Making Sure They Died In Vain

No matter how outrageous the DisLoyal Opposition gets, it is still necessary to always bear in mind that they have the right to believe as they choose and express those beliefs as they will - even when those beliefs attack and jeopardize those very freedoms themselves.

Still, there are times when left-wing anti-nationalism exceeds the remotest boundaries of tiresomeness, and the reasonable observer wishes they would just shut the hell up.

Today the New York Daily News reached that boundary over, "A global network of human rights museums....urging the International Freedom Center to downplay America in its exhibits and programs at Ground Zero":

The IFC's organizers have...cited plans to host exhibitions by members of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience as a reason why the Freedom Center would be a perfect fit for the hallowed ground where 2,749 people were murdered. To which we can only say that IFC leaders Tom Bernstein and Richard Tofel must be nuts. The advice the coalition gave them is neither inspirational nor practical. It is pure anti-American hogwash.

The coalition's wisdom, as spelled out in its 2004 annual report, begins by expressing concern about how religious Muslims would view the Freedom Center and climaxes by offering Bernstein, Tofel & Co. an offensive prescription: "Don't put America first." The coalition also worries that "the average Bangladeshi" feels "his/her human rights have been violated by the U.S." Come again? Exhibits on what amounts to a mass grave of slaughtered Americans will be decided by what the average Bangladeshi feels? Not bloody likely.

Consider this, too: "The Freedom Center is a caricature of the typical American response to everything (telling every story from an American viewpoint)." Exactly what viewpoint is an American museum on American soil marking an American tragedy supposed to express? Oh, right. Bangladeshi.

I have absolutely nothing against the natives of Bangladesh. God bless them one and all and may no more tsunamis ever again blight their pristine shores. But it wasn't three thousand average Bangladeshis that were deliberately sent to a fiery, dismembering death nearly four years ago. And if the average member of their population is brainwashed into bearing envy-mongering anti-American grudgefulness to the extent of - as the ICHSMC implies - believing that "we had it coming," then I guess that's one thing I would have against the "average people" of Bangladesh.

Put more generally and concisely, nineteen "religious Muslims" are the reason the World Trade Center towers, AND those three thousand "average" AMERICANS, aren't around anymore, so the "International Coalition" ought to be able to - and, frankly, ought to be forced to - understand when I and quite a few other "average Americans" stand up and reply to rafter-rattling volume that we don't give a rat's ass how "religious Muslims" would view a Freedom Center that actually dares to memorialize "a mass grave of slaughtered Americans" as A MASS GRAVE OF SLAUGHTERED AMERICANS.

I am so frakking tired of these self-appointed, moral supremacist culture assassins. I add my small voice to Brother Trunk's large one and urge, "your support [to] Debra Burlingame and the good folks who have been sounding the alarm at Take Back the Memorial."

UPDATE: A belated welcome to Flopping Aces readers! As Elmer Fudd said in his "Jack and the Beanstock" phase, "I guess I'll just have to open with a pair 'o jacks"....