2nd Circuit to Civil Rights Lawyer Lynne Stewart: Go Directly to Jail

A federal appeals court says bail for civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart should be revoked and she should begin serving her sentence “forthwith” for passing messages from an imprisoned terrorist to his followers.

The New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Stewart’s conviction in an opinion (PDF) released today, rejecting her argument that the First Amendment protected her release of statements by an imprisoned sheik.

Stewart was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists by passing messages from Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman to his followers. The material support statute “is neither unconstitutionally vague as applied nor a ‘logical absurdity,' as Stewart asserts,” the appeals court said.

"We also reject Stewart's claims that her purported attempt to serve as a ‘zealous advocate’ for her client provides her with immunity from the convictions.”

I wonder why she was allowed to be out of jail in the first place?

This woman committed treason, and should have been executed. Again, political correctness towards Islam rears its head-wrapped head again

She was most certainly not threatened. She is an avid supporter of the sheikh, as is her mentor Ramsey Clark.

"I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution." --------Lynne Stewart, registered Democrat, lawyer of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman of first WTC bombing fame

* Lynne Stewart, Layth Shubuylat aka Laith Shubeialat & the Muslim Brotherhood : When time came for questions and answers, she contradicted previous, public statements. According to her own website, one of the individuals that Stewart agreed to pass messages to was Layth Shubuylat (sometimes spelled Laith Shubeialat), a known terrorist in Jordan and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who was involved in a failed assassination plot against the King of Jordan. Shubuylat also was involved in the [IRAQ] oil for food scandal and is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an active supporter of Hamas. Shubuylat also spent time in prison with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda leader leading the Insurgents in Iraq who are killing American soldiers. I asked Stewart at SFSU if she was aware of who Shubuylat was. She claimed she never heard the name. When I mentioned Shubuylat’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood, she claimed it was a nonviolent group. (She also claimed she never heard of Iraqi terrorist Zarqawi.) Ironically, just moments later she said she has an excellent memory and never forgets a detail—except Shubuylat’s name on her own website. -—— “SFSU Hosts a Terrorist ,” (Cindy Sheehan with Lynne Stewart et al)
Front Page Magazine ^ | 2 May 2005 | Lee Kaplan

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