Flight 93 memorial: blogburst for 8/20/08

It’s just flabbergasting, the nutty idiocy of the Flight 93 Memorial Project folks. They were actually going to call their fundraiser a gala, no doubt in emulation of the Twin Towers Gala and the Beslan Massacre Gala. I’m sure they’re simply shocked that the family members didn’t much appreciate that particular word choice, because the project managers are nothing if not verbally inventive and proud of it. We complain about a crescent and they call it a broken circle. They babble on and on about healing, embrace, love, and eternity. It’s enough to gag.

In today’s news video, Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley is at it again. Idealistic to a fault, literally, she believes in turning lemons into lemonade, so she revels in all the controversy. This time we are told that the design competition itself is “internationally renowned.” Heck, I guess. It certainly got my notice, and I was hardly even paying attention when they decided gratuitously to offend my sensibilities. Of course getting my attention isn’t necessarily a good or desirable thing.

These ass hats are so full of themselves it’s astonishing, and that’s after all what’s wrong with the memorial design. It shouldn’t be a tribute to a bunch of New Age pinheads who think they’re smart and morally superior. It shouldn’t be about their laughable artistic vision or their humanistic ideals. It shouldn’t even be about healing, as if such a thing is at all within their capabilities.

As for extending to us their loving embrace, I must reciprocate in kind.

So embrace this.

Flight 93 blogburst: Big DC fundraiser canceled

By Alec Rawls of Error Theory–

Cancel as well the urgent action alert that was going to be the subject of today’s blogburst post. The Memorial Project has just abandoned the “gala” tribute and fundraiser they were planning for almost a year. The event was to be held in Washington DC on September 11th, and yes, they actually called it a “gala,” until Flight 93 family members said NO WAY.

Last month’s announcement of the event promised big:

An impressive Honorary Host Committee has been assembled consisting of over 200 members of Congress and the leadership of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Special state delegations from Pennsylvania and California are also being organized for the event.

Assembled where? In the imaginations of Memorial Project personnel? If there really were two hundred Congressmen on board, including the leadership of both parties, what could possibly prompt cancellation?

Has word gotten out that the memorial is actually a terrorist memorial mosque?

Fuggedaboudit. We are a long ways from Congress being alert to the facts. It is possible, however, that there is a growing awareness in Congress that the Flight 93 families are divided over the crescent design (now called a broken circle). Thank Tom Burnett Sr., whose efforts to stop the desecration of his son’s grave drew national television coverage in May and extensive Pittsburgh coverage this month:

Tom Burnett Sr. on Pittsburgh’s KPXI channel 6, August 4th. Click for video.

We critics know well the difficulty of going up against Flight 93 family members. Who would have imagined that conservative stalwarts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would remain silent about the planting of a giant Mecca-oriented crescent on the Flight 93 crash site? But all it takes are some family members on the other side, and nobody wants to get involved.

Maybe Tom’s pleas for help are injecting the same paralysis into would-be supporters of the crescent design. If both sides are paralyzed, that is a step in the right direction, but it is nowhere near enough. Architect Paul Murdoch is still on track to stab his terrorist memorial mosque into the heartland of America. (That is the significance of a crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca. It is the central feature around which every mosque is built).

How big does the memorial controversy have to get before a few of these paralyzed big-wigs on either side decide simply to check the facts? All congressmen have interns they can assign to fact-check the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent (five minutes), the Islamic crescent soaring in the sky above the symbolic lives of the forty heroes (five seconds), and the forty-four glass blocks on the flight path (just open up the design drawings and count).

Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity all have interns too. If these folks are skeptical, they at least ought to want to expose our claims about these features as a fraud, so that the controversy can be put to rest. If they find that our claims are accurate, all we ask is that they join the call for a proper investigation.

Come on movers and shakers. Paralysis is not enough. Stand paralyzed as Paul Murdoch pilots a re-hijacked Flight 93 to its mark, and the heroism of Flight 93 will be well and truly betrayed.

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