Producer Of Anti-Islam Film Was Fed Snitchbegan cooperating with prosecutors after 2009 fraud

SEPTEMBER 14--In remarks stressing that the U.S. government had “absolutely nothing to do with” the anti-Islam film that has touched off violence in the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday sought to quash Arab concerns that the “disgusting and reprehensible” movie was somehow produced or condoned by American officials.

However, Clinton’s attempt to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims”--and, by extension, its felonious producer--may be complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud, The Smoking Gun has learned.

Though many key documents from the U.S. District Court case remain sealed, a June 2010 sentencing transcript provides an account of Nakoula’s cooperation with federal investigators in Los Angeles (and how his prison sentence was reduced as a result).

Nakoula, 55, was arrested in June 2009 for his role in a check-kiting ring that stole nearly $800,000 from six financial institutions by using stolen Social Security numbers and identities. Nakoula was named in a six-count felony indictment accusing him and unnamed “co-schemers” of perpetrating the bank fraud.

“It’s looking more and more like this film was supposed to the first amendment what Fast & Furious was supposed to be to the second. F&F was about finding a pretext to ban guns, and this looks like a pretext to go after free speech.”

I agree with you. Some think it’s about the blind sheik but something tells me it’s about the UN Resolution 16/18 which both Obama and Hillary support.

When one watches these riots and gets reports there’s usually no surprises. We see the reporter interviewing one or more of the male protestors, people we’ve seen minutes before leading the parade and goading the followers. They’re usually decent looking w/ intense serious eyes, decently clad, and English speaking. And they all have a demand, shared w/ the reporters in increments, the major goal coming at the end. One can watch them write the actual story for the reporters.

Here’s an example...

[...] Standing in front of the new wall, the demonstrators’ demands were a moving target. Some said THEY WANTED the United States to APOLOGIZE for the video. Told that both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had condemned the video earlier this week, they then said THEY WANTED an INVESTIGATION. Told that the U.S. was looking into the video, they said THEY WANTED it REMOVED from YouTube, a step outside U.S. government control. [...]Nearby, Mustafa Amin, 26, an unemployed teaching school graduate, PROPOSED AN INTERNATIONAL LAW “ that would CRIMINALIZE ANY ASSAULT ON THE PROPHET. And it should be under the supervision of the United Nations.”
http://www.stripes.com/news/vi...

Bottomline: criminalize speech.

International Law - UN Resolution 16/18:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ab...

How Obama Engineered Mideast Radicalization
http://news.investors.com/ibd-...

HILLARY CLINTON’S CLOSE TIES TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
http://gillreport.com/2012/06/hillary-clintons-close-ties-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/

Obama vs. the First Amendment

In 2009, the Obama State Department ceremoniously joined with Muslim governments to propose a United Nations resolution that, as legal commentator Stuart Taylor observed, was “all-too-friendly to censoring speech that some religions and races find offensive.” Titled “Freedom of Opinion and Expression” — a name only an Alinskyite or a Muslim Brotherhood tactician could love — the resolution was the latest salvo in a years-long campaign by the 57-government Organization of the Islamic Conference (now renamed the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation”). The OIC’s explicit goal is to coerce the West into adopting sharia, particularly its “defamation” standards. [...]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/321039/obama-vs-first-amendment-andrew-c-mccarthy#

There may be no anti-Islamic movie at all (dubbing...):
http://www.csmonitor.com/World...

Do you remember the American version of the mohammed cartoons that started the riots in Europe and the Middle East a few years ago, which was later established that some of the more inflammatory cartoons were created by the mullahs who were preaching jihad in Europe. What’s to stop them from doing the same thing to this movie. And being a Coptic it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the guy has family in Egypt and he’s been coerced. Anyway all I know is that it reeks of malfeasence.

Note: Sometimes one needs reminding that the gaols of Islam and National Socialism are basically the same. Hitler also enjoyed an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood.

I’m trying to pin down how Steve Klein is connected to this movie. Is it true he’s also anti- Catholic and anti-Mormon?

“But a Christian activist involved in the film project, Steve Klein, told the AP on Wednesday that Bacile was a pseudonym and that the man was Christian. Klein had told the AP on Tuesday that the filmmaker was an Israeli Jew who was concerned for family members who live in Egypt”

[Then there is information that Klein ran for the California Insurance Commissioner under the American Independent Party in 2000]. Knowing that, it makes it hard to connect this exclusively to the Left.....????

I can’t connect all the dots. They keep going off in different directions.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2930826/posts

"................Nakoula was arrested in June 2009, pleaded no contest to the bank fraud charges a year later and was released from federal prison in June 2011 after serving a 21-month prison term, according to federal records.

An initial report about the federal probation review appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

There are indications that "Innocence of Muslims" may have already been under way as a film project when Mr. Nakoula was arrested. A casting call for actors and crew for a film called "Desert Warrior" ran in Backstage magazine, based in Los Angeles and New York, in May and June 2009. The casting call described the film project as a "historical Arabian Desert adventure" and listed a "Sam Bassiel" as producer.................."

WSJ - Sept 15, 2012: Authorities Interview U.S. Filmmaker

Actually Bishop Serapion said that Nakoula only attended his home parish sporadically. (Even in a close-knit community like the Coptic church in the U.S. it is very unlikely that a bishop would know one of his flock who didn’t attend church at all.)

Still, the question is, why did the not-particularly-pious Nakoula go to the trouble of calling his bishop to deny involvement?

I’m wondering whether there isn’t a convoluted money trail here — given Nakoula’s past — and Nakoula is being played as a patsy by Egyptian Salafists who wanted a provocation supposedly created by Copts and Jews. Did he produce the film, but not the dubs posted to YouTube? Is he really the “Sam Bacile” who opened the YouTube account — a question that, alas, can’t be answered without him admitting it, if he is, or access to the IP addresses from which the account was opened and the videos uploaded to prove one way or the other otherwise?

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