Back a few years ago two brothers had the demented idea that setting off a couple of shrapnel bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line was a good idea.\u00a0 Their family were Muslim refugees from the Caucasus region.\u00a0 This was their idea of a fitting thanks for being taken in.\u00a0 While the police hunted these two maniacs down in the Eastern Massachusetts environs, the Media and the Democrats in Massachusetts state and local government and then President Obama immediately started using the expression Boston Strong.\u00a0 It was meant to imply that Boston not only was too strong to let death and maiming disturb them but also that only weaklings would blame Muslims for wanting to blow them up.\u00a0 It was a bizarre proposition.\u00a0 I was trying to understand if it was beneath their dignity to try to prevent a recurrence of the bombing.\u00a0 Would that be a sign of weakness?<\/p>\n
Now we have New York City doing their best impression of Boston Strong.\u00a0 New York Strong.\u00a0 Just go about your business.\u00a0 Attend the Halloween parade.\u00a0 If you think terror attacks are unacceptable then the terrorists win.\u00a0 Just shake it off.\u00a0 No plan from the Mayor or Governor for keeping New Yorkers safe from a recurrence.\u00a0 No mention that the killer was a known threat.\u00a0 Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.\u00a0 Business as usual.\u00a0 Just the price to pay for enjoying ethnic foods and all that great diversity.\u00a0 No one\u2019s to blame (except maybe Trump for riling up these good people).\u00a0 The Muslim Mayor of London has taken it a step further and declared that terror attacks are just business as usual in a with-it cosmopolitan place like London.\u00a0 Kind of like expensive parking.<\/p>\n
And of course the candlelight vigils and the celebrity condolences.\u00a0 And big stars too!\u00a0 Taylor Swift, Jared Leto, Patricia Arquette, Josh Groban, David Harbour, Bette Midler, Josh Gad, Zoe Saldana, Sam Smith, Will Arnett.\u00a0 Wow, star power.<\/p>\n
And most impressive, a message from Boy George: \u201cGod bless you New York. You are a strong, vibrant, multicultural city and nothing will ever bring you down! My heart is with you!\u201d\u00a0 Well that\u2019s a relief. \u00a0If Boy George\u2019s heart is with us, there can\u2019t be anything really too wrong with the current situation.\u00a0 Maybe this is really a good thing in disguise.\u00a0 We\u2019re not only strong but vibrant and multicultural.\u00a0 Of course, the multicultural thing does make me think about the Uzbeki contingent.\u00a0 Maybe we should look at that part again.\u00a0 No, no that\u2019s badthink.<\/p>\n
I remember about sixteen years ago New York wasn\u2019t feeling too strong to want a little payback.\u00a0 But that was back before Obama and Bloomberg re-educated the City on who was really responsible for that attack.\u00a0 It was all those ignorant yahoos who were clinging to their guns and God.\u00a0 They annoyed those peaceful adherents to the religion of peace.\u00a0 Back then even dyed in the wool pacifists like Maureen Dowd were happy to see George Bush would protect America from attack and in fact would retaliate against Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n
Full disclosure, I was born and spent the first thirty years of my life in New York City.\u00a0 I still have family there.\u00a0 When the 9\/11 attacks ocurred I was outraged to a degree that is hard to explain.\u00a0 And I was proud of the City and the Country for the way they responded to the crisis.\u00a0 Giuliani and Bush responded extremely admirably and with great competency.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think there is anything left in New York City that could react to a real attack now.\u00a0 Looking at the tepid response to this latest attack I\u2019m guessing if the Freedom Tower was brought down by a terrorist attack that New York Strong would mean putting a tarp up over the rubble and a rezoning action to prevent any other tall building from being erected to tempt the purveyors of peace.\u00a0 And of course, Boy George would send a strong, vibrant, multicultural tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back a few years ago two brothers had the demented idea that setting off a couple of shrapnel bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[522,520,513,515,518,521,516,519,514,517],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-522","tag-barack-obama","tag-boston-strong","tag-boy-george","tag-george-bush","tag-it-was-all-those-ignorant-yahoos-who-were-clinging-to-their-guns-and-god","tag-maureen-dowd","tag-michael-bloomberg","tag-new-york-strong","tag-rudy-giuliani"],"yoast_head":"\n