Posted on 09/24/2014 7:56:38 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza spoke out tonight about his five-year probation and eight-month sentence to a community confinement center on Fox News. D’Souza told Megyn Kelly, “My faith in an independent judiciary is affirmed.”
D’Souza was indicted in January for campaign finance, and pled guilty in May. D’Souza had suggested on multiple occasions that he was targeted for his criticisms of President Obama, a charge prosecutors strongly denied.
D’Souza repeatedly said in his interview tonight that there’s been an “all-out attempt to put me away,” and while he didn’t directly say it was the Obama administration, he did note there’s a “pattern of this administration using the instruments of the law… to go after its critics.”
He told Kelly that in the community confinement center, he’s going to be teaching English to new immigrants as part of his sentence.
Watch the video at link, via Fox News:
You do realize that if you dropped 100 people into a room and a panel of 20 analyzed each of their lives, likely 100% of them would be found to have broken at least several laws due to the profound & offensive complexity of our regulatory & legal landscape, don't you? Without regard to him allegedly doing it 'knowingly', EVERYBODY in politics tries to skirt campaign finance laws; he just got caught. This article amazingly describes liberal Alan Dershowitz criticizing the conviction & sentence of Conservative D'Souza.
Couple that with complicit prosecution and judges, you have an instant tool of oppression.
Given the public nature of this 'trial', how many other Conservatives have had second thoughts about pursuing a very public fight against the Progs?
This is why the IRS targeting scandal is such a big deal. Those 'emails' likely led to the WH. Now we may never see the truth because this administration is 'lawless' (contrasting with your depiction of D'Souza as a 'lawbreaker')...he may have admitted it, but Dershowitz is right (can't believe I just typed that).
I would like to know how the Obama administration got wind of D’Souza’s agreement to reimburse his friends for making contributions. My theory is that the NSA provided the data to a special group, and they were reviewing all of his emails, voicemails and texts looking for something, and found this.
Like your work but, you did something we excoriate others for doing.
Fair sentence, selective prosecution aside.
Which reminds me of this:
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean 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 in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." - Ayn Rand, 'Atlas Shrugged' 1957
FedGov must be using the old Soviet Union playbook; prosecute and jail your political enemies. Their crime? Being against the State.
Thank you for that post. I was turning over in my head how to word it, and then I read your post.
I am reminded of the Supreme Court case where a guy made a politically based DVD that targeted a Democrat, and was prohibited from marketing it during an election cycle which was also the holiday season when he expected to make sales. When the case got to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Justices were questioning the government attorney and asked something to the effect of: “Would these laws allow you to censor a book or other media?” and she said “Technically, yes, but we would never do that.”
Scalia (to his eternal credit) leaned over the bench and said something like: “We are not in the practice of putting discretion like this in the hands of bureaucrats!”
I forget the case, but it illustrates what he was trying to prevent, but it is so ingrained with so much over-legislation that it can be, and often is used at the discretion of the government agency.
IOW, the barn door has already been opened.
Advice to Mr. D’Souza - When you kick an ant hill, be smart enough to get out of the way. When you expose the most poewrful democrats for the frauds they are...don’t put yourself in any compromising situations that can come back to bite you in the arse.
“D’Souza is a canary in the coal mine.”
Ten days ago in California, Democratic State Senator Roderick Wright was convicted of eight felonies involving perjury and election fraud. He was caught lying about living in the district where he was running for office. Wright figured he could safely ignore the law and he guessed wrong. Being a Democrat and being black didn’t give him immunity.
James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas have been making videos every bit as damaging to Democrats as anything Dinesh D’Souza has done. Through the miracle of obeying the law O’Keefe hasn’t been in court and he hasn’t been pleading guilty to felonies. It’s not a coincidence, it’s cause and effect.
When you are a prominent political activist then don’t cook up schemes to get around election law. Dinesh didn’t make a simple mistake in good faith. It wasn’t some technicality that he innocently violated. He knowingly hid what he was doing and he got caught.
Dinesh could have hosted fundraisers. He could have formed his own PAC and sent out mailers or run commercials. He could have done a lot of things to help his friend get elected. Instead he chose to do something that he knew was illegal.
He’s not a victim. He thought he could ignore the rules governing campaign donations and so he tried doing it. Likewise he wasn’t a victim when as President of The Kings College he ignored their rules on Christian conduct and got fired. There’s a constant in his troubles and that constant is Dinesh D’Souza.
So Dinesh gets to teach English to immigrants as part of his sentence?
Thats the LAST place I’d want him, if I were a Liberal. Brer Rabbit and the Briar Patch comes to mind.
A is for America, no hyphen desired
B is for the Bill of Rights, which says what the governmen can’t do.
C is for CONSERVATISM ....
“Put him away like that other film maker...is he out of jail yet? The one whose horrendous film drove the Benghazi folks so stark raving mad???[/sarc]”
That clown has been out of jail for a year. And his criminal activity should have gotten him deported back to Egypt a dozen years ago.
In 1997 “Benghazi filmmaker” Nakoula Nakoula was convicted on California charges of intent to manufacture methamphetamine.
From 1996 to 2006 he had a history of unpaid taxes, bankruptcy, and the failure to honor the terms of his bankruptcy agreement.
In 2010 he was convicted on federal charges of bank fraud for using fake names and stolen social security numbers in order to steal money from ATMs.
A condition of Nakoula’s federal conviction prohibited him from using fake names or the internet.
When he made his overblown Benghazi video he used a fake name and the internet. When that video brought him to the attention of his probation officer he was sent back to jail.
This?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZO.html
CITIZENS UNITED, APPELLANT v. FEDERAL
ELECTION COMMISSION
re “Hillary: The Movie”
That’s the one! I wish I could find the transcript, because it is far more impressive when you see the actual dialogue...slapped her down!
He should have fought with the defense of “selective prosecution”.
30 seconds after typing that, from here, under "2008 Term Cases":
08-205. Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n 03/24/09
08-205. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (Reargued) 09/09/09
We keep you alive to serve this ship, 41, So, row well, and live.
This guy was using other people to make donations on his behalf. He clearly knew this was illegal. This isn’t some accidental violation of the law.
Are you suggesting that there wasn’t even a “smidgeon” of political motivation behind this prosecution? For the past few years we have seen ample examples that speaking out against this administration is likely to prompt unwanted scrutiny and/or harassment. For Democrats, politics is blood sport and they play to win at all costs. They are not ambivalent about criticism; political retribution is their stock in trade.
Yes he hid what he was doing and he got caught. But I suspect that there was great prosecutorial enthusiam and satisfaction in certain quarters, and no hesitation to spend a significant, if not disproportional, amount of money to nail him.
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