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[h=2]Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza, the director and co-writer of the highly successful documentary 2016: Obama's America, told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that "after we did 2016, President Obama was very upset... If he was upset about that film, wait 'til he sees the new one."[/h] D'Souza's new movie, America, produced by Oscar winner Gerald Molen and John Sullivan, will debut in July.
D'Souza was indicted for violating federal election laws in January by the Department of Justice. Many saw the move as pure political payback against an outspoken critic of President Obama. On Tuesday, D'Souza appeared in court with his attorney in New York City, who signaled his client was prepared to go to trial.
D'Souza's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told World magazine, "My guess is we'll see you at the trial... There is not a scintilla of evidence that this was a corrupt endeavor by Mr. D'Souza." The federal indictment was filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, "an Obama donor who was appointed by the President."
D'Souza did not appear to be intimidated by his legal battle. "We are in a moment in America where we are facing a crisis of leadership," D'Souza told the crowd. He added that "we need right now a Washington, a Lincoln, a Reagan. Well we don't have them but we do have us."
An immigrant to America from India, D'Souza recalled, "I was seventeen years old when I first set eyes on America... Even then I knew I could be the architect of my own destiny."
"We are living in the American era, an era that began at the end of World War II, but this moment is very fragile," D'Souza said, noting that America is facing challenges internationally in the rise of Islamic terrorism and Russian attempts to reconstruct its former empire.
"The remarkable thing is not what's going on over there, but the response here," D'Souza stated, claiming that President Obama is intentionally working to diminish America's role in the world.
"It's a great mistake to understand Obama as a mere amateur... The point about Obama is he is somebody who wants to shrink America's footprint in the world," D'Souza claimed. He added that "he [Obama] is a creature of ideology."
Of his new documentary, D'Souza said "it's a spectacular film... Underlying it is taking on the central argument of progressivism... This argument at its core is a moral indictment of America and the free market system... We make the moral case [in our movie] for America, for free markets, in a fresh way you haven't heard before."
D'Souza concluded his remarks by encouraging his audience to "resolve right here right now that liberty is our choice."
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D'Souza was indicted for violating federal election laws in January by the Department of Justice. Many saw the move as pure political payback against an outspoken critic of President Obama. On Tuesday, D'Souza appeared in court with his attorney in New York City, who signaled his client was prepared to go to trial.
D'Souza's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told World magazine, "My guess is we'll see you at the trial... There is not a scintilla of evidence that this was a corrupt endeavor by Mr. D'Souza." The federal indictment was filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, "an Obama donor who was appointed by the President."
D'Souza did not appear to be intimidated by his legal battle. "We are in a moment in America where we are facing a crisis of leadership," D'Souza told the crowd. He added that "we need right now a Washington, a Lincoln, a Reagan. Well we don't have them but we do have us."
An immigrant to America from India, D'Souza recalled, "I was seventeen years old when I first set eyes on America... Even then I knew I could be the architect of my own destiny."
"We are living in the American era, an era that began at the end of World War II, but this moment is very fragile," D'Souza said, noting that America is facing challenges internationally in the rise of Islamic terrorism and Russian attempts to reconstruct its former empire.
"The remarkable thing is not what's going on over there, but the response here," D'Souza stated, claiming that President Obama is intentionally working to diminish America's role in the world.
"It's a great mistake to understand Obama as a mere amateur... The point about Obama is he is somebody who wants to shrink America's footprint in the world," D'Souza claimed. He added that "he [Obama] is a creature of ideology."
Of his new documentary, D'Souza said "it's a spectacular film... Underlying it is taking on the central argument of progressivism... This argument at its core is a moral indictment of America and the free market system... We make the moral case [in our movie] for America, for free markets, in a fresh way you haven't heard before."
D'Souza concluded his remarks by encouraging his audience to "resolve right here right now that liberty is our choice."
Proof positive.
Dinesh D'Souza to Take on NSA in Upcoming 'America' (Exclusive Video)
4:30 PM PDT 5/9/2014 by Paul Bond
Along with featuring illegal immigration and liberal commentators who disparage the U.S., Dinesh D’Souza 's new film will take on the National Security Agency, according to a clip obtained exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter
The surveillance tactics employed by NSA allegedly to thwart terrorists -- including intercepting emails in and out of the U.S. and forcing phone companies to
supply details of millions of calls -- have become extraordinarily controversial, yet few people have witnessed the NSA in action.
