Most of the media is finally examining the lies that the Obama administration told ─ is still telling ─ regarding last September’s terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
A matter worth investigating, as are wider questions regarding U.S. involvement in Libya.
But as the deceptions unravel, too few ponder the fate of one Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, ostensibly jailed for parole violations. The terms of his parole had prohibited him from using computers or the Internet without his parole officer’s approval. Obviously, Nakoula did use that technology to produce and distribute his anti-Islamic video, widely condemned for being cheesy, among other sins.
It was this video that Clinton and others blamed for inciting the attack in Benghazi.
Okay. The man violated parole. But many were eager to see Nakoula punished not because of that violation but because he exercised his freedom of speech in a way that offended people. We have also learned that soon after the attack, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Charles Woods, father of one of the slain, that the U.S. would make sure that “the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
At the least, Clinton was boneheaded to thus imply that the right to freedom of speech was or should be no safer in the U.S. than in Egypt. And considering all the circumstances here, it’s also fair to ask whether Nakoula would have ended up back in a jail cell sans Benghazi cover-up.
Could it possibly be that he is a political prisoner?
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Isn’t it sad that Hilary Clinton lauded the Broadway play “The Book of Mormon” which ridicules the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (and really all religions) with vulgarity and blasphemy but condemns the anti-Islamic movie which Nakoula produced. I wonder if Mormons attacked and burned the federal building in Salt Lake City she would denounce the Book of Mormon play too.
Just sent the following to my two Senators. This really is a banana republic move.
Honorable Mr. McCain,
I am interested to know what interest you have taken in the unjust jailing of Nakoula Bassley Nakoula as the scapegoat for this corrupt administration’s lies regarding the embassy attack in Benghazi. While I have no interest in Mr. Nakoula’s body of work, this feels like another dangerous suppression of our 1st Amendment rights. Violating parole is not something that can be simply ignored, but I believe it is in every American’s interest that the “criminal” that has been chosen as the fallguy for the inept Hilary Clinton is not unjustly singled out for especially eggregious treatment. It is okay to target Christian groups if you are the IRS but if you are some hack filmmaker don’t you dare insult Islam! We have indeed gone down the rabbit hole.
Thank you for your service.
Respectfully,
Of course he is a political prisoner. ANYONE WHO DISGAREES WITH THE “ALL KNOWING” (?)–(? MY QUESTION) IS WRONG, AND SHOULD BE IMPRISONED.
JUST LIKE THE GREAT LEADERS OF THE WORLD: LENIN; STALIN; MAO; CASTRO; CHAVEZ; ET AL.