Update: Take Back the Memorial
Folks,
Many of you are already aware and active in the "Take Back the Memorial" effort. This is an update I received today, and for those of you who may not have heard about it yet, it might be of interest.
If you are not familiar with the problem, please visit the website at www.takebackthememorial.org . What the George Soros et al. crowd is trying to do under the name of "The International Freedom Center" on the site where nearly 3000 were killed on 9/11 is revolting. It is classic George Soros anti-American vituperation.
This is an update only, so if this is the first you've heard about the problem, the website will give you a good picture of the original problem that started it all.
As you see, there is a petition being circulated to sign; please look it over and then, if you agree with the objections the Take Back the Memorial organization have to the placement of the so-called "International Freedom Center" on the site, please sign it.
*
WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS!
*Every day more and more people sign our petition and the "big money"
special interests behind the International Freedom Center are running
scared! The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation announced that
they are "taking one last look around" for alternative sites for the
IFC and the Drawing Center.
While this is likely a delaying tactic, make no mistake: that "one
last look around" must continue until it results in the removal of
the IFC and the Drawing Center from Ground Zero. We do not view this
decision as "one last look around" - we view this as the last chance
for the IFC and the Drawing Center to find a home. These magnets for
controversy cannot remain there and we will not rest until they are
removed.
For more progress updates, see:
One Down, One to Go? {http://takebackthememorial.org/?p=108}
Eric Foner Quits as IFC Adviser
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?p=110}
*
PETITION UPDATE
*To date we have 38,500 signatures on the Take Back the Memorial
petition, including almost 2,000 9/11 Family Members! We are making
good progress but we need your help!
Here are some things you can do:
*SPREAD THE WORD AND HELP GATHER SIGNATURES!
*Download the Petition Kit
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=99}
*GET YOUR COMMUNITY INVOLVED!
*Participate in Campaign America
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=107}
*WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
*Take a few minutes to write a letter to the editor of your local
newspaper and tell them about the plans to turn the memorial at
ground zero into a political forum. Send them the link to Debra
Burlingame's Wall Street Journal op-ed, The Great Ground Zero Heist
{http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006791} and ask them to
make your community aware of their plans. Also be sure to include a
plea for readers to sign the petition!
In addition to Debra Burlingame's op-ed, you can find more background
information on Tom Bernstein, George Soros, and the LMDC by visiting
our Frequently Asked Questions
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=122} page.
NY TIMES CALLS TAKE BACK THE MEMORIAL & SUPPORTERS "UN-AMERICAN"
A Sense of Proportion at Ground Zero
{http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/opinion/29fri3.html}
Editorial Published: July 29, 2005 in the New York Times
Somewhere in the ill-conceived campaign to "take back the memorial"
at ground zero, false impressions have managed to triumph over facts.
This week, Debra Burlingame, a board member of the World Trade Center
Memorial Foundation, and others called for a boycott of fund-raising
for the memorial until the International Freedom Center and the
Drawing Center have been banished from ground zero. She argues that
money for the memorial will be intermingled with funds for the
cultural building that is supposed to house the Freedom Center and
the Drawing Center. This is both misleading and harmful to the
memorial itself. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has
pledged that its first priority is to build the memorial and create
an endowment for it. Private donors are free to specify how they
choose to have their money spent.
The attacks on the International Freedom Center - and, more broadly,
on the cultural component of Daniel Libeskind's master plan - make it
all too easy to forget the existence of a Memorial Museum that is
devoted wholly to the events of 9/11. Opponents of the Freedom
Center, like Ms. Burlingame, claim that the Memorial Museum will be
dwarfed by the cultural center. In fact, they overstate the size of
the Snohetta building, which is being scaled back for other reasons,
and they have exaggerated the floor space allotted there for the
International Freedom Center. They also make it sound as if the
Memorial Museum, which at 50,000 square feet is larger than the
public spaces in the Whitney Museum, is somehow an afterthought
relegated to the basement. It will be built underground, but that is
because the 9/11 families asked to have access to the bedrock and to
what remains of the foundation of the twin towers. To argue over the
size of these two spaces is to assume that emotional power is solely
the result of square footage. It is also to forget the profound
effect that going to the roots of the World Trade Center will have on
most visitors.
