Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani voiced strong opposition to the proposed International Freedom Center yesterday. "They should change the whole concept and scrap those plans and start from the beginning and focus it on Sept. 11," Giuliani said. "I think it's a mistake the way it's become too complicated."
Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who I've been pressing for her views on the IFC, may or may not have come out against it shortly after Giuliani made his statement. "Ground Zero has to reflect the reality of the heroes who died there," she said. "It is about the people who were victimized as a result of the hatred of America."
So Pirro is for a 9/11 Memorial that is about people who died as a result of "the hatred of America?" Sounds like a statement by someone leaving the door cracked open for the inclusion of the IFC at Ground Zero, since "explaining" the "root causes" of that hatred was one of the primary goals of the IFC's leftist vision for the former Twin Towers Site.
Pirro needs to clarify her position and make an unambiguous statement either specifically for or against the IFC itself. Her rival in the upcoming senatorial race in New York, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is clear and direct in terms of where she stands, at least for now, on the matter."I cannot support the IFC," says Clinton. "I am troubled by the serious concerns family members and first responders have expressed to me."
I will continue pressing Jeanine Pirro for a clear statement on the IFC.