With America, which Lionsgate opens wide on July 2, D’Souza seeks to rectify that situation.
Insiders say the NSA scene runs about four minutes long, though the clip embedded below is a mere 47 seconds. In it, D’Souza is seen walking through a mall and, when he stops to pay for some fast-food, the NSA spy network kicks into gear.
“Our coverage is based on a re-creation of what the NSA has actually been doing, while lying to the American people and Congress,” D’Souza tells THR. “Our point is that the Obama administration is collecting private information on every American, for reasons that have nothing to do with terrorism.”
America, the follow-up to the surprise hit, 2016: Obama’s America, is a documentary that answers claims made by some of the most prominent critics of the U.S. How the NSA plays into that premise, D’Souza will not say.
“It is one of our bombshells,” says the conservative filmmaker, who is set to showcase the same clip here during a Friday night appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.
Email: Paul.Bond@THR.com
4:30 PM PDT 5/9/2014 by Paul Bond
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"The Obama administration is collecting private information on every American, for reasons that have nothing to do with terrorism," the conservative filmmaker tells THR.Along with featuring illegal immigration and liberal commentators who disparage the U.S., Dinesh D’Souza 's new film will take on the National Security Agency, according to a clip obtained exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter
The surveillance tactics employed by NSA allegedly to thwart terrorists -- including intercepting emails in and out of the U.S. and forcing phone companies to
supply details of millions of calls -- have become extraordinarily controversial, yet few people have witnessed the NSA in action.
With America, which Lionsgate opens wide on July 2, D’Souza seeks to rectify that situation.
Insiders say the NSA scene runs about four minutes long, though the clip embedded below is a mere 47 seconds. In it, D’Souza is seen walking through a mall and, when he stops to pay for some fast-food, the NSA spy network kicks into gear.
“Our coverage is based on a re-creation of what the NSA has actually been doing, while lying to the American people and Congress,” D’Souza tells THR. “Our point is that the Obama administration is collecting private information on every American, for reasons that have nothing to do with terrorism.”
America, the follow-up to the surprise hit, 2016: Obama’s America, is a documentary that answers claims made by some of the most prominent critics of the U.S. How the NSA plays into that premise, D’Souza will not say.
“It is one of our bombshells,” says the conservative filmmaker, who is set to showcase the same clip here during a Friday night appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.
Email: Paul.Bond@THR.com
Bill Ayers, Noam Chomsky to Appear in Dinesh D'Souza's New Film (Video)
Clockwise from left: Charles Truxillo, Noam Chomsky, Michael Eric Dyson with Dinesh D'Souza, Alan Dershowitz
The follow-up to "2016: Obama's America" will feature several prominent progressives, including Alan Dershowitz and Charles Truxillo, airing controversial opinions.
Dinesh D’Souza will let several prominent liberal thinkers have their say in his follow-up documentary to 2016: Obama’s America. The conservative filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporterthat the documentary, America, will feature the commentary of Alan Dershowitz, Noam Chomsky, Bill Ayers, Michael Eric Dyson and Charles Truxillo.
“In 2016, we let President Obama’s voice be heard — literally,” D’Souza tells THR. “With America, we also wanted to hear directly the voices of America’s biggest critics. The conservative answer to offensive speech has always been not to silence it, but to listen carefully, consider what’s been said and offer more speech. I was delighted that some of the smartest progressives in America agreed to sit down with me.”
D’Souza wouldn’t name the prominent liberals who declined his request to appear in the film, nor would he disclose what is said by those who do appear, beyond Truxillo’s comments, seen in a video below.
The filmmaker is under indictment for violating campaign finance laws for allegedly using straw donors in order to give more money to a U.S. Senate campaign than legally allowed. His trial begins May 19, but he says his legal problems will not delay the release of America.
Several prominent people, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, have said that D’Souza is being targeted by political operatives who were upset with 2016, an unflattering look at Barack Obama that used lots of audio and video of the president. The movie also included an interview with George Obama, the president’s half brother in Kenya.
In video of America obtained by THR, Truxillo — a professor of Chicano studies at the University of New Mexico and a leading voice on the far left on the topic of immigration — airs several provocative opinions. In the film, he argues in favor of “North America confederating with Mexico in a country that will be predominantly Latino and Hispanic.”
