Lynne Stewart died yesterday, surrounded by her husband and son, of complications due to her advanced metastatic cancer.
I regard her as having been a political prisoner for the time she was incarcerated. Her entire legal career was for the underdog and those being tread upon by the powerful, the government, the system. She did not get a fair trail and the second trial was a kangaroo court to scare all lawyers from providing defense of those the US government considered 'terrorists'. She was released at the end of 2013 early due to her cancer.
Lynne Stewart Presente!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
Very sad news Peter. I understand she was not medically cared for in prison so the cancer untreated and spread. Inhuman treatment. She did well with the life she had though.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
Magda Hassan Wrote:Very sad news Peter. I understand she was not medically cared for in prison so the cancer untreated and spread. Inhuman treatment. She did well with the life she had though.
Yes, this is true, she was refused proper treatment for a long time and then when very ill she had to fight for over a year to get release. While people do get cancer naturally, the intelligence community LONG ago developed the ability to give it to their enemies. We'll never know. Her legal work and life was exemplary and puts to shame the lives of those who sought to threaten and incarcerate her. There are sadly fewer lawyers in the US now who are brave enough to stand up for the rights of those without them - and that number is increasing daily. She will be missed. They did her wrong because they hated her client - the 'Blind Sheik'. The irony of it all...he was tangentially involved in the first bombing of the WTC - but so was the FBI!...but I digress...
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
16-03-2017, 01:07 PM (This post was last modified: 16-03-2017, 05:19 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass