BROWNSHIRTS

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

The Episcopal Organization gets its Nazi freak on:

The controversial trial of 10 Muslim students – arrested for heckling the Israeli ambassador during a campus speech last year at the University of California in Irvine – was coming to a close Sept. 19, but their supporters were just getting warmed up.

An overflow multiethnic, interfaith crowd packed an Orange County Superior Courtroom as attorneys on both sides began wrapping up their cases, citing free speech arguments. Prosecutors said the students had effectively censored Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren’s Feb. 8, 2010 speech; defense attorneys said their behavior amounted to normal student activism.

Dozens more in solidarity with the “Irvine 11″ but unable to find seats in the courtroom, filled the hallway outside, their hopes and prayers pinned on an eventual verdict in favor of the students’ right to express public dissent. Representatives of faith and secular organizations prepared for a second day of closing arguments Sept. 20 and said they believe prosecutors have targeted the students because they are Muslim.

The Rev. John Conrad, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Riverside, California, said it was gratifying “to see so many representatives of the various faiths coming together on the common ground of truth and justice and liberty. It’s redeeming. I pray the jury is swayed to find them innocent.”

The kids just shouted down a Jew. What’s so terrible about that?

Conrad, a member of the Bishop’s Commission on the Middle East in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, was in the courtroom for morning closing statements Sept. 19 by Deputy District Attorney Dan Wagner. “The truth of the matter is, this isn’t an issue for Muslims, or Christians, or Jews. It’s an issue for people,” he said during a gathering of media representatives afterwards.

“It’s an issue about justice, about people who are oppressed and who have no voice.

The bastards had a voice one particular evening.

It’s a tremendous travesty

Prosecuting somebody for censoring a Jew. What’s the world coming to?

and it [this case] will cool and chill dissent in this area,

Dissent, of course, meaning screaming Jews off the stage and nothing else.

which is a sad, sad thing, and certainly not the American way.”

See below for what the “American way” has apparently degenerated into.

The trial has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment, said others, including the Rev. Wilfredo Benítez, rector of St. Anselm’s Episcopal Church in Garden Grove, California, who attended the court proceedings.

“This is a sad day in Orange County, that Muslim students should be persecuted for speaking their conscience,” Benítez said. “There’s an unspoken rule in this county and even in the nation that no one can be critical of Israel or they will be looked at as hostile. That’s part of what’s motivating this.”

Benny? You can as critical of Israel in this country as you want to, you posturing jackass. Just take your damn turn. Being “critical of Israel” and screaming down the Israeli ambassador with brain-dead leftist bumper stickers are two totally different things. One is the American way. The other is fascist. Guess which one’s which, Benny?

“As a Christian leader in the community, it’s important that I stand in solidarity with them [the students] as they exercise their constitutional rights to do that

To prevent other people from expressing their opinion? Have you got a constitution I don’t know about, Benny?

and that I stand in solidarity with other religious leaders in support of this community that seems to be singled out in this instance.”

They were “singled out” because they were the only ones involved, moron, er Benny. But do you see what I did there? That was free speech, me calling you a moron. Anyway, according to Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy, this is apparently is the “American way.” These idiots planned this thing and knew precisely what they were doing.

The students came up with the following plan. They had been told that if they interrupted the speech, they would be arrested for disturbing a public event, so the students went sequentially, each interrupting the Ambassador once. Each student would stand up in the middle of the speech and start screaming out condemnation, which would trigger the wild applause of many other students in the audience. The student would then walk to the aisle to be arrested and escorted out by campus police. Once the Ambassador started again, the next student would go, resulting in a total of 10 interruptions to the speech and arrests of 11 students, 8 from UC Irvine and 3 from UC Riverside.

Conrad? Benitez? Treat a Muslim like this and people like you would be screaming bloody murder. Do us all a favor and stick your “singled out” crap back where it originally came from. It was Muslims who were censoring speech here and only Muslims. Ambassador Oren was only trying to speak. The Islamo-fascists were determined not to let him.
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