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You just can't parody this stuff. "Terrorist Lawyer Lynne Stewart to Teach Legal Ethics," from Federal Review (thanks to Michelle Malkin):
HEMPSTEAD,NY--A disbarred lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists will be teaching at an upcoming law school ethics conference.Lynne Stewart, who was found guilty of conspiring with terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, will be speaking October 16 at Hofstra Law School's 'Legal Ethics: Lawyering on the Edge,' in Hempstead, New York.
The speaking engagement comes only a year after Stewart was sentenced to twenty-eight months in prison on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists.
Prosecutors alleged that Stewart had passed on messages to Abdel Rahman's radical Muslim followers, authorizing a resumption of terrorist operations against the Egyptian government.
As a result of the convictions, Stewart was automatically disbarred from practicing law.
Her client, Abdel Rahman, was convicted in 1996 of plots to bomb landmarks around New York City.
Stewart will be speaking at Hofstra Law School's 2007 Legal Ethics Conference, 'Lawyering at the Edge: Unpopular Clients, Difficult Cases, Zealous Advocates.' The conference is scheduled for October 14 to 16, 2007 in the Sidney R. Siben and Walter Siben Moot Courtroom (room 308) of Hofstra Law School.
According to the University's website, the conference will feature 'dynamic speakers who will weigh in on controversial issues such as prosecutorial abuse, the challenges of representing prisoners at Guantanamo, and attacks on lawyers who represent unpopular clients and causes.'
The irony of all this is that among the Hofstra students and faculty, there is nothing unpopular about Lynne Stewart's client or cause. They don't have the first foggiest idea about the Islamic jihad threat, but they know Stewart was striking a blow against Amerikkka, and that's good enough for them.
Posted by Robert at September 26, 2007 8:18 AM
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what to do ,LOL or waaaaaa
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at September 26, 2007 8:26 AM
...I thought Hofstra Law School was just an overpriced education...now I know it is also an incorrect school to enroll in....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at September 26, 2007 8:31 AM
Maybe she will give the pros and cons of being ethical. I bet she comes out more for the cons (or ex-cons as it may be).
I understand she may also teach beauty techniques to muslim burqa wearers.
at September 26, 2007 8:58 AM
Looks like the word "ethics" needs to be redefined in this day and age if the likes of this pathetic loser is teaching a course on the subject.
But then again, when you live in an age where evil has been tranformed into heroism anything is possible.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at September 26, 2007 10:31 AM
How come she is in line for a teaching post, 12 months in to a 28 month custodial sentence? Surely she has another 16 months to serve in prison?
Posted by: Monty at September 26, 2007 10:34 AM
"Lawyering on the Edge..."
-- title of the Hofstra Law School Conference to which Lynne Steward was invited
Why stop there? Have a special session devoted to a discussion of those brave American lawyers who defended collaborators with the Nazis during World War II, the likes of Fritz Kuhn and William Pelley. Or why not invite Monsieur Verges from France, the well-known defender of Holocaust-deniers, Nazi sympathizers, and Arab or Muslim or Muslim-sympathizing terrorists, such as Carlos the Jackal.
"Lawyering on the edge."
"Edgy."
"Edgy" is good. "Edgy" is Artistic. "Edgy" is what you want.
Posted by: Hugh at September 26, 2007 10:40 AM
This traitorous slug should be in prison.
Instead, the Useful Idiot-ocracy foists her treason as merely "controversial".
As the quip goes:
"99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name."
Posted by: profitsbeard at September 26, 2007 10:48 AM
How "edgy" of Hofstra. How brave. That witch should be in jail.
Posted by: MP at September 26, 2007 11:50 AM
"Stewart will be speaking at Hofstra Law School's 2007 Legal Ethics Conference, 'Lawyering at the Edge: Unpopular Clients, Difficult Cases, Zealous Advocates.' "
The "zealous advocates" part, Stewart is certainly qualified to lecture on. The question is whether the people paying the considerable tuitions for these students who will hear her speak would be all that keen on them being as successful at the practice of law as Ms. Stewart.
Is she actually still a member of the bar? You'd think her conviction would result in her loss of membership. Surely, she'd be rated as uninsurable for Errors & Omissions purposes.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at September 26, 2007 12:50 PM
My bad. I see by the headliner that Stewart is disbarred. Is it possible that she's been brought as a "cautionary" example?
Posted by: waterdragon52 at September 26, 2007 12:52 PM
Greetings:
Please don't be too tough on Ms. Stewart. She's still working through her grief over the death of Joe Stalin.
