How many days a week are people exposed to exploding buildings using Thermite while working downtown? I guess if enough people protest against global government, fight against the police state of cameras, scanners etc. resulting in more exploded buildings by whomever it is convienient to blame on (not really import who is picked out of the has is it) then perhaps your question is valid.
I would ask why it took SIX years while people died and suffered for the government to help those brave soles. I guess paying KBR to build containment camps across the U.S. has been a greater priority for the government. Don?t forget to add in this article the government has given the plaintiffs 90 days to agree to the deal. Unless 95% of them do so, dropping any threat of legal action, the deal will be off.
God Bless America!
David Worby told me: “We have won!” He was ecstatic. “I’ve been fighting this battle [for six years]. It’s been torturous,” says Worby. Personal injury lawyer David Worby represents thousands of first responders, who are sick with asthma, respiratory illnesses, and blood cancer.
The first case started with one cop. Then thousands of other people came to Worby, describing similar 9/11 linked health problems. It became clear that people exposed to cancerous toxins got sick — and they weren’t getting better.
The legal battle is paying off. The WTC Captive Insurance has agreed to pay $657 million to 10,000 rescue workers. But it needs to be approved by a judge and at least 95 percent of the plaintiffs.
The claims would range from a few thousand dollars to a million, depending on the severity of the individual case. Considering the sick cops, firemen, and rescue workers are suffering from life-long illnesses, not everyone agrees $657 is enough money. The Guardian reports:
Groups campaigning on behalf of sick and injured rescue and recovery workers point out that 70,000 people were involved in the Ground Zero clear up, spending hours engulfed in a toxic soup of pollutants, yet only 10,000 would be covered by the settlement.
Claire Calladine, who runs 9/11 Health Now, said the average compensation of $65,700 was “ludicrous when you consider that many of the plaintiffs’ health is in ruins, with a large percentage completely disabled, and with cancers and other serious diseases also surging.”
In 2007, I remember standing at Ground Zero listening to a press conference that was held to shed light on the growing number of illnesses caused by 9/11. Thousands of first responders were falling ill. But if the same were true for people who were living and working downtown, then the number could easily climb to 300,000 New Yorkers.
Worby told Discover magazine in The 9/11 Cover-Up:
“I started this suit on behalf of one cop that got sick,” Worby says of his class-action lawsuit filed in 2004. “Nobody would touch the case with a 10-foot pole because it was considered unpatriotic to say anything against the cleanup or the EPA. We have come a long way. They once called the 9/11 cough a badge of honor. Now they know that the whole thing is a catastrophic government disaster.”
And yes, the two million tons of dust (glass, lead, and carcinogens, asbestos, and cement) was a health hazard. Our lungs can’t handle that heavy concentration of dust in the air. As reported in Discover magazine: “First the 9/11 cough and mental health problems caught the attention of local doctors. Then chronic respiratory and gastrointestinal conditions began to surface…. the emergence of rare blood cancers among 9/11 responders.”
The WTC Health Registry is tracking the health impacts of the WTC dust. Up to 40,000 adults have been diagnosed with asthma 5 to 6 years later and up to 88,600 adults have suffered from post-traumatic stress symptoms 5 to 6 years after 9/11. But no one will know for sure what the long term health effects of 9/11 are.
Now, everyone assumes it’s safe to work and live downtown. But is it?
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