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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Obama-Appointed Prosecutor Chills Free Speech in Idaho Migrant Sex Assault

Jun 30, 2016 10:27 am By Robert Spencer

Over at PJ Media, I discuss the attempt to cover up Muslim migrant crime in Idaho, and to criminalize free discussion of what happened there:

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The Obama administration has on numerous occasions shown its distaste for the First Amendment. Now, in Idaho, an Obama-appointed federal prosecutor has gone to war against it, behaving as if it doesn’t exist.The occasion for this latest Obama salvo against the freedom of speech took place in early June. Residents of Twin Falls, Idaho, dissatisfied with the response they received from government and law enforcement after a brutal assault, began a petition that contended:

The little girl was at the FAWNBROOK apartment buildings where both her parents and grandmother reside. She was playing in between those two apartment units when 3 boys (from 2 Syrian refugee families, ages 8, 10, 13) pulled a knife on her, held it to her throat, forced her into the laundry unit, stripped her naked, raped, and urinated on her. The 13 year old “coached” the younger boys as he videoed. Due to age restraint the boys could not ejaculate but did urinate on her.

Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs almost immediately disputed this scenario on numerous particulars:

There was no gang rape, there was no Syrian involvement, there were no Syrian refugees involved, there was no knife used, there was no inactivity by the police. I’m looking at the Drudge Report headline: “Syrian Refugees Rape Little Girl at Knifepoint in Idaho” — all false.

A couple details were incorrect, but Loebs’ string of denials did not challenge the essentials of the story. Loebs obviously knew this, yet he made his statement anyway.

The perps were not Syrian, but they were Muslim migrants. There was no rape — but there was sexual assault.

The Twin Falls residents’ petition was revised:

This little girl, as stated in the news, was assaulted, and urinated on by three boys under the age of 18. The boys took her into a laundry room and proceeded to take part on the previous stated actions which was videotaped by the eldest boy. The incident as well as the video was submitted to the police department.

However, due to the ages of the children involved, this case is being sealed. Many people in this community are in awe, and outraged that minimal consequences will be served to these boys and their parents for this vile incident.

An eyewitness to the incident, Jolene Payne, recounted:

This happened three weeks ago around 3:30. I was sitting on my porch patio and I looked over and saw this boy taking pictures with a camera. He was from Africa or somewhere overseas, standing outside the laundry room taking pictures of kids in the laundry room. I found them in there. I knew there was something going on because the boy (with the phone camera) was acting funny, he was taking pictures but he was telling the two younger boys what to do.

…

The door was cracked enough for him to see the pictures he was taking. I opened that door and I almost fainted when I saw what was going on and here I’m a nurse. What a pitiful thing for a poor little girl to go through.

The worst thing was the way they peed all over her clothes and on her too, and I thought that was one of the meanest things I’ve ever saw done. … The little girl had no clothes on. The boys took them off.

This horrifying story involved Muslim migrants. So the mainstream media went into full cover-up mode. They focused on the inaccuracies in the initial complaints to portray the whole thing as racist, right-wing, anti-immigrant hysteria. That became the dominant theme of media coverage of the story.

Ultimately, the Obama administration adopted that theme as well. Wendy J. Olson, U.S. attorney for Idaho, warned Twin Falls residents (and others interested in the case):

The spread of false information or inflammatory or threatening statements about the perpetrators or the crime itself reduces public safety and may violate federal law.

She made clear that her primary concern was protecting the Muslim migrants:

We have seen time and again that the spread of falsehoods about refugees divides our communities.

Eugene Volokh, a professor of free speech law, noted in the Washington Post:

[T]here is no First Amendment exception for “inflammatory” statements; and even false statements about matters of public concern, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, are an inevitable part of free debate. … [Olson’s warning] looks like an attempt to chill constitutionally protected speech through the threat of federal prosecution.

That’s exactly what it is.

Olson’s statement fits with the Obama administration signing on to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Resolution 16/18, which called on UN member states to work to criminalize “defamation of religion.”

This subjective term grants enormous power to the person given the authority to determine what it constitutes. The administration noted that nations with protections on the freedom of speech would have to find creative ways to implement the resolution….

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  1. Adrian says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 10:39 am

    To self-labeled “liberals” (actually totalitarian) and “progressives” (actually regressives) their ideologies are a RELIGION…

    …and facts are IRRELEVANT.

    people can have law degrees and serve as judges, but at bottom they are fellow cult members of their “faith” and will always remain so…

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 10:49 am

    What if?

    Imagine the claims of Islamophobia if the little girl victim had been Muslim.

  3. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 10:52 am

    Is there such a thing as bias by photo-cropping? The picture of U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson that accompanies this essay crops off the luxuriant hair on the top of her head, making her look like a man, or at least a lesbian. Compare that to her official photo:
    https://www.justice.gov/usao/id/images/wolsonofficial.jpg

    • Adrian says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 11:23 am

      LMAO… Wendy Olson’s full hair is really “luxuriant” – all 3 inches of it

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 11:51 am

      ”The picture of U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson that accompanies this essay crops off the luxuriant hair on the top of her head, making her look like a man, or at least a lesbian. Compare that to her official photo: …”

      Nonsense. In the ‘official photo’, her hair is *short*, not ‘luxuriant’. Perhaps you need a new pair of specs ? 🙂 (my hair is short, and my husband doesn’t think I look like a man, or a lesbian).

      What she *does* look like, to my mind, is a typical smug, self-righteous PC/MC idiot. They all seem to have the same smarmy smile, denoting, ”aren’t I multicultural, diverse, and wonderful.” She reminds me of that ghastly Scandinavian woman bishop, who wanted to remove the crucifixes in the churches to make the mohammedan invaders ‘more welcome.’ Same smug, smarmy smirk. I haven’t time to look for it, but it’s somewhere in the archives. Blech.

