Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead

[reverendjeremiah]

No he's not culpable for anything some crazy extremists 6000 miles away did. He was warned that it would cause violence. He admitted to knowing people would be incited. He admitted that it was for "stirring" the pot and added nothing to debate only to his publicity, and now people are dead because of it. US civilian workers and soldiers are in danger of it. I hear he's talking about burning Muhammad for the annual celebration.
The President has the right to disperse any intentionally incited gathering. I say he uses it. We all know free speech isn't really completely free. You can't yell Fire in a movie theater, libel or slander. Free speech is incompatible with hate speech.

Okay. So the president has the power to step in and stop a gathering? Even though it is peaceful? He didnt throw his rights away. What it looks like is that YOU have thrown his rights away. The President cant step in and stop a peaceful gathering, and to suggest otherwise is a power I dont want to give to the president.

Lets be honest. This pastor turned his church into a court room. This is private property with a peaceful gathering to do a legally protect first amendment expression. Honestly, I cant see where the president can do anything, and if he did..man...not only would I be VERY upset at him, but the vast majority of Americans as well.

Is there any kind of crime you can pin on this man without suggesting the president become a dictator and tossing out the rights and rule of law? I honestly cannot think of ANY crime you can put on him without ignoring decades of precedence and jurisprudence.

Maybe they can claim he is a terrorist. If they did that he would loose all of his rights, even to see a lawyer, and can be held indeffinitely in Guantanimo bay and be tried with hearsay as evidence. Yeah, the President can pull the patriot act on him. This pastor is high profile. It would be a very difficult situation for the Obama administration to explain how this Pastor is suddenly a terrorist enemy of the state.

Yup..Patriot act...the only law I can think of that we can legally imprison this pastor.

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I split the thread to merge it with the other thread already going on about the FL pastor burning the Quran, we'll keep this thread focused on the raping type of theist.

Good idea..I was starting to get a bit dizzy headed jumping back and forth.