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Outcry after new Ground Zero tower loses 'Freedom'
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Evil Mar 28 2009, 03:04 AM Post #1
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NEW YORK (AFP) — The owners of the skyscraper being built at Ground Zero ran into controversy Friday with the decision to strip the building of its patriotic unofficial name "Freedom Tower."

"No more freedom," read the front page of the Daily News, declaring in an editorial that the site's owner, the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, was "erasing history."

"Freedom is out of fashion at Ground Zero," rival tabloid the New York Post said.

The Port Authority announced that the planned 1,776-foot building, now barely above its foundations, will instead be known by the same name as one of the twin towers destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: One World Trade Center.

Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia made the announcement Thursday, saying: "As we market the building we will ensure that the building is presented in the best possible way.... One World Trade Center is its address, it's the one that we are using."


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Thoughts? Did you like the name "Freedom Tower"? Should the name "One World Trade Center" ever be used again?
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Its just a name

Although the name "Freedom Tower" does sound stupid.
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People's Republic of Bandora Mar 28 2009, 07:42 AM Post #3
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Hate propaganda titles for things, like when they tried to make french fries 'freedom fries'.

Freedom Tower is absolutely stupid-sounding, especially when you consider what goes on inside it. Economic oppression.
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i think one world trade center is better, why not keep it what it is, it is one world trade center, so it should stay that, spit in the face of osama bin laden
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It'd still rather that they rebuild the towers as they were, and not replace them with some hideous piece of shit that will make the rest of New York City look even shittier.
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It'd still rather that they rebuild the towers as they were, and not replace them with some hideous piece of shit that will make the rest of New York City look even shittier.
That wouldn't go with the N.W.O.'s plans!

But seriously, I agree with you. Rebuild them as they were, maybe get them to be better protected against commercial jets - which they were previously, yet somehow fell - or to take a heavier beating. Call them the World Trade Center, and let us get on with it.
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