Actually, I Think Most Agree That A Lowe’s Home Improvement Center Is Substantively Different Than A Terrorist Attack

Time was when you wanted to offensively overstate your case all you had were Nazis. Fortunately today we also have terrorists:

With its signature royal blue exterior, Mill Basin’s Lowe’s Home Improvement Center might one day look like any of the other hardware stores the company has dotted across the country.

But in the eyes of one state lawmaker, everything is not as it appears.

“Terrorists come in all shapes and sizes,” State Senator Carl Kruger told Lowe’s officials last week.

“This plan, in its very simplest form, is a terrorist attack on the Mill Basin community,” Kruger said at Community Board 18’s monthly meeting.

At the meeting, company officials, including Kevin Bulger, Lowe’s senior site development manager, and Deirdre Carson, its land use attorney for this project, got an earful.

“I know what an attack on a community is all about — I know what a stealth attack is,” Kruger said. “When you find a terrorist in your neighborhood . . . you deal with them.”