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Documentarian and author Dinesh D’Souza had a debate with former Weather Underground leader and radical leftist Bill Ayers on Wednesday.
They debated the question, “What’s so exceptional about America?”
During the debate, the moderator asked the question, “Given your own personal experiences, do either of you feel our criminal justice system has become too political?”
In Sept. 2014, D’Souza pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance law. He was sentenced by Bill Clinton appointed judge Richard Berman to eight months in a community confinement center and five years probation with community service. He was also ordered to pay a $30,000 fine.
Ayers was the leader of the terrorist group that bombed the Pentagon, the Weather Underground. Ayers never received any jail time.
Ayers responded to the moderator's question first by stating:
Our political justice system is a catastrophe. It’s a catastrophe, and what was exposed in Ferguson that the criminal justice system is kind of powered, the financing of it is powered by the kind of targeting of poor people. That’s true in Ferguson. That’s true in Chicago[…]Dinesh referred to his time custody. He had an assistant drop him off at his ‘sleeping quarters’ overnight.
D’Souza said:
The inequity of our criminal justice system is on full display right on this podium right here. So I gave $20,000 of my own money over the campaign finance limit. I got eight months in overnight confinement. (Pointing at Ayers) You bombed the Pentagon, and tried to bomb all kinds of other things. (Loud applause from crowd in support of D’Souza’s argument) How much time did you do in the slammer?
The three minute, 19 second video displays Ayers' hypocrisy while demonstrating the culpability that D’Souza took for his “pretty serious offense in a democracy” as Ayers put it.
For the full video, watch below: