Bridge for sale: Judge says Muhammad filmmaker's sentence unrelated to movie

Yeah, sure. It is just total coincidence that suddenly they decided that this probation violation was the one probation violation they could not and would not tolerate, while untold numbers of other violators of probation still roam free today. Tell me another. "Anti-Muslim filmmaker's sentence unrelated to content, judge says," from the Los Angeles Times, November 8:

The filmmaker behind "Innocence of Muslims," the anti-Islam film that sparked rioting across the globe, was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday but not because of the movie's content, prosecutors and the judge said.

Mark Basseley Youssef was arrested in late September after a trailer for the film, which portrays the prophet Muhammad as a womanizer and a pedophile, was uploaded onto YouTube and caused widespread outrage. Youssef was under a type of federal probation at the time, and admitted to violating terms of that probation in court Wednesday.

"I'm not going to say much about the movie because he's not here because of the content of the movie," Assistant U.S. Atty. Robert Dugdale said.

"Agreed," U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder said abruptly, interrupting the prosecutor....

Despite remarks made by the judge and prosecutors, Youssef's attorney told reporters outside court his client was being punished for exercising free speech.

"In my opinion, the government used these proceedings to chill my client's 1st Amendment rights," Steven Seiden said....

Yep.

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He was punished because of it. Is there anyone here able to find the judges info so we can send emails to her condemning her judgment. Please notice that I did mention pulling our AK47s out!!!!!!
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Perhaps Basseley Yousef was incarcerated to protect him from vengeful Jihadist assassins.

My opinion is the vast majority of the knowledgeable readers and lurkers of JW, agree on one thing-the real story of this travesty is not yet officially told, and is yet to come out.

Preponderance of evidence shows the Benghazi attack had not a jot of involvement with the movie, but other planned and escalating factors of the MB, al queda, and possibly worse involvements. MBY had an Achilles heel that was exploited for fraudulent purposes, as a phony government excuse.

More hopefully will come out, in the Congressional hearing, which are disturbingly closed and under some kind of secrecy, which is so odd considering the devastating leaks that have been so prevalent in this regime, especially regards the obl takedown, and the Seal Teams.

Ultimately, bottom line is islamics have proven uncountable times over, that they will fly into rages, coordinated, planned, or impromptu, over any imaginable cause, indigestion, a bit of dyspepsia, a bad dream, a word or phrase, a hurt feeling, literally any made up excuse, and with a strong double standard, which is no tolerance for anything from a kuffir, but a lot of tolerance from a believer.

They have never needed a movie to rage, and there are millions plus images, and words from which they could choose, is such were the case, (rage and murder being textually mandated among their few greatest talents, it seems), and there are uncountable excuses from which to choose. State Dept. pulled a hoax, for a purpose, of which pinning down the reason(s) needs to be determined.

"Agreed," U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder said abruptly, interrupting the prosecutor....

A Clinton appointee. Why am I not surprised?

Somebody familiar with probation revocation hearings in that jurisdiction ought to conduct a study ASAP.

1. How many similar petitions to revoke pribation are filed under simar allegations and circumstances?

2. How many such PTRs proceed to hearing?
3. How many such hearings result in revocation instead of continuation/modification of probation conditions?

4. How many merely result in a negotiated finding of contempt?

5. Was this only the first PTR filed in this case?

It seems awkward that this case would go to the extreme result of revocation AND prison when there are many other intermediiary options.

So, these questions need to be answered by somebody close to that system

Somebody familiar with probation revocation hearings in that jurisdiction ought to conduct a study ASAP.

1. How many similar petitions to revoke pribation are filed under simar allegations and circumstances?

2. How many such PTRs proceed to hearing?
3. How many such hearings result in revocation instead of continuation/modification of probation conditions?

4. How many merely result in a negotiated finding of contempt?

5. Was this only the first PTR filed in this case?

It seems awkward that this case would go to the extreme result of revocation AND prison when there are many other intermediiary options.

So, these questions need to be answered by somebody close to that system

Somebody familiar with probation revocation hearings in that jurisdiction ought to conduct a study ASAP.

1. How many similar petitions to revoke pribation are filed under simar allegations and circumstances?

2. How many such PTRs proceed to hearing?
3. How many such hearings result in revocation instead of continuation/modification of probation conditions?

4. How many merely result in a negotiated finding of contempt?

5. Was this only the first PTR filed in this case?

It seems awkward that this case would go to the extreme result of revocation AND prison when there are many other intermediiary options.

So, these questions need to be answered by somebody close to that system

Faster than the New Black Panthers who violated voters' rights in 2008.
(I wonder, will he testify at harings?)

Youssef deserves a prison sentence for making such a damn awful film. If it had been a good production he would have deserved an Academy award.

And please remember Youssef offended so many of the peace loving followers of Islam that they were unable prevent themselves killing people. And we all know that it takes a lot to upset Muslims to the point where they feel it necessary to riot, destroy, burn and kill.
Remember Islam really is a religion of Peace, isn't it ?

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