Gadhafi Trumps New Jersey
Sneaks into Westchester County. Reuters: Bedford N.Y. orders Libyans to stop erecting Moammar’s tent on property owned by Donald Trump:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was having a tent pitched on property owned by Donald Trump in suburban New York on Tuesday until local officials stopped the work because it violated regulations, a town attorney said.
Workers were erecting a tent and satellites on property in Bedford, New York, that belongs to the famed real estate developer Trump, said Bedford town attorney Joel Sachs.
A famously eccentric figure, Gaddafi is known for pitching a large Bedouin tent on his trips abroad. He was scheduled to attend the U.N. General Assembly this week.
Gaddafi last month had plans to erect a tent in suburban New Jersey, where the Libyan embassy owns property, but the U.S. government said he could not use the land for that purpose. A request to set up his tent in New York’s Central Park also was turned down.
A building inspector for Bedford tried to deliver a “stop work” order to workers at the scene but they did not speak English …
… Two men in the picture identified themselves to the Journal News as Libyan security guards.
…
Trump issued a statement saying the property was leased on a short-term basis to Middle Eastern partners “who may or may not have a relationship to Mr. Gaddafi” and he was looking into the matter.
Clever. But if he builds it, wanna bet they will come? The families of the dead, that is. The outraged families of the dead of Pan Am Flight 103, which Reuters inexplicably neglected to mention in the above-excerpted Reuters story about that “famously eccentric” wacky lovable murderous fruitcake, Moammar Gadhafi.
9/23 UPDATE: Lower Hudson News reports its all quiet on the Bedford front this morning.
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Topics: Libya, terrorists
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:00 pm on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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What a great place for a rightwing, racist, gun-clinging, Bible-thumping, outraged demonstration.
Makes you want to snatch the rug off Trump’s head.