Posted on 06/11/2013 7:34:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
He’s defiant, but not as defiant as you might think from that headline. He has no regrets about making the movie and says he’ll finish it once he’s out of the pen, but if you’re expecting any indignation over the White House’s repulsive attempt to make him a scapegoat for Islamist degeneracy, think again. He’s entirely deferential to The One — and maybe you would be too if you were stuck in a federal jail cell reading newspapers with daily reports about government gone rogue.
“It is not [a] religion movie,” he said. “I have a lot of Muslim friends and not all the Muslims believe in the terrorism culture. Some of them believe in this culture. That’s why we need to fight [against] the culture, not the Muslims. My enemy is the terrorism culture; this is my enemy…
“Of course I’m proud of [the movie]. If I could go back, I would do it again,” said Nakoula, 55, a Coptic Christian born in Egypt who came to the United States in 1984. “Everybody gets hurt in this culture. We need the world free of this culture. We have to fight it.”…
“I would like to thank the United States government from the top to the bottom for protecting me,” he said. “They treat me very, very good since this happened until now.”
When asked about Rice’s promotion last week to National Security Adviser after she became the face of the White House effort to substitute him for Al Qaeda as the cause of the Benghazi attack, Nakoula was again unwilling to be critical of the Obama administration.
“Who am I to criticize the United States’ commander in chief? This is his decision,” he said. “It’s not my responsibility. It’s not my job.”
When asked if he thought the administration had used him and his movie as scapegoats, he said simply “No comment.” That’s how you answer when you’re afraid to answer otherwise. I wonder if he knows that the frontrunner for the next Democratic nomination told more than one relative of Americans killed in Benghazi that they should blame him for the bloodletting. No comment.
As a companion piece to this, read NPR’s account of the town-hall meeting held last week in Tennessee by U.S. Attorney Bill Killian warning the locals that under certain circumstances hate speech against Muslims can and will be prosecuted. Here’s how the Times Free Press quoted him:
“Let me be clear, in this country, hateful speech is allowed,” Killian said. “It is protected by the freedom of speech part of the first amendment.
“But if someone makes threats of violence, that is not protected speech and they will be prosecuted,” he said. “Likewise, if someone commits acts of violence under the guise of religious or other speech, they will be prosecuted for their violent acts.”…
First Amendment Center president and executive director Gene Policinski said before the Manchester meeting on Tuesday that the details of the threat and the specificity of its target are significant in determining how federal law applies to comments made in a public forum.
The threat “has to be likely, imminent and directed at a specific person,” Policinski said.
In an interview with Todd Starnes, Killian cited 18 U.S.C. 241 and 245, both of which criminalize “intimidation” of someone based on their religion or the free exercise of it, as the relevant statutes. What constitutes “intimidation”? That depends. The Supreme Court ruled 10 years ago that Virginia could criminalize an act of cross-burning that’s committed with the intent to intimidate because it’s tantamount to a “true threat” and threats aren’t protected by the First Amendment. Nakoula’s movie, whether “hate speech” or not, isn’t a threat and therefore he wouldn’t be at risk for prosecution in theory, but I’ve warned you repeatedly in the past about the potential for abuse of the “fighting words” exception to the First Amendment in the future if the “heckler’s veto” approach to jihadi violence starts to take hold among America’s legal establishment. Nakoula wouldn’t be tried by Killian’s office today — I think — but 20 years from now? Who knows?
No kidding- the Govt. paid him well to pull of this sham.
He was an FBI asset, and I think he’s acting in that capacity, now, too.
They could hold charges over his head, and they had leverage.
If the attack really was totally unforeseen it is suspicious that his utility as a recipient of blame occurred to them so swiftly —was he an asset that they’d kept more or less “on call” if something like this came up...?
The first story promulgated was that he was a wealthy Jew (recall that Barry was on the phone with the Israelis for 70 minutes during the attack), then that fizzled and they turned him into a Copt.
I heard he is BARELY a Copt, too.
Something stinks about this guy....
Duh, give him a one way ticket to Cairo, Egypt.
Sort of a Muslim Summer Vacay.
Maybe send over some of Hilly’s old Posse for the Secret Service.
US Embassy in Cairo quietly deletes its ‘we stand by our condemnation’ tweet; Update: More deleted tweets!
Here is Hillary pushing it again on Sept. 13th.
Clinton: Anti-Islam Video 'Disgusting' (video 2:56)
Here is a 'senior administration official' trying to distance 0bamugabe from Hillary's f-up and at the same time admitting by inference that she was the source of the 'video did it' meme.
Senior administration official: The Cairo embassy’s statement does not reflect the view of the U.S. government; Update: Romney calls embassy statement “disgraceful”posted at 10:34 pm on September 11, 2012 by Allahpundit
The White House is disavowing a statement from their own Cairo embassy that apologized for anti-Muslim activity in the United States.
“The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government,” a senior administration official told POLITICO…
“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a Tuesday statement.
And here 0bamugabe and Hillary work together to try to prop up her 'video did it' nonsense and spread it even further.
Obama and Hillary Apologize for Free Speech on Pakistani TV (taxpayer-funded ads) 09/20/2012
Nope, she never said anything about a 'video.'
Father of Fallen SEAL: Hillary Told Me They’d Get That Filmmaker Good 10/25/2012 videos at linkWH: Obama Called Hillary at 10PM on Night of Benghazi Attack–About Same Time Clinton | CNS News
He comes from a land where being an uppity Copt will get you tortured and murdered. He knows from watching Egypt’s “Arab Spring” that Sparky is a Muslim Brotherhood ass and that he has no tolerance for religious freedom (for Christianity). He has not said a word about the mass murder of Christians in the Middle East and he put the murderers in power.
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