That is pretty severe for Reynolds. I hope that that picture shows the extreme corruption of the DOJ under Obama.We are in the beginning of the end. Hope that convinces people to vote against Obama and for Romney.
Just as people decided to get generators to take care of the issue of power interruptions. Police tactics of invading at night will lead people, even the law abiding to think of fortications.
I guess this makes sense, after all, I was told if I voted for McCain, brownshirted thugs would take Americans from their homes in the dead of night for saying things the President disagreed with.
Wonder how Hollywood will react to filmmakers being sent to jail for the content of their speech?
Oh what a suprise. All the hard core “the law is the law” anti-immigration types suddenly want to ignore parole violations because there’s political advantage in it.
Yeah SD,
And the same folks that describe Sibelius violation of the Hatch Act as just “technical” suddenly think 5 deputies need to haul a guy in for violating probation by uploading a youtube video. I guess it could have been worse, they could have SWATed him.
This is the rule of the rulers. Law is only applied to the non favored. Such as a 2 bit check kiter who made a video that embarrassed Obama.
Sibelus violation of the Hstch Act will be ignored. Holder’s running guns to the Mexican drug lords is ignored. The many in the administration that failed to pay their taxes ignored.
How many parole violators are brought in by 6 deputies after midnight to be interrogated by the Feds?
I don’t understand why this means that Obama should resign this guy violated his guy blatantly violated the conditions of his probation and you get arrested for that. I’m sure that they went after him at mid night to try minimize the media sh** storm. We all need to keep in mind that yes we do have freedom of speech in this county and if the Muslims don’t like it they can all go to hell, but this guy made this movie knowing that it would put American lives at risk. Actually he made this movie with the intent of putting American lives at risk. His train of thought was this “If I really piss of some Muslims and they kill American than everyone ells will hate the Muslims more.”
Bbbbbbbut probation said he couldn’t engage in political speech…it wasn’t bad to snatched him up and silence him.
I hope Romney wins so lefties will start supporting freedom again. If I was a cynic, I’d say lefties are only fans of the Constitution when there’s political advantage in it…
“I’m sure that they went after him at mid night to try minimize the media sh** storm”
and that worked so well, didn’t it. what with someone leaking to the press that this arrest was going down and the press reporting where the guy lives.
Get this and get this straight. If this was a simple issue of parole violation he would have gotten a call from his parole officer to come by for a visit.
Especially for a white collar crime such as this.
A midnight visit from the po po is virtually without precedent in a case like this. The purpose of the visit was pour encourager les autres. No more no less
No, he made someone important in the “regime” look bad and for that “crime” he has to pay.
And if you feel different then imagine Bush or another Republican was sitting in the big chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Does that change your attitude.
But since that isn’t the case I’ll let those of you who have no problem with this arrest go back to polishing your jackboots.
But since that isn’t the case I’ll let those of you who have no problem with this arrest go back to polishing your jackboots.
I do have a problem with it; my question is why a judge was allowed to make such a ridiculously overbroad probation condition as “no using computers”. But that’s actually a common condition which Glen Reynolds had no problem with before yesterday and will have no problem with tomorrow. That’s my issue–the concerntrolling because it’s mommentarily become a convenient wrench to hit the President with.
No reason to take 5-6 deputies to bring a man for parole violation at 1:30 am at all. He would have gotten a call to come in and if he refused then the sheriffs arrive usually in early evening or daytime.
Beside the LA times said it was the Feds who wanted to talk to him. Was that about his parole violations? I doubt it.
This is clear intimidation and regrettably it shows the islamicists that our government will cow down and suppress free speech.
mikee, unless the picture is a fake, those are local sheriff deputies doing the arrest. How does that compare to Ruby Ridge etc.? I notice a distinct lack of dead people killed by federal agents.
He was on parole for turning state’s evidence in an internet identity theft/wire fraud ring.
He was supposed to never post on the internet anything.
Don’t forget the other violation, which was nicely summarized by Ken at Popehat:
But if I had a client with a serious fraud conviction, and his fraud involved aliases, and he had the standard term forbidding him from using aliases during supervised release, and his probation officer found out that he was running a business, producing a movie, soliciting money, and interacting with others using an alias, I would absolutely expect him to be arrested immediately, whatever the content of the movie. Seriously. Nakoula pled guilty to using alias to scam money. Now he’s apparently been producing a film under an alias, dealing with the finances of the film under the alias, and (if his “Sam Bacile” persona is to be believed) soliciting financing under an alias. I would expect him to run into a world of hurt for that even if he were producing a “Coexist” video involving kittens.
It is not totally unusual for someone to be immediately picked up by deputies for a parole violation without being contacted by a parole officer first. However, having said that, the number of deputies involved, along with the timing, are certainly suspicious. But the fact that he was at least brought in for questioning is not.
The terms of the parole are NOT draconian, because they are far, far less restrictive than being in prison. People who are on probation or parole are receiving a LESSER punishment than they otherwise would get for whatever offense they committed. Comparing their status to the status of free individuals who committed no offense is a false comparison.
September 15th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
That is pretty severe for Reynolds. I hope that that picture shows the extreme corruption of the DOJ under Obama.We are in the beginning of the end. Hope that convinces people to vote against Obama and for Romney.
September 15th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
I want to see the worthless SOB arrested, tried, convicted, and executed for treason. All in accordance with the law, of course.
September 15th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
wildbill:
We have the right to expect, ne demand, that our Government respects our rights.
September 15th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Mene mene tekel upharsin
September 16th, 2012 at 12:47 am
And to think, they thought hauling him in for non-compliance with the package directions when fertilizing his lawn was going to look bad.
September 16th, 2012 at 1:00 am
Ruby Ridge.
