Apparently your headline is somewhat stale, according to KTLA he voluntarily came in to be interviewed re his probationary status as a result of a bank fraud conviction the terms of which limits his access to the internet. According to the article, he was not under arrest, has not been held, and has been released. When you are on probation, you belong to the Justice Department.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-anti-muslim-filmmaker,0,4969651.story

You’re speaking about headlines when the target audience – the barbarians overseas – can’t read.

The Obama administration clearly precipitated this, and staged the optics in the hopes that this now widely disseminated photo, showing American authorities taking someone who offended Islam into custody, would quiet the mobs.

If you’re not disturbed by that manipulation, and the implicit torching of the Constitution it communicates, there’s no help for you.

Or in the way of your need for adult supervision.

The timing of this “questioning” is about as big a load of crap as the timing of the “protests”. You guys would walk into a volcano if you thought it would help your little messiah, wouldn’t you?

Go bow to your bobble-head Obama now, and be sure and cash that check from OFA – it may not be good in a week or two.

There really isn’t enough room in this comment thread to list the FACTS that clearly reveal President Obama to be the worst man in history to hold the office, on every level, from failure, to betrayal of American values, to failure to uphold the Constitution, failure to respect the Supreme Court or Congress and separation of powers, nor to uphold laws on immigration and welfare – not to mention the Solyndra Fraud, Fast and Furious deaths, Eric Holder cover up, and illegal interference in offshore drilling in defiance of court orders… and on and on and on.

Why don’t we just stick to the economy, in which gas prices have never been higher (where’s the XL Pipeine???), REAL unemployment is over 11%, and we’re $16 trillion in debt, running another TRILLION deficit, and the Democrats have FAILED to even pass a budget, and we’ve just been downgraded AGAIN, making that TWO firsts in his infamous first term.

I suppose, with all that, you can be forgiven in thinking that shredding the First Amendment and letting violent Muslims in the street dictate what Americans can say is just a single stain on the fabric of America among countless other stains this Empty Chair Marxist will leave when he gets booted unceremoniously in November.

You better hope Romney wins because we are ALL screwed if the Unicorn Prince gets to dismantle and mismanage America for another four years.

You’re right – I guess the Democrat base of liberals/leftists is more encouraged than I realized. Jubilant even.

Maybe hubby and I should consider moving to Canada so we can *improve* our chances of speaking our minds. I hear the business climate is better there these days too.

In all you have laid out, the President has proven that his position as a leader of nations demands far more from him than his natural gifts would allow. But Obama is leading the country extremely effectively if one considers his primary goals to be hobbling the economy, leaving the electorate impoverished, poorly educated and dependent, and reversing the relationship between American citizens and their governmental servants permanently.

I used to think that if a radical like Obama served four more years, there would be such a strong backlash that Republicans would easily be swept into office for at least a decade after 2016; that our election process would save us. And I agreed with so many that it was irrational to believe that in a 2nd term, a newly empowered, unbound Obama administration would choose to actively suspend or limit the voting franchise. But lately watching how shrewdly the new socialists operate, it is obvious that through the courts and regulatory legislation by bureaucracy, the will of the voters may soon be rendered – at least functionally – obsolete. Whether Americans will have the chance to regain hold of the direction of the nation may be decided in November 2012.

LA County Sheriff says he was never arrested, and it was a voluntary meeting.

From Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/15/la-sheriff-feds-interview-calif-filmmaker/

Here’s my take on that… I have faith in the American people, even if upwards of 40% are lobotomized moobs who’d vote D as reliably as wind up monkeys clashing cymbals.

For what it’s worth, in the 90′s the fear was that the Clintons would reign forever and we’d all be owned by the Japanese. As it turns out, a Republican held the White House for the next two terms and Japan imploded (hint: China will too).

I also endured the moobs telling me that Kerry would win in 04 and that Obama would increase his party’s power in 2010 because teh party of NO had gotten in bed with the lunatic Tea Party and we could all expect to be getting bar codes on our butts in preparation for Obamacare. Turns out the voters STILL hate Obamacare, and that doesn’t bode well for Captain Empty Chair.

Sure, the Democrats have been unapologetically hard left, aggressive, dirty, and have an alarming lack of shame in their brazen willingness to throw truth and tradition and decency under the campaign bus… but I’ve also seen the American people shun Kerry, and the Democrats get a sound whoopin in 2009, 2010, and 2011 when the voters had a chance to do their thang.

Yes, part of me fears a rigged election, Acorn and Harry Reid and the ObamaMedia Complex and the unions tipping the scales enough to pull of a win… and I have had my doubts about Team Romney at times… but I could not see McCain winning in the crater of the 2008 crash and panic on Bush’s watch… and I can’t imagine how the events of the last week where the entire Middle East burst into flames while Obama’s home town teachers are on strike, the Fed had to drive a Jack Bauer adrenaline needle into the heart of the economy because it was dying in Prime Time… and the Party of Abortion said NO to God on video.

The Democrats in power now are bad people. Evil in some cases, I believe, even if they don’t recognize themselves as such. And I believe the American people of 2010 will flush them out with the disgraceful drubbing that they deserve… to the point that Todd ‘Legitimate Rape’ Akin may yet win.

NOW is the time for hope and change and courage. Even if the Jack Ass party does manage to steal the election, there is NO WAY that would mean the end of the story for America. That would be the beginning of an America that saw the end of the Democrat party. You know what they say about fear. These guys are a disgrace and it’s time for them to get their walking papers.

kind of hard to explain the handcuffs, hood, police car, and police if this was voluntary, don’t you think. When you turn yourself in, you go down to the police station.

The only reason you haven’t drawn a ban for this bit of idiocy is that you are regurgitating other idiocy.

No action should have been taken against this man under duress.

If Islamists say “This man should be punished,” that’s the time for the U.S. Government to say “Hell no. Stop your violence first.”

It’s been a while since I’ve replied to one of these posts, but this event strikes a few chords for me. I read in the #Redhot link yesterday that the person in question here actually voluntarily reported to the precinct to explain his situation but was not handcuffed, but did request that he don the overcoat, hat and scarf to hide his identity. Notwithstanding that, it does bring a chill to think that authorities are going to start calling and visiting any critic of something as though they were instigators of a crime, let alone being involved directly in the crime itself. I also refer to the report last week of the Chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff placing a call to the Florida preacher who made the announcement of burning the Koran in protest of Jihadi violence, who was implied as having involvement with this video.

When are they going to harrass radical leftists who film Youtube videos lampooning conservative and pro-American public figures? I’m presuming the actions of Mr Holder should be answer enough.

and as a Kowalski for less restrained but still accurate, I’d go with Charles Krauthammer where he said the Obama administration response was both “humiliating and ineffective” (really groveling always is) and that “we should tell them all to go to hell”.

Uh, uh, uh I know the answer, Mr. Carter (I mean Kotter)…the principal of those poor, unfortunate radical Muslims are just misunderstood with hurt feelings and we should appease them by having the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff intimidate American citizens and the LA County Sheriff throw Americans in jail. Then, apologize to these nice, psychotic thugs for the actions of those dirty Americans. Appease and apologize that is the core principle, Obama has adhered to. Myself, I have always found blaming the victims for the actions of psychotic thugs doesn’t reduce psychotic thuggery, it only increases it.

“What we’re seeing now is Al Qaeda developing in Libya, a meltdown of our relations with Egypt. You have riots in Yemen, attacks on our embassy in Tunisia. This entire premise that we want to be loved and respected and we’ll apologize has now yielded all of these results, and these are the fruits of apology and retreat and lack of confidence in our own principles.” — Charles Krauthammer – 1000 times – what he said….

So, we can expect the arrest of Reverand Terry Jones when exactly? And Jeremiah Wright? Nancy Pelosi? Since we’re arresting people for saying things others find offensive, lets go after all of them in a massive sting operation. Even if he was arrested for some other infraction, it sends a bad message. Ah well, someone had to be a scapegoat.

or Bill Maher or Larry O’Donnell or just about anyone else…if you are going to arrest people for offensive speech, the gulags are going to be full. Well, Barack Obama did call Morsi and spoke tough according to Susan Rice. Yep, he read old Morsi the riot act all right. Morsi afterwards said that he had told Obama: “to put an end to such behavior.” Fast forward, we have an American citizen arrested and Morsi decides to actually sort of say, maybe, perhaps, kind of, don’t attack the American embassy, if you don’t wan’t too. Yep, so the agreement in action is that, we’ll crack down on American citizens exercising their rights if Morsi would crack down on his psychotic thugs engaging in psychotic thuggery. Some riot act that was. I always dreamed of living in an Islamist regime….

