Ron Paul : Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque!

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Ron Paul to Sunshine Patriots: Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque!

http://www.ronpaul.com/



Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?

It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.”

The debate should have provided the conservative defenders of property rights with a perfect example of how the right to own property also protects the 1st Amendment rights of assembly and religion by supporting the building of the mosque.

Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”

Just think of what might (not) have happened if the whole issue had been ignored and the national debate stuck with war, peace, and prosperity. There certainly would have been a lot less emotionalism on both sides. The fact that so much attention has been given the mosque debate, raises the question of just why and driven by whom?

In my opinion it has come from the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it.

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1. About time.

he's a day late, but his words are not a dollar short - at least as far as a libertarian dollar goes.



I wondered when the famous libertarian was going to wade into an issue so clearly made for a libertarian stance.

[Chulanowa]

2. Stopped clock syndrome!

Twice a day, on the dot

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3. I don't know. He gave a speach to the RNC calling out corporatism in both parties

And saying it was stupid to call Obama a socialist because he's a corporatist, and that the GOP is full of corporatists too.

Hard not to like some things about that crazy old guy.

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4. I like it when he keeps trying to audit the Fed.

:evilgrin:

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5. Yup. His premise is that corporations are only as powerful as they are...

...because they've captured regulations and corrupted government. Hard to argue with that on some levels.

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7. I don't think there is any credible argument against *that* premise.

Sad to say.

[Jefferson23]

6. " comes from neo-conservatives who demand continual war....."

They will start calling you a conspiracy theorist now too Paul...your side of the aisle I mean, lol.

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8. They already do.

FR kicked out the Paulites years ago.

[Jefferson23]

9. Seriously, they think he is a conspiracy nut too? That is hilarious, they

never seem to get anything right, lol.

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10. IIRC the last straw was back when Paul lectured Guiliani...

...on the contents of the 9/11 report (which somehow Gulian seemed not have bothered to read).

[Jefferson23]

13. Ah ok, and then FR was done with him, I see. I guess the RW

did not notice that Rudy never brought that subject up again, trying to condemn Paul that is, and getting him to apologize.

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11. I was hoping Pat Buchanan would have the same take

Alas, Ron Paul has come to the forefront in articulating an original and cogent response to the GZ Community Center opponents, as far as non-neocon conservatives are concerned.

I was amazed to see this article tweeted by Glenn Greewald btw. I love how all manner of political ideologies strangly coalesce on an issue like this. Makes for compelling political theatre.

I would like to add Mr. Paul to the list of staunch advocates for allowing the community center to be built along with Mr Greenwald and Kenneth Olbermann.

Let me know if there are others who have spoken up on this.

Bravo gents!

[Stuart G]

12. Shut his stupid son up too...for good...here is how..

Send some money..to help Jack Conway defeat that jerk..
A loss for the Pauls in Kentucky would taste real real fine..

http://www.jackconway.org/