Posted by: 11B40 at September 26, 2007 1:28 PM
Free speech "tension" @ Emory;
Tension Precedes Visit by David Horowitz: The College Republicans are bringing conservative commentator David Horowitz to Emory to speak about Islamic radicalism next month, a decision that could spark controversy on campus. Horowitz’s visit is part of the College Republicans-sponsored Terrorism Awareness Week, which in turn is linked to a national Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week that is being organized by the Horowitz Freedom Center... The week, which will be held Oct. 22 through Oct. 26, will involve a memorial service for victims of terrorism worldwide and the showing of a video relevant to terrorism awareness, Moen said. The College Republicans have not decided on the video yet... Aysha Hidayatullah, the Muslim religious advisor in Emory’s Office of Religious Life, said Horowitz’s campaign is designed to silence discussion and that either advocating or protesting his visit would be detrimental to the Muslim community... Hidayatullah said withholding comments allows Horowitz a free reign to disseminate his views. Disagreeing with him, on the other hand, would invite Horowitz to target the protester as a “suppressor of free speech and academic freedom and supporter of the enemy,” she said... “This event is problematic in the way that it is happening, creating a climate of fear, suspicion, and silence that only creates more hatred reminiscent of 1950s McCarythism,” she said.She forgot to shriek "Islamophobia!" and issue a veiled threat... oh wait;
“I do believe there are ways of talking about religious violence without perpetuating violence, but this is not the way to do it,” she said.Woop! There it is! Posted by: Terp Mole
at September 26, 2007 2:00 PM
“... creating a climate of fear, suspicion, and silence that only creates more hatred reminiscent of 1950s McCarythism,” she [Aysha Hidayatullah, the Muslim religious advisor in Emory’s Office of Religious Life]said.
-- from a posting just above
No. The climate of "fear" comes from the observable behavior of Muslims world-wide, from southern Thailand to southern California, and especially on campuses where the "fear" is generated by Muslim threats of violence, and actual violence, as at Concordia University in Montreal, where pro-Israel speakers were prevented from speaking, or at San Francisco State, or indeed all over the place. The climate of "suspicion" comes from the fact that the campaigns, often Saudi-funded, led by Muslims and non-Muslim Western hirelings, designed to promote a view of Islam that relies on a great deal of omission, selective quotation, deliberate misinterpretation, and repeated examples of flat-out lying (by those who, fresh from some interfaith gathering, can be found, among their fellow Muslims, expressing quite different and far less soothing sentiments). The Taqiyya-and-Tu-
Quoque blend no longer works, not even when the amounts are doubled. Apparently the Infidels are growing, with time and familiarity, immune to the effect of that particular cocktail.
As to "silence" -- well, the "silence of the lambs" bleating as they accept the nonsense that members of MESA Nostra (which google) inflict on them, in courses on Islam and Islam-related themes, all over the place, and the "silence" of university administrations (and of other faculty members, not daring to question the competence or good faith of those presenting highly tendentious accounts of Islam, when they would not hesitate a moment to attack a creationist in the biology department), and politicians who cannot bring themselves, apparently, to discuss Islam's texts and tenets and attitudes in a way that manages to resemble something like the truth.
Eventually, reality -- the things being done all over the world by various Muslim groups and states and individuals, not in defiance of Islam, not thorugh a misinterpretation of Islam, but in strict accord with it -- will break in, and the whole edifice constructed with the help of Arab money from the Gulf will come tumbling down; it is already exhibiting signs of a weak infrastructure. The constant pounding that the day's news provides cannot be withstood forever.
Posted by: Hugh at September 26, 2007 2:13 PM
Disbarred terror-enabling lawyer Lynne Stewart to teach...legal ethicsPosted by: special_guest
at September 26, 2007 2:15 PM
I would be tempted to post something witty here but this wretched excuse for a woman is pathetic beyond redemption. There is ultimately nothing amusing here.
Ms. Stewart is the sort of character that could have been conjured up by Rod Serling. Ditto applies for Hofstra U. (I mean, who knew?)
'Nuff said.
Posted by: pythagoras at September 26, 2007 2:55 PM
"The climate of "fear" comes from the observable behavior of Muslims ...
....yep....I told basically this same statement to my moveon.org type landlord,,,who brushed me off as being Islamaophoebic....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at September 26, 2007 3:14 PM
I wish I understood how these people think. It would be easy just to dismiss them has being stupid, but that isn't it. There is something else that makes them support crazy jihadis.
Posted by: GuitarBob at September 26, 2007 5:03 PM
Why is this repulsive witch not incarcerated? What happened to her sentence?
Posted by: commonsense at September 26, 2007 10:54 PM
I've sent this University an email asking why they would let her speak on ethics when she clearly has shown none in the past and referenced what is known about her...Here's the website that will give the email addresses to the schools academic leaders. Please write them and be nice.
http://law.hofstra.edu/Directory/Administration/index.html
at September 27, 2007 5:31 AM
From the header:" They don't have the first foggiest idea about the Islamic jihad threat, but they know Stewart was striking a blow against Amerikkka, and that's good enough for them"
Oh boy, doesn't that just sum it all up.
Kaostrl:"what to do ,LOL or waaaaaa"
I know, it is a toughie. I opt for the good ole fashioned coin. Done it a billion times whenever Dubya tells us it's the West's duty to give Iraq and Afghanistan "demAAAAcracy"
Posted by: ewha1
at September 28, 2007 7:16 AM
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