When the hell did lying about connections with a federal agency become a serious crime? When a guy makes a factual film about Islam and gets thrown into prison? When a guy goes to jail for a minor campaign law infraction after he targets Obama? Thus is scary and it’s not scary be a use of this guy. It’s scary because of the extent that bastard in the White House will go to silence opposition
It appears that Mr. Simmons got into legal trouble not because he lied to Fox News, but because he actually obtained high level jobs with the federal government by lying about his background.
“When a guy makes a factual film about Islam and gets thrown into prison?”
Are you thinking of Nakoula Nakoula, aka Mark Basseley Youssef, the “Benghazi filmaker”?
That clown had been convicted of bank fraud and intent to manufacture methamphetamine long before he ever made his “film”.
He was out on parole when he made the film and then the controversy made him famous. He was re-arrested for violating the terms of his parole.
A nation with any sense would have deported this crook back to Egypt. Anyway he’s no martyr to the First Amendment, he’s just one more imported sleazeball, the sort that have turned California into a third world dump.