Posted on 01/15/2002 9:53:28 AM PST by Jeff Head
What is truy odious to me in this proposed exercise in politically correct moral sensitivity is that it deliberately seeks to falsify what actually occurred on that horrific day. It is a conscious attempt to rewrite history solely because some people think that history insensitive to their particular concerns. So they want to make the story turn out some other way. Thus future generations, having only a falsified symbol from which to draw instruction, learn nothing about what actually happened. They get a lesson in political indoctrination instead.No thanks. This is an insult to the people who died there that day. Each of them suffered and died, one by one. We must remember and honor our dead -- as individual human beings, not as faceless ingredients of some collective abstraction. So, it seems to me, to try to convert such catastrophic loss into a cheap commercial is as disgraceful as it is disgusting.
The single most important thing in the universe, or so it seems to me, is Truth. Its law constitutes, upholds, and sustains all existence in this world. Any falsification of reality for whatever reason undermines the very ground on which we stand. JMHO FWIW.
Thus, this attempt in cultural/political revisionism must be resisted and stopped -- in favor of the actual, truthful representation of the events to be depicted in the proposed statue. Thanks, Jeff. best -- bb.
Amen to every bit of that ... it is exactly the point that must be made and we as a people MUST rise up and say no directly and without equivocation if we are to preserve our cherished liberty and Republic.
BTW, I transferred your quote from the other thread and responded here as this is the main thread for the petition. The other thread had a bad link which I corrected with this one right after posting the other. I am trying to migrate everyone over here.
Regards.
It was a historical and patriotic act of great significance that occurred spontaneously that day and should be rendered as such for the sake of future posterity and historical accuracy regarding that terrible day of infamy.
Thank you soooo much !!!!
I have not had time to read this entire thread, but was wondering if anyone else heard this...
I was listening to Fox and Friends this morning. They were discussing this. What sounded like an elderly black man called in.
He said the reason there are only white firefighters in the picture is because:
"THEY only allowed White photographers at the site. And only allowed pictures of White Firefighters to be taken".
It made me so sad to think that this old gentlemen believed that enough to call in and say it on T.V.
Scary huh?
Please continue to forward to everyone you know. This is such a critical issue and principle ... the very truth of our history hangs in the balance with people like this.
I responded on this thread because it has become the main thread since it has the corrected link to the signature page.
BUMP for more signatures and more awareness.
I pray everyone will do the same.
BUMP'ed back at ya!
Keep it on top.
I responded on this main thread.
Keep spreading the word! this cannot be allowed to stand.
Welcome!
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