Someone sent me some quotes from Lynne Stewart in an interview, and I must admit that she is not exactly a proponent of liberty. Here is what she said that is a real eye-opener:

“I’m such a strange amalgam of old-line things and new-line things. I don’t have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people’s revolution. The CIA pays a thousand people and cuts them loose, and they will undermine any revolution in the name of freedom of speech.”

But the issue here is not whether Lynne Stewart is a Stalinist, but rather was her conviction and sentencing in line with a constitutional republic which historically has stressed the rights of speech, private property, and the like? That Stewart would endorse Stalin’s gulag is reprehensible, but the central issue still remains: she was the victim of a government that is increasingly becoming more repressive and tyrannical.