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NY judge orders ‘compassionate release’ of terror lawyer Lynne Stewart
What really bothers me is that the Bureau of Prisons asked for her early release on “compassionate grounds” due to her terminal illness. Funny, but the last time I checked terrorist organizations just didn’t seem to be overly concerned with “compassion”.
Stewart was convicted in 2005 of assisting terrorism by smuggling messages from “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman to his followers while acting as his defense attorney. She was sentenced to serve 10 years for that crime.
Do the crime, do the time. IMO if you help terrorists you damn well deserve to die in prison, one way or another. If that means you go the long, hard route via terminal cancer while behind bars – that’s OK by me.
This seriously NSFW video is for everyone involved with this despicable turncoat’s release – but especially U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl, who ordered it.
Justice is supposed to be blind, judge – and a judge is supposed to ensure justice. Here, you proved you’re nothing more than another ideologue in a robe who sides with terrorists.
I’d best not say anything else, as I’m kinda upset about this.
Category: Crime, Dumbass Bullshit, Legal, Terror War
Utterly unsurprising-she’ll be back to her old shenanigans by the weekend.
Upset? Understatement.
Since the removal of judges for being liberal dumb asses who never act in the best interest of the community or their oath of office is almost NEVER, I am not surprised by the decision. I agree, give her half a chance and she will use the remainder of her life to go right back to what she was doing before. What has she to lose? The liberal darlings of compassion are lined up behind her for support already. Well said Hondo. Because terrorists are so known for their compassion I am glad we showed her ours.(sarc)
On a lighter note, to the judge, I just saw the video and ROTFLMAO. Hey Judge…You can GFY!
Ya know, I am all for compassion and civility. Heartily agree that both should be displayed as often as is possible.
Fortunately, I know that survival is required to be able to exercise any compassion or civility.
The judge was following the guidelines (18 month projected lifespan) and recommendations from the director of the Bureau of Prisons through the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
I suppose the severity and virulence of the cancer has been verified.
Not for nuttin’, but there is an error in the URL for the NYT article linked at the top of the post.
It’s easy to see what happened and how to “fix it” for viewing, but I thought someone should know that it is wrong.
If this is not the right way of doing that, I apologize.
I hope this means we don’t have to pat for her end of life care.
Sheesh, I can’t type. That should be don’t have to pay …
valerie: that is true. It is also irrelevant.
In such a situation, a judge has broad discretion. Guidelines are exactly that: guidelines. They’re not Holy Writ carved in stone; variation in the name of justice is both allowed and expected.
Here, the judge was either (1) a coward afraid of taking a stand and possibly being embarrassed by seeing his order overturned by a higher court, (2) was what Stalin and his ilk called a useful idiot, or (3) was a bona fide terrorist sympathizer. All three options deserve nothing but our scorn.
Here, the judge was himself judged. And his actions prove him to have been found wanting.
Proper forum, gitarcarver; the error is now fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
I generally check the links before finalizing an article, but this one slipped through.
@6
Right…..
Just like the twa bomber released by Britian because doctors swore he only had 6 months to live
Why the fuck is anyone considering evil’s feelings in the first place? Western civilization suicidal 1st world problems, that’s why.
Let’s see, the “learned” judge attended Georgetown U., then got his law degree from Hah-vahd Law. He clerked for Justice Potter Stewart, and seemed to focus on securities law before he was nominated to the federal bench by BJ Clinton.
His original sentence for the POS Stewart was 28 months, while the prosecution asked for 30 years. Yes, he was the sentencing judge.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals sent it back to him, as they felt the sentence was too lenient. He upped the sentence to 10 years.
In granting the motion, the judge acted within his judicial capacity, based upon information and recommendation of agents of the United States government. She was previously turned down b/c her death was not reasonably certain to occur within 18 months, per code. I don’t like his decision but I understand it and it was his decision to make.
UpNorth: hadn’t researched the “esteemed jurist”, so I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
Scratch option 1 – coward – from my comment #10. IMO it’s now clear he’s either a useful idiot or a sympathizer.
