In the age of viral video, public utterances are put under a microscope and opening up forums so people can rabble-rouse for your cause can backfire as fast as a DSL modem can load something up to YouTube. In this instance at the Ground Zero Mosque rallies over the weekend (watch the whole thing, but highlights at 3:50 and beyond), freedom of speech gets the best of one Ground Zero Mosque supporter and the dominoes fall from there:
First the out-of-the-blue Israel hatred, then one of the pro-Ground Zero Mosque attendees attempts to flag the police on the videographer who expresses disagreement with the Israel hatred, then the Israel-haters chant “bigots go home.” Ahh, the deep thinking and open-mindedness of the left.
The Weekly Standard has more details:
“There was a guy standing up, a Pakistani guy, who had identified himself as a Pakistani, and he said: ‘We’re not going to sit there and back these Zionist Jews,'” [Joey “Boots”] Bassolino recounted, still clearly a little shaken up.
“And I’m like, whoa, wait a minute. What’s up with the racism? And they’re like, ‘what’s racist about that?'” The guy behind Bassolino yelled “f*** you,” reached forward, grabbing his camera and hitting it. “So I kicked him in the shin,” Bassolino said. Bassolino, a disabled U.S. army veteran, claims that he’s an “objective” observer and was in the group of counter-protesters to “document what was going on.”