Never in a million years would I ever believe that I would be writing a headline like that. But it is how I feel.
VIA CNN:
Orlando, Florida (CNN) — The city of Gainesville, Florida, plans to send a bill estimated at more than $180,000 to Pastor Terry Jones for security costs surrounding his controversial threat to burn Qurans on the anniversary of the September, 11, 2001, attacks, a police spokeswoman said Friday.
Police agencies spent more than a month working on security plans to ensure the community surrounding Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center — the planned site of the burning — was safe, according to Gainesville police spokeswoman Cpl. Tscharna Senn.
Jones also told authorities he received numerous death threats because of the planned protest, which he called off amid increasing pressure from world leaders.
The Gainesville Police Department said it spent more than $100,000 while the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office spent an estimated $80,000 during the weekend of the planned demonstration.
“We have 286 sworn officers and almost everyone was working either at the Dove Center or at other soft targets,” Senn said. “Unless you were sick or injured you were working” the day the burning was to take place.
Officers secured malls in the region, the University of Florida’s football stadium and areas around the church in the days leading up to the planned event.
…and you know what this idiotic piece of crap said in response? This:
Jones said Friday that the church was “not aware that we would be billed for security.”
“If we had known this in advance, then we would have refused to have security,” he said.
Oh.My.God —- This moronic tool thinks that it is all about him. No wonder his daughter thinks that he is gone crazy! Memo to Religious nut-job: It is NOT about YOU! It is about protecting the citizens in the town of Gainsville, Florida from a Muslim uprising, because of your stupid little publicity stunt; you ignorant tool! 😡
Unbelievable. I have seen some out of touch, tone-deaf people in my day; but this jack-wad takes the cake. Some people have accused me of being that type of a person. But, I do not even remotely hold a candle to him, at all. 🙄
This is not even mentioning into the fact that this jack-wad was actually stupid enough to pull a stunt like this; that would endanger the lives of our service members overseas. I mean, that is the absolute epitome of tone-deaf.
….and people wonder why Christianity is such a damaged brand in this day and age. It is because ignorant jack-wads like this idiot here; and that other jack-wad Freddie Phelps! Morons. Both of them. 🙄
I don’t like this asshole with the silly mustache and i don’t think he has a single brain in his head. I do not want him to burn any book much less one that would further polarize an already polarized world.
However he should not pay this bill. If i hold a demonstration in DC and the police work overtime to keep the peace or hold up traffic or whatever it is they do then that is on the District of Columbia to pay for that.
Fundamentally this ends free speech. “Okay, you can petition for a redress of grievances, but expect to cough up some cash.”
It does not work that way.
This is a bogus tariff of his right to speak and he should fight this in court.
He will win.
The difference in this situation is that you would have had a permit to assemble in DC. This guy had no permit. The fire marshal denied his burn permit, so what he was going to do was illegal.
That might be so, be he’s still an idiot and about as tone-deaf as they get. So there.