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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Safe? No way.
The supposed design of the towerlet to be built at Ground Zero.
The supposed design of the towerlet to be built at Ground Zero.
THE
SMART GUYS TAKE OVER. It's supposed to be safe. Here's
the promotional
material:
She also revealed the identities of those who are helping to design the IFC:
Mrs. Burlingame seems to regard this team as sinister in some way, but if safety is the prime consideration -- as it seems to be for so many Americans -- then there is no alternative to soliciting the participation of people with these kinds of backgrounds. By the time they have completed reconfiguring the Ground Zero project's architecture and content, the place will be absolutely 100 percent safe. There will no longer be any doubt that however much foreign insurgents may hate America, it's nothing compared to how much elite and powerful Americans hate America. This has to be an enormously effective deterrent to further acts of violence in the city whose most powerful people lead the world in hatred of this country. That's why the over-engineered tower described in the piece referenced above will never be built. It just won't be needed. The whole idea of a single fake-me-out tower with 50 stories of panic room office bunkers and 50 stories of uninhabited, bomb-repellent gridwork can be tossed in the trash where it belongs. New Yorkers will be able to go all the way to the tippy top of the new twin towers design that will soon be unveiled by Soros and company. What do you think of it?
Artist's rendering of the "World Tolerance Center."
The new design for the 1,776-foot tower is meant to make it more resistant to truck bombs. The building will now be 90 feet _ instead of 25 feet _ from West Street, the major north-south thoroughfare along the Hudson River.
The tower's cubic base will be clad in luminous materials _ probably a combination of stainless steel and titanium _ that will be shimmering and light-reflective as well as blast-resistant, according to a description of the redesign posted online by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
As in the original design, the structure outlined in the latest plan exceeds city fire code requirements, and will have biological and chemical filters in its air supply system.
It also has the original design's
extra-wide emergency stairs, a dedicated staircase just for
firefighters, enhanced elevators and "areas of refuge" on each floor.
Stairs, communications, sprinklers and elevators will be encased in
3-foot-thick walls.
But it isn't safe. Because the terrorists, er, foreign insurgents,
still don't like us. Everyone knows that, which is why the really smart
people are slowly taking over the Ground Zero redevelopment project.
Debra Burlingame, a 9/11 widow, alerted us to the effort in a Wall
Street Journal article
earlier this month.
The
World Trade Center Memorial Cultural Complex will be an imposing
edifice wedged in the place where the Twin Towers once stood. It will
serve as the primary "gateway" to the underground area where the names
of the lost are chiseled into concrete. The organizers of its principal
tenant, the International Freedom Center (IFC), have stated that they
intend to take us on "a journey through the history of freedom"--but do
not be fooled into thinking that their idea of freedom is the same as
that of those Marines. To the IFC's organizers, it is not only
history's triumphs that illuminate, but also its failures. The public
will have come to see 9/11 but will be given a high-tech, multimedia
tutorial about man's inhumanity to man, from Native American genocide
to the lynchings and cross-burnings of the Jim Crow South, from the
Third Reich's Final Solution to the Soviet gulags and beyond.
She also revealed the identities of those who are helping to design the IFC:
The driving force behind the IFC is Tom
Bernstein... a proud member of Human Rights First since it was
founded--as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights--27 years ago, and
has served as its president for the last 12.... It was Human Rights
First that has called for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the
alleged torture of detainees, complete with budget authority, subpoena
power and the ability to demand that witnesses testify under oath.
In fact, the IFC's list of those who are shaping or influencing the content and programming for their Ground Zero exhibit includes a Who's Who of the human rights, Guantanamo-obsessed world:
• Michael Posner, executive director at Human Rights First who is leading the worldwide "Stop Torture Now" campaign focused entirely on the U.S. military. He has stated that Mr. Rumsfeld's refusal to resign in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal is "irresponsible and dishonorable."
• Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, who is pushing IFC organizers for exhibits that showcase how civil liberties in this country have been curtailed since September 11.
• Eric Foner, radical-left history professor at Columbia University who, even as the bodies were being pulled out of a smoldering Ground Zero, wrote, "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." This is the same man who participated in a "teach-in" at Columbia to protest the Iraq war, during which a colleague exhorted students with, "The only true heroes are those who find ways to defeat the U.S. military," and called for "a million Mogadishus." The IFC website has posted Mr. Foner's statement warning that future discussions should not be "overwhelmed" by the IFC's location at the World Trade Center site itself.
• George Soros, billionaire founder of Open Society Institute, the nonprofit foundation that helps fund Human Rights First and is an early contributor to the IFC. Mr. Soros has stated that the pictures of Abu Ghraib "hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself."
In fact, the IFC's list of those who are shaping or influencing the content and programming for their Ground Zero exhibit includes a Who's Who of the human rights, Guantanamo-obsessed world:
• Michael Posner, executive director at Human Rights First who is leading the worldwide "Stop Torture Now" campaign focused entirely on the U.S. military. He has stated that Mr. Rumsfeld's refusal to resign in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal is "irresponsible and dishonorable."
• Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, who is pushing IFC organizers for exhibits that showcase how civil liberties in this country have been curtailed since September 11.
• Eric Foner, radical-left history professor at Columbia University who, even as the bodies were being pulled out of a smoldering Ground Zero, wrote, "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." This is the same man who participated in a "teach-in" at Columbia to protest the Iraq war, during which a colleague exhorted students with, "The only true heroes are those who find ways to defeat the U.S. military," and called for "a million Mogadishus." The IFC website has posted Mr. Foner's statement warning that future discussions should not be "overwhelmed" by the IFC's location at the World Trade Center site itself.
• George Soros, billionaire founder of Open Society Institute, the nonprofit foundation that helps fund Human Rights First and is an early contributor to the IFC. Mr. Soros has stated that the pictures of Abu Ghraib "hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself."
Mrs. Burlingame seems to regard this team as sinister in some way, but if safety is the prime consideration -- as it seems to be for so many Americans -- then there is no alternative to soliciting the participation of people with these kinds of backgrounds. By the time they have completed reconfiguring the Ground Zero project's architecture and content, the place will be absolutely 100 percent safe. There will no longer be any doubt that however much foreign insurgents may hate America, it's nothing compared to how much elite and powerful Americans hate America. This has to be an enormously effective deterrent to further acts of violence in the city whose most powerful people lead the world in hatred of this country. That's why the over-engineered tower described in the piece referenced above will never be built. It just won't be needed. The whole idea of a single fake-me-out tower with 50 stories of panic room office bunkers and 50 stories of uninhabited, bomb-repellent gridwork can be tossed in the trash where it belongs. New Yorkers will be able to go all the way to the tippy top of the new twin towers design that will soon be unveiled by Soros and company. What do you think of it?
Artist's rendering of the "World Tolerance Center."
We were impressed too. With towers like
those, they can be 150 stories tall. Think of the view from the Turban
Terraces.
And there's more. Mrs. Burlingame described the square footage allocation now being planned:
She's right. That's why the final solution of the Ground Zero facility will entirely replace the cramped 9/11 Memorial with a Museum of Heroes honoring those who have done the most to bring about a peaceful end to the so-called war on terror. The 9/11 relics will, of course, be stored away so they won't be disturbing to members of the mass media, who are uniformly delicate of stomach and unanimous in believing that 9/11 should never be mentioned, referenced, or depicted again.
Our sources won't yet give us permission to reveal the names of the individual heroes who will be celebrated in the museum, but we can tell you that many of the interior design details are already finalized. The walls will be hung with beautiful burkha blue drapery fabric, the floors will be fabricated from cedars of Lebanon and covered with a Persian carpet woven especially for this space. You can see a rendering of it here. We'll publish more information about the Museum of Heroes as we get more results from our beseechings and pleadings.
Safety first, safety last, safety always. That's the American way. Or at any rate, it's the new American way.
UPDATE. Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the "Love Link." Our most recent entry in support of her can be found by scrolling down to the June 24 posting. And if you keep scrolling to June 22, you'll encounter our infamous Piss Pelosi" artwork and our proposed "Contract with America for Democrats," of which we're very proud.
And there's more. Mrs. Burlingame described the square footage allocation now being planned:
While the IFC is getting 300,000 square
feet of space to teach us how to think about liberty, the actual
Memorial Center on the opposite corner of the site will get a meager
50,000 square feet to exhibit its 9/11 artifacts, all out of sight and
underground. Most of the cherished objects which were salvaged from
Ground Zero in those first traumatic months will never return to the
site. There is simply no room.
She's right. That's why the final solution of the Ground Zero facility will entirely replace the cramped 9/11 Memorial with a Museum of Heroes honoring those who have done the most to bring about a peaceful end to the so-called war on terror. The 9/11 relics will, of course, be stored away so they won't be disturbing to members of the mass media, who are uniformly delicate of stomach and unanimous in believing that 9/11 should never be mentioned, referenced, or depicted again.
Our sources won't yet give us permission to reveal the names of the individual heroes who will be celebrated in the museum, but we can tell you that many of the interior design details are already finalized. The walls will be hung with beautiful burkha blue drapery fabric, the floors will be fabricated from cedars of Lebanon and covered with a Persian carpet woven especially for this space. You can see a rendering of it here. We'll publish more information about the Museum of Heroes as we get more results from our beseechings and pleadings.
Safety first, safety last, safety always. That's the American way. Or at any rate, it's the new American way.
UPDATE. Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the "Love Link." Our most recent entry in support of her can be found by scrolling down to the June 24 posting. And if you keep scrolling to June 22, you'll encounter our infamous Piss Pelosi" artwork and our proposed "Contract with America for Democrats," of which we're very proud.
