Strange days indeed. I browse to The Washington Post this morning expecting to find the usual Liberal line in the editorial section when I was stunned by this editorial concerning the conviction of Lynne Stewart. For those who do not know, she was the lawyer for the blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman who is the head of a terrorist organization and who is suspected of trying to blow up New York City landmarks and such. She violated clear rules prohibiting her from assisting the Sheik in communicating with his terrorist network. Here is a snippet:

Mr. Abdel Rahman has been the subject of “special administrative measures” that bar him from communicating with the outside world save immediate family members and lawyers. The idea is to prevent him from directing a murderous criminal organization from his cell. As a condition of their access to him, his lawyers, including Ms. Stewart, had to agree not to facilitate communications with unauthorized people.

And:

But facilitating terrorist communications has nothing to do with protecting a man’s rights in the U.S. legal system, as other lawyers for the sheik recognized. It has to do with managing an organization devoted to violent revolution and killing innocent people

Wow! I am in shock. I totally agree with this editorial. Is this a sign of the end times? “Lo, in the last days WunderKraut shall agree with The Washington Post. And it came to pass.”

Ms. Stewart and her defenders drive me nuts. They seem to think that lawyers have special privileges that allow them to get around inconvenient rulings or laws. The same can be said about journalists. Journalists are up in arms about Judith Miller and Matt Cooper being forced to disclose a source. Journalists have such a high opinion of themselves don’t they? They scream about the First Amendment and the “chilling” effect this will have on news gathering. Come off it already. If someone comes to you with information about a crime and that information could be used to solve the crime YOU SHOULD BE COMPELLED to give that source up. How hard is that to understand?

Lawyers and Journalists…..two of my favorite things.

For more information go here and here and here and finally here.

UPDATE: I just found this NRO piece by Rich Lowry on this very same topic.

UPDATE, UPDATE: For an interesting legal take on Rich Lowry’s above piece, go read BeldarBlog.