Most of you LBOers see creeping fascism and a police state as the main danger for the left right now. I simply disagree. I see left self-sabotage as the main danger. Churchill should not be fired and probably won't be. Stewart should get something like Martha Stewart's prison sentence, and also lose her law license.
In my view, spending our outrage on these people greatly reduces our ability to spend it when it's really needed, as when the next leg of this war unfolds. Our ruling class is too smart in this area to permit the kind of attacks you guys all see coming. This is all a trap to prime the Fox and talk-radio pumps. IMHO...
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> On Behalf Of jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:41 PM
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> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks
>
> > Interesting propositions by Stewart:
> >
> > 1. Her case should now be the core of left politics.
> >
> > 2. Her conviction is evidence of fascism, which, it now turns out, has
> > always been the problem.
> >
> > 3. Her breaking of the gag order helped her client and was just
> perfectly
> > fine legally speaking.
> >
> > 4. Like Churchill, she has nothing to apologize to the left for.
> >
> > Michael Dawson
>
> Why are you hostile towards Stewart? I've been reading a bit about this
> case this
> weekend since I knew practically nothing about it before now and it seems
> like a terrible
> misjustice to sentence this woman to prison for the minor infraction she
> perpetrated. In a
> different time and different set of circumstance I MIGHT question the
> merits of her
> violation but not right now. Since I'm not a lawyer I don't feel qualified
> to make much of a
> determination on her decision anyway. What percentage of gag orders are
> violated and
> what are the consequences generally? This case seems to be analogous to
> imprisoning
> someone for 20 years for running a red light. Hardly a case of justice
> regardless of guilt.
>
> Every lawyer I know has been bowled over by this. I don't think it's a
> case of lawyers
> sticking up for each other either. I think they are genuinely shocked that
> this punishment
> far exceeds anything ever metered out for a similar offense.
>
> John Thornton
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