{"id":26,"date":"2006-01-16T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/fear-servitude\/"},"modified":"2006-01-16T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T22:07:41","slug":"fear-servitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/fear-servitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear &#038; Servitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">The Washington Post has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/15\/AR2006011500940.html\"><strong><em>excellent front page story<\/em><\/strong><\/a> on the boarhawging of Mohammed Yousry, the court-appointed translator for lawyer Lynne Stewart. Federal prosecutors spent three years wiretapping his phone and reading all the files on his computer, thanks to a FISA warrant. Even a federal prosecutor conceded: &#8220;Yousry is not a practicing Muslim. He is not a fundamentalist. Mohammed Yousry is not someone who supports or believes in the use of violence.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">But the feds got a jury to convict Yousry of supporting terrorism merely because of his work translating in the case of Muslim cleric Omar Abdel Rahman. The Post noted, &#8220;The trial transcripts reveal that prosecutors advanced no evidence to back up certain claims, including the assertion that Yousry was in touch with Middle Eastern terrorists.&#8221; The feds pressured Yousry to testify against Stewart and Rahman\u2019s previous lawyer, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Yousry refused to participate in what he considered an attempt to &#8220;entrap&#8221; the lawyers.<\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">Yousry was tried, along with Stewart and Ahmed Sattar, in federal court five blocks from Ground Zero. Prosecutors hyped Osama Bin Laden and the 9\/11 attacks, &#8220;even though the case had nothing to do with that group,&#8221; the Post noted.<\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">But fearmongering paid off for the feds. One of the jurors contacted federal judge John Koeltl a month after the trial and revealed that the jury had made a mockery of fair play. The juror told the Washington Post that the other jurors &#8220;had an agenda.&#8221; She complained of the juror-cowards who convicted Yousry: &#8220;People are so fearful that if you disagree with the government on one thing it makes you a terrorist.&#8221; She admitted her own culpability in agreeing with the other jurors: &#8220;I have to plead guilty to being a coward&#8230; I punked out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yousry could receive 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in March. 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