Convince me the rethugs aren't stirring up hate on purpose...

[babylonsister]

Oh, they repulse me so. :grr:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/gingrich_make_ground_zero_a_national_battlefield_t.php

Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque
Rachel Slajda | September 2, 2010, 6:26PM


The majority of New Yorkers want the developers of Park51, known to its opponents as the "Ground Zero mosque," to voluntarily move the community center further from Ground Zero -- but the majority also acknowledges the developers' right to build there if they want.

Newt Gingrich doesn't feel that way. In a radio interview today, he said he wants the national government to step in and stop the developers from building the Islamic community center by whatever means necessary.

"I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war," he said, apparently thinking that if Ground Zero was a national park, Park51 would be restricted from building near it.

And if that fails, he said, the state government should step in and use its considerable power to stymie the development.

snip//

In fact, on whatever level, Gingrich thinks government intervention is the answer.

"There are a number of different steps that could be taken. There's no reason this has to occur and whether it's city, state, or federal there are plenty of ways for America to stop it," Gingrich said.

[jillan]

1. What about the Pentagon? That's the most hypocritcial of all.

Sometimes misidentified as the "Pentagon Mosque," the non-denominational Pentagon Memorial Chapel maintained by the Pentagon Chaplain's Office is where department employees who practice Islam can meet to pray.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mosque-controversy-skips-pentagon-muslims-gather-911-crash/story?id=11417673

I do believe the Pentagon was attacked on 9/11 also.

[babylonsister]

2. He/they talk absolute nonsense, yet there are so many

people who take it as gospel. I think I'm enraged because a dear friend sent me two anti-Muslim diatribes this a.m., quickly cut down via snopes, which I do. Props to her, I dared her to send the link to others she sent the original to, and she did.

I still find this so disturbing. x(

[awoke_in_2003]

3. we are a batshit crazy nation. nt

[Karenina]

4. and a danger to yourself and others...

[no_hypocrisy]

5. If GZ/WTC were made a national "battlefield", then Larry Silverstein couldn't

construct/replace his buildings on public property and make a profit.

Wanna hear a scream around the world?

[malaise]

6. Fear, Divide and Rule

That's all ReTHUGS can offer.

[UTUSN]

7. Is the O.P. challenge rhetorical?!1 or a joke?!1 n/t

[babylonsister]

8. It just fried me when I read that, sorry.

I'm still fuming. What a POS gingrich is. The whole lot of them! :puke:

[pinboy3niner]

9. I think the U.S. should declare war on Newt Gingrich

That may be nutty, but it makes more sense than his proposals.

[wakemewhenitsover]

11. Or at least declare his mouth a battlefield site...

...since he's so intent on subverting the Constitution and fomenting division.

Don't you love the way these "small government" Republicans bang the drum for government involvement anytime the law protects whatever goes against their twisted beliefs?:crazy:

[pinboy3niner]

15. Yes, they jump up and down against 'big government'...

...but many of the teabaggers and other conservatives actually are very authoritarian (and even totalitarian) in their views. The influence of Christian 'Reconstructionists' and 'Dominionists' in their movement is truly scary, and cries out for more attention.

[elleng]

10. Can't; they are.

[BeFree]

12. Little birdy told me...

...it's all just incompetence. That they don't know what they are doing.

It's like Jesus on the cross saying "Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do."

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Can't do that. They ARE stirring up hate on purpose!!!

[Bonhomme Richard]

14. Why? That's exactly what they do. n/t

[depakid]

16. And Democrats can't help but take the bait...

[applegrove]

17. So Newt is for government involvement all of a sudden? Funny. I thought he was a conservative.

[JonBenet Ashcroft]

18. Wikipedia: Brownshirts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

[gophates]

19. When has a single one of them done anything different

I have removed them all from my life and it's so much better. Next we need to do the same thing from the country.