[ May 3, 2024 ]
Read this over at Breitbart:
The Political Persecution of Dinesh D’Souza
By Pamela Geller, Breibart News, July 15, 2015
What is being done to Dinesh D’Souza is an outrage, and all Americans who love freedom should be protesting.
Story continues below advertisementI am no D’Souza fan. One only need watch the debate between Dinesh D’Souza and Robert Spencer at CPAC 2007 to know where I am coming from, but that’s not the point. The idea that Dinesh D’Souza would be hounded and punished for something that Democrats do every day – that’s the point.
In my 2010 book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War On America, I gave the details of illegal contributions to the 2008 Obama campaign – from Hamas-controlled Gaza, no less. No one so much as batted an eye. But the idea that Dinesh D’Souza would have to undergo psychological examination for breaking the rules to support conservatives – that’s a new Stalinist mode of American politics.
Breitbart News reported in September 2014: “In addition to his five-year probation sentencing and eight months of confinement in a community confinement center — or restitution center, which will likely be completed in San Diego, California where D’Souza resides — Judge Berman ordered D’Souza to undergo ‘therapeutic counseling.’”
The idea that Dinesh would have to undergo psychological counseling is Maoist. It’s what Mao Zedong did to intellectuals and political dissidents in China. And as could have been predicted by anyone who is aware of how totalitarians have used psychology as a weapon, the psychological counseling hasn’t gone well. On Monday, Judge Berman “read aloud a report from a court-appointed psychologist who called D’Souza ‘arrogant’ and ‘intolerant of others’ feelings.’” This was in the context of Berman emphasizing that D’Souza had “to do eight hours each week for the entire five years he’s on probation and not just the eight months he was confined to a halfway house.”
Since when did being “arrogant and intolerant” – that according to a court-appointed psychologist – become a crime? The psychologist also claimed that “the client tends to deny problems and isn’t very introspective.” If that were a crime, Barack Obama should be serving a life sentence. If being arrogant and intolerant were a crime, you’d have to arrest the entire mainstream media.
Where is the outcry? Where is America? I don’t care if the enemedia isn’t writing about it. Where are decent Americans? It’s chilling. If Dinesh D’Souza is psychologically damaged in some serious way, so are millions of conservative Americans. And that’s the insidious point of his “therapeutic counseling.”
The persecution of Dinesh D’Souza is the latest manifestation of a disturbing new trend in American politics. After the Benghazi jihad attack on September 11, 2012, Hillary Clinton promised that the maker of the Muhammad film upon whom the Obama administration wrongly blamed the attack, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, would be arrested. And he was, on the flimsy pretense of a probation violation that was far less serious than comparable violations that U.S. courts and police ignore every day. Whatever the pretense, Nakoula was a political prisoner. He was jailed for blasphemy. And he remained the U.S.’s only political prisoner for a full year. If he hadn’t made the video, he wouldn’t have been in jail. The filmmaker was hunted down like an animal, and was in jail for trumped-up charges in an act of submission and surrender to Islamic law. This was a complete abridgement of our freedom of speech rights.
This was Obama sharia enforcement in America. Obama brought down the gavel on free speech at the UN when he said in the wake of the Benghazi attack, “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Now we see, with the persecution of Dinesh D’Souza, that as far as the arrogant and intolerant autocrat in the White House is concerned, the future doesn’t belong to his political opponents, either.
In some Muslim countries, if you leave Islam, you risk being committed to an insane asylum. Is that what we are coming to in the United States? If you dissent from the dominant opinion, you will considered crazy and committed?
All charges against Dinesh D’Souza, and the ridiculous and insidious order that he undergo psychological counseling, should be dropped now – unless every Democrat who has skirted campaign finance laws is likewise prosecuted and persecuted.
The use of the legal system to persecute political opponents is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. This is how low the Obama administration has sunk.
Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on Twitter here. Like her on Facebook here
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32 Comments
8 years ago
Can this be appealed? It is so out there, it’s like Alice in Wonderland.
8 years ago
Obama stole, then twisted the statement “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet” from Norman Vincent Peal originally stated “THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE FOR SOMETHING AND NEVER TO THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST SOMETHING”
8 years ago
I have twice seen the movie America: Imagine a World without Her.
In the film, D’Souza apologized for the malfeasance involved in his political donation and clearly stated that he deserved the punishment for that crime.
Therefore, the judge’s statement that D’Souza is unrepentant is incorrect.
What D’Souza hasn’t backed down from is his political analysis in the film.
8 years ago
The long awaited, much bolstered about, day of taking to the streets has come. There will be comments about how unfair, politically motivated, what have you… this is. Some people, thinking themselves rational, will rationalize… even this irrational act. Tomorrow is another day. Life will go on.
An American betrayal is when this Orwellian re-education of Mr. D’Souza goes unanswered, and is allowed to stand.
