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FREE LYNNE STEWART RESIST THE DESTRUCTION OF<br>
DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS IN AMERICA<br><br>
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Lynne Stewart has devoted her life to defending the poor and the
oppressed.<br>
After forty years of exposing government targeting of the most
vulnerable<br>
and exploited in our society, the government has now acted to bury
her<br>
alive.<br><br>
The government prosecution, conviction and imprisonment of Lynne Stewart
is<br>
based solely upon the fact that she joined former Attorney-General
Ramsey<br>
Clark and attorney Abdeen Jabbar in defending Sheikh Omar Abdul
Rahman<br>
against the trumped up charge that he organized and implemented a
terrorist<br>
plot to blow up noted landmarks, including the George Washington
Bridge,<br>
Lincoln Tunnel, Statue of Liberty and United Nations, along with planning
to<br>
assassinate then Senator Alphonse DıAmato and former U.N. Secretary
General<br>
Boutros-Boutros Ghali.<br><br>
These charges were false. The plot was entirely an FBI plan designed
to<br>
ensnare young men attending the mosque of the Sheikh in order to create
a<br>
climate of fear in the United States and to provide a pretext for
wars<br>
abroad and the drastic infringement of democratic rights at
home.<br><br>
These are the stakes in the government's own conspiracy against all
defense<br>
lawyers who dare to represent those targeted by a criminal
State.<br><br>
Even federal investigators, high-ranking Justice Department lawyers
and<br>
Attorney General Janet Reno herself doubted the evidence. The Los
Angeles<br>
Times reported on August 28, 1993 that "For weeks, federal
investigators<br>
privately voiced their doubts about the quality of the evidence
supporting<br>
the governmentıs case against Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman."<br><br>
"But in the end," the article revealed, "Attorney
General Janet Reno<br>
overcame her own misgivings, as well as those of her subordinates
and<br>
concluded that the alleged conspiracy was a case that had to be<br>
prosecuted."<br><br>
<br>
The then Attorney General was muscled into proceeding with false
charges<br>
against the Sheikh arising from a plot prepared by the F.B.I. itself,
as<br>
documented in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and London
Times.<br><br>
Lynne Stewart was herself convicted in a trial where endless hours
of<br>
footage of Osama bin Laden and the attacks of September 11th, 2001
all<br>
entirely unrelated to the events of 1993 were allowed by the court
to be<br>
introduced in trial in a reckless and illegal attempt to frighten
and<br>
intimidate the jury.<br><br>
In a case that is a watershed in the direct assault upon democratic
rights<br>
in the United States, Lynne Stewart has been railroaded to prison in
an<br>
ominous threat to any attorney who defends people falsely accused
and<br>
targeted by the U.S. government. If lawyers can be enfolded within the
crime<br>
imputed to the client they defend, merely for acting as their attorney,
no<br>
one can get a fair trial in the United States.<br><br>
The basis of the government's claim that Lynne Stewart "aided and
supported<br>
terrorism" by defending Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman is that she
released a<br>
Press Release to Reuters and other news agencies containing the views of
the<br>
Sheikh on political events in Egypt!<br><br>
Unconstitutional restrictions upon defense lawyers had been introduced
in<br>
the form of new prison administrative procedures called Special<br>
Administrative Measures or SAMS. These measures required attorneys to
agree<br>
not to disseminate information pertaining to their clients.<br><br>
Thus, while the government uses the Press without restraint to
orchestrate<br>
official propaganda promoting prosecutorial claims, defense lawyers are
to<br>
be denied the right to use the press to advocate for their clients and
to<br>
present their clients opinions and ideas.<br><br>
The sole penalty for violating these arbitrary administrative
restrictions<br>
upon the constitutional rights of defense attorneys is that the prison
can<br>
deny access by the lawyer to the defendant until the matter is
resolved.<br><br>
Even these SAMS designed to muzzle lawyers and prevent them
from<br>
exercising their free speech rights and to restrict illegally their
ability<br>
to defend their clients in the public arena are strictly
administrative<br>
rules.<br><br>
To defy them as Ramsey Clark and Abdeen Jabbar elected to do
no less<br>
than Lynne Stewart - carries no legal consequences for the
attorney. To<br>
