Posted on 05/23/2014 3:05:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Dinesh DSouza faces more than a year in prison for giving away his money. Guilt lies with the law and not the lawbreaker here.
The conservative author pled guilty to violating campaign finance laws, which is another way of saying he opened up a lemonade stand without a license or ripped the tag off a mattress. The case stems from DSouzas 2012 donations through intermediaries to a friends senatorial campaign. Congress, made up of incumbents, has placed restrictions of dubious constitutionality on the amount individuals can legally donate to candidates. They havent, tellingly, placed any such limits on what they can legally raise or spend on campaigns.
The candidate DSouza donated to, Wendy Long, lost the fundraising race 40 to 1 and the spending race 15 to 1 to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. She lost the vote race by a mere 3 to 1 margin.
One could say DSouza foolishly wasted his money on a lost cause. But does his unwise unselfishness really make him a criminal deserving of the penitentiary?
The guilty party, to his credit, admits the facts presented against him. The pursuing party, to their discredit, never explained why they seized on DSouzas two illicit donations when much grander transgressions of campaign finance laws by Harry Reid, the Obama campaign, and others have gone unnoticed by federal prosecutors.
DSouza violated the law. The law violates his rights.
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Not me. You think state government is less corrupt than the Fed is. They are all corrupt.
What matters is that the Framers’ constitution provided for vertical separation of power between the states and the government they created. It served our republic very well until 1913, and would serve us well again.
But the thread is about Dinesh.
Speaking in court, under oath, he told the judge he asked his two friends to donate the money, then he promised to pay them back.
There was no reason to do such a thing, unless he clearly understood he was breaking the law.
Yes, the penalty is too harsh, and the law is selectively enforced.
But D’Souza could have avoided all that has happened if he simply obeyed the law.
Coldplay?
Yeah, but the other guys did it too! Sorry, he knew it was illegal and did it anyway. Everybody does it, is no excuse.
And his movie wasn’t very good. Nothing in it I didn’t already know.
He should take his punishment like a man and sin no more.
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