim, Nathan, and piling on
> >irrelevant distractions. It really sounds like you're
> >saying, she asked for it and we should flush her and
> >forget her as an embarassment. Or denounce her for
> >her actions. And you forgot to mention her apologetics
> >for Stalinism.
>
> Stewart said some stuff I don't agree with, and she may have acted
> badly with her client, but I just don't care about any of that right
> now. The point is the federal government wants to scare lawyers away
> from defending "terrorists" (and just about anyone else it doesn't
> like), and there's nothing like a 20-30 year prison term to do that.
> It's outrageous and frightening; it's less a legal issue than a
> political one, and I have the same feeling about apologizing for the
> government's actions as I do about going after Ward Churchill's
> footnotes: wrong points, wrong time.
>
> And Nathan, I'm surprised you're not playing the partisan card. As a
> radical lawyer told me & Liza over dinner a couple of months ago, a
> Dem admin probably wouldn't have indicted Stewart. Combine this
> conviction with tort reform and you see a real plan to strip the
> justice system of any of its decent and democratic aspects and turn
> it into a pure instrument of repression and plutocracy.
>
> Doug
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