More than a few relatives of 9/11 victims are outraged and disgusted by plans to build an “International Freedom Center museum” featuring anti-American propaganda at Ground Zero.
“I have no remains of my husband, and to me that’s sacred ground,” Rachel O’Brien was quoted by AP. Her husband Michael worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. “That’s the last place he was, and I think that the whole area should be all about what happened on that day.”
“I don’t think that there should be anything else there but a memorial to those people,” said Edmund Caviasco, whose daughter Jean De Palma died at the WTC.
Of course, there are those who disagree.
“9-11 should not be something you treat with kid gloves,” said Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International — who is a principal adviser to the museum. “It should be something you debate, that you talk about, that we explore, that we use as a way to think about our position in the world.”
Here’s what Newsweek International thinks of our position in the world:
Zakaria is hardly the only representative of the far left involved in this “Freedom Center” abomination. The main instigator, Hollywood financier Tom Bernstein, has been president for Human Rights First for 12 years. This organization has actually sued our Secretary of Defense on behalf of terrorists.
If you agree that allowing people of this ilk to take over Ground Zero is absolutely unthinkable, head over to Take Back the Memorial and sign this petition:
To Governor George Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation:
We, the undersigned, believe that the World Trade Center Memorial should stand as a solemn remembrance of those who died on September 11th, 2001, and not as a journey of history’s “failures” or as a debate about domestic and foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Political discussions have no place at the World Trade Center September 11th memorial, and the International Freedom Center honors no one by making excuses for the perpetrators of this heinous crime. The memorial should be about what happened that day, about the brave heroes who risked their lives so selflessly, and about the innocent lives that were lost… nothing more.
Cross-posted at Moonbattery
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It seems to me the best thing to do would be to rebuild the World Trade Center. The terrorists want you to build a memorial as a tribute to their influence. Putting things back the way they were is the best way to make their efforts worthless.
Comment by Random Personae — 6/28/2005 @ 1:02 am
Thank you, Random Personae. I could not possibly agree more.
Comment by Van Helsing — 6/28/2005 @ 5:13 am
I agree with Random Personae, that is a good idea.
We already have a “blame America first” institution at Turtle Bay in the UN, so we would not need the IFC either….
Comment by jcrue — 6/28/2005 @ 7:51 am