Christof Lehmann (nsnbc),- The Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied lifetime human rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, who has been sentenced in a questionable trial, on even more questionable charges, release on compassionate grounds.
Lynne Stewart is suffering advanced stages of cancer which metastasized after inadequate medical treatment while being held in custody. Lynne Stewart is incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center at Carswell.
The facility is internationally known for being a US extermination camp for whistleblowers and dissidents. Among the survivors of Carswell is 9/11 and Iraq whistleblower Susanne Lindauer, who describes the fight for her sanity and life in her book “Extreme Prejudice”.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied Lynne Stewart´s application for compassionate release. Lynne Stewart is detained at the Carswell detention Center, which has a worldwide reputation for being a United States “Detention and Extermination Facility” for female whistleblowers and dissidents.
Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. denied Stewart´s release despite recommendations for compassionate release from the Federal Medical Center, Carswell Warden Jody R. Upton and South Central Regional Office Director J.A. Keller. The possible release of Lynne Stewart has also been vetted by the Federal probation Office.
The health of Lynne Stewart is deteriorating rapidly. Medical treatment to arrest the cancer, that is metastasizing in her body, has been halted because Lynne Stewart is too weak to receive it. The lifetime rights lawyer remains in isolation, as her white blood count is so low, that she is at risk for generalized infection.
Lynne Stewart was arrested in 2002, following the introduction of the United States´”Global War on Terrorism” and charged with “materially supporting terrorism”. Her arrest was announced by U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft, during an appearance on the David Letterman “Late Show” on the US American TV Channel CBS.
The post 9/11, the US Administration of President George W. Bush adopted legislation that specifically targeted defense lawyers to prevent them from exercising their right to free speech. Other legislation approved of secret evidence, anonymous witnesses. The use of administrative measures to prevent lawyers from representing their clients became rampant.
Another woman, caught up in, what Irish Journalist Finian Cunningham describes as a post 9/11 which-hunt, was 9/11 and Iraq whistlebolwer and former CIA Asset, Susan Lindauer, who also ended up at Carswell, and who has described the conditions at Carswell in her book “Extreme Prejudice”.
Lindauer describes in detail, how political prisoners as well as those who are unable to afford a proper defense, are being pressured into accepting a defense on psychiatric grounds, how political prisoners are forced medicated with medications, which seriously impact their cognitive abilities and thus, their ability to mount a legal defense, how rape of female inmates by prison staff is rampant, and how inmates are literally medicated to death.
Lindauer´s book also describes to what length US Prosecutors are going to make anything that resembles the representation of clients, which have been “targeted in the war on terror” literally impossible.
Lynne Stewart represented Sheikh Omar, who was sentenced on terrorism charges in a highly questionable trial, conducted under the new, post-9/11 legislation. Stewart was accused of aiding terrorism because she visited Sheikh Omar in prison after he was sentenced.
In a letter to the news agency Reuters, Lynne Stewart wrote:
“In the pre-9/11 era such legal activities would have been considered normal confidential defense-client relations. Not any more; they are now seen as ´collaborating with enemies of the state`. That is a measure of how extreme political and legal conditions in the US have deteriorated”.
In a recent letter, in which she addresses the denial of her release on compassionate grounds, the 73 year-old lifetime rights activist and lawyer wrote to friends, lawyers, supporters and her husband, Ralph Poynter:
“I know we are all disappointed to the marrow of our bones and the depths of our hearts by the news that the Bureaucrats, Kafka like, have turned down my request for compassionate release. Let me say, that we are planning ahead. The letter from the BOP is flawed, to put it mildly. Both factually and medically it has major problems. We intend to go to court and raise these in front of my sentencing Judge Koeltl. At the first sentencing he responded to a query by one of the lawyers that he didn’t want me to die in prison — we’ll see if he can now live up to that.
He is of course the same Judge who increased my sentence to 10 years — but this IS very different and we can only hope that we can prevail.
