Arab Festival 2010 David Wood's Arrest in Dearborn (17 July 2010) — Transcript

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1. 0:02[Music]
2. 0:09we've been talking a lot about the
3. 0:10dearborn police department recently but
4. 0:12i have a message for the dearborn fire
5. 0:14department
6. 0:15please go to mayor john c o'reilly's
7. 0:17office immediately his pants are on fire
8. 0:21and the flames are rapidly spreading to
9. 0:23his career and to his city's reputation
10. 0:27in our video showing the footage of paul
11. 0:29and nabeel's arrest you can see me in
12. 0:31the background holding up a video camera
13. 0:33that's what i was doing holding a camera
14. 0:35this is why it was interesting for me to
15. 0:37learn from the mayor's letter that i was
16. 0:40causing a scene the mayor wrote
17. 0:43at the time he was arrested on friday
18. 0:44june 18th mr wood that's me had gathered
19. 0:47a large crowd around him blocking a key
20. 0:49access point between the tents the crowd
21. 0:52was forced to grow bigger solely because
22. 0:54people could not pass
23. 0:56those who created this public danger did
24. 0:59so with the knowledge that they were
25. 1:00violating the laws because they wanted
26. 1:02to be arrested while their cohorts were
27. 1:04actively recording the event for posting
28. 1:07on the web
29. 1:08they knew that they could inflame the
30. 1:10passions of viewers who would be taken
31. 1:12in by their misrepresentation of what
32. 1:14was really going on
33. 1:17isn't it ironic that the mayor accuses
34. 1:20us of misrepresenting the facts in order
35. 1:22to inflame the passions of yours when
36. 1:24that's exactly what he's been doing
37. 1:27in this video i'm going to share the
38. 1:28footage from my camera of nabil's final
39. 1:31dialogue at the festival
40. 1:33you've already seen what happened from a
41. 1:34different angle you can't hear
42. 1:35everything perfectly but the point is to
43. 1:37show what i was doing when i was
44. 1:39arrested remember the mayor says that i
45. 1:40had gathered a large crowd around me
46. 1:42that i was blocking a key access point
47. 1:45between the tents and that people could
48. 1:47not pass he says all of this in an
49. 1:49attempt to justify the actions of the
50. 1:51dearborn police department
51. 1:53i'd like you to pay attention to all of
52. 1:55the people walking around during this
53. 1:56dialogue yes there was a group gathered
54. 1:58but we were in a very large area an
55. 2:01entire city street and two sidewalks
56. 2:02wide
57. 2:03notice that people had no trouble
58. 2:05whatsoever walking out of the tent and
59. 2:08we've already seen in another video that
60. 2:09i had asked police if we should move and
61. 2:11police said we were fine right before
62. 2:14arresting us
63. 2:15so let's check out the footage i've
64. 2:17included at the bottom some quotations
65. 2:18from the mayor's letter from the police
66. 2:20report and from the city of dearborn's
67. 2:22website see if they're accurate and if
68. 2:25you listen closely at the end while i'm
69. 2:27being handcuffed you can hear muslims
70. 2:29standing close to me saying
71. 2:31man i love dearborn police
72. 2:46oh
73. 2:59[Music]
74. 3:08that's a good question we came here
75. 3:10yesterday or last year and we saw a
76. 3:12pamphlet that we had a question about so
77. 3:13we went to the booth we gave us the man
78. 3:16we said hey can i ask you a
79. 3:37i think you're looking for more trouble
80. 3:39we're not looking for trouble we want to
81. 3:40see if things are better because
82. 3:41generally things have been better
83. 3:42security hasn't been hit security has
84. 3:44been assaulted so
85. 3:45i'm glad about that and we're talking
86. 3:47right now no one's stopping us from
87. 3:48talking so i'm glad about these things
88. 3:50that's the very reason i'm here to make
89. 3:51sure you and i can talk so we're here to
