Tribute To Justice Antonin Scalia, by Dinesh D'Souza

Dinesh D'Souza

Published on Feb 14, 2016
D'Souza joined Judge Jeanine Pirro February 13 on "Justice with Judge Jeanine" to discuss the death of intellectual giant Antonin Scalia.
"Scalia had a very elastic mind and was able to look at different ways in which we read a text, not just in terms of what the author intended, but also in terms of what the text actually says."
"Scalia was the intellectual giant on the Court, and perhaps the most eloquent Supreme Court Justice going back all the way to the early part of the 20th century. History will see him as a luminous figure."
"Scalia’s originalism was different than, for example, the originalism of Judge Bork. Bork would talk about reading the Constitution in the light of the Framers. And one of the things that Scalia would point out is that the intention of the Framers is sometimes opaque or contradictory. When you’re reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, you may not know what Shakespeare intended to say, but what you do have is the sonnet itself. And by looking at the poem, you can excavate what it actually means."
"When I got the news of Scalia’s death, I felt a sense of deep sorrow, and also a chill of fear down my spine. The Supreme Court has been so precariously balanced. It’s been very frustrating for us as conservatives that the Democrats can depend, almost with euclidean certitude, on their guys."
"We have a president who has shown a willingness to skirt the law with immigration, with the Defense of Marriage Act, and with Obamacare. We need a Supreme Court that is going to stand up for constitutionalism at this point in our history."
"I think it’s important for the Republican Congress to signal very clearly to Obama that any nominee that he puts forward on the left is essentially dead on arrival. That forces upon Obama the choice of either pushing forward and going up in flames, or trying to come up with a unifying nominee that would actually help to bring the country together."

https://youtu.be/1LmqOzrCe80

Dinesh D'Souza's New Book On Criminal Justice Corruption, Book Review

Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party, by Dinesh D’Souza, Broadside Books, HarperCollins Publishers, November, 2015 (336 pages, $29.99, Hardback)


Dinesh D'Souza

[From book review]
But what does a conservative become when he’s mugged by a corrupt, politically driven justice system? Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party answers that question. D’Souza now views the Progressive movement as a criminal enterprise designed to pull off the biggest heist in world history -- effective control of the enormous wealth created by America’s entrepreneurs. This bounty, the author argues, was made possible by the country’s embrace of a capitalist system that rewards industry and customer-centered innovation and discourages the hitherto ubiquitous ethic of theft. Democrats, however, through a reversal of traditional American values, seek to acquire power by vilifying wealth-creators and rewarding “victims” with trickle-down shares of the national loot -- all while portraying themselves as righteous advocates of social justice.
D’Souza’s book begins by discussing aspects of his prosecution for illegally contributing $20,000 to a friend running for a Senate seat in New York State. Of his case Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz commented, “What you did is very commonly done in politics, and on a much bigger scale. Have no doubt about it, they are targeting you for your views.” Dershowitz’s opinion coincided with D’Souza’s own -- namely, that his politics and especially the negative portrait of Obama in his 2016 documentary had ticked off the protagonist-in-chief himself. Clinton-appointed judge Richard Berman, however, denied D’Souza access to papers that could prove selective prosecution, arguing in Alice in Wonderland fashion that only evidence of selective prosecution could justify access to papers that would provide such evidence.
[. . .]
D’Souza was able to avoid the prosecution’s desired prison stint of ten to sixteen months -- an outrageous punishment since, in the defendant’s words, “no person who had done what I did had even been prosecuted, let alone sentenced.” Instead, D’Souza’s sentence consisted of 8 months of overnight confinement in a halfway house, community service, psychological counseling, a $30,000 fine, and five years probation. By contrast, consider Democrat fundraiser Sant Singh Chatwal, who clearly tried to buy influence, instructed a government witness to lie under oath, and made “more than $180,000 in straw donations to several Democratic candidates, including Hillary Clinton.” For these far more egregious offenses “Chatwal received a fine, community service, and three years probation. No prison time, no confinement.”
[. . .]
D’Souza began to see prisoners and a flawed justice system in a different light. He also began to understand “the psychology of crookedness” -- a “system of larceny, corruption, and terror” that’s “been adopted and perfected by modern progressivism and the Democratic Party.”
[. . .]
D’Souza explores the connection between mafia-friendly con-man, Saul Alinsky, who died living the Goodfellas dream life in Carmel, California, and his two most famous pupils, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The author also investigates the emotional tie between the President and his father -- a consummate con-artist and polygamist. Instead of focusing on “anti-colonialism,” as in prior paternal analyses, D’Souza now emphasizes outright criminality and skillful lying, traits that connect the failed elder Obama to his wildly successful offspring who, in true Chicago style, perpetrates his cons inside the system.
[. . .]
To carry out their grand political heist, Democrats must marshal the emotions and votes of an army of envious underlings -- stoking resentment among minorities, women, the poor, immigrants, gays, and other potential victim groups.
[. . .]
These professional propagandists promulgate their ideas out of envy, seeing themselves as members of the rightful ruling class based on their superior intellects and abilities. This same exalted self-image applies to educators who chafe over not being recognized and rewarded by their society any better than the average plumber.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/stealing_america_what_my_experience_with_criminal_gangs_taught_me_about_obama_hillary_and_the_democratic_party.html

