Show Lynne Stewart Aiding and Abetting the Enemy Aaron Zundel Contributing Writer To rid ourselves of the entrenched voracious type of capitalism that is in this country that perpetuates sexism sexism sexism sex sex- ism and racism I dont don't think that can come nonviolently Lynne Lynne Stewart The above quote sounds like something that you might hear from the newest the Bin Laden tape not sworn testimony of a New p w York attorney On Feb 10 2005 criminal defense and civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted of relaying messages from her client convicted 1994 World Trade Center bombing mastermind mastermind mastermind mas mas- Omar AbdelRahman AbdelRahman AbdelRahman Abdel- Abdel Rahman to his followers outside Immediately following the conviction was a media firestorm criticizing the See Stewart continued on page 10 Stewart continued from page 7 Department of Justice for overstepping its bounds and violating the lawyer-client lawyer privilege when they secretly taped meetings between the two Heres Here's what I have to say sayto sayto sayto to that So what It was in no way illegal for forthe forthe forthe the Department of Justice to tape those meetings and furthermore furthermore furthermore fur fur- Stewart had been informed that tapings may take place In 2000 Stewart became subject to a Special Administrative Measure SAM when she became Rahman's attorney These SAMs SAM's restrict the convict detainee or defendants defendant's communication communication communication com com- with everyone including their attorneys from anything deemed to be outside legal tion The messages sent by Stewart contained calls for jihad and violence against Jews I dont don't care how you cut it but that in no way constitutes constitutes constitutes con con- legal representation tion In fact the whole reason that the SAM was in place was to keep Rahman from dispensing those sorts of messages The guy is blind They're not worried about him building pipe bombs They're worried that he will tell other people to do it Anyone can figure out that it does no good to keep this guy in prison if you cant can't shut him up Stewart maintains that she shedid shedid shedid did nothing wrong That is not to say that she claims she didn't send those messages but that the SAM is unconstitutional unconstitutional unconstitutional and unethical While the constitutionality of the SAM is up for debate the fact remains that it is currently current current- ly the law and there i is nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing that states it is okay to break laws if you disagree with them There is however another issue here The messages that Stewart sent were those of violence and hate By trying trying trying try try- ing to be the progressive liberal liberal liberal lib lib- lib lib- eral and trying to thumb her nose at the Department of Justice and the Patriot Act in particular Stewart has jeopardized jeopardized jeopardized the lives of others That is totally inexcusable America has been fighting the war on terror since that black day when nineteen nut balls decided it would be a areal areal areal real hoot to slam jumbo jets into skyscrapers Lynne Stewart was not only breaking the law when she decided to pass along that information She was out and out aiding and abetting the enemy That is by its very definition treason the punishment of which is death during wartime With that in mind if all Stewart gets is twenty years in prison she ought to consider consider consider con con- sider herself lucky |