To the Editor:
Every week I read a column written by some guy who thinks he is morally superior to everybody else, just because he supports a Muslim center in Bayonne. You feel it is your calling to call everyone who disagrees with you a bigot. You do not know if anyone in Bayonne is bigoted or not, and if they are, that’s none of your business. Would a KKK or Black Panther meeting place stop you from waking up and going to your job or to school? It might not make you very happy, but it would not change your life at all. Everyone in this country is protected by the same First Amendment, so anybody can say whatever they like, and if you don’t agree with them, then tough. You will get over it. It does not give you the right to say what is right or wrong. My opinion counts just as much as yours does. But I have seen lately that if one group does not agree with the other group, that one group has the right to destroy or burn the property of the other group, even to include physical assault. It seems to me that some people (who claim to be so enlightened and superior) need to check out the meaning of free speech.
RICHARD SCHMIDT
