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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 10:59 AM

LeighAnn (2,444 posts)

Federal probation department is looking at controversial filmmaker

Source: AP via Greenfield Daily Reporter

A federal probation office is looking into the case of the anti-Muslim filmmaker whose work is inflaming the Middle East.

The probation department in the central district of California is reviewing the case of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who was previously convicted on bank fraud charges and was banned from using computers or the Internet as part of his sentence. He's still on probation.

Karen Redmond is spokeswoman for the administrative office of the U.S. courts.

She says if the probation department determines Nakoula violated terms of his release, a judge could send him back to prison.

Read more: http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/b3afbd330d91420e8cf70cbb62d6b6ca/US--Egypt-Filmmaker-Probation

Only one more paragraph at the link. I think they should offer him lenience if he reveals who he's really working for (Koch? Adelson?)

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16 replies	Author	Time	Post
Federal probation department is looking at controversial filmmaker (Original post)	LeighAnn	Sep 2012	OP
I vote Adelson	SaveAmerica	Sep 2012	#1
Film	mpdog	Sep 2012	#2
It's that we coddle and protect those who insult and injure them.	Blue State Bandit	Sep 2012	#8
The last paragraph	DonViejo	Sep 2012	#3
Right...	LeighAnn	Sep 2012	#5
should he get police protection if he gets death threats on account of his film?	Voice for Peace	Sep 2012	#10
Yes - the movie/trailer he	leftynyc	Sep 2012	#13
If a judge could quickly send him back to prison, that COULD help the situation	karynnj	Sep 2012	#4
Big production value would be a red herring.	Blue State Bandit	Sep 2012	#9
if he goes to prison,	loves_dulcinea	Sep 2012	#15
military industrial complex	mopinko	Sep 2012	#6
Throw his ass in General Population!	Blue State Bandit	Sep 2012	#7
Big Deal - the Film is still perfectly legal and protected Constitutionally	askeptic	Sep 2012	#11
Not the film but the use of a computer and accessing the internet	sdfernando	Sep 2012	#12
Perhaps those that are rioting	leftynyc	Sep 2012	#14
I don't think anyone believes that the film is illegal.	loves_dulcinea	Sep 2012	#16

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:04 AM

SaveAmerica (4,982 posts)

1. I vote Adelson

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:06 AM

mpdog (8 posts)

2. Film

There is no "Film" Just a very poorly done Trailer .. The issue is not about a Movie that does not exist.. Look at the sign's and listen to the people protesting... none of them are talking about a Movie..

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 12:50 PM

Blue State Bandit (1,581 posts)

8. It's that we coddle and protect those who insult and injure them.

What the Arab on the street doesn't know is, they are insulting and injuring US citizens as well.

Nit picking point by point proves nothing but willful blindness.

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:07 AM

DonViejo (4,590 posts)

3. The last paragraph

Nakoula pleaded no contest in 2010, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and was ordered not to use computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer.

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Response to DonViejo (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:13 AM

LeighAnn (2,444 posts)

5. Right...

When he got out of jail early he was so grateful that out of religious devotion he decided to break that probation by going on Craigslist to find actorf to film scenes for a really poor quality movie that he knew would result in the deaths of Americans and Jews worldwide... and he did this all of his own accord

</sarcasm>

This sure does add up!

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 01:03 PM

Voice for Peace (8,411 posts)

10. should he get police protection if he gets death threats on account of his film?

Last edited Fri Sep 14, 2012, 01:05 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Apparently he tried to be anonymous about it, but poorly.

Now that his name and location are known, he is probably fearful for his life.
Purportedly knew he would be putting his life at risk to make the film,
and did it anyway, should he get police protection? (serious
question).

I have some mixed up opinions..

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 02:15 PM

leftynyc (10,339 posts)

13. Yes - the movie/trailer he

did was not against the law. He hasn't been charged with violating his probation (yet) - he's just like everyone else and deserves the same protection as everyone else.

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:13 AM

karynnj (46,681 posts)

4. If a judge could quickly send him back to prison, that COULD help the situation

Even though the return to prison would not have been due to the content of the film, it might be something that could cool things.

As to Koch or Adelson, I don't think so. This was NOT a big money production and it is believable that his family really did fund most of it.

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 12:52 PM

Blue State Bandit (1,581 posts)

9. Big production value would be a red herring.

If others such as Geller, Adelson, or Koch were involved, they would know this to.

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 08:52 PM

loves_dulcinea (416 posts)

15. if he goes to prison,

he will probably die within a few months.

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 12:03 PM

mopinko (39,668 posts)

6. military industrial complex

all still hanging on a cross of iron.

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 12:45 PM

Blue State Bandit (1,581 posts)

7. Throw his ass in General Population!

Last edited Fri Sep 14, 2012, 12:45 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 01:08 PM

askeptic (179 posts)

11. Big Deal - the Film is still perfectly legal and protected Constitutionally

I'm sorry that we seem to have a bunch here who think that the film itself is illegal in some way

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 02:12 PM

sdfernando (613 posts)

12. Not the film but the use of a computer and accessing the internet

These two acts are against his probation. Violating probation is not a thing to be taken lightly. I don't dispute that he had a right to make a film (free speech and all)...but I don't think he thought through the whole thing. As they say, you are free to say what you want, but you are not free from suffering any consequences (unintended or not) of that speech.

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 02:19 PM

leftynyc (10,339 posts)

14. Perhaps those that are rioting

will not take the time to realize he'd be in jail for violating probation rather than for the movie. These would be the same people who didn't bother to find out that the American government had nothing to do with it so they're already low information folks.

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Response to askeptic (Reply #11)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 08:56 PM

loves_dulcinea (416 posts)

16. I don't think anyone believes that the film is illegal.

In poor taste, perhaps; inflammatory, absolutely.
about the closest it comes to illegality is the old question of yelling fire in a crowded theater.

all said and done, it's just really sad.

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