[lbo-talk] Lynn Stewart convicted of aiding terrorists

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
Fri Feb 11 10:24:40 PST 2005


Why the heck did Stewart think that phoning the sheik's policy positions to the newspaper would help with his defense, and how did she imagine she would get away with it? Sure, getting him into the public eye could have helped, but how does getting him there by publicizing his call to drop a cease-fire help in any imaginable universe?

I hope Stewart wins her appeal, but once again, this makes the left look like we favor terrorism.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:33 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Lynn Stewart convicted of aiding terrorists
>
> 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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