Islamic supremacists and their useful idiots on the Left, like Lynne Stewart, routinely engage in massive projection, accusing their foes of that which they themselves are guilty. Right now the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and its allies in the U.S., such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), are engaged in a full-throttle effort to compel Western countries to criminalize truthful speech about Islam and jihad, and to demonize and marginalize those who dare to tell those truths. Islamic supremacist thugs more and more frequently, brazenly and violently disrupt talks by freedom fighters on university campuses. But here jihad-enabling lawyer Lynne Stewart is complaining that her free speech rights were violated for statements she made about how she was glad she enabled jihad, and would do it again. The question is, did she or did she not aid the jihadists? If so, then she deserves what she got.
However, if her old friend Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman is freed (a story I broke here in the English-language press last night), why not Lynne Stewart?
"Convicted Ex-Attorney Stewart Tells Circuit Her Free Speech Rights Were Violated," by Mark Hamblett for the New York Law Journal, March 1:
Attorney Herald Price Fahringer ran into a dubious appeals court this morning as he argued that disbarred defense attorney Lynne Stewart was unfairly punished for free speech when her comments outside the courthouse helped persuade a judge to more than triple her prison sentence in 2010.Before a courtroom filled with Stewart supporters, Mr. Fahringer told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Southern District Judge John Koeltl (See Profile) violated Ms. Stewart's First Amendment rights at resentencing when he found the statements she made after her initial sentencing in 2006 showed a lack of remorse.
Ms. Stewart was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to a designated terror group by passing messages to and from her imprisoned client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, and his followers in the outlawed Islamic Group in Egypt.
She was initially sentenced on Oct. 16, 2006, by Judge Koeltl to 28 months and afterwards met her supporters outside the courthouse, where she crowed that she could serve the sentence "standing on my head." Ms. Stewart later said in a recorded interview that "I'd like to think that i would not do anything differently" and "I would do it again."
The Second Circuit upheld her conviction in 2009 but reversed on the sentence. The court sent it back to Judge Koeltl for further examination in light of perjury Ms. Stewart committed on the witness stand, the application of sentencing enhancement for committing a crime of terrorism, and her role in abusing a position of trust as a lawyer, such as when she broke a signed promise to abide by a prison gag order on the sheikh, most seriously by communicating his green light on the resumption of terror attacks by the Islamic Group.
But when the circuit remanded her case in 2009, Ms. Stewart's post-sentencing comments were also on the table, as Judge John M. Walker Jr. (See Profile) dissented from Judges Robert D. Sack (See Profile) and Guido Calabresi (See Profile) on the reasons for overturning a sentence he called "breathtakingly low." (NYLJ, Nov. 18, 2009).
Judge Koeltl then took those comments into account when he ordered a stunned Ms. Stewart to prison for 10 years.
Mr. Fahringer told the circuit panel this morning that it was wrong to punish Ms. Stewart for comments made "on the steps of the courthouse," where there has always been "much wider latitude" for speech.
He urged the panel not to go "down that road" because "no one will be able to comment after a sentence for fear that the same thing could happen to them."
The argument did not appear to persuade the panel, which was made up of the same three judges who remanded the case for resentencing.
"I'm not sure freedom of speech means absolute immunity from the consequences of what you say," Judge Sack said.
Mr. Fahringer said the problem was that Ms. Stewart's comments were ambiguous....
Who chilled her speech?
She wasn't prevented from making whatever comments she wished. That a judge considered her remarks in making his assessment as to a punishment is not a denial of her free speech in any way.
That makes a refreshing change. But I thought they still had capital punishment for traitors in the US?
My natural inclination to be incredulous about most everything leads me to doubt there's a Hell, but whenever Lynne Stewart is mentioned I would much prefer that there is one.
Dr.mohammad Elamsry had cried to the msulism that they don't get access to the jewish controlled media to tell peope how peaceful islam is.
So Michael Coren gave Elmasry AIR-Time to tell canadians about islams peace.
But at the 2:00 minute mark of this video he approves and endorses 9 on candian sooil) murdering every perosn in israel that is over 18 because of the Military service that makes them Soldiers fighting muslims in Palestine.
Free speech exposed this moron and death-cult idiot that still has his job at a University to spew his garbage and demonize jews and muslim slaughter balck and non-muslim back home in his Egypt and Africa Continent.
