Lawyer helps Terrorist

In the latest explicit example of collaboration between the far left and Islamic fascism, radical left-wing lawyer Lynne Stewart has been convicted of acting as a messenger for blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman: Lawyer Convicted of Helping Terrorists.

NEW YORK - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the outside. The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene. The jury deliberated 13 days in all. Stewart faces up to 20 years in prison on charges that included conspiracy, giving material support to terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.
Stewart sat stoically in a courtroom filled with her supporters, who gasped when the verdict was read. The trial focused attention on the line between zealous advocacy and criminal behavior by a lawyer. Some defense lawyers saw the case as a government warning to attorneys to tread carefully in terrorism cases.

Cries of persecution are already being heard; but Stewart doesn’t exactly evoke sympathy with statements like this:

Stewart, who once represented Weather Underground radicals and mob turncoat Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, repeatedly declared her innocence, maintaining she was unfairly targeted by overzealous prosecutors. But she also testified that she believed violence was sometimes necessary to achieve justice: “To rid ourselves of the entrenched, voracious type of capitalism that is in this country that perpetuates sexism and racism, I don’t think that can come nonviolently.”

Got that? The best way to end sexism and racism is to support Islamic assholes who plot to blow up the Holland Tunnel.