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Deadly WTC Dust? 9/11 police hero dies awaiting lung transplant

rawstory.com — A retired New York police officer, who was recognized as a hero for his service in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, has passed away while awaiting a lung transplant.

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  • bostonyankee, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31If someone sets up a fund to help pay for the healthcare of these heroes and digg brings attention to it, we can start to solve the problem.
    • orbanj, on 10/12/2007, -58/+14first person to come up with a conspiraciry theory can shove it up their ass
    • ryland2, on 10/12/2007, -29/+17@orbanj, what did that have to do with setting up a health care fund? Don't abuse the reply system.
    • crapplebees2, on 10/12/2007, -25/+4Harmful dust?? Perhaps this will teach us to use a little bit of Green Engineering in our gigantic buildings.
    • Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Yes, it's deadly. I live in the Metro area and there have been several papers (NY Times, NY Daily News, and the NJ Record to name the main ones) that have done stories on this. Many of the people that spent days and/or weeks digging through debris became ill and many died from having foreign debris in their lungs, from smoke inhalation, and some have even hinted at asbestos, though I doubt the latter. I will agree that it was completely unsafe, but you'd think that people who gave their time, effort, and some even their lives to help out others would receive heightened medical care. A lot of these people need lung transplants because of the time they spent there, but few ever get them. :|
    • Myonosken, on 10/12/2007, -18/+13Can't you ***** leave any articles alone without spamming your crap?
    • jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Lung transplant is where I draw the line. I will be heading to the lights out section whenever a doctor suggests that as my treatment. To bad health care depends on such a backwards US system. There should be a points system for those who need donations. If you were a donor volunteer prior to you needing a transplant you should go right up the list fast. Then people would have a very compelling reason to sign a donation card. Can't wait until we have nationalized health care.
    • chrisrs, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4One thing every American needs to realize, and can actually help the world on an individual level with, is that if you have not elected to be an organ donor, you are a selfish *****.
      If you checked 'NO' you should go to the DMV and change that before your soul implodes.
    • Fosnez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

      Can you say it... in one breath?
    • JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Boo hoo. Cry me a river. Police officer's last words: I smell dead people.
    • JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The government said the air was fine. Others (like Alex Jones) have been saying the air was toxic since that very day. But we were told noooo, don't listen to him, and that he's a "conspiracies theorist" for saying that, and that anyone else who said the air was toxic is a kook.
    • JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@macktwo
      Dude, no.
      A Jew != zionist
  • rstevens, on 10/12/2007, -16/+30The EPA declared the air "safe" and the workers weren't allowed to wear dust masks. Does anyone think that mandate didn't come from the executive branch?

    http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Intersecting_Facts_and_Theories_on_911.pdf

    • lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37weren't allowed? I highly doubt they weren't allowed to wear masks. In fact I can remember at LEAST 10 pictures of people working and wearing masks.

      Perhaps they were told they weren't needed, which was obvoisly a mistake, and wrong, but weren't allowed? *****.
    • gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -11/+11Yes, because Bush wasn't content with just 2,000 deaths. Come on, that's ridiculous.
    • thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I highly DOUBT that people weren't ALLOWED to wear masks. I would bet that they weren't ENCOURAGED, but I'm sure that doesn't help your case much.
    • Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -13/+10Just so everyone is aware, The Journal of 9/11 Studies is nothing more than a bunch of kooks with degrees in fields that have nothing to do with 9/11 (like philosophy, theology, language studies, etc.) writing papers on various fields well outside their education or expertise.

      For Christ's sake, their fearless leader has a degree in philosophy and their dominant "theory" is that the WTC towers were brought down using a space-based beam weapon, a-la the Death Star.
    • Myonosken, on 10/12/2007, -15/+11Another one of you ***** conspiracy nut spammers. Will you just keep your ***** theories away from civilized society please? He may be a prick, but Bush isn't going to order emergency workers to breath in debris.

