9/11 Memorial Heist

Here is a cartoon and commentary from Cox & Forkum on the 9/11 memorial. I thought if fitting as a follow up to the geekwife's original entry.

The have a very appropriate statement on the whole morality and freedom quandary:

If one iota of appeasing, multicultural, moral-equivalence, anti-freedom ideology is allowed to desecrate the 9/11 memorial, it will be a victory for the very monsters who brought down the towers. Ask yourself: would it prove our "self-confidence and humanity" if we rose "above the politics of the moment" and allowed Nazi-sympathizers to express "freedom as they see it" at Auschwitz, or even the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum? No, it would not. It would be an insult to the victims. And likewise we must not allow terrorist-sympathizers and apologists any platform at the WTC memorial.

There is a nice collection of links to various view on the topic. Sadly including a defense.

They also provided this link to takebackthememorial.com. I suggest everyone go here that is at all irritated by this mess.

Takebackthememorial.com has a link to Richard Tofel's response to the original op-ed on the subject by Debra Burlingame. I found Tofel's response somewhat cloying and definitely irritating. If one placed the Arizona Memorial, the Auschwitz Memorial or any other dramatic memorial in the place of the 9/11 Memorial, would he feel the same way? My guess is yes. And I find that loathsome. It may have been different if the 9/11 Memorial was the main feature here and the Freedom Memorial the sideshow, but as far as I can see the 9/11 Memorial has been set as the second act.