Tel-Chai Nation

Michael Burke at the Washington Times has reported on the very disturbing political correctness that's taken hold at Ground Zero: it's been wiped of virtually everything clear about the details involved, including many of the victims' names. For example:

The 9/11 memorial will not identify Christine Lee Hanson, who died with her parents when United Airlines Flight 175 was slammed into the South Tower, as being "age 2." This might convince you that the American victims were "innocent" and the foreign terrorists "guilty."

That would be telling us what to think.

It will not include the initials FDNY, NYPD or PAPD. It will not include the words "firefighter" or "police officer."

Recognizing the heroism and sacrifice of the firefighters and police officers would contrast those virtues with the barbarism and crime of the terrorists.

And though Mr. Bloomberg has said our values demand a Ground Zero Mosque, he will not allow the Rev. Mychal Judge, the FDNY chaplain who died while praying the Lord's Prayer in the lobby of WTC 1, to be identified as "Fire Chaplain Father" Mychal Judge.

It is only traditional Judeo-Christian values that have no place at Ground Zero.

The photo of the three firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero became as iconic of Sept. 11 as Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of the Marines' flag-raising at Iwo Jima was of World War II. So you know its fate.

This historic and symbolic act will not be depicted or recognized in any way. The design of the "national" Sept. 11 memorial will not, therefore, honor the values targeted and will deny them as deserving of our defense and sacrifice.

"How do we commemorate the countless accumulated memories of the attacks?" the 13-member memorial jury disingenuously asked in describing their task. Their answer? Eliminate all that we, the people, remember of the terrorist attacks.

This at the place where America was attacked.

One reason the Sept.11 attacks succeeded was the scourge of political correctness. It dictated that our national security officials could not track or investigate Middle Eastern men in America despite their "suspicious" behavior (such as learning how to fly jetliners without any interest in learning how to take off or land). Evidently, we have learned nothing. The National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center is not, nor is it intended to be, a genuine and lasting commemoration of Sept. 11. Rather, it is political correctness gone mad.

One of the biggest problems in the US is how it's been overrrun for a very long time by political correctness. And it's something that needs to be fixed. Because it's still going, even now.

I hope the families of the victims are going to take action over this disgrace. Bloomberg himself must be sent home, and NYC needs a much better mayor.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, jihad, New York, political corruption, terrorism, United States