“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” — Ian Fleming
5 People and Groups
Abused By the Government For Opposing Obama
John Hawkins | Feb 04, 2014
www.townhall.com
It’s not happenstance or coincidence that Obama and his administration are illegally using neutral government agencies to go after their political adversaries. If it were, they wouldn’t be taking the 5th, stonewalling Congress and putting political hacks in charge of their internal investigations. The most important remaining questions about the Obama Administration’s attacks on its foes are how far up the ladder they go and whether any impeachable offenses were committed in the process. Given that the
mainstream media is essentially an arm of the Democrat Party and that the House Republicans have been about as aggressive as a baby fawn in investigating them, we may never know the full truth. Obama and his administration seem to think they’re above the law and after seeing how conservatives are being illegally mistreated by the government without consequence, they may be right.
1) Gibson Guitar: The Lacey Act is a law so confusing and ill-defined that in many cases, whether someone is violating it or not is essentially arbitrary. In the case of Gibson Guitar, it was prosecuted for supposedly bringing in wood that was illegally harvested under the laws of India and Madagascar. However, neither India nor Madagascar is charging Gibson Guitar with breaking its laws. In other words, the Obama Administration accused Gibson Guitar of breaking the laws in other countries when even the governments of those countries were making no such claim. Eventually, after spending millions in legal fees, Gibson paid a $300,000 fine while allowing the government to confiscate some of its wood. Would that case have ever been brought to court if the CEO of Gibson Guitar, Henry E. Juszkiewicz, wasn’t a big Republican donor? It’s highly doubtful.
2) Dinesh D’Souza: Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has been a ferocious critic of Barack Obama. He’s written two books attacking Obama and was also behind the film, “2016 Obama’s America.” That’s why this case would look suspicious, even if one of Barack Obama’s donors wasn’t behind the prosecution.
Federal prosecutors indicted D’Souza last week on two felony counts, charging that he promised to reimburse others if they would contribute to an unnamed Senate candidate, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison, and causing false statements to be made to the FEC, which carries a maximum of five years.
…The case most often compared to D’Souza’s is that of Arkansas trial lawyer Tab Turner, for donations made to former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards’ 2004 presidential campaign.
…Turner directed four members of the staff at his law firm to make contributions totaling $8,000 to the Edwards campaign and reimbursed them for the donations. Turner also used the firm’s credit card to contribute $2,000 to the Edwards campaign and made a $2,000 contribution attributed to his brother and sister-in-law.
But Turner’s case — which was handled with a civil, not criminal, complaint — was more involved. He also made in-kind contributions by using law office staffers to help plan fund raisers for Edwards and charged more than $2,000 in hotel and rental car expenses to the firm for Edwards Committee staffers’ travel to the events.
Turner eventually paid a $50,000 civil fine to the FEC. The Edwards for President Committee paid a $9,500 penalty for accepting the contributions.
A Republican faces jail time for a crime a Democrat gets fined over. Even liberal law professors like Alan Dershowitz have called this “outrageous” and “clearly a case of selective prosecution.” More>
From B Harmon Contributor: The subject of Dinesh is quite touchy for my husband and I because we’ve always considered him a man of great character and morals.
I think what we are dealing with here a case of revenge against Dinesh originating from the White House. Even though they made mistakes of which all Presidents have, did Bush,Carter, Reagan or Kennedy ever choose to be above the law? This brings to mind one of my favorite quotes from JF Kennedy: “Think not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” Music to my ears now days. Totally opposite of what we’re seeing from President Obama.
Dinesh went after Obama full force even to the extent of interviewing Obama’s half brother. I can see why this action was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I would say that Dinesh has stepped on lots of toes in the past few years and I’m not surprised that he is now fighting to prove his innocence.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas appeared on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ and accused the Obama administration of malicious prosecution, given D’Souza’s criticism of the President.
We here at “The 7th Day Return of the Lord” do not feel that D’Souza is guilty of felony charges but feel
that he is being somewhat persecuted for his boldness in exposing private and personal information about
the President and his family.
Dinesh has received an outpouring of support over the last few days from the media and freedom-loving Americans everywhere. Here are just a few:
