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THE SOROS-IZATION OF GROUND ZERO
Michelle Malkin ^ | June 7, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 06/07/2005 7:50:48 AM PDT by Velveeta

Must-read. Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, pilot of American Airlines fight 77, which terrorists crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, has blown the whistle on George Soros and other human rights zealots who are trying to turn Ground Zero into a blame-America monument. Her piece is up at the WSJ.com site (subscription required...also try here). Here are a few blood-boiling excerpts:

The World Trade Center Memorial Cultural Complex will be an imposing edifice wedged in the place where the Twin Towers once stood. It will serve as the primary "gateway" to the underground area where the names of the lost are chiseled into concrete. The organizers of its principal tenant, the International Freedom Center (IFC), have stated that they intend to take us on "a journey through the history of freedom..."

...While the IFC is getting 300,000 square feet of space to teach us how to think about liberty, the actual Memorial Center on the opposite corner of the site will get a meager 50,000 square feet to exhibit its 9/11 artifacts, all out of sight and underground.

Meanwhile, generous space will be allotted to the International Freedom Center for exhibits on Chinese dissidents and Chilean refugees.

Burlingame reports further:

More disturbing, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is handing over millions of federal dollars and the keys to that building to some of the very same people who consider the post-9/11 provisions of the Patriot Act more dangerous than the terrorists that they were enacted to apprehend -- people whose inflammatory claims of a deliberate torture policy at Guantanamo Bay are undermining this country's efforts to foster freedom elsewhere in the world.

Who's behind this sacrilege at Ground Zero? Burlingame continues:

The driving force behind the IFC is Tom Bernstein, the dynamic co-founder of the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex who made a fortune financing Hollywood movies. But his capital ventures appear to have funded his true calling, the pro bono work he has done his entire adult life -- as an activist lawyer in the human rights movement. He has been a proud member of Human Rights First since it was founded -- as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights -- 27 years ago, and has served as its president for the last 12. The public has a right to know that it was Mr. Bernstein's organization, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union, that filed a lawsuit three months ago against Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was Human Rights First that filed an amicus brief on behalf of alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, an American citizen who the Justice Department believes is an al Qaeda recruit. It was Human Rights First that has called for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the alleged torture of detainees, complete with budget authority, subpoena power and the ability to demand that witnesses testify under oath.

In fact, the IFC's list of those who are shaping or influencing the content and programming for their Ground Zero exhibit includes a Who's Who of the human rights, Guantanamo-obsessed world:

• Michael Posner, executive director at Human Rights First who is leading the world-wide "Stop Torture Now" campaign focused entirely on the U.S. military. He has stated that Mr. Rumsfeld's refusal to resign in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal is "irresponsible and dishonorable."

• Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, who is pushing IFC organizers for exhibits that showcase how civil liberties in this country have been curtailed since September 11.

• Eric Foner, radical-left history professor at Columbia University who, even as the bodies were being pulled out of a smoldering Ground Zero, wrote, "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." This is the same man who participated in a "teach-in" at Columbia to protest the Iraq war, during which a colleague exhorted students with, "The only true heroes are those who find ways to defeat the U.S. military," and called for "a million Mogadishus." The IFC website has posted Mr. Foner's statement warning that future discussions should not be "overwhelmed" by the IFC's location at the World Trade Center site itself.

• George Soros, billionaire founder of Open Society Institute, the nonprofit foundation that helps fund Human Rights First and is an early contributor to the IFC. Mr. Soros has stated that the pictures of Abu Ghraib "hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself."

Concludes Burlingame: "Ground Zero has been stolen, right from under our noses. How do we get it back?"

Start by contacting NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Then Gov. George Pataki.

Learn more about Human Rights First here.

This abomination needs to be nipped in the bud. Now.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aclu; burlingame; groundzero; humanrightsfirst; ifc; justputupabuilding; soros; tombernstein; wtc; wtcmemorial
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To: retrokitten

Hale Boggs


181 posted on 06/09/2005 12:28:32 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Interesting. I had no idea.


182 posted on 06/09/2005 12:37:08 PM PDT by retrokitten
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To: retrokitten

Even more interesting is the fact that it was Cokie's brother's public relations firm (Patton Boggs, LLC)who was hired as spokesman for Saudi Arabia after the 9/11 attacks!

>>>Saudi Arabia engaged the prominant Washington D.C. lobbying firm of Patton Boggs LLC as registered foreign agents (http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/Fara2nd02/COUNTRY/SAUDIARA.HTM#2165) headed by Thomas Boggs, sister of Cokie Roberts of ABC News and National Public Radio, in the wake of the public relations disaster when knowledge of the identities of suspected hijackers became known.<<<
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Saudi-Arabia/Transnational-issues


183 posted on 06/09/2005 12:54:14 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Wow! That is something.


