Astounding – WXYZ Detroit:
Controversial Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones was ordered taken to the Wayne County Jail after refusing to post a $1 peace bond. However, someone posted the bond on his behalf not long after he was taken into custody.
The development came after a jury found a proposed protest by Jones and his associate Wayne Sapp outside the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in the United States, was likely to breach the peace and incite violence…
As for Jones, himself, he is clearly tired of not being in the news and has found a swift and sure means of getting back in to it. As to whether someone should hold a demonstration outside someone’s religious site – never figured it was a wise thing to do, but protests are often held outside Catholic churches and as far as I can recall not one of us Catholics have gotten violent about it. Maybe we should, though – it appears that if you’re a bit crazy and bloodthirsty, you get more respect in the American judicial system.
This needs to be smacked down – we cannot allow either craven fear or, if a district is Moslem-majority, the rise of an Islamist state-within-a-state to deprive Americans of their rights. As long as the demonstrator does not block access and does not cause damage to private or public property, there can be no justification for prior restraint on peaceable assembly…and if the police are worried that some Moslems might commit violence, then I recommend the police keep an eye on those people. And not just during the demonstration, but all the time.
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