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To: 240B
The mosque is an outlier. It is a unique case. It cannot be painted with the broad brush of every property rights dispute in the country, because of it’s sensitivity and uniqueness.

I appreciate the kind word but respectfully disagree. If we don't uphold property rights in the highly-charged "outlier" cases, like this, those rights become less secure for all of us. In this respect, I agree with the great champion of liberty in the nineteenth century, William Graham Sumner, who said "The time when a maxim or principle is worth something is when you are tempted to violate it."

142 posted on 08/19/2010 12:11:42 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk
If we don't uphold property rights in the highly-charged "outlier" cases, like this, those rights become less secure for all of us.

Quoted for truth.

144 posted on 08/24/2010 11:02:03 AM PDT by TrueRightWing
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