Goodbye, and good riddance

Via Ralph Bristol we discover that the proposed "freedom center" has been removed from plans for a Ground Zero memorial.

NEW YORK - Bowing to pressure from Sept. 11 families, Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday removed a proposed freedom center from the space reserved for it near the planned World Trade Center memorial, saying the museum project had aroused "too much opposition, too much controversy."

Pataki initially said the state would help the International Freedom Center find another home, but center officials said they weren't interested and considered the project dead.

Pataki said a planned cultural building meant for the freedom center would now tell only the story of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

...The campaign by Sept. 11 families to oust the freedom center had grown to include four police and fire unions, an online petition with more than 40,000 signatures, and several politicians including Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

She's still positioning herself to run as a moderate, of course.  But I'm glad the dang thing is gone.

P.S.  And this is why I have no plans to watch that new TV program Commander in Chief.  It exists for the primary purpose of sensitizing the country to the idea of a female president, and guess what—that'll be just in time for Hillary's campaign.  How convenient.

UPDATE:  Once again Unpartisan.com has linked to me as a representative of the dextrosphere, the right side of the blogosphere (along with 16 other blogs), but what is stranger is that they have Wizbang representing the left.  And besides, I'm not a conservative, strictly speaking, but a libertarian, although leftists will argue all day long that anyone who opposes their viewpoint has to be a right-wing nutcase.

There are, of course, many points in common between libertarianism and some varieties of conservatism.

Comments

[Rob]

On "Commander in Chief".. darn, I've been saying that since the first ad for the show.. Phase 1 of Hillary's campain, you know.. ;-)
As far as namecalling, I found it odd, as an abandoned Democrat, to find myself being refered to as a "Radical Right-wing Christian". If anything, I've always refered to myself as a Radical Moderate. Show's us the usefullness of lables. mainly for the "other" side to bang you over the head with, I guess....