Sensitive to Feelings, Wal-Mart Drops store plan near Va. Civil War site
Ground Zero Mosqueteers Bloomberg, NYC Council, Islamic Supremacists, Are you Listening?

"We just felt it was the right thing to do," Wal-Mart William C. Wertz, a spokesman for Wal-Mart on why they dropped plans for a proposed store near near a hallowed Civil War site.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has abandoned plans to build a store near a hallowed Civil War site. Sharif El-Gamal, are you listening? That is what it means to be "American," to be decent and compassionate. Take a page, learn what it means to be human. Withdraw the Ground Zero mega-mosque.

We are holding a protest against the Ground Zero Islamic supremacist mosque on February 3rd at the NYC Council hearings downtown to ban Wal-Mart from NYC. Please join us at 49-51 CHAMBERS STREET at 12:45PM and fight this grotesque insult.

Christine Quinn and her quisling council are spitting on the New Yorkers they were elected to represent (87% of polled New Yorkers want Wal-Mart's jobs and cheap prices, and the majority of New Yorkers oppose a mega mosque on Ground Zero). Quinn has been very vocal in her support of the mega-mosque and fierce in her opposition to Wal-Mart (nuts). The NYC Council declared December 14th "Hate Wal-Mart day." Has the NYC Council declared "hate Jihad day" or "Hate Islamic Ethnic Cleasning Day" or "Hate the Islamic Slaughter of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs Day"? Hate Wal-Mart day — this is insanity. Please join us in this protest.

In an interesting turn in the Ground Zero mosquestroisty attack, Wal-Mart has withdrawn plans to build a store near a hallowed Civil War site. Ground Zero is the "nerve center" in the Islamic war on the West; the 15-story Mecca mosque on the Hudson should also be withdrawn, and NYC government should be working to that end, not to ban Wal-Mart from our citizens. The recent release of e-mails revealed a close relationship between Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office and the Islamic supremacist mega mosque, Cordoba. Ninety pages of e-mails going back to 2009 show that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan relied heavily on Bloomberg and City Hall for help, support, advice and assistance as they moved forward to build a 15-story mega-mosque on Ground Zero.

Wal-Mart drops store plan near Va. Civil War site Yahoo news (hat tip Robert)

ORANGE, Va. – …. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. abandoned plans Wednesday to build a Supercenter near a hallowed Civil War site where Robert E. Lee first met Ulysses S. Grant on the field of battle in 1864.

Attorneys for the world's largest retailer announced the decision in court on the eve of a trial that would have put Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson on the witness stand. He was to testify that a portion of the site 60 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., was a "nerve center" for the Battle of the Wilderness.

Wal-Mart, which had weathered two years of criticism by preservationists over the site, did not elaborate on its decision to withdraw plans for the store one day before the trial was to begin.

"We just felt it was the right thing to do," said William C. Wertz, a spokesman for the Arkansas retailer. He said the company would seek another location in Orange County and compensate the county for its expenses in defending its decision to approve the store.

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Burt P. Flickinger III of Strategic Resource Group said it is rare for Wal-Mart to back away from a store once it has researched a location and settled on a site. […]

"To the company's credit they decided to do something different," said Flickinger, who said he is a Wal-Mart shareholder.

While clearly surprised by the decision, preservationists celebrated the turnaround and said the decision signals their resolve to protect America's heritage.

"I hope this sends a message not only to Wal-Mart but to other developers that the preservation community is willing to fight for historic sites," said Robert Rosenbaum, an attorney for residents and the preservation group.

"On the historic issues, we believe we would have won," he said.

The 143,000-square-foot store planned by the Bentonville, Ark.,-based retailer would have been outside the limits of the protected national park where the core battlefield is located. The company had argued the area was already dotted with retail locations and zoned for commercial use.

[…]The Battle of the Wilderness is viewed by historians as a critical point when the Civil War started to turn in favor of the North. The war ended 11 months later. An estimated 185,000 Union and Confederate troops fought over three days in the Wilderness, leaving 30,000 killed, injured or missing.

Hundreds of historians, including McPherson, filmmaker Ken Burns and celebrities such as Robert Duvall had appealed to Wal-Mart to walk away from the 50-acre property and find another place to build in the rural county of less than 35,000 people.

McPherson wrote in a summary of his testimony that Grant's headquarters and his senior leaders were encamped near the site of the proposed store and Union casualties were treated on the site or in an area destined to be a parking lot for the store.

"Among other things, thousands of wounded and dying soldiers occupied the then open fields that included the Walmart site, which is where many of the Union Army hospital tents were located during the battle," McPherson wrote.

Wal-Mart and county officials argued that no significant battles occurred on the site.

But opposition to the store was unrelenting from preservation groups, who supplied maps of troop movements and maneuvers in a region that is dotted with Civil War battlefields.

While preservation groups battled the store, residents and some county officials had welcomed the convenience of a Supercenter and the jobs and tax revenue it would have generated for the county.

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prestigio

13 years ago

sensitivity is peculiar only to the human species

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Barry

13 years ago

American Islam = Nazism
Why would you expect the American Muslonazi community to act with Humanity and sensitivity? CAIR, the leading Muslonazi organization in the United States, clearly explained “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.”

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The All Real Numbers Symbol

13 years ago

I’m glad to see Wal-Mart withdrew. Kudos to them!! I can’t be in New York for the protest, but I applaud you wholeheartedly for having the protests! Please stop that mosque. You have my support, even if I can’t be there.

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Telly

13 years ago

NYC Council issued a fatwa???
Just not knowing how offensive it is for the government to encourage citizens to hate shows how far done the council members are.
“Orwellian” is one of the most over used words of our time. But declaring a day of hate is straight up Orwell.

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'ow 'bout that

13 years ago

” That is what it means to be “American,” to be decent and compassionate. Take a page, learn what it means to be human. ”
A hearty THANK YOU to walmart for (finally) acknowledging, accepting, understanding, and APPRECIATING OUR history and the SACRIFICES of those who FOUGHT AND DIED for this great country.
and for NOT trying to REWRITE our history.

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Linda Rivera

13 years ago

Wal-Mart. Thank you for your ethics! You are true Americans!

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Bringbackthecrusades

13 years ago

Walmart, you are awesome. Tip of the hat to you, I heard about the plan about you trying to build a store on a field where the civil war (you know, the one that promoted freedom and equality among men by abolishing slavery?) was fought, and was originally outraged being that my dad is a living survivor of that war. Also, you guys, this is crazy! A friggin’ CULTURAL center 4 blocks from the place where a some random crazy people flew a plane in the twin towers?? You can definitely tell that anyone who has ANYTHING in common with them, is just like them – Just like all Christians are bound to be like Hitler since he was christian. I can just see them now: those kids’ parties where young Muslims can learn all the tricks of the trade of terrorism while eating their ice cream and birthday cake. I mean, who needs CULTURE at all-all we really need are million-dollar conglomerates running our country and taking advantage of the handicap and down-on-their-luck by barely paying them minimum wage. The notion of any center trying to promote cultural awareness and unity amongst humanity is disgusting. I also think this should be a Christian country, who needs religious freedom, am I right? AND we should go impose Christianity on people living in third world countries…oh wait, we already did that…

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