Posted on 05/12/2005 5:40:18 AM PDT by OESY
Donald Trump has built much of modern New York. But on the most important building project ever — the quest to repair New York's smashed heart and broken skyline — Trump's hands are tied.
Nevertheless, Trump is New York's only hope.
Gov. Pataki and his minions have refused to listen to New Yorkers and Americans, and do the right thing at Ground Zero. Gotham's last best chance to repair Downtown's legacy is if Pataki will listen to Trump.
Trump said it straight in last week's Post: "I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt on the site, only stronger and a little bit taller." Since then, he's been deluged... with near-unanimous support....
"I've received literally hundreds of letters, saying rebuilding the towers is so right and what they're building is so wrong," Trump told me yesterday. "I don't think I've ever had more people comment on something... people are clamoring for this. Not one person has said the idea's wrong... if you did a referendum, it would be 98 percent."
But Pataki still seems hell-bent on getting his skeletal Freedom Tower up into the sky — so that those who look at Manhattan's skyline would see only an empty symbol of defeat.
New Yorkers have gotten a few weeks' reprieve from the Freedom Tower. It's now back to the drawing board again — partly because, as originally designed, it was structurally unsound. ("Buildings need floors," Trump said — "It's an important structural element.")
But — barring a miracle over the next few weeks — the latest version of the Freedom Tower will still be a 70-story office building topped by at least 600 feet of false angles and empty space....
"If we build this pile of rubbish, the terrorists will have won," Trump told me....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
There's more public input into a quarter-block park with two benches and a lawn than there has been into what will be a major feature of the skyline.
Pataki is pathetic, and he is a major embarassment for the GOP and the State of New York.
Trump to Pataki - "You're fired!"
"Trump said it straight in last week's Post: "I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt on the site, only stronger and a little bit taller." Since then, he's been deluged... with near-unanimous support.... "
Ditto's.
Trump is an overrated windbag parading around under a lacquered "hair helmet"...but on this issue he happens to be right.
How about arming the buildings as well, long range air to air missle batteries, high powered machine guns for close in distances, constantly monitored radar systems to watch for incoming air traffic -
What nonsense.
LOL
It will be interesting to see which branch of the military his son Ted chooses to serve in
My thoughts as well. Since 9/11 I have often thought that AEGIS would have been quite effective.
Phalanx is the only deployed close-in weapon system capable of autonomously performing its own search, detect, evaluation, track, engage and kill assessment functions. Phalanx also can be integrated into existing Combat Systems to provide additonal sensor and fire-control capability
Pataki-step aside and let a man do it.
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After Tower 2 came crashing down on him after his getting almost everybody else outta there...
Help honor 911 Lifesaving Hero: RICK RESCORLA
http://war-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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Trump is right. They should be looking at the old WTC drawings, build it with 21st century materials, make it one story higher and get to work.
Trump is right. Pataki has completely screwed the pooch on this one. Pataki should just remove himself from the process and start over again.
This was his chance to prove he could play in the big leagues, and he struck out, big time.
Speaking of Big Time, put Dick Cheney in charge of this project, and it will be done by Christmas.
The towers need to be rebuilt, bigger and better, the tallest buildings in the World, and taller than anything envisioned before. How there is even a question on this point I can not understand.
Yes - that Phalanx weapons system would do nicely - Thank you for finding that
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