    • dustysquareback, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Well, I doubt they "weren't allowed". That sounds like some conspiracy BS. But if they weren't reccomended, then someone should be in deep *****.

      There is NO mystery to the "deadly dust". Concrete dust and gypsum dust - both plentiful in any building are BAD for you. This has been known for YEARS. Anyone who's worked in construction already knows this. Silica dust = bad news.

      Sad story, though, for sure :/
    • MrFlesh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It was known that the world trade center was full of asbestos.....yet people were allowed back at ground zero without hazmat suits.
    • countrygirl31, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0you know, OSHA says that employers need to provide safety gear at work in hazardous conditions. So I would doubt that they were denied masks to wear. Though the other erie thing about this is I never heard anyone do air testing at the site. If they did they certainly kept the results from media and/or the workers.

      It is ashame that people are dying for thier bravery.
  • rstevens, on 10/12/2007, -12/+15This is a better source showing the dust: http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Why%20Indeed%20Did%20the%20WTC%20Buildings%20Completely%20Collapse%20Jones%20Thermite%20World%20Trade%20Center%20J24.pdf
    • jjb123, on 10/12/2007, -19/+8I hate when people digg comments without looking at the link, ***** conspiracy bitch. Tell that stuff to the face of the people's families who died and see what happens.
    • WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13@jjb123 (a deluded person who is afraid to think)

      Actually, many of the families of those who died, after the initial shock became more bearable, in fact were and still are VERY interested in finding out the actual truth behind 9-11, rather than taking at face value the official story with all the holes in it.
      Many of the family members also found that the Bush administration blocked their own investigations, and refused to answer even the most basic questions they had.
      A search for the actual truth, which obviously has nothing to do with the official story immediately concocted by the government and distributed by the media -- is in fact a way of significantly honoring the memories of those who died.

      The dishonoring of the victims happens when idiots keep trying to hide the actual facts, referring to people as 'conspiracy theorists', implying that they know better because they follow what they were told on television.

      Some of the best evidentiary videos I have seen include "Improbable Collapse", (made by engineers including some of the original designers of the WTC), "9-11 Press for Truth", documenting the search for answers by actual families of the deceased from the WTC, and the relatively new "9-11 Mysteries".

      Protecting the lies of the Bush administration and all their war-monger corporate-profiteering liar friends, is in fact a way of completely dishonoring the 9-11 victims...one of which has been the US Constitution!
  • dukeeeey, on 10/12/2007, -54/+17911 was an inside job.
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911&hl=en
    • grevvvvvv, on 10/12/2007, -20/+15Logged in just to digg you down.
    • WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@ grevvvvvvvv....why are you so afraid of some truth that you might find?

      The greatest tragedy is that there are still so many people who will not even consider going against what they were conveniently told on television and by the3 bush government.
      thinking and looking for truth, asking the hard questions...would require some effort, and so many people are just too lazy and apathetic.
      So, telling them of the proven fact that it had to be an inside job, definitely with some complicity by our own government...is just a way of reminding these idiots of the possibility of hard work and actually having to think...which is most unpleasant to these lazy-ass morons.
      Naturally, they view the very idea with disdain.

      It is shameful that they are a part of the human race, yet with so little actual human development!
    • jhuebel, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4@WaterDragon

      Weird punctuation, failure to capitalize the first word in several sentences and general incoherent rambling in your comment-- why should we listen to you? The preponderance of evidence points to the WTC attack as a terrorist act, not an "inside job" by the United States government. Please go back to your basement with your tin-foil-hat insanity.
    • JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@WaterDragon
      ***** selfish cowardice, I think it's one of the most detestable things. I actually know people who try to justify what they were told by television with "the towers were made out of aluminum" in order to try to win the argument.

      The people of this country who don't have the ***** souls to face what people like Alex Jones are desperately trying to warn them of deserve what they're about to get. Everything Alex Jones has said has come true or is coming true (North American Union etc).

