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CBS Radio News "Now at least Federal authorities might be able to punish the filmmaker"... "
CBS news ^ | Sep 28, 2012 | Dan Raviv

Posted on 09/28/2012 10:14:41 AM PDT by Tirian

Short CBS newscast at noon (ET) Friday on the filmmaker taken into custody on probation violations. I was taken aback by Raviv say, and I checked the broadcast posted at the URL to make sure I had heard right.

Asterisks indicate spoken emphasis in the broadcast:

ANCHOR (Steve Kathan) "The man behind the anti-Islam video that sparked outrage in the Muslim world is still in jail in Los Angeles for a probation violation.

RAVIV "I'm Dan Raviv in Washington. The short movie posted on YouTube has had a lot of diplomatic impact. It was *clearly* designed to insult the Prophet Mohammed, and a senior Obama administration official told CBS News last week that no one in the Middle East seems to believe that the US government could not stop the film from getting out. Now at least Federal authorities might be able to *punish* the filmmaker."

ANCHOR The Dow is down 69. This is CBS News."

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OK, this was only a short newscast, but it seemed dance very close to blurring the line between punishment for probation violation and for the film.


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To: mass55th

Well, since I have no intention of EVER paying the tax penalty for not buying their unaffordably expensive new health insurance (my affordable catastrophic insurance will be outlawed), I fully expect to be jailed for tax evasion in a few years. Sneak a hacksaw or file in to me when you visit the jail. Thanks.


41 posted on 09/28/2012 12:10:16 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
"The thing to remember about conditions of probation is that the alternative is jail."

Yeah, but they rarely find anyone in violation of probation since the jails are usually overcrowded already, and Parole Officers don't want to be bothered with the paperwork. They violated him specifically because of the film. It had nothing to do with the fact that he accessed the internet against the order of the court. I'd like to know how long he'd actually been accessing the internet prior to the time the White House blamed the movie for the attacks.

42 posted on 09/28/2012 12:23:38 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: MrChips
"Sneak a hacksaw or file in to me when you visit the jail. Thanks."

Look at it this way, you'll be in a Federal joint, and you can hang with the rest of us tax evaders.

43 posted on 09/28/2012 12:30:59 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

I should have specified that they rarely find anyone in violation of probation for committing a minor offense like using the internet, even if it is part of his probation. Had he been using the internet to commit the same defrauding activities that got him the original charges, now that’s a different story.


44 posted on 09/28/2012 12:36:27 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Chuzzlewit
"I wouldn’t be surprised if someone like Dershowitz to defend this guy and made this a public trial.."

He usually only works on Appeals.

45 posted on 09/28/2012 12:38:12 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th
I should have specified that they rarely find anyone in violation of probation for committing a minor offense like using the internet, even if it is part of his probation. Had he been using the internet to commit the same defrauding activities that got him the original charges, now that’s a different story.

You're exactly right (though people don't often commit minor probation violations in such a public way). Of course this is selective enforcement of the probation violation. My point is simply that the probation condition itself is hardly unusual.

46 posted on 09/28/2012 12:44:05 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Tirian

ARBITRARY_JUSTICE_PING!


47 posted on 09/28/2012 12:45:57 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Tirian

We’ve become a fascist police state.


48 posted on 09/28/2012 3:44:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Proud to be a 53 percenter American.)
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To: Tirian

“Journalists” in favor of gov’t censorship? Who knew?


49 posted on 09/28/2012 3:52:35 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
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To: Tirian

The severity of this coordinated Leftwing attack against the 1st Amendment cannot be understated. This effort is tantamount to restricting the air we breathe.


50 posted on 09/28/2012 3:57:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Tirian

Telling the truth about Mohammed is what? Blasphamy? Heresey? Hate Speech? Against some American law? Good Lord we live in some weird, surrealistic, through-the-looking-glass times.


51 posted on 09/28/2012 3:58:32 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Tirian
Isn't "Raviv" a Jewish name?
52 posted on 09/28/2012 4:00:13 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party: advancing indenture since 1787.)
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To: Tirian

“Now at least Federal authorities might be able to *punish* the filmmaker.”

Of everything I’ve seen surrounding this film and the reactions to it, Raviv’s statement is the first actual blasphemy I’ve heard.


53 posted on 09/28/2012 4:00:58 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny ("Allah" isn't a god. It's a mental disorder.)
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To: darkwing104

“What would the founding fathers do....”

See my tagline for the answer.


54 posted on 09/28/2012 4:04:06 PM PDT by MeganC (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Tirian

CBS is guilty of 1st amendment abuse and the management should be hanged


55 posted on 09/28/2012 4:09:30 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: mass55th

I believe it was check fraud was his original sentence.
If the guy violated probation, there should be a response..but we need to watch if it is within the ‘average” consequences.


56 posted on 09/28/2012 4:15:31 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: mass55th

Not true..violation of probation is most often followed with jail time...in this case there can be no leeway becuase of the media surrounding it.


57 posted on 09/28/2012 4:19:05 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Tirian

I guess we will have new rule.
We may no longer insult the Pedophile Mohammed.


58 posted on 09/28/2012 4:24:58 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: dila813

The courts ARE a tool of suppression of human rights and freedom in the Obama’s SSocialist world .


59 posted on 09/28/2012 4:25:20 PM PDT by Ulysse (O)
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To: Iron Munro

On the contrary Romney could use all that to hit badly the LIAR Oblabla


60 posted on 09/28/2012 4:30:13 PM PDT by Ulysse (r)
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