Forsaking the Public Trust at Ground Zero

Tim Sumner, 9/11 family member and webmaster of 9/11 Families for America, relays how Tom Berstein is hijacking the memorial at Ground Zero.

He writes:

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has repeatedly failed the trust the American people placed in it. Either knowingly or with a lack of due diligence, the LMDC allowed a political ideolog to become a key member of the boards overseeing the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero. Further, the LMDC has allowed him to turn the gateway cultural center to the memorial — which America clearly expected to be about 9/11 — into a platform for his personal politics and sense of history. The LMDC has seeded 300 million dollars of taxpayer's money to an International Freedom Center that planned originally to contain nothing to do with 9/11 and to become a "public square" for the world's activists to debate upon. Now the LMDC would have America trust the IFC's Chairman, "nearly 100 advisers" and the Aspen Institute to chose the IFC's content and to monitor its activities. In the latest insult, the LMDC would allow the IFC to place the heroes of 9/11 next to "freedom's heroes," take 9/11 artifacts from the memorial and elsewhere and place them at the entrance and within the IFC, and co-opt the personal property and remembrances of family members as drawing cards to his scheme. This insidious plan is led by Tom Bernstein. It is up to the American people to stop his plan.

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