Ron Paul (of Course) Makes Sense on the “Ground Zero Mosque”

I always have appreciated Ron Paul’s personal courage and his willingness to say the hard things that must be said, and his most recent statement about the whole bogus “Ground Zero Mosque” issue falls right into that same category. Here is a snippet of what Dr. Paul has noted:

“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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11:54 am on August 22, 2010