Welcome to FR nOOb. Joe is a self agrandizing idiot who take a paycheck from GE, a company who took bailout money for banks.
He is not exactly approaching issues without an external influence.
There is no Constitional issue here. No one is denying them their right.
We are asking for politeness, out respect for continued grievance.
There probably isn’t anything we can legally do to stop this monstrosity from being built.
BTW, Joe took Newt’s statement so far out of context it is just unbelievable!
In a post-Shirley Sherrod world, shouldn’t commentators be careful about expressing an opinion about excerpted comments? Isn’t this especially true for a so-called conservative reading excerpts printed in the New York Times?
For instance, Gingrich said the following on “Fox & Friends” this Monday morning providing a little more context to these twelve words:
GINGRICH: This happens all the time in America. Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.
Much less offensive in that context, correct?
Distance is arbitrary.
If we go by that, then it would be same problem that we are havinig closing Gitmo.
No one wants those prisoners in their State.
What is to say that people in the new spot won’t be just as offended. Was tragedy of 9/11 exclusive for people with 1-2 miles radius of Ground Zero? Were Americans in other places hurt or just as hurt and offended?
Second, as I pointed out to other posters, there is already a Mosque that is open now, on 20th street, much CLOSER to Ground Zero? Why isn’t there outrage about that? Is it because this new one is being used as a way to rile people, and distract them from being ROBBED by Bankers, and have them focus on each other?
Rights are rights, and that is why when we LEAST like them, we must still PROTECT them, because once you open the door, rest assured, in DUE TIME we would ALL lose them.
All Elites want is to get their foot in. This is their first foray to TRAMPLE Bill of Rights. Either we defend it, or this is STEP-1 in losing it.