Boo Radley

This.

The law don't change another's mind

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg embraces the role of the anti-Palin/Gincrich/Foxman/Lieberman regarding the so-called "ground zero mosque":

This nation was founded on the principle that the government must never choose between religions or favor one over another. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Let us not forget that Muslims were among those murdered on 9/11, and that our Muslim neighbors grieved with us as New Yorkers and as Americans. We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that....

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' (Bloomberg's voice cracks here a little as he gets choked up.) 'What beliefs do you hold?'

The attack was an act of war, and our first responders defended not only our city, but our country and our constitution. We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights and the freedoms that the terrorists attacked.

Did You Really Think About It?

I wonder how Abe Foxman would react if the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee had released this version of the ADL's absurd pronouncement on the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque":

Proponents of the State of Israel may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Judaism. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong.

But ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building a Jewish State in the middle of the Middle East will cause some victims more pain unnecessarily and that is not right.

The Middle East would be better served if an alternative location could be found.

That's what I thought. I'm getting really tired of being disappointed.