But this is not really a campaign about money or space. It is a
campaign about political purity - about how people remember 9/11 and
about how we choose to read its aftermath, including the Iraq war. On
their Web site, www.takebackthememorial.org
{http://www.takebackthememorial.org}, critics of the cultural plan at
ground zero offer a resolution called Campaign America. It says that
ground zero must contain no facilities "that house controversial
debate, dialogue, artistic impressions, or exhibits referring to
extraneous historical events." This, to us, sounds un-American.
This unsigned editorial is actually by Gail Collins, the Editorial
Board Editor for the New York Times. Not only does the Times smear us
and YOU as "un-American" for demanding the 9/11 memorial remain about
9/11, they attack Debra Burlingame, conveniently forgetting to
mention she is a 9/11 family member.
In response, A. Forkum of Cox & Forkum Editorial
{http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000634.html} cartoons writes:
/They give themselves some wiggly room ("sounds to us"), but their
point is clear: the NYT considers it "un-American" to oppose building
a come-one-come-all political venue at the Ground Zero memorial. They
continue blowing a "free speech" smoke screen to obscure the
controversy: public funds are to be used to build a permanent
institution at Ground Zero dedicated to airing political discourse,
some of which will no doubt be sympathetic to the terrorists who
murderer thousands there. Why else would the NYT be so concerned
about "how people remember 9/11 and about how we choose to read its
aftermath, including the Iraq war"? Is the NYT afraid that a memorial
site dedicated solely to 9/11 will lead visitors to "politically
incorrect" conclusions?
/ Please take a moment of your day to write a response of your own to
their shameful editorial. Make sure to CC 911@takebackthememorial.org
{mailto:911@takebackthememorial.org} and we will publish your letter
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=127}, even if the Times does
not.
Letters to the Editor - letters@nytimes.com
{mailto:letters@nytimes.com}
Gail Collins, NY Times Editorial Board Editor - gailc@nytimes.com
{mailto:gailc@nytimes.com}
*
IT'S A MEMORIAL
*The family member letter this week is from Karen Lee, of Long
Island, New York. She writes:
/"My beloved husband of over 9 years, Richard Lee, age 34, Cantor
Fitzgerald, was murdered on 9/11/01. He was kind, compassionate,
brilliant, generous, caring - a joy to be around. He always thought
of others first, at work and at home. Our son, only 22 months old at
the time, was robbed of the most devoted, loving father anyone could
wish for. What happened that day was not about left and right. It was
about right and wrong." - Read The Rest
{http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/Itisamemorial.html}/
9/11 Families for a Safe & Secure America invites you to submit
commentary for their /It's A Memorial/ series. - Lean More
{http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/Page8.html}
RADIO INTERVIEWS
For those in the New York area, Debra Burlingame will be on WABC 77
AM radio, with Mark Levin, at 7:35 PM Eastern this Friday, August
5th. For those of you outside the New York City area, you can listen
live to WABC 77 on your computer via streaming audio at
http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive.asp
{http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive.asp}
Listen {http://www.freepgs.com/wabc/showclips/072205/memorial.wma} to
Jennie Farrell's appearance on the Mark Levin's WABC radio show.
Jennie Farrell is the sister of James Marcel Cartier, killed in the
collapse of the South Tower.
Listen {http://limeshurbet.com/images/Gardner.07.05.mp3} to Anthony
Gardner's appearance on WABC radio. Anthony Gardner is the Executive
Director and Founder of the World Trade Center United Family Group.
*
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION*
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preferences were lost. please take a few moments to update your
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that you are receiving an additional email. This was due to our move
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this time!) using the link below.
ABOUT TAKE BACK THE MEMORIAL
For more information, please visit us on the web at:
www.takebackthememorial.org {http://www.takebackthememorial.org}
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Many of you are already aware and active in the "Take Back the Memorial" effort. This is an update I received today, and for those of you who may not have heard about it yet, it might be of interest.
