These people are not artists, but shameless profiteers, who were eagerly planning their desecration of this hallowed ground-and the windfall profits that would ensue from it-even before the corpses immolated by Islamic fascists in the 9/11 attacks were identified.
This isn't a case of me supporting Rick Lazio, and someone else supporting Charles Schumer, two groups of roughly comparable size, and then deciding which one is more numerous.
The people supporting this abomination were not even equivalent to a small minority of inflexible zealots, who in spite of their size still represented a discernible political constituency, e.g. the Greens, the NDP, etc...
No one in this country, in this state, or in this city supported this misguided project, with the sole exception of the unreconstructed Marxists, professional America-loathers, and feckless, pseudo-Republican tools like Mayor Bloomberg that constituted our disloyal opposition.
If the residents of Manhattan had supported the IFC-which they didn't-or even the residents of a small enclave of Greenwich Village had supported it-and I'm even skeptical of that proposition-it's entirely immaterial, since this is America's memorial.
It should stand in perpetuity as a monument to the bravery and fortitude of Americans, especially those who willingly sacrificed their lives in order to spare the lives of others on that fateful September day.
Another insightful, spot-on, take no prisoners post. I raise my glass again, to you sir.
Good post. When you're hot, you're hot. ;-)
"It should stand in perpetuity as a monument to the bravery and fortitude of Americans, especially those who willingly sacrificed their lives in order to spare the lives of others on that fateful September day."
To the 343 Firefighters, NY's Bravest, who died that day. RIP.
Firefighters opposed the Freedom Center. Their voice was heard.