Posted on 06/26/2005 7:49:36 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Rachel O'Brien has been concentrating on raising her three children since her husband was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. She hadn't given much thought to what would happen at ground zero.
But when she heard about plans for a museum that would place the attacks in the historical context of mankind's quest for freedom, she got political joining more than 900 relatives of victims to sign a petition opposing the plan.
"I have no remains of my husband, and to me that's sacred ground," said O'Brien, 45, whose husband, Michael, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. "That's the last place he was, and I think that the whole area should be all about what happened on that day."
The debate over the International Freedom Center museum is playing out on talk shows, opinion pages and the Web. Victims' relatives protested the museum last week at ground zero, and more than 16,000 people have signed the Internet petition condemning it.
Critics say the institution is being hijacked by left-wing advisers who blame the U.S. for the world's wrongs and will focus on events with tenuous connection to the terrorist attacks, such as segregation in America and the Holocaust.
"I don't think that there should be anything else there but a memorial to those people," said retired New York building inspector Edmund Caviasco, 75, whose daughter, Jean De Palma, died in the trade center collapse.
George Pataki said he was demanding "an absolute guarantee" from ground zero cultural institutions that they would proceed "with total respect for the sanctity of that site."
"We're not going to let it turn into something anti-American, anti-freedom or questioning the values of New York, the values of America or the values of freedom," Pataki said.
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Who approved their mere presence in the process? Seems to me that is the place to start. Somebody screwed up big time. Whether it was mere ignorance or gullibility is irrelevant, those decisions must be reversed and removed entirely.
Start over.
While we weren't watching something horrible happened here. Let's start with the politicians or the bureaucrats who screwed up. Big time.
The obvious goal is to send a message loud and clear. Right now, to these "groups": Go away. You are not welcome here.
"While we weren't watching something horrible happened here."
While we weren't watching something horrible happened here... again.
What they are proposing is as out of place as it would be at Pearl Harbor. Focus on the event.
These liberals have no sense of decency, no sense of limits, no sense of solidarity with their countrymen.
This issue is a complete no-brainer for Bush. To denounce these plans is an absolutely obvious plus politically, and absolutely the right thing to do.
It's failures to denounce these sorts of injustices that do much to frustrate W's conservative base.
If they want a 9-11 debating spot, they can build their own damn museum somewhere else.
Like building a "Museum of Tolerance for Tojo & Hirohito's Imperial Japan" on top of the memorial to the Arizona in Pearl Harbor!.... complete with "seminars" and "exhibits" concerning what America did wrong, which provoked the Dec. 7, 1941 attack there!
Thanks for your comment!
Char :)
The theme of the Left has changed 9-11 from "We Will Never Forget" to "It's All America's Fault".
Sick.
The only way to stop this: A couple of hundred 9/11 families who are willing to work hard on the issue for months, and willing to take the heat.
In short, the equivalent of a Swift Boat Veterans campaign.
Don't bet on that happening.
Don't bet on that happening."
I have a hunch, though, that this courageous woman, Debra Burlingame, just might turn out to be the John O'Neill of the 9/11 family group.
I'm praying for her, because this museum is so rotten unamerican, that it makes me sick. It is ENTIRELY INAPPROPRIATE for that - yes, sacred - ground. In fact, no place on American soil would be appropriate for a marxist propaganda institute, which is what this would grow into - antiAmerican, anti-capitalist, anti-free enterprise, anti-private ownership! How DARE these people put up such an insulting structure.......there, or anywhere in America?!
This project MUST be stopped!.......and that's my final answer. Pray for Ms. Burligame and the sensible 9/11 families who will struggle against great odds to prevent this from ever becoming a reality.
Char
I agree with you that a proper memorial is against the odds at this point. But it is still possible.
If genuine, red-blooded Americans cannot at least organize a massive national campaign against this (win or lose), it will be a very sad day, and will be remembered as a major milestone in our death as a nation.
Yet it will be the scumbag "Jersey Girls" who are thrown up there on the TV screen by Perky and company.
Absolutely, positively not! Never!
In other words .. how much blame America is guilty of.
Tell them to go pound sand.
"The basic idea from the beginning was a memorial place, yes, but not always a sad place, and that's why music and the arts and a museum were always part of this," said Lower Manhattan Development Corp. director Roland Betts, a business partner of the museum's founder, Tom Bernstein.
They MUST be stopped.
THE SOROS-IZATION OF GROUND ZERO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418112/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422800/posts
"New York 9-11 Memorial will include museums on Indian genocide, black slavery genocide, more"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424158/posts
THE ROLE OF CHARITIES AND NGOS IN THE FINANCING OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
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Excuse me?
A few goofball Democrat activists led by somebody named Kristen Breitweiser (sp?). They have been dubbed the "Jersey Girls" by the dying socialist "mainstream" liberal newsrooms. The liberals like to throw these scumbags up front as if they speak for ALL survivors of 9/11 victims when in fact they only speak for themselves and the zany moveon.org wing of the Democrat Party. The "Jersey Girls" got their own couch on Perky's show. Hope this brings you up to speed.
Regards,
LH
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