Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party

by Dinesh D'Souza

Overview

WHY HILLARY, OBAMA, AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE NO BETTER THAN A GANG OF THIEVES

In the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friend’s Senate campaign. D’Souza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement center.  There he lived among hardened criminals—drug dealers, thieves, gangbangers, rapists, and murderers. Now the bestselling author explains how this experience not only changed his life, but fundamentally transformed his view of his adopted country.

Previously, D’Souza had seen America through the eyes of a grateful immigrant who became successful by applying and defending conservative principles. Again and again, D’Souza made the case that America is an exceptional nation, fundamentally fair and just. In book after book, he argued against liberalism as though it were a genuine movement of ideas capable of being engaged and refuted.

But his prolonged exposure to the criminal underclass provided an eye-opening education in American realities. In the view of hardened criminals, D’Souza learned, America is anything but fair and just. Instead, it is a jungle in which various armed gangs face off against one another, with the biggest and most powerful gangs inhabiting the federal government. As for American liberalism, it is not a movement of ideas at all but a series of scams and cons aimed at nothing less than stealing the entire wealth of the nation, built up over more than two centuries: the total value of the homes, the lifelong savings of the people, the assets of every industry, and all the funds allocated to health and education and every other service, both public and private. “The thieves I am speaking about want all of it.”

And who are the leading figures in this historically ambitious scam that has turned the federal government into a vast and unprecedented shakedown scheme? Why, none other than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – the current leaders of the Democratic Party. This pair of smooth-talking con artists, trained in the methods of radical activist Saul Alinsky, have taken his crude but effective political shakedown techniques to a level even he never dreamed of.

As the nation approaches a crucial election in 2016, Stealing America is an urgent wakeup call for all Americans who want to prevent this theft from being completed by eight more years of Democratic rule.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062366719
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/17/2015
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dinesh D’Souza is a number one New York Times bestselling author and the filmmaker behind the hit documentaries 2016: Obama’s America and America, which are respectively the second-highest- and the sixth highest-grossing political documentaries of all time. In his twenty-five-year career as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, D’Souza has been a policy analyst in the Reagan White House and a John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His bestselling books include America, Obama’s America, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, What’s So Great About Christianity, and Illiberal Education.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader x

Chapter 1 Crime and Punishment: How They Taught Me a Lesson 1

Chapter 2 The World as It Is: Inside the Confinement Center 27

Chapter 3 How to Steal a Country: A Heist to End AU Heists 52

Chapter 4 Creating New Wealth: America, the Anti-Theft Society 75

Chapter 5 History for Profit: The Reparations Scam 99

Chapter 6 The Things That Keep Progressives Awake at Night: The Greed and Inequality Scam 123

Chapter 7 You Didn't Build That: The Society-Did-It Scam 147

Chapter 8 Silver Spoons and Genetic Lotteries: The Lucky Luciano Scam 174

Chapter 9 The Godfather: Saul Alinsky's Art of the Shakedown 196

Chapter 10 Barack and Hillary: The Education of Two Con Artists 225

Chapter 11 The Envy Triangle: Shaking Down the Wealth Creators 249

Chapter 12 Cracking the Con: Restoring the Productive Society 274

Acknowledgments 295

Notes 297

Index 305

Editorial Reviews

10/05/2015
The Democratic Party is an organized crime syndicate bent on stealing America out from under its citizens. So purports noted documentary filmmaker and conservative author Dinesh D'Souza (America: Imagine a World Without Her) in his new book, written during his eight-month confinement in a halfway house as a result of his conviction for illegal campaign donations. The author's interactions with the gang members also at the confinement center led to his rethinking of the American political system, especially the "con" of progressives to convince average Americans that capitalism harms rather than helps them. D'Souza eviscerates the progressive movement for strong-arm tactics, starting with the Clinton-appointee judge who sentenced him to confinement—according to D'Souza, for his politics rather than his crime—and continuing on to community organizer Saul Alinksy and President Obama and Hillary Clinton, comparing them to characters out of Goodfellas and The Godfather. D'Souza enlivens the familiar material of political screeds with the colorful language of the criminals he came to know, adding to it his own insights as a seasoned political commentator. This is a must-read for any right-leaning readers looking ahead to the 2016 election. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

2015-09-21
A brazen diatribe by conservative author, filmmaker, and convicted felon D'Souza (America: Imagine a World Without Her, 2014, etc.). Readers familiar with pundit D'Souza's previous work will recognize here many of his recycled arguments against progressive and liberal claims. The author, convicted in 2014 by federal prosecutors for exceeding campaign finance contributions to his friend Wendy Long, then running for U.S. Senate, was confined in a San Diego confinement center, at his own cost, and given five years' probation. In his latest book, the author uses the conversations and underworld motivations of his fellow inmates to build his argument that the liberal causes espoused by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in particular, are part of a nefarious scheme of criminality to siphon money from the enterprising deserving and give to those who should work harder. D'Souza avows to be glad at this chance to observe closely the "psychology of crookedness." At first terrified for his safety and then captivated by the colorful personalities and their profuse profanity, D'Souza admired the honor among thieves and code of behavior shared by hardened gang members, recognizing in them a litany familiar to his own right-wing vision: "it's the idea inspired by my criminal compatriots, that the biggest thieves are in the government, that they are still at large and that what they are stealing is America itself, its wealth and power." While the dialogue with the criminals saves this work from being a completely mind-numbing polemic, the examples D'Souza employs to bolster his arguments about greed, liberal envy, and the superior value of entrepreneurship prove fanciful stretches of extrapolation. Hilariously, the author compares seminal Chicago activist Saul Alinsky to the Mafia godfather, while his "shakedown" disciples are Obama and Clinton. The product of the author's retreat is mocking, sarcastic, paranoid, and nearly unbearable to all but the most hardened readers.

Kirkus Reviews