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Exclusive: Dinesh D’Souza Reveals What Obama’s Intentions At The Border Really Are

“It’s quite appalling..."

B. CHRISTOPHER AGEE — JUNE 30, 2014



As illegals continue to flood holding facilities near America’s southern border, further taxing the already limited resources of border agents, many of the citizens most outraged by the policies that have allowed this influx are those who immigrated to the U.S. through the proper channels.

One such American, Dinesh D’Souza, recently discussed the contentious issue in an interview with Western Journalism.
A bestselling author and driving force behind the groundbreaking films 2016: Obama’s America and America: Imagine the World without Her, D’Souza is a prime example of the opportunities that await foreign-born individuals who choose to legally become Americans. He explained that he made a decision to leave his homeland behind when he came to the U.S. as a teenager more than three decades ago.

“As an immigrant, I chose America,” he said. “I love America. I can see ways in which America is very unique in the world.”

After completing high school and college in the U.S., D’Souza went on to become a prominent writer and speaker, known around the world for his defense of concepts such as American exceptionalism. Instead of courting immigrants like him, however, the Obama administration chooses to extend even more leniency to those who enter the nation illegally.

“It’s quite appalling to see the Obama administration use the border as a kind of shaming device,” D’Souza said, calling the existing policy an “Alinskyite strategy.”

In the mold of ‘Rules for Radicals’ author and community organizer Saul Alinsky, he said the federal government is playing on the sensibilities of good-natured Americans in subverting the nation’s laws.

He said the embrace of de facto amnesty is a way to “exploit the goodness … of ordinary Americans” who are genuinely concerned for the foreigners who show up at our border.

One of Alinsky’s methods of reshaping a person’s opinion, D’Souza explained, is to “constantly shame him and make him do what you want.”

Obama, he continued, is quite adept at employing that technique.

“Obama is encouraging people to show up at the border with arms outstretched,” he concluded. “This is then used as a pretext for violating our immigration laws.”

D’Souza’s latest film, America: Imagine the World without Her, opens in theaters nationwide July 2 following a strong showing in limited engagements in Texas and Georgia. An early review of the film by Variety heralded the film as a “slick, sprawling celebration of American exceptionalism.”

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D'Souza: The left hates me for calling out Obama | Human Events
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D’Souza: The left hates me for calling out Obama

By: Neil W. McCabe
6/29/2014 01:39 AM

The author of the new book “America: Imagine a world without her” and the producer of the film with the same name spoke to Human Events on the eve of the July 2 release of the film from his national touring coach.
The founding fathers warned that, although the freedoms they gave American were hard fought, they could very easily be lost, said Dinesh D’Souza, the creator of “2016: Obama’s America.”

“America stands at a crossroads, and the way we understand our past will determine our future. ‘America’ the movie takes 21st-century Americans into the future by first visiting our past,” he said.
D’Souza was joined by a team: Gerald Molen, who won an Oscar for producing “Schindler’s List” and John Sullivan, who wrote, directed and produced “2016: Obama’s America.” In the new film, Molen was the executive producer with D’Souza and Sullivan sharing the writing and directing credits.
“America” is premised on the idea that the world is better off with America in it. To make this point, the filmmakers juxtapose patriots who built up America, such as, George Washington, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln against the nation’s detractors.
In a particularly poignant set piece, which features an interview with Sen. Randall H. “Rand” Paul (R.-Ky.), D’Souza tells the story of Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet genius, who was hounded into suicide by federal prosecutors because he cared to posted taxpayer-financed studies, whose copyright was claimed by a private company.



As the Justice Department pressured Swartz to plead guilty, the company supposedly injured asked the government to drop the case. Two days after turning down a plea bargain that would have sent him to jail for six months, the co-owner of Reddit took his own life.
Central to D’Souza’s understanding of America and the world today, is threat to America by President Barack Obama and his ilk, who actually believe that America is the problem.
“I had a theory about Obama going back to when he was first elected which was that he was a civil rights guy,” he said.
“Because of his involvement in the civil rights movement, he had developed an attachment to big government because as you look at the history of the civil rights movement, big government was the friend of securing equal rights and ultimately affirmative action and also jobs for many African-Americans,” he said.
“When I started reading Obama’s book that I realized that his life is very different from the lives of the people who marched in Selma or Montgomery and that his history and his affections had far more to do with Kenya and his father and anti-colonialism than anything to do with civil rights,” he said.
In fact, if reparations were paid to the descendants of American slaves, Obama would receive nothing, he said. His father was a Kenyan exchange student and his mother was a white American.
D’Souza said the president’s anti-colonialism filter makes him more radical than anyone could have imagined and fuels his transformation of America.
It is tempting to see things going wrong and assume that Obama is incompetent, but the mess the country is in is his design, he said.
“Obama is not incompetent. He’s not a bungler. He promised the remaking of America and he’s doing it,” he said.