In the meantime, once again, I grieve for my children and grandchildren who love me so much and had such great expectations of enjoying life together again in our beloved NYC and not just trying to, in the prison visiting room. My Ralph, too, whose dedication and love are only exceeded by the work he does on my behalf — but he is a born fighter and although he hurts, it all comes more naturally to him.
But for everyone else, I hope that your affront at this crass bureaucratic denial of the request, which you by your signatures and letters and phone calls, demanded — How far can we let this go? when a 73-year old woman who IS dying of cancer (maybe not on their timetable,) her life of good works ignored, be shunted aside … “she does not present circumstances considered extraordinary and compelling … at this time.” We must show them that I cannot be ignored, that YOU cannot be ignored.”
Fight On — All of Us or None of Us. An affront to one is an affront to all.
Love Struggle,
Lynne Stewart
Lynne Stewart received a 10 year prison sentence for representing her client as a lawyer, and for representing her client with the dedication every client, who is affronted by a fascist state and legal system deserves, everywhere.
Lynne Stewart has served more than three years of her sentence and her life is slowly ebbing away at Carswell; A facility known worldwide, as a United States Extermination Camp and Gulag for female Dissidents.
The release, or failure to release Lynne Stewart is a measure of the possibility to salvage the United Sates from descending into a fascist, totalitarian state.
The support of Lynne Stewart by US citizens, or the lack of support for her, is a measure of, whether US citizens deserve saving themselves and their country from fascism, or if the United States and its citizens have to descend into a dark age of fascism, not unlike the horrors of fascism in Europe between 1933 and 1945. The petition to release Lynne Stewart on compassionate grounds is a referendum for or against sanity and humanity in the United States.
Dr. Christof Lehmann
05 July 2013
An appeal for the release of Lynne Stewart can be signed HERE
Related articles:
The Cruel Persecution of Lynne Stewart: Jailed for the “Crime” of Being the Lawyer of an Alleged Terrorist
Lynne Stewart; Lawyer’s jail torment marks US totalitarian state
SOURCE: http://nsnbc.me/2013/07/05/lawyer-lynne-stewart-denied-compassionate-release-from-carswell-exter/ (Denmark)
Lynne Stewart is suffering advanced stages of cancer which metastasized after inadequate medical treatment while being held in custody. Lynne Stewart is incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center at Carswell.
The facility is internationally known for being a US extermination camp for whistleblowers and dissidents. Among the survivors of Carswell is 9/11 and Iraq whistleblower Susanne Lindauer, who describes the fight for her sanity and life in her book “Extreme Prejudice”.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied Lynne Stewart´s application for compassionate release. Lynne Stewart is detained at the Carswell detention Center, which has a worldwide reputation for being a United States “Detention and Extermination Facility” for female whistleblowers and dissidents.
Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. denied Stewart´s release despite recommendations for compassionate release from the Federal Medical Center, Carswell Warden Jody R. Upton and South Central Regional Office Director J.A. Keller. The possible release of Lynne Stewart has also been vetted by the Federal probation Office.
The health of Lynne Stewart is deteriorating rapidly. Medical treatment to arrest the cancer, that is metastasizing in her body, has been halted because Lynne Stewart is too weak to receive it. The lifetime rights lawyer remains in isolation, as her white blood count is so low, that she is at risk for generalized infection.
Lynne Stewart was arrested in 2002, following the introduction of the United States´”Global War on Terrorism” and charged with “materially supporting terrorism”. Her arrest was announced by U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft, during an appearance on the David Letterman “Late Show” on the US American TV Channel CBS.
The post 9/11, the US Administration of President George W. Bush adopted legislation that specifically targeted defense lawyers to prevent them from exercising their right to free speech. Other legislation approved of secret evidence, anonymous witnesses. The use of administrative measures to prevent lawyers from representing their clients became rampant.
Another woman, caught up in, what Irish Journalist Finian Cunningham describes as a post 9/11 which-hunt, was 9/11 and Iraq whistlebolwer and former CIA Asset, Susan Lindauer, who also ended up at Carswell, and who has described the conditions at Carswell in her book “Extreme Prejudice”.
