Given a choice I would see her shipped off to live in a cave in Afghanistan with her Taliban buddies, but I think I actually understand the reasoning behind the seemingly light sentence.
Stewart is rather old and had major health problems. An extended prison sentence would either kill her or at the very best put the taxpayers to the trouble of paying her medical bills.
As it stands her career and life are over. Since we don't stone people to death before football games like they used to do in Afghanistan I think we've done enough to a stupid pawn and we should set our sights on larger game.
She was facing 30 years and gets less than 10% of that time.
Wesley Snipes doesn’t harm anyone but evades paying taxes and he could face 40 years.
The moral of they story? Killing Americans (or abetting or conspiring to do so) is fine, but don’t even think about keeping the feds out of your pocket and depriving Uncle Sam of the fruits of your labor!
Man, does this country have its priorities straight or what?
...but I think I actually understand the reasoning behind the seemingly light sentence.
Dan, I respectfully disagree. I don't think you do understand. Absent from this story, but present in this one, is an insight to the Clintonista judge's mindset. Excerpt:
And then he all but nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize.
"It is no exaggeration to say that Ms. Stewart performed a public service, not only to the court but to the nation," intoned Koeltl.
The judge - a former First Amendment lawyer - hailed Stewart as a "lawyer to the poor and the unpopular" and rejected a lengthy term, having found "no evidence that any victim was in fact harmed."
Imagine that: As long as the terrorists and their facilitators, like Lynne Stewart, don't actually pull off another 9/11 - that is to say, as long as they don't kill thousands of Americans - they get wrist slaps.
The judge makes no mention of Stewart's health...only her attorney does. The judge lionizes her in his ruling, even suspending her sentence.
Ponder that for a second, my friend: suspending a sentence for treason! Dude, that's the first treason prosecution in damned near 50 years, so we clearly as a nation take that charge incredibly seriously. The jury deliberated a grueling 13 days before rendering a guilty verdict. I'm nearly certain the jury didn't spend all that time in deliberation to deliver a slap on the wrist to Stewart.
This certainly a disappointment. Perhaps after she's served her sentence we can deport her as an expatriot?
"and stayed execution of the sentence pending her appeals" is my big question why?
That one almost answers itself. He's gonna let her walk around free as a bird while her lawyers appeal even the slap on the wrist she received. He's probably hoping the entire matter will be forgotten and they can get on with the Aiding And Abetting Terrorists Club festivities.
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