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Friday, October 1, 2010

Sharron and Sharia

Oct. 1st, 2010


How many times is this lady going to be allowed to jump the shark?


On Wednesday evening, Sharron Angle named two locations in America that she seemed to allege are already under "Sharia" jurisdiction. 

Here's what happened when she was "...asked about "Muslims taking over the U.S.," including a question about Angle's stance on the proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York.

"We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it," Angle said.

"Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."

Forget that her use of language is so poor. What she is saying is clear. But there is no such thing as an extra-constitutional zone in America no matter what Angle implies. Not even when W said there was, could there have been an actual piece of land within our borders in which constitutional law and the power of precedent was trumped by some scary "otherness." Let's be really honest. The closest anywhere in America has come to such a thing is Utah. They gave us Glenn Beck's flavor of Mormonism. But it is still not an established state religion, thank God.

Every single time Mrs. Angle makes an appearance she shows us what she really thinks of democracy. In the event that democrats are routed in November she said "They can either get on board the train or get run over by it." 

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