The Battle For Ground Zero, Part XXX

The Uniformed Firefighters Association, which is comprised of current and former FDNY firefighters, has come out against the IFC participating at Ground Zero.

Take Back The Memorial has more.

UPDATE 8/17/2005:
Here's more from The New York Post.

The Uniformed Firefighters Associa tion's decision yesterday to withdraw support for the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, citing two controversial museums proposed there, may have ended the threat of institutionalized activism at Ground Zero.
Good for the UFA.

The union's "membership and our 9/11 families believe that the memorial design will take away from the memory and sacrifice of the firefighters who bravely gave their lives during the most horrific terrorist attacks our country has had to face," UFA President Steve Cassidy said.

Good for Steve Cassidy.

It's going to be especially hard now for the International Freedom Center and the Drawing Center to buck the opposition to their presence at Ground Zero.

The UFA speaks from the moral high ground: 343 firefighters died on 9/11.

Interestingly, the UFA announcement came on the very day that The New York Times — among the staunchest backers of the IFC and the Drawing Center — was reduced to attacking the sister of a pilot killed on one of the 9/11 planes, Debra Burlingame.

That's a regular trick by the Times. Instead of debating on the issues and merits, the Times seeks to denigrate Burlingame personally. The Times has no shame. After all, they consider anyone who opposes the IFC or The Drawing Center (which withdrew from the site when they realized that their agenda would not be tolerated by anyone) to be unAmerican.