Looks like they found good reason to sentence him but we all know the reason the picked him up in the first place was because of the film. A very fascist thing to do:

(AP) — The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that roiled the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for violating his probation stemming from a 2010 bank fraud conviction by lying about his identity.

U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder immediately sentenced Mark Basseley Youssef after he admitted to four of the eight alleged violations, including obtaining a fraudulent California driver’s license.

None of the violations had to do with the content of “Innocence of Muslims,” a film that depicts Mohammad as a religious fraud, pedophile and a womanizer. The movie sparked violence in Libya and other parts of the Middle East, killing dozens.

Youssef, 55, was arrested in late September, just weeks after he went into hiding when deadly violence erupted in Libya and other parts of the Middle East in response to the movie.




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Suzyqpie
Suzyqpie

My question is, what was this guy doing here in the first place? He is an Egyptian immigrant. What kind of filters do we have in our immigration process? He ran a bank fraud scheme. Is he an American citizen now?

HuntsvilleAL
HuntsvilleAL

This scumbad was on probation for check fraud? As a small business owner I think he should get the death penalty, or at minimum sent to Guantanamo Bay. Why did he only get a year?

Yazz55
Yazz55

This acknowledges that free speech in the USA is officially dead.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

Hey, this poor dude either was a shill for the left or an innocent dope with a criminal background that led to this sentence. Either he was complicit (not looking that way) or he was in the wrong place at the right time. You can't trust a thing these libs have a spoon in. Any way, the video accusation is moot at this point, the world knows they lied, deceived and scapegoated the dude. Any reference to this farce now should be addressed as "the lie the 0 regime used as an excuse".

I've been reading how the left purges words from documents and references, well I'm purging "the video" from all references to the Benghazi battlefield War and replacing it with the truth, "the lie"

Rosebud
Rosebud

Obama sat there and watched in real time four Americans being murdered by terrorists in Benghazi and did nothing because of his re-election plans. This man goes to jail for his freedom of speech. Sounds logical. If Youssef was so bad, why wasn't he arrested long before the movie came out?

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

Don't kid yourself about believing 0 did nothing with only his reelection plans in mind.

Wolfie
Wolfie

This video caused the riots that caused Benghazi only in the imagination of the Liberals, and in their trained lapdogs the MSM.

Orangeone
Orangeone

The film did not roil the Middle East. Barky has his Middle East friends cause the disruption so he could look presidential.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

How interesting. Just last week I was reading somewhere that Mark Basseley Youssef was scheduled to be released from jail 3 or 4 days after the election (article down the rabbit hole I guess). I thought how convenient, release after election so not to be a possible election problem.

So now he stays in jail, doesn't pass Go...etc? Hell, why doesn't the Obama Administration throw him in the Gitmo Gulag for enemies of Obama.

Mr. Mark Basseley Youssef may not be a nice man but he has free speech rights too or did. To use a false excuse to jail him is not the American way.

I guess though once Barry has gotten to appoint an all liberal Supreme Court the American Way will be history.

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

powers that be................" mistook" him for Holder and mistook the sentence from life in prison to 1 year.

Capisce?

;)

LIBERTYUSA
LIBERTYUSA

...before you know it America this web page will be shut DOWN .

ELECTIONS do have consequences

Constance
Constance

We will find a way around it. That much I have faith in. The will of people like us far outweighs the tyrannical hand of government. Think about it - in direct reaction to Obama's first term was born the Tea Party movement. Imagine what will come about now that he has been reelected. I've had two days to be angry, feel defeated, and drink a lot of coffee... I'm ready now. Let's roll!

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

I'm waiting for Bruce Springsteen to hold a telethon for this guy. Sure, I'm still waiting.

Don't you just detest the blatant hypocrisy on the left? I know I do.

Steven Valdez
Steven Valdez

that filmmaker is a shady character.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

If you could be convicted for being a 'shady character', all of Obama's 'Czars' would be in jail. ;-) ;-)

911Infidel
911Infidel

The guy is a scumbag, but his movie is spot on. Speaking of scumbags, so is this regime. Not sure whether Levin is right or if Rabbi Cahn is right. Or maybe both. In any event, say good-bye to our Constitutional Republic. Say hello to the US of Zimbabwe. The perfect third-world regime model for third-world thinkers like Obama and the dumb a$$es that voted for him.

kong1967
kong1967

I can't remember her name, but the lady on "The Five" on Fox (who is an attorney) said that they don't send you up the river for his violations. This is bullcrap. Now you go to prison for crossing liberal PC guidelines. Our freedom of speech is gone because you never know if they will come arrest you for insulting Islam now.

Wolfie
Wolfie

I think you mean Kimberly Guilfoyle and I agree with her and with you.

Orangeone
Orangeone

And if you think you can trust a lawyer to represent you, remember they are are left leaning liberals that are only looking for big fees from you. Once paid, they will let you rot.

kong1967
kong1967

I've never hired a lawyer. When I got a divorce, my wife had custody of our baby so I let her have everything. We had everything a normal house has...furniture, utilities, etc.....I didn't want anything. We had two cars and I took the Camaro, let her have the Mustang. I won't sue anyone unless it's major....hasn't happened yet. Screw lawyers. I don't need no stinking lawyer.

