Another real tragedy and hypocrisy of 9-11: The treatment of the First responders

Some of these critically ill guys should strap a few bombs on their bodies and blow up some politicians, then maybe the news media would cover this bull.

The air around the twin towers was toxic and deadly and everyone knew it. I called a friend of mine in Atlanta that as an asbestos expert and ask him wasn't it true that most all of tower one was full of asbestos insulation. I remember that from a lecture or case somewhere. He was in fact an expert on  a case for workers that built the towers and got cancer and it was full of I believe, WR Grace insulation. But despite all the bull by the corporate whores that if the buildings has all had this insulation they wouldn't have burned down, thereby making plaintiffs lawyers responsible for the terrorist attacks and deaths instead of big oil, he confirmed to me that all the insulation was less than 15% asbestos, thus had no real fireproofing ability. Everyone knew this plus the facts that the air would be full of benzene, silica, and god knows what. It was scientifically impossible for the air to be safe. Yet the EPA just plain out lied to everyone and said it was fine.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_911_42.htm

So you can guess what happens next a bunch of health care workers get sick, many die.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_arising_from_the_September_11_attacks

Now


Getting Wall Street back to work was job one and a few more bodies wouldn't matter in long run.  Now the really fun part, all these politicos that are so quick to invoke the names of these people and 9/11 screw them. Deny the causation and link between the lung cancers, and the dust even though peer reviewed studies are saying now that there is a link. (May God protect them.)

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/9-11-Dust-WTC-Anniversary-Cancer-Zadroga-Act-129382268.html

News Post on this topic.

A new medical study supports the argument for including cancers on a list of World Trade Center-linked diseases that qualify for assistance under the national Sept. 11 health program, federal lawmakers said Wednesday.

"The evidence is now compelling," said U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, standing with Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel and Nydia Velazquez at the entrance to the subway station at the trade center site in lower Manhattan. "It's essential that we do this."

They say a recently published study of cancer cases among firefighters exposed to World Trade Center dust from the Sept. 11 attacks supports including cancer to the program's list of diseases.

The lawmakers said they filed a petition with the administrator of the 9/11 health program to require an immediate review of the study, which was published last week in the medical journal The Lancet, and to consider adding coverage for cancers.

The study said the nearly 9,000 firefighters who were exposed to the trade center were 19 percent more likely to have cancer than firefighters who didn't work down near the pile.

The study did note a few potentially worrisome trends, including an unexpected number of thyroid cancers. But cancers can take decades to develop, and the authors of the study cautioned that the seven-year period the study covered might be too brief to make anything but qualified interpretations.

The administrator of the 9/11 Health Program said this past summer that a review of medical evidence failed to support adding cancer to a list of trade center-linked diseases, and the law -- known as the Zadroga Act -- does not pay for benefits in cancer cases.

Federal lawmakers said the new study was still sufficient to revisit the administrator's decision of whether to add cancers to a list of diseased covered under the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.

"We don't want to wait until all of the evidence is in," said Rangel, who called the study "a tremendous medical bit of evidence." He said people who were sick could not afford to wait.

Nadler said that they have "always known that many of the chemicals in that that toxic brew that people were breathing causes cancer." And he said they knew with "moral certainty" that a link between 9/11 and cancers existed, but did not have the peer-reviewed studies to support that — until now.

"It would be inhuman to wait for more and more evidence," he said.

Maloney said it was "a definitive study for firefighters, and that's a very healthy portion of our population" of those who were exposed at ground zero.

But she said she would let the medical experts who consult with the 9/11 health program administrator to make the final determination of whether the study is enough to support adding cancers.

"I won't be content, but they have to rely on medical evidence," she said.

Copyright Associated Press / NBC New York

So we lied, lied again, they died, and died and we are still trying to screw them. Over what, some workers comp benefits. No one is indicted goes to jail or is held accountable. All this so Goldman Sachs can get back to heir posh offices a few weeks early in time to destroy the economy by the Fall of 2008.

What a Country!