Posted on 01/19/2002 2:42:43 PM PST by Jeff Head
The online petition protesting the proposed plan to create a "culturally diverse" and "politically correct" statue of the 911 WTC Flag Raising continues to gather signatures at a very fast pace. Signatures passed forty thousand (40,000) just as the petition reached four days of activity and continue on at this hour. This despite an announcement by New York City and the New York City Fire Department Management indicating they will scrap plans to modify the statue.
To understand why signatures continue to pour in, one MUST understand the outrage that people feel regarding this blatant attempt to revise history for political purposes, and one must read the entire petition. The two points made in the petition to the City of New York and to the New York City Fire Department read as follows:
The City government and the Fire Department have not met the points raised by the petition because they continue to drive towards an agenda that will produce a memorial that may not be an accurate portrayal of what occurred on 911. As the petition says, "...to depict it in any other manner sullies an historical and a heroic act, and descrates hallowed ground. The American people will not stand for it."
Perhaps the best individual comment from the petition itself in this regards, which drives home the feelings that are typical of the tens of thousands signing the petition is the following, from signator number 11497 of the petition itself:
"WHAT A PATHETIC NATION WE HAVE BECOME when we have to alter history, and the TRUTH, to accomodate bleeding heart liberal, blood sucking interest groups. I am of hispanic origin, my parents were born in Puerto Rico, but i was born here, in the land God himself chose to be America. So what if the firemen who raised our glorious flag were white, they were AMERICANS, showing cowards we cant be pushed around. If you poor unloved, misunderstood crybabies want to be represented in the monument, take a close look and see that you are, in the flag itself. The glorious flag that will wave long after we're all eaten by worms. Political correctness has become morally and politically incorrect. Wake up and smell the coffee before we destroy ourselves. signed, an AMERICAN."What the politicians and the planners are missing is the depth of the emotion and the commitment to principle being displayed by the people protesting their plans. The emotion is deep, the commitment is rock solid ... do not trifle with it.
Thousands of our countrymen and women died in a viscious and dasterdly attack by enemies of all we hold dear. Liberals, Conservatives, Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Irish, Brits, Canadians, Far Eastern, Native Americans ... the reach of this issue cuts across all political, ethnic, and economic boundries. You politicians and planners and administrators and ideologs trifle with and ignore that fact at the peril of your political and "professional" careers ... and well you should.
Many of you have shown by even considering such a proposal to change the events depicted in the flag raising that you are not worthy of the public trust in this author's opinion. May you all be shown the door so that individuals who see clearly that the time for political correctness and political driven notions of diversity are past.
A new time has been rung in. It was rung in on the horrifc explosions at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. It was rung in on the cataclysmic thunder of the collapse of the twin towers. It was rung in on the heroic efforts of tens of thousands of emergency workers, firemen, policement, volunteer citizens, our national guard and armed forces. It was rung in on the prayers and and outpouring of sympathy and aid of millions of everyday Americans. It was epitomized by the raising of that flag. IT IS A TIME TO BE AMERICANS.
We are a diverse people, but in America we are also supposed to be a united people. Now we have found the reason, once again to unite. No political correctness or other personal, ideological, political or self serving agenda will stand in its way. That flag, the one those three firemen raised, represents everyone of us. The politicains and planners had best look to the flag itself to see all races, sexes and cultures represented that come together to make us all Americans.
So, I urge all to continue to have folks sign this petition. Email, voicemail, snail mail, in your halls, at your coffee breaks, on your lunch breaks, over your fences ... by phone, by word of mouth ... spread this word and lets amass numbers so great that the message of American unification and the DEATH OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is so overwhelming, so over powering that no one will mistake it, or dare ignore it.
What I will fight to my last breath is the people, of whatever persuasion, who would destroy our Republic and the bedrock foundational principles of unalienable rights, free will and morality that it is based upon ... and I don't care from what direction they come.
