New York, Sep 20 – The pastor of a Florida church who threatened to burn the Quran on the 9/11 anniversary to protest the 2001 terror attacks in the US, has been hit with a whopping $180,000 bill as cost of security cover for his stunt.The city of Gainesville, Florida, plans to send a bill estimated at more than $180,000 to pastor Terry Jones for security costs, CNN has reported.According to Gainesville police spokeswoman Cpl. Tscharna Senn, police agencies spent more than a month working on plans to provide security to the community surrounding Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center — the planned site of the Quran burning.Jones later called off his plan amid pressure from world leaders.But, the Gainesville police department said it spent more than $100,000 while the Alachua county sheriff’s Office spent an estimated $80,000.‘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, the spokesman added.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.Jones, however, said 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.Jones had told authorities he received numerous death threats after the announcement that he will throw 200 copies of the Quran on a bonfire on the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.According to British newspaper Daily Mail, the security bill could bankrupt Jones and his church which has less than 40 members. The 20-acre site that houses the church is up for sale and Jones has said he wants to move to Tampa to a smaller site.http://www.indiatalkies.com/2010/09/pastor-vowed-burn-quran-billed-180000.html
Freedom isn't free
If you can't pay for the security, don't hold the event. You can be fined for holding an event and not providing enough security if the crowd becomes uncontrollable.
Only the rich can be heard in the media. Now only the rich can gather in the streets.
>>254559>Jones, however, said 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.
>>254559>If you can't pay for the security, don't hold the event.lol this is what liberals actually believe.As if it's the persons fault that the police showed up? These sorts could easily defend themselves with rifles and pistols they didn't need the police.
>These sorts could easily defend themselves with rifles and pistols they didn't need the police.Rifles and pistols don't really do much good when they're just walking up to blowing themselves (and everyone else) up.If you want to hold a peaceful gathering when weed-smoking hippies hold hands singing campfire songs, the amount of security you need is minimal. But you want to hold an event to burn Qurans, where even drawing an unflattering picture of Mohammad brings out death warrants to some Muslims, then you either hire your own private army, or suck it up when Uncle Sam bills you for his.I'm surprised by the conservafags here. Here's a guy who forces the government to deploy safety measures, then in the last minute goes "LOL NVM J/K!" and expects the taxpayers to suck up the expense for his publicity stunt.
>>254607If there was a legitimate cause to fear a bombing then it is the responsibility of the police force to defend against it. The pastor and co. owe no extra for a public service paid for with their tax dollars.
>>254607This is stupid. Police security is a public service payed by taxes. It's the police's choice to go and serve protection under the event. When a president has a rally somewhere, our tax dollars pay for the fucking event, not the institution holding it.
>>254614>the responsibility of the police forcelol no, the police are not responsible for anything.Funny how liberals think the police have a "responsibility" or a mandate to protect you.>who forces the government to deploy safety measuresAs opposed to setting speeding traps for extra money? Or pissing away days "talking" to inner city nigger schools as if that will stop niggers from being criminals?>Rifles and pistols don't really do much good when they're just walking up to blowing themselves (and everyone else) up. You ignore the point that NONE OF THIS WOULD BE AN ISSUE IF TRAITORS DIDN'T BRING THESE SUBHUMANS HERE!
>>254640That makes no sense. What traitors are you talking about?
>>254653Anyone who approves of communism, who approves of mass immigration, and who approves of the jewish influence in our government and media, is a traitor.Both to the race and to the nation.
>>254654>implying being called a traitor to a country I stopped caring for years ago is going to hurt my feelings.
>>254625Aren't many cities in the US now starting to charge for police being called out?Police aren't legally obligated to protect anyone, so forcing them to act as guards for an event would probably warrant extra pay in their eyes.
>>254675I'm not sure..I don't think so for individual normal calls. I think for stuff like political events their presence is still payed just by taxes.The point of this is that they were never requested and took some initiative to prepare or whatever and then decided to bill the Pastor for something they didn't even end up doing, it's ridiculous, and he was never notified before they would even be there.
It's basically damned if you do, damned if you don't. If the law enforcements decided to just sit on their asses, and retaliators really did start attacking, you can imagine all the public outcry that the police did nothing, even when they had WEEKS to prepare for something. And what would the police say, that they didn't prepare anything because no one called them for security? That wouldn't fly for a second.There was a recent story about how technology is making people dumb. More precisely, it focused on people who have no business going into the wild, relying on GPS, satellite calls, and the like because they are so cheap and abundant. People with these devices go out with not enough food, water, shelter, in bad weather, etc. And when things go bad, they push the EMERGENCY button that puts out a distress call because they ran out of food. Or a storm came in too fast for them. Or something equally stupid that experienced outdoorsmen know to prepare for. In the story, rescuers talked about these hikers that called in a chopper rescue 3 times: once because they ran out of water, another because their water tasted funny.In the end, there was debate over who should pay for these rescues. Helicopter rescues can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Government usually foots the bill, but when a helicopter gets called out because you didn't think to bring enough water, it doesn't seem fair.Same thing applies with ambulances. A lot of people get shocked when they call 911, then get billed $1000 for the ambulance ride. If you have insurance, they'll usually cover it, but sometimes they don't.That's basically how I see this Quran burning event. You hold the event, knowing full well how radical and unforgiving some of their followers are, knowing everyone around the world is bracing for impact. And then cancel it in the last minute.
>>254881Or we could privatize the whole thing and stop subsidizing stupidity? Statist solutions always turn into disasters yet it never occurs to them that perhaps the problem is statism in itself.
>>254881>You hold the event, knowing full well how radical and unforgiving some of their followers areSeems like a prime reason for the FBI to get involved then and use this opportunity to stake out the place and arrest potential terrorists who came out and started causing shit. Hell who knows what kind of leads they could get, or are you just talking about rabid liberals?..I tried to imagine being a yuppie who hiked for three days into the middle of some forest, then a rainstorm came and I lose my wits and keep calling for helicopters....but the stupid is hard to process.Anyways you make some pretty good points, there are always exceptions, however take into account the astronomical size of the bill. It probably trumps quite a few helicopter rescues and more so they must have known if the cost is even legit that this small church community had no way of paying for something like that, so the responsible thing to do was to touch base and explain the situation at the least.This smells illegal to me. Police take such precautions for government officials and who pays for all of it? The tax payers. Just look at the g20 in Canada.