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CORPORATE TERRORISTS ATTACK STATUE OF LIBERTY AND UNDERMINE THE CHILDREN'S FAITH

OVERVIEW OF STORY: Children from all over America send pennies, nickels and dimes to help restore the Statue of Liberty. Little do they know a vast amount of that money is being wasted by high salaried executives who pay $45,000 a year to have a dog chase geese from the island, or that such executives make hundreds of thousands of dollars extra a year consulting for other non-profit companies while the Statue of Liberty remains closed to the public. See if you agree that violating the children's trust is a crime of Corporate Terrorism.

 

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GROUND ZERO PLUS 1084 DAYS, New York, NY, July 31, 2004--Corporate Terrorism is attacking the Statue of Liberty. It's eating at the foundations of a lot more than our nation's symbol of freedom and opportunity. It's wounding the trust and confidence of the children.

Restoration of Lady Liberty has been undermined by Corporate Terror
The Restoration of Lady Liberty has been undermined by Corporate Terror

Greed is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. And according to a recent Senate inquiry into the fund raising for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty there has been a gross mishandling of funds. The most egregious of them is the pay given by the fund raising foundation to the president of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, a Mr. Stephen A. Briganti.

It seems Mr. Briganti boasts a salary for running the foundation of $300,000, and, he also earns hundreds of thousands of dollars working for other non-profit organizations while the Statue of Liberty remains unopened to the public.

Restoration of the Lady was supposed to be completed. She was closed to the public following the Terrorist attacks on Nine Eleven. The Foundation, according to Griffin B. Bell, former U.S. Attorney General who heads up the Senate committee investigating allegations launched by the New York Times regarding the mishandling of funds, has not been able to justify the excess salary of Mr. Briganti.

But, the issue is far greater than just a bloated executive's pay. There is a battle raging between the Foundation and other groups seeking to raise money. Mr. Briganti wants sole and exclusive rights to fund raising, despite the fact he has not managed the project effectively.

Here's the rub. Huge chunks of the money donated come from children who save pennies, nickels and dimes to send to the Foundation so that the icon of Freedom and Liberty can be polished and refurbished for their children.

Donations from children et al are being mismanaged
Donations from children et al are being mismanaged

They don't know that a big chunk of their pennies, nickels and dimes is being swallowed up by Mr. Briganti's voracious wallet, or being mismanaged or dislocated so that the work doesn't happen but the fund raising does.

One of the issues noted by the Senate investigation was the payment of $45,000 a year for a dog to chase geese off the island. It is doubtful the classrooms of children filling up a coin jar to send its donations to the Foundation know they are funding Alpo and "Geese Terror."

Terrorism isn't just about someone blowing up a subway, or flying a plane into a building. It's about undermining the confidence and trust of a people's security. It's about destroying the faith people have in their institutions.

One of the great attacks Terrorists zero in on is the icons of a nation or belief system. They will come into a land and deface and destroy monuments in an attempt to demoralize the mass of humanity that reveres such symbols.

But there is "Terror Within" far more insidious than the "Terror Without." That is when we, people of our own beliefs and breed on the same footing as one another, turn against our own children and Terrorize their faith and belief.

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis IslandFoundation is under scrutiny
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is under scrutiny

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is under the microscope now thanks to the New York Times and other news agencies questioning why the Statue of Liberty isn't open to the public. That microscope uncovered "Corporate Terrorism," where individuals would line their pockets with the funds of a nation first and foremost rather than take on the duty and responsibility to serve those funds properly.

In a personal case I have with Corporate Terrorism, my family was violated by a multi-billion-dollar insurance company that cancelled a thirty-year disability policy on flim-flam grounds. The executives of that company ended up getting $93 million in a merger with another company. The size of their wallets overcame the duty and responsibility to serve one small client.

I would like to see someone launch a class action suit against the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation on behalf of all the children who sent nickels, dimes and pennies under the false belief their funds would re-open the Statue of Liberty. They have been duped.

But more importantly, they have been the victims of Corporate Terrorism. They have been assaulted by the Beast of Terror who ate their pennies, nickels and dimes and puked up the waste after sating himself first. Now, the Beast wants to raise more funds and deny anyone else the right to raise funds.

The Foundation has become the bully on the block. It is the mafia trying to quash all competitors so the fat cats' bellies can keep bloating.

And along the way the children suffer. And the parents turn their heads or are blind to the duty they have to protect their children.

The mishandling of the fund is like putting a gun to the heads of children ...and to her head!
The mishandling of the fund is like putting a gun to the heads of children who see Lady Liberty as the gateway to Freedom and Liberty...and to her head!

Terrorism is about inflicting Fear, Intimidation and Complacency into people. Right now, the Statue of Liberty Foundation has done a great job. It cries out for funds to restore Miss Liberty, and makes people afraid that if they don't send donations Miss Liberty will fall into a pile of crumbling iron and steel. It's like putting a gun to the heads of children who see the symbol as the gateway to Freedom and Liberty.

Such a crime of mishandling the Statue's funds is unconscionable. Yet, the executives slip and slide through the fine print, escaping being harpooned by the real facts--that they are stealing the children's money and their faith that someone is protecting them.

For this, the most severe of penalties should be attached, and that is the label of Corporate Terrorist.

 

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