Amazingly, The One's judge didn't throw as much of the proverbial book at Mr. D'Souza as he could have.
But it's still more than enough to send an unmistakable message to the rest of us:
Legal experts and former federal regulatory officials on Tuesday slammed the sentence of probation with eight months of confinement imposed on conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza for federal campaign-finance violations.
"He never should have been prosecuted for this at all," Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax. "This was a small, well-motivated mistake."
Just probation would have been the appropriate sentence in this case," he added. "No confinement anywhere."
David Mason, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, laughed when asked about D'Souza's confinement.
"It's not going to do anybody any good, I guess that's my first thought," he told Newsmax. "My second thought is that the judge certainly exercised good sense in rejecting the prosecution's call to put him in jail for a one-time thing like this — which was bad judgment, but frankly didn't hurt anybody."
And if, Professor Dershowitz, the defendant hadn't been a prominent conservative who was making a point of, and going out of his way to, give Barack Obama the thorough public vetting in advance of the 2012 election that he should have received four years earlier, he wouldn't have been prosecuted. But he was, and they did, both to punish D'Souza's sedition, and to let the entire American Right - RINO, Tea Party, Christian, conservative, constitutionalist, libertarian, all of us - know that this is but a taste of what will happen to all of us, including our families, if we dare cross the Regime or do anything other than dociley bow down and worship Godbama.
This is why I am always counseling Tea Partiers to count the cost of resistance; not to discourage it, but to make sure we all understand the dire struggle in which we are, all of us, conscripted. So many TPers still seem to believe that they still have Constitutional rights they can claim, that being an American citizen still means something, that "right makes might," or, as Thomas Jefferson once said, "One man with courage is a majority". Understand this well, my friends and comrades: It doesn't, and he isn't. If Barack Obama and/or his minions decide to destroy you, there is no force on Earth that can save you. They'll turn your past upside down, dig up every skeleton that's ever been in your closet, and if that isn't sufficient, they'll just make something up and prosecute you until you're bankrupt, can no longer resist, and have to cop a plea.
Just ask Mr. D'Souza:
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan sentenced D'Souza, 53, to eight months in a community confinement center during five years of probation after the latter pleaded guilty to violating campaign-finance laws.
In other words, jail. Just not a maximum security penitentiary, as the White House had demanded.
D'Souza, whose top-grossing 2012 documentary blasted President Barack Obama, was also fined $30,000 and ordered to teach English to non-English-speaking people eight hours a week while on probation.
Actually, I'm surprised he isn't being forced to teach Arabic to "English-speaking people". That's probably for later, after he's out of public view. But note also that this effectively prevents Mr. D'Souza from making any more films, writing any more books, making any more media appearances, or being politically active in any way, shape, or form. In essence, he's been indentured to the Regime, and he has no rights.
And he's just the leading edge of the victimizations to come.
Berman also imposed therapeutic counseling on D'Souza, in which he is to participate for five years.
In other words, "re-education". And all for a "crime" that is never prosecuted in ordinary circumstances.
But it was an opportunity for the Regime. To send a message.
Mr. D'Souza has received it loud and clear. Have we?
And what, if anything, can we do about it?
UPDATE: Video added.
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