Posted on 09/28/2005 2:46:27 PM PDT by Calpernia
Just breaking on 1010 Wins Radio, no link yet!
Governor Pataki says there will be no IFC at ground zero!
We did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great news!
Those are great. They should make that the memorial. Every evening, let the lights shine until the point where the first tower was hit. Then maybe turn one of them off at that point until the time that the second tower was hit.
Good
Hallelujah.
Whoooo Hooooo! Governor Pataki just grew a pair! Thank you Governor!
IFC is the International Freedom Center. A Leftist Pukefest covering everything under the sun from slavery on up that the Leftists wanted to put up at ground zero instead of a memorial just for 9/11 victims.
Gov. George Pataki, bowing to a growing campaign by furious Sept. 11 families, ousted a proposed freedom museum from its space at ground zero Wednesday, declaring that the International Freedom Center has generated ``too much opposition, too much controversy'' to remain.
The decision follows months of acrimony over the Freedom Center, with angry families and politicians saying that the museum would dishonor the memory of the 2,749 people who died at the World Trade Center.
``Freedom should unify us. This center has not,'' Pataki said. ``Today there remains too much opposition, too much controversy over the programming of the IFC and we must move forward with our first priority, the creation of an inspiring memorial to pay tribute to our lost loved ones and tell their stories to the world.''
Pataki said the Freedom Center could not occupy space in a cultural building located near the proposed trade center memorial, but left open the possibility that the center could find a home elsewhere on the 16-acre site.
The governor said he would direct the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. _ the agency he created to rebuild the site _ to explore alternate locations for the center.
``We are deeply disappointed that the will could not be found to continue the development of the International Freedom Center at this hallowed site,'' the Freedom Center said in a statement. ``We do not believe there is a viable alternative place for the IFC at the World Trade Center site.''
``We consider our work, therefore, to have been brought to an end.''
The removal of the center follows a four-month campaign that began with several Sept. 11 family groups and grew to include four police and fire unions and several politicians, most recently Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and ex-mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
``Goodbye and good riddance,'' said Rep. Vito Fossella, one of three congressmen who had threatened hearings on federal funding if the museum stayed where it was. ``The IFC will not stand on the hallowed grounds of the World Trade Center site.''
The center was chosen more than a year ago by the LMDC along with a museum along with three other cultural institutions to occupy long-planned cultural space at ground zero. The center proposed a museum that celebrated American ideals of freedom and tolerance, with exhibits on leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as documents like the Declaration of Independence and the South African constitution.
But opponents charged the museum could include inappropriate exhibits that would distract attention from the proposed memorial and could foster anti-American debate and discussion about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Rebuilders are also planning a separate, underground Sept. 11 memorial museum and plan five office towers, a performing arts complex for two theater companies and a transit hub on the rest of the 16-acre site.
Some families have opposed the museum as much for its location as its content; they say it would sit in a prominent part of ground zero that would obscure a memorial museum. Some take great offense at the LMDC's plans to locate the memorial museum 60 feet below street level, near the bedrock foundations of the trade center.
Although most family members who have expressed opinions are against the Freedom Center, a few have thrown it support, including its vice chairman, Paula Grant Berry, whose husband David died at the trade center.
Gov. Pataki's complete statement on the Freedom Center:
"I strongly believe in this nation’s core principle of freedom and I personally believe that the celebration of freedom is not inconsistent with the goals of memorializing our nearly 3,000 lost heroes. The creation of an institution that would show the world our unity and our resolve to preserve freedom in the wake of the honific attacks is a noble pursuit.
"But freedom should unify us. This Center has not.
"Since June, we have offered the International Freedom Center (IFC) the time they needed to clarify their intentions and work with stakeholders to reach a consensus. Today there remains too much opposition, too much controversy over the programming of the IFC and we must move forward with our first priority, the creation of an inspiring memorial to pay tribute to our lost loved ones and tell their stories to the world.
"Therefore, the IFC cannot be located on the Memorial quadrant I have asked the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) to work with the IFC to explore other locations for the Center. In addition, I am directing the LMDC to continue its efforts to identify programming for the Memorial quadrant that will tell the story of September 11th
"I would also ask all parties to now join together and unite behind flulfilling our solemn obligation to the families of those we lost We must reclaim the spirit that we saw the days and weeks after September 11th a spirit of unity, resolution and purpose and we must come together to build a lasting memorial for the generations to come."
It's my name of the Freedom Tower/Birdcage being planned for to replace WTC.
OK, its FOUR FRIGGIN YEARS after 9/11. WHY ISN'T THERE A BUILDING STANDING THERE YET?
:-)
The Environmental Impact Study will take 10 years to get through the system. Then another 5 years to bid out the contract. Then 10 years to clear the lawsuits. Then 2 years to build it.
They'll have it up MAYBE by the end of most of our lifetimes...but stay healthy, just in case.
After all, we ARE talking about Noo Yawk, right
I believe Your tag line is wrong: Giuliani did endorse Cuomo BUT did Not endorse Clinton.
Doesn't change the fact that he is a Rockefeller Republican with some of the most corrupt friends on the planet.
No he didn't but you are correct about Cuomo. Don't know why he did an idiotic thing like that. I can't stomach Cuomo. UGH
Do you think maybe George is trying to shore up his right flank?
Thanks.
Ya think wacky Pataki is gonna try to run in 2008? I think soo! He's been growin a pair since his nephew joined the Marines a few months ago.
Right. I'm so happy to hear this, but doesn't Pataki own a brain cell somewhere in his skull? He couldn't have figured this out BEFORE the controversy? I don't get it!!!
Welcome good news... on this day, particularly! :)
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