Still, a film of this sort — with rudimentary props and costumes, cartoonish visual effects, poor lighting — would be relatively easy for amateurs to make. Digital video cameras can be purchased for $3,000 or less, and relatively sophisticated video editing software is widely available. Casting can be as simple as posting an ad on Craigslist or tacking a flier to a Starbucks bulletin board.

The Southern Poverty Law Center said Klein is an ex-Marine who has trained church members in "the art of combat."

It [the SPLC] described Klein as founder of Courageous Christians United, which conducts protests outside abortion clinics, Mormon temples and mosques.



It quoted Klein as saying he believes that California is riddled with Muslim Brotherhood sleeper cells "who are awaiting the trigger date and will begin randomly killing as many of us as they can."

Ah yes. How many times have we seen this pattern? First, a shady low-life gets into trouble with the law. Then the spooks find him, whisper in his ear, and promise to make all of his problems go away -- as long as he plays along with some bizarre scheme. For quite a few years, I've called it the "Three R" trick -- the three Rs being Terry Reed, Michael Riconosciuto and Gunther Russbacher.Think about it. Who the hell is going to loan Nakoula -- a guy guilty of freakin'-- the sum of five million dollars? Even if the actual budget was $50,000, how would this jailbird scrape up the dough? He was sent to prison for 21 months in 2010; how did he secure an early release?You can't make a movie of any kind -- even a student film -- if you can't communicate via the internet.And what sort of crook would make it his first order of business, after walking out of jail, to make a movie denigrating Mohammed -- a filmdesigned to create an international incident? If you had no job, no prospects, a prison record and a debt of more than three-quarters of a million dollars, would your first instinct be toEven though you've never made a movie before in your life?And why would said crook also throw in some slurs against the Occupy movement?If this creep cared at all about the Copts in Egypt, he would know that a stunt like this is the last thing those Christians would want, especially at a time like this. For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood has had an extremely suspicious and (at times) threatening attitude toward the Copts, who have always sought harmonious relations with Egypt's Islamic majority. The Copts never -- ever -- insult the followers of Mohammed. The church does everything it can to keep the peace. At this moment, the Coptic patriarchy must be scared to death. (There is no official Pope of the Coptic Church right now, since Pope Shenouda III died recently and the church often waits months before investing a successor with the title. The acting Pope is a Bishop named Pachomius.)Crew members who worked on the film say that they were grossly misled about its content. Apparently, a very different film was shot; crude overdubbing laid in the slurs against Mohammed. The New York Times says that a full film may not even exist, although it has been confirmed that some version of it did play after hours at the Vine in Hollywood. (The Vine is a dump that ran porn for many years. It's the only theater on Hollywood Blvd I've never entered.) The NYT also seems to think that the reported $5 million budget is suspicious:Actually, you can get an HD Canon camera adequate to this task for under $500. (I once saw a camera used on a feature film go for under $200 on an ebay auction.) Many actors will work for free, or for very low wages. All of this suggests that the "budget" is actually a pay-off. Take note of the amount of money he owed in restitution.This is an operation. Spooks recruited NBN. Make no mistake about that. Since NBN did time in an American prison, then whoever offered him the deal must have been in a position to make his parole problems go away.What irritates me is that this is all so bloody sloppy. The spooks behind NBN put no thought at all into their work. It's an insult to our intelligence. You remember that episode ofwhere Homer enters into the Witness Relocation Program wearing a t-shirt bearing the words "Witness Relocation Program"? NBN might as well be wearing a black windbreaker with MOSSAD on the back. Even people who take pride in proclaiming that they don't believe in conspiracy theories are saying thatone is aconspiracy.How can anyone say otherwise, now that we know that the attack on the Libyan embassy was planned well before NBN's production hit YouTube? Fortunately, this shitty trick is not working out very well for Mitt Romney . His team blew their lines. (Timing is everything, fellas.) It's just too bad that a fine ambassador had to die as part of this pathetic Mossad scheme to put the Mittster in office.Incidentally, NBN's partner, Steve Klein , has been identified as an insurance agent in Hemet, California, a desert community best known as one of the headquarters for Scientology. Get this: Again, I'm not surprised by any of this. Spooks use dumb-ass merc wanna-bes all the time. They are malleable and deniable. More on Klein Doesn't like Mormons, eh? Maybe he didn't know that he was party to a plot to put a Mormon in the oval office. The website for Courageous Christians United offers these thoughts on Romney. (Also here .)