[ April 18, 2024 ]
Nicholas Rovinski is free, and we’re all supposed to feel good about ourselves as a result. Fox News reported that on Thursday, U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts William Young, “citing the coronavirus pandemic, ordered the release, of a Rhode Island man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for participating in a plot to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller on behalf of the Islamic State.” Young wrote: “The court concludes that there exist extraordinary and compelling circumstances that warrant granting this motion for compassionate release.” But where is the compassion for the person Rovinski would have brutally murdered and thanked Allah for the opportunity to do so?
Rovinski wasn’t supposed to get out of prison for eight more years, and even that was too soon, or should have been for someone who plotted murder over the exercise of the freedom of speech by an American citizen.
But there’s nothing to be concerned about, now, is there? According to Fox, “Young reduced Rovinski’s sentence to time served, and ordered him to spend the next 10 years in home confinement with electronic monitoring, with the first six months in ‘strict home confinement.’”
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That’s hardly reassuring. Pamela Geller notes here: “The electronic monitoring is a joke, as is the home confinement. Last year a Muslim wearing an electronic tag killed a man in his deradicalization class and went out to wage jihad on the London Bridge.”
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling sounded a note of reason: “We disagree with the court’s decision to now nullify that sentence – after only five years – based on COVID concerns. We realize that Rovinski has certain medical issues, but this does not justify releasing to ‘home confinement’ – after serving a mere third of his sentence – someone who willfully conspired to kill people for ISIS.”
But that fell on deaf ears. This was eminently predictable, and I predicted it. As I wrote here last month, “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.”
William Young shows no sign of caring, but 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. For Young, plotting murder is apparently 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.
Pamela Geller asks a pertinent question: “If Nicholas Rovinski participates in another plot to murder me, will Judge William Young be prosecuted?” Young’s ridiculous ruling demonstrates yet again that our justice system today heavily favors perpetrators over their victims and prospective victims, as we see with the wholesale freeing of prisoners supposedly because of the coronavirus pandemic. Many have speculated that the real goal of the mayors and governors who have freed dangerous criminals is to destroy the safety and security that most Americans enjoy, so as to pave the way for an authoritarian state.
And so there is another question here that is even more urgent than that of whether or not William Young will be prosecuted if Rovinski goes after Pamela Geller. He certainly won’t be. The real question is: would he even care? Given today’s polarized, hysterical public square and increasingly hate-filled Left, would he even be pleased?
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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44 Comments
3 years ago
Compassionate release?
Judge: That’s just how Muslims are.
A couple months ago, a professor in Arizona questioned whether or not Muslims were violent.
After that, he started receiving death threats against him, his family, and his house.
I’m not making this up. They pretty much answered his query, didn’t they?
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Democrats and Leftists refuse to admit that Islam is at war with the USA. Tyrant governments like to hate, and they want war. They are dominant, power hungry, greedy, and acquisitive, and they care nothing for their own people. As Hitler said in his final days about the massive suffering of the German populace, “Well they voted for us, so now they face the consequences.”
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Trump refuses to issue an, “Emergency National Security Declaration” and deport all muslims, citizens or not, from the USA as the “Clear And Present Danger” they freely admit they are!
Do it now and let the Democrats show their true colors just before the election suing you in Leftist courts to protect Jihad against the west!
3-3/4 years wasted!
3 years ago
Sounds like you’d better move to a state where you’re stilll allowed to carry a weapon.
3 years ago
Reply to
jdgalt
you have the right to bear arms anywhere in america….”shall not be infringed”.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Laws and the US Constitution do not exist if they are not enforced by those elected to do so!
3 years ago
Reply to
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Laws and the US Constitution do not exist if they are not enforced by those elected to do so!
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
The only permit you need to bear arms is one you do not have buy or carry on your person.
It is called the US Constitution.
3 years ago
the “judge” is a reagan fossil from harvard who, as usual, became corrupted by sitting too long in a black robe being untouchable. our founders got most things right, but lifetime appointments for federal “judges” was a terrible idea. that part of the constitution really does need to be amended to set a term on these appointments. And why any repub president would nominate a judge who has had his mind warped at an ivy league indoctrination center is beyond me. they should be looking for nobodies who worked their way through state law schools; we might get some justice from the bench from these normal guys.
3 years ago
Question: will he be returned to incarceration when the covid situation returns to normal?
3 years ago
If this punk is free then he can be found and justice will be served. Don’t worry Pam. We got your back.
3 years ago
#FBI-Wants-Geller-Dead ……… this has NOTHING to do with compassion,… more so conspiracy !!
3 years ago
We should start threatening all of these moronic judges and use the same defense to not go to prison. Can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds!
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
True. But we can show disrepect to them if we know what they look like and where they live. Blast their faces all over FaceBook, Twitter, and all the other BS social media.
3 years ago
So, these liberal agenda Judges care more about the health of CRIMINALS than they do of LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS?
How does that work for the Judge, meaning, IS HE SAFE OR NOT because of his illegally allowing a criminal to go free?
3 years ago
Compassionate release, meanwhile, there is no compassion or regard for Pamela Geller’s well being. It is Pamela whose life was under threat by Rovinski, a Jihadi, aspirant murderer, assassin, but this gormless judge is a part of the insidious radical swamp. All of which is part-and-parcel of the Democrats’ conspiracy to undermine those, such as Pamela Geller, from speaking the truth regarding Islam and the Party’s endeavor to abolish the Constitution.
One needs no prescience or crystal ball to predict the subversive, treasonous Democrats’ malevolent intent. It is not merely Pamela Geller under threat, but also every American who covets his or her liberty and Constitutional Rights.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
That judge is a stupid ass, and I sincerely wish him to have a muslim jihadi on his tail. See how he likes it.
