PUT IT ABOVE GROUND PRESS CONFERENCE COMMENTS
www.putitaboveground.org Comments for Press Conference
March 29, 2006
Dr. Rosaleen Tallon 914-714-5515 914-237-8115
Sally Regenhard 646-266-1987
Jim McCaffrey 914-776-5737
Dennis McKeon 718-619-2371
ALL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO SIGN OFF ON THE UNDERGROUND MEMORIAL FOR GROUND ZERO WILL HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS IF EVEN ONE PRECIOUS LIFE IS LOST NEEDLESSLY UNDER STREET LEVEL IN THE EVENT OF A THIRD TERRORIST ATTACK OR OTHER EMERGENCY
* Can you believe we are NOW talking about safety for a memorial the world will be coming to see that is supposedly already under construction? Shouldn’t safety have been first? If safety was the priority, the memorial would never have been planned for under street level. This must now be seriously examined by the public. * How can we trust an agency that betrayed the public trust twice in the past? The people of this city and country must not allow the Port Authority to create a needlessly unsafe memorial under street level.* The world deserves better than an underground memorial where there is even a doubt about safety and evacuation. The only way to feel safe at the GZ Memorial is to have it aboveground for the quickest safest evacuation possible.
* Once you have to even question the logistics of safety at this terrorist attraction, it makes you realize that an underground memorial is all wrong! Above-ground at this site is the only way to go.
* There is a primal instinct of wanting to being able to run as fast as you can from this site, like the people from the Twin Towers ran up Broadway on 9-11-01.
* We invite the press to go down 30-70 ft below street level at the Path Train and see how they would feel lingering and memorializing the dead down there.* We will trust that our elected officials, our politicians, do not strong-arm or control the advice that safety personnel on NYC payroll are going to present to the public just to push this underground memorial through to construction.This is dé·jà vu. Safety experts came out in support of the Twin Towers in 1970. Did those safety experts just happen to miss out on safety back then? Where were the Port Authority safety experts when warned about a truck bomb before 1993? There is no room for error here at this site a third time. Put it above ground. It only makes common sense.
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