If you are not familiar with the problem, please visit the website at www.takebackthememorial.org . What the George Soros et al. crowd is trying to do under the name of "The International Freedom Center" on the site where nearly 3000 were killed on 9/11 is revolting. It is classic George Soros anti-American vituperation.
This is an update only, so if this is the first you've heard about the problem, the website will give you a good picture of the original problem that started it all.
As you see, there is a petition being circulated to sign; please look it over and then, if you agree with the objections the Take Back the Memorial organization have to the placement of the so-called "International Freedom Center" on the site, please sign it.
*
WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS!
*Every day more and more people sign our petition and the "big money"
special interests behind the International Freedom Center are running
scared! The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation announced that
they are "taking one last look around" for alternative sites for the
IFC and the Drawing Center.
While this is likely a delaying tactic, make no mistake: that "one
last look around" must continue until it results in the removal of
the IFC and the Drawing Center from Ground Zero. We do not view this
decision as "one last look around" - we view this as the last chance
for the IFC and the Drawing Center to find a home. These magnets for
controversy cannot remain there and we will not rest until they are
removed.
For more progress updates, see:
One Down, One to Go? {http://takebackthememorial.org/?p=108}
Eric Foner Quits as IFC Adviser
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?p=110}
*
PETITION UPDATE
*To date we have 38,500 signatures on the Take Back the Memorial
petition, including almost 2,000 9/11 Family Members! We are making
good progress but we need your help!
Here are some things you can do:
*SPREAD THE WORD AND HELP GATHER SIGNATURES!
*Download the Petition Kit
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=99}
*GET YOUR COMMUNITY INVOLVED!
*Participate in Campaign America
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=107}
*WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
*Take a few minutes to write a letter to the editor of your local
newspaper and tell them about the plans to turn the memorial at
ground zero into a political forum. Send them the link to Debra
Burlingame's Wall Street Journal op-ed, The Great Ground Zero Heist
{http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006791} and ask them to
make your community aware of their plans. Also be sure to include a
plea for readers to sign the petition!
In addition to Debra Burlingame's op-ed, you can find more background
information on Tom Bernstein, George Soros, and the LMDC by visiting
our Frequently Asked Questions
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=122} page.
NY TIMES CALLS TAKE BACK THE MEMORIAL & SUPPORTERS "UN-AMERICAN"
A Sense of Proportion at Ground Zero
{http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/opinion/29fri3.html}
Editorial Published: July 29, 2005 in the New York Times
Somewhere in the ill-conceived campaign to "take back the memorial"
at ground zero, false impressions have managed to triumph over facts.
This week, Debra Burlingame, a board member of the World Trade Center
Memorial Foundation, and others called for a boycott of fund-raising
for the memorial until the International Freedom Center and the
Drawing Center have been banished from ground zero. She argues that
money for the memorial will be intermingled with funds for the
cultural building that is supposed to house the Freedom Center and
the Drawing Center. This is both misleading and harmful to the
memorial itself. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has
pledged that its first priority is to build the memorial and create
an endowment for it. Private donors are free to specify how they
choose to have their money spent.
The attacks on the International Freedom Center - and, more broadly,
on the cultural component of Daniel Libeskind's master plan - make it
all too easy to forget the existence of a Memorial Museum that is
devoted wholly to the events of 9/11. Opponents of the Freedom
Center, like Ms. Burlingame, claim that the Memorial Museum will be
dwarfed by the cultural center. In fact, they overstate the size of
the Snohetta building, which is being scaled back for other reasons,
and they have exaggerated the floor space allotted there for the
International Freedom Center. They also make it sound as if the
Memorial Museum, which at 50,000 square feet is larger than the
public spaces in the Whitney Museum, is somehow an afterthought
relegated to the basement. It will be built underground, but that is
because the 9/11 families asked to have access to the bedrock and to
what remains of the foundation of the twin towers. To argue over the
size of these two spaces is to assume that emotional power is solely
the result of square footage. It is also to forget the profound
effect that going to the roots of the World Trade Center will have on
most visitors.
