Oh barf. Get off your high horse. It was a piddly $20,000 contribution to help a friend and something no one else would have been charged for or had such a punishment given to because of this minor infraction. The Obama Admin was out to get him and you know it. Before you dig into him, check out whether there is a moat in your own eye, or are you perfect. Dinesh has done more for the conservative cause than many. Lighten up.
If D’Souza had asked each of you to illegally funnel $10,000 to a Conservative candidate, you would have agreed, correct?
And, when the Feds offered each of you immunity to testify against D’Souza, you would have refused, and you would have gone to prison to protect D’Souza, because he has done so much for the Conservative cause, correct?
And, each of the Conservative candidates you supported would have willingly accepted the $10,000, even though they knew your contribution was felony, correct?
He shouldn’t have broken the law. Given his enemies it was especially stupid to do, and he’s had other public ethical lapses. But he’s also a bright man who has done good work for the cause.
Oh barf. Get off your high horse. It was a piddly $20,000 contribution to help a friend and something no one else would have been charged for or had such a punishment given to because of this minor infraction.D’Souza put himself in jail.
He consciously and willfully broke well known campaign contribution laws.
He knowingly suborned two personal friends to help him commit felonies.
I have no sympathy for this guy, at all.
As a life long Conservative, I condemn his lack of moral character.
I agree with your sentiment, but not with the case you make. The reason D’Souza shouldn’t have been charged, and why he shouldn’t have pled, is that the “law” he broke is unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional not because “money is speech” - talk is cheap - but because money is the press.I can’t get the printing press I would like to have without money. I can’t buy the paper and ink that press would need without money. And I can’t hire the staff I need to run the newspaper I want without money. To say that I have freedom of the press but that I can’t pay money for the things without which no press can be operated is a non sequetur (sp). To say that the money I spend for ink cannot come from any source other than sales of newspapers also makes a mockery of my freedom of the press. All CFR - McCain-Feingold or other - is unconstitutional, root and branch.
As to the issue of requiring that the source of political speech/press be disclosed, that sounds good until you realize that some truths can only be said anonymously or posthumously. The Federalist Papers were published under the name, “Publius.” The actual authors are known to history as John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. But it obviously never occurred to anyone that anonymity was illicit or immoral.
Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.If the Ninth Amendment means anything, it should certainly mean that what was good enough for the framers and ratifiers - and opponents as well - of the Constitution is good enough for Dinesh D’Sousa.The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Mote.