Lynne Stewart: Featured Speaker at New School?!

Lynne Stewart, convicted on federal charges of aiding and abetting terrorists who she represented communicate with associates outside prison, claims that she was a martyr at a 'rally' at the New School University in New York.

The rally, which took place in a student conference room in a university building on West 13th Street, was intended as a show of support for Stewart, death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Ward Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado who compared WTC workers killed on 9/11 to Nazi Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.

Only a handful of supporters showed up for the "rally," easily outnumbered by the media.

Let's see, we've got a convicted cop killer, a convicted felon who assisted terrorists, and a professor who committed academic fraud and continually misrepresents his background as well as makes outrageous statements that are beyond the pale.

This is the group with whom Stewart wants to be associated with. This is the group that the student group, Students for a Democratic Society, wanted to be on the same agenda.

Let's be clear here. This isn't an issue of free speech, but one of intellecutal honesty. The individuals that this group was 'honoring' are convicted felons and frauds. This is who they hold up as icons to honor and whose causes they seek to further. Put into practice, that means enabling terrorists to continue their bloody goals of killing people around the world, permitting cop-killers to get away with murder, and to excuse academic fraud.

UPDATE:
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