a mosque at ground zero

[altezon]

If America insists on being the land of the free, then they should act like it.

We are acting like it, to a large extent. And consequently we allow our lunatics to make the news.

That is precisely true Addy!
altezon, we cannot be free ever we're too puritanical.
I can't even imagine how or why you think we could act like the "land of the free" {"land of the feebs" is more like it!} when we have laws that prevent people from marrying whom they want and that allows the government to spy on you with no reason at all and kills innocent people wrongly convicted of murder.
I'm not trying to go off on a tangent but you get my drift?

Sure I do. And I did say "to a large extent"

You'll notice that a federal district court in California just declared the referendum banning same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional. California provides for its citizenry to change the laws through referenda, which one could argue is a democratically "free" participation in government. The downside is, people make unsound laws that have to be undone by the courts.

A government's unwarranted spying on its citizens is bad, and it won't last. See the Church Commission's crackdown on the CIA in the 1970's and the forced resignation of Richard Nixon for examples of reining in the executive branch.

The governor of Illinois suspended state executions in response to advances in DNA identification technology that showed people were being wrongly convicted. That's a step forward. And 20 US jurisdictions have no death penalty statutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_pun...ted_States

Mr. Ahmadinejad should have seen this coming. But according to the law, there should be no reason why a mosque can't be built there. The shameful thing is that a few muslims gave a bad name to all muslims through their jihad...

Actually a vocal minority/majority wants to say that a Mosque doesn't belong there but why doesn't it? Many different people from many different religions were killed at the site, and Billy's idea of a universally acceptable building to meditate in is a great idea, but some folks want to keep the hate alive I guess.

Indeed they do. I don't suppose killing all the hate-mongers would help.