January 13, 2016
Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party
By Richard Kirk

Dinesh D'Souza Reveals How To Search For Truth At Amherst College

[From article]
Dinesh D’Souza gave a lecture at Amherst College and took questions from the audience. One earnest young man, a social justice warrior, asked him a question and got a Socratic education.



http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/your_sunday_video_treat.html

December 13, 2015
Your Sunday video treat
By Thomas Lifson

https://youtu.be/tN9bu6CP318

Character Assassination, How Government Destroys Lives

Dinesh D'Souza

[From article]
His Wikipedia page, for instance, references him as an “Indian American political commentator, convicted felon and author” (emphasis added) – making sure his brush with the law is listed ahead of his status as a best-selling writer, and well ahead of his status as the most successful conservative documentary filmmaker of all time.
If one searches for recent news about D’Souza, one will find that a federal judge recently ordered him to undergo ongoing psychiatric treatment as a condition of his probation.
“Mr. D’Souza has weaknesses in controlling his own impulses and … is prone to anger in reaction to criticism,” the judge stated.
Really? Or was he too successful in criticizing Barack Obama?
[. . .]



it becomes readily apparent that D’Souza isn’t mentally ill – far from it.
Rather, he's the latest victim of America’s “culture war” – an attempt to radically remake this nation in the image of Soviet Russia.
The tarring and feathering of D’Souza is but one high-profile example of a pervasive, anti-American assault on core conservative, constitutional values – and those who dare to advance them. It is no longer merely “government overreach,” “liberal bias in the media,” or “political correctness run amok.” It is something more sinister: an increasingly brazen totalitarian effort to remake American democracy in the image of statist, conformist, command-economy orthodoxy.
[. . .]
Its objectives? Compulsory tolerance, selective justice, the perpetual subsidization of our dependency culture, open borders, a disarmed populace, vaporized property rights, warrantless mass surveillance, the ceding of popular authority to the state (and American sovereignty to the world), the deification of progressive leaders, mass youth indoctrination via government-subsidized revisionist history, the debasing of religious freedom, the erosion of the U.S. Constitution, and the relegation of our nation’s two founding pillars – freedom and free markets – to the dustbin of history.
Think that’s hyperbolic? Consider retired liberal general Wesley Clark – the former supreme NATO commander in Europe – who last month said American citizens who disagreed with their government should be sent to internment camps. Then consider U.S. senator and 2016 presidential candidate Lindsey Graham – who said he’d consider using military force on the U.S. Congress if it didn’t fund the Department of Defense to his liking.
Where are the charges against these traitors? And which federal judge is ordering them to be subjected to mental evaluations?
[. . .]
Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, who was indicted for allegedly funneling $1 million in campaign contributions to his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
[. . .]
Edwards got off scot-free. Not one of the charges against him stuck. And no one accused him of being crazy.
D’Souza? He was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house and five years’ probation and ordered to pay $30,000 in fines. He was also required to undergo eight months of court-mandated “therapeutic counseling” by liberal U.S. district court judge Richard Berman
[. . .]