Frederick Douglass as portrayed in “America: Imagine a world
without here.” The film by Dinesh D’Souza opens July 2. (Courtesy)
“He’s the most successful president since Reagan in accomplishing the things that he set out to do,” said the former Reagan White House staffer.
“Initially, I thought he was merely trying to undo the Reagan revolution, but his goal is actually more ambitious,” he said. “He wants to undo the America Era. The American Era began in 1945, and it’s existed now for 60 years and it is the era that established American superiority around the world, which meant an outsized American standard of living, the abundance of ordinary life for Americans, and also America having a large footprint, a large influence in the world.”
Obama does not want America to be exceptional, he said. “Obama’s trying to make us a normal country and Americans don’t know what that means, but being a normal country means being largely irrelevant.”
America be more like Canada in Obama’s eyes, he said.
“When things happen in the world, the Canadians can state their point of view, but no one really cares, and that’s a big change for America because until now, nothing can really happen in South America or the Middle East or Asia without America controlling it or at least having a big say so,” he said. “Obama’s out to change that.”
D’Souza has gone through his own transformation in the last three years.
It is remarkable that he is still in the game at all.
After his 2012 project “2016: Obama’s America,” the public intellectual, was buffeted by scandals and challenges.
On the whole, the attacks have come from leftists, who have loathed him since as a young man, he typified Reagan youth writing for Dartmouth Review and went on to work in the Ronald W. Reagan’s White House. In 1991, he took the phrase “politically correct” and exposed it as a tool by campus liberals to shutter the marketplace of ideas in his book “Illiberal Education.”



Dinesh D’Souza standing with his daughter Danielle D’Souza. The
two are in front of the national touring bus to promote the film
“America” the night of its NYC premiere. (Courtesy)
His October 2012 resignation as president of Manhattan’s King’s College, however was an “own goal.” The man leading a Christian college was seen, as his own marriage was unwinding, entering and leaving a hotel with a woman whose own marriage was unwinding.
Then, of course, there was his May plea agreement for violations of election laws. Those charges came about after the FBI claimed it was making routine examinations of federal filings and stumbled upon D’Souza’s creative bundling.
In fact, he reimbursed $20,000 to people, who donated to a friend’s 2012 Senate campaign.
Judicial Watch, the Washington-based government watchdog, filed Freedom of Information Act requests for all communications between government officials regarding the case, citing it as an example of the government targeting the president’s opponents.
Those issues aside, something did change in the way D’Souza was treated after he sharpened his pencil and went after Obama.
“I have always enjoyed a certain respectability among the liberals if not on the far left, and the reason is that my work has been scholarly,” he said.
“I’ve been published in The Atlantic, in Harper’s, in the New York Times. I’ve been on all the liberal TV shows. I’m always affable to the leading liberals and leftists, and so I’ve had good relations with all of them, but it does seem that with “2016,” I’ve burned a lot of my bridges,” he said. “Not because of anything I’ve done, but because they are so wedded to the success of Obama.”
The liberal establishment and the press as its organ cannot accept any challenges to Obama’s presidency and legacy, he said.
“There’s so many people in the press that consider it a moral imperative that this first African-American President succeed, they’re desperate that he not fail and they will go to almost any length to make sure that happens,” he said. “From that framework, they have to demonize me. It doesn’t matter how right I am. They can’t admit anything, so we’re in a very perverse moment in American politics, but it only redoubles my enthusiasm.”
It helps to have the thick skin he developed as a Dartmouth College student, writing for The Dartmouth Review, he said.
“I began to see the way in which the administration and the faculty were so draconian and heavy-handed and unfair in the way that they treated conservatives, so that had a somewhat radicalizing effect on me and it also helped me to overcome my natural shyness and timidity and to realize that sometimes you’re in a sling fight and you absolutely have to go for it,” he said. “You can’t let these people intimidate you.”
Twenty-five years later, he said he is fighting the same crowd.
“The only difference is that they now have federal jobs and they command much more power at their disposal,” he said.
“I’m ready for it and I’m not going to let any personal troubles, serious though they might be, interfere with my ability to articulate my point of view or take on the current administration. I feel like I’ve got something unique to say, and I’m absolutely determined to say it.”

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