The GZ Mosque and Liberal Chess Strategy

The most essential tactic in the game of chess is to move in such a way that you give your opponent the impression you’re heading for one conquest, while you’re actually setting up your pieces to quickly use a different and more effective conquest. Liberals do this all the time with politics and the GZ (Ground Zero) Mosque is yet another example.

The First Amendment is pretty clear about the limitation placed on the government in regard to religion. That hasn’t stopped them from virtually dictating the censorship of Christianity from almost every aspect of public life, where they can pretend to claim an interest. But they are still hampered by the idea that they can’t restrict religion, unless they have a compelling interest—thus the idea of “overall offense”. If a precedence can be established that any building or action that causes a “significance” offense can be blocked by the government, then they can use that to create offense at any (and most likely all) public religious acts by Christians that they were restrained from doing before. That’s why the focus seems to keep shifting back to the idea of the government using their authority to stop the GZ Mosque. That’s exactly what the Liberals want, all the while claiming they don’t.

The real solution is public pressure on the Muslims, who are trying to provoke people by placing a Mosque there, as well as the property owners that are still in the process of selling the land to the Muslim group.

Obama, mayor Bloomberg and NY governor Paterson are all taking the same stance, that freedom of religion would prevent the government from interfering, but they stop there, knowing full well that the power of public opinion could easily end the atrocity. But Democrats don’t want people to think like that. They want us to cry that if the government doesn’t currently have the authority to end such an atrocious act, then we should change the rules and give the government the power.

Republicans and all Conservatives need to focus on the only realistic approach to the problem, and work through means other than the government to prevent Muslims from gloating over the atrocity they committed. We did it with Kelo (the shopping center the evicted the people to build was never built, because public opinion was too strong against it) and we can do it here.

Posted by Danny Carlton at August 16, 2010 3:23 PM