"Freedom Tower" in NYC to be an armed fortress, under total surveillance.

[Anti Federalist]

Irony is dead, I swear, it really is.

Does nobody even question the idea of a "Freedom Tower" that is under constant surveillance with hoards of cops hut-htting about 24/7?

War is Peace...ffs.


Freedom Tower to get its own police command center, nearly 700 cops

BY Rocco Parascandola, Alison Gendar and John Lauinger
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/18/2011-01-18_freedom_tower_will_have_nearly_700_police_offic ers_guarding_the_area_commissione.html

Originally Published:Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 11:30 AM
Updated: Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 5:02 PM

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/01/19/amd_nypd.jpg

Nearly 700 city cops will be assigned to a new command dedicated to policing the Freedom Tower and surrounding area, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday.

The World Trade Center Command will not be fully staffed until Ground Zero is completely rebuilt.

But the 673 officers that will eventually work out of the new command will give it substantially more manpower than any other NYPD precinct.

The precincts that have the largest headcounts - the Midtown South Precinct in Manhattan and the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn - each have about 400 cops.

Officers will be assigned to the new command incrementally, but scores of cops will already be in place by the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.

"We will have a significant presence there when the memorial opens \[this\] Sept. 11," Kelly said at a Police Foundation breakfast Tuesday.

The new command will further the NYPD's effort to put lower Manhattan on lockdown by complementing the network of security cameras and license plate readers known as the "Ring of Steel."

Kelly said Tuesday that "a solid defense against terrorism" will provide a safe working environment for businesses and pedestrians, and help spur Ground Zero's rebirth.

"There's a simple lesson in this: Commercial success is not hindered but helped by responsible, thoughtful and thorough security measures," Kelly said. "That is precisely what we will provide at the World Trade Center.

"We owe no less to the people who will be there every day."

Spearheading that effort will be the head of the new command, Deputy Inspector Donald McHugh of the Counterterrorism Bureau. He is currently drawing up plans to secure the 9-11 memorial, Kelly said.

The NYPD is working to find the new command a permanent downtown base, Kelly said. In the meantime, a temporary headquarters is being planned at a housing police office in the East Village.

Since the NYPD has roughly 6,000 fewer cops now than it did shortly after 9-11, a big question surrounds the new command: Where is Kelly going to get the cops to staff it?

(The hell? :confused: - AF)

Police brass said it is not clear how many of the 673 cops will be new hires and how many will be pulled from other assignments.

And it appears the city budget will have to absorb any additional financial impact, since - as of right now - no federal money has been earmarked for the Ground Zero cops.

The NYPD just graduated a new Police Academy class late last month, but Kelly has recently said that budget deliberations will determine if a new class will begin later this year.

[Vessol]

So I got to ask, why did they even build the "Freedom Tower"?

Just as a big "FUCK YOU TERRORISTS!!!!!!"?

I mean, the Trade Centers there before where icons not because they were big sticks in the skyline, but because of the thousands of financial offices that conducted business there.

I see no way how a building that has such a massive active duty police force and security is going to be conductive to business in any way. Afterall, if such security measures actually helped business, wouldn't you see each and every mom and pop store in your town with a security guard and every walmart staffed by a cadre of swat officers?
I'd also like to see who paid for this tower if it has no productive use..oh yeah, the taxpayers probably.

[silverhandorder]

The owner abandoned the tower after they took over the building plans and everything.

[PermanentSleep]

All I've got is...

...WTF.

[HOLLYWOOD]

700 city cops armed like Military Assault teams... in complete surveillance and control of the FREEDOM TOWER.

Oh the Irony!

Meanwhile, Anyone, can hijack up a corporate jet over @ Teterboro or Linden airports in New Jersey load it full of HMX, Octanitrocubane, TNT, fuel, whatever, and in a 2-3 minutes can be @ the tower.

Or if it's a ground attack... there's a 1000 secondary targets on Mahattan.

A fools game of impression.

[squarepusher]

so, it was NYC residents who did 9-11, or terrorists?

[LisaNY]

So sad...Especially when I think of how free and wild NY used to be.

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Irony is dead, I swear, it really is.

Does nobody even question the idea of a "Freedom Tower" that is under constant surveillance with hoards of cops hut-htting about 24/7?

War is Peace...ffs.

Welcome to The Machine, brother. Ugh.

[vita3]

Is Kroll going to be in charge again?

[rprprs]

I know this is too serious a matter to joke about, but I couldn't resist passing along this one comment I saw on the article...

dymaduzen
9:25:00 AM
Jan 19, 2011
In a related development, Dunkin Donuts has announced a major expansion in the area...


