Posted on 01/29/2006 1:18:38 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
Outrage bump
What's the point? This happened several years ago and all charges were dropped.
There are noise ordinances. Was he violating them or not?
And why wasn't anyone else arrested? Perhaps it was because he was playing Christian music?
....yes, the religious music was probably turning off the gays in the bathrooms!
Dunno...the article ran on the 27th of Jan, 2006. Gotta fiqure it's still a pending case.
Personally, I find it annoying when I hear a passing vehicle playing loud music in the middle of the night. Every community does have the right to decide whether or not there is a noise ordinance.
Link to article...sheesh...
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/272006a.asp
"Personally, I find it annoying when I hear a passing vehicle playing loud music in the middle of the night. Every community does have the right to decide whether or not there is a noise ordinance."
I agree completely. I hate that "bass" crap drilling thru my head at stop lights. Apparently the article imples everyone else was playing music as well, but yet only he was "manhandled".
....I agree.
Then its up to him to prove it in Court.
I mean how would we like it, if we had a Christian celebration and some guy shows up playing the Islamic call to prayer?
Sounds to me like this guy went there looking for trouble.
Should have been obvious to him, as it is to everyone else, that if he wanted to play loud religious music in a public park in California, or anywhere else in the nation, he should have remained a Muslim. He would then have been able to claim a multi-culti free pass.
Actually, it's the state's job to prove his guilt; he's not supposed to have to prove his innocence.
"Someone in the predominately Muslim crowd complained to police,"
Complained to the police? Why not ask him to turn the music down first?
"I mean how would we like it, if we had a Christian celebration and some guy shows up playing the Islamic call to prayer?
Sounds to me like this guy went there looking for trouble."
Personally, it wouldn't bother me at all. But you could be right, the guy could have been looking for trouble. The article doesn't really address the "volume" of the music. Maybe it was just as loud as all the others. Basically, that's a public park and it's immaterial for "one group to claim it", even for a day. He had right of access irrespective of what they were doing.
The article is written as if the police were responding more from the compliants of the muslims there in the park. But it's hard to say on the info they gave us.
I meant that the state was discriminating and singling him out.
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