The Freedom Tower

This is a rant for sure, but an interesting rant from The Daily Growler, a weblog worth reading about the Freedom Tower and the downtown development surrounding it. Read it with caution if snappy language offends you.
This is bold face commentary at its best. Enjoy it because it is rare these days.

“These clowns are fighting over this hole in the ground because of the future monies to be made off developing down there, from the hole on up. First of all, these gaudy, wasteful bastards intend on, against all advice by the way, building the world’s tallest building down there.
First they got this Berliner architect–his buildings look like some of the homes in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans after Katrina hit them and piled them up like so much trash–his buildings I call “constructed dilapidations.”
He gave up on it.
Then some guy came up with this Freedom Tower scheme–this mighty cylindrical silver hypodermic-needle-looking heap leaping into the sky–you know, the architectural drawings all have this spaceshot needle with a halo around its pinhead and a showering of lights, like a thousand points of lights, smashing all around the ground with worshipping beams bouncing off the ground and then shooting up the sides of this heavenly hypodermic needle.
It’s like these greedy bastards are shooting the finger back at those hoards of terrorists that are suddenly coming against us from all sides–like kind of a big “bring ‘em on” shout out. Max tacky, of course.
Wouldn’t a peaceful park full of grateful large trees and fountains and maybe fresh air booths and sculpture gardens be better than so expensive and wasteful a building–a place full of peace, the peace that passeth all understanding–a cooling, invigorating oasis of peace down amongst those angrily competing corporate headquarters and sleaze-bag banks and the wild-eyed stock exchange (the cathedral of the religion of shareholding and its heaven of constant profits) to those innocent ones and the guilty ones who were killed that day now 5 years ago. Five years and they are still arguing over the billions of dollars needed to fulfill all these architectual-capitalist development schemes these clowns need to prove who really owns NYC, because a part of this development down there is going to include hotels, high-rise luxury apartments overlooking that hole in the ground, new banks, etc.–hey, son of a bitch, they were going to emplode the WTC anyway, don’t you think–don’t we need new skyscrapers every 25 years the same as we need new baseball stadiums every 25 years.
And that’s all Ray Nagin was saying.
New Orleans can’t depend on its own nation and that nation’s people for not one damn thing except the fact they are going to take advantage of you while you’re weak and especially while you’re weak and black…or weak and poor.
On and on it goes.
The same old story told the same old way.