Stan de SD
2006-10-16 19:58:20 UTC
Keep trying. You'll get there.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/16/terror.trial.ap/index.html
As usual, Monkeypie, you leave out important facts - Lynne Stewart washttp://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/16/terror.trial.ap/index.html
convicted of aiding and abetting terrorism, by acting as a conduit for
messages between a jailed terrorist and his followers. She basically enabled
Sheik Omar (the instigator of the first WTC bombing) to continue to run his
terrorist operation from inside his prison cell. Glad to see that we have at
least one pinko terrorist-lover behind bars...
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Lynne Stewart is the radical attorney who has been indicted by Attorney
General John Ashcroft for enabling her client, the terrorist Sheik, Omar
Abdul Rahman, to carry out his murderous agendas while in prison by helping
him to communicate with his terrorist organization in Egypt. Rahman was the
spiritual leader of a cell that carried out the first World Trade Center
bombing and was planning to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. Stewart
was recruited to the Rahman case by Lyndon Johnson's Attorney General,
Ramsey Clark, who has a long history of anti-American causes dating back to
the Vietnam War.
Ramsey Clark is the founder of the International Action Committee (IAC), a
pro-Saddam, pro-Milosevic organization that regards America as the world's
leading and most threatening terrorist state. In a previous article about
the "peace" organization A.N.S.W.E.R (March 29, 2002), I noted IAC's
interlinking directorate with the Workers World Party (WWP), a Stalinist
organization which was created in 1959 as a splinter of the Trotskyist
Socialist Workers Party. In that year, WWP leader Sam Marcy and his comrades
supported the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution which had
sought unsuccessfully to break free from the Soviet empire. WWP cadres staff
the IAC offices and share political platforms. For example, WWP leaders
spoke at an IAC rally in 1995 condemning Republicans generally and The
Contract with America, specifically. Among them was Gavrielle Gemma, who has
been credited with recruiting Clark to the IAC.
Among its icons, like Cuba's dictator Fidel Castro, the Workers World Party
has an unrestrained admiration for North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung. In
November 1986, Deirdre Griswold, an IAC executive, declared that North Korea
was a socialist success story because there was no poverty, famine, or
homelessness in North Korea. Griswold alleged that Kim Il Sung's birthday
was celebrated both in North and South Korea.
The National Co-Director of the IAC is Brian Becker, who is a member of the
secretariat of the WWP, and a member of the A.N.S.W.E.R coalition steering
committee. A.N.S.W.E.R. is presently coordinating anti-American, pro-Iraq
"peace" protests across the country. Becker is much admired by the Korean
Communists for his loyalty to the terrorist state. In its March 16, 2002
edition, the Korean Central News of the People's Democratic Republic of
Korea reported that , "Brian Becker, member of the secretariat of the
Workers World Party of the United States, at a press interview held in
Pyongyang before his departure from the DPRK, denounced the U.S. for having
committed crimes against the Korean people. He said that his visit to the
Sinchon Museum during his stay in the DPRK offered a good opportunity to
know well about the thrice-cursed mass killings of peaceable people
committed by the U.S. during the Korean War. The United States which is
chiefly responsible for the division of Korea keeps almost 40,000 troops in
South Korea, staging various war maneuvers and mercilessly killing innocent
people, he noted. He demanded the U.S. troops be withdrawn from South Korea
at once, taking their lethal weapons with them. He stressed that the Workers
World Party of the United States would in the future, too, conduct a more
vigorous solidarity campaign condemning the U.S. administration's moves to
perpetuate the division of Korea and calling for the withdrawal of the U.S.
troops from South Korea."
As well as being a moving force in the WWP, IAC and A.N.S.W.E.R., Becker is
chairman of the U.S. Troops Out of Korea Committee and vice chairman of the
International Committee of the same. He helped coordinate the protests at
the inaugural of President Bush and in general seems to be involved in every
anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-democratic effort mounted by the
political left.
Becker and the IAC are also staunch defenders of Slobodan Miloslevic, Kim II
Sung and Kim Sung II and Mumia Abu-Jamal. On June 23, 2001 Becker directed a
"people's tribunal" condemning US war crimes in Korea. One of the sponsors
of the tribunal was Al-Awda, The Palestine Right of Return Commission. Clark
and IAC members periodically meet with North Korean, Iraqi and Cuban
government officials. Among other charges the group has made, the IAC has
claimed that Usama bin Laden is the victim of an American imperialist plot.
They contend that the military-oil complex is exploiting 9/11 to take
control of the oil resources of the Middle East - a claim echoed by the
Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel and other factions of the left.
