I understand what you’re saying, but there is a proper response.
Step one is to publicize what they are doing it, who is leading it, how they are funding it, and who on the American side has backed it.
If someone wanted to build a 13 story catholic cathedral or evangelical megachurch on that site, there would be nothing wrong about asking those questions and publicizing those answers.
If you’ve been involved in building or expanding any church in Any City USA in recent years you’ve seen how they can use zoning and approval rules to make life very difficult for anyone building a church. They’ll use any argument, traffic patterns, whatever, to kill a church project. In reality there is just a lot of anti-church sentiment out there, and plus there are tax issues; they’d far rather see a shopping mall.
But this one has been waved right through; I can’t help but wonder if the city fathers would have been so quick to approve a megachurch on the same site or if they would have instead complained about parking and traffic and proper use of the site ad infinitum.
Not even that:
City Council armory assault nixes Mayor Bloomberg-backed Bronx shopping mall
"The deal breaker: Local officials wanted the developers to ensure that retail workers in the mall would be paid a "living wage" of $10 an hour with benefits, or $11.50 without benefits. Bloomberg and the developer, the Related Cos., refused".
And so the long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory goes unutilized as an asset to the community .....
Liberalism truly *is* a mental disease