This is nonsense on stilts. You don’t have police cars for a “voluntary interview.”

uh oh, Jeff Zeleny and Mike Wallace didn’t get Chuck Todd’s memo…Wallace calls the Obama response “astonishing” (as in astonishingly stupid if they believe it and an astonishingly appalling lie if they don’t). NY Times reporter, Jeff Zeleny calls the Obama administration “naive and quaint”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4pId8leus&feature=youtu.be

A picture is worth a 1000 words, you’ll note: 5 police officers, midnight, a police car, the man being shoved into said police car with his hands behind his back. Perhaps, maybe, I am thinking the LA sheriff got caught putting the screws to an American citizen and “voluntary” is spinning it…I am just saying…http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef017d3c0e6f14970c-640wi

Agree that the “imagery” of the incident looks terrible. I guess I’m just responding to the inaccurate headline of “The Film Maker Is Arrested”. We don’t need to make things up to be effective.

From what I understand, he had a family member put the hood and handcuffs on before he had someone drive him in voluntarily–this happens a lot in fantasyland!!

I wrote yesterday in a thread for Dan Spencer’s ‘Blaming Romney, not terrorists’ about Obama’s growing the mob. Of course Obama *is* already doing this to a degree, but he has not yet completely finessed its influence. The left would like their constituency of youth, un-assimilated immigrants (adults with no grounding in American first principles, their children not learning U.S. history in the schools), and the perennially dissatisfied to grow in numbers and power.

That 99% has been energized by their dream that the object is to put them in charge, but they will never become part of the nomenklatura or patron class, er, caste. That, as always in history, will be reserved for Barry’s own group of elites: Jarrett and the company of czars, carefully guiding the lives of the citizenry.

When you’re on probation, you are not a “normal citizen”, and you must adhere to the terms of your probation. If it just came to light (after this week’s tragedies) that he may have been posting things on YouTube without his officer’s permission, then you’re in violation and anything can happen from that point. If he wasn’t on probation, it would be a totally different story. Again, my biggest beef is that the headline of Erick’s post was, and continues to be, completely inaccurate. No arrest took place, plain and simple.

Was he booked and charged? For sure he was detained and taken in for questioning–arrested.

That’s awesome. Like you, I’ll enjoy asshattery. Thanks for the great news.

One more note – I was surprised this morning to find my right-leaning, critical of Obama hometown paper, the NY Post, carrying the headline ‘ Cinemaniac: Feds question loon who set fire to the Muslim world’, complete with photo of sheriffs and detainee, slavishly promoting the administration’s narrative of video-violence in every regard. Sad, because the Post is one media holdout that I fully expect will endorse Romney/Ryan in November.

Guess they learned their lesson in 2008 when they and other newspapers chafing at the Obama leash had their reporters tossed off the future President’s campaign plane. Or maybe they fear a knock on the door of their accounting offices sometime soon.

Yes, because when the Sheriff knocks on your door after midnight, your return to the station with him and his deputies is always “voluntary.”

Again: why did a potential probation violation investigation require a midnight visit from the Sheriff? What was so critical that the questioning couldn’t wait until normal business hours?

This “probation violation” nonsense is as much of a front as is blaming the video for the coordinated terrorist attacks on 9/11.

thank you for your exegesis on criminal law. I’m sure no one reading this story understands “probation” or “parole.” Your knowledge has raised the quality of the discourse to stratospheric levels.

EE strikes a nice balance here, once again being a voice of reason. I too will give the authorities the benefit of the doubt here. The man does have a criminal record and posting on YouTube could very well be a violation of parole. I have felt in my gut that there is more to this “video” than meets the eye. It has been used as a smokescreen to cover for terrorist attacks and Obama’s wretchedly inept response to it all ( not too mention the ignoring of prior intelligence suggesting the attacks were going to occur).

All of that being said, optics matter. You do not pick the guy up for questioning in such an overt manner. It sends the message that we have caved to Morsi and abandoned our committment to the 1st Amendment. Once again, Obama and Co. show their incompetence.

So frankmac, you’ve got a copy of the terms of his probation? Post ‘em please or at least provide a link.

Otherwise, STFU.

It isn’t “imagery”. Probation Officers (PO’s) don’t conduct “voluntary interviews” at midnight. Regular Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) don’t conduct interviews for the assigned PO, The norm is the PO interviews his parolee, and if there is clear indication of a probation violation, he refers to the prosecutor for potential action. The PO only works at midnight if there is no other way to get the parolee in for the interview (and often under those circumstances the PO goes to find the parolee and interview at his location).

This was not “normal”, and the squad car was not transport for a “voluntary interview”. This was intended to show everyone (Muslims particularly, but also Dear Leader’s opposition) how they can crack down on those who don’t toe the line. If you believe that the Administration had nothing to do with this, I have a really nice antique bridge for sale. Or how about some beachfront property in AZ.

