Lynne Stewart conviction

[pberq]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/1545229

This is about bigger things than Lynne Stewart. First, the adminstration wants to scare off lawyers from defending so-called "terrorists" lest they get at the truth of government complicity in 9/11 and other events.

Second, it's about keeping the ongoing war crimes under cover. Here is a quote by Lynne Stewart's lawyer:

MICHAEL TIGAR: ". . .The only way that we will ever get to the bottom of the American concentration camp abuses at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib is that if the lawyers for these prisoners are permitted to tell their stories to the world. If the government can shut off that communication, which they have attempted to do over and over and over again, these activities will continue in secret, blessed as they are by the highest officials of government in a country which has for the first time in its history given a cabinet job to a fellow who says that the Geneva Convention is obsolete and that the torture memo doesn’t mean anything."

[SmokingJacket]

1. Finally someone calls them what they are:

Concentration camps.

This story is one of the most disturbing I've heard yet: putting lawyers who defend "terrorists" in jail -- I'd be shocked and outraged if I wasn't already.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Indeed. A transparent prosecution of justice

would be the most respected. Continued secrecy will only breed mistrust and contempt. I think a long time ago, "winning hearts and minds" was said to be a goal in the WOT.
They have clearly given up on that goal.

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[pberq]

4. Government repression

Then you must also support government repression of truth within this country.

See this for a description of the case:
http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol25no4/stewart.html

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For years, the government has been spying on New York attorney Lynne Stewart — to such an extent that civil liberties defenders say the Department of Justice ought to be arrested and tried for its actions. Instead, it is Lynne Stewart who is on trial, in a courtroom battle that pits the political Left against the far Right, the Constitution against the Attorney General, and the liberty-loving U.S. public against an empire determined to repress its critics and dump due process.

And this is a transcript of a portion of the trial in which Stewart's attorney exposes the fraudulent charges the government made against Stewart:
http://www.lynnestewart.org/rule29.html