Lynne Stewart - and the MLK of the Near Future
I've been following the decision to convict Lynne Stewart, the human rights attorney accused of helping terrorists.
The anti-Stewart camp, which in my estimation encompasses the conservative Republican groups, are in a big uproar over the lenient sentencing.
I'm not a big fan of lawyers, but it seems the case is pretty clear -- people are more passionate about the fact of WHO she's defending, rather than her chosen profession.
That is, there's all sorts of lawyers that carry the torch for the underpriviledged and the "guilty". One needs only to look to Hollywood or the TV movie of the week to see the cases where lawyers are defending "heinous murderers facing the death penalty".
Whether or not your take on the political leanings of TV or Hollywood are backlashingly liberal, it does make for good ratings.
I just wonder how this case will be viewed in 10 or 20 years, much like we view the legal shenanigans that went on during the McCarthy era of the Cold War 1950's.
I fantasize the near future -- a Civil Rights Movement leader like Martin Luther King arises soon from the ashes of human discontent. A leader who calms not racial tensions but religious ones in America.
Who will that person be?
The anti-Stewart camp, which in my estimation encompasses the conservative Republican groups, are in a big uproar over the lenient sentencing.
I'm not a big fan of lawyers, but it seems the case is pretty clear -- people are more passionate about the fact of WHO she's defending, rather than her chosen profession.
That is, there's all sorts of lawyers that carry the torch for the underpriviledged and the "guilty". One needs only to look to Hollywood or the TV movie of the week to see the cases where lawyers are defending "heinous murderers facing the death penalty".
Whether or not your take on the political leanings of TV or Hollywood are backlashingly liberal, it does make for good ratings.
I just wonder how this case will be viewed in 10 or 20 years, much like we view the legal shenanigans that went on during the McCarthy era of the Cold War 1950's.
I fantasize the near future -- a Civil Rights Movement leader like Martin Luther King arises soon from the ashes of human discontent. A leader who calms not racial tensions but religious ones in America.
Who will that person be?
posted by lubomira at 12:48 PM
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