Well, I thought it was funny, anyway... ;)

[Lucille]

Funny, in a tragic black comedy sort of way.

It's a fugly building anyway. They should have been rebuilt as they were, but the ghouls would rather honor, and constantly remind everyone of, the tragedy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIawNRm9NWM

[CountryboyRonPaul]

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.



http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/mlasalle/2007/11/08/giuliani500x375.jpg

[roho76]

What would be really funny is if the entire building was occupied, not by profitable companies, but by agencies doing nothing but trying to protect the building.

[RideTheDirt]

What would be really funny is if the entire building was occupied, not by profitable companies, but by agencies doing nothing but trying to protect the building.
I'll remember to bump this thread when it happens.

[madengr]

Betcha you'll be able to buy Freedom Fries and Victory Gin from the observation deck.

[HazyHusky420]

How dare you all criticize the Freedom Tower! Many innocents there died at the hands of blood thirsty Islamofascists who beat women and drool acid! This tower is for those who DIED! GOD BLESS GEORGE W. BUSH! Palin/Hannity 2012!

*NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY*

[Kludge]

What would be really funny is if the entire building was occupied, not by profitable companies, but by agencies doing nothing but trying to protect the building.

Lol, this was my first thought.

20% politicians,
40% bureaucracy,
40% anti-terror grunts.

And then I realized the purpose of the tower was to divert terrorist attacks away from actual industry.

[tangent4ronpaul]

hmmm... you just know someplace like that is going to have a bunch of really big screen TV's all over. It would be pretty cool to hack into the CCTV feed and replace the propaganda with video of Big Brother... :cool:

-t

[puppetmaster]

The owner abandoned the tower after they took over the building plans and everything.

say what?

[tangent4ronpaul]

Funny, in a tragic black comedy sort of way.

It's a fugly building anyway. They should have been rebuilt as they were, but the ghouls would rather honor, and constantly remind everyone of, the tragedy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIawNRm9NWM

IIRC, the guy used a slackline and not a tightrope. The real life guy, not the Hollyweird version.

http://www.amazon.com/Webster-Maroon-Highway-Slackline-Package/dp/B003VSL3R2/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I16E5IF1ZQXUNA&colid=23QZ0JHKVW3PH

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif

http://www.amazon.com/Gibbon-GISL1025-classic-slacklines-Classic-Slackline/dp/B0018MHUBG/ref=pd_sim_dbs_sg_3

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif

-t

[Anti Federalist]

LRC blog picks up on the story:



January 19, 2011
The Government’s Definition of ‘Freedom’
Posted by David Kramer on January 19, 2011 06:00 PM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/75810.html

The government-“owned” Freedom Tower now being erected at Ground Zero (the “Zero” represents how many freedoms the government eventually wants us to have post-9/11) will be “protecting” the Freedom Tower on a daily basis with almost 700 thugs public “servants.” I can’t wait to see the security process employees will have to put up with to get into and out of this misnamed building each day.

[Anti Federalist]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182rSPQJzEM&feature=player_embedded

Highest rated comment on the above:


Consider for a second that today you can go to the Red square or Tiananmen square and shoot a video about freedom and democracy. 30 years ago you would have been met with the same hostility you received today in America. Now if you had a Time machine and told Americans this would happen just 10 years ago they would have laughed in your face.

Today they laugh if you tell them America is in decline. Why? The TV said we are in a recovery. LOL

[Anti Federalist]

bump

[emazur]

post #12 beat me to it, but I'm gonna post this anyway:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E0D91E3DF934A25750C0A9629582 60
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2087/2122782043_9ea67b2c54.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

bump

[Expatriate]

At the apex of the tower will rest New York's greatest new tool in the fight against crime and terrorism. Playfully dubbed the "all-seeing-eye" this powerful camera will be able to pan and tilt through a nearly 360 degree sphere and will utilize still-classified military imaging technology to scan for and instantly recognize terrorist activity.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Freedom_Tower_New.jpg

lol... jk but I bet you almost believed it, sadly enough.

[Anti Federalist]

Kingdom Tower Bump.

[heavenlyboy34]

Irony is dead, I swear, it really is.

Does nobody even question the idea of a "Freedom Tower" that is under constant surveillance with hoards of cops hut-htting about 24/7?

War is Peace...ffs.



+rep awesome post. :cool: and epic irony, too.

[MikeStanart]

It's going to be a new shining beacon of Statism that will reign in the Orwellian age.

