A few more thoughts.
- Although Obama takes the right position in decrying the burning, he shouldn't have dipped down into this discussion. He has taken the bait. Now loonies of all stripes will want to get his goat. There are plenty of federal employees who can comment.
- Appropriate local responses might be to burn bibles, flags, constitutions right across the street
- The US press might decide en masse not to film live footage of the event. If Al Jazeera (not a bad news organization) and other Islamic press outlets are the only ones with cameras, Jones et al might think differently about what they're doing.
- Although the First Amendment constrains the government from abridging freedom of speech, there's no reason the populace can't act as an obstacle to press access. Why don't a bunch of citizens create a cordon of intentional traffic accidents around the burning site so that press trucks can't get through? It would be ironic indeed if Cash for Clunkers made it difficult to find good cars to sacrifice. Or just a good old-fashioned sit in?
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The counter-protest should occur in full view of the press and consist of the public application of enhancement cream by hundreds of concerned male citizens.
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