andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> In addition the judge said he gave her the relatively
> light sentence because of her lifetime of service to
> the nation -- except for the silly part where he
> stated she had committed a very serious crime, the
> sentencing was really sort of an encomium to Lynne.
> Reading it, you think she should be given a prize
> instead of a sentence. However, she's quite ill, I
> think with cancer; one hopes she survives to have the
> 2d Cir.
I just read her interview on Democracy Now from yesterday -- she is at present cancer free. She did give a rather long list of other health problems, however, which would probably not be treated very well in the best of prisons.
She also had some snippy words re the way the NYT described her letter to the judge.
> John is right that this whole
> proceeding is part of the slide towards a police state
I wish we could convince more comrades that a slide towards a police state IS the danger we face, a danger only obscured by yipping about fascism.
Carrol