Yea, free-speech is TOTALLY overrated.
This isn’t about free speech. He can say anything he wants. I am free to agree or disagree. A person on probation has the right of free speech as long he does not violate his probation when exercising that right.
A person on probation is not a free man. His freedom is dependent upon abiding by the terms of his probation. Violate those terms and risk being yanked off the street. Two things will happen. Sit in jail until a hearing or serve out the remainder of a sentence.
His violations opened him up to being yanked off the street and being used by the WH.
I am in no way defending the WH. There is no defense. But he is no victim, either. We would not be having this particular discussion had he excercised his right of free speech within the terms of his probation.
“Yea, free-speech is TOTALLY overrated.”
Nakoula’s right to free speech was not violated. He wasn’t arrested to shut him up. He was a twice convicted crook who violated his probation and got caught doing so because of the news surrounding his video.
The terms of his bank fraud conviction prohibited him from using an alias and/or engaging in misleading statements, both of which chose to do while making the video. The focus on Nakoula because of the video brought it to the attention of his probation officer.