2-17 Air Cav: no argument that this was within the scope of the judge’s authority. My beef is that this appears to be a blatant abuse of that authority, likely for political purposes or to “get back” at a superior court that overruled him regarding sentencing.
Technically legal? Yes. Advisable, defensible, or just? Oh Hell No.
Hondo, why can’t he be both?
UpNorth: as I understand it, the phrase useful idiot implies unwitting support and being used. Here, “sympathizer” would imply knowing support and intentional action. The two seem mutually exclusive to me, but maybe I’m wrong.
@16. I get it but you might want to spread that love around. The warden and others in the chain could have denied the request. That would have been appealable and delayed her release by months. Here’s the BOP policy: http://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5050_049.pdf
I’m of the opinion that if you are afflicted with a deadly disease with a finite amount of time to live, and you’re in prison without enough time to finish your sentence before expiring, the compassionate thing to do is to be given the option of being euthanized. Plus, it would save us money, because you would no longer be a burden on the system.
That’s just me.
AC, I understand what you are saying, and agree with you. While it is the judge who ultimately made the last in a series of bad decisions, he could do so only because some group of someones made the request that he do it.
Meanwhile, yes, Hondo, the true believers, fellow travelers, or whatever we want to call them this week, are the ring leaders, the fanatics, the agenda makers. The useful idiots are the foot soldiers the true believers can organize to do the grunt work. Some are willfully ignorant while others are simply conned or bribed into doing the bidding of the true believers.
I have no sympathy for that traitorous bitch. She should rot away what remains of her life in a cold tiny prison cell.
As I understand it, she received a 28 month sentence BUT was found to have perjured herself and was later resentenced. Her atty wanted NO time. The feds asked for 30, and the judge gave her 10. Which judge? The same one who just granted the motion for her compassionate release. By the way, the messages from Blind Baby Chitlin (c/o Firesign Theatre), were not the innocuous type but gave Blind Baby’s okay to resume attacks in Egypt. She herself freely states that targeted violence for the right cause is okay. The right cause is anything that opposes capitalism, among other things.
What Old Trooper said in comment #20.
agree with what OT #20 said
2/17 Air Cav: I understand that others recommended the turncoat be released vice kept in prison. I also understand that the judge was the last person in a position to stop the madness – and chose not to stop it.
“Just following orders” didn’t fly at Nuremberg. “Just following procedure” or “Just following guidelines” shouldn’t be given a pass when it results in crap like this, either.
By the way: I think the hat tip to Firesign Theater is to an intermediary. I’m pretty sure the original “Blind Baby” nickname was by Cheech and Chong (WARNING: link is very racially insensitive/politically incorrect, and is probably also NSFW), and that Firesign Theater was hat-tipping C&C with “Blind Baby Chitlin”. (smile)
@26 Could not agree more. She should have drawn her last breath in prison.
But…”we’ll never get that on the album cover!”.
It would figure the BOP fought for this. Cost savings, dont’cha know.
I remember about fifteen years back how the BOP wouldn’t do a compassionate release for an inmate who was dying of brain cancer and AIDS. A bed and end of life treatment a a VA hospital had been found for him but the BOP wouldn’t sign onto the request. Sure, the guy was a bank robber and had attempted escape a few times but he was not going to live long.
He died right after arriving at FMC Rochester.
The difference between him and the POS the Bureau singed off on is he fought for this country, she fought against it.
Yeah, my memory isn’t so good sometimes. Blind Melon Chitlin was Cheech and Chong.
2/17 Air Cav: I understand amigo; same here. Normal result of getting older.
But it beats the hell out of the alternative. (smile)
Judge Dink Winkerson signed off on the order, no doubt.
If I were the judge, I would have released her, but only on the condition she get a one-way ticket to Egypt, Afghanistan, or North Korea.
What can I say, I’m a giver.
