The irony in this whole mosque/quran burning thingy has at it's heart, property rights. In the case of the mosque, the only real issue is purely local and if the purposed so-called mosque will harm the rights, liberty and property of those who own other properties around it. The overworked emotions of people living 1k miles away is completely irrelevant (same is true with Arizona and their law) just as the ultimate fate of what is called ground zero. I think the property should be rebuilt or used in some fashion that benefits and fits the desire of local NYers and whatever that is should be up to them. If I lived there I'd advocate returning the properties to the people from which it was stolen for the purpose to build the WTC and let these people or heirs rebuild the local businesses and business community that drive local economic markets. If muslims do hate us for our freedom, shouldn't we stick it back in their face in that no matter what they do, we'll one up it with even more freedom? If you believe they truly hate our freedom then freedom should be everywhere and multiplying showing them their efforts are failing.
As for the quran burning, same property rights doth apply. I'll assume the qurans that the good Rev. plans to burn are properly acquired in the market place and not stolen in any way so this makes them solely his property or solely the property of those who plan to burn them. What they then do with them as long as they don't damage the rights (emotions are not rights) or property of others in the course of, they are free to do with them as they please. Same goes true for flag buring or placing a Jesus figure in a cup of urine, these are not so much free speech rights as so often and IMO wrongly claimed but rather they are property rights.
Emotional driven public displays like flag burning, Jesus in urine or in this case quran burning IMO speak more about the idiocy of the person who takes his economic resources to use for such childish purposes but they are his/her resources and thus the matter is settled as far as I'm concerned. You do have to give credit to the "good Rev." for knowing how to place himself and his small church on the world stage but in truth maybe it's a sad statement about the billions of people who brainlessly stand there waiting for the next act to appear on said stage!
Did someone say mindless morons but then it's hard to say who is the bigger, the actors on the stage or the audience watching them who cheer or hiss!
And you tell everyone you hate championship wrestling because it's fake!
