Some want retribution I guess. Maybe they feel weak and powerless. They should join the military. Ask any soldier who has been in Iraq or Afghanistan is we ever got back at some of the bad guys. We have had plenty of retribution. Besides, the greatest threat here is from our own citizens who are from diverse faiths. Perhaps someone who lives right here, right now, and enjoy the full freedom of our citizenship will take deadly issue with what this preacher and his armchair followers are planning to do.
It’s an Al-Qaida training video in the making. The media is there in droves. If the books are burned, the images will spread like wildfire across the world and there will be many reactions.
Another thing this preacher, his lackeys and proponents forget is that the University of Florida is in Gainesville. Yep, 70 to 80 thousand regularly pack a big ole stadium there to play football. Think about the security risk there let alone the danger of some nut, even a home-bred nut, packing a gun or explosives in that area.
“may be it is time to level a few mosque. They don't own free speech.” Actually, yes, they do own free speech. We all own free speech. And it is pretty un-American to go about leveling places of worship. As I recall, there was a leveling of a place of worship said to be full of dangerous radicals who shot at the Feds with guns. That was in Waco, Texas and as I also recall, there was pretty much unanimous disapproval and outrage among right wingers here and across the nation. There are plenty of parallels there, but on a smaller scale. Leveling Mosques and limiting freedom of speech is a slippery slope that can only lead to a bad outcome. I don’t care what you think your politics are, if you believe in the Constitution or anything America stands for or was founded on, this idea runs very contrary.
“The fear that someone may try to kill you for exercising your rights, is a very good reason for exercising them.” This is a somewhat true statement when you think about the likes of our Colonial forefathers or Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement, but it is a statement that is also false. Suppose I had an issue with Midwest farmers, maybe I didn’t like farmland taking over the “natural environment, or had some “vision of a green world” issue with them or an animal rights issue. It would be well within my rights to go into the town pub or bar and start yelling and shouting that farmers are scum, Earth killers or animal killers, etc. It might not be a good way to exercise my rights. Maybe it would be better to hold a rally or send letters to the editor of the newspaper.
