Rather than vindicating the principle of speech speech the First Amendment was sacrificed to the subjective feelings of these individuals.
Posted on 05/16/2013 5:09:14 AM PDT by SJackson
A severe blow for the freedom of speech, and victory for the advance of Sharia blasphemy laws here. "Michigan Federal Judge Allows Muslim Violence to Suppress Christian Speech; Immediate Appeal Filed," from the American Freedom Law Center, May 14:
A Michigan federal judge today dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought by several Christian evangelists who were violently assaulted by a hostile Muslim mob while preaching at an Arab festival last year in Dearborn, Michigan, which has the largest Muslim population in the United States. Video of the Muslim assault went viral on YouTube. The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed the lawsuit against Wayne County, the Wayne County Sheriff, and two Wayne County Deputy Chiefs for refusing to protect the Christians from the attack and threatening to arrest the Christians for disorderly conduct if they did not halt their speech activity and immediately leave the festival area.Judge Patrick J. Duggan, sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, granted Wayne County’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing the lawsuit. The judge also denied AFLC’s motion requesting that the court issue an order preventing the Wayne County Sheriff and his deputies from restricting the Christian evangelists from displaying their banners and signs on the public sidewalks outside of this year’s Arab Festival, which will be held in June. In the ruling, the judge stated the following: “The Court finds that the actual demonstration of violence here provided the requisite justification for [the Wayne County sheriffs’] intervention, even if the officials acted as they did because of the effect the speech had on the crowd.”
Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented: “The First Amendment was dealt a severe blow today as a result of this ruling. Indeed, this ruling effectively empowers Muslims to silence Christian speech that they deem offensive by engaging in violence. And pursuant to this ruling, the Christian speakers are now subject to arrest for engaging in disorderly conduct on account of the Muslim hecklers’ violent response to their speech. In short, this ruling turns the First Amendment on its head.”
David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, added: “This fight for our fundamental right to freedom of speech does not stop here. We have filed an immediate appeal of this ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While Judge Duggan may have been the first judge to rule on this issue, he won’t be the last. Indeed, we are prepared to take this case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary because it is imperative that our free speech rights not be subject to mob rule. This is the United States, not Benghazi.”
At least for now.
video at link
I never will understand why the simple solution is NEVER used.
JUST IMPEACH THE BASTARD.
This will encourage the rest to do their real jobs.
My thoughts exactly. If police will not defend the exercise of the First Amendment against violence, it's time to resort to the Second Amendment. There are logical ways to arrange that so that the intolerant thugs are not intentionally provoked by the armed parties but so that it is lawful to use deadly force in the defense on another person's life.
Never thought of that. They don’t hang around for beers like we do. :)
One time I went into the bathroom and one of the freaks was kneeling in there praying. What a tool.
Rather than vindicating the principle of speech speech the First Amendment was sacrificed to the subjective feelings of these individuals.
I really wish I could ask.......... I just am unable to frame the question delicately. LOL
or playing with each others balls...
Their alter is made of porcelain, that is where all Muhammads go.
Why should that surprise you in this day and age?
Ha ha...well I think you did a pretty good job right there!
The liberal version of political correctness has turned this principle upside down, now the law has no value if you go against what is deemed "uncool" by whatever is the current progressive zeitgeist.
What's currently "cool" is how this judge came up with this ruling; the obvious and clear way he should have ruled on this case, if he had gone by a clear reading of the law, the ruling would have by necessity gone the other way.
A nation of cool, progressive men, not laws.
i hope you took your wizz and went on your way...
He got up and left when I came in. I didn’t hear anything ticking, so yeah, wizz accomplished.
Allowing this to continue is suicide!
Allowing a government to shield our sworn enemies is suicide.
Allowing a government to use the IRS to attack us is suicide.
The list goes on and on and mark my words it will never stop until a Thomas Jefferson moment takes place and if government succeeds in further eroding the 2nd Amendment they might as well take Jefferson’s name out of the history books.
had they retaliated, they would have been arrested and charged with (attempted) murder.
the problem with mob violence is that you typically can’t see your aggressor. if you’re surrounded by 100 people, how do you pick out which one hit you in the back of the head with a bottle?
it’s not limited to muslims in MI either. there were a number of assaults at a pro-union rally recently where a number of anti-union counter protestors (including one of my friends) were assaulted, had personal property stolen or destroyed, and were threatened with grevious bodily harm (my friend had his phone stolen, and his wife received a number of death threats). cops would not allow charges to be filed as there was “no proof” of which individual committed the crime (never mind the pics and videos and numerous eye witness accounts).
Hey, the sheriff apologized. What more can you want? Aren’t you people ever satisfied?/s
Either there is the rule of law or there is tribal warfare. I say American-Americans go tribal. Muslims have no place here unless they are quiet and respectful of freedom. Their abettors in the courts, need a tribal justice visit. That or we can be raped and murdered by the p.c. protected British victims. This is life.
Parents and grandparents. Do your own research. Just google “The Project” by the muslim brotherhood, somewhat shocking.
http://wp.me/p2GpDB-ai Ban Sharia Law in America and stop the spread of radical islam in America.
lanfear, raylanfear, haveittodayray,
Yep & study up for the action phase begins!
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-america/
Onward, Christian soldiers!
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