Lawyer & Radical Leftist Lynne Stewart Convicted
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Hey, good news. A nice win for America. Lynne Stewart, a radical with a history of supporting America's enemies, has been convicted for supporting terrorists. From FOXNews:A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients - a radical Egyptian sheik - to his terrorist disciples on the outside.
Stewart faces up to 20 years in prison on charges that included conspiracy, giving material support to terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.
Stewart sat stoically in a courtroom filled with her supporters, who gasped when the verdict was read.
The trial focused attention on the line between zealous advocacy and criminal behavior by a lawyer. Some defense lawyers saw the case as a government warning to attorneys to tread carefully in terrorism cases.
David Horowitz, in a FrontPageMagazine.com article earlier this year, gives us an idea of the character of this traitor:
Radical attorney Lynne Stewart is a progressive icon. A protege of the late William Kunstler and Ramsey Clark, a member of the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights, Stewart embodies the committed professionalism of the "legal left." Under this code, radical attorneys select clients whom they regard as the put-upon victims of an oppressive system or the persecuted champions of a just cause. Lynne Stewart is the former attorney for the blind sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, convicted of masterminding the first World Trade Center bombing.
At the National Lawyers Guild annual convention last year she attacked her own country as having "a poisonous government that spreads its venom to the body politic in all corners of the globe," and raised a glass to her heroes: "Ho and Mao and Lenin, Fidel..." and of course Che Guevara whom she quoted: "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love."
I would like to see the death penalty - she sure deserves it - but I ain't counting on it. A nice win to savor non-the-less.
UPDATE 2/11/05 @ 11:39am: Michelle Malkin & Power Line have more information.
