The Times Herald Record, a local newspaper, reported yesterday that the mayor of the City of Newburgh, a town about 5 minutes from where I live and the place where I used to work, wants the 9/11 trials in his city. He says:
‘I look at it almost as a tourist attraction. The international attention would put Newburgh on the map.’ an excited Valentine told The NY Post.
Newburgh is a once great manufacturing city, with big city style drug and poverty problems, that is slowly trying to pull itself out of the mire. It appears, though, that the mayor has been finding his way downtown and is sampling the local vendor’s wares.
Tourist attraction? You’re freaking kidding me right?
I should note that, now that NYC is no longer going to be the location for the 9/11 trials, Newburgh’s military base is one of the new locations under consideration.
I should also note that the whole idea of these trials taking place outside of a military tribunal is a political clown show that’s going to come back and bite us in the ass.