World Trade Center Memorial – Glorifying All That is Wrong With America
Posted By: 'Okie' | 3:25 pm — 6/7/2005 | 
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[h/t Powerline]
The World Trade Center Memorial has been hijacked by Hate America First activists, so says Debra Burlingame, sister of one of the pilots of the plane that hit the Pentagon on 9/11 in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal.
While the IFC is getting 300,000 square feet of space to teach us how to think about liberty, the actual Memorial Center on the opposite corner of the site will get a meager 50,000 square feet to exhibit its 9/11 artifacts, all out of sight and underground. Most of the cherished objects which were salvaged from Ground Zero in those first traumatic months will never return to the site. There is simply no room. But the International Freedom Center [IFC] will have ample space to present us with exhibits about Chinese dissidents and Chilean refugees. These are important subjects, but for somewhere — anywhere — else, not the site of the worst attack on American soil in the history of the republic.
More disturbing, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is handing over millions of federal dollars and the keys to that building to some of the very same people who consider the post-9/11 provisions of the Patriot Act more dangerous than the terrorists that they were enacted to apprehend — people whose inflammatory claims of a deliberate torture policy at Guantanamo Bay are undermining this country’s efforts to foster freedom elsewhere in the world.
Who makes up the INC? Just a bunch of leftists that don’t have any intention of memorializing the true heroes of 9/11.
The public has a right to know that it was Mr. (Tom) Bernstein’s organization, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union, that filed a lawsuit three months ago against Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was Human Rights First that filed an amicus brief on behalf of alleged “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla, an American citizen who the Justice Department believes is an al Qaeda recruit. It was Human Rights First that has called for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the alleged torture of detainees, complete with budget authority, subpoena power and the ability to demand that witnesses testify under oath.
In fact, the IFC’s list of those who are shaping or influencing the content and programming for their Ground Zero exhibit includes a Who’s Who of the human rights, Guantanamo-obsessed world: (…)
Go and read the entire piece. Then consider her final question:
Ground Zero has been stolen, right from under our noses. How do we get it back?
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