Well, Good
Here's a report that says people are starting to get very upset with the Arizona "9/11 Memorial" that has inscriptions that have nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with anti-Bush/anti-war/moral equivalence sentiments (pick which one you think fits best).
The monument was unveiled at Phoenix’s Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza near the state Capitol on the fifth anniversary of the attacks.
A timeline and record of key events and quotes are etched onto a giant angled ring reflected by sunlight in what designers said was intended to capture how Arizona and the nation responded to the attacks, and to remember the strong emotions.
But this week, blog visitors have said they’re shocked at some of the inscriptions, which they describe as political statements against the Bush administration and its war on terror.
One inscription states, “You don’t win battles of terrorism with more battles.” Another: “Congress questions why CIA and FBI didn’t prevent attacks.” And another reads, “Erroneous US air strike kills 46 Uruzgan civilians,” referring to a wedding reportedly hit by mistake in Afghanistan.
“It’s a worldview that is critical of America, and in many cases cheapens 9/11,” said Greg Patterson, a lobbyist and consultant who operates the EspressoPundit blog, where he and his readers have been critical of the memorial. “It is bent on attacking the Bush administration’s take on the war, at the expense of the memory of 9/11.”
They quote one member of the commission responsible for this who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks as saying the words were found to be "factual" by a history professor from ASU. It would be factual to say some people in this country put their politics above their country, too.
Espresso Pundit is here if you'd care to read the post that really got the uproar started.
Blogosphere, Politics | Gaius Sunday, 24 September , 2006
By syn, Sunday, 24 September , 2006 @ 6:11 am
More than Chavez advertising Noam Chomsky, these memorials speak boldly of the decayed rot within Ivory Tower Academia’s collective cesspool of stupidity.
Nothing will change until pluralism returns to the institution of higher learning. This means massive funding for sports programs need to be put on the back burner and instead used to establish departments which counter the collective’s notorious groupthink ’studies’ programs.
David Horowitz’s Freedom Center continues the hard work of trying to re-establish much needed pluralism to our universities; he is all to familiar with the destructive generation and their takeover of our American universities.
By Roland Hesz, Monday, 25 September , 2006 @ 4:44 am
Both sides uses 9/11 as a political thing.
Both sides quotes 9/11 as a reasoning for their goals.
Both sides cheapens and degrades 9/11.
“It’s a worldview that is critical of America, and in many cases cheapens 9/11″
This sentences applies to both sides. Both.
Can you do something against it? I do wonder…