Who Owns Ground Zero?

Not to get all refudiatory at Sarah Palin, but her nonsense over the weekend concerning the plans for Cordoba House, the Muslim community center to be located in downtown Manhattan got me thinking: Who does hold the emotional blackmail rights to the nearby area where a tragedy occurred nearly nine years ago? A quick perusal of the popular press reveals the following percentages.

American “heartland”: 37% (20% American south, 10% midwest, 7% far west and remaining territories
Glenn Beck and assorted Republican mouthpieces: 22%
New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser: 10% (this number is apparently a reflection of volume rather than actual “moral standing”)
Rudy Giuliani: 6%(I’ve checked these figures several times and they’re solid, but it is still kind of amazing how much territory he’s ceded since his terrible presidential campaign; the guy used to account for a solid quarter of the pie chart)
Victims’ families: 10% (so long as they still call out for vengeance)
Police and firemen: 5%, depending on where we are in the cycle of castigating them for their pensions
Developer Larry Silverstein: 5.05%
George W. Bush: 3.90% (Decision Points is out November 9)
Darryl Worley: 1%
Victims’ families, non vengeance-seeking: 0.03%
Actual New York City residents who were here during the attack, lost friends and acquaintances, saw entire swathes of town blocked off by armed military personnel, and can still remember the acrid stench of charred metal and bone that hovered over the city for days while a terrible uncertainty lingered over the very possibility of existence: 0.02%
Peaceful Muslims: 0.00%