We don't yet know where and how they will come for her. But we in the Socialist Party will never accept that a woman who as worked for decades, usually for nothing, to defend anyone who other lawyers feared to defend, is the enemy of working people in this city. At 67, a grandmother of 14, and just having battled breast cancer, this lifelong fighter for the little justice the US constitution demands, gets her reward from our government.

Lynne Stewart will be imprisoned for being a lawyer. Her case is simple. She allowed a supporter of her convicted client to write down a note and carry it out of prison. This was against prison regulations: not even a misdemeanor. By law, jaywalking is a more serious offense. The prison administration cautioned her about this. That was the last anyone heard until the government decided years later that this act made her a 'Terrorist.' The government did not have to show that the act was against the law then, that the information was in any was sensitive or that anyone was hurt. Since holders of foreign passports in this country have no rights, they may hold Lynne's client in solitary confinement forever. He is certainly paying for his crimes. Her crime was daring to offer a defense for those the government imprisons.

It is not hyperbole that the prosecutors have called this "a major victory in the war on terrorism". A message has been sent. Defend enemies of the state and you go to jail, because what a lawyer does or says in defending a client can get them put in jail years later. God help you in finding a lawyer if the government comes for you tomorrow.

This fight is not over!

Free Lynne Stewart!

Find out what you can do at: www.lynnestewart.org.

The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
350 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10013
212-625-9696

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