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.
44,375 now.
I heard a saying once, "He who controls the past, controls the future."
We cannot allow history to be changed for the purpose of advancing a particular political agenda. Thanks for your efforts in keeping the record straight.
45005! Wow!
5.56mm
Amen to that. We must face it down whenever and where ever we see it. The truth is indespensable to liberty and the ability for any people to make free will choices.
Now over 45,000.
This thing literally took on a life of its own. Right time, right issue, right place kind of a thing I suppose.
Been over on the east coast on many occassions, albeit not for a solid 18+ months. Check out the old "March for Liberty" pages where many FReepers came together with others there in Washington DC. On those two trips I visited many FReeper friends in route to and from..
PS: Feelin' sporty 'cause I was in the first 200.
Today will mark five days and that would average 10K per day. Still has a lot of legs IMHO.
BUMP.
Congrats and hope many friends, relatives and neighbors signed too. The more the merrire. We need to literally BURY these type of revisionist ideas once and for all.
FRegards!
BTTT.
I would be more than happy to, bro....mega ping, coming up right away.....
I signed it a few days ago.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.