The Memorial Has Been Taken Back

I've been meaning to blog about the controversy about the International Freedom Center at Ground Zero in New York City. The IFC was going to be quite a shady bit of anti-Americanism located on the site where nearly 3,000 Americans died in the most evil act of terrorism in history. The idea behind the IFC was to create a tribute to freedom around the world, and provide a place for the debate of historical events. Pretty much, it was going to be the same thing as using the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor as a place to examine the history of Imperial Japan in the 1930's and debate American's use of the atomic bomb to end the war.

The reason I say "was" is because Governor George Pataki nixed the IFC at the World Trade Center site today. On the case the entire time was Take Back the Memorial, an organization devoted to the elimination of the IFC. Check out their site for more explanation of why the IFC had to go.