News that Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg will produce a TV documentary series on the “rebuilding” of New York’s World Trade Center, to be shown in 2011, was the best possible news in the long struggle to put the Twin Towers back where they belong.

Anyone who has ever seen a Spielberg movie knows that he doesn’t make movies about people with deep pockets and high-priced PR agents who use their positions to manipulate and exploit other people. He makes movies about people who fight the good fight, gaining ground inch-by-inch, and who respond to the central premise in “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” that lost causes “are the only ones worth fighting for.”

According to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “Rebuilding Ground Zero” will tell “a compelling story of remembrance and renewal”. He said Spielberg’s involvement as executive producer would ensure “the story will be brought to life for people around the world for generations to come.”

We think that no matter how clever those who are manipulating the WTC saga may be, they will find that a man like Steven Spielberg is not going to ignore “the rest of the story.” There is indeed a compelling narrative, not of remembrance and renewal, but of arrogance and deceit, and we don’t believe for a minute that the creator of Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan will make himself part of one of the most disgraceful chapters in modern American history.

CNN.com reports the six-part series will “chronicle the uplifting, innovative reengineering of the World Trade Center site through the eyes of the people – architects, engineers, construction workers and city planners – charged with making One World Trade Center and its surrounding area a reality. Their amazing story is one of inventive architectural design and brand new science powered by an emotional determination to help heal their wounds, their city and their country.”

Their city and their country… But the World Trade Center doesn’t happen to be their property. It is public property, built with public money to begin with, being built with public money again, on the site of the worst public massacre in our history, while effectively shutting out the public from the start. We can think of some other big name producers/directors who could be used as propagandists, but Mr. Spielberg is most certainly not one of them.

The iconic DreamWorks logo of a boy with a fishing pole in his hands and a leg dangling off the edge of the moon is the absolute antithesis of the corrupt, arrogant process that produced the current project. The struggle for the Twin Towers is the ultimate David and Goliath match. Those who plan to tell the story, while leaving out the truly inspiring part, are deluded.

The facts will come to light, no matter how much clout those who would distort the truth may have — and their power is massive. But Mr. Spielberg will get the whole story, not just the official self-serving version, and when he does, he is going to be insulted that those who are engineering the project thought he could be used to further such unworthy ends.

As for the camaraderie and the engineering marvels associated with the project, they are not specific to the project, but to the site. If the plan that “The People Want, New York Needs, and America Deserves” were being built instead, the same technology and the same workers would be employed in a legendary triumph, instead of making the best of a legendary letdown.

It is curious that men like Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Silverstein, who know that terrorist targets in Israel are always quickly rehabilitated back to their pre-target state — as the best relief for the victims and the best demoralizer for the victimizers — would work to deprive their country of the same relief. Why are they going along with towers and a memorial that do just the opposite, making the physical proof of the attacks permanent and giving our enemies the most gigantic terrorist trophy the world has ever seen? ? It doesn’t compute — it boggles the mind.

Why would they be hostile to the natural desire of their own countrymen for that same simple standard, knowing what an effective deterrent it is in Israel against the same enemy? Especially when the possibility of restoring the skyline to its world-famous profile is so much more popular, economical, buildable, and ultimately rewarding for all concerned? Why would they seek to marginalize and defame those who object?

We don’t believe that the founder of DreamWorks is going to sell out the people to please the bosses. A comment left on the TTA petition today by Curtis Moore|New York’s Finest and Families is — texting English aside — the most eloquent possible rebuke to the pompous plan:

Although i dont remember seeing the towers, it is very touching to me when i speak upon them. Im a junior in high school and all i could think about is the twin towers. New York needs the twin towers back again. i cant stress it enough. i just imagine myself driving on the highway and seeing that beautiful NYC skyline and the World Trade Center in the distance. New York City is the best city in the world and the city of dreams. So please can you make my dream become a reality?

Does the future belong to Michael Bloomberg or Curtis Moore? That’s what we are fighting to determine. That’s what this is all about.

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