Some 9/11 Kin Want Freedom Museum Canceled

[southernleftylady]

NEW YORK - Family members of those killed at the World Trade Center are balking at plans to add a museum of freedom at ground zero, arguing it would allow politics to infect a place revered as sacred
Relatives representing 14 family groups rallied at the site Monday to condemn plans for the International Freedom Center, which officials said would place the 2001 terror attacks in a historical context.

The center would be part of a cultural complex set to open in 2009 at the northeast end of the rebuilt trade center site. It would host discussions on historical and current events, exhibits on global freedom movements and a service program encouraging activities that could range from joining the Peace Corps to enlisting in the U.S. military
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/ap_on_re_us/attacks_museum_opposition

[sniffa]

1. freedom museum?

do they have to inject this shit into everything!!?

[Kerrytravelers]

2. ...enlisting in the U.S. military... why doesn't this surprise me?

And disgust me? If you want to sign up for the military, go to a recruiting station. They're clearly marked- you can't miss them. WHY would they be at a FREEDOM MUSEAUM?

Oh, wait... we don't have freedom anymore. Silly me.

[AX10]

3. Just rebuild the towers as they were on September 10th, 2001.

O.K. Just forget it. The memorial is not worth it if it's going to be a "partisan showcase of political propaganda".

[whistle]

4. Politics infected 9-11 from the beginning, let's get the truth...

...before any memorials get erected. The site left the way it is right now is a reminder of those killed there on September 11, 2001. When the full truth is known as to why and how this could happen, a proper and fitting memorial will be created to honor those who have died there.

It is obscene to label a memorial site with a propaganda slogan used to justify a war that has taken the lives of over 1,740 American troops and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and other coalition allies for the purpose of empire and oil.

[JAbuchan08]

6. I tend to think along those lines

but I was thinking that we should put up a Bush statue that we can deface. Maybe tip it over at the end of his term.


OOOH! OOOH OOOOH! Any incredibly liberal towns want to commission a sculpture for the purpose of defacement?

In all seriousness, we should be planning a monument to George Bush's failure. Not necessarily to memorialize 9-11, just a little shrine to the worst administration ever.

[Igel]

7. So are you against the memorial, as it was planned as of last week?

The demonstrators complained that it was too "lefty", I thought.

[CJCRANE]

5. Might as well

set up a "Museum of the Culture of Life" there while they're at it.

[the_spectator]

8. Tell me something not 100% predictable -

Some of those "family members" will always complain about everything. Don't get me started on all those Kantor Fitzgerald Long Island bully-boy broker types and their wives. Even the ones on our side are pretty iffy - I well remember seeing one of the so-called "Jersey Girls" (a consortium of 9-11 widows who went anti-Bush) on Macniel Lehrer a while ago -- I swear, in a 5 minute interview, she must have used that awful corporate-speak favorite, "going forward" at least 20 times. And of course she said it as "going FOE-ward" rather than "going FORward" -- a particularly annoying verbal tic of the Jersey-Long Island bridge-and-tunnel linguistic axis.