Lynne Stewart is a true martyr for our time. None other than Ramsey Clark, our famous attorney general who marched by hand the first black children into newly integrated schools, spoke about her integrity, and, above all, her absolute innocence of the crimes with which she was charged and for which she has been persecuted ever since. It was her birthday in October and she received birthday greetings in prison from all around the world, including Bishop Tutu.
What Lynne Stewart stands for and why she is dying in jail are two reminders that something is very wrong with the United States government today and why I have been moving increasingly to the left over the past few years and why I feel it’s imperative to speak out now. Jim Fouratt emailed me thanks after I wrote about Lynne Stewart the first time. I think many of our readers are only looking for confirmation of their own experience and their growing belief that something is very wrong. There’s a rotten fish in Denmark…
