Dinesh D'Souza
Amazing. Even though he was
caught dead-to-rights illegally contributing more than the maximum allowed by law to New York Senate candidate Wendy Long, conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza
has escaped jail time. While most criminal defendants shut up and throw themselves on the mercy of the court, D'Souza had spent every minute since his indictment hysterically claiming that the prosecution was all an
Obama-directed conspiracy to shut him up. What's more, Judge Richard Berman knew D'Souza hadn't displayed the slightest bit of contrition:
Berman appeared to accept the prosecutors' position, playing a video in which D'Souza talked about selective prosecution - an effort at "spin," the judge said.
"I'm not sure, Mr. D'Souza, that you get it," Berman said before announcing the sentence. "And it is still hard for me to discern any personal acceptance of responsibility in this case."
In spite of that, Berman only sentenced D'Souza to eight months in a "community confinement center"—basically, a halfway house that allows D'Souza to leave during the day to go work. Well, I hope Berman feels like a fool now, because that's
exactly what D'Souza played him for:
"I've got a big smile on my face now, and I think I have for several hours. I can't wipe it off because this was really an effort to put me out of business, I mean, the government was trying to lock me up for between 10 and 16 months and a federal judge said no," D'Souza said Tuesday night on Fox News' "The Kelly File." "My own country tried to put me away and the court said no."
Next time a guilty criminal howls about "selective prosecution" and shows no remorse, how about we lock him up?
