We've been following this story for quite a while now, and it is good to report that the people can make their voices heard:

NEW YORK (AP) - Bowing to pressure from Sept. 11 families, Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday removed a proposed freedom center from the space reserved for it near the planned World Trade Center memorial, saying the museum project had aroused "too much opposition, too much controversy."

Pataki initially said the state would help the International Freedom Center find another home, but center officials said they weren't interested and considered the project dead.

Pataki said a planned cultural building meant for the freedom center would now tell only the story of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

And that is how it should be - for the 9/11 memorial to become anything other than a memorial to 9/11 was absurd; to make it a platform for anti-American polemics would have been an obscenity. 9/11 was a unique event - a day or terror, but also a day of sublime courage and national resolution. It is our day, and the memorial belongs to us - not to internationalist nitwits who want to use our platform as their megaphone.

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