[Anti Federalist]

Bumped because another thread reminded me of this.

[Working Poor]

So sad...Especially when I think of how free and wild NY used to be.

Yea it is kinda messing up my memories...

[libertybrewcity]

And after all of this it STILL won't be the tallest building in the world when it's completed. Why even build it?

[John F Kennedy III]

2+2=5

[Sola_Fide]

LoL...war is peace

[HOLLYWOOD]

They hate US because of Our "FREEDOM TOWER"

Government uses 'Symbols' for the simple minded.

[Zippyjuan]

Always responding to the last crisis- even if the odds of it happening again are really quite small. Like taking your shoes off at the airport. But they feel the need to "prevent it from happening again in the future."

[parocks]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Freedom_Tower_New.jpg

lol... jk but I bet you almost believed it, sadly enough.

Will there be a gun to shoot down airplanes? Has anyone figured out in the last 10 years how to shoot down planes? I never got how that was never discussed, or just brushed over. It's been 10 years, can we just start talking about that. I mean, not as a conspiracy or anything, but just as a basic competency issue. We watched live the 2nd plane hit the WTC? Don't we have a defense department? And it costs how much? And it can't shoot down a plane? There's a lot that Ron Paul can talk about if he wants to. I'm not suggesting he do that.

[Anti Federalist]

Will there be a gun to shoot down airplanes? Has anyone figured out in the last 10 years how to shoot down planes? I never got how that was never discussed, or just brushed over. It's been 10 years, can we just start talking about that. I mean, not as a conspiracy or anything, but just as a basic competency issue. We watched live the 2nd plane hit the WTC? Don't we have a defense department? And it costs how much? And it can't shoot down a plane? There's a lot that Ron Paul can talk about if he wants to. I'm not suggesting he do that.

New York police can shoot down a plane if needed

http://news.yahoo.com/york-police-shoot-down-plane-needed-144444290.html

[libertybrewcity]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2217/2081506647_8c39a9ac9e_o.jpg

It looks like 1/3 of the building is just plain useless...

[Anti Federalist]

Bump

[RM918]

What they should've done was just build the towers back up, EXACTLY as they were. No way in hell anyone was going to let so many opportunities for abusing the situation go by, however. And they most certainly haven't.

[AGRP]

Oh look everyone. It's a massive pool of love:

http://260mc.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/auschwitz-corpses.jpg?w=300&h=300


:rolleyes:

[Anti Federalist]

Oh look everyone. It's a massive pool of love:

http://260mc.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/auschwitz-corpses.jpg?w=300&h=300


:rolleyes:

Are you questioning the unbridled love of the state, komrade?

Reported.

[Mckarnin]

Does it have little taser lamp posts around it that randomly zap you and pepper sprayers in the planters that spray you in the face if you smell the flowers too?

[BUSHLIED]

remember what Ron says if they name it something patriotic, it's probably NOT...

[Anti Federalist]

Does it have little taser lamp posts around it that randomly zap you and pepper sprayers in the planters that spray you in the face if you smell the flowers too?

Shhhh....do not give them ideas.

[AGRP]

Are you questioning the unbridled love of the state, komrade?

Reported.

Oh look. A Good Samaritan is giving this stranger a silver trinket:

http://www.athousandandone.com/photos/0/448a06a136c79_s.jpg

[PreDeadMan]

lol a freedom tower with all of that militaristic stuff inside of it and security cameras all over seems extremely Orwellian to me lol. Do you think they serve "freedom fries" inside of the "freedom tower".

[cindy25]

NYC is so traumatized by 911 that it almost rules out appointing anyone from there to a judgeship, DHS, justice, defense

I wonder how long it took people in Honolulu to move on after Pearl Harbor.

[cajuncocoa]

The terrorists have truly won. We were told that they hated us for our freedom; thus, we made sure they would never have cause to hate us ever again.

[nobody's_hero]

I wonder if they're rebuilding the WTC (in the form of 'freedom tower') because we actually need it, or because they're just trying to make a point.

[Tudo]

I used to look at the upper floors of the trade center from my living room window in Soho.

It totally disgusts me what is happening in this country and if there was a warm place with legal marijuana I would seriously consider retiring outside the country. I'm one of those "old" guys. 57 yo and I've about had it after this election.

In my younger days I would have been organizing some real deals in terms of protest. But after being in business 30 years I'd just as soon walk away, far away at this point if the option was available.

[Anti Federalist]

Bump, because this monstrosity is almost complete.

LOL at 1776 feet...



