Originally Posted by
EeneyMinnieMoe
On a whim, because it was such a beautiful day outside, I took my bicycle out of storage and rode down the Hudson River parkway to Ground Zero. Which is a little bit more than a block of where I live.
I've been there numerous times over the years but hadn't been down there for a long while so I was shocked at all the souvenir peddlers and charity panhandlers down there. On every damn corner, there's someone selling 9/11 kitsch. You couldn't shake a dead cat without hitting three or four. Sickening.
Even worse is the constant influx of wide-eyed tourists. Tour groups, Boy Scouts, summer camps, I could vomit. I understand the curiosity of out-of-towners and the novelty and coolness it seems to them but to a native New Yorker, that's a little like someone walking in all ooh and ahh into your family cementary and breathlessly asking "OMG, tell me all about what it was like to have your sister die! Listen, what was it like?!".
It's a tourist attraction, just like Pearl Harbor. So disrespectful, so insulting and so disgusting.
I'd normally never, ever say this but I think the whole place should have been closed off to the public in a way that didn't attract any pligrims or toursits or curiosity-seekers. They should have built a huge wall around the whole place, banned tour groups of any kind, banned cameras and passed laws against junk-peddling and put the subway station somewhere else.
I agree, that using the tragic 911 event for propanda purposes is wrong. But in this world it is a reality.
You don't seem to have much of a stomach? Getting sick by truthers spreading their message.
If you would compare that with how the Bush regime have used 911. They have started unjust wars killing 100 000's innocent people. They have used it to start the endless "war on terror".
Used it to completly change the daily life of all Americans. Changed legislation with the Patriot act etc diminishing civil liberties.
Come on, there is no comparison.
5th April 2007, 08:01 AM
