Radical attorney, supporter of terrorists and cop-killers, backs Obama
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October 10, 2008
Michael Ratner, head of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York, has a decades-long record of defending and litigating on behalf of terrorists and cop-killers.
CCR has worked on behalf of the Weather Underground, the terrorist group made famous by Obama supporters Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Ratner and/or his organization have provided legal support to:
The convicted murderer of two FBI agents;
The convicted murderer of a Georgia deputy sheriff;
The convicted murderer of a Philadelphia police officer;
The convicted murderer of a New Jersey state trooper;
The convicted murderer of a New York City police officer;
Convicted terrorists who planted more than 100 bombs in Chicago and New York;
One of the convicted masterminds of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York;
The convicted bomber of a New York synagogue;
A terrorist working for Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi (who himself has endorsed Obama);
And much more.
Ratner now supports Barack Obama.
Ratner is also an open supporter of Cuba’s Fidel Castro (who has heaped praise on Obama as his favorite candidate for president of the United States)
Ratner has a long record of aiding and abetting terrorists through providing legal support to spring terrorists out of prison, obstruct their convictions, file appeals on their behalf.
“CCR leader Michael Ratner went to the U.S. Supreme Court to get constitutional protections extended to captured terrorists and illegal combatants. He sued to weaken post-9/11 counterterrorism laws.
“He’s also an aggressive propagandist of the Soviet old school who knows how to make headlines to spin public opinion. Where he once pushed communist causes, today he’s pushing Islamist extremism.”
“They gave legal support to Abdul Majid and Bashir Hameed, now in prison for snuffing the life from New York City Police Officer John Scarangella and attempting to kill his partner. They provided legal counsel for Joanne Chesimard, convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and now hiding in Cuba.
“They provided legal and political support to Lynne Stewart, the lawyer convicted of providing ‘material support’ to Omar Abdel-Rahman, the ‘Blind Sheik’ who was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and was considered a spiritual leader to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
“The CCR’s Ratner has gone to the mat for Stewart, even after her conviction for supporting terror.”
Ratner signed a public letter of support for Obama’s candidacy, dated January 28, 2008, and placed online on a blog called Habeas Lawyers for Obama. The point of contact for the blog is Gary A. Isaac, whose telephone number, 312-701-7025, appears on the blog.
The letter also appears on Democrats.com and the Wall Street Journal website. The signers of the letter say they “have been deeply involved” in litigation in defense of terrorist detainees at Guantanamo. Twice they urge support for Obama. They say they are defending the terrorists in order to defend habeas corpus. That might be true for many of the signers, but with Ratner’s documented support for terrorists going back to the time Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were throwing bombs, it’s clear that habeas corpus isn’t the only thing Obama’s lawyer-backer is trying to protect.
Fuglynne Stewart is probably the only person who could make Helen look good by comparison.
Gosh, as far as I'm concerned she lost her 'appeal' a long, long time ago...
ba-dump bump!
Commie terrorist Stewart would have had a better chance if Sotomayor was still on the 2nd circuit.
Geez, what a couple of hags!!!!!!
Every time I think of the lawyers who are doing pro bono work for the suicide bombers in Gitmo I think of this woman.
The smell of the prison just when up 1000%. Stewart is a stinky old red, and a psychotic one at that (In order to be a hardcore communist, you have to be psychotic, delusional, living in a state of denial, and smell like warm dog crap).
Two years is certainly not enough time for treason.
....Stewart also endorsed the sheikh's ghostwritten fatwa, calling for the murder of Jews and Americans.[27] [27 U.S. vs. Sattar, p. 11373] When Sattar told Stewart that Ramsey Clark had concerns about the fatwa, she responded, "Does he really think that the American government can completely put this man in an iron box and cut him off from the whole world?"[28] [28 U.S. vs. Sattar, p. 2149, reference to "Government Exhibit 1193x"] ------ "Lynne Stewart, Jihadi Lawyer," Sharon Chadha, netWMD - The War to Mobilize Democracy ^ | January 11, 2006 | http://netwmd.com/blog/2006/01/11/286********
Government investigators searching Stewart's law offices found a draft of the sheikh's fatwa that bin Laden later said inspired him.[14][14 The New York Post, Oct. 8, 2004]
In it, Abdel Rahman enjoined his fellow Muslims everywhere to kill Americans, even children, "to treat them with brutality," and to "drown their ships, shoot down their airplanes, kill them on earth, in the sea or in the sky, kill them everywhere you find them" in order to obtain his release from U.S. prison.[15] [15] U.S. vs. Sattar, p. 7126, also referenced as "Government Exhibit, 2638," p. 11122; CNN.com, Aug. 20, 2002. .------ "Lynne Stewart, Jihadi Lawyer," Sharon Chadha, netWMD - The War to Mobilize Democracy ^ | January 11, 2006 | http://netwmd.com/blog/2006/01/11/286
I remember the original judge praised her at the trial. Crazy.
It’s a good time to send a message to defense attorneys considering terrorists are about to flood our legal system.