It is upon the shoulders of every American, those who call themselves worthy/honored to be so, to act.
This is it.
8 years ago
Judicial tyranny – that great sucking sound is America going down the drain.
8 years ago
Arrest Obama for being Arrogant. Oh, not to mention lying, falsifying records. He should have life in prison with HildaBeast.
8 years ago
My fear is that when Obama’s term is over in 2016, this current petty tyrant, authoritarian border-line totalitarian mind set will continue with whomever is in the oval office. We may as well throw our hands up to hoping the media will actually do their job…be a watchdog and report this type of governmental abuse. Now we have “Net-Neutrality” a code word for government run internet news and propaganda that will allow D’Souza type terror tactics to silence ANY government opposition. Well written and inspiring article, Pam. Long may your voice and words be heard.
8 years ago
I think D’Souza has a narcissistic personality disorder and the order for counseling is a gift. But therapeutic counseling won’t do him much good because he’s not the type to admit he did anything wrong.
8 years ago
Reply to
RCCA
I think Obama has a narcissistic personality disorder and should be impeached. But even that won’t do him much good because he’s not the type to admit he did anything wrong.,,,
8 years ago
Reply to
RCCA
You’re a liar. D’Souza has plainly admitted that he did something wrong, but the penalty imposed on him — even before the totalitarian thought-reform scheme — was far out of line with what is otherwise routine for such cases.
By contrast, Obama’s campaign fraud dwarfed D’Souza’s by a very wide margin. but Obama sailed through with a tiny little token wrist-slap.
8 years ago
Reply to
Radegunda
I am not a liar, I read the Vanity Fair article which stated:
“After the charges came down in January 2014, he cried “selective prosecution,” a serious offense in which the government unfairly targets an individual—in this case, for political retribution. Alas, D’Souza didn’t have evidence that the president, or Attorney General Eric Holder, or anyone else in the Justice Department, was out to get him. When he couldn’t get the case thrown out on that basis, he pleaded guilty and claimed to take responsibility for his actions. The act might have earned him points with the judge, who had the discretion to ignore the sentencing guidelines (from 10 to 16 months of incarceration), but D’Souza seemed to squander the judge’s goodwill by publicly and repeatedly announcing that he was a victim of political persecution. The judge seemed perplexed. Why was D’Souza engaging in self-sabotage? Did he have some kind of psychological affliction? Why, in the first place, did a man who had achieved so much success so carelessly flout the law when there was so little to gain? In short, how could such a smart man be so stupid?” http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/dinesh-dsouza-video-life-after-conviction
D’Sousa is the liar who contributed $20K out of his own pocket and claimed it was given by others in order to circumvent the law. According to the NYPost:
“One of the close associates was Denise Odie Joseph II, who was reportedly D’Souza’s mistress. She wrote a $10,000 check out to Long on behalf of herself and her husband, Louis, and was reimbursed the next day in cash by D’Souza.
Had the case gone to trial, Cohen said, Long would’ve testified that D’Souza lied to her about the source of the donations. The straw donors, Cohen added, also would’ve testified against D’Souza, who resigned under fire as president of the Christian-teaching King’s College in 2012 following allegations he was having an extramarital affair.” http://nypost.com/2014/05/20/filmmaker-dsouza-pleads-guilty-to-making-illegal-campaign-contributions/
8 years ago
Reply to
Radegunda
YEH THE LITTLE o THINKS HE IS ABOVE THE LAW. AND MAY BE MAN MADE LAW. BUT HE IS NOT ABOVE GODS LAW AND JUDGMENT. GUESS WE ALL WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT IT THIS WAY. BECAUSE THE ONES ON THIS EARTH THAT CAN DO SOME THING ABOUT HIM WANT. THEY SIT SILENT AND LET HIM DESTROY THIS COUNTRY. THE BLOOD WANT JUST BE ON THE LITTLE o IT WILL BE ON THEM ALSO.
8 years ago
Reply to
RCCA
Please see my reply to Paul above. Sounds like you might need some counseling yourself.
8 years ago
Reply to
PatriotDave
See my reply to Radegunda above. You sound like you definitely need counseling or at least you need to learn what counseling is about. You seem to believe that it’s a harsh sentence or some kind of insult. I find it strange that you have come back nearly a month later to bang on that drum again.
Long ago one of my sisters was extremely stressed out in a bad marriage and a little nuts and her mother in law suggested meditation. Instead of accepting the advice and learning meditation, or getting counseling, my sister went ballistic. She took it as an insult, the same way you seem to view counseling. BTW, I was teaching meditation at that time, I had taught another sister, my parents had learned. My father was a psychiatrist. None of us saw the advice as an insult. It would have helped her and it would have helped her children. Instead unfortunately one of her children ended up with a serious mental illness and the others are also not living their lives fully.
