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| Lynne Stewart, Lawyer Imprisoned in Terrorism Case, Dies at 77 |
| 2017-03-09 |
| Lynne F. Stewart, a radical-leftist lawyer who gained wide notice for representing violent, self-described revolutionaries and who spent four years in prison herself, convicted of aiding terrorism, died on Tuesday at her home in Brooklyn. She was 77. too Her son, Geoffrey Stewart, said the cause was complications of cancer and a series of strokes. Ms. Stewart, who had been treated for breast cancer before entering prison, was granted a "compassionate release" in January 2014 after the cancer had spread and was deemed terminal. Doctors at the time gave her 18 months to live. A former librarian and teacher, she had taken up the law in the cause of social justice after seeing the squalor in the area around the public school in Harlem where she taught. She built a reputation for representing the poor and the reviled, usually for modest, court-paid fees. traitorous POS. Think Ed Asner with more hair (including ears) and breasts Believing that the American political and capitalist system needed "radical surgery," as Ms. Stewart put it, she sympathized with clients who sought to fight that system, even with violence, although she did not always endorse their tactics, she said. She just helped them along... One such client was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who was found guilty in 1995 of leading a plot to blow up New York City landmarks, including the United Nations, after some of his followers had driven a powerful bomb into a garage beneath the World Trade Center in 1993, killing six people. Ms. Stewart would visit him in prison, where he was serving a life sentence in solitary confinement. Her death came less than three weeks after his: He died in prison on Feb. 18. They say that when one of a couple goes, the other... Ms. Stewart was convicted in 2005 of helping to smuggle messages from the imprisoned sheikh to his violent followers in Egypt. Her prison sentence, initially set at 28 months, was later increased to 10 years after an appeals court ordered the trial judge to consider a longer term. Traitor, Islam-Loving Opportunist. Hairy Whiskers. So many offenses to America and civilization The NY Post has a pungent opinion piece on the matter. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #4 |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-03-09 19:52 |
| #3 Hell just got a lot fouler |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2017-03-09 19:00 |
| #2 Ed Asner with more hair A Realist dropping his bomb, Paul Krassner said "F.CK" about Nam. His sticker's a fixture; What up-to-date trickster Will readily yell "F.CK ISLAM?" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-09 05:05 |
| #1 This is an obituary to be read with great pleasure. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-03-09 01:19 |