Let me preface this by stating a few facts.

Terry Jones is a jackass of little note who shouldn’t have a gun.

If the media behaved responsibly rather than ginning up controversy, no one would’ve heard of the guy.

The media is using Jones to once again portray Christians as instigators and Muslims as victims.

Having said all of that, the guy has a right to protest whatever and whomever he likes on public property without having to put up a bond because of how other people might react to his speech.

This is the norm in Dearborn, where Christian evangelists were arrested last year for proselytizing to Muslims going to a festival. This is the norm for Dearborn, Mich., which has the nation’s largest Muslim community. A search of the Thomas More Law Center’s site returns 69 items relating to the municipal government of that city seeking to silence Christians.

You can bet that if the religions were reversed, the federal Justice Department would come down like a ton of bricks on Dearborn. The fact that they haven’t does not in itself suggest the politicization of the Justice Department. Taken with other things, however, there might be something to it.