When a car bomb was discovered in Times Square in May, New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested every possible motivation but the
obvious and correct one: Islamist terror.
Posted on 08/03/2010 6:38:26 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
The enlightened class can't understand why the public is uneasy about the Ground Zero mosque.
Americans may have lacked for much in the course of their history, but never instruction in social values. The question today is whether Americans of any era have ever confronted the bombardment of hectoring and sermonizing now directed at those whose views are deemed insufficiently enlightened—an offense regularly followed by accusations that the offenders have violated the most sacred principles of our democracy.
It doesn't take a lot to become the target of such a charge. There is no mistaking the beliefs on display in these accusations, most recently in regards to the mosque about to be erected 600 feet from Ground Zero. Which is that without the civilizing dictates of their superiors in government, ordinary Americans are lost to reason and decency. They are the kind of people who—as a recent presidential candidate put it—cling to their guns and their religion.
There is no better exemplar of that faith than New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, though in this he is hardly alone. Compared with the Obama White House, Mr. Bloomberg is a piker in the preachments and zealotry department. Still, no voice brings home more unforgettably the attitudes that speak for today's enlightened and progressive class.
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When a car bomb was discovered in Times Square in May, New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested every possible motivation but the
obvious and correct one: Islamist terror.
Uneasy!?!?!?!?
I ain't uneasy, folks; I am OUTRAGED. Where do they get these idiots???
Well..regardless of what happened on 9/11, it was all the fault of the people killed./s
The New York City Landmarks Commission unanimously voted to deny landmark designation to the site of a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero. The vote clears the last major hurdle for the controversial project.
I wonder how long it will take for someone to fly a plane into it
This article brings to mind that book, “The Gift of Fear,” fear being a tool that helps us to survive. Bloomberg and the others are trying to tell us to ignore that little voice in our heads that says, “Watch out.” We ignore it at our peril.
Newyork gets the gubmint they deserve.Bunch of flaming idiots,led by the biggest idiot of them all.
I view mosques as sanctuaries and armories. Ain’t no ROP involved.
‘Where do they get these idiots???”
Unfortunately, idiots are impressed by them, and idiots vote for them. Their enablers include Haahvaahd snobs, self-loathing trust fund babies, the MSM, SDS retreads from the ‘60s, and the Comintern.
When we know more about where the funding for this mosque is coming from, which Bloomberg cronies might be involved, whether there is Obama Administration pressure, etc. we’ll know a lot more about the reasons for Bloomberg’s sanctimonious posturing on this issue.
His unprompted remark that the idea of looking into the funding is “the most outrageous thing anybody could suggest” is entirely too defensive.
I luuuuuuuv Dorothy Rabinowitz! Great writer, great thinker, great investigative reporter:
“Namely, how is it that the planners, who have presented this effort as a grand design for the advancement of healing and interfaith understanding, have refused all consideration of the impact such a center will have near Ground Zero? Why have they insisted, despite intense resistance, on making the center an assertive presence in this place of haunted memory?”
Great stuff.
Hear hear, but there’s also a lot of graft involved at all levels oil money as well.
Bump
His first reaction was to blame the Tea Party movement.
He is an imbecile and a jerk from what I have been told.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what goes through the heads of these nuts. Some are stupid enough to actually admit that.
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