Jihad on the Bike Path

Steyn Online ^ | 31 Oct 2017 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Fourteen years ago, I wrote a column for The Wall Street Journal on "The Bike-Path Left":

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So what does get the Dean juices going? A few days later, the governor was on CNN and Judy Woodruff asked him about his admission that he'd left the Episcopal Church and become a Congregationalist because "I had a big fight with a local Episcopal church over the bike path." I hasten to add that, in contrast to current Anglican controversies over gay marriage in British Columbia and gay bishops in New Hampshire, this does not appear to have been a gay bike path: its orientation was not an issue; it would seem to be a rare example of a non-gay controversy in the Anglican Communion. But nevertheless it provoked Howard into "a big fight." "I was fighting to have public access to the waterfront, and we were fighting very hard in the citizens group," he told Judy Woodruff. Fighting, fighting, fighting.

And that's our pugnacious little Democrat. On Osama bin Laden, he's Mister Insouciant. But he gets mad about bike paths. Destroy the World Trade Center and he's languid and laconic and blasé. Obstruct plans to convert the ravaged site into a memorial bike path and he'll hunt you down wherever you are.

The Hudson River Greenway is not, formally, a 9/11 "memorial bike path". But it does run within 300 feet or so of the World Trade Center as it begins its progress up the West Side Highway toward the Bronx. So close enough. Yet on the central point I was wrong. The "bike-path left" will surrender the bike path as they surrender everything else.

[Rummyfan]

So now eight grieving families and dozens more who'll be living with horrific injuries for the rest of their lives are told by Cuomo and De Blasio and the rest of the gutless political class behind their security details that there's nothing to do except to get used to it.

I don't want to get used to it - and I reiterate my minimum demand of western politicians that I last made after the London Bridge attacks: How many more corpses need to pile up on our streets before you guys decide to stop importing more of it?

[reg45]

Perhaps they need a camel path instead of a bike path.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Another candlelight vigil will solve it.

[Nevadan]

Thanks for posting

[Rusty0604]

As usual, Mark hits the nail on the head.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I wonder if anyone has considered that the jihad might be against bicycles, because they are sinful devices not described in the Korn?

[A_perfect_lady]

He's truly a voice in the wilderness: Why should open, free societies become closed, monitored, ugly, cramped and cowering? Why indeed?

...the West's death by virtue signaling. Perfectly put.

because we did not take an act of war seriously in 2001, we are relentlessly harassed and diminished by unending micro-jihad Yes we are.

[Albion Wilde]

[the bike path] "would seem to be a rare example of a non-gay controversy in the Anglican Communion."

Vintage Steyn. Ouch!!