Organizer of PHX "draw Muhammed" rally: "I'm going into hiding"

[phantom power]

My favorite part is where Ritzheimer Haz A Big Sad that the police had to come. You see, it's not because he and his band of thugs showed up with combat weaponry, bullet proof vests, and "Fuck Islam" t-shirts. No, it's because "Tyranny!"

Mediaite published a video of a reporter asking Ritzheimer a question as the rally was winding down. The unidentified reporter asked if those participating in the rally were “confrontational.” Ritzheimer responded: “This is still peaceful as far as I can tell.” He said his rally consisted of patriots getting “stuff off their chests.”

He then pointed to the Muslim congregation and their supporters aligned against the “Draw Muhammad” rally and said they were “getting [things] off their chests” too. He said, “They are mad. They are mad at us for exercising our First Amendment rights.”

When asked about the job Phoenix police did at the rally, he said they did “an outstanding job.” But Ritzheimer claimed that the very fact that police had to attend, monitor, and control the rally was “again, further proof that the First Amendment is under attack.” He added: “This is tyranny right here. This is tyranny at its finest.”

Ritzheimer also alluded to another example of the “tyranny” he alleges; namely, that he and his family must now go into hiding because of the cartoons and free speech rally. He said: “I’m having to sell my house, my family has been threatened, so they’re in hiding. I’m having to go into hiding after this. Because they are calling for ‘lone wolves’ to come and behead me. That’s following their book as it’s written.”

Ritzheimer then reflected a moment and said: “That’s tyranny. That’s terrorism right here in America. This isn’t happening over seas. This is in America.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/30/phoenix-draw-muhammad-organizer-allegedly-threatened-with-beheading-goes-into-hiding/

[bravenak]

1. Some people do not understand the first amendment.

[MohRokTah]

2. LOOK AT ME!!!!!!

What an asshat this guy is.

[jaysunb]

3. I think there's medicine for this. n/t

[PeoViejo]

6. Thorazine n/t

[jmowreader]

4. Has he actually been threatened or is he just making shit up?

[phantom power]

11. I cannot find any direct evidence of threats or "posting his address" ...

Neither do I have any evidence that he's lying. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody did threaten him. Considering that he's an attention-whore with a huge axe to grind it also wouldn't surprise me if he just made it all up.

Not sure what he thinks he actually wants, or thinks he's proving, really. He's already said the whole purpose of this stunt is to "expose the truth about Islam," by which he seems to mean that Islam is violent. The fact that there are people who threaten, or commit, violence in the name of Islam isn't new to anybody, nor is it news that radical Muslims are a minority, like radical Christians.

So assuming he's telling the truth, he achieved his stated goal.

[SwankyXomb]

13. Finding his address isn't hard

Took me 3 minutes, while doing other stuff.

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. I'd bet the farm he had that planned all along.

Trying to cast himself as the brave fighter for freedom of speech, driven underground by murderous Muslim savages.

[justhanginon]

8. And as an afterthought, Mr. Shitzheimer probably mentioned

his gofundme account was now open. Man, this tyranny fightin' is expensive.
Hint, hint, hint.

[Runningdawg]

9. He's a media whore

looking for his 15 minutes. He didn't get it so now he plays the victim card.

[world wide wally]

10. And I, like a dummy, thought there was something about "freedom of religion" in the Constitution

[phantom power]

12. For guys like Ritzheimer, Constitutional freedoms are for white Christians