9/11 Funding

I was once a Republican, now an Independent, but without hesitation I have to proclaim my allegiance, on the 9/11 funding issue, with local Democratic legislators, and this is why:

A report released a year ago cited that an insect zoo in Florida, a bourbon festival in Illinois, a bean fest in Indiana and a kangaroo conservation center in Maryland were funded while Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge were not listed.

But, by the same token, I will NEVER become a Democrat because of gutter scraping crap like this (same article):

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside) was also incensed about the lack of funding given to the Empire State.

“Al Qaeda hates us,” he said. “President Bush isn’t crazy about us, either.”

Fuck you.

Jabba'd give Atta a free pass

The bloated Congressman who represented, and continues to represent, the District which included the World Trade Center defends the posthumous habeus corpus rights of non-U.S. citizen, and architect of 9/11, Mohammed Atta:

During one exchange, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) had this to say: "I don't see how you can pick up someone in New York and say that his rights are different or less because he's accused of being an enemy combatant, based on whatever information, as opposed to his being accused of being a murderer. . . ."

Berenson responded: "[W]e need to be clear about what that means. It means that if we had captured Mohammed Atta on September 10th, we would have had no choice but to treat him as a criminal defendant, which would have meant no interrogation, no intelligence, and the World Trade Center is coming down."

Nadler interjected, "That's exactly right."