Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:15:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Louis Epstein Subject: WTC Rebuilding #109:The Second Year Begins I don't like giving less than an hour's notice,but the below press release from Andy Martin refers to a webcast radio show he's doing at 1 PM Eastern today. Another radio host,new to the email list,Michael Smerconish, has done an opinion piece he referred us to: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/4057001 (more stuff after the press release) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 00:23:24 EDT From: Andymart20@aol.com To: andy@andymartin.com Subject: Rebuild the Twin Towers Says Syndicated Radio Columnist RADIO COLUMNIST, FORMER WORLD TRADE CENTER TENANT, DEMANDS NEW YORK CITY "STOP DELAYING AND START REBUILDING" WORLD TRADE CENTER TWIN TOWERS A PROGRAMMING NOTE FROM "ANDY MARTIN'S AMERICA" (NEW YORK) Nationally syndicated radio columnist Andy Martin will host a special radio/Internet news conference edition of "Andy Martin's America" Thursday, September 12th at 1:00 P.M. to demand that New York City officials stop delaying reconstruction of the World Trade Center. Martin is the only talk radio host who was a tenant of the World Trade Center and spent years working there. "New York's response to rebuilding has been a disgrace," says Martin. "They got a commitment for $20 billion to 'rebuild,' but they have not rebuilt anything. They keep squabbling about memorials and footprints. American taxpayers have a right to demand action. "There is an overwhelming national consensus that we cannot convert the World Trade Center into a 'memorial.' I am sick of victims trying to intimidate the public with exaggerated demands for memorials. The largest single block of national support is for taller and bigger towers. "If the 9/11 + 1 coverage impressed anything on me, it is that the American people want action, and they want reaction. New York City's disgraceful delay in beginning reconstruction of the WTC should prompt President Bush to suspend further financial aid unless and until the Twin Towers start rising again. "The Pentagon was rebuilt. Reconstruction is complete. New Yorkers haven't put the first shovel in the ground. "If we can't agree on a bigger and better--and taller--World Trade Center, we still have the blueprints for the old towers. Let's update the old plans and start pouring concrete. "Once, brave Americans said 'Let's roll.' Now it is time for Americans to tell New Yorkers 'Let's rebuild.' NOW." Martin's controversial program "Andy Martin's America" is a fulcrum of foreign policy, political analysis and contemporary commentary on the Internet. Martin is a national columnist for Out2.com. Martin has been involved in various aspects of broadcasting for 34 years. He has been an adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York, is a Washington foreign policy consultant in the areas of military security and intelligence and was an assistant to U.S. Senator Paul H. Douglas. Martin's radio program "Andy Martin's America" covers national and international matters from 1-2 P.M. Radio call-in (800) 810-9727. Internet radio website 1340wpbr.com (click "on air"). See Out2.com (Govt. & Politics) for some earlier Martin statements. E-mail andy@andymartin.com. ---------- End forwarded message ---------- http://www.nypost.com/realestate/56752.htm tells a sad story; even in the face of a CEO willing to sign a lease for the top five floors of full-scale new WTC Towers,Larry Silverstein's wife can talk him into preferring to build shorter,to protect their children.A world in which we don't put the Towers back full sized is not one in which I can bear to HAVE children! But this,like the anonymous asset management company's billboard, shows that businesses who want to rent offices there,not just grassroots potential tourists,want the breathtaking gigantism of the old WTC back on that site in all its glory. PBS is running a poll and taking essays on what to build: http://www.pbs.org/americarebuilds/dialogue/dialogue_poll.html (so far the poll is going our way,add your voice!) http://www.pbs.org/americarebuilds/dialogue/ Petition table volunteers are wanted for Saturday, anyone else coming to the Broadway corner of One Liberty? Donald Trump,ever shifting with the winds,has been making some pro-rebuilding noises on radio and Fox News lately. Russell Barton has a design proposal site at http://worldcenter.us/ now linked from http://www.put.com/wtc/ . Any new additions to the email list,please rest assured that you only need to ask to be removed at once...and please make sure to send your comments urging very tall towers as the keystone of site plan development to the addresses given on http://www.put.com/wtc/ BEFORE the end of the month, no matter where you live...we must show them the world wants its towers! See you on the 111th floor on 9-11-11! -=-=- The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again, at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.