Getting Off Easy (Lynne Stewart)

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[OldFriend]

Do you think the 58 tourists murdered by the blind shiek's followers at Luxor, Egypt had an easy time?

The judge was not naive. She was encouraged by a former member of the klinton justice department to give this traitorous scum a light sentence.

Stewart signed an agreement with the government that she would NOT carry messages for this convicted terrorist. She never had any intention of obeying the agreement she signed. The jury convicted her, and rightly so. The judge thought he would make light of her crime.

That's what liberal judges put on the bench by klinton and karter....do. They excuse our enemies.

[OldFriend]

sorry, meant HE when referring to the Judge. I am just so upset over this verdict and her remaining free during her appeal. She was convicted years ago. She belongs in jail doing hard time.

[Current Occupant]

She not only signed an agreement but was warned that she was being monitored and still did it. She needs to be at the end of a rope.

[montag813]

How can a judge so blatantly ignore the will of a jury?

[OldFriend]

Just look at all the voters who have had their votes overturned by judges. Think of the 9th. circus and remember why voting Republican is so vitally important to our national security.

[Noumenon]

KTAN

[mass55th]

Attorney General Gonzales is planning a study to see why crime is starting to rise again. All he has to do is look at the courts and cases like this where the punishment is lax or non-existent. I hope this b*tch dies in prison.

[art_rocks]

What I have learned is that having cancer is my "Get out Jail Free" card.

We use to say, Don't do the crime if you can't do the time". I guess its now, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time unless you have cancer or supported leftist caused in your youth."

[montag813]

Just look at all the voters who have had their votes overturned by judges. Think of the 9th. circus and remember why voting Republican is so vitally important to our national security.

If the GOP wants to re-aim the focus of this campaign back onto national security, I would suggest the House immediately begin impeachment hearings against U.S. District Court Judge John George Koeltl this very morning. I want to see the Democrats cower in fear when called upon to vote to keep on the bench a judge who let 2 convicted defendants off the hook for acting as conduits for a terrorist who murdered 7 Americans. What Lynne Stewart and her cohorts did was much worse than what Zaccarias Moussoui ever did.

[OldFriend]

This is a slippery slope. The judiciary is to remain independent. That's the mantra of the left. Remember when someone in congress blasted some Judge. oh the left turning it against us.

I noticed even Cheney was very circumspect when Rush asked about the sentence yesterday.

[joylyn]

I'm sorry to hear that Kuby came out on behalf of Stewart. I thought better of him.

Part of the judge's action, I think, is a matter of lawyers circling the wagons. As a writer, I'm always amused at the way writers defend their own, no matter how guilty and unsympathetic they may be. Same thing for the legal eagles.

[OldFriend]

Have you noticed all the media types defending the football broadcaster who was fired after his outrageous behaviour during hte Miami Hurricanes onfield riot with FIU.

After all, he did say he was sorry.

Yes, it's circling the wagons with Stewart. But the wagons are ALL tilting far far left and anti-American pro-terrorist.

[joylyn]

The only place I heard the football commentator discussed was on the Mike & Mike show, and they were pretty scathing about the things he said.

Remember how Norman Mailer championed the convict writer Jack Abbott? Abbott was out of prison about a week before he murdered a poor waiter who (he thought) had treated him disrespectfully.

It's certainly true that journalists generally have immunity from the kind of questions that routinely get asked about business leaders and politicians. This is fertile territory that could keep a lot of bloggers busy for a long time.

Stewart's "caught on tape" remarks shattered the carefully constructed facade that left-wing lawyers are professionals first and partisans second. Hence, a lot of people who support her publicly are privately exasperated. And these were remarks she made when she knew she might be taped -- imagine what she says when she thinks no outsiders will hear!

[OldFriend]

The football announcer from Miami was a guest on H&C last evening. He was then on Donny Deutch. Everyone praising him for saying he deserved to be fired, then excusing himself for being new to broadcasting, just two years, and being personally involved since he's an alumni. Guess that excuses everything.

Sure wish Rush had done more homework on Stewart before he took to the air to condemn the sentence. Stewart's been championed by the grandchildren of the Rosenberg's. And there is no doubt that the messages she carried resulted in the deaths of innocents.

[OESY]

RIVERSIDE'S TERROR RALLY
By CHARLES E.F. MILLARD, NY POST

October 18, 2006 -- IN the uproar over Monday's outrageously soft sentence for terror-aiding lawyer Lynne Stewart, Riverside Church seems to be distancing itself from the despicable rally it hosted in her support Sunday....

The left in this country is determined to glorify those who hate America no matter what. If that means "rallying" at a church "in support" of a convicted terrorist accessory, then they will.

And these nuts often have pull in high places. Remember, in his final months in the White House, President Bill Clinton issued pardons to several terrorists. Some went to Puerto Rican killers from the '70s, in a bid to buy Hispanic support for Hillary's Senate campaign. Others went '60s radicals Susan Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans of the Weather Underground. And the judge who gave Stewart her soft sentence, praising her good works, was a Clinton appointee, too.
-- http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/riversides_terror_rally_opedcolumnists_charles_e_f__millard.htm

Comment:
For me the choice is clear. Either I want more judges to undercut our War on Terror, or I don't. Voting to keep Republican control in both houses of Congress is the only way I see to protect the most basic Constitutional right of the American People: the Right to Live.

[Enchante]

Stewart should be in prison for life, period. [actually, we should have capital punishment for such traitors, but our laws and judicial system have been so watered down by libs that it's impossible even to have trials for treason anymore]

[Enchante]

Hey, everyone, when discussing this jihadist-loving scumbag Lynne Stewart, keep in mind that the b.s. propaganda being spewed by her leftist buddies at the mis-named "Center for Constitutional Rights" is total crap (of course) -- they got this squishy imbecile of a Clintonista judge to buy the line that if her actions could not be linked with a specific terrorist event then she did not really do so much of anything. Every MSM article should have led with "Lynne Stewart, who illegally aided the terrorists who committed the Luxor Massacres, among many other heinous crimes...." Instead, the MSM has been white-washing her as "Lynne Stewart, civil rights attorney" -- here is what her terrorist buddies actually DID do, including beheadings and embowelments:
============================================================ November 1997 Luxor massacre

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1997_Luxor_massacre

The Luxor Massacre took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri, an archaelogical site located across the River Nile from Luxor in Egypt. Deir el-Bahri is one of Egypt's top tourist attractions, most notably for the spectacular Memorial Temple of 18th-dynasty female pharaoh Hatshepsut, known as "Djeser-Djeseru".

In the mid-morning attack, Islamic terrorists from Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Group") and Jihad Talaat al-Fath ("Holy War of the Vanguard of the Conquest"), both of which are suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda massacred 62 tourists at the attraction. The assailants, who numbered six and were armed with automatic firearms and knives, were disguised as members of the security forces. They descended on the Temple of Hatshepsut at around 08:45 and massacred 62 people, their modus operandi including beheadings and disembowellings. The attackers then hijacked a bus, but armed Egyptian tourist police and military forces arrived soon afterwards and engaged in a gun battle with the six terrorists, who were later killed or committed suicide.

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A total of 58 foreign tourists were killed: 35 Swiss, 10 Japanese, six Britons, four Germans, one French, one Colombian, and a dual-national Bulgarian/Briton. Four Egyptians were killed, three of them police officers and one of them a tour guide. Twelve Swiss, two Japanese, two Germans, one French, and nine Egyptians were among the wounded.