No but it did when ford pardoned tricky dick bush sr. pardoned drug dealer and traitor ollie north and bush jr kept scooter libby from spending quality time with his cell mates bubba and thor.
vietnam war protestor: please view the video in the base article (3rd link) until you “get” its message. Or until your computer breaks, whichever comes first.
Frankly, I’m guessing the latter (computer failure) will come first. But I’ve been wrong before.
Personally, I’d rather vwp try to grasp the significance by osmosis; that is, he smash his monitor into his head until he either gets it or gets tired of the squishy sounds.
I’m surprised they held her for 8 of the 10 years. That being said I hope her “freedom” consists of her being bedridden, wracked with pain and covered in bed sores and her own feces.
@35–true dat. The list of people I’d wish cancer on is very short, but damned if she ain’t on it.
NHSparky: I’m disappointed. Computer monitors are useful things. Telling VWP to bang his head against a concrete wall while watching the video would IMO work just as well, and would preserve something useful for someone with the sense to actually use it effectively.
True, but an old-style CRT/television, not only being nice and heavy, has the glass/implosion factor to consider as well. And if we’re REALLY lucky, he’ll do it while it’s plugged in. The CRT develops a 20-25KV jolt that would be, while not fatal, certainly amusing to watch him subject himself.
Here is a thought, how about the execution of two people for treason plain and simple. Her and Omar, then disbar the idiot judge the Dishonorable Koeltl
@38, I’ve seen that “jolt” throw a 260 lb man across a room one afternoon. Definitely lights you up if you forget to ground it out.
@40–yeah, getting shocked hurts, be it 120, 480, or a radar voltage (we trained on SPS-10 and SPS-49 in ET A school.) All the more reason to let vwp piss his pants involuntarily when he gets bit with it.
Just use someone else’s living room, OK?
NHSparky: rather than ruin a monitor, how about we just let VWP take a whiz on a live electric fence? IMO he seems just about bright enough to manage that.
Were it not for my faith, if I was given notice of my impending death and let out of a prison while still ambulatory, I’d strap on as much explosives as I could carry and take it to where my sick mind would allow me to do the most damage to those I hate. Getting the device to do this would probably be doable considering the company she keeps.
Do you reckon this cretin judge ever considered that possibility?
“… he seems just about bright enough to manage that.”
That’s one of the things I like about you, Brother.
You’re such an optimist. 😉
FWIW: From reading the Wikileaks GTMO files, I saw that a “medical prognosis of imminent death within 6-12 months may be justification for humanitarian transfer” out of GTMO.
Note the words “may be.” It wouldn’t have worked for KSM.
It shouldn’t work for Lynne Stewart either. I might change my mind if she became genuinely remorseful, but I don’t expect that to happen.
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Well hell that was an easy bet to make Hondo because it sure as hell pisses me off….dying alone and in misery while incarcerated sounds like a perfect outcome for a terrorist. She committed terrorism when she conspired to transmit communications on behalf of killers of children. She is the absolute worst kind of human, because she is lacking of any real conviction she sees no harm in aiding and abetting murderers in her role as legal counsel.
Perhaps this traitorous cunt should have been forced to look at photos of the dead five year old at the Luxor Massacre or the dismembered bodies of the women at that scene before she thought about carrying the water for her piece of sh1t client…
The judge and prison officials are really missing the point on this, compassion for a criminal whose crime was non-violent is one thing, there should be no compassion for this garbage.
I hope her last days are spent in mind crushing agony while she begs for the sweet release of death as the vile cancer consumes her traitorous flesh…die crying and in pain you miserable bitch.
Compassionate, huh? Gee, I wonder if that judge would have let George Ryan, the IL governor convicted of corruption, out of jail to visit his dying wife, especially since he was in a minimum security prison. As much as I dislike Ryan – he and Blago are cut from the same cloth – a supervised day or two would have been the decent thing to do, and he’d have gone back.
This one – I don’t normally wish anything painful on people, no matter how disgusting they are, because it comes back to land on you, BUT in her case, since she’s ‘terminal’, I do hope the ending is quick.