{"id":32196,"date":"2012-09-30T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32196"},"modified":"2012-09-30T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T20:25:08","slug":"violating-parole-terms-publicly-has-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32196","title":{"rendered":"Violating Your Probation Publicly Has Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Egyptian Coptic guy Nakoula Basseley Nakoula \u2013 the one who coordinated the making of <em>Innocence of Muslims<\/em> under an alias?\u00a0 The film with the trailer on the internet that the Obama administration publicly and incorrectly blamed &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/26\/u-s-officials-knew-libya-attacks-were-work-of-al-qaeda-affiliates.html\">apparently knowingly or with abject incompetence<\/a> &#8211; for causing the recent unrest in the Islamic world that broke out last month on September 11?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/29\/us-usa-film-protests-idUSBRE88S01V20120929\">he\u2019s now in Federal custody<\/a>.\u00a0 And IMO, he deserves it.<\/p>\n<p>What?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t Nakoula being held as a political prisoner for exercise his right to free speech?<\/p>\n<p>In a word:\u00a0 <strong>no<\/strong>.\u00a0 Nakoula is being held because he thumbed his nose at the US justice system. Publicly.\u00a0 Like a freaking idiot.<\/p>\n<p>Nakoula is NOT in jail because he made the film in question.\u00a0 He is NOT a political prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s in jail because he\u2019s a convicted felon on probation who publicly and in a very \u201cin your face\u201d way violated the terms of his probation.\u00a0 And he did that in two different ways.<\/p>\n<p>While making <em>Innocence of Muslims<\/em> under an alias and apparently posting the trailer to the Internet, Nakoula was on <del>parole<\/del> probation for a 2010 felony conviction for bank fraud.\u00a0 He got <del>parole<\/del> probation apparently as part of a deal for cooperating with Federal authorities during that case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/feds-arrest-nakoula-578341\">Two of the conditions of his <del>parole<\/del> probation<del><\/del><\/a> were that Nakoula (1) not use an alias, and (2) not use computers or access the Internet for five years without the approval of his <del>parole<\/del> probation officer.<\/p>\n<p>Nakoula made <em>Innocence of Muslims<\/em> using an alias.\u00a0 And it looks like he posted the trailer for the film to the Internet.\u00a0 Did this tool <em>really<\/em> think no one would ever notice the alias or the film?<\/p>\n<p>So, regardless of freedom of speech issues \u2013 yeah, this tool deserves to be in jail.\u00a0 Felons who knowingly violate the terms of their probation deserve jail time.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when they\u2019re idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Egyptian Coptic guy Nakoula Basseley Nakoula \u2013 the one who coordinated the making of &hellip; <a title=\"Violating Your Probation Publicly Has Consequences\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32196\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Violating Your Probation Publicly Has Consequences<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}