Samwise Gamgee the 3rd
Samwise Gamgee the 3rd

What an outrage.

One of the many reasons yesterday was so depressing. For him too, I'm sure.

I'd really like a state to secede, send a special operations team to bust him out of prison, and then say, "F--- you," to the federal and California governments, in a big thumbing of its nose.

Of course, that wouldn't end well and is so not a good idea. But up to that point, I don't mind the thought at all.

Not4TheGimmeParty
Not4TheGimmeParty

Interesting. They still talk about "the movie". Let the new buckets of water be filled--carry on Obama sycophants, but don't keep your head in the sand lest your bucket overflow and you drown.

jerimiah13
jerimiah13

A movie can turn people into savages? what ever happened to people? maybe too many people watch all this so called reality tv and lose focus on real life......just my opinion

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

He gets a year for 'violation of probation' for a non violent crime. Read your own local news paper and notice how many people arrested for 'violation of probation' for violent crimes are released 'on probation' again.

We know what this is really about, Hillary told the parent's of the slain Seal how this was going down, when his casket came off the plane.

Orangeone
Orangeone

He will never be seen again. Barky Boy will give him to his moooslim brothers for beheading and collect the reward.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Oh, I'm sure there are some Black Muslim 'Brotha's' in the jail who will take care of this 'problem' for Barry.

;-) ;-)

Linky1
Linky1

Oh, imagine that-the day after Barky Boy Wins (steals) his 2nd term, this man is jailed.

syvyn11
syvyn11

Obama just became the first Sharia Complient President.

Liberals say they hate theocracies and I don't blame them. But they are scared of the Christians ruling this country.

Well. Now our president has made this country a Theocracy, a ISLAMIC THEOCRACY. Don't say anything bad about Muhammad. Or you go to jail and denied your rights.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

Ronald Reagan was like a prophet warning us of what is to become of us when the people vote for tyranny

“Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.”

leel004
leel004

Strike one at freedom of speech. Remember what babboy said at the UN about disrespecting allah?

theresaaa
theresaaa

"We'll reward our friends and punish our enemies "

Did anyone think he didn't mean it ?

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

AP continues the lie..."he went into hiding when deadly violence erupted in Libya and other parts of the Middle East in response to the movie."

The news media is worthless... They should have written ...he went into hiding after a movie he made was falsely blamed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as causing Middle East violence.... But no, they continue the lie.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

You said it Scoop. A very fascist thing to do.

So, this guy who made a youtube movie which probably had about 5 hits until an imam saw it and spread it gets a year in prison... while the real culprit who allowed Americans to die alone gets... re elected to the white house.

I can't write down what just streamed out of my mouth right now.

3seven77
3seven77

A film that apparently doesn't even exist was used as a coverup for this administration.

"Innocence of Muslims is perhaps the most famous movie in the world, but no one seems to have seen it. Maybe that's because it doesn't exist beyond the muddled 14-minute "trailer" on YouTube that has prompted anti-American violence in the Middle East.

The film's writer, Sam Bacile, aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, initially said he created a full-length movie that screened at the Vine Theatre in Hollywood under the title The Innocence of Bin Laden. But a theater employee told the Los Angeles Times no one attended the screening, nor did the employee watch the movie."

More here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/innocence-of-muslims-movie-youtube-trailer-371465

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

Motivations for the arrest from the top appear to be wrong (though he should be in jail if he violated parole anyway) but please don't feel sorry for this man:

http://www.shoebat.com/2012/09/27/innocence-of-muslims-film-was-made-by-terrorists-2/

Watchman74
Watchman74

I saw this when TRS first posted it, and honestly I don't know what to think of it or if it's even true or not. The article is a whole separate issue but the bigger issue here is about freedom of speech. I'm certain he wouldn't have gotten arrested when he did had he never made the video. It reminds me of how they got Al Capone, they couldn't pin any charges on him so they got him for tax evasion instead. This is similar, they couldn't arrest him for making a movie and expressing his freedom of speech, so they got him on these other charges instead. Which is just as bad.

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

I had seen one of the participants on Right Scoop post a link to an article from Walid Shoebat on the topic of the filmmaker. If TRS posted it, I must have missed it, though much later I saw he did post a video on Obama's Muslim family connections, etc..

MaxineCA
MaxineCA

Wow.... I sure hope everyone reads not only the initial article but the links at the end. I've only read the first two links and already gained some additional knowledge.

Thanks for sharing. I believe we all trust Walid to tell us the truth, so I consider him a reliable source.

Hey Scoop Friends - This is a MUST read as well as the 3 links to other articles at the end of the article.

Get back to us once you have done that, as I think your opinion will change. This guy deserves no sympathy.

