Arab Festival 2010 Dearborn Police Defending Islam against the Constitution (21June 2010) — Transcript

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1. 0:02[Music]
2. 0:18all right david wood with my friends uh
3. 0:20paul and antonio here we are uh not
4. 0:22actually gonna go into the festival
5. 0:24right now uh because we know
6. 0:26automatically if they're gonna lock us
7. 0:27up no matter what we do they'll lie
8. 0:29about us it's just the way of life here
9. 0:31in dearborn if you're a christian so we
10. 0:33brought a case of copies of the gospel
11. 0:35of john in english and arabic i'm going
12. 0:37to try standing outside of the festival
13. 0:39and handing some of them out i suspect
14. 0:41they're going to stop us
15. 0:43even then but we'll see we hope that
16. 0:46there's no problems
17. 0:51[Music]
18. 0:52[Applause]
19. 1:05room
20. 1:08[Applause]
21. 1:15[Music]
22. 1:17[Applause]
23. 1:17[Music]
24. 1:23[Applause]
25. 1:28look at this
26. 1:30they weren't here three minutes
27. 1:34whoa
28. 1:36whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
29. 1:40[Applause]
30. 1:46[Music]
31. 1:58[Music]
32. 2:00uh
33. 2:03[Applause]
34. 2:08[Music]
35. 2:16[Applause]
36. 2:18what's that
37. 2:20what's this
38. 2:22i think it's eight o'clock
39. 2:24[Music]
40. 2:37hey
41. 2:44[Music]
42. 2:50[Applause]
43. 2:58[Music]
44. 3:03okay my name is the camera
45. 3:05so
46. 3:08appreciate i'll turn it off
47. 3:25all right uh as you just saw uh two of
48. 3:28my friends walked over to
49. 3:31the arab festival outside of the arab
50. 3:33festival and tried to distribute copies
51. 3:35of the gospel of john in english and
52. 3:38arabic and they were stopped immediately
53. 3:41outside the festival
54. 3:42you didn't see what happened afterwards
55. 3:44but they took us to the security booth
56. 3:46they photographed us they took our uh
57. 3:48id's got the information took our camera
58. 3:50uh his cell phone for for a little while
59. 3:53uh they let us go and just explain the
60. 3:55rules to us but what the rule is it
61. 3:57seems is not that you can't distribute
62. 4:00copies of the gospel of john inside the
63. 4:02festival it also applies outside the
64. 4:04festival they told us we would have to
65. 4:06go at least five blocks away if we
66. 4:08wanted to distribute anything so
67. 4:11this is getting very interesting
68. 4:12dearborn let's look at some of the
69. 4:14places where you are not free to hand
70. 4:16out information on a public sidewalk
71. 4:19here in dearborn
72. 4:23hi i'm niki miel and i'm on the corner
73. 4:26of kingsley and warren and i just want
74. 4:29to say that i will be arrested
75. 4:32in dearborn usa on the corner of
76. 4:34kingsley and warren if i hand this out
77. 4:38how you doing oh my name is antonio
78. 4:40santana i'm on the corner of warren and
79. 4:43eminent or something like that i'm a
80. 4:45former muslim and i am not free to give
81. 4:48a gospel of jesus christ here in
82. 4:50dearborn
83. 4:53hey i'm paul i'm here on the corner of
84. 4:56warren and freda in dearborn michigan
85. 4:59united states and if i were to take this
86. 5:01gospel of jesus christ
87. 5:03by john st john and hand it out to
88. 5:05anyone on the street i will be put in
89. 5:07jail again
90. 5:09[Music]
91. 5:16[Music]
92. 5:22well now i'm about a trillion miles away
93. 5:25from the arab festival on corner of
94. 5:27warner warren and wyoming and if i walk
95. 5:30a little bit past this intersection i
96. 5:32will finally finally have the freedom
97. 5:34here on a public street in the united
98. 5:36states of america to hand out a copy
99. 5:39of the gospel that's where i have to go
100. 5:42so
101. 5:43i just hope that americans will start
102. 5:44paying attention to what's going on here
103. 5:46in dearborn namely any city in the
104. 5:48united states where i could not stand on
105. 5:50a public street
106. 5:52outside the festival
107. 5:54where i could not hand out information
108. 5:57about my beliefs
109. 5:58you won't find one
110. 6:00so i hope you pay attention what's going
111. 6:01on in america because something's not
112. 6:03right here
113. 6:06[Applause]
114. 6:08[Music]
115. 6:16you