This must be the week of the witches or something sounding similar. Yesterday it was Fonda, Steinem and O'Donnell and today it's that subversive shrew Lynne Stewart. What next Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein?
According to The New York Sun, prosecutors are seeking a 30-year prison term for her conviction of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists. She passed on Sheik Ahmed Abdel Rahman's (convicted of plotting to blow up NYC landmarks) blessing for a resumption of operations to his Muslim terrorist cell in Egypt after cell members asked if they should continue to abide by a ceasefire with the Egyptian government.
Here's the best part, her lawyers have argued that Ms. Stewart should receive no prison time, saying that a harsh sentence would frighten other lawyers from representing notorious clients and that Ms. Stewart's three decades of distinguished work for indigent clients should speak louder than a single serious mistake.
If other lawyers are planning to aid and abet the criminal activities of their clients, they should be frightened. And to call the collaboration engaged in by Stewart a mistake is the most twisted legal argument since trying to reduce a sodomy charge to following too close.
It is time to make an example of unethical, criminal vermin such as Stewart. Let the gavel come down and give her thirty years. She's earned it!
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