D’Souza finishes serving his sentence.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Indian American filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza recently completed the eight month sentence of nightly confinement that was handed down to him after being charged with making illegal campaign contributions during the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign.
D’Souza pleaded guilty in May 2014 to arranging “straw donors” to contribute $10,000 to the failed 2012 U.S. Senate campaign of Wendy Long, an old friend from his college days.
In total, he was sentenced to eight months in a work-release center, five years of probation, and a $30,000 fine, according to WND. He also was required to set aside one day a week during his probation to teach English to non-English speakers.
D’Souza and his supported supporters believe the case and subsequent punishments were political payback for his documentaries (“Obama’s America,” released in 2012, and 2014’s “America: Imagine the World Without Her”) and bestselling companion books that were overtly critical of President Barack Obama and what D’Souza regards as his “anti-American ideology.”
D’Souza told WND the title of his new book will be “Stealing America.”
“The theme is that we think of American politics as a clash of ideas in that [conservatives] stand for ‘liberty’ while the left stands for ‘justice;’ we stand for ‘freedom,’ they stand for ‘equality,’ and I have spent most of my career debating these ideas,” he explained.
He attested the “goal of the progressive left is not just to pirate the nation’s great wealth for people like the Clintons but to control the health system of the United States, the energy economy of the nation, you name it; but the goal is control.”
Born in Mumbai, India, D’Souza immigrated to the United States as an exchange student, eventually graduating from Dartmouth College. He became a naturalized citizen in 1991 and is a former president of The King’s College, a Christian liberal arts school in New York.