WTC's Freedom Tower starts to take shape

[Roland99]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-19-freedom-tower_x.htm

Seventy trucks rolled into ground zero Saturday to pour the concrete base of the signature skyscraper at the new World Trade Center, creating the first visible signs of the long-delayed tower.

The concrete mixers began by dropping 520 cubic yards of concrete near thin steel bars jutting from the bottom of ground zero. The base will anchor the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower's concrete core. Next month, the first steel beams for the tower are scheduled to rise.

The site has been bustling in recent months, with work on half a dozen projects underway after years of disputes about designs and authority over the redevelopment.

"We've really turned this site around," said Steve Plate, director of priority capital programs for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owned the trade center.

Gawd I hate the name of that building.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. I agree . . . could there be a more obnoxious name?

Still looking forward to standing across the river in Liberty State Park, where my wife used to work. And seeing SOMETHING there . . .

[aquart]

5. I was just about to say something about that.

The name is simply revolting. The terror attack had nothing to do with freedom.

[PirateJoe]

7. i agree with the first part...

the name is very corny. i would feel silly calling it the freedom tower. however, if you think 9/11 was anything less than an attack on our country, and more importantly, what it stands for (i.e. freedom), you are seriously misinformed. 9/11 was an attack on the western way of life.

[musette_sf]

9. and here i thought it was PNAC's "New Pearl Harbor"!

silly me!

:popcorn:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

13. !

:yourock:

[musette_sf]

16. thx

:headbang:

[Mika]

17. Too late. The 'western way of life', and 'what it stands for' has been..

.. outsourced.

[Tight_rope]

35. LMBAO....Too funny! But so true!

[TankLV]

23. yeah - sure it was -= and we are "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here"

right?

Utter complete crap...

[CJCRANE]

31. Yeah right.

Bin Laden himself said that if he was against "freedom" he would've attacked Sweden.

[saigon68]

33. An attack on Corporate Fatcats

[Wetzelbill]

37. seriously, they care little if at all about our way of life....

These are acts of political violence, brought on by infractions, sometimes real and sometimes perceived, that Western countries have committed against their people. Occupations, for example. Or blind U.S. support for Israel or other apostate regimes in the region. Historically, what we define as "terrorists" could care less about what we do, what are freedoms are, what kind of economic system we have or anything that construes "our way of life" because what they really would like is for us simply to leave them alone and stay out of their way of life. However, in the last five years something interesting has come up, you are now seeing people become fanaticized, not because of any political aspersions, but simply because Bush has become such a polarizing figure in the world and screwed up the Middle East so bad. The invasion of Iraq was an interesting turning point in the creation and evolution of terrorism. Now Muslims who are not directly effected by an occupation or some other event actually are beginning to hate the U.S. simply just to hate the U.S. That is how bad our reputation has become.

Still though, it is not about the obliteration of our way of life. They neither want that or even think they can do it. They do think they can make everything such a mess that we will eventually just leave them alone.

[LTR]

8. I agree

Shoulda found a way to work in the name "Trump".

[Donnachaidh]

2. wonder if all this *sudden* action is to deflect from the body parts

still being found? :sarcasm:

I'm sorry, but I'm very cynical about this. Especially in light of the fact that 5 years have gone by with nothing happening. Then more victim parts are found in several places. Which would make any thinking person wonder if there are other places that *should* be searched, but haven't.

Presto! In rolls the concrete trucks! Convenient?

[CatholicEdHead]

12. That is what I also thought of first

[Igel]

19. Perhaps they found the body bits

because they were poking around where nobody had poked since 9/11, making sure everything was there that should be there for construction.

[Warpy]

3. Considering it's dedicated to pushing us all into serfdom,

so do I. The only compensation is that it will be an attractive TARGET for the next bunch of murderously crazy assholes with a grudge against this country.

The name IS Orwellian. Freedom, my arse.

[ldf]

4. it is about time.

it can't happen soon enough.

we've had the "hole" there long enough.

and i will NEVER call it freedom tower.

in my mind it will always be the NEW WTC.

[biscotti]

6. Truly an Orwellian name

Just like the phrase Homeland Security. It is disgusting how they have labeled everything to help along the revisionist history chapter of their reign.

[musette_sf]

10. I hate the name too

and I also hate "Liberty International Airport" (the airport formerly known as "Newark").

As for the WTC, THIS is what needs to be done, not that flaky tower that will be like salt in a wound every time I see it:

http://www.triroc.com/wtc/

[Roland99]

14. Wow...love the pics of the MakeNYNYAgain site!

[musette_sf]

15. pass it on!!!

And to those in this thread making Trump jokes - hey, I think he's a pushy egomaniac with exceptionally bad hair, but HE is one of the only money guys who supported the Make NY NY concept for rebuilding the WTC.

IMNSHO, building *anything* else on that site is an insult to New York City and to the United States Of America. Liebskind's building just pounds sand, it's fugly and creepy.

[anotherdrew]

26. this is exactly what should be done. rebuild and restore, love it!

http://www.triroc.com/wtc/

something needs to be done ASAP to STOP the bullshit 'free-dom tower' plans cold.

we need ads on tv and get everyone calling now

[krispos42]

27. They renamed Newark Airport?

WTF? Seriously?

[Roland99]

28. Oh that's just freakin' ridiculous. Liberty International Airport????

:eyes:

[mcscajun]

30. Nobody around here calls it that, though. It's still Newark

as far as anybody in NJ is concerned.

It's like Reagan Airport in the D.C. area in that respect.

[krispos42]

36. Newark Liberty International Airport...

You can take the George Washington Justice Bridge to the New Jersey Inaliable Rights Turnpike.

[Rex]

11. Freedom Tower. Is that what we call it now?

Wow. Can I get some Freedom Fries? Do those people in Iraq have Freedom yet? :puke:

[Ignacio Upton]

18. Freedom is slavery!

And ignorance is strengh!


...I want to see something tall built to fill the void in the skyline left by the Twin Towers, but the name for this building is just too Orwellian.

[dailykoff]

20. Burying what's left of the evidence in concrete

before anybody gets any funny ideas. The chances of this eyesore ever getting topped out are zero.

[ldf]

22. the chances of something NOT being built there is zero.

and you can take that to the bank.

[dailykoff]

24. Something for the tourists, sure.

If they wanted 10,000,000 s.f. of commerical office space downtown they wouldn't have blown it up to begin with.

[billyoc]

25. Sorry, 'koff, I'll be topping it out myself.

billyoc, Ironworkers Local 33.

[Roland99]

29. Scary job. Saw a Discovery HD documentary on ironworkers building the WTC 7 replacement.

Don't see how they (you) do it. Walking around on beams with no safety support.

[Jose Diablo]

21. Good, I am looking forward to watching

the real perps hang on the gallows erected in the courtyard of the new WTC.

[sakabatou]

32. First day on opening...

A banner rolls down the tower with the phrases:

Freedom is Slavery
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength

[gauguin57]

34. I will always call it the Foreign Policy Tower. They don't "hate us for our freedom..."

... they hate us for our foreign policy.

Freedom Tower. Blech! Disgusting!

[phrenzy]

38. Hope Tower? New York Tower? Honor Tower? Hero's Tower? ANYTHING BUT..

FREE-DUMB tower! Good gawd. They may as well call it "Bush" tower the way those fucks have perverted the word!