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  • Do you think That Sam Bacile aka Nicoule Basseley Nicoule was an FBI informant?

    UPDATE 5: The Smoking Gun uncovers the fact that Nakoula had worked out some sort of deal with Federal authorities to get a lighter sentence but the details of which have been sealed by the courts. They also show that Nakoula was released from prison in late 2010 to live at a halfway house, but he violated the terms of his parole and ended up going back inside til June or July of 2011. When he came out, he immediately began working on his honeypot trap.

    UPDATE 4: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula also busted in late 90s for manufacturing crystal meth and again in 2002 for parole violations. He is currently being investigated to see if he violated the terms of his parole, just as I wrote in this article last night...

    UPDATE 2: Justin Raimondo of AntiWar takes a look at the various pieces of the puzzle and concludes that there is a real possibility that this entire thing was created by someone other than “Bacile”. He makes some good points, the best of them is the writing of the film itself and how it specifically deals with things designed to anger Muslims not to convert them as Klein claims.

    UPDATE 1: Steve Klein continues the hate-mongering while propping up the story that ‘Bacile” approached him out of the blue with money and an idea to rope all the “dangerous Muslims” into the honey trap.

    Hillary Clinton has stated unequivocally that the U.S. government had absolutely nothing to do with the making of the film which has reportedly caused so much anger and hostility across the Middle East. I think she’s lying and there’s good reason I think that.

    It turns out that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula fits the profile of an FBI confidential informant perfectly. His criminal background and the terms of his parole make it seem very likely that he may have been approached by the FBI to help flush out some “extremists” in California. Statements made by Klein make clear they had the intention to only show the film “Innocence of bin Laden” in California in hopes of finding radical Muslims. This is not something that average people just jump up and decide to do out of the blue for the greater good of the community. Especially career criminals.

    Is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula an FBI Informant?...

    The FBI has a long sordid history of using confidential informants (CIs) to work undercover in order to root out extremist of all sorts. This is an unremarkable claim not needing source material as proof...

    There are far more of these type operations these days than I would like to have to list but suffice to say it happens with an almost eerie regularity.

    The typical MO of such an operation is as follows:

    1.you take someone outside of the justice or legal system because you don’t want them to be tracked back to law enforcement training or career. Usually someone with a criminal record so they are less likely to betray your project and if they do, you have a built in smear campaign to deny them credibility if, say, they go to the press.

    2.you create a new identity for them, something that suits your specific needs. In the case of Kelvin Jackson, it was an angry Muslim. In the case of Gletty, a pissed off white guy.

    3.you accord them some kind of credibility either cash and resources for bombing attacks or a background in whatever endevour you plan.

    4.fund them through back door channels so it can’t be traced back to the source (Feds, FBI, DEA, etc)

    5.you set up the sting hoping to catch extremists showing up with bad intentions on their minds.

    Nakoula was sentenced to 21 months for bank fraud back in 2010. He was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Lompoc which is a minimal security prison for white collar criminals in California. Go here to read the court order judgement. He was also given 5 years after that 21 month sentence on highly supervised parole.

    (As a side note, part of the parole stipulation set forth by the judge is that if he were to enter into any kind of confidential informant type of operation for any intelligence or law enforcement agency, it first has to be cleared by the judge in the case. So in fact, there may be legal documentation filed in a California court which ties Nakoula and a branch of the U.S. government to each other and this film. See #13 of the Standard Conditions of Probation on page 4 of 4)

    What he had been doing was creating new identities by combining fake names with real social security numbers in order to open credit card accounts with Wells Fargo bank. He would draw money out at ATMs or write checks to other fictitious accounts and cash them at the bank. It was quite extensive his little scheme. Go here to read the court report on his crimes. In the court order he was ordered to pay just north of $794,000 in restitution which he apparently is going to have to be paying back for a very long period of time.

    http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/was-nak...

    1 AnswerLaw & Ethics9 years ago
  • Are some religions forms of narcissism or something else?

    In major faiths, ancient and modern, as the ancient Egyptian religion, the ancient Mesopotamian religions, the ancient European religions, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, the deity is a human being. In other words, mankind is worshiping himself. Yet mankind is acutely aware of his limitations. Why would he think that a being with all of those failings would be capable of the vast accomplishments of creation he attributes to the deified human being? If the deity is the summation of human accomplishments, he would also be the embodiment of those faults. Deities as YHWH and Zeus were capable mass murder. Why would human beings deify the worst of their faults and then expect to establish a functional and peaceful society? It doesn't seem to make any sense.

    5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years ago