Dershowitz, Law Enforcement Experts Slam Outrageous D'Souza Targeting

by JASmius

Thus putting themselves in legal jeopardy with the Regime.  At least they're doing it with their eyes wide open:

Even if allegations made against conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza in a federal indictment on campaign finance violations prove to be true, legal experts and former federal regulatory authorities tell Newsmax that the government's handling of the case has been unusual.

"This is clearly a case of selective prosecution for one of the most common things done during elections, which is to get people to raise money for you," famed law professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax.

"If they went after everyone who did this, there would be no room in jails for murderers."

You know how lefties (and National Review, I suppose) call drug possession and use a "victimless" crime that "needlessly clogs up" our correctional system?  I've always disagreed with that view.  When something is wrong, it's wrong, and continuing to combat it (the "war on drugs") isn't a function of logistics or resources, but of collective public will.

The Regime clearly lacks the will to continue the war on drugs - or, rather, they want the entire populace even more pickled and stuporous than it is already so as to extinguish whatever vestiges of voter vigilance there might still be left.  And we all know their stupendous capacity for political corruption and election related "irregularities".  Yet here comes, out of the blue itself, a sudden "zero tolerance" policy for a victimless crime that, in campaign finance terms, hovers around the severity level of mumbledypeg, and it just so happens, by pure coincidence, that the target of this "zero tolerance" policy is the man who belatedly vetted Barack Obama's radical, extremist, Ameriphobic, anti-constitutionalist, Marxist-Alinskyist background during the 2012 campaign.

Selective doesn't begin to describe it.  And evidently, people are taking notice:

The Justice Department's tactics remind Dershowitz of the words of Stalin's secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria, who said, "Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime."

"This is an outrageous prosecution and is certainly a misuse of resources," charged Dershowitz. "It raises the question of why he is being selected for prosecution among the many, many people who commit similar crimes.

A question to which the answer is nakedly obvious:

"This sounds to me like it is coming from higher places. It is hard for me to believe this did not come out of Washington or at least get the approval of those in Washington."

Others share Dershowitz's suspicions. Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. Attorney and partner at the law firm diGenova & Toensing, says it is not surprising that criminal charges were brought because the Justice Department has been actively prosecuting campaign finance violations.

"But what strikes me as unusual is that it involves a single donation made by an individual with no criminal record. It seems to me that a misdemeanor makes much more sense than a felony charge," diGenova told Newsmax.

Why swat a fly with a flyswatter when you can do so with an Abrams battle tank?  Clearly D'Souza is being made an example of as a chilling message to anybody else who would cross the Regime.  I fully expect his to be a show trial, with live coverage on MSNBCCCP

Meanwhile, the evidence for this "overreaction" continues to pour in:

"What struck me first was that it is unusual in cases like these for the FBI to go out and actually arrest someone, simply because it is not necessary," David Mason, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, told Newsmax.

"And even less so in this case because [D'Souza] has enough prominence that it is fairly obvious that he is not a flight risk. White collar indictments are made lots of times without an arrest being made," Mason said.

Law enforcement experts tell Newsmax that if the FBI or another federal agency received a tip about a fraudulent act involving just $20,000, the government would likely show little interest in investigating. Mason notes that a violation of $20,000 in contributions is trivial compared to most cases.

"The violation involves a pretty small amount for this type of case," said Mason, who was  an FEC commissioner from 1998 to 2008. When small amounts of campaign financing regularities are uncovered the matter is usually resolved at a low level.

In short, this was not some blockbuster heist, some spectacular iniquity, but rather an....opportunity.  And like crises, this Regime never fails to exploit opportunities to the fullest.  And if you think they're going to leave anything to chance, guess again:

Mason believes the case against D'Souza will succeed or fail depending upon whether prosecutors can prove he was "knowing and willful" in making the improper contributions. "There are a lot of sophisticated people who are not aware of the nuances of campaign finance law," he pointed out.

I beg to differ with Mr. Mason.  The prosecutors will not have to prove anything.  This is going to be a "drumhead" trial in which the verdict - guilty - will be the starting point, with the rest of this exercise in "Cardassian justice" backfilled from there.  The Regime wants that image of a prominent dissident dragged away in chains, and they're going to get it, whatever it takes.

Take a good, long look my Tea Party friends, and count the cost of what it's going to take to turn this country around.  I'm afraid the price of domestic patriotism has gotten a lot more expensive than just showing up at Constitution classes on Thursday evenings.