Obama Regime Sentences Lynne Stewart to Die in Prison

If anything should strip the benign veneer off Cool Hand Barack, it is the denial of compassionate release to the dying, disbarred lawyer Lynne Stewart. The warden of her Federal prison in Texas six weeks ago recommended compassionate release  to Stewart, who has metastatic breast cancer and only months or weeks to live. (Had she received proper medical care in prison, she probably would have lived longer, perhaps years longer. Her supporters lined up treatment for her at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, a premier cancer treatment hospital. Maybe the Obama regime feared they'd prolong her life.)

The warden's recommendation for release sat on the desk of the boss of Federal prisons in the empire's capital, Washington D.C., all this time, I guess to prolong the anxiety of Lynne, her family, and supporters.

To briefly review her "crime," she issued a public statement from her imprisoned "terrorist" client, "the blind Egyptian sheik" as he is universally called in the U.S. media. (A thorn in the side of the U.S.-backed Mubarak dictatorship, he was oddly allowed sanctuary in the U.S., apparently to spy on him and troll for information about his followers both in the U.S. and Egypt. An infiltrator was paid a million dollars to help trap him in a plot, complete with phony FBI "safehouse" and FBI-supplied barrels of chemicals. Not that these guys were innocents, but the Sheik's role seemed tangential at best. But all that is separate from Stewart's case.)

Instead of being banned from further contact with the prisoner for breaking prison rules demanding that he be held incommunicado for life, she was tried and convicted on felony charges and sentenced to two years, and disbarment. Unsatisfied with that, the Government took it to the Federal Appeals court in NYC, which issued a blistering excoriation to the trial judge and demanded a harsher sentence. The trial judge duly complied, quintupling her sentence to 10 years.

Well, at least she won't have to serve the whole ten years.

It is gratuitously cruel and vindictive, and revealing of the level of political fanaticism within the U.S. Government (in this case both its executive and, earlier, judicial branches) that they insist she die in prison, alone. It should also disabuse any progressives of the "good guy" nature of the Democratic Party and its leaders.

As if what we've already seen of the Democrats isn't enough, such as Clinton's mass murders in Haiti, Rwanda and Sudan, his causing the 2008 global economic collapse with his repeal of Glass-Steagall and another law to bar regulation of financial derivatives, Carter's initiation of wars in Central America and empowering jihadists in Afghanistan, LBJ's Vietnam War and accompanying massive domestic repression,  JFK's torture training program for Latin America, Truman's initiation of the purges and mass repression of the so-called "McCarthy era," FDR's imprisonment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps, or the racist Wilson's purging of the Federal government of all black employees and the "Espionage Act," which he used to imprison opponents of U.S. entry into World War I, a gift to Obama which he relishes using today on complainers and critics within the secret police surveillance establishment. How much more evidence do you need? How about the fact that the Democrats are, like the GOP, a party that represents and is mostly funded by big corporate interests?

If you want to go the peaceful route for change, first you must build an alternative political party. Ralph Nader made a worthy effort running as the Green Party candidate, for which he was violently assailed  by such auxiliaries of the Democrats as The Nation magazine.

But I digress. What makes Obama (and before him, Clinton, and Reagan is another good example) so sinister is that in personal presentation he doesn't seem at all evil. Yet he is a ruthless, heartless man, a killer. (Like Clinton and Reagan.) In U.S. politics, to rise to the pinnacle, one has to project a non-threatening image, which is what those top politicians do (and did) so adeptly. It fools most of the people most of the time. Good enough for the oligarchy's purposes.

See also : "U.S. Government-Obama Regime Murdering Lynne Stewart in Slow Motion."