Posted on 12/06/2004 8:33:57 PM PST by Enlightiator
AP articles published on the internet at numerous news outlets, including CBS, tell the story of 8 US soldiers named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit over enlistment extensions they considered unfair. The AP article as published on the CBS website, Soldiers Decry 'Unfair' Extensions, states:
The lawsuit contends the policy is a breach of the service contract because it extends the length of service without a soldier's consent. It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers.
No mention is made of Staughton Lynd's significant past and current anti-war activism in the CBS AP article. And even more curiously, the later AP articles have been revised to delete references of Staughton Lynd's involvement altogether, although as indicated by the results of a Google news search - the search results quote Lynd, yet the articles no longer have reference to him. (Google search results will be posted at end of this post).
In contrast to the AP article, a story today by Monica Davey of The New York Times, "Eight Soldiers Plan to Sue over Army's Stop-loss Policy" is to be commended for its disclosure concerning the activism and affiliations of the lawyers involved in the lawsuit:
Mr. Qualls was one of the first soldiers to find Mr. Lobel and Staughton Lynd, another lawyer now working with the Center for Constitutional Rights on the case and whose antiwar activities date to the Vietnam era. As Mr. Qualls wandered the Internet one day in Iraq, he said, he came across news reports of a National Guardsman in California who this summer had become the first to challenge stop-loss in court.
Davey even goes on to ask a very important question:
Asked whether antiwar forces were instigating this lawsuit, Mr. Lobel, who like his co-counsel describes himself as openly opposed to the war in Iraq, laughed and said no. The soldiers and their families came on their own, he said.
That however, does not appear to be an "accurate" answer. Several anti-war and activist websites contain the following soliciation:
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http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/what/campaign_news.html#lawsuit041122
Beat the Back-Door Draft! Join the Suit!
Class Action Lawsuit to Defend Troops Under Stop-Loss!
For Immediate Release
Any soldiers presently in Iraq or home on leave who are under Stop Loss Orders:
A class action lawsuit is being brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of GIs stationed in Iraq who are under Stop Loss Orders.
If you want to join on to the Class Action lawsuit against Stop Loss, please contact Staughton Lynd immediately at
330-652-9635
SALYND@aol.com
The Center for Constitutional Rights will file a lawsuit in federal district court for the District of Columbia on Monday December 6, requesting an injunction hearing December 9th or 10th.
If you or a family member can attend the press conference on December 6th, please contact Staughton Lynd or CCR, 212-614-6464.
posted 22 november 2004
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The above soliciation appears at the websites http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/index.html, which appears to be an anti-war activist site, and at www.dubyasworld.com (link to Google cache), an anti- George Bush site.
A man named Staughton Lynd states why he supports John Kerry at http://www.firstofthemonth.org/9_11/9_11_choosy.html
And is this the profile of the same man representing our troups? I do believe so, unless there are two Staughton Lynd's in Ohio who are staunch anti-war activists:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG051-099/dg099Lynd.html
Staughton Lynd (b. 1929), son of Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrel Lynd (writers of the famed Middletown: a Study in Contemporary American Culture), earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1961, and taught history at Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia) and Yale University. Shortly after his marriage, he declared himself a conscientious objector, and was inducted into the army as a noncombatant, from which he was given an "undesirable discharge" in 1954. Staughton worked as a tenant organizer for the University Settlement House in New York City (NY) in 1958. He won the William P. Lyons Essay Contest in 1960 for his writing of "Anti-Federalism in Duchess County, New York." Staughton was the director of freedom schools for the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964, and organized the first march against the Vietnam War in Washington (DC), held on April 17, 1965, and, he organized the Assembly of Unrepresented People in Aug. 1965. In 1965 he made a Christmas trip to Hanoi with Herbert Aptheker and Tom Hayden, defying U.S. passport regulations; as a result, his academic career went into decline, suggesting that he was blacklisted for his political leanings. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1976, after which he devoted much of his energy to labor law, becoming Associate Director and Litigation Director of Northeast Ohio Legal Services. He wrote or co-wrote many books, including The Resistance (with Michael Ferber), Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, and Solidarity Unionism.
-------- Google News search results (note that Lynd is quoted in the Google News description, however Lynd is no longer mentioned in the revised/"updated" AP articles:
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions Tallahassee.com, FL - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription), PA - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions Grand Forks Herald, ND - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions Bradenton Herald, FL - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
| Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions New York Newsday, NY - ... It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. Lt. Col. ... |
If someone like Aldrich Ames-or Robert Hansen, for that matter-can't be executed, I don't see how they could go after a run of the mill bum like the person this piece focuses on.
And the same folks involved in Abu Ghraib and more, with Michael Rattner or Michael Ratter as some in the media like to mis spell it.
HERE IS WHAT RATTNER HAS TO SAY IN GERMANY
HERE IS A SEARCH FOR MICHAEL RATTER ( same guy? I think so!)
Seems this group of lawyers in New York has been VERY busy under minding America and our troops while we have been sleeping.
I believe WABC management put a stop to his soliciting.
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