Original post (by TL):
Lynne Stewart Finds Threat Taped to Her Door

The jury in the trial of defense lawyer Lynne Stewart is still deliberating. Yesterday, she reported receiving a threat taped to the door of her apartment in Brooklyn. It was reportedly from the radically militant Jewish Defense Organization:

The flier said that Ms. Stewart and one of her clients, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, were "traitors to America" and referred readers to a telephone number and to the Web site of the Jewish Defense Organization.

A recorded voice mail message reached by dialing the number says the group - which describes itself as a militant Jewish group - is beginning "Operation Crush Terror Against Lynne Stewart." The message gives Ms. Stewart's home address and says she "needs to be put out of business legally and effectively," threatening to "drive her out of her home and out of the state."

Part of the campaign, the message says, is "to reach out so the jurors understand what she is." It adds, "And that's been done."

Check out the prosecutor's response:

Robin Baker, a prosecutor, argued that the fliers outside court were a legal form of political expression, not much different from the placards that Ms. Stewart's supporters have often carried there.

The Jewish Defense Organization confirms its intent to ruin Stewart:

In a telephone interview after the jurors went home for the day, Jeff Klein, who said he was a board member of the Jewish Defense Organization and a spokesman, said the group had not tried to contact any jurors directly. He said the group decided to begin the campaign against Ms. Stewart on Monday night.

"We're stepping things up," said Mr. Klein, adding that he had recorded the voice mail message. "We're hoping she's convicted, but our campaign is to ruin her by getting her neighbors to evict her from her home, and to put pressure on the landlord to evict her from her office. When we're done making their life miserable, hopefully they will make her life miserable."

Despicable. The group and their actions. Here is their screed against Stewart from their website.

It's important to note that the Jewish Defense Organization, an offshoot of the Jewish Defense League, does not represent the views of Jews in America--in fact. it grossly distorts them. In the words of the Anti-Defamation League, their leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane, murdered by an Arab extremist in 1990,

... consistently preached a radical form of Jewish nationalism which reflected racism, violence and political extremism.

They are terrorists. In the words of Steven Rombom, the "Jim Rockford of Jewish private detectives" and self-styled security expert,

"Terrorists, for the most part, are cowards," he said. "They go after light targets."

Supporters of Lynne Stewart address the group's misdirected anger. They point out these connections with media links between the CIA and the Stewart's client, the blind Sheik, from Cooperative Research Center.