      You Americans have **no idea** how **lucky** you are in having the right to free speech written into your Constitution. For God’s sake, don’t let it slip out of your fingers. *Fight* egregious scum like this hag, and Clinton, and *any* one who tries to take it away from you.

      Don’t end up like us in the UK.

      • common sense says

        Jun 30, 2016 at 5:18 pm

        Cheers! I unfortunately have an in law in our family with the “smarmy” attitude. She is always trying to “educate” us. Its repulsive truly.

      • Wellington says

        Jun 30, 2016 at 7:06 pm

        Seconded, MIrren.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 30, 2016 at 10:05 pm

        Mirren, it is not a cure-all, but I hope the UK leaving the EU marks the turning point for patriotic Britons reclaiming their great society!

      • somehistory says

        Jul 1, 2016 at 1:31 am

        Some of us in America are truly aware of what value lies in the freedom to speak without fear of reprisal from the government.
        Some of the some, recognize from where the freedom originally comes and know that it *belongs* to everyone, everywhere, even if humans…in government and out…try to restrict it.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 11:59 am

      Hillary is wearing lipstick.
      She should apologize to all the lipstick wearing pigs of the world.

    • Teresa says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 3:32 pm

      Oh, my heavens! How could anyone make that picture look worse than it does? The Obama administration is completely made up of damaged people. And we wonder why they hate the way they do.

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:11 am

    [Olson’s warning] looks like an attempt to chill constitutionally protected speech through the threat of federal prosecution.

    Is it a threat to say “if you do such and such then bad things are going to happen to you”? Well, duh – that’s exactly what a threat is, and that’s exactly what Miss Olson is doing.

  5. john spielman says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:16 am

    typical of Obamanation’s administration to try and cover up/ suppress the truth just like his hero Saul Alinsky

  6. UriahB says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:32 am

    The law means squat to Oh Bomb Ah and his kinfolk. Ik busting my gut trying to figure out what it will take for this dangerous nonsense to cease. I have no answer. There is no answer. Vote Trump!

  7. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Obama has place the reputation of Islamist supremacists above the safety of American citizens.

  8. SBJ says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Disgraceful doesn’t cover it. It’s the poor that are being victimized and left without a voice. smh

  9. Kay says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    The encroachments on free speech are frightening. We all need to practice free speech, in polite and honest discourse in the wider society, including in front of our children.

    I do wish someone in mainline media would do an expose of how countries have been falling to Islamic rule over the past decade or so, and what has happened to the populations there as a result.

    I also wish our immigrants who are already here would speak up. Without a doubt many of them came here to escape Islam and what happens when it takes over.

    To be concerned about massive Muslim immigration has caused me to be labeled “right wing” etc. I never have been heretofore . . . so the charge has no chance of sticking and I see it for what it is: simply a way to discredit people and a justification to not listen.

    Listen and talk. They’re both important. (Not to mention honesty.)

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 9:23 pm

      Kay i Agree Absolutely.

  10. common sense says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    Astounding hypocrisy of another leftist-nazi. What makes them more dangerous is they actually believe themselves and believe in their ideology.

  11. Wellington says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    Based on this photo, I don’t know what self-respecting man would marry such a COMPLETELY non-feminine woman. And here I’m going to be extra politically incorrect by simply uttering one syllable. That syllable is “Woof.”

    Ever notice that good looking women are far less likely to be found on the Left? Not a coincidence I would maintain. As Rush Limbaugh has opined, a good bit of modern feminism (never mind its rank neglect of condemning the Islamic world for its treatment of women) is wrapped up with trying to make unattractive women attractive. Has failed miserably, I would contend, except for men infected (yes, “infected” is an apt word) by Leftism.

    Man desires woman and woman desires to be desired. Also, men want to be admired by their woman and their woman want to admire them. Modern Western feminism, which denies so much, denies these biological truths. I’d bet my life on it.

    • TJFreedomjihad says

      Jul 1, 2016 at 12:46 am

      Well said Wellington. The photo suggests more of hussein’s style of evil mischief, along with his many strings of willing minions, stirring up the muck, he has so constantly been up to, to create disorder in America, where there had been none. I couldn’t have known the sex without reading the story carefully, and I bet she has no idea how she is being used. Of course, she might not even care if she knew, given feminazis, which her legal attitude orientation suggests she may be, playing her role as in: The diktator spaketh!

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 1, 2016 at 9:20 am

      ”That syllable is “Woof.”

      🙂

  12. somehistory says

    Jul 1, 2016 at 1:48 am

    Notice, she didn’t say it would, she said, “may violate federal law.”

    This is a trick. She knows full well speech is free…as long as it doesn’t go so far as the *fire in a crowded theater (unless there is a fire) ruling.
    But, she is poisoning the mind of people by putting the idea that it *might* be against federal law.
    Most people are not lawyers, and even some lawyers aren’t all that bright when it comes to knowing the truth of what the Constitution says and how it has been applied by the Court.

    If she can just make a lot of people afraid to speak out, she has accomplished what she was trying to do…limit the freedom of speech. The people who don’t understand the freedoms they have, hear her and, not wanting to go to court for breaking a federal law, facing federal prison, will stop talking about the threats to their children and other family members,,, from moslims.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 1, 2016 at 9:07 am

      Excellent points, somehistory.

  13. Kay says

    Jul 1, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    http://www.therebel.media/exclusive_audio_eyewitness_confirms_migrants_raped_five_year_old_idaho_girl

    witness speaks

  14. Jay Boo says

    Jul 1, 2016 at 8:37 pm

    test

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