OWS Leftist Lawyers threaten to clog NY courts

The OWS leftist attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild have issued a threat to the Manhattan courts… drop all the charges against the OWS protestors, or we will clog the courts.

Lawyers representing about 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in the past month demand that prosecutors drop the charges.

If not, they say they won’t deal and will insist on going to trial – putting pressure on the already overloaded Manhattan criminal courts.

“I’d like to suggest to the DA’s office the appropriate way to deal with these cases is outright dismissal,” said defense lawyer Martin Stolar.

“The leverage is, we take them all to trial.”

Manhattan’s response? Have at it…

The Manhattan criminal courts deal with about 90,000 cases a year, and prosecutors say they will have little trouble absorbing the extra work load.

Court officials had a different take.

“Is it a strain on the system? Yes,” said courts spokesman David Bookstaver. “But the reality is the judges will deal with it.”

Hey… I’ve got no problem with that. Unless you’re a terrorist, actively waging war against the US, every one has a right to their day in court. But many of the protestors don’t seem to consider resisting arrest as against the law. Case in point… the DA dismissed charges against 1166 people protesting the police shooting of immigrant street vendor, Amadou Diallo, back in 1999.

But are the circumstances the same with the OWS arrestees? Not according to the former DA, Raymond Castello.

The Diallo protesters, he said, were arrested peaceably.

“Their plan was to get arrested, and they did it in a way that was least inconvenient for all parties,” Castello said.

“Resisting arrest makes a difference,” he said.

It certainly does.

But the NLG, an overt progressive guild of leftist lawyers, never lets a little thing like laws stand in the way of a legal agenda. Perhaps it’s membership can best be exemplified by Lynne Stewart – the NLG lawyer who not only lost representing Omar “The Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman, but managed to get herself arrested and convicted for helping Abdel-Rahman pass messages to his terrorist followers.

Then again, encouraging lots of court cases, and potential appeals, enriches those evil capitalists, the National Lawyers Guild, doesn’t it? Hardly seems to fit the anti-capitalist narrative that they apparently parrot at every corner.

The man behind the threats – OWS attorney, Martin Stolar – has a similar failure record with his unsuccessful representation of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant arrested in NYC days before the 2004 Republican Convention for a plot to bomb the Herald Square subway station. At least, unlike Stewart, he managed to avoid any incarceration himself, while arguing police entrapment for his client.

Stolar didn’t do much better for ELF enviro terrorist, Daniel McGown, who – as part of a 2007 plea agreement (ala better than if he went to trial) – was sentenced to seven years and ordered to pay $1.9 million in restitution for burning two Oregon logging related businesses in 2001.

Then, of course, it comes as no surprise that the guy who just happened to find himself under a motorcycle, Harry Douglas, coincidentally also happened to be functioning as NLG’s “legal observer” at the time.

Is it because his mother never taught him to look both ways when crossing the street? Or, considering the less than credible history of NLG’s legal staffers, was he just trying to drum up a bit more business and press by faking being hit, as both independent observers and media press accounts (AP and New York Daily News photographer) insist via first hand testimony?

Oh yes… in case any of you have been missing the entertainment of Keith Overbite in your lives, here’s his dramatic news blurb on the incident, where he notes that despite witnesses who saw the NLG “observer” – (“observers”=typically law students, legal workers or attorneys not licensed locally) – deliberately put his foot under the motorcycle to appear “trapped”, good ol’ sports boy, Keith, is still confused where the blood came from.

Hummm… lots of ways to get face road rash, you know. Perhaps writhing on the pavement, face down, thrashing your head back and forth, while resisting arrest? sigh…

But of course the story is ol Harry, who hasn’t learned how to cross a street when there’s traffic, “wasn’t part of” the OWS protest. Oh no. Of course Harry, and the law firm for whom he works, are completely “disassociated” with the movement. You’ve got to be really gullible to buy into this when it’s on record from genuine detached observers that he *deliberately* attempted to looked trapped and victimized.

I guess that Douglas may have taken into account the failure rate of his NLG’s attorney members since he outsourced his defense to Yetta Kurland, Liberty Park Working Group, who is founder of Kurland & Associates, her Park Ave law firm. Ms. Kurland also happens to be running for a city Council seat in Peter King’s NY’s 3rd District. There’s a bit of free campaign press for her…

Needless to say, it’s not hard to figure out the political leanings of the NLG by their choice of both attorneys and clientele. And while so many gullible believers dearly want to believe the OWS is not about “left vs right”, glaring facts tend to get in the way.

As time goes on, those vested in seeing OWS not only a success, but achieving abused victim status, are going to be rising to the surface on the media. It behooves a patient conservative constituency to allow the OWS to not only play out their scenes of chaos, but to manage to hang themselves for any sane support in the process.