The lack of arrests for these thypes of islamic supremacy thugs is because the Elite now know how predispose to violence the muslims are and that Riots and murders are NOT allaegations or possibilities...but valid predictions from what we see globally today by muslims.
This is an vert racism Of Lower Expectations to assume that brown people that are Muslims have a criminal to embrace Jihad and murder poeple as a favour to god. I wanted to give muslims the benefit of doubt after 9/11, BU...18'000 acts of terrorism sicne then and now mass slaughtering in the Middle east and the 400% increase for Honour Killings in canada makes it tough to buy that snake oil anymore.
I.E. , Now that the Shafia males are female are in jail for the Sharia hMurders that the leftists pretended to be outraged over as Domestic-Violence, the leftist NDP and the Liberals (under Bob Rae) wasted time demanding breast feeding areas for baby-Mom Politicians in Parliament and demanded that Diaper-rooms be installed too.
How quickly those leftist tossed the 4-BROWN immigrants under the bus to get back to the White/female/elite/liberal agendas in Quebec which als ogave us the 1989 Jihad that slaughtered 14 female student for Allah but the femiNazis WILL NOT balme islam because their hatred for males is too strong and it's easier to bash all males for what gamil Gharabi did .
Sorry , hers's the Youtube link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOuBsRDIcZ8
Bernard Lewis, renowned historian of Islam and the Middle East, says Islam imposes, without limit of time or space, the duty to subjugate non-Muslims
In The Political Language of Islam, p. 73:
"...it is the duty of those who have accepted them [Allah's word and message] to strive unceasingly to convert or at least to subjugate those who have not. This obligation is without limit of time or space. It must continue until the whole world has either accepted the Islamic faith or submitted to the power of the Islamic state.”
When Rahman was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995, this scumbag lawyer of his openly cried in the courtroom.
When Rahman was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995, this scumbag lawyer of his openly cried in the courtroom.
Have you ever seen a pic of Stewart? Eewww, she got good and whacked with a 2x4 ugly board - disgusting on the inside and out, same as her client. Defending the blind sheik, what a traitor to her country.
Normally, I do not denigrate people based on their appearance, but I make exceptions to Michael Moore and Lynne Stewart. These are two all-natural uglys, who cannot blame their bad looks on disease, deformity, or any accident, except birth. Truly a match made in Mecca.
Article:
"Judge Koeltl then took those comments into account when he ordered a stunned Ms. Stewart to prison for 10 years."
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See ya' in a decade, "counselor".
They can't help their basic physical appearance - bone structure, shape of eyes, nose, ears, chin - so why would you condemn them for *that*? Condemn their deeds and attitudes, not their physical form.
None of us gets to choose what genes go into the mix when we're conceived; so it doesn't make sense to poke fun at someone who's unlucky in the basic physical looks department.
Maybe Moore and Stewart were ugly newborns...maybe not. If they were, it wasn't their fault.
I will criticise a person for spiritual/ moral ugliness - for bad *behaviour* - not for having a funny-shaped nose/ ears/ chin/ forehead.
It's the *expression* that a person habitually chooses to wear that, as they grow older, marks their face - with frown lines or with smile lines, with depravity and arrogance, or with gentle wisdom. (Like our grandmas used to tell us when we put on a sour, pouting face: watch out or the wind will change and you'll stay that way).
A very ugly baby or child may grow up to be an old person of character, their unlikely form transfigured by inner beauty, if he or she consistently chooses well and lives a life of humility, charity, and the pursuit of wisdom. Or if that same person chooses badly, their birth-ugliness will be made far worse by spiritual ugliness.
A child born with a naturally beautiful face and form may wreck that by bad lifestyle and moral choices and end up hideous in their old age. Or another beautiful child may choose well, during their life, and become a handsome old person whose beauty owes far more to their inner light than to physical form.
Socrates was rumored to be rather ugly. But surely a beautiful, brilliant, courageous soul. People often think he was just some abstract logician. On the contrary, he reported that he had a "daimon," a spiritual voice of some sort. It spoke to him. It never told him what to do. But it would advise him against doing some things. Some of the early Christians thought of him as a sort of pre-Christian Christian, a Christian before Christ's coming. He was a fearless soldier as well, and refused to tow the line of tyrants, even at risk to his own life. He was also the head of state of Athens for a day (but many Athenians got to be head of state for a day, as the position was circulated among the population by lot).
Well, not among the population; among the male citizen population. But for the time it was surely astonishing.