The 9/11 World Trade Center Memorial: What Can You Do About It?... PLENTY!
Read this article.
Then decide whether or not you are outraged. If you aren't, it's obvious you don't realize the inappropriate placing of 300,000 square feet dedicated to preaching a left-wing view of "freedom" while only 50,000 square feet is actually dedicated to the event that shook our world and especially America. I have no problem with exhibits on lynchings in the South, Nazi Concentration Camps and Soviet Gulags, or even an examination of Abu Ghraib. However, such exhibits have absolutely NOTHING to do with 9/11 and deserve to be elsewhere. Such exhibits on the Concentration Camps are already visible, not to mention more appropriate, at the National Holocaust Museum, and exhibits on the Soviet Gulags should be shown somewhere, but this is hardly the place, and I would judge for different reasons than the IFC planners desire. Other memorials are dedicated entirely to the events of which they are to memorialize. To have such obvious political propaganda as an exhibit on why the Patriot Act is wrong on the ground of this event, taking over 4/5ths of the area while the actuall memorial gets 1/5 just sickens me like nothing else. I have no problem if these organizations wish to place such an exhibit somewhere else, but asking for their exhibit to be put at Ground Zero would be just as inappropriate as if someone had a 9/11 memorial at the National Holocaust Museum or put the an exhibit about Vietnam at Pearl Harbor. It's all ridiculous, and we can thankfully do something about it. A movement called Take Back the Memorial has been created and has had the signatures of 1,600 9/11 victims' families. Their opponents are saying that this is a "minority of unusually vocal family members of 9/11 victims with a Conservative agenda" which is far from the truth. If such an allegation is true, so what? There has been hardly much of an opposition to the 9/11 families' demands for a proper memorial from this group, while the others seem to call them a "vocal minority" most likely to cover up their own lack of support from 9/11 families. Take Back The Memorial may be our only hope to have a truly respectable memorial dedicated to the events of 9/11.
There is a petition at their website. I have signed it, and I hope you will, as well.
Website: Take Back The Memorial
Then decide whether or not you are outraged. If you aren't, it's obvious you don't realize the inappropriate placing of 300,000 square feet dedicated to preaching a left-wing view of "freedom" while only 50,000 square feet is actually dedicated to the event that shook our world and especially America. I have no problem with exhibits on lynchings in the South, Nazi Concentration Camps and Soviet Gulags, or even an examination of Abu Ghraib. However, such exhibits have absolutely NOTHING to do with 9/11 and deserve to be elsewhere. Such exhibits on the Concentration Camps are already visible, not to mention more appropriate, at the National Holocaust Museum, and exhibits on the Soviet Gulags should be shown somewhere, but this is hardly the place, and I would judge for different reasons than the IFC planners desire. Other memorials are dedicated entirely to the events of which they are to memorialize. To have such obvious political propaganda as an exhibit on why the Patriot Act is wrong on the ground of this event, taking over 4/5ths of the area while the actuall memorial gets 1/5 just sickens me like nothing else. I have no problem if these organizations wish to place such an exhibit somewhere else, but asking for their exhibit to be put at Ground Zero would be just as inappropriate as if someone had a 9/11 memorial at the National Holocaust Museum or put the an exhibit about Vietnam at Pearl Harbor. It's all ridiculous, and we can thankfully do something about it. A movement called Take Back the Memorial has been created and has had the signatures of 1,600 9/11 victims' families. Their opponents are saying that this is a "minority of unusually vocal family members of 9/11 victims with a Conservative agenda" which is far from the truth. If such an allegation is true, so what? There has been hardly much of an opposition to the 9/11 families' demands for a proper memorial from this group, while the others seem to call them a "vocal minority" most likely to cover up their own lack of support from 9/11 families. Take Back The Memorial may be our only hope to have a truly respectable memorial dedicated to the events of 9/11.
There is a petition at their website. I have signed it, and I hope you will, as well.
Website: Take Back The Memorial
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