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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (88576)	8/4/2010 10:39:20 AM
From: Honey_Bee	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

FUBHO said: "Yes, I think Islam is as evil as Nazism." I think it is more dangerous to us because our leaders are blind as bats about it. Obama isn't blind about it, he's fully aware and doing everything in his (considerable) power to further Islam. .

To: FJB who wrote (88576)	8/11/2010 12:00:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

Are there rules preventing neo-Nazis from building headquarters across from temples or outside the gates of Auschwitz? Human decency says it is a bad idea. Muslims != (dose not equal) Nazis != Al Qaeda either Perhaps it would be like a German cultural center or museum (and not a museum of the Holocaust or of Nazi atrocities, but of German history in general, or something that otherwise made little or no nod to the Nazi atrocities, while generally promoting a proud German heritage) a block away from Auschwitz. I would argue against such placement. It would be inappropriate. But its not properly the government's business to stop any inappropriate location for private museums, let alone private places of worship, esp. if there is not some clearly applicable pre-existing against the site being used that way, and your just calling for a raw application of government force, because you don't like what someone else is doing. Some quotes I posted on another thread seem applicable ---- "I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere." - Milton Friedman "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." - Lord Acton "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself." - Thomas Paine "A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police." - Ludwig von Mises