Al Qaeda Bill of Rights III

The Left's movement for an Al Qaeda Bill of Rights won its first victory this week thanks to Judge John Koeltl of New York, a Clinton appointee. Giving substantive strategic aid to terrorists is not a serious crime. Lynne Stewart, formerly the lawyer for the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, had a meeting with her client and relayed a message for him to his terrorist colleagues in Egypt, the "Islamic Group." The message from the sheikh consisted of a call to his people to abandon the truce they had emplaced. Yet, inexplicably, the judge decided that her actions resulted in no innocent deaths. Although the prosecution asked for 30 years, the judge handed down a 28-month sentence. By the time my new baby can talk, Lynne Stewart will be back on the street. I can remember when Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, got a sentence of two years for trying to block abortion clinic entrances.
Add John Koeltl's name to Edward Cashman's as judges who need to be impeached. (Cashman sentenced a serial child molester to 60 days in Vermont, then changed the time to 3 years after a nationwide outcry.) The legacy of Michael Dukakis persists: the Left wants to give as little jail time as it possibly can to terrorists and first-degree murderers.