“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against—then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there it that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers—and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
Obama wanted to get this guy for offending the one faith that Obama respects, so he had his people find a law in the thousands of pages of laws on the books that would allow the White House to prosecute this guy. Whether or not decent people approve of the film (message or production values) is irrelevant; we should object to a political prosecution as punishment for political speech. Sadly, I'm not surprised. It also wouldn't surprise me if next year started with federal-local cooperation in which Freepers and Tea Partiers in liberal areas would be targeted in fishing expeditions that search for crimes that we can be charged with, just like this guy's persecution.
Judge Christina Snyder,
A Clinton appointee, husband on the board of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
She’ll do whatever the Dems want done, however the Dems want it done.
Thanks for the quotes. I was wrong when I told my wife about “everyone is a criminal” - just as foretold in the book “1984” - but obviously it was Atlas Shrugged.
And Obama just at the UN talking about how we can’t censor the internet as it is freedom of speech! (Well, you know, we didn’t arrest him for the movie.)