The Workers World Party is an anti-semitic, Stalinist organization, whose
goal is a communist revolution which would overthrow the American "ruling
class" and establish a "workers state."The founder of the WWP, Sam Marcy,
was a Communist who believed that Soviet leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris
Yeltsin were counter-revolutionaries. Marcy allied the WWP with the Russian
Communist Workers Party (RKRP) an anti-Semitic group that criticized
Vladimir Putin for being too close to the Jews. The WWP decried
perestroika - Gorbachev's attempt to reform Communism - and associated
itself with Iraq after the USSR severed its contact with Hussein. They
considered Saddam Hussein a victim of U.S. imperialism.
The FBI considers the WWP a terrorist organization. On May 10, 2001, FBI
Director Louis Freeh stated that "Anarchists and extremist socialist
groups - many of which, such as the Workers World Party, have an
international presence and, at times, also represent a potential threat in
the United States."
The mainstream media has somehow missed the fact that the most ubiquitous
organizer of "anti-war" protests is directed by a terrorist support group.
It would seem that a question on this front to Ramsey Clark at one of his
regular press conferences might be in order.
Clark's published views are interesting enough. In a December 1997 interview
with "Impact International," Clark claimed that when the Cold War against
the Communists ended, America decided to make Islam its new enemy. has
resulted in American hostility towards Islam. According to Clark, "Islam
would be the new enemy. At Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's trial, what we saw in
both FBI and CIA files, and this is their phrase, 'the greatest threat to
the international and domestic security of the United States is Islamic
fundamentalism.' But actually, 'Islamic fundamentalism' to them is
redundant. So they have to convict a blind Islamic scholar of terrorism to
show that Islam is, at it highest levels of learning and attainment, nothing
but a terrorist concept. How could a blind man be a terrorist, what could he
do? They claimed that he was the leader of the conspiracy that set off the
bomb in the World Trade Centre. They have now had two trials and two
convictions of the defendants in the World Trade Centre cases, and Sheik
Omar Abdel Rahman's name wasn't even mentioned at either trial. He had
nothing to do with it, but we have this war against Islam going on."
It was Ramsey Clark who urged Lynne Stewart to become the blind sheik's
defense attorney. Clark's two previous choices, Center for Constitutional
Rights attorneys and noted defenders of criminals and terrorists - including
the Palestinian assassin of Meyer Kahane - William Kuntsler and Ron Kuby,
had recused themselves. Stewart is also well known for her representation of
"revolutionaries" and murderers. Most recently, she represented several
cop-killers (whom she no doubt considered revolutionaries) and Sammy "the
Bull," Gravano a Mafioso whom she no doubt considered just rebellious).
Stewart shares the Communist beliefs of the WWP and IAC and the Center for
Constitutional Rights. She is anti-capitalist and believes the USA is an
imperialistic nation, and that anti-capitalist violence is justified. In a
1995 New York Times interview she said, "I don't believe in anarchistic
violence, but in directed violence. That would be violence directed at the
institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism, and sexism, and at the
people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions, and
accompanied by popular support." Obviously, Stewart's worldview meshes
seamlessly with that of Saddam Hussein, Yassir Arafat, the blind sheik and
Osama Bin Laden. And with that of Deirdre Griswold Brian, Becker, Ramsey
Clark and the Workers World Party.
Stewart and Clark's legal defense of the blind Seik resulted in a
conviction. They placed America on trial as a repressive, imperialist and
terrorist state, and portrayed the Sheik as nothing more than an innocent
holy man and political activist. It did not work.
Now Stewart's lawyer, Michael Tigar, is attempting the same legal strategy
for her. This strategy has been formula of the anti-American legal left
since the 1960s when Charles Garry, himself a member of the Communist Party,
first devised it in the defense of Black Panther leader Huey Newton who was
accused of murdering a California Highway Patrol Officer named John Frey.
Garry put the United States on trial for racism, in a effort to distract the
jury from the facts in the case (Newton was observed shooting the officer by
a black bus driver who was only ten feet away.) The indict America defense
was then developed by William Kuntsler and his disciples at the Center for
Cosntitutional Rights, including Ron Kuby who represented Kahane's Arab
assassin. Johnnie Cochran made the strategy world famous in his defense of
O.J. Simpson. This was not merely coincidence, since Cochran began his
criminal law career as a Black Panther attorney, defending Geronimo Pratt in
the early 1970s. Lynne Stewart's counsel Michael Tigar was active in
Communist Party groups while a student at Berkeley in the 1960s. One of
Tigar's many accomplishments was to organize a U.S. delegation to the World
Communist Youth Festival. Another was to defend Oklahoma City bomber Terry
Nichols.
There are many legitimate defense attorneys who provide legal defenses for
clients with whom they do not themselves sympathize. Lynne Stewart, Ramsey
Clark, Ron Kuby and Michael Tigar are not among them.
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