Not The Only Bull-God Here
Isn’t there a rule against putting one church (the Muslim mosque) on the grounds of another (the Nationalist “Ground Zero”)? Seriously, when do “we”, meaning the public, let this ridiculous miasma of a grotesque nationalist mausoleum go, and let the people who live and work in this long-stricken area get their property rights and their lives back? Do our elites really plan to reserve their hideous ‘holy ground’ for a temple to Moloch, alone?
BTW, another of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse has arrived – the NJACLU is lauding NJ governor Chris Christie for defending Cordoba House (mass e-mailing, not that they could be bothered to post it on their site or anything).
And never mind that the area also contains restaurants, bars, offices, hotels, , Christian churches, and several, er, OTHER businesses.
Manhattan has been suffering from this statist deformity since way before 9/11/2001. I can’t find the contemporary (New Yorker?) article, but Wikipedia also mentions that acres of property were stolen, and a hundred residents evicted to make way for Nelson Rockefeller’s monstrous, diplopic, evidently flammable penis extension back in 1964;
I don’t need to remind you that this entire controversy is a classic PR-lying campaign, and that to the extent that ordinary America even knows about what is being proposed, it is through the distorted lens of said PR-lying campaign. Previously, the average American would either have had no opinion, or have just assumed that, it being NYC, a half-dozen mosques already existed in the area. Now, that most dangerous and muddle-headed species, Boobus Americanus, has had its consciousness ‘raised’ by its ‘betters’.
At any rate, the fact that 10 years later there is still relatively zero rebuilding progress is a sad testimony to the weakness of the elites, as is this pathetic ‘controversy’. Thank God.
(PHOTO: www.moloch.us)
Uh, huh-huh! He said “penis!” Seriously, though, NYC, Philly and I’m sure a few other major cities have a major problem with the concept of private property. The elites purchase prime real estate through a laundering agent such as a “private” port authority for the express purpose of holding it hostage. Philly has its Penn’s Landing and now NYC has its Ground Zero district. In all actuality, we have no idea what should be located in that area since most of it is a political football and not subject to market forces. If the properties were all truly private, I doubt a community center with built-in mosque would be there at all. The land is way to valuable.
Actually I agree – there are no real real-estate values in the WTC area or in many other parts of Big cities, for the same reason you can’t get a mortgage in Mexico – the gove rnments involved massively confiscate private property with frightening predictability. So the game turns to leasholding of the confiscated property – all of the profit, none of the risk. Nice work if you can get it.
Interesting that libertyvini brings up the point about real estate value near WTC. in NYC when i worked as a mortgage broker the word “tane” was used to describe this phenomena in with the govermenet would withhold land from the private sector so that it could not lose its power of property