THE ALL-OUT WAR ON FIRST AMENDMENT
JOSEPH FARAH
WND.com
Jan. 26, 2014
Bestselling author and scholar Dinesh D’Souza, whose “2016: Obama’s America,” was one of the biggest documentary movie hits of its kind, was indicted last week on felony campaign finance violation charges that could see him imprisoned him for up to seven years. He was arraigned on $500,000 bail and Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department prosecutors made sure to collect his passport to prevent him from fleeing the country.
Friends of Abe, a group of conservative Hollywood figures that applied for nonprofit 501(c)(3) status, has seen its application held up for two years while Internal Revenue Service officials demand, among other things, a list of the group’s members, who would prefer their identities not be made public for fear of losing work. In fact, one of the key reasons for the group’s existence is to provide peer support for political dissidents who have face a serious threat of blacklisting in Hollywood.
Last year, Holder’s Justice Department shocked the media establishment by monitoring the phone records of reporters at the Associated Press and Fox News in a heavy-handed, jackbooted effort to identify leakers of classified documents within Barack Obama’s own administration.
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