Branch Davidians.
Elian Gonzalez.
Fast and Furious.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
Democrats.
September 16th, 2012 at 2:53 am
I am going to have a T-shirt made saying
“I am Nakoula”.
September 16th, 2012 at 7:17 am
What’s really of great concern is that Obama’s doing this before the election.
What will he feel empowered to do after the election if he’s re-elected?
September 16th, 2012 at 9:57 am
Just as people decided to get generators to take care of the issue of power interruptions. Police tactics of invading at night will lead people, even the law abiding to think of fortications.
September 16th, 2012 at 10:25 am
I guess this makes sense, after all, I was told if I voted for McCain, brownshirted thugs would take Americans from their homes in the dead of night for saying things the President disagreed with.
Wonder how Hollywood will react to filmmakers being sent to jail for the content of their speech?
September 16th, 2012 at 11:15 am
You don’t EVER see Reynolds post more than a few paragraphs on a subject.
He was just livid and enraged last night.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Someone didn’t close an italic tag.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:16 am
test
September 16th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
mikee,
“Democrats.”
Which Democrat president did Ruby Ridge happen under again?
September 16th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Oh what a suprise. All the hard core “the law is the law” anti-immigration types suddenly want to ignore parole violations because there’s political advantage in it.
September 16th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Yeah SD,
And the same folks that describe Sibelius violation of the Hatch Act as just “technical” suddenly think 5 deputies need to haul a guy in for violating probation by uploading a youtube video. I guess it could have been worse, they could have SWATed him.
September 16th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Test.
September 16th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
This is the rule of the rulers. Law is only applied to the non favored. Such as a 2 bit check kiter who made a video that embarrassed Obama.
Sibelus violation of the Hstch Act will be ignored. Holder’s running guns to the Mexican drug lords is ignored. The many in the administration that failed to pay their taxes ignored.
How many parole violators are brought in by 6 deputies after midnight to be interrogated by the Feds?
September 16th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
I don’t understand why this means that Obama should resign this guy violated his guy blatantly violated the conditions of his probation and you get arrested for that. I’m sure that they went after him at mid night to try minimize the media sh** storm. We all need to keep in mind that yes we do have freedom of speech in this county and if the Muslims don’t like it they can all go to hell, but this guy made this movie knowing that it would put American lives at risk. Actually he made this movie with the intent of putting American lives at risk. His train of thought was this “If I really piss of some Muslims and they kill American than everyone ells will hate the Muslims more.”
September 16th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Bbbbbbbut probation said he couldn’t engage in political speech…it wasn’t bad to snatched him up and silence him.
I hope Romney wins so lefties will start supporting freedom again. If I was a cynic, I’d say lefties are only fans of the Constitution when there’s political advantage in it…
September 16th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Stormy Dragon,
“parole violations”
Perhaps if these allegations were more clearly explained?
September 16th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Tam:
He was on parole for turning state’s evidence in an internet identity theft/wire fraud ring.
He was supposed to never post on the internet anything.
Of course, this prosecution is mostly motivated by Obama’s new Anti-Blasphemy Law initiative.
September 16th, 2012 at 6:06 pm
“I’m sure that they went after him at mid night to try minimize the media sh** storm”
and that worked so well, didn’t it. what with someone leaking to the press that this arrest was going down and the press reporting where the guy lives.
Get this and get this straight. If this was a simple issue of parole violation he would have gotten a call from his parole officer to come by for a visit.
Especially for a white collar crime such as this.
A midnight visit from the po po is virtually without precedent in a case like this. The purpose of the visit was pour encourager les autres. No more no less
No, he made someone important in the “regime” look bad and for that “crime” he has to pay.
And if you feel different then imagine Bush or another Republican was sitting in the big chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Does that change your attitude.
But since that isn’t the case I’ll let those of you who have no problem with this arrest go back to polishing your jackboots.
September 16th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I do have a problem with it; my question is why a judge was allowed to make such a ridiculously overbroad probation condition as “no using computers”. But that’s actually a common condition which Glen Reynolds had no problem with before yesterday and will have no problem with tomorrow. That’s my issue–the concerntrolling because it’s mommentarily become a convenient wrench to hit the President with.
September 16th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
No reason to take 5-6 deputies to bring a man for parole violation at 1:30 am at all. He would have gotten a call to come in and if he refused then the sheriffs arrive usually in early evening or daytime.
Beside the LA times said it was the Feds who wanted to talk to him. Was that about his parole violations? I doubt it.
This is clear intimidation and regrettably it shows the islamicists that our government will cow down and suppress free speech.
September 16th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
So, stormy, you called up the good professor and asked him if he was ok with such parole conditions?
Oh, yeah, no you fucking didn’t. You said something stupid. Own up to it.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Prior to yesterday, he posted on the onerous nature of probation exactly twice in the 12 years he’s been blogging. Once in 2002 and once in 2004.
In the past 48 hours, he’s has 16 posts on the subject.
So yes, I do think his sudden interest in the treatment of parole violators is insincere.
September 17th, 2012 at 11:19 am
mikee, unless the picture is a fake, those are local sheriff deputies doing the arrest. How does that compare to Ruby Ridge etc.? I notice a distinct lack of dead people killed by federal agents.
September 17th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Don’t forget the other violation, which was nicely summarized by Ken at Popehat:
It is not totally unusual for someone to be immediately picked up by deputies for a parole violation without being contacted by a parole officer first. However, having said that, the number of deputies involved, along with the timing, are certainly suspicious. But the fact that he was at least brought in for questioning is not.
September 17th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Can we fix the italics?
September 17th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
And this comment at that same Popehat article makes a very good point on this subject, and one that had not occurred to me previously.