Winds scrub lift of World Trade Center spire

1:47 p.m. EDT April 29, 2013

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/29/world-trade-center-911-human-remains/2120359/

The spire will cap the building at 1,776 feet, a soaring memorial to the 2001 terror attack.

NEW YORK (AP) - One World Trade Center already is New York's tallest building.

And when the last pieces of its spire eventually rise to the roof, the 104-floor skyscraper that replaces the fallen twin towers will be just feet from becoming the highest in the Western Hemisphere.

Officials had hoped that would happen Monday, but the weather did not cooperate and it was postponed due to high winds. The event will be rescheduled when conditions permit.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the spire pieces and a steel beacon will be lifted at a later date from the rooftop to cap the building at 1,776 feet.

Installation of the 800-ton, 408-foot spire began in December, after 18 pieces were shipped from Canada and New Jersey.

The spire will serve as a world-class broadcast antenna.

With the beacon at its peak to ward off aircraft, the spire will provide public transmission services for television and radio broadcast channels that were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, along with the trade center towers.

Overlooking the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the high-rise is scheduled to open for business in 2014.

The tower is at the northwest corner of the site, which is well on its way to reconstruction with the 72-story 4 World Trade Center and other buildings.

Monday's postponed celebration of the reconstructed trade center was to come days after a grisly reminder of the terror attack that took nearly 3,000 lives: the discovery of a rusted piece of airplane landing gear wedged between a nearby mosque and an apartment building - believed to be from one of the hijacked planes that ravaged lower Manhattan.

As officials prepared to erect the spire, the office of the city's chief medical examiner was working in the hidden alley where debris may still contain human remains.

The new tower's crowning spire is a joint venture between the ADF Group Inc. engineering firm in Terrebonne, Quebec, and New York-based DCM Erectors Inc., a steel contractor.

The tallest building in the Western Hemisphere is the Willis Tower in Chicago. The world's tallest building, topping 2,700 feet, is in Dubai.

[Christian Liberty]

so, it was NYC residents who did 9-11, or terrorists?

Or maybe it was politician-terrorists;)

NOTE: Not actually a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, although I know next to nothing about the arguments for the conspiracy. I was, to be fair, six years old when this happened.

[Anti Federalist]

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121205194057/simpsons/images/e/e9/Nelson_Ha-Ha.jpg

Teen sneaks past guard to reach WTC spire

http://nypost.com/2014/03/20/teen-sneaks-past-sleeping-wtc-guard-reaches-104th-floor/

A New Jersey teen captivated by 1 World Trade Center sneaked out of his home in the dead of night, got past a wall of security — and a sleeping guard — and made it all the way up to the spire, The Post has learned.

Scrawny, 16-year-old Justin Casquejo crawled through a hole in a Ground Zero fence at about 4 a.m. Sunday and got a lift up the tower from a clueless union elevator operator, even though he had no ID.

He was dropped off on the 88th floor and hiked the stairs up to the 104th floor — where a guard assigned to protect the top of the world’s biggest terror target was sound asleep.

That guard has since been fired.

Casquejo told cops he then climbed up to the roof and made it up to the antenna.

After spending two glorious hours atop the nation’s tallest building snapping photos, the young daredevil was finally caught by a construction worker as he made his way back down.

Casquejo hangs from a crane in Hoboken.Photo: Twitter

“He came here and he ran hog wild,” said a stunned WTC worker.

Casquejo, who lives in Weehawken, NJ, laughed the whole thing off Wednesday afternoon when The Post asked him about his escapade.

“Ha ha, oh yeah, that. Right. I would really love to talk to you guys because I have a lot that I want to say about it,” he said. “I was told that I just can’t [talk] without permission.”

But he summed up his adventure in a one-word tweet: “Inspired.”

Casquejo has long been a WTC buff. His Facebook page features photos of him posing with the building in the background.

When cops questioned him, he bragged that he had little trouble getting past security at a building that was supposed to be cloaked in a “ring of steel.”

“I walked around the construction site and figured out how to access the Freedom Tower rooftop,” he said, according to court papers.

Law-enforcement sources said Casquejo got into the heavily guarded site like a kid sneaking into an abandoned warehouse — though a gap in a barbed-wire fence.

“He’s a skinny kid who got through a skinny hole,” a source said.

The elevator operator who asked no questions while taking him skyward has since been reassigned — but got to keep his job because of his hardhat union. But the guard who was snoozing on the top floor wasn’t as lucky — he was immediately fired.

Casquejo faces a charge of misdemeanor trespassing, but his adventure is an epic failure of at least four layers of security at the WTC site.

