Chris2005
July 27th, 2003, 05:59 PM
JULY 27TH, 2003
A group rallied outside City Hall Saturday to call for the twin towers to be replaced.
A group calling itself the World Trade Center Restoration Movement is protesting the redevelopment plan by architect Daniel Libeskind, saying the design is not the public choice. The varied group of activists and business executives want the twin towers to be rebuilt as they were.
“I think it's important that we restore them as they were – only stronger – as a way of saying no to Al Qaeda and that we remain a free and prosperous nation,” said syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock. “Unfortunately, Daniel Libeskind's switch-blade park, as I call it, is a nightmare vision. It doesn't stand for what this country does in term of our economic strength and prowess. I think the best way to just say no to Al Qaeda is to put the towers back where they belong.”
Libeskind’s design, including the world’s tallest tower and a sunken space for a memorial that preserves the empty look of the site, was chosen after a period of public comment by a committee organized by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
“All the way along,” said Louis Epstein, the founder of the World Trade Center Restoration Movement, “the officials have not been listening to people except for show. They have their preconceived notions, and they're not prepared to do what we really have to do. And we are not going to let them get away with it.”
The group also wants restoration of all commercial office and retail space that was destroyed in the World Trade Center attack. *
Source-NY1 News (www.ny1.com)
A group rallied outside City Hall Saturday to call for the twin towers to be replaced.
A group calling itself the World Trade Center Restoration Movement is protesting the redevelopment plan by architect Daniel Libeskind, saying the design is not the public choice. The varied group of activists and business executives want the twin towers to be rebuilt as they were.
“I think it's important that we restore them as they were – only stronger – as a way of saying no to Al Qaeda and that we remain a free and prosperous nation,” said syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock. “Unfortunately, Daniel Libeskind's switch-blade park, as I call it, is a nightmare vision. It doesn't stand for what this country does in term of our economic strength and prowess. I think the best way to just say no to Al Qaeda is to put the towers back where they belong.”
Libeskind’s design, including the world’s tallest tower and a sunken space for a memorial that preserves the empty look of the site, was chosen after a period of public comment by a committee organized by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
“All the way along,” said Louis Epstein, the founder of the World Trade Center Restoration Movement, “the officials have not been listening to people except for show. They have their preconceived notions, and they're not prepared to do what we really have to do. And we are not going to let them get away with it.”
The group also wants restoration of all commercial office and retail space that was destroyed in the World Trade Center attack. *
Source-NY1 News (www.ny1.com)