{"id":188617,"date":"2010-08-23T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/23\/i-cannot-belive-that-i-am-saying-this-but\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T01:53:00","slug":"i-cannot-belive-that-i-am-saying-this-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/23\/i-cannot-belive-that-i-am-saying-this-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I Cannot Belive that I am Saying this, But"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul.com\/2010-08-20\/ron-paul-sunshine-patriots-stop-your-demagogy-about-the-nyc-mosque\/\">seized the moral high ground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has come out foursquare in favor of the building at 51 park:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">It has been said, \u201cNero fiddled while Rome burned.\u201d 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 \u201cfiddling while the economy burns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be \u201csensitive\u201d requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from \u201cground zero.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can go and read the rest, but he&#8217;s right, and sticking to his principles, and, for once, refreshingly free of &#8220;the crazy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, he is publicly disagreeing with his son, who is in a relatively tight Senate race, and so is showing a lot more guts, with a lot more at stake, than jellyfish like Harry Reid or (to my great sorrow) Howard Dean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul has seized the moral high ground. He has come out foursquare in favor of the building at 51 park: 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, \u201cNero fiddled while Rome burned.\u201d Are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1240,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-integrity","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}