Posted on 01/26/2002 9:51:28 PM PST by Jeff Head
PRESS RELEASE
WTC Flag Raising Petition Surpasses 100,000 signatures in Eleven Days.
Plans to Deliver Signatures to New York City Officials being Developed.
January 26, 2002
Emmett, Idaho
The national online petition to the City of New York and the New York City Fire Department protesting the proposal for an altered Ground Zero Flag Raising Statue and petitioning for an historically accurate memorial has now gathered over 100,000 signatures.
The petition was started on the internet on January 15th to supplement a local petition initiated by the firefighters themselves. The online petition is open to all American citizens and to any interested foreign citizens since many citizens of many nations were killed by the terrorists on 911, and since the terrorist threat is a world-wide threat.
The City of New York has announced that they have shelved the altered statue ... but they have also announced that they are considering other options for a memorial. The online petition effort will therefore continue according to the 2nd point in the petition until such time that the final plans are announced and until those plans propose an historically accurate memorial that is not beholden to, or driven by, any political agenda whatsoever. We urge anyone supporting this effort to end revisionism and political correctness as it pertains to 911 to inform others by email, by phone, by conversation, by mail ... however possible ... asking them to sign the petition and to spread the word in a like manner for those other people to also sign the petition at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/flgraise
There are plans being developed to deliver the first 100,000 signatures to City Hall in New York City at the earliest possible date. Those plans call for the delivery to occur with FDNY personnel there who support the aims of this petition, along with as many personnel from other Fire Departments and other citizens from around the country as can arrange to be there. These plans will be announced in more detail as they are finalized through email chains and press releases and on message boards and online sites like:
FreeRepublic.com
SierraTimes.com
FreeBritannia.co.uk
When those 100,000 signatures are delivered, it will be made clear that many hundreds of thousands more will be forthcoming and will also be delivered to New York City Hall as they are gathered.
The revision of historical record for political purposes , for "artistic" purposes or any other purpose is an anti-thesis of true liberty. It is the type of activity that cultures and nations have done to deceive their citizens in the past and has heralded the downfall of those cultures and nations. In recent history names like Stalin, Hitler and Mao are associated with such activities. NEVER in America. Liberty and free will choices must be based on accurate and true information for them to have any meaning. Later generations need to look at our memorials and have complete faith and confidence in their accuracy and fidelity. We the people, signing and promoting this petition effort, intend to have that critical principle applied to the horrific events of 911.
Those horrific events heralded in a new era of unity that supercedes such politically correct and politically motivated agendas. May we never forget! May we always remember and honor those who died with the truth and with a commitment to insure that the record is held inviolate, that we stamp out such revisionism and political correctness from amongst us as it pertains to any event associated with 911.
Jeff Head
Author -Depict the WTC Flag Raising as it Actually Occurred Petition
From 10am to 10am each day
Day 01 - = January 15 = *2,800
Day 02 - *9,700 Total = 12,500
Day 03 - 16,600 Total = 29,100
Day 04 - 10,400 Total = 39,500
Day 05 - *6,700 Total = 46,200
Day 06 - *8,200 Total = 54,400
Day 07 - 10,000 Total = 64,400
Day 08 - *8,800 Total = 73,200
Day 09 - *8,900 Total = 82,100
Day 10 - *8,900 Total = 91,000
Day 11 - *6,100 Total = 97,100
Day 12 - *4,500 Total = 101,600
Day 13 - January 27th His day of rest.
102,125
Jeff Head put up a fine posting,too bad we tripped up,lost the sidebar and nearly a whole day.I guess this means redoubling efforts to make up for it.We'll do it.
This statement sums it up fairly well.
Gotta keep on keepin' on.
Now at 103,500 and continuing.
Amen. Anything else is a lie and serves only to limit liberty. If you don;t know the truth, you can;t make a true free will decision IMHO.
"No one is denying that equality is important for all types of people. However, today's society places too much emphasis on being "politically correct". This does have some virtue, but if the three specific men who are to be honored happen to be white, they should be depicted as such because the statues are in THEIR honor. It serves no purpose to depict history differently than it happened.
People of all nationalities acted heroically during the aftermath of the September 11th attacks but the statues to be constructed are in honor of three SPECIFIC men. We should not change the faces of our heroes for the sake of not offending anyone. Imagine if the situation was reversed, would anyone have a problem if all three men to be honored were black? hispanic? asian?
History should be remembered as it happened, with as little bias as possible. If people worry too much about who will be offended, the world will be populated by uninteresting people and decorated by even designs with every color."
****** There is plenty of FReeper-type sentiment expressed by the signers of the 'PETITION'.
And I do, thank you.
"If "diversity" & "Mulitculturalism" was REALLY what the media is making it out to be, it would stand on it's own and they wouldn't have have to do offensive, vile, and grotesquely insulting things like this to force it down our throats."
Diversity and multiculturalism HAPPEN in America. They are not made to 'happen' by others. We as a 'free people' recognize ALL who make contributions to our nation, and those who don't we scorn, regardless of race, color, or creed. When others give me their version of 'right', and tell me to practice it, I am no longer free. So help me God, I will seek and practice 'truth' as long as I live. The 'cost' of doing other is far too great, for this life and the next.
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