Arrest of Koran-Burning Pastor Terry Jones Brings Freedom of Speech Into Focus
April 26, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Bill of Rights, Dearborn, Disturbing the Peace, First Amendment, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, islam, Koran, Michigan, NewsReal Blog, Pastor Terry Jones, Property Rights, Protest, Terry Jones
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The freedom of speech is perhaps the most popular among those cited in the Bill of Rights. The ability to express yourself without fear of fine or incarceration is essential to the maintenance of a free society. Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, a prolific author on the topic of Islam, has an important article at Human Events suggesting that free speech may be endangered.
On Good Friday in Dearborn, Mich., the notorious Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones was jailed and fined for the crime of refusing to pay a so-called “peace bond” to cover the costs of extra police protection for Jones’ planned demonstration outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Judge Mark Somers also ordered Jones to stay away from the massive Dearborn mosque for three years.
Spencer points out that Jones was not the threat to public order that Dearborn authorities treated him as. Rather, the threat to public order was the prospect of violent reaction from Muslims.
… if Jones and his fellow protesters were not being violent themselves, wouldn’t the responsibility for any disturbance be upon those who decided to react to whatever Jones was doing by causing the disturbance?(…)
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