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Conservative Writer Dinesh D'Souza Is Spared Prison Time For Campaign Finance Conviction
thesmokinggun.com ^ | 9/23/14 | staff

Posted on 09/23/2014 10:32:30 AM PDT by drpix

Conservative writer/filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza was spared prison time today when a federal judge sentenced him to five years probation for violating campaign finance laws....

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To: Pelham

Thanks for the feedback. Looking over this thread, few people are aware of that. Even the title of this thread starter ignores the ramifications of his guilty plea. Look at how many think he was convicted not that he plead guilty. And sadly, that included me.

Seeing as how McCain/Feingold was a RINO/Dem bipartisan effort, you can see why I that coalition lives the SKUNC acronym. They are simply anti-constitutional, and Dinesh just gave them a precedent they did not deserve. While it is hard to condemn any man for not being a sacrificial lamb, he most certainly does not deserve the label of hero.


121 posted on 09/24/2014 11:59:35 AM PDT by Avoiding_Sulla (How humanitarian are "leaders" who back Malthusian, Utilitarian & Green nutcases?)
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To: ExSoldier

“Because in the process of teaching English he can use some our most cherished values and work ethic as examples.”

For starters he can teach his students about ‘Lex, Rex’... “the Law is King”. Presbyterian divine Samuel Rutherford wrote that book in the 1600s. It’s about the rule of law, limited government and constitutionalism.

And professor D’Souza can use himself as an example of someone who didn’t believe that the law is king, who believed that political expediency justified him ignoring the rules. It should make for an entertaining class.


122 posted on 09/24/2014 4:05:52 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Pelham
Whatever, I absolutely guarantee that whatever he teaches them, it will be 100% better than whatever they've had in the past (if any, which I doubt)!
123 posted on 09/24/2014 6:17:37 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: drpix

If he is smart - with his money - hire good lawyers and appeal and appeal and appeal ... It has been said that Justice delayed is Justice Denied ... I say in modern America Justice Delayed is JUSTICE.


124 posted on 09/24/2014 8:20:29 PM PDT by ICCtheWay
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To: ICCtheWay

Dinesh D’Souza pled guilty to the charges. He admitted that he broke the law. He doesn’t get to appeal his own guilty plea.


125 posted on 09/24/2014 10:05:45 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: ExSoldier

Yep - I believe he was put in the exact right situation.
*Funny* how things work - - -
Thanks for your service - in the classroom.
Pouring outside where you are while we are in official drought.
Meant to identify Ventura County as being in California.


126 posted on 09/24/2014 10:46:35 PM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Pelham

Thank for your the clarification ... I didn’t know he pled... I just read the sentence...


127 posted on 09/25/2014 3:24:29 AM PDT by ICCtheWay
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To: drpix

Berger was fined $50,000, placed on probation for two years and stripped of his security clearance for three years.”


128 posted on 09/25/2014 4:29:12 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: Pelham

Yep. A patriot sees an unconstitutional law, then willfully breaks it for the purpose of gaining standing in court with the intention of getting the law overturned by court ruling.

Doubly so if he suspects that he will be sought out for selective prosecution (as D’Souza says).

What do you label it when the law-breaker decides not to fight, but to plead guilty as charged?


129 posted on 09/25/2014 6:44:14 AM PDT by Avoiding_Sulla (How humanitarian are "leaders" who back Malthusian, Utilitarian & Green nutcases?)
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To: Whenifhow
He says of his confinement of 8 months - they will all be republicans by the end of it.

Whaat, they didn't impose the "you must slobber and grovel before Obama's statue" rule?

Dinesh D’Souza on Sentencing: There Was ‘All-Out Attempt to Put Me Away’

Bad news, Dinesh .... if they'd won that one, you'd have ended up dead. They'd have killed you in prison.

130 posted on 09/25/2014 5:29:54 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Enterprise

Such as charging him with a crime for doing what his opponents do all the time.


131 posted on 09/26/2014 4:11:18 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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