Truxillo also tells D’Souza that Mexican immigrants have no desire to become like “the white brats in the mall” and adds: “I like the things the Americans have. Who doesn’t? But I don’t necessarily want to be part of their culture. I don’t want to end up in the world of Roseanne Barr.”
As for the other progressive thinkers, Dershowitz is one of the country’s most famous attorneys. Clients of the outspoken liberal have included Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson. His representation of accused murderer Claus von Bulow was the subject of Reversal of Fortune, an Oscar-winning 1990 film in which deceased actor Ron Silver plays Dershowitz.
Chomsky, a philosopher-scientist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of the most regarded thinkers on the American left. Dyson is a writer, radio host, television pundit and professor of sociology at Georgetown University.
Perhaps the most controversial of the group is Ayers, who co-founded the Weather Underground in 1969. The self-described “Communist revolutionary” group bombed New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol building in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
Ayers, a retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, rose to renewed prominence in 2008 when various media revealed he had a friendly relationship with Obama, who was running for his first term as president. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin famously said that Obama was “palling around with terrorists,” a reference to Ayers.
Email: Paul.Bond@THR.com
Clockwise from left: Charles Truxillo, Noam Chomsky, Michael Eric Dyson with Dinesh D'Souza, Alan Dershowitz
The follow-up to "2016: Obama's America" will feature several prominent progressives, including Alan Dershowitz and Charles Truxillo, airing controversial opinions.
Dinesh D’Souza will let several prominent liberal thinkers have their say in his follow-up documentary to 2016: Obama’s America. The conservative filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporterthat the documentary, America, will feature the commentary of Alan Dershowitz, Noam Chomsky, Bill Ayers, Michael Eric Dyson and Charles Truxillo.
“In 2016, we let President Obama’s voice be heard — literally,” D’Souza tells THR. “With America, we also wanted to hear directly the voices of America’s biggest critics. The conservative answer to offensive speech has always been not to silence it, but to listen carefully, consider what’s been said and offer more speech. I was delighted that some of the smartest progressives in America agreed to sit down with me.”
D’Souza wouldn’t name the prominent liberals who declined his request to appear in the film, nor would he disclose what is said by those who do appear, beyond Truxillo’s comments, seen in a video below.
The filmmaker is under indictment for violating campaign finance laws for allegedly using straw donors in order to give more money to a U.S. Senate campaign than legally allowed. His trial begins May 19, but he says his legal problems will not delay the release of America.
Several prominent people, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, have said that D’Souza is being targeted by political operatives who were upset with 2016, an unflattering look at Barack Obama that used lots of audio and video of the president. The movie also included an interview with George Obama, the president’s half brother in Kenya.
In video of America obtained by THR, Truxillo — a professor of Chicano studies at the University of New Mexico and a leading voice on the far left on the topic of immigration — airs several provocative opinions. In the film, he argues in favor of “North America confederating with Mexico in a country that will be predominantly Latino and Hispanic.”
Truxillo also tells D’Souza that Mexican immigrants have no desire to become like “the white brats in the mall” and adds: “I like the things the Americans have. Who doesn’t? But I don’t necessarily want to be part of their culture. I don’t want to end up in the world of Roseanne Barr.”
As for the other progressive thinkers, Dershowitz is one of the country’s most famous attorneys. Clients of the outspoken liberal have included Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson. His representation of accused murderer Claus von Bulow was the subject of Reversal of Fortune, an Oscar-winning 1990 film in which deceased actor Ron Silver plays Dershowitz.
Chomsky, a philosopher-scientist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of the most regarded thinkers on the American left. Dyson is a writer, radio host, television pundit and professor of sociology at Georgetown University.
Perhaps the most controversial of the group is Ayers, who co-founded the Weather Underground in 1969. The self-described “Communist revolutionary” group bombed New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol building in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
Ayers, a retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, rose to renewed prominence in 2008 when various media revealed he had a friendly relationship with Obama, who was running for his first term as president. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin famously said that Obama was “palling around with terrorists,” a reference to Ayers.
