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Mayor Bloomberg: 9/11 site shouldn't be called "Ground Zero"
Reuters ^ | Sept. 6, 2011 | Daniel Trotta

Posted on 09/06/2011 1:10:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

People should stop calling the site of the September 11 attacks "Ground Zero," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday, urging Americans to move past a term long linked with the World Trade Center's twin towers destruction.

"We will never forget the devastation of the area that came to be known as ground zero. Never. But the time has come to call those 16 acres what they are: The World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum," Bloomberg said in a speech on the rebuilding of lower Manhattan.

Ground Zero originated as a term to describe the site of a nuclear explosion and later was used to refer to the point of any dramatic or violent event.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 10thanniversary; 911; 911anniversary; chamberlain; groundzero; islam; jihad; neverforget; newyork; orwelliannightmare; revisionisthistory; traitorbloomberg; waronterror; whywefight
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To: La Enchiladita

Eventually he will order everyone to call it “Cordoba House Plaza” but he won’t announce that demand until after the 10th year 9/11 ceremony.


41 posted on 09/06/2011 1:30:17 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
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To: La Enchiladita

Mayor Bloomberg can go pound sand. End of message.


42 posted on 09/06/2011 1:31:16 PM PDT by diplomatic_immunity
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To: La Enchiladita

Okay, I can understand wanting to call the site the 9/11 Memorial instead of “Ground Zero”. But did the mayor have to speechify about it? I don’t think so.


43 posted on 09/06/2011 1:31:34 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: La Enchiladita

46 murders over the holiday weekend, and this is on his agenda this morning? They should call the whole town ground zero at this rate!


44 posted on 09/06/2011 1:33:12 PM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (The terrorists attacked us--and don't you forget it!)
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To: La Enchiladita
Before you know it they'll start calling it a “Peace center”.
45 posted on 09/06/2011 1:33:22 PM PDT by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Hopefully they will call it Bloomberg’s political graveyard. What a nincompoop this guy is.


46 posted on 09/06/2011 1:33:28 PM PDT by Antoninus (Nothing that offends God can possibly be a legitimate right.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Bloomberg, like all secular relativists, is horrified at the thought that good and evil exist. Ground Zero is the ultimate confirmation of evil. So, he can’t deal with it.

In fact, to borrow a line from Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men — Mr. I’ve-got-my-bloomers-in-a-twist, “You can’t handle the truth!”


47 posted on 09/06/2011 1:36:38 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: La Enchiladita

Why? Let’s be factual. Isn’t that what Al-Qaeda called it?


48 posted on 09/06/2011 1:38:16 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: La Enchiladita

He doesn’t want much, does he?


49 posted on 09/06/2011 1:38:22 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Run, Sarah, Run! Please!)
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To: La Enchiladita

How about calling it the Islamic Killing Field?


50 posted on 09/06/2011 1:39:12 PM PDT by crosshairs (If Sharia Law becomes the law of the land, heads are gonna roll.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Bloomberg should be tried and hung for treason!


51 posted on 09/06/2011 1:39:30 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: La Enchiladita

I would ignore the fool. Pity him.


52 posted on 09/06/2011 1:40:12 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: La Enchiladita

53 posted on 09/06/2011 1:40:46 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We need to fix things ourselves)
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To: La Enchiladita
Could it be that Mayor Bloomie is trying to appease the moslems?
54 posted on 09/06/2011 1:44:23 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: WashingtonSource

Just more political correctness from a liberal.

We can’t say ground zero anymore. check.

We can’t say illegal alien. check.

We can’t say Christmas. check.

Just go down the list of censored words and phrases, and make sure you are in compliance. To the list we add ground zero, so that someone, somewhere, isn’t offended by the use of that term.

Perhaps we’re still allowed to say 9/11 or September 11th because it is a specific date on the calendar, and banning reference to a date is a bridge too far for the politically correct crowd.


55 posted on 09/06/2011 1:46:23 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: indylindy

“Good God, what is wrong with New York?”

Aside from being in the Northeast “power corridor” that wants to t6ell the world how to believe and act?


56 posted on 09/06/2011 1:46:52 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Would prefer to stop calling him “mayor”.


57 posted on 09/06/2011 1:47:24 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

and let’s call The Battle of the Bulge “a tank action near Malmedy”.


58 posted on 09/06/2011 1:48:49 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: La Enchiladita

Go soak your head, Mike.


59 posted on 09/06/2011 1:49:23 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I want a Triple A president for our Triple A country)
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To: massgopguy

Hey, that’s good. The PC revisionists could then refer to Iwo Jima “an amphibious operation on a small Pacific Island”.


60 posted on 09/06/2011 1:51:15 PM PDT by chimera
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