Personally I was always against the renaming of the Ground Zero area in
the first place all the way back here, as the only people that seemed to object to it remaining the same was the families of the victims who certainly have a strong voice but have also taken the position that they somehow own the tragedy and everything associated with it frankly.And have always been in favor of rebuild the towers as they were only with the obvious safety improvements that would naturally emerge from the failures of the first one, which in my opinion would've resulted in a somewhat bionic version impervious mad Muslims and other nefarious freaks out to destroy them.
I even submitted a design during the initial contest suggesting the two towers be built with a small twist to the towers which ironically enough came close to resembling what they settled on, after the initial "Freedom tower" was changed to make it more structurally sound when the first design came back a bit flimsy so they decided to put the original design up on a pedestal coming up with final design below
Personally again I just get the point now as the entire project was supposed focused on this freedom idea and all that goofy bureaucratic crap and many polls have shown over the years that the people would much rather see the twin towers rebuilt as the ultimate middle fingers reaching across the Atlantic to our enemies letting them know we will not be intimidated and scared but sadly with the new president our enemies are licking their scraggly hair covered chops waiting for their next opportunity to take a whack at us/So if they're gonn scrap the Freedom name then why not the whole goofy concept of this whole center they are trying to fanagle out of the deal and replace the shit was destroyed with essentially what was there to begin with in just a more modern twist, like this/
Chicago Ray Two Tower concept circa June 2006
Here's another angle from a New York Time BlogOwners drop Freedom Tower name for new WTC skyscraper
-CNN.com: "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The agency that owns the space where the World Trade Center towers stood is freeing itself of the term 'freedom' to describe the signature skyscraper replacing the buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001.
The change from Freedom Tower was revealed Thursday at a news conference where the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced the signing of the first commercial lease in the building to a Chinese company. The building is expected to be completed in late 2013" continued
The ‘Freedom Tower’ Name Roars Back
For more than a year, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had been quietly backing away from the name “Freedom Tower” for 1 World Trade Center, not so much eliminating the coinage (by Gov. George E. Pataki) as lowering its profile continued
It's sad that every last damn thing in this country must be embroiled in politics.
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