Email: Paul.Bond@THR.com
Just another Convicted Felon, as well as a Liar and a sleazeball:
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| Dinesh D’Souza enters guilty plea in straw donor case By: Josh Gerstein May 20, 2014 10:46 AM EDT |
| Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza entered a guilty plea Tuesday to a charge that he used straw donors to make $20,000 in illegal contributions to Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long in 2012, officials said. The unexpected guilty plea came on the same day the trial for the strident critic of President Barack Obama was set to open in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The single felony count D’Souza admitted guilt on carries a maximum prison sentence of two years, but the plea agreement D’Souza’s lawyers reached with the government says sentencing guidelines applicable to the case call for a sentence of 10 to 16 months. Judges are not required to sentence defendants in accordance with the guidelines, but usually do. Both sides reserved their rights to argue for a sentence outside that range and D’Souza’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman indicated he plans to ask Judge Richard Berman not to send D’Souza to prison. The plea deal calls for dismissal of a second charge D’Souza faced if he went to trial: causing Long to file a false report with the Federal Election Commission. That carried a potential sentence of up to five years behind bars. “We are hopeful that Judge Berman will recognize Mr. D’Souza to be a fundamentally honorable man who should not be imprisoned for what was an isolated instance of wrongdoing in an otherwise productive and responsible life,” Brafman said in a statement e-mailed to reporters. D’Souza’s case has become a cause celebre for conservative activists and lawmakers, who have complained that he was singled out by the Justice Department because of his views, including the apocalyptic film “2016: Obama’s America.” D’Souza also worked as a White House policy adviser under President Ronald Reagan. “Dinesh D’Souza, who did a very big movie criticizing the president, is now being prosecuted by this Administration,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in a portion of a January CBS interview edited out by the network but posted online by Cruz’s office. “Can you image the reaction if the Bush administration had went, gone and prosecuted Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn?” Cruz and three other senators, Mike Lee of Utah, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, also sent FBI Director James Comey a letter in February seeking more information about prosecutors’ claims that D’Souza’s case arose from a routine FBI review of FEC filings, which show refunds and re-allocations of contributions to Long’s unsuccessful bid. D’Souza moved unsuccessfully to challenge the charges on the basis of selective prosecution, but U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement Tuesday that the case was handled without any political bias. “We will investigate and prosecute violations of federal law, particularly those that undermine the integrity of the democratic electoral process, without regard to the defendant’s political persuasion or party affiliation. That is what we did in this case and what we will continue to do,” Bharara said. At the court hearing Tuesday, D’Souza admitted he knew what he did was against the law. “I knew that causing a campaign contribution to be made in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids,” D’Souza said, according to Newsday. “I deeply regret my conduct.” Brafman added in his press statement: “Mr. D’Souza agreed to accept responsibility for having urged two close associates to make contributions of $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 senate campaign of Wendy Long and then reimbursing them for their contributions. Given the technical nature of the charge, there was no viable defense.” Berman set D’Souza’s sentencing for Sept. 23. In addition to capping the amount of jail time D’Souza could face, the plea deal could help minimize attention to embarrassing aspects of the case that go beyond the illegality the author admitted to Tuesday. Evidence disclosed in pre-trial motions indicated that two of the illegal donations were routed through D’Souza’s mistress, Denise Joseph, and her husband, Louis Joseph. In 2012, D’ Souza resigned from his post as president of evangelical King’s College in New York following reports that he attended a South Carolina conference on Christian values accompanied by Denise Joseph and introduced her as his fiancee despite the fact that he was still married at the time to another woman. He later said in a statement he’d been separated from his wife for two years and “had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced, even though in a state of separation and in divorce proceedings.” |
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He did a fraction of what every other leftist scumbag politician does, and he only got prosecuted because of his bold attacks against the scum in the White House.
Fact.
Fact.
Just another Convicted Felon, as well as a Liar and a sleazeball:
Dinesh D’Souza enters guilty plea in straw donor case
By: Josh Gerstein
May 20, 2014 10:46 AM EDT
Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza entered a guilty plea Tuesday to a charge that he used straw donors to make $20,000 in illegal contributions to Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long in 2012, officials said.
The unexpected guilty plea came on the same day the trial for the strident critic of President Barack Obama was set to open in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The single felony count D’Souza admitted guilt on carries a maximum prison sentence of two years, but the plea agreement D’Souza’s lawyers reached with the government says sentencing guidelines applicable to the case call for a sentence of 10 to 16 months.
Judges are not required to sentence defendants in accordance with the guidelines, but usually do. Both sides reserved their rights to argue for a sentence outside that range and D’Souza’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman indicated he plans to ask Judge Richard Berman not to send D’Souza to prison.
The plea deal calls for dismissal of a second charge D’Souza faced if he went to trial: causing Long to file a false report with the Federal Election Commission. That carried a potential sentence of up to five years behind bars.
