Wednesday, September 12, 2012
General
Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff,
called Pastor Terry Jones by phone on Wednesday and "asked him to withdraw
his support for a film whose portrayal of the Prophet Mohammad has sparked
violent protests."
This
won't work. It weakens us. Didn't the the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs
of Staff get the memo that it is his job to defend the
Constitution and our basic freedoms, not to curtail them? If these folks wish
to restrict free speech, they should move. There are hundreds of countries that
restrict speech. Go there. Don't force us to sacrifice our freedoms because you
are afraid of offending savages.
It's
come to this. Even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thinks
that it if Muslims respond to something with murderous violence, it is up to
the non-Muslims to change the way they behave so as to accommodate them. And so
eleven years after 9/11, terrorism well and truly won: now if any group wants
anything, they know that all they have to do in order to get it is rampage and
riot and kill.
Also,
this film didn't "spark violent protests." The film has been on YouTube since
2011. Someone found the film and thought it would serve as a
pretext for attacks on Americans on September 11.
And in
response, General Dempsey calls those who are supposedly responsible for the
film and asks them to submit voluntarily to Sharia restrictions on the freedom
of speech regarding Islam.
Turn
out the lights. It's all over.
"Top
U.S. military officer calls pastor over film," Reuters,
September 12 (thanks to Gerard):
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the
U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with Pastor Terry Jones by
phone on Wednesday and asked him to withdraw his support for a film whose
portrayal of the Prophet Mohammad has sparked violent protests - including one
that ended with the death of America's envoy to Libya. "In the brief call,
Gen. Dempsey expressed his concerns over the nature of the film, the tensions
it will inflame and the violence it will cause," Dempsey's spokesman,
Colonel Dave Lapan, told Reuters. "He asked Mr. Jones to consider
withdrawing his support for the film." U.S. military officials are
concerned that the film could inflame tensions in Afghanistan, where 74,000
U.S. troops are fighting. The Taliban earlier on Wednesday called on Afghans to
prepare for a fight against Americans and urged insurgents to "take
revenge" on U.S. soldiers over the film.
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