Posted on 08/17/2005 5:27:17 AM PDT by OESY
The Uniformed Firefighters Association's decision yesterday to withdraw support for the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, citing two controversial museums proposed there, may have ended the threat of institutionalized activism at Ground Zero. Good for the UFA.
The union's "membership and our 9/11 families believe that the memorial design will take away from the memory and sacrifice of the firefighters who bravely gave their lives during the most horrific terrorist attacks our country has had to face," UFA President Steve Cassidy said.
Good for Steve Cassidy.
It's going to be especially hard now for the International Freedom Center and the Drawing Center to buck the opposition to their presence at Ground Zero.
The UFA speaks from the moral high ground: 343 firefighters died on 9/11.
Interestingly, the UFA announcement came on the very day that The New York Times — among the staunchest backers of the IFC and the Drawing Center — was reduced to attacking the sister of a pilot killed on one of the 9/11 planes, Debra Burlingame.
In a scathing editorial, the paper said criticizing the IFC's plans "may mean little more than subjecting them, essentially, to the veto of Debra Burlingame."
"Neither Ms. Burlingame nor her followers can be allowed to dictate the future [of Ground Zero]," it continued.
But Debra Burlingame is "dictating" nothing. Neither are the firefighters.
They are simply insisting that anti-American activism of the sort implicitly embedded in the IFC and the Drawing Center is inappropriate at any memorial site. And they are right.
The Times should be ashamed....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Funny that a newspaper would attack anyone using their first amendment right.
Exactly. And no matter how many assurance the IFC people give, once they are actually in charge, guaranteed that story of Islamic terrorists flying planes into the WTC and killing thousands of Americans will be "balanced" with accounts of slavery, Sand Creek, Hiroshima, My Lai, and Japanese internments; the staple episodes of American history for the left.
Not when it's the NYT. Not all victims are created equal, you know. Some, like the Jersey Girls, are more equal than others.
Perhaps when hell freezes over. The Times has become a junior-high paper for elementary school minds.
This could be the lead headline on almost any given day!
I don't know how employees come and go without paper bags over their heads.
Or "The NYT: Time To Pull the Plug"
That is for sure. Lets here how the Slimes is backing up Sister anti-semite Cindy in Crawford Tx stalking the President,and condemning those that would question her motives.
I was in NYC last weekend for the first time. We went to Ground Zero. You can still feel the pain and suffering. I stood there, completely overwhelmed by these feelings and cried. I stood looking through that fence at the cross as tears flowed down my face. We walked through the church across the street and I was further moved by what I read and what I saw... my daughter thought it was funny that I was tearing up. She just doesn't understand.
To descrete that ground with this leftist crap would be a travesty. I hope they stop them.
In today's Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/339258p-289735c.html
Please email Gov Pataki and tell him how you feel.
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