Sleazebag Lefty Lawyer Gets Wrist Slap for Treason

What part of "aid and comfort to the enemy" is too hard for Clintonoid judges to understand?

Andrew McCarthy, who successfully prosecuted the dirtball terrorist leader Lynne Stewart sold out her country for, has the best reaction:

For an offense the point of which was to inspire proven savages to ignore the self-imposed restraints of a truce and begin killing again, Stewart was sentenced to a prison term of 28 months — not years, months.

This is inexplicable.

Given the mitigating factors of Stewart’s age (67) and medical condition (recovering from breast cancer), there was certainly an argument for a less severe sentence than the 30 years the government was urging. But anything less than ten years under these circumstances mocks the gravity of terrorism offenses at a time when terrorism is our top-tier national-security challenge. Indeed, even ten years would have been generous.

The sentence, however, is a useful object lesson. It — or something even weaker than it — was sought by those in the vanguard of opposition to treating Islamic terrorism as a war rather than a crime. The law-enforcement model of our September 10th slumbers is what they would take us back to. And, if they succeed, this is the sort of result we should expect.

Terrorism is out-sized extortion. It is a method of seeking policy accommodation by acts and threats of mass homicide. That, bluntly, is what anyone who promotes it is promoting. Valuing such promotion at 28 months in prison — which is about ten percent of what corporate executives get nowadays for financial fraud — is unserious.

It is the equivalent of responding to suicide bombings by merely issuing grand-jury subpoenas or adding counts to an indictment. That is what the law-enforcement model gave us throughout the Clinton years (except, of course, in the cases of the Khobar Towers and U.S.S. Cole bombings, as to which indictments were not even filed).

And that's what we're headed back to, given incompetent Republican leadership and Democrats who don't care how many Americans have to fling themselves out of flaming skyscrapers so long as Kofi Annan takes their calls.

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