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The First Amendment is our most precious freedom – Rovinski should be serving life.
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Federal Judge May Release Muslim Who Pleaded Guilty in Plot to Behead Pamela Geller
By Robert Spencer, PJM, Jul 22, 2020:
Rhode Island’s WPRI reported Wednesday that “a federal judge is seeking alternative proposals to imprisonment for a Warwick man convicted in a terror plot to behead a conservative blogger.” The question that follows is inevitable: if Nicholas Rovinski, 29, a convert to Islam who plotted to murder Pamela Geller for the crime of drawing Muhammad, had plotted instead to kill some prominent leftist such as Linda Sarsour, would there be even the remotest possibility that he could get released early? In today’s overheated, hyper-woke environment, the answer is unfortunately quite clear. Back in 2015, after Islamic jihadis massacred the cartoonists of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris for drawing cartoons of Muhammad, Pamela Geller and I resolved to put on a Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in the United States, to show that at least some people would not bow to violent intimidation, and would not bow to those who would take away the freedom of speech at the point of a gun. We held our event on May 3, 2015, in Garland, Texas, northeast of Dallas. The urgency of standing up against violent threats and bullying was vividly illustrated by the fact that two Muslims from Phoenix drove eight hours to Garland to commit a jihad massacre at our event. And the violence wasn’t over even then. The Islamic State (ISIS) put out a death fatwa against Geller, and three Boston-area Muslims, Rovinski, another convert named Daoud (David) Wright, and Wright’s uncle Usaamah Rahim, began plotting to kill her.
The plot never came off. Rahim got impatient and attacked a Boston police officer instead, and was killed. The plot was uncovered; Wright, the mastermind of the beheading scheme, got 28 years in prison for the plot. Rovinski pleaded guilty to two terrorism conspiracy charges and got fifteen years; as he has cooperated with authorities, he was set to be released in 2028.
But he could be back on the streets within weeks. His lawyers say he has cerebral palsy, hypertension, and depression, and that all these conditions make him more vulnerable to coronavirus. They want him to be granted a “compassionate release.”
Numerous violent offenders have been shown this compassion, which they never showed for their victims or intended victims, but this request is even more absurd than most. Had Rovinski’s plans gone as he had intended, he would cheerfully have participated in a murder. What’s more, he was plotting to murder Pamela Geller for exercising her First Amendment right to the freedom of speech. Releasing him now would send all the wrong signals, suggesting that plotting murder is less important than murder plotters contracting coronavirus, and that the destruction of the freedom of speech and submission to Sharia is not that big a deal, and that when murder plots are directed at conservatives, they just aren’t all that serious.
U.S. District Court Judge William Young even noted that “while Mr. Rovinski makes a strong case for compassionate release, he has served but a small portion of a fair and just sentence for most severe criminal conduct.” Nevertheless, he directed the attorneys to “advise the Court as to what non-incarceration sanctions might be imposed upon him.”
To their credit, prosecutors opposed the idea that Rovinski could simply be released and monitored electronically, noting that “he may have more serious complications because he suffers from cerebral palsy, but the defendant has not presented extraordinary and compelling reasons warranting this Court to reduce his sentence to time served.” Indeed. And even more importantly, “granting the defendant’s motion would result in the defendant receiving a sentence of barely five years for two terrorism convictions that carried a sentencing guideline range of life.”
Barely five years for an offense that can get you a life sentence. Rovinski is lucky that he didn’t target some revered figure on the left. If he had, antifa would be storming the prison today, and The New York Times and CNN would be running features about how, given the proper circumstances, lynching really isn’t all that bad. But in our increasingly open and unapologetic two-tiered justice system today, all the poor boy did was plot to kill someone The New York Times and CNN hates. So what’s the big deal? The smart money is on young Rovinski, mask no doubt firmly in place (the pieties of our new national religion must be observed, after all), walking out of his prison for good considerably before this long, hot summer is over.
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21 Comments
3 years ago
This is BS!
But he could be back on the streets within weeks. His lawyers say he has cerebral palsy, hypertension, and depression, and that all these conditions make him more vulnerable to coronavirus. They want him to be granted a “compassionate release.”
If he can get out, he will make another go at Ms. Geller. He has nothing to lose. There is nothing wrong with either of them. Most if not all, someone else can correct me on this…cerebral palsy patients can’t walk and are in wheel chairs. He’s full of crap.
In this courtroom sketch, David Wright (second from left) and Nicholas Rovinski (right) are depicted standing before Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell with attorney Jessica Hedges during a hearing in June 2015.
3 years ago
If he is on his death bed then a release might be in order. Otherwise no, he stays in jail.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
Prisons a good place for him to die as a warning to other such persons to nix the idea some rabid Imam tried to sell them…!
3 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
Let him die in jail… he was not planning on a “mercy killing”… just COLD BLOODED MURDER…
3 years ago
Wikipedia says Islam has 40% i nbreeding WORLDWIDE. It produces Jihad. I nbreeding favors sicknesses which are madness, schizophrenia, suicidal thinking, depression. It also produces Microcephaly (narrowed heads and close to no brains) and Hydrocephaly (water in the brain with heads like balloons) in Pakistan where those illnesses are commonplace. That’s due to the world record of 70% i nbreeding among Pakistanis and among Pakis in the UK – where they’ve bankrupted the SS system.
3 years ago
Morons are always releasing criminals!!!!
3 years ago
There is another option that could be enacted into law. Certain criminals could voluntarily agree to be deported to another country not in North or South America or any of our possessions, forfeit their citizenship and agree never to return under any circumstances. They would get their freedom and we would be rid of them forever and the cost of their incarceration.
