Posted on 09/23/2014 12:51:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a decision likely to be framed by conservative media as a vindictive abuse of power, filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in a confinement center and five years probation after pleading in May that he was guilty of violating campaign finance laws.
D'Souza's movies, America this year and two years earlier, 2016: Obama's America, are critical of the left — and in the case of the first one, President Barack Obama — and they are among the most successful political documentaries in history. D'Souza was indicted in January after he promised his then-fiancee and his former assistant that if they each donated $10,000 to the campaign of a friend who was running for the U.S. Senate he would then reimburse them.
The FBI said D'Souza's arrest stemmed from a routine investigation while his supporters — and even some legal experts who disagree with his politics, such as attorney Alan Dershowitz — accused authorities of targeting the filmmaker for political retribution. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas argued that it was "a remarkably selective prosecution considering Obama raised millions of dollars under similar circumstances."
D'Souza himself has also insinuated that he was the victim of political retribution. In a scene in America, for example, he appears in a prison cell and says, "We don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends, and casts the evil eye at her adversaries." (See that two-minute scene exclusively above). Plus, D'Souza recently tweeted a picture of his Facebook page's 350,000 "likes" with the text, "The Obama campaign to shut me up: Is it working?"
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He goes to jail and Lois Lerner does interviews?
Another example of “social injustice” in “America”.
And Bill Ayers and Bernedine Dohrn, terrorist bombers, still walk the streets “free as a bird”.
Hopefully, President Cruz will pardon Mr. D’Souza at the conclusion of his probation in 2019.
Hey Eight months is enough time to write another book...
With good behavior, he’d be out in four...
Right out of Commie Land - re-education centers.
Come on people, this is not acceptable. If they can do this to Dinesh, what do you think they will do to you?
He said in, “America,” that he was going to write a journal of the whole experience if he went to jail.
I’m really looking forward to his next work -whatever it’ll be.
We didn’t even do crap like this to the Hollywood Ten.
It is not uncommon for tinhorn tyrants to silence their critics by putting them behind bars. Castro did it. Stalin did it. Mussolini did it. Tito did it. Mao, Pol Pot, Khadafi, Idi Amin, the Ayatollah, and of course, Hitler. Obama’s in good company.
Conservatives have been bringing knives to a gunfight since forever.
Look at Benghazi: A guy who had absolutely nothing to do with it went to jail because “The One” blamed the attack on his video.
Dachau started out as a “confinement center”.
Appeal, and make sure the court appealed to knows that the sentencing advisement the prosecutor offered was filled with lies and omissions.
Another example of the left criminalizing its opposition.
Yes, he sure did try to warn us.
And Hillary Klinton is still campaigning for the White House instead of busting rocks in the Big House.
Was thinking along the same line-— just enough time for a new book or similar project!
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