Posted on 02/10/2007 2:33:58 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Terrorists will destroy the Bush library and take out most of the Park Cities at the same time. The question isn't if but when, says Sam Boyd, a Park Cities lawyer.
Mr. Boyd isn't alone.
A number of Park Cities residents say they fear that building the presidential library in University Park would be like painting a big, red target on their community.
Security and terrorism experts have mixed sentiments. Although some say presidential libraries are unlikely targets, others say Bush's library may change that because the president is such a polarizing figure worldwide.
"It's just kind of a realization," Mr. Boyd said about the terrorist threat. "I'm not willing it. I don't want it. But if they build the target, somebody's going to shoot at it."
Mr. Boyd, who was a Green Beret in Vietnam, was one of dozens of residents who squeezed into University Park's City Council chambers this week to comment on whether the city should sell to Southern Methodist University a small park that the private university may need for the Bush library. SMU learned in December that it was the lone finalist to host the facility.
Though the library has drawn sharp criticism in recent months – from SMU faculty members and Methodist clergy – the terrorism concerns raised by several residents at the public hearing represent a new front against the facility.
University officials say they are concerned about security but not enough to abandon their bid for the library.
"We take security very seriously," said Patti LaSalle, SMU's associate vice president and executive director of public affairs. "But in this post-9/11 world, we also feel that we're not going to retreat into fearful existence. We're not going to stop taking advantage of opportunities."
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These people are real winners. Maybe we shouldn't build anything that might become a target someday.
Just what day did we sign surrender papers for the terrorists?
Cheapshot method of Bush Bashing. BDS in full bloom here.
Wonder if he would say that the Murrah building in OKC was "asking for it" by holding the Waco evidence as well.
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"Sam Boyd" as in "Sam Boyd Stadium?"
Anyway, it could be a common name.
Do they throw condoms at the Clinton trailer???
I agree, this is another angle to bash Bush with. This is likely just a few left wing bozos getting more attention than they deserve just because they hate Bush.
Why doesn't he take up the Saddamite role of being a human shield to show "righteousness" and put his life on the line against such evilminded people?
I hear that this new library will raise the average temperature around the world by up to 5 degrees.
Hey, I like that! (See tagline)
" I hear that this new library will raise the average temperature around the world by up to 5 degrees. "
Too bad it won't raise the average intelligence of the country by a similar amount....
If Mr. Boyd really was a Green Beret; then I'm sure if he puts his thinking cap (beret) back on; he will realize that terrorism is global and that is why we are fighting the war on terror.
BTW, our enemies like to hear whiners like Mr. Boyd. His whine gives our enemies the false impression that we are cowering before them -- which we are not.
Put the library anywhere in the USA.
Good people will honor it and protect it.
Cowards won't.
Sounds like a threat to me.
17 posts into the thread and somebody's already posted a link to his website. I love FR.
He hasn't figured out that the entire country has a big red target painted on it? Talk about stupid.
"He's so <whine>pooo-larizing!!!"
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Don't you love these weaselwording "journalists"?
Savages came to America and killed 3000 people, and Bush went after the killers and their sponsors like the Cisco Kid, Batman, and Zorro. He said we were coming to get them, and we went to get them.
So Bush is poooooolarizing!
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