Posted on 10/01/2005 1:47:49 PM PDT by RDTF
They could still build it in Cuba.
Thanks for posting. That was a very enjoyable read.
This part was scarey..."the offer of nine great universities to offer cultural programming". I can only imagine what that programming would be...something along the lines of Ward Churchill.
The best part:
"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."
Good riddance, elitist hate-America Leftist swines.
Don't bet they are beaten. They will be back and sneaker than ever. Next on the list, defeat the "Crescent" design in Pennsylvania.
We are profoundly sorry to see:
That the citizens of the United States of America don't like the idea of turning hallowed ground into a free-for-all for America bashing, but instead prefer a fitting memorial to the events of 9/11/01 and those who lost their lives on that day.
Congratulations to the people of NYC for defeating these anti-American haters. Thank you for not allowing them to desecrate the ground so many died on.
Neither do we. Buh-bye, now! :)
Cultural programming is precisely why the abomination called the IFC will never stand on sacred ground.
YEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAW!!
And .. the Freedom to not be forced to look at all the liberal drivel.
To all the people who donated to this MESS - don't expect your money back.
Don't let the door hitcha...
A lot of credit for stopping this goes to Debra Burlingame--her brother's plane was hi-jacked and she fought like mad to see that this memorial site didn't get hi-jacked as well!
The best memorial for the World Trade Center site already exist; or it did so a little while ago.
In the courtyard of the World Trade Center prior to September 11th, 2001 stood a statue that was a globe and on it map of the world. When they cleaned the area up that statue was recovered. It too had been damaged , one whole quadrant on the top was badly deformed.
There was some debate on what caused this damage. I subscribe to the theory that a person not whishing to die by fire and jumped crashed into the globe. The other theory, that part of the towers did the damage, seems to me, to be invalid since parts of the tower would have struck the globe with much grater force than a body falling at or near terminal velocities.
This, IMHO, would be the ultimate memorial: a piece of the old world (pre-9/11), deformed by the events of 9/11 (whose life hasn’t been changed?), on display at the site as both a memorial and a warning.
But, it will never happen. No money for a artist to display their gross lack of talent. And too graphic and divisive a statement (right….)
"...where the Lord splitcha."
Tough $hit, you b@st@rds.
Dear reactionary leftist IFC creeps:
FOAD
Sincerely,
Petronski
Doublespeak worthy of Doktor Goebbels himself. [puke]
you can thank Pataki.
also very true, she was the key non-politician person in stopping this.
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