Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:12:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis Epstein 
Subject: WTC Rebuilding #349:More Press and Pressure


Peter Walukiewicz alerted me that David Shuster has again
returned to the Towers-Rebuilding issue at his "Hardblogger"
column at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/ .

Note that I am cc'ing Shuster on this list-email besides the
main email list on blind copy.

Thank you to those of you who sent me copies of
John Avlon's New York Sun article,which is indeed
another specifically-pro-Gardner/Belton piece.

We all know of course that the rebuilding movement has been
there from the day the Towers fell,with officialdom resolutely
ignoring it with the single-mindedness of the technician whose
wiring every single strain gage the wrong way prompted Captain
Ed Murphy to enter the English language with his observation
"If there is any way to do it wrong,he will".

I know Ken Gardner doesn't believe he invented the rebuilding
movement,or that his plan is the only plan that does the right
thing.(As noted,my main objection to his version is that it
totally surrenders both of the old footprints to exclusively
memorial use,rather than demanding the debate that Governor
Pataki forbade to be held despite polls showing evenly divided
public opinion on whether the footprints should be reclaimed
for the purposes to which and for which the victims gave their
lives).I know that pro-rebuilders can differ on details while
remaining united on the principles that bring us together and
should bar the official plans.

I hope Shuster will read my commentaries at
http://www.put.com/wtc/comments.html on the
past stages of the official process which has
meticulously refused to consider any plans not
making mandated mistakes.Shuster mentions the
Environmental Impact Statement and the Restoration
Alternative in his column,and my EIS comments make
reference to the unfairness with which the Restoration
Alternative is evaluated.

(He might as well take a look at some of the other good
designs at http://www.put.com/wtc/ too).

He looks forward to the 2008 presidential elections and
whether candidates can deflect Pataki's desperate stampede
down the wrong path,but the 2005 Mayoral and New Jersey
and 2006 New York gubernatorial elections offer even
earlier opportunities to replace advocates of the Libescheme
with those who may be open to doing the right thing.

By all means write to Shuster from whatever pro-rebuilding angle
you are comfortable with...we are here and must be heard!

Other recent press of note:
http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40979.htm
notes an overheating in the Downtown real estate market,
at least residentially.(Bloomberg's obsession with helping
the already excessive Downtown population growth rate will
hit any future administration with infrastructure problems.
Better to help the Financial District retain its historic
character as a unique area than make it just another one
of the 24/7 communities!)

http://nypost.com/postopinion/letters/41023.htm
has two letters approaching the West Side Stadium from opposite
angles,but one attacks the Fraud'em Tower's empty top in appealing
for the Stadium to be built,and the other (from Tal Barzilai) says
the taxpayer money proposed for the stadium would be better used
restoring the Twins.

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.