Stupid Lawyer

Lynne Stewart was convicted today of aiding the blind sheik and terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman. She is getting what she deserves. I have no problem with her defending this monster, or the other idiots she has associated with over a long and ignoble career. Everyone deserves a fair trail and I don’t doubt that some prosecutors would railroad anyone for political gain. However, it is far from “a message to lawyers who represent alleged terrorists that it's dangerous to do so”, more like a message that it is pretty stupid to help a terrorist continue his trade.

You doubt her stupidity? She testified for herself during the trial, saying in part "to rid ourselves of the entrenched, voracious type of capitalism that is in this country that [sic] perpetuates sexism and racism, I don't think that can come nonviolently." This is perhaps the most moronic statement that could be uttered when one is on trial for aiding a terrorist convicted of using violence against “this country.” Remember she is a trial lawyer. Did she forget that she was trying to win this trial and the jury wasn’t composed of left-wing wackos, or is she sequestered so deeply in the lefty echo chamber that she thinks that most people are lefty wackos? Either way she doesn’t seem too bright to me.