{"id":12639,"date":"2010-08-16T05:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2010-08-16T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:06:33","slug":"the-answer-is-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12639","title":{"rendered":"The Answer Is Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under New York state law and city ordinance, if a Muslim group buys property in lower Manhattan, and builds a mosque subject to city building codes and zoning regulations, a principled property-rights advocate should say &#8220;they have the right to do it&#8221; &#8211; even if the entire project is a thumb in the eye of the victims and the city that suffered so much on 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>But I should also think it&#8217;d be perfectly legal for someone to buy some property <em>near <\/em>the mosque and build &#8211; subject to codes and zoning, naturally &#8211; a statue. \u00a0Of, say, Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe 110 stories tall.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: This is, of course, satire.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the mosque builders would get the point then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under New York state law and city ordinance, if a Muslim group buys property in lower Manhattan, and builds a mosque subject to city building codes and zoning regulations, a principled property-rights advocate should say &#8220;they have the right to do it&#8221; &#8211; even if the entire project is a thumb in the eye of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12677,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions\/12677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}