In the case of a very intelligent person like D’Souza, who has made moral or ethical mistakes, counseling makes more sense in straightening out problems than incarceration or fines. I agree with the judge that D’Souza might benefit from honestly discussing what he did and why he did it with a professional.
8 years ago
Is Judge Berman an idiot or is he following an agenda? The judge’s treatment of D’Souza is horrible.
8 years ago
Sounds very much like the continuing persecution of Tommy Robinson who now finds himself back in HMP Peterborough, with little reportage about why. just days before his license was up, maybe we’d call it parole? Does anyone know any more details? Just like this story of Pam’s it appears that Enemies of the State can just be picked up and whisked away for what? By whom? Why? Sentenced to psychological counselling for 5 years? Held in prison for how long. Sorry for mixing the two US and UK stories together, but isn’t this extremely worrying for we citizens of the so called Free World?
8 years ago
Reply to
Sunflowers
It’s an interesting comparison, with some similar principles at work.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sunflowers
Freedom of speech no longer exists here in the UK. Tommy Robinson has been hung out to dry for speaking the truth and, as Pamela Geller would say, truth is the new hate speech. Breitbart has covered the story…
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/07/16/ex-edl-leader-tommy-robinson-recalled-to-prison/
8 years ago
Americans Slowly Waking Up To Fact They Live In A
Mental Health Police State..
In what has become a bizarre progression of the nanny state combined with
the police state numerous people are even now finding themselves locked up in
mental health facilities when they aren’t being beaten or extorted by
police.
8 years ago
This persecution of Dinesh isn’t surprising at all. This is what Chicago thugs do. Oblabber is a Chicago thug, and much worse. He is busy dismantling every institution in this country. Flapping our lips about it will not change things. Voting will not change things as the 2014 elections proved. And the problem does not stop with Oblabber – there are an army of little Oblabbers, possibly a majority of the population. We hear them every day spouting their idiocy: gay marriage, more gun control, no-ID voting, forced health care, whitey is racist, be tolerant (by believing what I tell you to believe), keeping illegals out is racist, saying Muslims are more likely to be terrorists is racist and bigoted, whitey is bigoted, whitey has white privlege, support diversity or you’re a racist, “Redskins” is racist, the Confederate Flag is racist, kids should learn to put condoms on cucumbers in school, kids should be able to get a sex-change at age 15 without parental consent, a cake baker should be fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding, more gun control (over and over and over), etc, etc, etc. You all know the solution……..
8 years ago
Unbelievable! So much for “freedom” in America. What on earth did they charge him with? Opposing Obama?
8 years ago
When opposing Obama is a crime in America we no longer live in the land of the free and the home of the brave!!
8 years ago
I just can’t believe that Obama’s administration received donations from Hamas-controlled Gaza, in the 2008 campaign.
8 years ago
Reply to
Andrew Chyne
That’s just a spit in the ocean compared to all of the money that has been shoveled into the “Clinton Foundation” from shady foreign donors. If the Clintons got the same sentence that D’Souza got for every count they’ve wracked up, they would be in jail for the next 400 years.
8 years ago
The story of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has still not been fully written. Please, someone here or on Frontpage, do this story. It is outrageous that this man is in jail.
8 years ago
While I don’t condone the actions of the court I find D’Souza’s actions completely reprehensible and have no – repeat zero – sympathy for him. If he couldn’t know or suspect that making straw donor contributions was sketchy at best and almost certainly illegal (which it totally is) he deserves almost anything he catches from the criminal justice system. Dumbass!
And the fact that others did the same thing with little or no punishment (witness the Buddhist nuns who contributed to Al Gore; I don’t think anything happened to them) does not relieve conservatives (if that’s what D’Souza is; there’s evidence going both ways) of the need to follow the law. You’d think a naturalized citizen would understand that idea. But apparently this one didn’t. Maybe he does now.
8 years ago
Reply to
Paul
I don’t think anyone, D’Souza included, is denying his guilt. In fact, I suspect he may even have done it for the free publicity. The point people are complaining against is the enforced psychological counseling. Even the 5 years probation is a bit much for a first conviction. Drug dealers aren’t even given what he received. But they sentence him to counseling, and then report that he has political bias. They were expecting what? When is the last time you heard of anyone receiving a sentence such as this? Are they hoping to change his views? If so, by what right? How he reacts to others, as long as he is not a threat to society, is really none of their business.
D
8 years ago
SO…..? What can a person do? Where are the Conservative lawyers running to his defense? crickets……………………………….from everyone.
8 years ago
Here’s one I Photoshopped earlier. Why does it look so natural?
8 years ago
Reply to
Old War Dog
Nice job. If I didn’t know it was photoshopped, I would have believed it real. I bet Obummer would be willing to march with that sign. He wouldn’t carry it of course. That would be beneath him. He would pay someone else to do it for him, then tell everyone later how difficult it was marching around holding the sign.
