International Freedom Center...

There is quite a controversy brewing over the plans surrounding the memorial to be built at Ground Zero.

Read this editorial at the Wall Street Journal which "started it all".

A website called Take Back the Memorial is opposing the supposed agenda of the planners who wish to incorporate a whole historical lesson surrounding freedom and oppression. Some claim that the attacks of 9/11 are America's own fault. (Remember Ward Churchill who seemed to suggest that we deserved to be attacked?)

Two relevant, but apparently overlooked questions are much simpler.

Should federal tax dollars be spent on erecting this memorial?
By what section of the Constitution does the Congress of the United States derive the authority to commandeer my property for this project?

While I believe a memorial specifically designed to preserve the legacy of the 3000 people lost on that sad day should be constructed, I do not believe that the funding for such an initiative should come from the Federal Treasury.