The Port Authority Police Department, the NYPD and a private security company patrol the building perimeter. Another private company secures the interior.

None of them would comment.

[acptulsa]

The Port Authority Police Department, the NYPD and a private security company patrol the building perimeter. Another private company secures the interior.

None of them would comment.

Freedom always finds a way...

[Christian Liberty]

http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/mlasalle/2007/11/08/giuliani500x375.jpg

That quote is so stupid. What's even sadder is that some people believe it.

As for the "freedumb" tower, I've been mocking it ever since I've heard about it. And I absolutely condone continuing to mock it. its a joke.

[Philhelm]

The only way we could have truly defeated the terrorists is if we had erected a massive skyscraper in the shape of a penis. Opportunity lost.

[Christian Liberty]

The only way we could have truly defeated the terrorists is if we had erected a massive skyscraper in the shape of a penis. Opportunity lost.

The heck?:rolleyes:

[Anti Federalist]

The only way we could have truly defeated the terrorists is if we had erected a massive skyscraper in the shape of a penis. Opportunity lost.

Huh huh huh...he said erected.

Hah hah hah, yeah and penis.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

it's not a tower, it's a ziggurat

[Mani]

Ring Of Steel???




You mean like an Iron Curtain????


HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!

Sorry I make myself laugh sometimes.






I'm just imaging the idiots naming this stuff....

Idiot #1 "Ya this Freedom Tower is amazing! It's all about FREEDOM and Liberty! And we gotta protect it! We'll have 700 troops and surveillance everywhere, and guards and sniffing dogs, and quadruple backup alarms, Iron gates that can be raised within seconds during a lock down and no one gets in or out. 100% monitoring everywhere, and we'll make it impenetrable! Like a fortress! Like an IRON Curtain!!!"


Idiot #2 "Uhh...wait man...Iron curtain? Doesn't sound right....not really sure why...but Iron Curtain...just doesn't sound American enough..."

Idiot #1 "Ya...You're right...there's something not right about calling it an Iron Curtain........hmmmm........How about RING OF STEEL!!!"

Idiot #2 "Oh ya, that's bad ass. Let's tell the boss. That's why you get paid the big consulting bucks."

[VIDEODROME]

NYC is the new Mordor

https://politicalfilm.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dc-mordor.jpg

[Mani]

Hahahaha...I can just imagine all this freedom when it's completed:

Hey guys let's go check out the FREEDOM TOWER!

http://www.defencegreece.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/evros-fence.jpeg

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Armed-Security-Guards.jpg

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/5b/80/5b80c4b040221f14b13eedc4161a8368.jpg?itok=pH1tHEup

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Swedish_police_dogs.jpg

http://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/security-cameras-surveillance-600x400.jpg

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/7a/89/13/filename-dscn4598-jpg.jpg

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/sfnomercy/Norad/CheyenneMountainblastdoors.jpg



It's over the bridge, through the barbed wire, passed the friendly K9 dogs (please remove anything in your pockets before entering), passed the security forces, behind the iron fences and all in view of the 10 surveillance cameras every 6 feet. Isn't it great!?! It feels like FREEDOM IN THE PLACE! I feel so safe!!!!!

[Spikender]

I wonder if they'll allow 32oz sodas inside of the Freedom Tower?

[vita3]

Talked to two Union workers @ different times when the Tower was being "rebuilt". one was Iron worker, other was Carpenter.

Both knew the original was brought down by some type of explosives & was part of a foreign policy offensive.

Vicous cycle of destruction & big business

[Spikender]

Come now, vita, don't listen to experts who actually know anything about construction or demolition, just pop the flag pin back onto your chest and scream America whenever any naysayer comes at you with some bullshit like the "truth".

[Anti Federalist]

Bump for the white flags

[tangent4ronpaul]

Yeah, that reminded me of the sports paragliders that snuck past all that "security". Terrorism theater... What a JOKE!

That and the guy that swam and then wandered onto the tarmac at JFK...

-t

[Christian Liberty]

I mock the Freedom Tower every time we pass it, for a different reason each time.

Last time I mocked the fact that there was a "buckle up, its the law" sign right next to where we passed the tower on the road.

[JK/SEA]

I mock the Freedom Tower every time we pass it, for a different reason each time.

Last time I mocked the fact that there was a "buckle up, its the law" sign right next to where we passed the tower on the road.

so, you're 'allowed' to look at it?....

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

freedom tower up ahead, no trespassing

what happened to the name "One World Trade Center"? Or whatever