Has Mountain Meadows Mitt disavowed his statement to wiretap and "monitor " mosques?

[Ian David]

Has Mitt Romney disavowed his statement to wiretap and "monitor " mosques?


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Has Mitt Romney disavowed his statement to wiretap and "monitor " mosques?
by: Susan H
Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 07:43:53 AM EST

Has Mitt Romney ever disavowed this?

In remarks that caused alarm among civil libertarians and advocates for immigrants rights, Romney said in a speech to the Heritage Foundation that the United States needs to radically rethink how it guards itself against terrorism.

''How many individuals are coming to our state and going to those institutions who have come from terrorist-sponsored states?" he said, referring to foreign students who attend universities in Massachusetts. ''Do we know where they are? Are we tracking them?"

''How about people who are in settings -- mosques, for instance -- that may be teaching doctrines of hate and terror," Romney continued. ''Are we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping? Are we following what's going on?"

Because if he has abandoned that statement I can't find it.

Has he ever been asked if one is allowed to videtape/monitor or wiretap what goes on in Mormon temple? According to this link parents and friends of a couple getting married in LDS Temple cannot attend and are excluded from witnessing the ceremony if they are not members in good standing- how does does Mitt like the question he posed turned on his religion- "''Are we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping? Are we following what's going on?"? from the
parent of a bride excluded from witnessing their daughter's wedding?

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691 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes, 49 seconds


Has Mitt Romney disavowed his statement to wiretap and "monitor " mosques?
by: Susan H
Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 07:43:53 AM EST

Has Mitt Romney ever disavowed this?

In remarks that caused alarm among civil libertarians and advocates for immigrants rights, Romney said in a speech to the Heritage Foundation that the United States needs to radically rethink how it guards itself against terrorism.

''How many individuals are coming to our state and going to those institutions who have come from terrorist-sponsored states?" he said, referring to foreign students who attend universities in Massachusetts. ''Do we know where they are? Are we tracking them?"

''How about people who are in settings -- mosques, for instance -- that may be teaching doctrines of hate and terror," Romney continued. ''Are we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping? Are we following what's going on?"

Because if he has abandoned that statement I can't find it.

Has he ever been asked if one is allowed to videtape/monitor or wiretap what goes on in Mormon temple? According to this link parents and friends of a couple getting married in LDS Temple cannot attend and are excluded from witnessing the ceremony if they are not members in good standing- how does does Mitt like the question he posed turned on his religion- "''Are we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping? Are we following what's going on?"? from the parent of a bride excluded from witnessing their daughter's wedding?

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Romney wants Americans to respect his religion, and it seems from his 77 slide power point presentation, he believes his religion's privacy is sacrosanct and he is not willing to extend that courtesy to another religion.

It serves him right that he finds himself in third place in a poll of NH Republicans.

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[BayCityProgressive]

1. I'm surprised

this doesn't put him in first place.

[DemoTex]

2. IanDB1 (probably) refers to the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah.

"The whole United States rang with its horrors," Mark Twain wrote of the massacre in 'Roughing It':

A large party of Mormons, painted and tricked out as Indians, overtook the train of emigrant wagons some three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, and made an attack. But the emigrants threw up earthworks, made fortresses of their wagons, and defended themselves gallantly and successfully for five days! Your Missouri or Arkansas gentleman is not much afraid of the sort of scurvy apologies for "Indians" which the southern part of Utah affords. He would stand up and fight five hundred of them. At the end of the five days the Mormons tried military strategy. They retired to the upper end of the 'Meadows,' resumed civilized apparel, washed off their paint, and then, heavily armed, drove down in wagons to the beleagured emigrants, bearing a flag of truce! When the emigrants saw white men coming they threw down their guns and welcomed them with cheer after cheer...."

http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/mormons.html

Also read Jon Krakauer's excellent Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.