Gingrich: Imams Should Have Been Arrested

Posted on December 17, 2006

Hat tip: Don Surber who points to UPI’s report on Newt Gingrich’s latest:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire Muslim clerics pulled off a plane for praying should have been charged criminally.

Gingrich made the remark Friday night, as he delivered the keynote speech at the Manchester Republican City Committee Christmas dinner, the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader reported.

“Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists,” Gingrich said. “And the crew of the U.S. airplane should have been invited to the White House and congratulated for being correct in the protection of citizens.”

Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of reactions including this one that points out:

Which just goes to show, as I was saying in an email to someone the other day, how starved we are for statements of the obvious from our political leaders.

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2 Responses to “Gingrich: Imams Should Have Been Arrested”

Jeff Molby on December 17th, 2006 9:22 pm

Please tell me there isn’t actually a crime called “pretending to be terrorists.”
kerwin_brown on December 18th, 2006 4:08 am

Gingrich obviously used a poor choice of words as acting itself is not a crime. The crime is a case of shouting fire in a crowded theater.

This would be the charge he’s probably talking about if it occurred in the Jurisdiction of the state of New York Laws.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/nycodes/c82/a59.html

“S 240.08 Inciting to riot.
A person is guilty of inciting to riot when he urges ten or more
persons to engage in tumultuous and violent conduct of a kind likely to create public alarm.

Inciting to riot is a class A misdemeanor.”