Posted on 06/14/2005 2:03:20 PM PDT by pabianice
BTTT
As every other government beaureacracy, they're answerable to nobody. The politicans are answerable to their unions, however.
Can you provide a link as this is the first I'm learning of it and am beside myself with anger.
Velveeta was the first to bring this to all of our attention and created a nice collection of information here:
THE SOROS-IZATION OF GROUND ZERO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418112/posts
I know. There are bits and pieces of information we are not getting here.
Biggest piece is, 'what happened'. It looks like it is a done deal. But how did this happen? Why? How do we fix it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418112/posts?page=129#129
call 311 and politely leave a message for the Mayor:
Contact LMDC
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10006
Phone: (212) 962-2300
TTY Phone: (212) 962-0045
Fax: (212) 962-2431/33
Pataki's been snookered:
The memorial, together with the cultural institutions, comprise the centerpiece of the Libeskind master site plan – and indeed, all of our rebuilding efforts.
I’m pleased to announce that next week, Mayor Bloomberg and I will reveal the design for the cultural building that will be located in the northeast corner of the memorial complex.
This unique building will serve as a gateway to the memorial and house a visitor’s center as well as two splendid cultural institutions: the International Freedom Center and the Drawing Center.
http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/year05/may12_05-4.htm
contact the Gov:
http://www.state.ny.us/governor/form.htm (tel # there)
And this:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44654
Desecration of Ground Zero
Posted: June 8, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Most Americans have not been paying attention to the bureaucratic wrangling and political jockeying that has plagued the construction of the World Trade Center Memorial at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. But it's not just New Yorkers and developers and 9-11 families who should care.
A good portion of the project is federally subsidized. All of us have not only a financial stake, but also a moral stake, in protecting the honor of the victims – and the dignity of our country.
A Blame America Monument is not what we need or deserve. But it looks like one is already in the works.
In a startling op-ed printed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Debra Burlingame exposed the "Great Ground Zero Heist." Burlingame is on the board of directors of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which terrorists crashed into the Pentagon on 9-11. She reports that the World Trade Center memorial will encompass a "cultural complex" whose primary tenant will be something called the "International Freedom Center."
According to an IFC fact sheet, the project "will be an integral part of humanity's response to September 11." An educational and cultural center will host exhibits, lectures, debates and films "that will nurture a global conversation on freedom in our world today." Tellingly though, as Burlingame notes, early plans for the center that included a large mural of an Iraqi voter were scratched in favor of a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon Johnson when the designs went public. So much for nurturing that global conversation.
The center's "civic engagement network" will connect visitors to "service" opportunities. Translation: Left-wing activist recruitment center. As the fact sheet notes, "leading NGOs [non governmental organizations] will be offered outposts at the Center to reach out to its visitors."
On its face, the project may seem fairly unobjectionable enough (putting aside how far afield it all seems from the task of remembering the victims and heroes of 9-11) – until, that is, you take a closer look at the chief movers and shakers behind the project.
Tom Bernstein, a deep-pocketed Hollywood financier and real-estate mogul, is the primary driver behind the IFC. Bernstein's longtime friendship and business partnership with Yale classmate George W. Bush gives cover to his radical activism as president of Human Rights First. The group opposed Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the administration's preventive detention policies and has joined with the American Civil Liberties Union in mau-mauing the Pentagon over alleged prisoner abuse.
Among the many supposedly respectable scholars consulted on the project is Eric Foner. He's the unhinged Columbia University professor who reacted to 9-11 by griping: "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." The IFC's list of scholars and advisers also includes left-leaning elites such as Henry Louis Gates at Harvard University; Stephen B. Heintz, IFC secretary and president of the Rockefeller Bros. Fund; Walter Isaacson, chief executive officer of the Aspen Institute; and Michael Posner, executive director of Human Rights First.
Burlingame also reports that Anthony Romero, ACLU executive director, "is pushing IFC organizers for exhibits that showcase how civil liberties in this country have been curtailed since September 11." Then there's billionaire Bush-basher George Soros, who Burlingame reports is an early funder and supporter of the IFC and whose spirit infuses this grievance-mongering enterprise.
Do we really want Ground Zero to be the playground of anti-war financiers, moral equivalence peddlers, and Guantanamo Bay alarmists? As Burlingame told me yesterday, "Ground Zero belongs to all the American people. If Ground Zero is lost, whether through negligence or malfeasance, it will be a loss that is felt for generations to come."
Richard Tofel, IFC president, is minimizing dissenters. In a statement, he told me that "we understand that a few do not" agree with the project's stated mission of promoting the "cause of freedom." The question is not whether most Americans support a monument to freedom, but whether they will stand by while saboteurs convert it into The Ultimate Guilt Complex.
God luvs America indicated on the linked thread that when Mark Levine interviewed Debra Burlingame she asked that we write and call Pataki, Bloomberg and congresscritters expressing our outrage so perhaps there's still time to nip this in the bud? If we work on that assumption and spread the word, we might be able to halt this insanity. I will do whatever I can on my end and hope all those I e-mail will follow suit.
you will find anchor tenants - for the lower floors. the point is that businesses have already relocated out of that area, they had no choice since the WTC was destroyed. They aren't going to just all break their leases and come back. With all these other controversies about the site - these museums, the terrible architecture of the freedom tower, the fight in manhattan over where to build (this is what killed the west side stadium and the olympics) - its a mess. we didn't park another battleship on top of the Arizona after Pearl Harbor.
There was a email campaign using the contacts Velveeta posted to the Soro izatin thread. This list was also used:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388699/posts
Email Contacts for Media, Government, USA, Europe, Consulates, Embassy and more for Activism
We all have been sending mails to our own lists, writing articles, creating more contacts, contacting media outlets...
Firebrand did mention a live freep.
We are a bit stuck and could use some legal guidance. We don't know what happened with this deal and what the options are now.
BTTT!
I think Burlingame has a web site; do you know what it is?
Her website is in the thread at this link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422800/posts?page=168#168
Did anyone write to Rush or Hannity on this? I wrote to the save the site website and suggested they get a greta writer to draft a protest letter and have people digitally sign it and have it hand delivered to those in authority . They also need to take donations and get a serious promo person to push this..What a disgrace ...........
It’s not an American slavery memorial or “what we’ve done wrong in the world” memorial.
It’s meant to remember people killed on Sept. 11, period — end of story.
There are plenty of museums dedicated to other issues. Let this one focus on “this” issue: nearly 3,000 innocent people slaughtered. Doing anything else disgraces their memory and makes lunacy of their loss.
It would be like asking the Jews to build a museum dedicated to better understanding the Nazis — why they hated them and why they ended up gassing them by the millions.
Stop it and wake the hell up
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