This is happening in America.

While terrorists brutally rape and murder our Libyan ambassador and attack and burn our foreign outposts — all thanks to a president who disengaged from the region and embraced the Muslim Brotherhood — here in the United States of America, a filmmaker is being scapegoated and persecuted by our government and our media.

His only crime was doing something Hollywood and celebrated artists do on a regular basis, and sometimes with our tax dollars — denigrating a religion. Only this filmmaker made the mistake of denigrating Islam. So now he finds himself hunted. Had he poured the same energy and derision on Christianity, today he’d be celebrated.

A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff’s station but was not arrested or detained, authorities said early Saturday.

[NAME REDACTED by Breitbart News] was interviewed at the station in his hometown of Cerritos, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Don Walker said.

Federal officials have said they were investigating the activities of Nakoula, who has been convicted of financial crimes. If the probation department determines Nakoula violated terms of his release, a judge could send him back to prison.

It’s all kind of one big Squirrel!, isn’t it?

Rather than focus on the fact that there were no Marines guarding the Libyan consulate where the murder of four Americans was committed or the very real threats against those Americans (by al-Qaeda) the White House apparently did not take seriously, when the torch and pitchfork media wasn’t torching and pitchforking Mitt Romney — they were hunting this filmmaker.

And what’s his crime?

Only that terrorists used his film as an excuse to rape, murder, and burn — only that he’s all Obama and his media lapdogs have to distract from the president’s failed policy of removing American influence from the most volatile and dangerous region in the world.

Okay, so this guy is guilty of committing some financial crimes — something that only gives him something more in common with fellow filmmakers — but we all know this isn’t about that.

What this is about is a president who swore to uphold the Constitution who is now caving to Islamic Law through the de facto criminalization of denigrating Islam. And he’s doing it in order to give the media something shiny to play with so they’re not forced to turn their attention (until after the election) towards a failed doctrine and fatal failure to take al-Qaeda seriously.

This is happening in America.

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