It would have been worth it, though.
This is how leftists can do “greenmail” - here they force local govt. either to squander huge sums of taxpayer money fighting these cases or else pay a large settlement that is less than would be spent as the case dragged through years of court battles.
Still, it was important for the scumbags to be prosecuted - probably some libs in NYC govt. wanted to hand an easy victory to these traitors.
"Anti-war [pro-communist, anti-American] activists who claim they were wrongly locked up by the NYPD during a 2003 protest won a $2 million settlement [gift] from the city Tuesday.
Led by plaintiff Sarah Kunstler - the daughter of famed civil rights [Communist] lawyer Bill Kunstler - the 52 protestors [misguided morons] claimed victory."
From David Horowitz:
"...another Stewart colleague, William Kuntsler, whose Center for Constitutional Rights is a front for leftwing extremists intent on carrying on their own war with America. As an editor for the New Left magazine Ramparts, I remember being visited in 1969 by Arthur Kinoy, who with Kunstler was the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Kinoy was carrying with him a draft manifesto for a new "Communist Party" (those were the words in the document) which he intended to organize with Kunstler. The agendas of the hard left never really change. Support for America's enemies then; support for America's terrorist enemies now.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz1.asp
Anyone got a picture of Sarah Kuntsler? Gotta see this collectivist bag.