This is eerily reminiscent of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, in which the director of a Moscow paper factory received a ten-year sentence for sitting down at the eleven-minute mark of a standing ovation to Joseph Stalin. For his crime of insufficient enthusiasm, he was arrested later that night on a trumped up charge and bluntly told by his interrogator, “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
“That was how they discovered who the independent people were,” Solzhenitsyn wrote. “And that was how they went about eliminating them.”
Make no mistake: this is where America is headed.
[. . .]
American freedoms and free markets are under attack – from Obamacare’s insidious individual mandate to the IRS persecution of conservative groups to the NSA’s warrantless mass surveillance of all Americans.
All the while, the national debt is soaring, our entitlements are on the verge of being exhausted, labor participation is at four-decade lows, wages are stagnant, and America’s status as the world’s only superpower is crumbling every bit as fast as the rule of law is eroding here at home

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/americas_culture_war_starts_claiming_victims.html

August 16, 2015
America's Culture War Starts Claiming Victims
By Bill Wilson

Dinesh D'Souza Describes His Confinement For Campaign Contributions

Dinesh D’Souza opens up about sleeping at a California confinement center on Megyn Kelly’s show, June 8. What was it like to bunk among hardened criminals? If you want to learn more about my time in confinement, I gave Megyn Kelly a few insights this week on Fox News. I explained what I learned bunking with hardened criminals for eight months and observing them, somewhat like an anthropologist in a foreign land. Check out my latest segment on The Kelly File right here:

Dinesh D'Souza Debates With Bill Ayers on C-Span

The discussion is about two hours.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?317513-1/whats-great-america

JANUARY 30, 2014
What's So Great About America?
Author and documentary director Dinesh D’Souza and activist and author Bill Ayers participated in a debate titled, “What’s so Great About America?” Following their opening remarks, they asked questions of each other for ten minutes arguing such topics as Israel, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the Second Amendment, and religious freedom. They then responded to questions from audience members and made closing statements.

Updated: D’Souza's America, Film Review

Posted June 30, 2014 1:06 AM ET; Last updated July 17, 2014 11:40 AM ET

[From article]
Once again D’Souza emphasizes that singling out America for the sins of the word is a fool’s errand because slavery existed in every culture in the world from the Egyptians to the Chinese to the African to the American Indians (long before Columbus) and, as we are reminded, slavery exists even today.
[. . .]
D’Souza employs the same technique in debunking the leftist accusations of American imperialism, and the “theft” of the American Dream that capitalism ostensibly represents. From WWII to the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, D’Souza reminds Americans that not only have we stolen nothing from these countries, but expended considerable blood and treasure re-building them. And the free-market capitalism that has showered this nation with unprecedented wealth succeeds “not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.” “The wealth of America isn’t stolen, it’s created,” D’Souza asserts. “The ethic of conquest is universal. What’s uniquely American is the alternative, equal rights, self-determination, and wealth creation. If America did not exist, the conquest ethic would dominate the world.”
[. . .]
The movie points out that the American left embraces a conquest ethic all its own. “The shaming of America is not accidental, it’s part of a strategy,” he warns. It is a strategy formulated by the likes of radical leftist Saul Alinsky who was “the godfather in the art of using shame for political shakedown.” The cultural revolution of the ‘60s provided Alinsky with his army of shakedown artists who have since infiltrated media, academia and, most importantly, government. Ever-expanding government has given us a nation where agencies like the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ and the NSA “are all collecting information and storing it on every American,” D’Souza warns. He explains that Barack Obama didn’t create this liberty-stifling reality. Rather, it created him.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/64628

“America” demolishes the Left’s false narrative of the United States.
Dinesh D’Souza Tells the True Story of America

By Arnold Ahlert

July 17, 2014

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[From review]
Mr. D’Souza does a masterful job of debunking the progressive myths that paint the noble concept that is America as a force of evil that must be destroyed and reinvented in the progressive image of equality. The truth of our history — a truth that is no longer told in our schools — is presented.
I strongly urge all of you to see this film and to take your children with you. If for no other reason, the information presented (both accusations and defenses) will allow you to start a dialogue with those who believe this liberal progressive administration’s view that America is evil and must be torn down and reinvented.
Mr. Molen and Mr. D’Souza have made an entertaining and informative movie that should be a “must see” for all thoughtful citizens, both liberal and conservative.

http://m.dailyinterlake.com/opinion/debunking-the-progressive-myths/article_c19cb8e2-fe68-11e3-9e4b-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=jqm

‘Debunking the progressive myths’
‘America’: First reviews
By P. DAVID MYEROWITZ
June 29, 2014

Hackers Uploading Film, 2016, to Reduce Its Impact

There are many sites where anyone can upload video. One person reported to me that 2016 could be viewed on vimeo.com It is alleged that the full copy of 2016 was taken down from YouTube.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/filmmakers-2016-obamas-america-fox-news-373478 '2016:

Obama's America' Filmmakers Claim Organized Disinformation Campaign
12:21 PM PDT 9/24/2012
by Paul Bond
UPDATED: The movie showed up on YouTube over the weekend as rumors spread it would also be shown free on the Fox News Channel.