Alleged 'Innocence of Muslims' filmmaker taken in for interviewing by deputies

Los Angeles Times ^ | September 15, 2012

[bd476]

Just after midnight, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Arab world.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies escorted a man believed to be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to an awaiting car. The man declined to answer questions on his way out and wore a hat and a towel over his face. He kept his hands in the pocket of a winter coat.

Sheriff's officials could not be reached by The Times, but department spokesman Steve Whitmore told NBC4 that deputies assisting the federal probation department took Nakoula to the sheriff's substation in Cerritos for interviewing.

Authorities waited until most media had left for the day.

Earlier Friday, sheriff’s deputies had to escort attorneys through a scrum of news cameras into Nakoula’s home. This time, authorities only had to avoid a lone photographer for The Times and a few other lingering reporters.

Nakoula has told the Associated Press he was a logistics manager on the "Innocence of Muslims" movie, not the director. He told a Coptic bishop Thursday that he had no role in it, the clergyman told The Times.

[GeronL]

bump

“Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive” to cheers... and a worldwide audience.

or a Youtube video nobody saw?

Which do you think is more likely to upset Jihadi’s??

They have to deflect this. If the media were to report it this way, his re-election is over.

[bd476]

GeronL wrote: "The war on the first amendment has begun"

At this point, that is difficult to discern because if the man is correctly identified as the check kiting, fraud convicted, parole violating ex-felon, then it would be expected for them to move in and arrest him on a probable parole violation.

There's also an otherwise unstated possibility that with his life, his neighbors' lives and all of his relatives' lives at great risk right now and well into the future, I doubt he nor his attorneys would be concerned about what is said to the press. It's likely that the attorneys who were with him at his residence all day today might have advised him and actually been hoping for this simply for his safety.

Whether he was taken in for parole violation or not, protective custody or at least squiring him out of his current residential area would seem to be of the highest priority. When the terrorists want to kill, they don't aim well and innocents are as likely to be put in their cross-hairs as anyone else.

[Gene Eric]

Vicarious remedy?

Thanks for the ping.

[saturn]

“Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive” to cheers... and a worldwide audience.

Perfect point !!!

[rbmillerjr]

The statists in the WH, will charge him for parole violations...

The Arab Street will declare a victory for Allah.

They will rejoice, burn more flags and go home to candies.

Obama will announce some sort of proclamation...the media and ObamaZombies will declare the seas have subsided.

...and the Leftist/Jihadist Axis lives on.

[Gene Eric]

I share your cynicism.

[Minutemen]

Hmmm.....he cannot use the internet as a condition of “parole”? Is he also not allowed to use envelopes and postage stamps? Strange times we live in.

[brightright]

The world is now safe, the possible filmmaker is in custody. I am sure all the terrorists will go back to their peaceful ways.

[bd476]

piasa wrote: "Picking him up after midnight is a nice stalinistic touch, very theatrical."

Different local media outlets reported the Deputies were out there most of the day, along with the man's attorneys. Leaving at midnight is strange, yet not as strange if his and the whole neighborhood's safety were under consideration.

On the other hand, you might be right. The late night arrest may have been a Stalinist-like disappearance. However there are some more likely reasons beginning with:

1. This weekend is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which is celebrated by Los Angeles' community of observant Jews. If enraged local Muslims wanted to make a public demonstration, they might prefer doing so on a Jewish high Holy day, during daylight hours when news outlets are out and about.

2. Los Angeles has a large Coptic Christian community which might also be feeling some pressure themselves.

3. Los Angeles is home to too many paparazzi who always ignore the safety of others, in favor of getting the best video, still photographs and sound bytes.

4. There is a large community of Muslims here.

A daylight arrest here would lend itself to more drama and unfortunately, more risk for the man, his family, his neighbors and anyone else who might wander into the neighborhood.

[nathanbedford]

Does this mean that all I have to do is burn down a General Motors dealership to get Roger Moore arrested?

[neveralib]

Almost none of this makes any sense.