184 posted on 06/09/2005 1:02:21 PM PDT by retrokitten
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To: tertiary01; solitas; bigred; Lazamataz; retrokitten; Velveeta; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; blackie; ...
I heard Debra again this morning on the John Gambling Show.

She turned in an impeccable performance, as usual.

It still infuriates me how solipsistic and egotistical certain members of our society can be.

It seems as if the only people who care to appreciate the sheer magnitude of the atrocities committed that day are members of FreeRepublic or listeners to talk radio.

I can still recall smelling traces of the acrid smoke emanating from Ground Zero, months, literally months, after those premeditated attempts at enacting a program of wholesale genocide-perpetuated by obscurantist, medieval Islamic fascists-had transpired.

You could still imbibe the faint odor of soot and ash, i.e. aerated death, months after this act of barbarism had occurred, at Union Square, no less!

14TH STREET!!!

And we're going to allow this feckless, ungrateful, Eurotrash, appeasement-minded pond scum to desecrate the memory of every PAPD, NYPD, and FDNY officer, the workers at Cantor Fitzgerald, every single innocent man and woman who perished that day...?

Why?!

It makes my blood boil.

185 posted on 06/09/2005 4:05:44 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("What in the world happened to Gerard's tag-line?")
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
I can still recall smelling traces of the acrid smoke emanating from Ground Zero, months, literally months, after those premeditated attempts at enacting a program of wholesale genocide-perpetuated by obscurantist, medieval Islamic fascists-had transpired.

You could still imbibe the faint odor of soot and ash, i.e. aerated death, months after this act of barbarism had occurred, at Union Square, no less!

Here in NJ too! I will never forget that smell. It is an absolute nightmare. Here is the lovely haze we were entrenched with for months. Fog of our dead loved ones and the smell of their soot covered ash.

186 posted on 06/09/2005 4:17:12 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

$10,000 question for everyone.....

Who remembers how this stench and death fog was referenced in the PC Media?


187 posted on 06/09/2005 4:18:30 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

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188 posted on 06/09/2005 4:18:59 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

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189 posted on 06/09/2005 4:19:07 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

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190 posted on 06/09/2005 4:19:15 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

The answer is.....

The air quality!

Remember the MSM chatter about what the air quality was? for months after 9/11?

I bet most outside the area thought they were referring to asbestos dust or something.

Could Be.

But that picture is the fog that hung around us for months. And the smell can still be caught when the wind is right from Fresh Kills.


191 posted on 06/09/2005 4:22:05 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

>>>>>And we're going to allow this feckless, ungrateful, Eurotrash, appeasement-minded pond scum to desecrate the memory of every PAPD, NYPD, and FDNY officer, the workers at Cantor Fitzgerald, every single innocent man and woman who perished that day...?



I would love to fight these people. But most of them are lawyers that know more rules than I do. And all of them have the deep pockets of Ahmed Huber, Ramsey Clark, Hillary Clinton, George Soros and the money laundering NGOs.

I'm very open for suggestions.


192 posted on 06/09/2005 4:24:29 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Velveeta

unbelievable...and quite disgusting. Not on my watch. thx for the heads up.


193 posted on 06/09/2005 5:35:39 PM PDT by Jon Alvarez
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To: Calpernia
New Jersey, Staten Island, and Long Island lost so many amazing human beings that day.

:(

194 posted on 06/09/2005 6:26:52 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("What in the world happened to Gerard's tag-line?")
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham; Calpernia

I don't think I'll ever be able to imagine the sights, sounds and smell the way you all experienced it there.

Life changed here in Chicago that day, most notably because of the silence...

We have to keep fighting this.

I've sent letters out and will keep writing.

Don't quite know what else to do.


195 posted on 06/09/2005 6:52:16 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Calpernia

tears


196 posted on 06/09/2005 6:53:19 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Calpernia

We can start with signing the guestbook and writing the letters.

http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/Comments.asp?id=1&


197 posted on 06/09/2005 6:55:25 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Jon Alvarez

You're welcome.

Debra Burlingame's guest book is here for comments:
http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/Comments.asp?id=1&


198 posted on 06/09/2005 6:56:25 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham; Calpernia; All

Debra Burlingames' efforts at spreading the word have made it to the main stream media.

Bless her heart.

Controversy Over Museum At Ground Zero
http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstoriesny_story_160171829.html


199 posted on 06/09/2005 6:59:11 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta
A "March for Truth," or several dozen rallies for the same cause, would be a good start.

I'm hoping that some FR chapters will take it upon themselves to call attention to this contemptible abuse of public trust.

Hopefully, Debra Burlingame's campaign will gain a head of steam in the weeks ahead.

If our enemies are already doing damage control then you know she's on the right course!

200 posted on 06/09/2005 7:00:32 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("What in the world happened to Gerard's tag-line?")
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