Posted on 08/20/2010 5:21:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ground Zero Mosque: A grass-roots movement among construction workers and unions asks Cordoba mosque supporters: Who do you expect to build it? The same people who built the World Trade Center perhaps?
In real estate, it's said the price of a property is based on three things — location, location, location. The price in blood and treasure America has paid for the gaping hole where the Twin Towers once stood is incalculable.
The wounds are still fresh and the anger is still real, and it's something that supporters of the Cordoba mosque, named after a great Islamic victory over the West, simply don't get.
Two blocks from the proposed mosque, construction workers at the WTC site are trying get across their point, and ours.
The towers of the World Trade Center instantly became symbols of America, its strength, its embrace of freedom and free markets. It was the pride of the workers who built it, destroyed in just hours by madmen who turned passenger jets into flaming cruise missiles.
William McCabe, 31, who lost an uncle on 9/11, used black marker to scrawl "WTC No Mosque" on the back of his neon construction vest in protest. "It's like spitting in the face of all the people that died," he told DNAinfo.com.
McCabe, who lives in Queens and has been working on Tower One for five months, said: "What they're going to be doing is praying and laughing because they got the mosque. My uncle's turning in his grave. It's a disgrace."
Mark Sabay, 48, of Brooklyn, who's been working on the site for two years, said a co-worker handed him a "No Mosque" sticker three days ago. He immediately affixed it to his hard hat.
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People can scream this is a local issue, it’s not.Of course it's not, it's a deliberate insult to our whole nation.
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Liberals don't 'get this' because they're soooooo open minded their brains have fallen out...
Every Black Muslim in the country will come to build this mudhut. Labor Unions will be ignored.
Once the money is waved under unions nose it's a done deal.
I may be mistaken but I think that by NYC law all construction must be done by union workers.
There is a long list of horrific and devastating things that Obama and his ilk have brought to fruition that ppl *swore* would never happen. And now ppl keep saying that this won’t get built for whatever reason... first it would never get zoning, now the unions.
I think that Obama and the unions bosses have different ideas for the unions workers.
In any case, whether this ‘cultural center’ gets built or not, the radical imam and his pals are winners. If it is built, they get to mock, for all time, the mass murder of our bretheren and their triumph. If it is not built, they get to play the victim and cry about how the intolerant Americans deserved 9/11. It will also serve as the fuel needed to plan the next attack, not that any will be needed, it just looks nice for them this way.
Dads Retired from the IBEW Beckjord power plant He’a already so Pi$$ed that the unions didn’t step up a few weeks ago he could Chew Batteries and Spit Lightning ....
I used to deploy tradeshows in NYC and Philadelphia. The unions always play hardball. If you let the union workers work just one minute past their work time, they charge you overtime immediately. And you cannot work on the booth yourself, the union people have to do it, because it’s their “job”.
Excellent points.
We've got thousands of guys who were plumbers last week, drywall guys the week before that , and electricians this week.
Somehow, we get it built and inspected and occupied, all without the say so and input of a bunch of mobbed up union morons.
Any company whose workers refuse will be taken over by Barry (hey, he lifted his little finger and took over GM with barely a peep of protest) and all the workers will be fired and replaced by Hussein-friendly workers.
Roberto Duran was heard to have said “no mosque.”
That way, they'll never get it out.
On a side note regarding union labor: Are FReepers generally against all unions? My thought is for skilled trades, where apprenticeship is necessary to ensure the worker has the requisite skills to do the job safely and accurately is not a bad thing.
I don’t know if wages in those trades go up as rapidly as government workers, which might be a factor against how bargaining contracts are negotiated, but there really seems a legitimate reason for them.
Unskilled work and paper pushing jobs do not seem to have the same merit as skilled trades.
Be curious to know others opinions.
> Viola! Solution!!!!! I'm also sure that there are several meat packers that have plenty to spare ....Calling Oscar Mayer...
You’re right about that. It’s one thing for people to comment never having seen Ground Zero up close. It’s something entirely different for guys who saw them pulling body parts out of the pile and carrying them out in buckets! And those weren’t EMTs with medical training.... Those ironworkers probably still have nightmares about the things they saw.
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