3 years ago
Reply to
cylde
THIS IS A NOVEL IDEA. OFFER HIM A CHOICE: 1) SEND HIM TO TURKEY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE TURKS WOULD SEND HIM TO LIBYA TO SERVE IN THEIR TRIPOLI BASED WEST LIBYAN ISLAMIC JIHADI ARMY AND OFFER THE RUSSIAN AND SHOULD BE U.S.A BACKED EAST LIBYAN LIBERATION ARMY AN AWARD FOR KILLING HIM! 2) HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT TO GITMO IN CUBA AS HE CROSSED STATE BOUNDARIES TO COMMIT A CRIME FOR TERRORISM-THE FEDS SHOULD TAKE OVER! THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM TO SOCIAL DISTANCE IN GITMO IN CUBA! I BET $ HE WOULD TAKE OPTION NO 2 TO GO TO GITMO, CUBA! THIS IS A BAD DEAL AS IT SHOWS WHAT A JOKE THE USA IS AND PAM GELLER WILL HAVE TO LIVE HER LIFE LOOKING OVER HER SHOULDER WHICH IS WHAT THE JIHADI-SYMPATHIZING U.S. LEFTIST SUPPORTERS OF THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE REALLY WANT IN ORDER TO DISCOURAGE HER!
3 years ago
Reply to
Cauc-Asian Patriot
Forget Gitmo, i want them gone from the Americas which includes Caribbean islands.
3 years ago
Reply to
cylde
GUANTANAMO BAY IS A FORTRESS CONTROLLED BY THE USA ON THE ISLAND OF CUBA! IT IS A MODERN ALCATRAZ AND PERFECT FOR TERRORISTS! SEND HIM THERE!
3 years ago
Reply to
Cauc-Asian Patriot
It is an historical relic of the Spanish American war, that serves a niche legal purpose.
3 years ago
Reply to
cylde
AMEN TO THAT! I THINK IN THIS TIME OF UNEMPLOYMENT, ETC THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD REVITALIZE ALCATRAZ THOUGH FOR SERIOUS, DOMESTIC FELONS LIKE THE FOLKS WHO LIKE BARRICADE LOOT MAYHEM AKA BLACK LIVES MATTER AND ANTIFA! BET IF IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT WOULD BE THE DESTINATION OF DOMESTIC TERRORISTS OF THE PACIFIC NW/PACIFIC COAST REGION THERE WOULD BE A FEW LESS BLM/ANTIFA RIOTERS ACTING UP IN PORTLAND, OR!
3 years ago
Boston (not so) Strong…..
3 years ago
It’s an Obama judge, what do you expect!
3 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
Perhaps the artist’s rendering uses too much coloring. However, it appears as if that judge is a negro.
Look at Emmett Sullivan. He was first appointed to the bench by Jorge Booshie, Sr., then to a higher seat by clownton.
It ain’t just obimbo that appointed these vile creatures.
3 years ago
I, FOR ONE, GOT YA BACK PAM!!!
LET HIM OUT, YOUR DISHONOR! MAKES HIM A HELL OF A LOT MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR US TRUE PATRIOTS TO SHOW WTF WE THINK OF & HOW WE TREAT SOME VIOLENT TERRORIST RAGHEAD PRICK WHO THREATENS A TRUE WONDERFUL AMERICAN LIKE PAM GELLER!!
WARNING TO YOU DISHONORABLE JUDGES:: >>> IF HE WALKS, HE WILL DIE! <<<
SIMPLE AS THAT!
SOMEONE OUT THERE IN THE USA MIGHT JUST FEEL THE SAME AS I DO!? WATCH N SEE?!
SUREEE; NOTHING WOULD GIVE ME DEEPER SATISFACTION THAN PUTTIN CROSSHAIRS ON SOME MUSSIESLIME BAG LIKE THAT LIL BITCH!
OR I'D PLAY THEIR GAME & MATCH HIS MACHETE WITH MY 2; LOVE TO BEHEAD "HIS" USELESS ASS!
HE IS ALWAYS ACCESSIBLE TO SOME OF US OUT HERE THAT MASTER AN ART OF CONTROLLING DEMONS & CANN DEFINITELY SEND THEM TO DESTROY HIM:: ALLL UNSEEN MENTAL TORTURE!!!
I'M SICK N TIRED OF IDIOTS SITTING IN JUDGE SEATS NATIONWIDE, FEELING ALLL HIGH & MIGHTY & NO ONE CAN TOUCH THEM DOING STUPID CHIT LIKE THIS. THEN STILL DEMANDING ALL TO TREAT HIM LIKE A god! SCREW THOSE TYPE! ONE PRICK L;IKE THAT COST ME 4 YRS OF MY LIFE & I NEVER EVER DID THE FELONY CRIME I WAS SETUP ACCUSED, CHARGED, CONVICTED & SENTENCED & 100% INNOCENT!!!
ABOUT TIME JACKASS JUDGES GET ONE BROKE OFF IN THEIR ASS PROVING THEY ARE NOTTTT ABOVE
** WE THE PEOPLE'S LAWS ** & MAKE THE AMERICAN PHRASE ** JUSTICE FOR ALL ** MEAN SOMETHING AGAIN! AS WELL AS EVERY WORD IN THE NTL. ANTHEM!!
3 years ago
I have a better idea put him in a nursing home where the virus is rampant – if he survives that i have a ” friend ” who wants to meet him up close and personal like – Mr .45 – Just how fuc-ing ” compassionate ” was the psychopath when he was plotting to murder INNOCENT Americans ?
3 years ago
Reply to
volksnut
Yes there is a definite need to weed out these would be holier than thou exalted judges in the judicial system that haven’t the integrity / honor to do what is correct and I fear there are many !