“We are hopeful that Judge Berman will recognize Mr. D’Souza to be a fundamentally honorable man who should not be imprisoned for what was an isolated instance of wrongdoing in an otherwise productive and responsible life,” Brafman said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.
D’Souza’s case has become a cause celebre for conservative activists and lawmakers, who have complained that he was singled out by the Justice Department because of his views, including the apocalyptic film “2016: Obama’s America.” D’Souza also worked as a White House policy adviser under President Ronald Reagan.
“Dinesh D’Souza, who did a very big movie criticizing the president, is now being prosecuted by this Administration,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in a portion of a January CBS interview edited out by the network but posted online by Cruz’s office. “Can you image the reaction if the Bush administration had went, gone and prosecuted Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn?”
Cruz and three other senators, Mike Lee of Utah, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, also sent FBI Director James Comey a letter in February seeking more information about prosecutors’ claims that D’Souza’s case arose from a routine FBI review of FEC filings, which show refunds and re-allocations of contributions to Long’s unsuccessful bid.
D’Souza moved unsuccessfully to challenge the charges on the basis of selective prosecution, but U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement Tuesday that the case was handled without any political bias.
“We will investigate and prosecute violations of federal law, particularly those that undermine the integrity of the democratic electoral process, without regard to the defendant’s political persuasion or party affiliation. That is what we did in this case and what we will continue to do,” Bharara said.
At the court hearing Tuesday, D’Souza admitted he knew what he did was against the law.
“I knew that causing a campaign contribution to be made in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids,” D’Souza said, according to Newsday. “I deeply regret my conduct.”
Brafman added in his press statement: “Mr. D’Souza agreed to accept responsibility for having urged two close associates to make contributions of $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 senate campaign of Wendy Long and then reimbursing them for their contributions. Given the technical nature of the charge, there was no viable defense.”
Berman set D’Souza’s sentencing for Sept. 23.
In addition to capping the amount of jail time D’Souza could face, the plea deal could help minimize attention to embarrassing aspects of the case that go beyond the illegality the author admitted to Tuesday.
Evidence disclosed in pre-trial motions indicated that two of the illegal donations were routed through D’Souza’s mistress, Denise Joseph, and her husband, Louis Joseph.
In 2012, D’ Souza resigned from his post as president of evangelical King’s College in New York following reports that he attended a South Carolina conference on Christian values accompanied by Denise Joseph and introduced her as his fiancee despite the fact that he was still married at the time to another woman.
He later said in a statement he’d been separated from his wife for two years and “had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced, even though in a state of separation and in divorce proceedings.”
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DITORIAL: Selective prosecution of Dinesh D’Souza
Liberals take revenge on a conservative documentary producer
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Monday, May 19, 2014
Lady Justice’s blindfold sometimes slips. No argument about that. But now she has thrown it aside to prosecute — some would say persecute — Dinesh D'Souza, a successful conservative author and filmmaker, on flimsy charges of violating campaign finance law. Whether guilty or not, the fact that Mr. D'Souza has been singled out for prosecution while others skate past freely reveals President Obama’s thumb on the famous lady’s scale.Mr. D'Souza, a sharp but respectful critic of the president, goes on trial Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Manhattan charged with using “straw donors” to bypass federal campaign finance limits. These are the limits that the U.S. Supreme Court has been finding incompatible with the First Amendment. Nevertheless, prosecutors say Mr. D'Souza arranged for others to donate $20,000 to the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign in New York of Wendy Long, a personal friend. By reimbursing them, they allege, he circumvented the $5,000 legal limit. He faces the prospect of two years in prison for what his lawyer calls “an act of misguided friendship.”Life in the Third World teaches some people to despise America, but not Mr. D'Souza. He embraced the promise of freedom when he arrived in America as an exchange student from his native India. He found his political home among conservatives at Dartmouth College in the 1980s, and strengthened his convictions at the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution. Unabashed in his faith, he wrote several books of Christian apologetics including “What’s So Great about Christianity?” which made him an icon of the right and a pain in the nether regions of those on the left.Mr. D'Souza’s relentless criticism of the effect that Mr. Obama and his relentless campaign to transform America into a close semblance of failed cultures elsewhere has put the filmmaker in the prosecutorial crosshairs. He wrote “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” in 2010 and produced “2016: Obama’s America” in 2012, the second-highest-grossing U.S. documentary film ever. He is, say his lawyers, “a sharp critic of the Obama presidency who has incurred the president’s wrath.”Indeed, four Republican senators wrote to FBI Director James Comey in February, pointing out how convenient it was to use the Justice Department to take out one of the administration’s most prominent critics. The senators quoted Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a liberal who said, “I can’t help but think that [Mr. D'Souza‘s] politics have something to do with it… . It smacks of selective prosecution.” U.S. District Judge Richard Berman swept away such objections last Thursday, saying “the court concludes the defendant has respectfully submitted no evidence he was selectively prosecuted.” It’s clear who’s wearing a blindfold now.The Justice Department that would imprison Mr. D'Souza for two years for giving unfair advantage to a friend’s political campaign declined to prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party for threatening white voters with nightsticks at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. Moreover, Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was itself fined $375,000 in 2013 for failing to disclose millions of dollars in contributions and missing deadlines for refunding millions in excess contributions. No one was threatened with prison for that. (That was different, of course.)Whether Dinesh D'Souza is found guilty or not guilty, there’s scant doubt that in Mr. Obama’s America, Lady Justice has retired her blindfold and pledged her sword to the president.
