In a long story about the ongoing violence directed at the United States across the Middle East, the New York Times embeds a sly admission regarding the arrest of alleged filmmaker Nakoula Bassely Nakoula:
The film was produced in the United States, though its origins are still shrouded. American federal authorities identified the man behind the film as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55. Though the film does not appear to violate any American laws, the authorities took Mr. Nakoula in for questioning on Saturday over possible federal parole violations connected to an unrelated criminal conviction. That action has done little to tamp down the unrest.
Emphasis added.
Authorities arrested Nakoula at his home in the dead of night last weekend and paraded him before media cameras. The media had been alerted to his arrest beforehand, guaranteeing that images of his arrest would soon hit the Internet and spread across the world. Authorities claimed he was being arrested regarding parole violations, but the arrest came after the Obama administration had publicly blamed his film for the violence.
The New York Times just admitted that that entire scene was a political arrest designed to appease the rioting Muslims.
An administration that is capable of taking such an action is also capable of acquiescing to the demand that the Islamists in Egypt made and publicized prior to the 9-11 embassy attack there: The release of sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993.
Rahman is currently serving a life sentence in US prison for his role in that bombing, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000.
The US State Department is reportedly actively considering negotiations with the new Egyptian government to send Rahman to that country’s custody, citing humanitarian and medical reasons. State denies, and the Department of Justice says no such deal is possible.
But the Department of Justice publicly outed Nakoula, and engineered his public arrest.
h/t Rand Simberg
I thought you meant *literally*, that they would circulate those pictures in the Middle East as a sop. If so, it might qualify as clever.
For that matter, prove to me that the guy dressed in those rags was this guy Nakoula anyway.
In fact, why can’t we just grab some scenes out of any of the last 50 or so slasher movies out of the big Hollywood studios, put Arabic subtitles on them that this is what we did to Nakoula, and post them on Youtube. Seem quite the bunch of suckers over there anyway. Show him being destroyed in eleven different ways, they’ll believe all eleven.
“The New York Times just admitted that that entire scene was a political arrest designed to appease the rioting Muslims.”
Appeasement. Another word for it is Dhimmi.
Well, Ambassador Stevens was a chief appeaser, a real friend of the Arab. Well, look at what that got him. They beat him, raped him, and killed him, then dragged his carcass through the streets as a trophy. In fulfilling his Dhimmi role, he greatly pleased his masters. He, too, was pleased with the feeding of the crocodile… right up until the moment that the crocodile decided to eat him.
As Jefferson said, regarding the Barbary pirates, “Millions for defense; not a penny in tribute.”
Appease the muslims? Silly left/liberals, that’ll just make ‘em expect more!
If you were one of those deputies, and you knew the perp walk was done just for the cameras, how would you feel?
Foot. Down.
Organize. Or give up. Either one.
But this stuff you folks are doing doesn’t look like it will get you anywhere in the long run. They’re not going to listen unless you make them listen. Logic and pointing out the clear double standards appears to have reached its limits. So what are you going to do?
– trial.
That it was a setup was obvious to anyone who has worked in LE. Nakoula’s conviction was for a non-violent bank fraud.
The usual way of handling something like this would have been for his probation officer to give him a call to come to the office to discuss it. Only if that failed would the probation officer go to his residence to pick him up,probably by himself since Nakoula is not a violent criminal.
The fact that LA County Sheriff’s Office (and that someone tipped off the TV news)showed up at midnight means that it was put on for a show, not a serious arrest. But the audience is not Americans. It is the population of countries with authoritarian rule.
People watching from places where these kinds of raids are routine would think that this was just what the Islamists were demanding, an arrest for defaming Islam.