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Subject: Finding the best and most courageous civil rights lawyer
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: noanoa-ga
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Posted: 10 Aug 2004 11:12 PDT
Expires: 09 Sep 2004 11:12 PDT
Question ID: 385976
Who is (are) today's William Kunstler?
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Subject: Re: Finding the best and most courageous civil rights lawyer
Answered By: tutuzdad-ga on 10 Aug 2004 17:40 PDT
 
Dear noanoa-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. Research overwhelmingly seems to indicate that few attorneys
(if any) come closer to being today?s ?William Kuntsler? than
Manhattan attorney, and protégé of Kunstler himself, Stanley L. Cohen,
Esq. Love him or hate him, he embraces his (not always popular)
beliefs, defends his (sometimes unorthodox) opinions and, simply put,
even those who indciate they'd like to see him hanged would probably
admit that the man has (rather than use a less socially acceptable
methaphor here) GUTS!

?Mr. Cohen, 47, is an old-time agitator?a 60?s demonstrator, a
disciple of leftist celebrity lawyer William Kunstler. And since the
attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he?s become the
unofficial head of a small and increasingly unpopular legal
fraternity: defenders of suspected members of Mr. bin Laden?s
terrorist network. The zeal with which he embraces his cause
discomfits even some of his ideological fellow travelers. But the way
he sees it, he?s all that?s standing against a groundswell of anger
that threatens to engulf law-abiding Americans.?

NEW YORK OBSERVER
?Kunstler Protege Stanley Cohen Brings American Rights to Hamas?
http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=4894


?Beginning in the Sixties, we?ve seen many examples of the latter,
orchestrated by the Left. The ?Chicago Seven? trial, that turned a
criminal case into a circus. Cop-killing prosecutions, that became
platforms for anti-government rhetoric. Draft evasion cases, that
indicted not the defendants, but the Vietnam War. The maestro of these
kinds of cases was the Communist lawyer, William Kunstler. Though
Kunstler is dead, his legal clones continue to use the American legal
system to advance an anti-American agenda that now includes support
for terrorists. Among the most visible of Kuntsler?s clones is Stanley
Cohen, Esq.?

FIFTH COLUMN MOUTHPEICE
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/fifth.htm

?Cohen was Kunstler?s protege. He sponsored Cohen?s application to
practice before the Supreme Court. Like Kunstler, Cohen regards
himself as a revolutionary lawyer and identifies with the politics of
his clients??

?Like his mentor Kunstler, Cohen tries his cases in the media using
the distorted hyperbole which has become a lingua franca of the left.?

?Leftist lawyers have portrayed their clients as persecuted victims of
prejudice and political witch hunts since the days of Clarence Darrow.
During the Cold War, Communist lawyers refined it to a science, which
they passed on to their disciples, Kuntsler, Stewart, Cohen et al.?

STANLEY COHEN: TERRORIST MOUTHPIECE
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=5098

?Who is this bearded supporter of jihad and what's he doing in a Lower
East Side loft decorated with Syrian banknotes, a close-up photo of an
AK-47 and his own mug shots? He is Stanley L. Cohen, Esq., defender of
accused terrorists and possibly one of the most hated lawyers in this
city.?

UNORTHODOX ATTORNEY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A57038-2002Aug7&notFound=true

These and a multitude of other sources seem to overwhelmingly support
the perception that Cohen appears to have filled the shoes of William
Kunstler in the eyes of many. But I?ll let you listen to this
interview on HANNITY & COLMES and you decide for yourself:

HANNITY & COLMES INTERVIEW
Courtesy of website: 
?ATTORNEY STANLEY COHEN... A-HOLE AND DEFENDER OF MURDERERS OF JEWS
AND AMERICANS?
http://www.masada2000.com/Stanley%20Cohen%20&%20Hannity%20%20and%20Colmes.mp3


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Subject: Re: Finding the best and most courageous civil rights lawyer
From: pinkfreud-ga on 10 Aug 2004 11:18 PDT
 
How about Morris Dees?

http://www.splcenter.org/center/history/dees.jsp
Subject: Re: Finding the best and most courageous civil rights lawyer
From: ronsnyder-ga on 10 Aug 2004 16:46 PDT
 
http://www.gerryspence.com/index2.html
Subject: Re: Finding the best and most courageous civil rights lawyer
From: adiloren-ga on 24 Aug 2004 15:07 PDT
 
That sound clip from Hannity and Combs was pretty funny. It would be
nice if Hannity would stop talking for 2 seconds- that guy may be the
worst interviewer I've ever heard.

On the question, I would agree that Cohen is probably the successor to Kunstler
Alan Isaacman is also worthy of mention. He has had some high-profile
first amendment cases before the Supreme Court, including the case
brought against Larry Flint.

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