Just because people like me dont want the mosque built on ground zero does not mean we hate muslims or the religion but it does mean we dont want the terrorists to be able to claim victory
Yet you fail to understand that preventing and prohibiting the mosque to be built (and it isn't "on" or even "at" Ground Zero ..... just
near it) is
exactly the very thing
that will allow the terrorists to claim victory ....
Their (the terrorists) victory will come not from what they themselves are able to do - or what any peaceful, law-abiding Muslim might do in practicing their faith - their victory will be accomplished by what they are able to
get us to do - not to them,
but to ourselves.
To the degree that they are able to get us to
change how we act - particularly with respect to upholding the rights and freedoms that we have always claimed are the
very thing that define
who we are, and are at the core of our essence, as a people ...... well, to that degree they will have achieved success .....
It is an
utterly diabolical plan ... in essence, being forced to cut your throat (in a figurative sense) .....
by causing us to become the antithesis of the ideals we truly believe in, and hold most dear .....
Your attitudes and actions (as well as every other citizen) - and not any armed conflict in some foreign land - will define whether they have won.
Personally, I'd prefer to deny them any victory instead.
and as far as freedom of religion I want some one to show me the part of the constitution that says they have a right to build any where they want, it says freedon of religion not freedom to build any thing they want any where they want.
Your understanding of what actually constitutes freedom is somewhat lacking .....
The Constitution doesn't lay out in excruciating detail every little thing that an individual citizen may, or may not, do as a consequence of
being free - what it does do, is establish
controls and
limits on what
government may do, in terms of interfering with that freedom.
In otherwords, freedom isn't defined as some finite (but seemingly endless) list of what a citizen may do, feel, or think - and anyone who understands the
true nature of freedom will immediately understand why:
at the point where one attempts to define it (freedom) in such a manner, it immediately becomes something less than freedom ......
The Founding Fathers understood this very clearly - which is why they created and fashioned the Constitution in the manner that they did:
as a document which proscribed (limited) the powers of government to very great degree, in terms of interfering with the freedom of it's citizens .... (my oh my ..... how far have we fallen .....
)
As for O Reilly, I watch his show some times - I dont agree with all his views - but I watch and so do alot of people
Seems that "the lemming response" is becoming rather commonplace around here lately ......
In terms of evaluating my own conduct and any personal course of action, I could give a flip what anyone else says or does .... just ain't relevant.
In the end, I have to answer to my own conscience ....
and not to the conscience of some retard talking head on the boob tube ...... whether that head be O'Reilly's or Joy Behar's .....
