Posted on 09/28/2012 10:14:41 AM PDT by Tirian
Short CBS newscast at noon (ET) Friday on the filmmaker taken into custody on probation violations. I was taken aback by Raviv say, and I checked the broadcast posted at the URL to make sure I had heard right.
Asterisks indicate spoken emphasis in the broadcast:
ANCHOR (Steve Kathan) "The man behind the anti-Islam video that sparked outrage in the Muslim world is still in jail in Los Angeles for a probation violation.
RAVIV "I'm Dan Raviv in Washington. The short movie posted on YouTube has had a lot of diplomatic impact. It was *clearly* designed to insult the Prophet Mohammed, and a senior Obama administration official told CBS News last week that no one in the Middle East seems to believe that the US government could not stop the film from getting out. Now at least Federal authorities might be able to *punish* the filmmaker."
ANCHOR The Dow is down 69. This is CBS News."
--------------------
OK, this was only a short newscast, but it seemed dance very close to blurring the line between punishment for probation violation and for the film.
Well, since I have no intention of EVER paying the tax penalty for not buying their unaffordably expensive new health insurance (my affordable catastrophic insurance will be outlawed), I fully expect to be jailed for tax evasion in a few years. Sneak a hacksaw or file in to me when you visit the jail. Thanks.
Yeah, but they rarely find anyone in violation of probation since the jails are usually overcrowded already, and Parole Officers don't want to be bothered with the paperwork. They violated him specifically because of the film. It had nothing to do with the fact that he accessed the internet against the order of the court. I'd like to know how long he'd actually been accessing the internet prior to the time the White House blamed the movie for the attacks.
Look at it this way, you'll be in a Federal joint, and you can hang with the rest of us tax evaders.
I should have specified that they rarely find anyone in violation of probation for committing a minor offense like using the internet, even if it is part of his probation. Had he been using the internet to commit the same defrauding activities that got him the original charges, now that’s a different story.
He usually only works on Appeals.
You're exactly right (though people don't often commit minor probation violations in such a public way). Of course this is selective enforcement of the probation violation. My point is simply that the probation condition itself is hardly unusual.
ARBITRARY_JUSTICE_PING!
We’ve become a fascist police state.
“Journalists” in favor of gov’t censorship? Who knew?
The severity of this coordinated Leftwing attack against the 1st Amendment cannot be understated. This effort is tantamount to restricting the air we breathe.
Telling the truth about Mohammed is what? Blasphamy? Heresey? Hate Speech? Against some American law? Good Lord we live in some weird, surrealistic, through-the-looking-glass times.
“Now at least Federal authorities might be able to *punish* the filmmaker.”
Of everything I’ve seen surrounding this film and the reactions to it, Raviv’s statement is the first actual blasphemy I’ve heard.
“What would the founding fathers do....”
See my tagline for the answer.
CBS is guilty of 1st amendment abuse and the management should be hanged
I believe it was check fraud was his original sentence.
If the guy violated probation, there should be a response..but we need to watch if it is within the ‘average” consequences.
Not true..violation of probation is most often followed with jail time...in this case there can be no leeway becuase of the media surrounding it.
I guess we will have new rule.
We may no longer insult the Pedophile Mohammed.
The courts ARE a tool of suppression of human rights and freedom in the Obama’s SSocialist world .
On the contrary Romney could use all that to hit badly the LIAR Oblabla
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.