90. 3:53preach i would like to breathe we
91. 3:55haven't even gotten to that point
92. 3:58why is christianity better than islam
93. 4:01because jesus christ did not claim to be
94. 4:03just
95. 4:03he said
96. 4:05worship
97. 4:06received
98. 4:07he forgave people's
99. 4:09sins and died
100. 4:16and i find it so important
101. 4:39what
102. 4:44what's up buddy
103. 4:58so in the old testament we see a
104. 5:00prophecy saying that a child will be
105. 5:02born to you and he will be the mighty
106. 5:04god in the old testament it actually
107. 5:05says almighty god will be born as a
108. 5:08child to you in actuality it can't just
109. 5:10be like a half god it actually says the
110. 5:12everlasting father
111. 5:14will be born to you so this is this is
112. 5:17what happened
113. 5:20all right
114. 5:37all right i can't just waste these
115. 5:38things away that wouldn't make me a just
116. 5:39god i'm gonna pay these sins for you
117. 5:41that's how much he loves us and so he
118. 5:43comes into the world as a man and he
119. 5:45takes our sins for us he does it all
120. 5:47voluntarily he doesn't have to do any of
121. 5:49this
122. 5:50have you met jesus yourself
123. 5:55these are great questions guys
124. 5:56anyone else have a question
125. 6:04the police investigation
126. 6:14[Music]
127. 6:16is
128. 6:25man i love you
129. 6:35now just in case you think the muslim
130. 6:37who said he loves the dearborn police
131. 6:39was in the minority here's some footage
132. 6:42of muslims cheering while we were being
133. 6:45arrested for having a peaceful dialogue
134. 6:48[Music]
135. 6:59[Music]
136. 7:04oh
137. 7:09[Music]
138. 7:22[Music]
139. 7:30[Applause]
140. 7:38[Music]
141. 7:41people are still asking us why we're
142. 7:43claiming that all of this has something
143. 7:44to do with sharia
144. 7:46under sharia law christians can't preach
145. 7:48the gospel to muslims under sharia
146. 7:49muslims are not free to become
147. 7:51christians under sharia christians are
148. 7:53second class citizens christians are
149. 7:54inferior
150. 7:56and now you've seen dearborn police
151. 7:57hauling off christians in handcuffs to
152. 7:59the cheers of local muslims for what
153. 8:02not for blocking a tent entrance or for
154. 8:04screaming into a crowd or for disobeying
155. 8:06a police order to break up our
156. 8:07conversation those were all lies to
157. 8:09cover up what really happened what was i
158. 8:12doing i was standing there holding a
159. 8:14camera
160. 8:16that's what we've been saying all along
161. 8:19and yet the mayor the police department
162. 8:20some muslims and even some christians
163. 8:22have repeatedly lied about what we were
164. 8:24doing
165. 8:25we've already exposed several lies in
166. 8:27the mayor's letter but his letter is
167. 8:29still on the city of dearborn's website
168. 8:31and so the lies are still circulating
169. 8:34people of dearborn
170. 8:36do you support this
171. 8:38we know some of you don't like us you
172. 8:40don't have to like us but does not
173. 8:42liking us mean that it's acceptable for
174. 8:44the police department and the mayor to
175. 8:46lie about us to take us to jail and to
176. 8:48make us stand trial for these ridiculous
177. 8:50charges on september 20th
178. 8:53is that really okay in dearborn i'd like
179. 8:55to know
180. 8:56do the citizens of dearborn support
181. 8:59deception false arrests violating the
182. 9:01rights of christians trampling on the
183. 9:03constitution government corruption
184. 9:07or will you stand with us against such
185. 9:09tyranny
186. 9:11many of you cheered when we were being
187. 9:12arrested and those of you who cheered
188. 9:14knew we weren't doing anything wrong
189. 9:17is that your final verdict
190. 9:20please tell us where you stand
191. 9:22because i don't know dearborn
192. 9:24i just don't know
193. 9:29[Music]