| | Clarence,
You wrote:
"Mr. Knapp, so any journalist who believes that what they're planning to do with the WTC site is wrong is a hypocrite for not going to NYC and physically stopping them?"
No -- nor is it easy to derive any such meaning from what I wrote. You are the one who conjured up the image of Malkin, a 35-year-old chickenhawk cheerleader, taking up a gun and actually fighting for what she believes (instead of demanding that everyone else, except those whom she wants to stick in internment camps, do so on her behalf). I simply pointed out that that's unlikely.
As far as the towers are concerned, I have my own preference and would make such a financial contribution to it, or something like it, as I can afford if it were undertaken*. However, it seems that Soros and friends have already purchased the space ... and if they have, then whining is neither proper nor of any avail. So far as I know, nobody decreed in advance that, say, Michelle Malkin or the proprietors of Little Green Footballs, couldn't put together a consortium to bid on the space and do it up the way they want it done up.
Regards,
Tom Knapp
* I'd prefer to see the towers rebuilt in a manner nearly identical to the originals, except for one additional floor on the top of each, an extra elevator that goes only to that floor -- open to the public, of course -- and an additional public restroom on the first floor.
The top floors would have wide viewing windows from which visitors could gaze upon New York. The walls would be marbled, with the names of those who died in each tower etched into the marble of the room in that tower.
In the center of each room would be a marble monolith with an inscription something like the following:
On September 11th, 2001, evil men committed a wanton and evil act of destruction and murder on this site. We choose to remember them -- and their victims -- in the manner whereby they deserve to be remembered. This room is a memorial to the innocents who died here. These rebuilt towers are our declaration that we will never quail before evil, bow before death or submit to terror.
On the first floor, the new public restrooms would include urinals and stools with the names and photographs of the hijackers affixed in the manner best facilitating their own tribute; and a contractors would be hired to produce Quran-motif toilet paper and a pork-enzyme based drip cleaning solution which would be released with each flush to keep the images of Mohammed Atta and Co. all sparkly.
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