But this is not really a campaign about money or space. It is a
campaign about political purity - about how people remember 9/11 and
about how we choose to read its aftermath, including the Iraq war. On
their Web site, www.takebackthememorial.org
{http://www.takebackthememorial.org}, critics of the cultural plan at
ground zero offer a resolution called Campaign America. It says that
ground zero must contain no facilities "that house controversial
debate, dialogue, artistic impressions, or exhibits referring to
extraneous historical events." This, to us, sounds un-American.
This unsigned editorial is actually by Gail Collins, the Editorial
Board Editor for the New York Times. Not only does the Times smear us
and YOU as "un-American" for demanding the 9/11 memorial remain about
9/11, they attack Debra Burlingame, conveniently forgetting to
mention she is a 9/11 family member.
In response, A. Forkum of Cox & Forkum Editorial
{http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000634.html} cartoons writes:
/They give themselves some wiggly room ("sounds to us"), but their
point is clear: the NYT considers it "un-American" to oppose building
a come-one-come-all political venue at the Ground Zero memorial. They
continue blowing a "free speech" smoke screen to obscure the
controversy: public funds are to be used to build a permanent
institution at Ground Zero dedicated to airing political discourse,
some of which will no doubt be sympathetic to the terrorists who
murderer thousands there. Why else would the NYT be so concerned
about "how people remember 9/11 and about how we choose to read its
aftermath, including the Iraq war"? Is the NYT afraid that a memorial
site dedicated solely to 9/11 will lead visitors to "politically
incorrect" conclusions?
/ Please take a moment of your day to write a response of your own to
their shameful editorial. Make sure to CC 911@takebackthememorial.org
{mailto:911@takebackthememorial.org} and we will publish your letter
{http://takebackthememorial.org/?page_id=127}, even if the Times does
not.
Letters to the Editor - letters@nytimes.com
{mailto:letters@nytimes.com}
Gail Collins, NY Times Editorial Board Editor - gailc@nytimes.com
{mailto:gailc@nytimes.com}
*
IT'S A MEMORIAL
*The family member letter this week is from Karen Lee, of Long
Island, New York. She writes:
/"My beloved husband of over 9 years, Richard Lee, age 34, Cantor
Fitzgerald, was murdered on 9/11/01. He was kind, compassionate,
brilliant, generous, caring - a joy to be around. He always thought
of others first, at work and at home. Our son, only 22 months old at
the time, was robbed of the most devoted, loving father anyone could
wish for. What happened that day was not about left and right. It was
about right and wrong." - Read The Rest
{http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/Itisamemorial.html}/
9/11 Families for a Safe & Secure America invites you to submit
commentary for their /It's A Memorial/ series. - Lean More
{http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/Page8.html}
RADIO INTERVIEWS
For those in the New York area, Debra Burlingame will be on WABC 77
AM radio, with Mark Levin, at 7:35 PM Eastern this Friday, August
5th. For those of you outside the New York City area, you can listen
live to WABC 77 on your computer via streaming audio at
http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive.asp
{http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive.asp}
Listen {http://www.freepgs.com/wabc/showclips/072205/memorial.wma} to
Jennie Farrell's appearance on the Mark Levin's WABC radio show.
Jennie Farrell is the sister of James Marcel Cartier, killed in the
collapse of the South Tower.
Listen {http://limeshurbet.com/images/Gardner.07.05.mp3} to Anthony
Gardner's appearance on WABC radio. Anthony Gardner is the Executive
Director and Founder of the World Trade Center United Family Group.
*
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION*
We recently moved to a new mailing list provider. In the move, some
preferences were lost. please take a few moments to update your
preferences using the link at the bottom of this email.
If you previously unsubscribed from this newsletter, we apologize
that you are receiving an additional email. This was due to our move
to a new provider for our mailing also. You can unsubscribe (for real
this time!) using the link below.
ABOUT TAKE BACK THE MEMORIAL
For more information, please visit us on the web at:
www.takebackthememorial.org {http://www.takebackthememorial.org}
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