[Riot]

Sorry, Scuds. Your freak show leader is just another thieving, lying loser of a snake-oil salesman.

There are no "witnesses" to "a lie" that have stepped forward. Your guy collapsed completely today, put his tail between his legs and walked away.

Before he was the internationally condemned "Burn a Koran Day" pastor, drawing a crush of media to sleepy Gainesville, Florida; Terry Jones was just your average, amateur cult leader.

The 58-year-old former hotel manager, a self-styled "Dr." who in 2002 was fined by the government of Germany for using the title without qualifications, founded the 800 -1,000-member Christian Community of Cologne with his second wife Sylvia in 1981.

The couple was ejected from the church in 2008 amid allegations of radical teachings and tyrannical, even abusive behavior; allegedly forcing congregants to work at charitable "Lisa Jones Houses," (named after Jones' deceased first wife); strident demands for "tithes" and claims that he and his wife were appointed by God. (The Cologne church has joined in the international condemnation of Jones's book-burning plan.)

Jones emerged from the controversial, Gainesville-based Maranatha Campus Ministries movement, for years the target of cult watchers before it was disbanded in 1989. When Terry and Sylvia returned to the U.S. and took over the Maranatha-affiliated Dove World Outreach Center (bringing the Lisa Jones House concept with them, this time as a food pantry,) fresh controversies arose.

The church lost part of its tax-exempt status this year for running a for-profit vintage furniture business using the unpaid labor of church members.

In March, the watchdog group Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed an IRS complaint after Jones planted a "No Homo Mayor" sign on church property, opposing openly gay mayoral candidate Craig Lowe (Lowe was elected in April.)

Former members, including Jones' daughter Emma, broke with the church, describing a restrictive atmosphere where contact with non-members was forbidden, total obedience to the Jones's was required and the finances generated by the furniture business were shielded from the congregation. (The 20-acre campus is currently for sale.)