The Constitution is being repealed in this country. Ground zero for the repeal is the Detroit area, or we should start calling it Detroitistan.
Detroit used to be the American city. With car manufacturing, the city became the quintessential American city. But with a series of corrupt Democrat mayors and Detroit jumping up for every federal handout, like a crack head jumping for another bump off the rock, Detroit now looks like a disaster. Detroit is a disaster. Urban explorers now frequent Detroit’s abandoned downtown buildings, like old schools and downtown train station. It is like visiting an old Egyptian pyramid, only more dangerous.
Detroit has now moved into the area of stopping “crimes” in advance. In this case, the crime was free speech. The free speech was by Koran burning preacher Terry Jones.
Just for the record, Terry Jones is an attention whore. But sometimes, even when you have someone like Jones, what they are doing becomes secondary to the principle. In this case, the principle is free speech and Detroit and Wayne County are now going to be a Constitution free zone.
Jones went to Detroit to protest the Islamic Center in Dearborn. City officials refused to issue a permit for his rally, fearing the Muslims would act out. In Detroit, the new standard for the First Amendment is, speech is acceptable as long as Muslims are not offended. Wayne County Michigan prosecutors brought charges against Jones for an event that had not yet occurred. A jury was convened and they were told to decide whether Jones’ intentions were peaceful or not.
One of the witnesses at the trial was Dearborn Police Chief Ron Hadad, who testified that Dearborn Muslims told him that the burning of a Koran was a “major crime” and that it was worse than more than a thousand deaths.”
The Detroit Jury “convicted” Jones and another man and ordered a “Peace bond” be posted. Prosecutors asked for a $45,000 bond for each. The judge ordered each man to post a $1 bond and barred them from being around the Mosque for three years. Both men refused to post the bond and were taken to jail.
In short, they were jailed for a crime that was never committed and for activities that are protected by the First Amendment.
The Dearborn/Detroit area is infamous for the arrest members of the Acts 17 group. They are a group of Christians who wanted to discuss Islam and Christianity at the annual Arab festival.
Free speech is now illegal in Detroit.
Following the trial, a supporter of Terry Jones left the courtroom. In a true example of liberal civility, he was surrounded by leftists who screamed to the point where he could not even hear reporters’ questions. You can see the video here.
We are constantly fed the line that Islam is a “religion of peace,” despite all evidence to the contrary. Does anyone really believe that if a group of Muslims had gone to Jones’ church in Florida to protest, the police would have been needed to protect them against Jones’ congregation or even the local Christian population?
Islam teaches that all other groups are inferior to Islam. It teaches that if people do not convert to Islam, they are to be treated as second-class citizens and their rights subordinated to those of Muslims.
We are now seeing the beginning of the Islamic Republic of Detroit. An American citizen’s right to free speech is subordinated to the political correctness of liberalism and to Islam’s demand that it not be “insulted.”
Islam is an insult to freedom. It is an attack on freedom. Jones may be an idiot but he is an American and that gives him the right of free speech. We either stop this non-sense now or twenty years from now, we will be asking what happened to our freedoms.
