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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on February 15, 2009, 04:43:28 PM
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digidigido (237 posts) Fri Feb-13-09 08:35 PM
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An odd coincidence
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Edited on Fri Feb-13-09 09:26 PM by digidigido
Beverly Eckert My Silence Cannot Be Bought killed in a plane crash
Published on Friday, December 19, 2003 by the USA Today
My Silence Cannot Be Bought
by Beverly Eckert
I've chosen to go to court rather than accept a payoff from the 9/11 victims compensation fund. Instead, I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.
I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues, including congressional hearings and the 9/11 commission, my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence.
The victims fund was not created in a spirit of compassion. Rather, it was a tacit acknowledgment by Congress that it tampered with our civil justice system in an unprecedented way. Lawmakers capped the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who descended on Washington while the Sept. 11 fires still smoldered.
And this liability cap protects not just the airlines, but also World Trade Center builders, safety engineers and other defendants.
The caps on liability have consequences for those who want to sue to shed light on the mistakes of 9/11. It means the playing field is tilted steeply in favor of those who need to be held accountable. With the financial consequences other than insurance proceeds removed, there is no incentive for those whose negligence contributed to the death toll to acknowledge their failings or implement reforms. They can afford to deny culpability and play a waiting game.
By suing, I've forfeited the "$1.8 million average award" for a death claim I could have collected under the fund. Nor do I have any illusions about winning money in my suit. What I do know is I owe it to my husband, whose death I believe could have been avoided, to see that all of those responsible are held accountable. If we don't get answers to what went wrong, there will be a next time. And instead of 3,000 dead, it will be 10,000. What will Congress do then?
So I say to Congress, big business and everyone who conspired to divert attention from government and private-sector failures: My husband's life was priceless, and I will not let his death be meaningless. My silence cannot be bought.
How does this affect the status of the lawsuits?
Then we add what happened a month or so ago
Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush's 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed when his single engine plane crashed three miles short of the Akron airport.
HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-13-09 10:55 PM
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6. AMERICA WANTS SOME HEADS
mega minimo (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-13-09 11:11 PM
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7. damnit
digidigido (237 posts) Sat Feb-14-09 03:13 PM
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16. certainly creates plausible deni-ability, wouldn't want to Wellstone everyone
is what I would be tempted to write. If you believe that a regime that would torture, would corrupt the justice department and
profit from war crimes etc etc wouldn't kill 50 innocent people to prevent damning evidence from coming out you might.
I'm not saying that they did, but I am pointing out a coincidence. One can also look at Ron Browns death and wonder if our
government is capable of such Machiavellian dealings. If power is the ultimate drug, what will people do to keep it?
rollingrock (96 posts) Sat Feb-14-09 02:47 PM
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13. She met with Obama in person last week
If an influential 9/11 widow pushing for a real investigation can get that close to the most powerful man in Washington, then that makes her a very serious threat to those who attempted and failed to buy her silence, doesn't it?
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Beverly Eckert on Feb. 6, 2009,
during a meeting in Washington, D.C., at the Eisenhower Executive Office
Building with a group who lost family members in the 9/11 and the U.S.S. Cole tragedies.
Whom O has pissed on btw. :censored:
These are the folks that support the current Administration. :mental:
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So having had 7 years to kill someone the BFEE decide to do it after Bush has left office when he no longer has any control over the myriad of conspirators needed to pull this off? :mental: is right.
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Holy Crap.
The moonbats are Nukking Futz!
Not from DU BUT...
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Given Beverly Eckert's Death, it Behooves Us to Ask the Question: Could the Jersey Girls Possibly Be False Flag Agents of the Conspiracy?
I had never considered whether or not prominent 9/11-victim activists like the Jersey Girls were false-flag agents of the conspiracy until just today, when I looked at them in the light of the recent death of a 9/11 activist who was a compellingly authentic victim and icon for the truth, Beverly Eckert, who died a few days ago in the plane crash outside Buffalo, New York.
You want street cred for authenticity when speaking truth to power? Go get yourself killed in a fiery plane crash then. We can tell our Paul Wellstone's from our John F. Kennedy Jr's.
http://stevenwarran.blogspot.com/2009/02/beverly-eckert-not-false-flag-jersey.html
Total fekking lunacy.