Arguing about the headline is NOT what this discussion is about and you know it! Either admit that the police were abusing the Constitution or support your statements. You have been spending too much time trying to support your headline hypothesis instead of trying to defend the unconstitutional police action – and yes even if he was on parole!

As the brilliant Jack Savage explained to you, ya asshat, it is not the person we defend, it is the right to free speech that we defend regardless of who is expressing the words.

How about next time you think about vomiting your opinion on this site, you just skip wasting your time and ours.

PS What made you think “optics” was a good word to use in that sentence? Just wondering……………

Looking at this thread, it is quite obvious streiff is correct in that RedState is being systematically invaded by the propagandists of the left. Only complete ignoramuses would argue that a man went “voluntarily in the middle of the night surrounded by cops and in cuffs”, period. What is this Nazi Germany?
FYI: There is NO such thing as Federal probation, that is known as parole, which one does after doing time in a federal prison. So much for the incorrect troll spewing that one. Yes that is how I can see that the ignoramuses of the left are in here, the lies are repeated as the truth, all because they copied them from the Daily Korn, Media Mutters, TP, OFA, and all the other Goebbels-modeled “News sites for the intellectual Liberals.”
I thing Erick should be proud that the paid propagandists are in here attacking him… [to an extent], however, the allowing of Leftists to control the comment section with blatant nonsense and distractions is a disservice to actual conservatives concerned about the issues facing America and wanting to discuss them with knowledgable people. Look at this “thread”- comment section below. Disgusting bunch of disengious drivel **for the most part,** which means that Redstate is allowing the message to be controlled by the loons. If I want to be subject to that nonsense I,ll head on over to hang out with the Wonks of Liberal -la-la-land. That isn’t happening either, simply because I prefer truth over propaganda . You have your work cut out for you folks here at RedState.

I’m a Christian, therefore I am fair game for Muslims and all others. I find it totally amazing that Christians are available for bashing and persecution in Muslim countries, but holy crap, do not say anything even slightly negative about Mohammed or the Muslim faith. You will be targeted by death squads or blamed for any temper tantrum these barbarian want to throw. Yes, I said the ‘B’ word. They are not civilized. They are not thoughtful, insightful, nor are they civilized. Look through history and what do you see as parallels? Maybe you see Atilla? Maybe Mao?, Stalin?. Pol Pot? Now that is are a group which you can run as parallel to today’s middle eastern Muslims. I DO NOT agree with the film maker, nor am I in favor of any of his ideas, but I will defend to the death, his right to say them.

Bbee, do not make a fool of yourself. Stupid replies such as yours only show you to be a fool not worthy of any notice. And the whole bitter line, a child would give a better retort.

Now run along and play, you are out of your league.

The Chris Wallace interview Sunday with UN amb Susan Rice was a telling interchange. She insisted the short you tube trailer was the sole cause of all the violence across the ME. Chris ceded that the video trailer may have SPARKED the riots. But there was a lot more built up anti US sentiment that fueled the riots after the intital spark. Its the fuel that needs be addressed for long term policy and safety.
Rice is in official denial that these deady attacks are anti US Obama policy. Just a reacton to a you tube trailer sparked all this chaos and death therefore it will recede and all will be well..
FALSE PREMISE

This pathetic attempt, by the administration, to blame a movie for their failed policies only highlights their weakness and incompetence.

Part of his probation, since his crime involved internet-based fraud, was that he could not use the internet without prior permission from his probation officer. Ostensibly, if he posted this video, he violated that stipulation.

Nevertheless: why does investigation of that possible probation require a midnight visit? Why not simply call him the next day and say, “Sir, we have a few questions to ask. Please come see your probation officer”?

This man has been labeled a perpetrator or instigator of violence across the ME by the US government’s UN ambassador and Sec of State. They have opinions that change the focus from the on site actual perpetrators of violence to the film maker. The state Probation and parole has officers to monitors his behavior while he finishes his sentence. These restrictions are designed to keep him out of trouble. If his violations are minor he won’t be thrown back in jail or prison. If the violation is major he will get a formal court revocation hearing and have lawyers, a Judge like arbitrator and witnesses. Plus interested law enforcement who may want to observe can be present. Its a new ballgame once he is charged with a violation that leads to a request for revocation.The world wide media might show up.
This man ‘s Internet violation is not related to his sentence that led to probation or parole. Who is the victim? He is the scape goat for Hillary Clinton’s grand design of remaking ME–for Obama of course.
.

Is there not a Fatawah or a call to kill the film maker from various Muslim states and mullahs in ME? Has US condemned that call for his murder?