Ratner and his ilk have certainly showed themselves to be such a group. The "3rd Wayers", the UN Elitists, anyone looking towards the Global Governance solution which costs of our soveriegnty and way of life, any group that would deny any American or group of Americans their God given rights, etc.
Regards.
From this petition, to the gentleman whose case comes before congress questioning the ratification of the Income Tax, it would be wonderful if our ancestors have saved us once again, to schools being challenged on teaching Islam, to Professors being challenged on their radical leftist preaching to captive audiences, to that little church's win against the ACLU, to teachers demanding their dues from their union that went to pay into a political agenda, so many fronts that ordinary Americans are fighting back on. It's really inspiring and I wish there was a organization that we could all join that would file class action law suits on behalf of citizens for redress of grievances in order to roll back un-Constitutional laws.
It is really, really lonely being in a small minority of a minority. My politics are to the right of Lenin and Marx which makes me an enemy (actually a non-person which is how Federation Jews treat other Jews who "don't fit in", i.e. are to the right of Marx or Lenin).
The statue incident is just example 4,090,039 why ALL Jews are lumped together and so hated.
If all the lefty commie Jews left just NY, Hitlery wouldn't be in power, the statue would represent GASP! 3 white males. The anti-gun, anti-Freedom, anti-American antics of chucky schumer and his ilk would never occur. That's just for starters.
America for Americans! Not commies, Jewish or otherwise.
America is for Americans, of whatever stripe, who are loyal to and cherish the principles that made her free ... and define her to this day ... despite the best efforts of enemies foreign and domestic, abroad and here at home.
Anyone with that attitude in their heart is a friend of mine, and of liberty IMHO.
To: The Freepers From: The wife of a New York City Firefighter
My husband was at ground zero on September 11 when the second building collapsed. He came home that day....Thank God....
We want to thank you for all of your efforts on behalf of preserving history. We appreciate the support that so many wonderful Americans have shown and continue to show in the wake of the horror of 9/11.
My husband and I were deeply saddened by the revised statue of the three firefighters ... In no uncertain terms it is a rewrite of history. Basically what the powers that be have succeeded in doing with their politically correct nonsense is to take a deeply moving experience, a true show of patriotism, the embodiment of what so many Americans were feeling at the time and turn it into a racial issue.
My husband and I would rather they pull the statue it doesn't seem to be needed....Let the pictures of 9/11, the crater at Ground Zero, the memories of 343 funerals, the empty turnout gear, the no longer used helmets carried by greiving children and widows.......let that be the tribute to their heroism....let it be in the hearts and minds of the families of the lost, the surviving firefighters who came home from ground zero covered in dust, soot, and the blood of the dead to cry like children over the horrors they witnessed. Let the tribute to our FDNY heros be in the minds of the wives and children who cried and prayed waiting for word from their men, and cried and prayed when they did hear from them. Let it be in the hearts and minds of the thousands that turned out and lined the route to Ground Zero to cheer their heros, the thousands who sent socks, boots, gloves, food, and water. The thousands who wrote checks and heartwarming letters of encouragement. Let their tribute remain in the heats and minds of the thousands who got so choked up watching the grief of the men who lost their "brothers" that they felt as though it was their loss as well.
Throw away the statue....it is an insult to the heros of 9/11 because it takes what they were all about....Heroism, Love of Country, Unselfish concern for others, and turns it into an issue of race.......It takes something that united our country in love, patriotism, concern, outreach, and true empathy for those hurting and turns it into something that divides us.
In the meantime my Freeper Friends....thank you again from the bottom of our hearts....just knowing you're out there is a comfort. Keep doing what you do and thanks for spreading the word regarding the statue.
I may take a wild shot at guessing why this came to be so. Reality is not malleable, but public perception is. Those who would lord over all that they see must condition us to take the funny money of perception (as managed by themselves) in preference to the realities which they cannot manage. We are trained to distrust and denigrate the evidence of our own eyes, and to see what we supposedly ought, rather than what actually is.
Bump
We'll keep it going as long as people keep signing.
we can but try and then place in His worthy hands.
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