Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

October 16, 2006

Lynne Stewart: 28 Months

Convicted in February of last year of smuggling messages to terrorists from her imprisoned mullah client, Lynne Stewart was sentenced to a measley 28 months in prison today.

She is free on bail pending her appeal.

Just reading the Reuters article is nauseating. It lovingly describes Stewart as "long a defender of the poor and unpopular" and alerts readers that "[s]ome observers said the case stemmed from Bush administration efforts to discourage the defense of accused terrorists."

Just so you know, the client she was convicted of smuggling messages for is Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Rahman not only was involved in terrorist acts in his homeland of Egypt, but was behind several unsuccessful bombing plots in New York, as well as the successful 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

I can't imagine why he's unpopular.

Michelle Malking puts in her two cents.

This sweet grandmother smuggled
messages to terrorists...