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发帖数: 29846 | 1 The jihadists’ favorite American lawyer, Lynne Stewart, reportedly has
Stage 4 breast cancer. Her radical friends — ranging from the “Party of
Socialism and Liberation” and “Workers World” to Pete Seeger, Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal — want her freed
from jail. There’s only one decent response to the Lynne Stewart Fan Club’
s criminal-coddling demand:
No, hell, no.
The way the bleeding hearts tell it, this harmless grandma got thrown in the
slammer by Big Bad Bush merely because she was “distributing press
releases on behalf of her jailed client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman.” Oh, the
outrageous inhumanity! How could America the Cruel do this to an innocent
little old lady serving the cause of “social justice”? How can they just
let her suffer and perish behind bars? All she did was “distribute press
releases.”
Sixties leftover agitator Dick Gregory is now on a hunger strike until the
feds order the “compassionate release” of the Left’s sweetheart “
political prisoner” and she “receives medical treatment in the care of her
family and with physicians of her choice.” He and Stewart’s apologists
claim she was prosecuted “to intimidate the entire legal community so that
few would dare to defend political clients whom the state demonizes and none
would provide a vigorous defense.”
Spare me the prog-lodyte pathos. Allow me to smash the world’s smallest
violin to bits. Lynne Stewart is no martyr, no heroine. She’s a menace to
peace-loving society who illegally conspired with killers. And there’s a
very good reason her client was demonized. He is a demon.
Refresher course for the clueless: Stewart was convicted in 2005 of helping
terrorist Rahman — the blood-stained Blind Sheikh — smuggle coded messages
of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge
to abide by her client’s court-ordered isolation.
Rahman, Stewart’s “political client,” had called on Muslims to “destroy
” the West, “burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their
ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air or land.” He
issued bloody fatwas against U.S. “infidels” that inspired the 1993 WTC
bombing, the 1997 massacre of Western tourists in Luxor, Egypt, and the 9/11
attacks.
Defying a judge’s communications ban, Stewart ferried messages to the Blind
Sheikh from fellow jihadist Rifa’l Ahman Tara urging him to support a new
wave of Islamic violence in Egypt — and then smuggled out a coded order to
his followers lifting a ceasefire between his terrorist group and the
Egyptian government. Stewart personally delivered one of the messages to a
Reuters reporter.
The Middle East Quarterly also described how Stewart created “covering
noises” for the Blind Sheikh’s translator to evade the communications ban:
“On some surveillance videos, Stewart could be seen shaking a water jar or
tapping on the table while [the translator] and the sheikh exchanged
communications that were then later disseminated to the sheikh’s followers.”
After receiving an initial paltry sentence of 28 months for abetting
terrorism, the disbarred civil-rights attorney was resentenced to ten years
in the slammer. A federal panel of judges excoriated her for her sickening
arrogance. “From the moment she committed the first act for which she was
convicted, through her trial, sentencing and appeals,” Judge Robert Sack of
the Second Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, “Stewart has persisted in
exhibiting what seems to be a stark inability to understand the seriousness
of her crimes.”
Stewart failed to understand “the breadth and depth of the danger in which
” her crimes had “placed the lives and safety of unknown innocents, and
the extent to which they constituted an abuse of her trust and privilege as
a member of the bar,” the panel found.
This case remains a shining example of just how dangerous it is for America
to give foreign-born jihadists the full panoply of American constitutional
rights and all the attendant benefits of a civilian trial. Stewart’s
treacherous collaboration with the Blind Sheikh endangered — and cost —
innocent lives.
Stewart remains unrepentant. She called 9/11 an “armed struggle.” Upon her
initial sentencing, she boasted that she could serve the term “standing on
her head.” After she was convicted of aiding and abetting Rahman, she told
an interviewer she “would do it again.”
Now she wants mercy, medical comforts, and freedom? No, hell, no. This
messenger gal for murderous barbarians made her prison bed. Die in it.
— Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His
Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies. Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail
.com. © 2013 Creators.com |
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