Pastor Jones, meet treason

[SoCalDem]

trea·son (trzn)
n.
1. Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.

[Brickbat]

1. Um, no.

Also, the dictionary is not law, much as some of us would like it to be.

[Rage for Order]

2. LOL!!!

Are you series??/?

:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

are we not currently shooting at (and being shot at by) Islamic extremists?

that would tend to make them our "enemies"...and his actions directly AID in the recruitment of more enemies taking up arms against our soldiers....

[Brickbat]

8. Me getting an education and working on my own in public is an abomination to them, too.

Should I stop doing that?

[realisticphish]

15. +1 nt

[Brickbat]

21. I just have to say...

...I adore your sig pic.

[realisticphish]

25. thanks :)

Sergei Eistenstein is freaking awesome... every picture he has ever appeared in, he looks cool as hell

[Brickbat]

26. Half of it was the hair, of course...

...the other half was the fact that he was a goddamn genius. :)

[realisticphish]

31. yeah, the hair is awesome

I took a Russian film class in college, and after learning about Soviet montage, I was pretty skeptical about enjoying it, but man... I loved Oktober and The Battleship Potempkin

[Brickbat]

32. Saw Potemkin for the first time last fall.

My faves are Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky. Brilliant stuff.

[realisticphish]

33. I actually haven't seen those two

I need to get on that...

[Brickbat]

35. Do, then let me know what you think.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. makes sense to me...He certainly would be aiding and abetting our enemies.

..just having US soldiers in places like Iraq and Afghanistan also provide fodder for the Islamic extremists...

[arcane1]

37. Shooting at them has the same effect, no?

[SDuderstadt]

3. Huh?? n/t

[closeupready]

4. Interesting.

K&R

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. ...

[golddigger]

6. Why stop at him? Treason by the media

for continuous non-stop coverage.

[Puregonzo1188]

7. Didn't this come up already? And wasn't it soundly dismissed?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people.

-H.L. Menken, shortly before being lynched by a mob for treason.

[RKP5637]

16. Excellent point. The likes of Beck, Limbaugh, Palin and similar of the herd

exploit it each day carrying all of their money to the bank. One can always bank on American stupidity.

[Dr. Strange]

10. Yes, it's treason. Treason and genocide.

It's also a dessert topping and a floor wax.

[Codeine]

20. It's everything you ever wanted in a beer,

and less.

[RKP5637]

11. I wonder what's next. Damn fools like this ride right into prime time with

these shenanigans and capture the eyes of the world. And at the same time all of the really good things going on slide along unnoticed. It must be part of the human species giving shit like this guy and his flock attention.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. The media is complicit...100% complicit.

[RKP5637]

17. Yep, and sadly so profitable for the MSM to exploit. n/t

[SoCalDem]

18. He's probably making some money on this gambit too..n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

39. No doubt about it...his motivation was purely money...

http://blogs.news.sky.com/foreignmatters/Post:41fa8f09-1061-4d85-b8b5-fc81dbd54d15

<snip>

The Dove Center has also had its finances scrutinised. Local media in Florida say the churches tax exempt status has been cancelled due to Jones running a furniture business from its premises.

Schafer believes that Jones couldn't accept that his power had been taken from him and set out to build another power base. Earlier this year he wrote a book titled 'Islam Is Of The Devil', this is for sale on the Dove Center's website along with T shirts bearing the same slogan.

Terry has hit the headlines, he always meant to. This is his chance to make it big. If he goes ahead, he may die trying.

you can find similar info just by Googling his name...

[DrDan]

12. that is quite a stretch

[JVS]

19. Is there some kind of sale on paint thinner going on that nobody told me about?

[Brickbat]

22. LMAO.

[Rebubula]

24. Yeah...this guy wants to know where...

[Codeine]

23. Step right up and meet the mirror image of Free Republic, ladies and gentlemen.

Where everything you don't agree with is full-on treason and opening your mouth endangers our brave troops.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

27. How does a deliberate sacrilege against islam aid "the enemy"

Calling Constitutionally protected activities treason is a RW thug trick

[Lucian]

28. Uh, no.

It's not treason. He's not aiding anybody. He's just being an idiot.

[SoCalDem]

34. Tell that to the families of the soldiers killed next in Afghanistan & Iraq

I have no personal axe to grind in this issue..In fact I think they could even make more money if they set it up as pay-per-view..perhaps you could sign up..

The nutty pastor is a goofball, but many a goofball in history has set in motion, things that we paid dearly for later..

It's obvious that he's loving the attention , but perhaps a hint of something a bit more "serious" might be enough to settle him down..

I'll be busy on Saturday, so I probably won't immediately know what he does..or even care all that much, really...but there will be families all over the US who will be losing sleep over the possible reactions coming the way of "their soldiers."

whatever.....

[galileoreloaded]

29. And the hyperbole award goes to..............n/t

[SoCalDem]

36. The Dictionary

:P

[NoNothing]

30. Everyone is guilty of treason, then

Do you burn the Koran or not?

Well, if you DO, then that enrages the Muslims who do not want you to, and causes more of them to become terrorists. But if you DON'T, then you aiding them by acquiescing to their unjustified request to respect their holy book, thereby increasing their influence.

Either way: TREASON!

[TZ]

38. Being a bigot and airing those views aren't treasonous, no

If so the KKK would have been shot years ago.Freedom of speech is there to protect SPEECH YOU DON'T LIKE. Are they hateful? Will this incite the zealots? No doubt. But its not treasonous anymore than the ANTI-WAR PROTESTS were treason. Or have we already forgotten how the Iraq war protestors were labelled as helping and encouraging Al-Quaeda? I do remember them being called traitors to.
This is America. You can be as dumb and as hateful as you like as long as you don't physically hurt someone.
As I said elsewhere, someone should exercise their right to burn a bible in front of these idiots. That makes a much better point, I think.

[Posteritatis]

40. Dictionary definitions are not legal definitions. (nt)

[petronius]

41. This line of reasoning was laughable back when the freeper-types tried it, too

'Aiding or comforting the enemy' is just not that elastic of a concept...

[MadHound]

42. Amazing how so many Democrats are willing to trash the Constitution

When it is their own ax that needs grinding. Explains why so many Dems rushed in to vote for the Patriot Act again and again.

You are an idiot and fool on this issue.

[SoCalDem]

43. Thanks for your input

and for the not so nice "greeting", I'll cut you some slack, because I am a nice person:hi:

[MadHound]

45. Be happy that I'm not speaking to you face to face,

I'm restrained here from telling you what I truly think of people who want to shred the Constitution, for whatever reason. You don't like me calling you out on your stupidity and foolishness, stop being stupid and foolish, it's that simple.

And sorry, but nobody who wants to trash our Constitution can ever be considered "nice".

[Nye Bevan]

44. Islamic extremists hate it when women wear bikinis

So American women wearing bikinis is a provocation to our enemies and, by your logic, treason.