{"id":2159,"date":"2005-06-11T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-11T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2005-06-12T05:44:14","slug":"war-party-takes-aim-at-wtc-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/11\/war-party-takes-aim-at-wtc-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"War Party Takes Aim at WTC Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The War Street Journal<\/a><\/i> recently published an op ed piece<\/a> by one Debra Burlingame, in which the author claims that the Freedom Center planned for the re-built WTC — re-dubbed the “Freedom Tower” — has been “hijacked” by those gosh-darned America-hating left-wingers, who will fill the heads of schoolchildren and other visitors with their anti-American “propaganda.” A small taste is quite enough:<\/p>\n

“The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is handing over millions of federal dollars and the keys to that building to some of the very same people who consider the post-9\/11 provisions of the Patriot Act more dangerous than the terrorists that they were enacted to apprehend — people whose inflammatory claims of a deliberate torture policy at Guantanamo Bay are undermining this country’s efforts to foster freedom elsewhere in the world.”<\/i><\/p>\n

As a libertarian, I don’t think anyone<\/i> should be handing over millions of federal dollars for anything<\/i>. Private citizens could buy the site, finance a memorial with voluntary contributions, and design it to their own specifications: otherwise, we are to be perpetually subjected to inquisitors of Ms. Burlingame’s ilk, such as the rightwing radio screamer Michael Smerconish who utilizes<\/a> his posting privileges on the Huffington Post<\/i> blog to support her attempt to “take back” the memorial.<\/p>\n

If we must have a state-subsidized memorial — which seems pretty close to inevitable — then the War Party’s efforts to control what it looks like and what ideas it projects must be resisted — and that’s just what I do in my answering post on the Huff-blog, here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The War Street Journal recently published an op ed piece by one Debra Burlingame, in which the author claims that the Freedom Center planned for the re-built WTC — re-dubbed the “Freedom Tower” — has been “hijacked” by those gosh-darned America-hating left-wingers, who will fill the heads of schoolchildren and other visitors with their anti-American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}