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Short link to the petition:

Verified Atheist — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 22:19:12 +0000

Short link to the petition: http://wh.gov/lx0Ep

Longer link to the petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-lynne-stewart-she-dying-cancer-and-merely-guilty-violation-special-administrative-measures/DT5QjFDV

I just searched the White

Verified Atheist — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:44:01 +0000

In reply to Another ‘War on Terror’ Casualty

I just searched the White House petitions to see if someone had started one yet for a pardon for Lynne Stewart, and evidently no one has yet.

Are there any dagbloggers up to starting such a petition? I don't have an account yet and am about to head out so I don't have time to do it right now, but if no one's done it by later this evening, I'll start one once I figure out how to do it.

From her office in Washington

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:03:06 +0000

In reply to Another ‘War on Terror’ Casualty

From her office in Washington D.C., Kenney countermanded the April 26 recommendation of the prison warden at the Carswell Federal Medical Center at the Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, Texas, that Stewart be released.

Or as Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, articulating state-assimilated heartlessness, put it in early April:

“The jihadists’ favorite American lawyer, Lynne Stewart, reportedly has stage-4 breast cancer. Her radical friends — ranging from the ‘Party for Socialism and Liberation’ and ‘Workers World’ to Pete Seeger, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal — want her freed from jail. There’s only one decent response to the Lynne Stewart Fan Club’s criminal-coddling demand: No, hell, no.”

This is not the way attorney Kenney would put it, surely. And it’s not the way Attorney General Eric Holder would put it, or President Obama. But Malkin’s voice is their voice all the same, praising official cruelty in a voice turned up to high screech.