His State charges are 15 years old, thus he would not still be on "parole" for those.

The Fed Charges in which he served time, leaves a person under what is called "Supervised Release" for X number of years as ordered by the sentencing Judge.

This period comes with "conditions" of which not using the Internet could be one of them.

However, if a person is thought to have violated the conditions of their Supervised Release, it is up to U.S. Marshals to take said person into custody, NOT any local, or state LEO's.

Then, the person gets a hearing before a Judge whereby they are represented by an attorney and evidence is introduced and can be challenged. Thereafter, the Judge will make a ruling on whether the person is thought to have violated the conditions and he/she can order him to serve the time left on his his Supervised Release, add more time thereto and let them go or a combination thereof.

Regardless, this stinks to high Heaven and appears to be politically directed in order to take the heat off from Dear Reader.

[bd476]

Gene Eric wrote: "Vicarious remedy? Thanks for the ping."

Maybe. We'll know soon enough, hopefully.

You're welcome.

It's been an unnerving kind of day. It's unseasonably hot here. It was 104 at 5 pm. There were some transformers exploding in a couple of different areas. Around 3:30 pm a brush fire started on a hill yards up from a section of one of the busiest freeways in the world, in an area known as the Sepulveda Pass, and burning into Bel-Air, home to many of Los Angeles' wealthiest residents.

By 5 pm the freeway was backed up for miles, all the way past LAX with traffic speeds for all lanes at 5mph. Then there were reports of two more fires, less than 5 miles from the freeway brush fire but fortunately they were unrelated. The timing of the fires though had many on edge, including local newscasters.

[Gene Eric]

>> It was 104 at 5 pm.

Ouch!

[tobyhill]

“He had been ordered not to own or use devices with access to the Web without approval from his probation officer -– and any approved computers were to be used for work only. “Defendant shall not access a computer for any other purpose,” the terms read.”

His work was the video and now he stands to make millions off of it.

[Joe Boucher]

pretty soon our gub mint goons will take you in to custody just for saying islam is a gutter religion.
Welllll,
come and get me ya goons cause islam is a gutter religion.

[bd476]

nathanbedford wrote: "Does this mean that all I have to do is burn down a General Motors dealership to get Roger Moore arrested? "

It's probably the late hour, the temperature here and the smoke from the brush fires today having made it's way into my modest home, all have compounded my drowsiness with an inability to decipher what it was you just wrote. So please forgive me, I have read your question a dozen times and still have no clue as to the question's meaning.

For the record however, like Ian Fleming, I am a fan of Sir Roger Moore in the role of 007, perhaps equal to my being a fan of Sean Connery in the same role.

Regarding the article I posted above, below I have linked posts which include my theories. Read them when you have a minute, or not. :)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2931385/posts?page=18#18

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2931385/posts?page=29#29

[mkjessup]

Does this mean that all I have to do is burn down a General Motors dealership to get Roger Moore arrested?

"Why on EARTH would you want to see me in jail?!?"

"Perhaps you meant this rotund and obese oaf ..."
(to which I am NOT related...)



[and Nathan? don't play with matches, my good man, thanks very much.]

[fso301]

I think they are somehow claiming that if he posted anything on the internet it is a parole violation.

The article says he could only use the internet for work related activities. Without seeing the text of the original order, that's a pretty broad field. He can make an argument claiming anything he was doing on the internet was work related.

[EBH]

I am thinking this is more for protective custody. Threats have been made calling for the death of the film producer and all those connected with the film.

But...let me toss one other option into this mix...what if ...with all these various identities...he is a radical and part of the overall terrorist plan?

[fso301]

For the past couple of days, local news stations have been airing stories about the man, that prior to having made the movie, if in fact, he is the one who directed or produced or created it - that he had at least a half dozen different identities and that in years prior, he was allegedly accused and/or convicted of check-kiting. Also this:

What has any of that got to do with who took the original movie and created a YouTube video by selectively editing and dubbing audio?