breach these administrative restraints is not a crime or an act for
which<br>
the perpetrator can be charged or prosecuted.<br><br>
Yet in a mockery of the entire judicial process, the Second Circuit<br>
Appellate Judges have deployed the breach of these prison
administrative<br>
rulings as a major crime one of "enhancing terrorism" and
of "perjury" for<br>
which decades of imprisonment are in order!<br><br>
The comments by judges in the Second Circuit are without even the
pretence<br>
of a judicial or legal basis. They are political rants and reckless
threats<br>
to Judge Koeltl demanding that he increase the 28 month sentence of
Lynne<br>
Stewart to decades in prison.<br><br>
The statements by several Second Circuit Judges are injudicious,
hysterical<br>
assertions that the Sheikh is one of the most dangerous terrorists in
the<br>
world. The Second Circuit judges cite a speech that Lynne Stewart gave to
a<br>
public meeting of law students patent hearsay derived from
newspaper<br>
reports - in which Lynne is quoted as stating that she had done
nothing<br>
wrong in advocating for her client and would do it again.<br><br>
Second Circuit Judges assert that their statements are "a wink and a
nod" to<br>
Judge Koeltl, letting him understand that unless he increases the
sentence<br>
of Lynne Stewart to decades in prison, the U.S. government will appeal
again<br>
and send the case right back to the Second Circuit, at which time
these<br>
Second Circuit judges will take matters into their own hands and mandate
a<br>
sentence of decades in prison.<br><br>
On the basis of this speech, these judges label Lynne a "recidivist
enhancer<br>
of terror" and a "perjurer." Rarely has their been so
brazen an abandonment<br>
of judicial impartiality and respect for the law as exhibited by
these<br>
hanging judges of the Second Circuit.<br><br>
It is a measure of the subversion of the entire judicial process and
of<br>
constitutional protections and basic democratic rights that these
judges<br>
emulate Alice in Wonderland with scarcely veiled threats to Judge
Koeltl as<br>
they proclaim "Off with her head!"<br><br>
Lynne Stewart at 70 years of age has survived cancer, suffers from
high<br>
blood pressure, has been deprived of her medication and denied the
surgery<br>
that was scheduled prior to her being remanded to prison in a crass
display<br>
of contempt for common decency.<br><br>
The Second Circuit judges revoked her bail in November 2009 ignoring
the<br>
fact that her Appeal remains under review and a potential Appeal to
the<br>
Supreme Court is pending.<br><br>
Mobilize in defense of Lynne Stewart and against the architecture of
the<br>
fascist State under rapid construction in America.<br><br>
Proclaim that Lynne Stewartıs is the Dreyfus Case of our time and
that<br>
today as then a criminal state wages wars of genocide abroad and<br>
authoritarian repression at home while seeking to scapegoat a heroic<br>
defender of the oppressed, thus betraying the legacy of the American<br>
revolution.<br><br>
Organize large numbers of people to gather outside and inside Judge<br>
Koeltl's Courtroom at 500 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan when
Lynne<br>
Stewart is scheduled to be re-sentenced on July 15.<br><br>
Write personal letters to Judge Koeltl opposing the destruction of<br>
democratic rights and the threat to all attorneys embodied in the
reckless<br>
persecution and prosecution of Lynne Stewart.<br><br>
Remind the Judge that Lynne Stewart has, in his own words, been a
national<br>
treasure reflecting a lifetime of devoted public service and that he
should<br>
treat her accordingly and reserve draconian sentencing for the torturers
and<br>
the wagers of wars of aggression.<br><br>
Call upon Judge Koeltl to defy attempts by judges on the Second Circuit
to<br>
usurp his own proper judgment and jurisdiction by dictating a
vengeful<br>
sentence that is a death sentence upon the U.S. constitution.<br><br>
Write accordingly directly to: The Honorable Judge John G. Koeltl,
United<br>
States District Judge, Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl
Street, New<br>
York, N.Y. 10013.<br><br>
Email copies of your letter to Judge Koeltl to Ralph Poynter and
Lynne<br>
Stewart at
<a href="mailto:Ralph.Poynter@yahoo.com">Ralph.Poynter@yahoo.com</a>
/<br>
<a href="mailto:info@lynnestewart.org">info@lynnestewart.org</a>
./<a href="mailto:takingaim@pacbell.net">takingaim@pacbell.net</a> and
obtain ongoing information.<br><br>
Mail a copy of your letter to Judge Koeltl to the Lynne Stewart
Defense<br>
Committee at 350 Broadway, Suite 700, N.Y., N.Y. 10013<br><br>
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