(This
is an older video, but that's really not what's important.) A group of
Christians held up Christian signs at a "festival" in Dearborn. They
were pelted with rocks, bottles and worse. The behavior of the Dearborn
Policeand Sheriff's Dept. is particularly disturbing (watch to the end
and see just how police manpower is deployed, and just whose side the
cops are on). Skoonj and
Tarlowe Show
A couple of things I noticed and would like to point out:
The Christian group showed enormous restraint; everything about their
presence and their behavior was passive; they weren't marching or
preaching,
they were just standing there holding signs.
The young Muslim rioters seemed to employ "ghetto vernacular".
Adults in the crowd stood by as the "youths" attacked the Christians.
The Wayne Co. "Director of Law Enforcement" is named Mike JAAFAR (Gee,
what
kind of name is that?).
As the Christian group noted, the cops were rewarding riotous behavior
and
ensuring that it would happen again. The cops' claim that the
Christians'
presence presented a "danger to public safety" is positively Orwellian.
This took place at a "festival" (street fair and carnival). There's an
expression in the "Carnie" business: "There's nothing wrong with this
crowd
that a couple of hand-grenades wouldn't cure!"
I suppose there are parallels between Christians "marching" in Dearborn
and
Nazis marching in Skokie. The Nazis didn't actually march in Skokie,
but it
was ruled that they had every right to do so. Had they marched, they
might
well have been pelted with eggs, but with rocks?
It could be said that the Nazis were being "provocative" the way these
Christians were accused of being. But do we really want to draw that
kind of
"moral equivalence" between Nazis marching and Christians holding signs?
The "civilized" response to a demonstration of which one disapproves
would
be to ignore it, or to turn one's back.
I'm reminded of when I was in Memphis during a KKK rally (I wasn't in
the
vicinity, just in the city at the same time). The cops protected the
dozen
or so KKK members from the 10,000 or more Memphians who turned out to
"protest", so the "protesters" instead ran riot through downtown,
burning
cars and smashing and looting stores.
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