Lindauer describes in detail, how political prisoners as well as those who are unable to afford a proper defense, are being pressured into accepting a defense on psychiatric grounds, how political prisoners are forced medicated with medications, which seriously impact their cognitive abilities and thus, their ability to mount a legal defense, how rape of female inmates by prison staff is rampant, and how inmates are literally medicated to death.
Lindauer´s book also describes to what length US Prosecutors are going to make anything that resembles the representation of clients, which have been “targeted in the war on terror” literally impossible.
Lynne Stewart represented Sheikh Omar, who was sentenced on terrorism charges in a highly questionable trial, conducted under the new, post-9/11 legislation. Stewart was accused of aiding terrorism because she visited Sheikh Omar in prison after he was sentenced.
In a letter to the news agency Reuters, Lynne Stewart wrote:
“In the pre-9/11 era such legal activities would have been considered normal confidential defense-client relations. Not any more; they are now seen as ´collaborating with enemies of the state`. That is a measure of how extreme political and legal conditions in the US have deteriorated”.
In a recent letter, in which she addresses the denial of her release on compassionate grounds, the 73 year-old lifetime rights activist and lawyer wrote to friends, lawyers, supporters and her husband, Ralph Poynter:
“I know we are all disappointed to the marrow of our bones and the depths of our hearts by the news that the Bureaucrats, Kafka like, have turned down my request for compassionate release. Let me say, that we are planning ahead. The letter from the BOP is flawed, to put it mildly. Both factually and medically it has major problems. We intend to go to court and raise these in front of my sentencing Judge Koeltl. At the first sentencing he responded to a query by one of the lawyers that he didn’t want me to die in prison — we’ll see if he can now live up to that.
He is of course the same Judge who increased my sentence to 10 years — but this IS very different and we can only hope that we can prevail.
In the meantime, once again, I grieve for my children and grandchildren who love me so much and had such great expectations of enjoying life together again in our beloved NYC and not just trying to, in the prison visiting room. My Ralph, too, whose dedication and love are only exceeded by the work he does on my behalf — but he is a born fighter and although he hurts, it all comes more naturally to him.
But for everyone else, I hope that your affront at this crass bureaucratic denial of the request, which you by your signatures and letters and phone calls, demanded — How far can we let this go? when a 73-year old woman who IS dying of cancer (maybe not on their timetable,) her life of good works ignored, be shunted aside … “she does not present circumstances considered extraordinary and compelling … at this time.” We must show them that I cannot be ignored, that YOU cannot be ignored.”
Fight On — All of Us or None of Us. An affront to one is an affront to all.
Love Struggle,
Lynne Stewart
Lynne Stewart received a 10 year prison sentence for representing her client as a lawyer, and for representing her client with the dedication every client, who is affronted by a fascist state and legal system deserves, everywhere.
Lynne Stewart has served more than three years of her sentence and her life is slowly ebbing away at Carswell; A facility known worldwide, as a United States Extermination Camp and Gulag for female Dissidents.
The release, or failure to release Lynne Stewart is a measure of the possibility to salvage the United Sates from descending into a fascist, totalitarian state.
The support of Lynne Stewart by US citizens, or the lack of support for her, is a measure of, whether US citizens deserve saving themselves and their country from fascism, or if the United States and its citizens have to descend into a dark age of fascism, not unlike the horrors of fascism in Europe between 1933 and 1945. The petition to release Lynne Stewart on compassionate grounds is a referendum for or against sanity and humanity in the United States.
Dr. Christof Lehmann
05 July 2013
An appeal for the release of Lynne Stewart can be signed HERE
Related articles:
The Cruel Persecution of Lynne Stewart: Jailed for the “Crime” of Being the Lawyer of an Alleged Terrorist
Lynne Stewart; Lawyer’s jail torment marks US totalitarian state
SOURCE: http://nsnbc.me/2013/07/05/lawyer-lynne-stewart-denied-compassionate-release-from-carswell-exter/ (Denmark)