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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (46257)	9/29/2010 7:20:40 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 71588

In simple terms freedom is not free when governments tinker and meddle. Which is why I don't want the US federal government tinkering and meddling in the mosque issue. Tit for tat, isn't going to work in terms of getting the change you want from other countries. It will just drag us down to their level. And yes the particular mosque in question is reasonably more controversial, but outlawing it alone, would not be a change for it alone, it would be a change in our general policy of religious freedom. The people trying to build the mosque (if it is an intentional "victory mosque", rather than just a group who was exceptionally clueless about the PR of it, and then stubborn as a mule, when they found out) could be considered the scoundrels in the quote below. ---- “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” - H.L. Mencken

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