MaxineCA
MaxineCA

Yes, I remember seeing that. I know it's horrible "optics", and I warned everyone not to jump to conclusions from the beginning after watching the local news. This guy is not a innocent film maker, but I seriously doubt the reason for Benghazi.

The local media (at the time) reported that he allegedly used false ID to travel to Pakistan while on probation, without the approval of his PO.

I'm wondering if we will EVER get the complete story on this whole thing. I could conjure up a few theories, none of which are pretty, but I like to draw my conclusions based on facts, not just the optics of a situation.

Stewie
Stewie

No one feels sorry for him--- it's the false pretense under which he was arrested. It's an assault on free speech. This is 100% "1984" insanity.

Betsey_Ross
Betsey_Ross

Holy Cow! Have you seen this guy's bio? He isn't a Copt. and he hates Israel. He lies about everything and moves at will between the USA, Canada, and the ME because he assumes different identies. You can't believe a word he says. Much like our president. I am surprised he only got a year in jail. Even deporting him wouldn't do any good.

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

Have you seen his background in relation to the film in the article I posted the link for?

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

Don't read this if you don't want to but I hope the U.S. House of Representatives will take a look at the matter:

The Obama administration used the man for cover-up about Benghazi.

http://www.shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Anti_Muhammad_Film_Terrorism_092412.pdf

excerpts:

'The court documents tell us that Nakoula partnered with Eiad and that Nakoula was finally caught in 2009 for his role in a check-kiting ring that stole over $870,000 from six financial institutions by using stolen Social Security numbers and identities.

Eiad was never arrested and I will say more on that mystery later.

The money used to make the film is likely to have come from all that dirty money Eiad and Nakoula were dealing with, and not from “one hundred Jewish families” as this imposter named Nakoula claimed.

And why claim that Jews funded the film after all?

Why claim he is a Copt?

It becomes an obvious stunt to blame these two hated groups.

Why would a Copt want to cause persecution of Copts?'

'Nakoula was sentenced to just 21 months in prison for the bank fraud case (one year short of what prosecutors wanted) and was released early and supposedly wrote the script for the movie The Innocence of Muslims while in prison / halfway house, funded it with dirty money, and produced it while his Parole Officer apparently slumbered.'

Please see page 5 of this report re: the FBI and Nakoula, etc..

page 12 says:

'My thrust in this report is really for Americans to begin to focus on the billions of dollars embezzled by terrorists from the United States and how the liberal media and the FBI work tirelessly to remain complicit.'

'His cellmate, who testified that Nakoula was always reviewing the Quran, does not exclude the possibly that he is a Muslim who was reading his Quran and meditating on it.'

See the last half of page 14 about this man's terrorist plot.

Stewie
Stewie

So you're saying that they can't use terrorism charges because the trail would lead back to them?

I don't need anymore depressing news-

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

How it was made to appear in regards to Benghazi by the Obama admin. and that he was evidently charged only on parole violation rather than terrorist charges as to what connections he had in the making of the film, etc.- that's where corruption in the Obama admin. I think comes in and the flame-fanning they did with the ads in the Middle East didn't help America either.

Stewie
Stewie

If you're stating that this came from the top, then I would agree. My initial reaction was that this was intended to remove our influence from the middle east, leaving Israel on its own, with no American support, due to "extraneous" circumstances.

This is getting more depressing, knowing that we have to suffer so much more of this-

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

That's where the corruption at the top comes in. Clinton's cover-up comment to the father of one of the slain testifies to that. Though if he truly did violate parole, he did deserve to be picked up- the show was perverse. And the ironic thing is, while the film had nothing to do with Benghazi, it evidently was used to stir up hatred against America and the flames were fanned by the advertisements by the Obama administration in the Middle East about the film, which looks to Islamists like an admission of guilt that deserves punishment.

Stewie
Stewie

Yes, but at this point I have only "skimmed" them.

Has the guy been charged as a terrorist?

Stewie
Stewie

Just looked at it-

If they have evidence, then prosecute with the correct charges.....otherwise, they should F off.

Precedent affects everyone, not just the bad guys.

Stewie
Stewie

Speech is a weapon that will be used against us. That is terrifying because it will apply to, and limit, all other Constitutionally protected rights. Example: In IL, there are constant moves to try to criminalize gun sales. They loosely define "gang" left open for interpretation and try to create felons that will permanently eliminate gun rights. Speech is just another angle to limit other rights. There is no way this should be dismissed as simply "justified" when the argument they use to justify can be applied to a simple disagreement.

Edit: I understand your perspective, but the only important perspective should be to be suspicious of a Fed with this much power.

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

They don't need sympathy, but neither does this man, apparently. They are going about things all wrong, but it seems this man does richly deserve to be behind bars for this terrorist plot he participated in.

Stewie
Stewie

His background does not matter because that's not where the outrage stems from. The administration blamed a youtube video.....thus his arrest was due to that youtube video. If they had come out and said it was potentially tied to terrorists, then they would have more sympathy, however, speech is being used as a weapon against the people.