3 years ago
Muslims need to be deported from the USA Japan has forbidden them citizenship there and we should do the same
3 years ago
Reply to
Jeanne Ballard
Yes I agree!
Japan?? Sadly, that is false!
No. of Muslims, mosques on the rise in Japan amid some misconceptions, prejudice
November 29, 2019 (Mainichi Japan)
3 years ago
Reply to
Jeanne Ballard
Yes I agree!
Japan?? Sadly, that is not true!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Japan
Post–World War II
The Turks have been the biggest Muslim community in Japan until recently.[18] The Japanese invasion of China and South East Asian regions during the Second World War brought the Japanese in contact with Muslims. Those who converted to Islam through them returned to Japan and established in 1953 the first Japanese Muslim organisation, the “Japan Muslim Association”, which was officially granted recognition as a religious organization by the Japanese government in June 1968.
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
If this true, and I don’t doubt that it is, then it just shows that thousands of so-called repsonsible statemen and politicians don’t know squat avout Islam and the horrible curse it is to mankind. Every nation should throw every muslim out.
Are they all jihadis? No. Does that matter? Hell no! Because even those who would prefer peace with others live under a death threat if they interfere with jihad which has been approved by an imam. Every high judge in Islam agrees that jihad is a sacred duty of all muslims, regardless of what those muslims might prefer.
IT TAKES AN ESPECIALLY STUPID PERSON TO REGARD ISLAM WITH ANY REPECT AT ALL.
3 years ago
Disbar U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts William Young!
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
And plaster his face all over wherever he lives and works. Let him and his family feel the wrath of decent citizens who hate him an dhis stupid politics.,
3 years ago
Releasing all these creeps has nothing to do with covid-1984.
3 years ago
Insane.
3 years ago
Be not concerned …
U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts William Young …
… has an appointment with destiny, and he will have a long time to regret his hate-filled, bigoted decision …
… and I’m sure this is not the only outrageous decision he’s made.
With any luck, karma will give him a chance to repent of his mindlessly pro-violent decisions.
*** Everyone here at Geller have a wonderful week! – sorry, I’ve been quiet, I’ve been busy …
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
By the way, if anything happens to Pamela …
… what are we gonna do about it?
Don’t know.
Last time I checked, there were only two ways to remove Natzee/Commie judges from office without breaking the law. e.g. Ruling out murder or futile ‘recalls.’ …
One way is to stop voting for Natzee-Commies … you can say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one …
The other way is carpet bombing … don’t laugh, it could work …
*** Just sayin’
3 years ago
This judge , like all dEMOCRATS ,lives in the AZZHOLE of the muslim brotherhood ! Enjoy all of you TRAITOROUS jihad loving , human sacrificing scum !
3 years ago
Someone help me out here! If the President can reverse a prison sentence for an innocent person, why can’t he reinforce a sentence already passed on a totally guilty person? Huh?
WTF? It’s not a matter of just the stupidity of having mercy for a killer, but the fact that the freed killler will repeat their offence.
Most of these stinking judges should be wearing prison strips, not dignified black robes.
I want the media to show photos of these judges and give lots of info on them. Let them get the finger in their face every time they go out in public.
3 years ago
Reply to
Richard Canary
The enemy has infiltrated the judge’s seats all over America! They are members of a secret society, of masons and eastern stars, and their objective is to follow orders and create as much chaos as possible to oust DT, to bring about WW3 and to usher in their god, lucifer, satan, the devil!
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3 years ago
Judges can and should be impeached when they show they have absolutely no common sense. When they release violent criminals to commit violent acts against citizens they should be held legally accountable for any new crimes committed by that person, and to the full extent of the punishment that can legally be rendered to that prisoner.
Pamela would not be considered worthy of any consideration by the Left. She is not considered “of color”. She is Jewish and she is an America loving conservative. Some people may need to consider leaving New York.
3 years ago
This SO-CALLED “judge” MUST have the behavior of this minuscule jihadi tied to himself. If, or rather WHEN, this confirmed and CONVICTED Domestic TERRORIST commits ANY crime, this “judge” MUST ALSO FACE THE EXACT SAME CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!
3 years ago
a little better picture of him, would be nice
3 years ago
Our demo-socialist politicians never let a pandemic go to waste ! They have loosed thousands of prisoners onto our good people. May our LORD protect Pamela.
3 years ago
These judges are not liberal they’re destructive black and white antifa judges!
3 years ago
We are all told that masks work, so why dont they just hand every prisoner a mask and a bottle of hand sanitizer, that would be cheaper, and safer, than allowing the criminal to return to the streets so he can continue to do what he was sent to prison for doing, but I guess his life is so much more important than the life of the general public.
Pamela should hire some guys to go to this guys house and just “speak” to him… hint, hint…
3 years ago
This is just freaking insane. If Pam had killed this piece of trash defending herself, she would have been given life in prison, and the President would have needed to pardon her.
3 years ago
This is unreal.
3 years ago
“Pamela Geller asks a pertinent question: “If Nicholas Rovinski participates in another plot to murder me, will Judge William Young be prosecuted?”… the real goal of the mayors and governors who have freed dangerous criminals is to destroy the safety and security that most Americans enjoy…”
Hm. Judges rely on that safety and security, too. And if this guy should happen to make another attempt on Pamela, I predict that security is going to get extremely hard to guarantee to Judge Young.
3 years ago
What kinda message does that send – Threaten to commit PRE-MEDITATED murder in a PSYCHOPATHIC MUSLIM/ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACK – WITH THE AID OF THE FBI AND THE GET OFF SCOTT FREE – I’m buying more weapons and ammo –
