freedom tower
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- nadnerb
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090…
So apparently tons of people are mad it's no longer officially called "Freedom Tower". Is anyone else actually glad it wont have this idiotic "patriotic" George Bush plastic bullshit of a name? I mean I know its just a name for some shit that has been commercialized and politicized and sold back to us like everything else .. . . but "Freedom Tower"...? Where does disneyland stop and reality begin?
- TheBlueOne0
"Where does disneyland stop and reality begin?"
When 3000 people die there. It should be the Freedom tower.
- +3000marychain
- I was roundingTheBlueOne
- IMO it's a really lame name and, to me, disrespects those who died there.zarkonite
- calcium0
I have no issue with the name Freedom Tower. I don't think it should be called "The World Trade Center" as an alternate. The World Trade Center is gone.
I just wish they would finally settle on name, design, etc. and build it. And to be honest, from the start, I was on board with them not building something else, but every bad moment is a moment someone else can make some money.
- kgvs720
The whole rebuilding had only one thing in mind: profit. Wait a couple years and they'll sell the name.
- mattiaBK0
It's amazing how is taking to make this happen! I mean it happened more then 7 years ago! And they are still worrying about the name!
- formed0
It is pathetic and a disgrace to American. The architecture began as a public process (competition), but as typical power and politics took hold, Libeskind was booted, SOM took over and D. Childs made his worst building ever (I'd give him an 'average' talent, and 'exceptional' for politics).
It is sad, boring and a perfect monument to American politics and power.
Who cares what it is called when it is so ridiculous. They should have killed the 1776 height, too, just to make it completed devoid of anything symbolic.
- kinda agree with your 2nd paragraph. still should be called Freedom tower.TheBlueOne
- Nairn0
I always found the Freedom Tower moniker a bit laughable.
Shit's going to look so tritely jingoistic in 30 years.
- sikma0
"just to make it completed devoid of anything symbolic"
Thank you. "Freedom Tower" sounded so ridiculous
- iCanHazQBN0
they should sell the name to the highest bidder, like they do sports arenas. *sigh
- TheBlueOne0
wow. i'm shocked at the america hate. and i thought i was the resident lefty.
and since when isn't america all about jingoistic cheese? Other than the constitution, that's what defines us as americans. ugly, but true.
- benfal990
Casualties: 3,000 in NYC and 99,720 in Irak.
Freedom Towers? Who's free?
- rayborn30000
whenever I see the word freedom I visualize myself throwing my fist in the air shouting "motha fucking FREEEEEEDOM" with country music playing the background
- uberdesigner0
how about the Fuck You Arab Crazy Assholes Tower?