# Freedom Tower?! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 29, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381 "2005-06-29T16:21:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/1 "2005-06-29T16:21:45Z")
“Freedom Tower” What a pompous, stupid, Orwellian name for the structure being built on the ruins of the appropriately named World Trade Center. They might as well paint a fuckin’ bull’s eye on the side of the building and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/2 "2005-06-29T16:23:07Z")
Oh, and here is the [link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8398770/). ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/3 "2005-06-29T16:29:13Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > What a pompous, stupid, Orwellian name for the structure being built on the ruins of the appropriately named World Trade Center. [tinfoil]Ah, but it’s really quite ingenious. It’s inevitable that the CIA will blow up the Freedom Tower in order to get more rebuilding contracts for Haliburton and provide evidence to the American public that Iran needs to be invaded. Imagine how much more poignant the story will be if the _Freedom_ tower gets destroyed!!! Jeb’s administration can use it as proof that the terrorists hate freedom![/tinfoil] ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/4 "2005-06-29T16:44:00Z")
I could be wrong, but wouldn’t that North Carolina Republican congressman who recently turned against the war now prefer that this structure be called the “French Fry Tower?” ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/5 "2005-06-29T16:58:55Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I could be wrong, but wouldn’t that North Carolina Republican congressman who recently turned against the war now prefer that this structure be called the “French Fry Tower?” Hehehe Build the twins back up, that thing is fugly. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/6 "2005-06-29T17:02:23Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Build the twins back up, that thing is fugly. And the WTC wasn’t? I must admit that I was under the impression that the design of the building was going to change and all they did was change the set back. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/7 "2005-06-29T17:03:33Z")
While I miss not having to come above-ground for more than 100 paces on my way to work, downtown Manhattan is much brighter with no towers there. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/8 "2005-06-29T17:05:56Z")
Good Lord, it’s a hypodermic syringe. _clings to CN Tower_ ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/9 "2005-06-29T17:24:56Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > They might as well paint a fuckin’ bull’s eye on the side of the building and be done with it. I didn’t see it in the article you linked to, but there’s even a beam of light that’s going to shoot up into the sky from the roof. They might as well officially call it the “Terrorist Navigation Beacon”. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/10 "2005-06-29T17:34:46Z")
Now _that_ is really a new extent of obnoxious megalomania… ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/11 "2005-06-29T18:17:09Z")
“Hey, man, is that Freedom Tower?” “Yeah, man.” “Well turn it up, man!” ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/12 "2005-06-29T18:31:03Z")
I’m not following your rant. Do you really believe this building would be any less of a target if were called Fred J. Bloggs Building? The scum-of-the-Earth will want to destroy it regardless. Would you want to rename the Liberty Bell too? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/13 "2005-06-29T18:36:06Z")
I admit, I really liked the old design. It had a real panache to it. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/14 "2005-06-29T18:37:18Z")
ROFL! I’ve been doing such menial tasks today at work that it has lulled me into a trance-like state. Reading that knocked me out of it, and for that I thank you sir. 😃 Topic? I don’t know that I like the tower either, especially the name. I’m sure it’ll be pretty cool to see though. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/15 "2005-06-29T18:37:41Z")
I quite like this version. Dumb name, but nice design. What I’d really like to see is a fist rising out of the ground with the middle finger proudly extended. But I’m not a new yorker and I might get tired of seeing that on my commute in every morning. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/16 "2005-06-29T18:48:34Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > And the WTC wasn’t? No, they were perfectly fine looking. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/17 "2005-06-29T19:01:30Z")
> [@](#): > > What a pompous, stupid, Orwellian name for the structure being built on the ruins of the appropriately named World Trade Center. No worse than renaming Newark Airport Liberty International I suppose. [It’s been said before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315258) but bears repeating, bald megalomaniac or not, [Trump as a point](http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/nyc-bztrum0518,0,6551238.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/18 "2005-06-29T19:14:42Z")
I think the design is definitly an improvement over the original. Something desperatly needs to be done about the name, though. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/19 "2005-06-29T19:24:38Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I quite like this version. Dumb name, but nice design. > > What I’d really like to see is a fist rising out of the ground with the middle finger proudly extended. But I’m not a new yorker and I might get tired of seeing that on my commute in every morning. [Your wish is my command…](http://www.radical-jokes.com/html/New-World-Trade-Center.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381/20 "2005-06-29T19:36:41Z")
I like the design, but the name…oye… Howzabout: Starbucks Tower McDonald Tower Comerica-Disney-Trump Tower [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower/310381.md?page=2)