Friday, October 26, 2007

New York Web 2.0 Television interviews 9/11 activists



http://newyork2.0television.com/index.php?vid=116&cid=1&page=1&title=9/11%20-%20Alternative%20Perspectives

One of the interviewees talks about the 9/11 responders not being helped. One of them, an EMT, is about to lose his home because of disability and unpaid medical bills.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/print.php?id=10451


The lies of EPA's Christine Whitman about air quality after 9/11,

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/former_epa_chie.html


the refusal of the federal appeals court to find that this action supports a constitutional claim,

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/2nd/061077p.pdf


and the delays and evidentiary hurdles imposed on compensation for 9/11 responders

http://www.disabledworkerlaw.com/2006/08/articles/-workers-compensation/governor-pataki-signs-new-york-911-workers-comp-bill/

http://assembly.state.ny.us/Press/20071023/

are all reflections of a political economy that would allow a 9/11 for the "good" of the system, no matter the costs to citizens, and would block a real investigation and real assignment of criminal and civil liability.

(This last paragraph is a rough beginning stab at a response to the assertions of Noam Chomsky, Chip Berlet, ad nauseum, that there is a clear dichotomy between "structuralist" and "conspiratorialist" analyses of elite actions.)

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