Cleric's U.S. Lawyer: Violence Needed at Times

Reuters ^ | Nov 8, 2004 | Gail Appleson

[Ahriman]

A U.S. lawyer accused of aiding militant Muslims said in testimony on Monday there are times when violence is needed to change oppressive governments and institutions, including those that "perpetuate capitalism."

The lawyer, Lynne Stewart, 65, is on trial on charges she helped an imprisoned client, the radical cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, communicate with Egypt's Islamic Group. The group is on the U.S. government's list of terrorist organizations.

Stewart has denied any wrongdoing and maintains she was doing her duty as a lawyer representing a client being held incommunicado. She could face 15 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charge against her, providing "material support" to terrorists.

During cross-examination, Stewart, was grilled on her own radical views. She unabashedly described what she felt was the need for uprisings seeking change, even if such actions result in death.

"I believe in politics which lead, in my view of history, to violence being exerted by people on their own behalf to effectuate change," she said. "I believe entrenched institutions will not be changed except by violence.

"The American Revolution was accomplished violently."

[ladyinred]

Meet the 2008 democrat nominee for President.

[Ptarmigan]

A CommuNazis right there.

[stubernx98]

To Attica for this fat terroist.

[HiTech RedNeck]

She'll go down in flames

[bahblahbah]

Here is the phyco bitch's picture.

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

May I be on the firing squad?

[jjmucr]

So, this means she supports our efforts in Iraq? Ixnay. Doesn't she realize what she said? She could be snuffed, out of hand. What a dope.

[SteveMcKing]

"I believe entrenched institutions will not be changed except by violence."

Like the Soviet Union, the MSM.....

[Palladin]

I hope she enjoys her stay at a Federal Prison.

Better not be the same one Martha Stewart is in.

Though I don't think the other prisoners would get too confused between Martha and this bull dyke.

[piasa]

NOVEMBER 2002 : (ATTORNEY LYNNE STEWART VOCALIZES HER APPROVAL OF MAO, STALIN, VIETNAMESE LEADERS & FIDEL CASTRO'S IMPRISONMENT OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS; VOICES SUPPORT FOR SHEIKH OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN) “I don’t have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous,” she told Monthly Review’s Susie Day in a November 2002 interview. “Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people’s revolution.”
Describing the Islamic fanatics who have declared war on America, Stewart told Susie Day, “They are basically forces of national liberation.…” About the “blind sheik,” her client, who helped to mastermind the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, she says, “Now, certainly somebody like Sheikh Omar, who was a world figure, someone who was listened to by the entire Muslim population for being a very learned scholar, deserved to have a platform, deserved not to be entombed in the middle of America and not able to speak.” The interview appears on the the WW3 Report website. “They said the Sheikh was responsible for, I dunno, everything except flat feet. They made it sound like a worldwide conspiracy… He's a blind, elderly, sick man. He may be a spiritual head, he may be intellectually involved in [Islamic Group’s] struggle [in Egypt]. But he's certainly not a combatant in any sense whatsoever." -- "Cheerleaders for Terrorism: Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart continues her support for Islamic terror ," By Erick Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com, Wednesday, June 17, 2003 posted June 18, 2003

[Francis McClobber]

15 years in the Penn will wipe the smirk off her face.

[piasa]

JUNE 14, 2000 : (LYNNE STEWART AIDES SHEIKH OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN IN GETTING OUT HIS MESSAGE TO THE ISLAMIC GROUP TO END A 1998 CEASE FIRE WITH THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT) Stewart solidified her status as Islamic Group “dove” with her most flagrant defiance of the signed Special Administrative Measure—releasing an Islamic Group press release. The indictment handed down by federal authorities states, “On or about June 14, 2000, Stewart released Sheikh Abdul Rahman’s statement to the press and quoted the Sheikh as saying he is ‘withdrawing his support for the cease-fire that currently exists.’”
The statement, in direct violation of the SAM, signaled Islamic Group members that they should resume violence against the Egyptian government and end a cease-fire that had been in effect since 1998. Yet Stewart, showing no regard for the Luxor-like carnage that would potentially ensue, released the Sheikh’s decree to the international media. This was her final and most costly mistake...her transgressions were tracked by ... Attorney General Janet Reno.
-- " Cheerleaders for Terrorism: Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart continues her support for Islamic terror ," By Erick Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com, Wednesday, June 17, 2003 posted June 18, 2003

[MonaMars]

"To Attica for this fat terroist."

To hell with Attica. Haul her ass up to the top of the Empire State Building, bring a flamethrower, and give her the same choice so many people faced on 9-11: jump or burn.

[Waco]

Yes, she does mean, "perpuates freedon".

[JSteff]

Oh my G__! The Sean Penn?

Cruel and unusual punishment for sure.

[Francis McClobber]

For whom? Sean or her?

[JSteff]

Either because both are pathetic.

[fire_eye]

Oh, God, not another fat ugly leftist hosebag...

Where is the machine that makes them? We need to bomb it.

[fire_eye]

I had another thought (yeah, fried my remaining braincell):

Can't somebody convince that greaseblob that since it likes islam so much, it should be wearing a Burkah? (PLEASE???)