Englewood, New Jersey Wants To Block Moammar Gadhafi From Staying In Town

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- Officials are trying to prevent Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from staying in northern New Jersey when he visits the United States next month.

Libya is renovating a mansion that it bought in Englewood in 1982. People in the New York-area suburb are riled by reports that Gadhafi may stay in a Bedouin tent on the property when he speaks at the United Nations.

State Rep. Steve Rothman, who represents Englewood, says officials should do everything they can to prevent Gadhafi from coming to town.

Gadhafi praised Scotland's decision last week to release the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pam Am 103, which killed 270 people.

Relatives of the American victims, some of whom live in New Jersey, expressed outrage.

Comments

[faith]

Sorry, but this person should never be allowed to set foot on American soil. Can you imagine how our troops must be feeling? They work hard to protect us and our government basically slaps them in the face by allowing Moammar Gadhafi, a terrorist advocate to set foot in the United States of America. Egregious conduct and it has nothing to do with forgiving one's enemies. What is that old adage about the woman dying from the serpent snake bite - "you knew that I was a snake when you took me home"...te­rrorists should be kept at arms length and not embraced as friends. American taxpayers should expect that part of our tax dollars will be used just to protect this person while he visits and enjoys our nation. Let him stay home in Libya. We can use those dollars to help our own poor and needy.

[Ergon]

If you're so concerned about our troops, fight to bring them home.

[epiphany1234]

So typically American to be so inhospitable.

[GoodFeathers]

Folks, that's Charles Bronson disguised as Gaddaffi. In fact, there is no Gaddaffi. I don't know why Bronson had to run away to another country.

[RevBookburn]

Ergon is right. These hypocritical public officials know that their wives, mistresses and daughters would run the Moammar in a New York minute. What they really fear is their own desires to join in.

[Ergon]

Bad boy looks gets Jersey girls every time

[Tyler-Durden]

nice high school 'stache he's sportin'. i thought it was Kaddafi. that's what it said on the poster i used to have in my window of mickey mouse flipping him the bird.

HEY JERSEY! LET HIM COME SET UP HIS TENT! a tent? how many ways can you F-with that??? sounds like fun to me.

[VivaZapata]

This is what happens if you want the UN to be in the United States. Unpopular leaders have as much right to attend UN conferences as popular ones. The solution: make New York it's own country, or at least Manhattan. The right wing of the US, as expressed by no greater personality than the Grand Pooper, Rush Limbaugh, himself, hates the place anyway, and Manhattan would enjoy the status of the only truly international city-state.

[Ergon]

You know, there was a serious push some time ago to move the UN to Switzerland, a nice neutral country, hasn't invaded anyone in a thousand years.

[AhnAmuru]

What's the friggin' fuss about Jersey?

Actually, I prefer flannel to those awful coarse linen jerseys. One'd expect someone'd make a cashmere one!

What's a Gadhafi anyhow ... perhaps they meant gadfly?

[LMPE]

Qaddafi needs to do a better job shaving.

[RustNeverSleeps]

Moammar looks tired. Or maybe he's been partying a bit much.

[vote2009]

list of companies that did run ads on Glenn Beck on August 24:

•DirecTV
•Binder & Binder
•EasyWater
•Liberty Medical
•Superior Gold Group
•Bank of America
•Rosland Capital
•Johnson Law Group
•Citrix (GoToMeeting)
•Carbonite
•Merit Financial
•Applebee's
•Discover Bank (Discover Card)
•Binder & Binder
•Pulaski & Middleman
•Bank of America
•Pulaski & Middleman
•Sandals Resort
•The Villages
•Smart Balance
•Rosland Capital
•Zero Technologies (ZeroWater)

[RustNeverSleeps]

I was thinking earlier today that I would love to know which companies are still advertising with Beck. I'll have to make a point to contact them to communicate with my disappointment. Thanks for posting.

[SSMEDICARETX2DEM]

Good News,,,Thank you.

[Tyler-Durden]

nice work keeping track. keep fighting the good fight. i'm already glad i don't solicit any of these thugs

[Ergon]

Or shop at Whole Foods

[salkoc]

cant he stay at one of mccains houses. remember he is a role model for all other leaders acording to G.W.......­...and mccain.

we make up policy as we see fit .

bin laden was a freedom fighter when killing russian soldiers .........h­es a terrorist when he kills U.S civilians and soldiers.
saddam was an ally against iran ...the oppressive regime . we supplied weapons of mass destruction when it suited our needs . then we had him hung when it didnt .
the shah of iran was a friend before he was a dictator .

ohhhhh the great republican idol REAGAN ...was against iran until he needed to sell some weapons.
we started vietnam on a lie at it clearly didnt go well
we started iraq on a lie and it clearly isnt going well
it would help if the american people could see 5 feet past there trailors.

this is just pure politics . the fact is .........w­e create our monsters for money , power , greed at the expense of civilians.

[TripsyDaily]

I am sure this is a satirical comment but your delivery could use some work...rea­lly.

[thebeautyoftheburst]

looks like Scotland's going to get some oil soon....

[Ravenback47]

Why are people so upset? John McCain speaks highly of him nowadays.