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This is Not the Freedom Tower: Money Trumps Patriotism in the Name Change to 1 WTC
New York Post ^ | March 27, 2009 | Tom Topousis

Posted on 03/27/2009 6:58:55 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim

Freedom is out of fashion at Ground Zero.

Once hailed as a beacon of rebirth in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the Freedom Tower has been stripped of its patriotic name -- which has been swapped out for the more marketable "One World Trade Center," Port Authority officials conceded yesterday.

More than seven years after the terror attacks and amid an effort to market the tower to international tenants, sentiment gave way to practicality.

"As we market the building we will ensure that the building is presented in the best possible way," said PA Chairman Anthony Coscia.

"One World Trade Center is its address. It's the address that we're using. It's the one that's easiest for people to identify with, and, frankly, we've gotten a very interested and warm reception to it."

Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles Burlingame was the pilot aboard American Airlines Flight 77 that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, said the renaming of the tower is one more example that the nation is forgetting 9/11.

"If we can't say the word freedom out loud, God help us," she said.

"I understand the decision from a marketing point of view. But it saddens me that it's no longer economically viable to declare who we are."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911revisionism; atc; burlingame; debraburlingame; freedom; freedomtower; macacamoment; newyork; oneworld; oneworlders; onewtc; pc; politicalcorrectness; revisionisthistory; sept11; september11; worldtradecenter; wtc
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To: Sergeant Tim

For enough money they would name it China One Tower. Is everything for sales in this country? Is there no honor, pride or respect for those who perished. Shameful!


101 posted on 03/27/2009 10:51:34 AM PDT by reader25
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To: Sergeant Tim

Send Mr. ARSE Hat my regards.....


102 posted on 03/27/2009 11:12:44 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.operationvalentine.blogspot.com/)
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To: Crush

Yes, It is Freedom Tower.

In Philadelphia, they renamed several streets for PC purposes.

Well Philadelphians like their traditions and their history.

No one uses the new names, no one.


103 posted on 03/27/2009 11:14:37 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.operationvalentine.blogspot.com/)
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To: Sergeant Tim

I think its officially “man made disaster”.


104 posted on 03/27/2009 11:15:27 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.operationvalentine.blogspot.com/)
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To: Arkinsaw
"I actually liked the original design. It was designed to evoke the Statue of Liberty and serve as a reflection of it. The 1776 feet was symbolic as well. The original architect's version fit well with "Freedom Tower"."

Problem is that the US economy is in the toilet and the calls to "American patriotism" with the building weren't working. So the owners went a different way in order to fill it.

If it was government land, we could do whatever "we the people" wanted with it, but it's not. Instead, we are seeing capitalism in action and those with the money -- the Chinese, because we have borrowed so much from them and have huge trade deficits with them -- get to make the rules for what they want in order to inhabit the building.

Do I like it? Of course not! But it is what it is.

105 posted on 03/27/2009 11:15:46 AM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Sergeant Tim

I don’t really care what they call it, since I think it’s an uninspiring single-tower design that leaves us looking like we had not the spirit or confidence to rebuild what was destroyed. The original WTC was a statement about American capitalism, and it was designed as such. This...this is just another office building.


106 posted on 03/27/2009 11:29:41 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: Sergeant Tim

Just wait... the final name will be “The Tower of Hope and Change.”


107 posted on 03/27/2009 11:33:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Christian and armed)
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To: Hoffer Rand

I can’t stand Trump, but he was right on here.


108 posted on 03/27/2009 11:33:54 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: a fool in paradise
Can you see the Statue of French Generosity from it?

Great comment.

109 posted on 03/27/2009 11:38:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (With-it liberals are moving on to the next hoax: WATER!We're all going to die of thirst.)
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To: TChris
Are there too many potential customers out there saying, "Freedom? Oh no. None for me, thanks."

Well, for one, the Chinese are offended. And probably the North Koreans - and definitely the Iranians...

110 posted on 03/27/2009 11:40:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (With-it liberals are moving on to the next hoax: WATER!We're all going to die of thirst.)
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To: Sergeant Tim
One World Government Center. A monument to our corporate owned political leaders, the ones who now own them, and control this nation. Or another name I won't mention but is becoming prophetic in these times.
111 posted on 03/27/2009 11:49:35 AM PDT by cva66snipe ($.01 The current difference between the DEM's and GOP as well as their combined worth to this nation)
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To: Sergeant Tim

Question - I would not want to work in the new tower, it just seems like a good thing to avoid - do others here have a different view?

Of course, the reason is that it just may be a valuable target - even more valuable to the terrorist this time around - if (hopefully not) that event comes around.


112 posted on 03/27/2009 11:53:20 AM PDT by unique
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To: Sergeant Tim
With all the new Communist economic laws will this really be ONE World Trade Center, or it is going to be the ONE WORLD Trade Center... It all depends on where they're putting the accent! I still don't know why they couldn't just leave it with its patriotic name, but considering the above, I guess that wouldn't fit anymore...
113 posted on 03/27/2009 11:59:04 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Sergeant Tim

I think we should call it the “F*** You” tower. But that’s just me.


114 posted on 03/27/2009 12:06:58 PM PDT by xjcsa (Currently shouting "I told you so" about Michael Steele on my profile page.)
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To: HonestConservative

That’s good to hear.


115 posted on 03/27/2009 12:20:22 PM PDT by Crush (Do Democrats ever lose votes in a recount?)
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To: TheThinker

We need to bring the words Freedom and Liberty back into the language of our government.


116 posted on 03/27/2009 12:21:53 PM PDT by Crush (Do Democrats ever lose votes in a recount?)
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To: Crush

Exactly, call it however you feel is correct.

Here in L.A., a huge number of people don’t call a certain Blvd, Cesar Chavez Blvd..they call it the “army road”, and most residents will know what you are referring to.


117 posted on 03/27/2009 12:24:11 PM PDT by max americana
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To: a fool in paradise

those four freedoms are bogus

that was FDR’s advancing his socialist agenda.

at least the bottom 2...there is no freedom from want. that is up to you....Freedom from Fear? buy a gun.


118 posted on 03/27/2009 12:28:24 PM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

Socialists are not supporters of faith. It brought down the Soviet Union.


119 posted on 03/27/2009 12:31:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)
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To: a fool in paradise
from Wikipedia(it is part of FDR socialist agenda):

QUOTE

This article is about Franklin D. Roosevelt's themes. For other uses, see Four Freedoms (disambiguation).
The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered to the United States Congress on January 6, 1941. In an address also known as the Four Freedoms speech, FDR proposed four points as fundamental freedoms humans “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy:

Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of religion
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional American Constitutional values protected by the First Amendment, and endorsed a right to economic security and an internationalist view of foreign policy that have come to be central tenets of modern American liberalism. They also anticipated what would become known decades later as the “human security” paradigm in social science and economic development.

120 posted on 03/27/2009 12:35:59 PM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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