Posted on 09/09/2013 3:25:57 AM PDT by markomalley
The segment of the World Trade Centre was gifted from the US as a public reminder of the 2001 atrocity which killed 2,977 people, including 67 Britons.
But a home cannot be found for the sculpture after a number of officials across London have barred the permanent display, The Sun reported.
The piece, entitled After 9/11, has been only been displayed in the UK for 28 days since it was unveiled in 2011, despite it being gifted on the provision it remain on permanent display.
One campaigner said: "This is a national embarrassment. It's also an insult to New York and all those who died.” A New York judge had to sign off a special agreement releasing the metal, which is still held as court evidence in any case relating to the September 11 al-Qaeda attack, and London was the only capital to be gifted a piece of the steel recovered from the site.
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The situation signals the prostration of Christian England to the barbarian Moslem conquerers. Too bad. So sad.
Payback for the Churchill bust?
I can’t stand Obama as much as the next American citizen, but the bust of Churchill is actually still in the White House, and it always was.
Really?
White House admits it did return Winston Churchill bust to Britain
Aides to Mr Obama were furious after The Daily Telegraph disclosed last week that Mitt Romney planned to restore the Jacob Epstein sculpture to its home under George W Bush from 2001 to 2009.
"I'm looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again," the Republican challenger confirmed at a fund-raiser at London's Mandarin Oriental hotel.
Dan Pfeiffer, the President's communications director, said in a statement that widespread reports of the bust being returned to Britain's embassy in Washington as Mr Obama took office were untrue.
"This is 100 per cent false," Mr Pfeiffer said. "The bust is still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room". Illustrating his statement with a photograph of Mr Obama inspecting it with David Cameron in 2010, he added: "Hopefully this clears things up a bit and prevents folks from making this ridiculous claim again".
British officials were surprised by Mr Pfeiffer's statement and photograph, however, because the bust now resides in the residence of Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's ambassador to the US.
Two different busts...
Right, the original one that belongs in the WH is still there.
The one that was removed was considered part of Bush’s personal belongings that would normally be removed from the WH after an election.
No strong nation builds monuments to enemy victories.
When we build a 9/11 monument across from the cathedral in Riyadh, I’ll send a donation.
That “sculpture” is not much of a work of art. It evokes no feeling of the violence, deaths, destruction, or horror of 9-11.It’s just ugly and awkward. I wouldn’t want it in a public place on display where I live. Can’t blame the Brits for shunning it. — Just because a pal sends you a painting doesn’t mean you have to hang it on your living room wall. Should be true for countries as well as people.
It’s a ridiculous piece of “art” and ought to be turned into soup cans. Geez people, quit getting insulted over nothing.
can’t we do better than this? How about a man falling to his death? or the hero people who tried to stop an airplane? What about a cross? What about a list of names of all who fell that day? Best would be a sculpture made up of 3,000+ skulls.
Yes, we could do far better than this, but we are not artists. To me, the art community is tapped out and out of ideas. The taxpayers probably paid for that mess too.
That article supports me. It says the same thing I posted.
It is a piece of the actual twin towers. I don’t care if it is ‘ugly’. 9/11 was ‘ugly’. It belongs as a part of a memorial. You don’t reject something that historic just because it looks funny. Doing that is an insult to the men and women who’s blood saturates that steel.
I know damn well what it is. It’s a piece of metal. To equate a piece of metal to men and women and make it into some sort of shrine is an insult.
I suppose we should just bulldoze every shrine and monument we have then. They sure take up a lot of space. We would not want to pretend they mean anything. /src
The piece, entitled After 9/11, has been only been displayed in the UK for 28 days since it was unveiled in 2011, despite it being gifted on the provision it remain on permanent display.
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