Liberals take revenge on a conservative documentary producer
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Monday, May 19, 2014
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Lady Justice’s blindfold sometimes slips. No argument about that. But now she has thrown it aside to prosecute — some would say persecute — Dinesh D'Souza, a successful conservative author and filmmaker, on flimsy charges of violating campaign finance law. Whether guilty or not, the fact that Mr. D'Souza has been singled out for prosecution while others skate past freely reveals President Obama’s thumb on the famous lady’s scale.Mr. D'Souza, a sharp but respectful critic of the president, goes on trial Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Manhattan charged with using “straw donors” to bypass federal campaign finance limits. These are the limits that the U.S. Supreme Court has been finding incompatible with the First Amendment. Nevertheless, prosecutors say Mr. D'Souza arranged for others to donate $20,000 to the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign in New York of Wendy Long, a personal friend. By reimbursing them, they allege, he circumvented the $5,000 legal limit. He faces the prospect of two years in prison for what his lawyer calls “an act of misguided friendship.”Life in the Third World teaches some people to despise America, but not Mr. D'Souza. He embraced the promise of freedom when he arrived in America as an exchange student from his native India. He found his political home among conservatives at Dartmouth College in the 1980s, and strengthened his convictions at the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution. Unabashed in his faith, he wrote several books of Christian apologetics including “What’s So Great about Christianity?” which made him an icon of the right and a pain in the nether regions of those on the left.Mr. D'Souza’s relentless criticism of the effect that Mr. Obama and his relentless campaign to transform America into a close semblance of failed cultures elsewhere has put the filmmaker in the prosecutorial crosshairs. He wrote “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” in 2010 and produced “2016: Obama’s America” in 2012, the second-highest-grossing U.S. documentary film ever. He is, say his lawyers, “a sharp critic of the Obama presidency who has incurred the president’s wrath.”Indeed, four Republican senators wrote to FBI Director James Comey in February, pointing out how convenient it was to use the Justice Department to take out one of the administration’s most prominent critics. The senators quoted Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a liberal who said, “I can’t help but think that [Mr. D'Souza‘s] politics have something to do with it… . It smacks of selective prosecution.” U.S. District Judge Richard Berman swept away such objections last Thursday, saying “the court concludes the defendant has respectfully submitted no evidence he was selectively prosecuted.” It’s clear who’s wearing a blindfold now.The Justice Department that would imprison Mr. D'Souza for two years for giving unfair advantage to a friend’s political campaign declined to prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party for threatening white voters with nightsticks at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. Moreover, Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was itself fined $375,000 in 2013 for failing to disclose millions of dollars in contributions and missing deadlines for refunding millions in excess contributions. No one was threatened with prison for that. (That was different, of course.)Whether Dinesh D'Souza is found guilty or not guilty, there’s scant doubt that in Mr. Obama’s America, Lady Justice has retired her blindfold and pledged her sword to the president.
I'm wondering why the sewer rat didn't mention this:
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was itself fined $375,000 in 2013 for failing to disclose millions of dollars in contributions and missing deadlines for refunding millions in excess contributions. No one was threatened with prison for that. (That was different, of course.)
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was itself fined $375,000 in 2013 for failing to disclose millions of dollars in contributions and missing deadlines for refunding millions in excess contributions. No one was threatened with prison for that. (That was different, of course.)
