Big Brother

Good bye human rights. Lynne Stewart has been sentanced unanimously by the jury to all 5 counts of conspiring to aid terrorists and lying to the government.

She says in her interview Friday, Feb 11, 2005 with Amy Goodman on www.democracynow.org

"it just appeared that all that opposition that we saw just caved in, and in thinking about it, it just reminded me of, from my earlier studies politically, which talked about how in a democracy people sometimes are willing to just cave in to Big Brother, and in a time of fear, which this certainly is, to say I will believe whatever the government says, because that's the safest way to be. The women -- three of the women on the jury wept during the entire rendition of the verdict. Why were they weeping if they thought they had done justice? You only can say that somehow they knew they hadn't but felt that they had to bring in this verdict which was asked of them by the government lawyers."