(Via Mike Yarosh)
NEW YORK TIMES: After A Decade Of Ignoring Security, New York Learns How's Boss
Manhattan has always been vulnerable to Islamic terror, but over the years people have made things worse, particularly in the World Trade Center, where a pair of hijacked airliners struck yesterday. Since the 19th century, when New York real estate prices required land claimants to construct towering skyscrapers for maximum occupancy and profit, people have been trying to dominate the region's landscape and the forces of its nature.
(Read the actual story from a pair of judgemental pricks sitting in their ivory tower sitting on stolen real estate at the New York Times.)
These ambassadors of the Old Grey Lady have firmly established that the "I (heart) NY" post-9/11 era is officially over. And since London will be hosting the
It's time for them to get back on their feet on their own. End all federal aid to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Lower Manhattan. Now.
For those reporters who question the value of Federal flood insurance and the tendency of people to build in riskier areas with that safety net in place, well, the World Trade Center and the displaced residents of Lower Manhattan had private insurance, right? If we're going to start yanking subsidies for the Gulf Coast to build in risky ways, I guess the Feds shouldn't be rebuilding some gigantic buildings that will attract Islamic Fundamentalists like catnip on a scratching post attracts cats.
They don't need some America-bashing museum.
They don't need some useless clear spire rising into the sky.
They don't need a pair of Trump Towers.
Instead, they need a big gaping whole to remind them of what they've lost: a pair of buildings, but long before that their compassion for the rest of the country that busted its back and its economy trying to keep their financial stranglehold on the rest of the country from dooming us all.
Or better yet, build a refinery there. Want to bitch about the price of gasoline? Well, start making your own gas, Manhattan.