Physiognomically So
A hideous turd has been sentenced:
Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer who was charged as a terrorist for helping a client in prison on terrorism charges to communicate with his followers, was sentenced today to 28 months in federal prison, far less than the 30 years the government had sought.
Prosecutors had argued that Ms. Stewart repeatedly flouted the law to aid the violent designs of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who was sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted in plots to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt’s president. Ms. Stewart represented him at his 1995 trial.
The government said she and two men convicted with her helped the sheik transmit messages to the group’s leaders in defiance of prison restrictions.
The Bush administration has touted Ms. Stewart’s conviction as a major counterterrorism achievement, and prosecutors had asked Judge John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court in Manhattan to sentence the 67-year-old lawyer to prison for what would essentially be the rest of her life.
But in his remarks, the judge demonstrated that he did not believe Ms. Stewart represented the threat the government described.
Regardless of what Koeltl says about her, Stewart is a traitor. She is also a monstrously ugly woman. Very often, ugly people grow to revere and identify with other ugly people and ugly causes because there they may go unjudged. They become morally and intellectually perverse to mimic what they are in the flesh.
I hope Stewart spends what’s rest of her life bearing fully the burden of her crimes.
