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Law Killers Loved Him by Matt Labash Perhaps Mohammed Saleh, one of the World Trade Center bombers, put it best in a letter to an appeals court: "There is no need to say, 'Who is Kunstler?' He is...
...The Los Angeles Times: "He came to epitomize a generation of white, middle class attorneys who worked for civil rights, fought police brutality and protested the Vietnam War...
...Nosair, still in prison on federal charges, told Reuters, "He was a very good-hearted man who treated me like a son and I will miss him...
...But a patriot for whom...
...Reuter: "He fought against what he saw as the racism of the judicial system, backing unpopular black defendants in difficult cases...
...Well, now William Kunstler of the scoliotic stoop and caterpillar brow, is in it-a victim of heart failure at the age of 76...
...Lest anyone doubt he was a true patriot, ask flag-burner Gregory Johnson and KGB two-timer Clayton Lonetree, to whose aid he came...
...David Lerner of the Center for Constitutional Rights called him "a great American hero, a leader of the fight for social justice...
...The entire Baez campaign may be a CIA plot...
...Defender of Stalinists, all-around press hound, and guest star on TV's Law and Order, Kunstler was the subject last week of the kind of mindless eulogizing leftist icons always seem to generate...
...You're not alone, El Sayyid...
...He devoted his life to fighting for the oppressed," cried law partner Ronald Kuby Kunstler's downtrodden roll call included the following: an Atlanta child murderer (Wayne Williams), a Central Park rapist (Yusef Salaam), two mob dons (Joseph Bonanno, John Gotti), a crack smoker (Marion Barry), numerous cop killers (the Black Panthers, Larry Davis, Leonard Peltier), a would-be assassin (Quibilah Shabazz), a mass assassin (Colin Ferguson), conspiring mass assassins (the Islamic World Trade Center/United Nations cartel), an assassin's assassin (Jack Ruby), and a man acquitted of clerical assassination (El Sayyid Nosair, seen by numerous witnesses leaving the hotel ballroom with gun in hand where extremist Meir Kahane was murdered by gunshot, but convicted instead on other charges as the witnesses howled in disbelief...
...It fell to Joan Baez to feel his red-blooded scorn in 1979, when her famous open letter to Hanoi protesting human rights violations was greeted with Kunstler's response: "I don't believe in criticizing socialist governments publicly, even if there are human-rights violations...
...Law Killers Loved Him by Matt Labash Perhaps Mohammed Saleh, one of the World Trade Center bombers, put it best in a letter to an appeals court: "There is no need to say, 'Who is Kunstler?' He is as a mountain on the ground...
Vol. 1 • September 1995 • No. 1
