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11:56 - You sound surprised
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You know, just curious, but what did you think all those guys meant by calling the WTC replacement proposals the "World Cultural Center"?
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. This is a history all should know and learn, but dispensing it over the ashes of Ground Zero is like creating a Museum of Tolerance over the sunken graves of the USS Arizona.
I wish I could say I'm surprised or disappointed by this, but I'm not. I saw it coming the moment they floated the first "Freedom Tower" models with sixty melty-ice-cube stories and another fifty diaphanous stories of wickerwork and papier-maché on top.
The people with the real power in this country and the Western world, the ones whose momentum is in the ascendancy, have as their ultimate goal our own humbling on the world stage, not to say our own destruction in favor of giving someone else a turn being king of the hill. (That's "fairness", see.) We may as well just get used to it—because in light of what's coming in the next few years as 9/11 matures into our social consciousness, this will just be par for the course.
Terrorism will be in all our backyards, and we'll welcome it with open arms.
UPDATE: Bill Whittle has these guys' number. Too bad there are a lot more of them, and they run the nightly news.
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Brian Tiemann