      JUST LIKE the July 25th 2001 broadcast:
      http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8695130819141155641

      There it is ladies and gentleman, it's part of the public record. Give the victim's families what they ***** want and pay attention you kooky coincidence theorists.
  • shadowstorm, on 10/12/2007, -15/+25"911 was an inside job."

    when i saw 9/11 in the title, i just knew someone would say that. get out.
    • lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4sadly, the whackjobs gravitate to everything 9/11....and quickly ruin it....this story suffered the same fate.
    • Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -23/+10Watch the documentary "9/11 Mysteries" from start to finish, then explain how three steel-framed buildings were able to fall at FREEFALL SPEEDS due to structural failure.

      I look forward to reading your explanation of how solid steel and concrete can fail to provide any resistance whatsoever.

      http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911&hl=en
    • ConfusedONE, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Could this spell the return of the diggmirror blogspam? I hope not, though my finger is itching on the block button.
    • Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I'm pretty sure that diggmirror guy is a shill whose job is to drive people to frustration whenever they see anything to with 9/11.

      The page he linked to was not only unwatchable (it had like 3 or 4 videos playing at the same time) but the vast majority of the complaining comments on it were posted by the same person.

      Personally, I focus solely on the fact that the buildings imploded at the speed of freefall with the constituent materials offering no resistance and I ask people to offer explanations as to how this is possible without explosives.

      I don't really see anything wrong with questioning authority, and I genuinely apologize if my posts offend you.

      If you get a chance to watch the documentary I linked to, it's worth it if only to confirm whether or not you really have the highground when insulting people who question the official story of 9/11.
    • Sp4nk, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Can you prove it's absolutely impossible without explosives? No, you can't, so shut your noisehole.
    • xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5@sp4nk: History and those more knowledgeable than yourself prove it's impossible.
    • Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14"Can you prove it's absolutely impossible without explosives?"

      Yes I can.

      Buildings comprised of steel and concrete can't collapse at the speed of freefall without the use of explosives because steel and concrete are solid objects, and solid objects exert resistance.

      It really is that simple.
    • Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6Groovemaster wrote: "Watch the documentary "9/11 Mysteries" from start to finish. . ."

      Better yet, watch it with all the mistakes pointed out...

      "Screw 9/11 Mysteries - Clunkity Clunk Edition"
      http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=72810
    • D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+9but there were explosives....

      Am I the only one who remembers that PLANES FULL OF HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE JET FUEL FLEW INTO A BUILDING!!!!

      sorry about that outburst, but two planes worth of fuel is an explosive in my book
    • jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Groovemaster wrote "it is that simple"

      Groovemaster you are such an idiot. Things only resist in relation to the volume of weight and inertia. For instance you are made of matter which can hold up a certain amount of weight. In this way you are like the building resisting weight. Think about proportionality. Given the heat from the fire and that steel softens before it melts the weight was too heavy. The first floor which collapsed set in motion an accelerating force which kept building as it went down. No magic and we all are still waiting for your proof as we wait your ideas are crushed.
    • Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7You've made the mistake of building your argument around your conclusion, which is forgivable but not very sensible. Starting out with an insult didn't help you either.

      Firstly, the collapses of WTC 1 and 2 both initiated above the halfway point of the towers. This means that there was less mass above the point of collapse than below the point of collapse.

      Secondly, your argument fails to take into account that the steel and concrete offered no resistance *at all* to the collapse.

      Thirdly, the concrete didn't turn to rubble - it turned to dust - and pools of molten steel remained at the bases of the towers for *weeks* after the collapses.

      I'm sure you have zero interest whatsoever in watching the video I linked earlier, but I respectfully recommend you take the time out to entertain a different point of view.
    • covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3In case anyone is in danger of believing these idiots, know one thing: the towers did NOT collapse at freefall speed. This is a bare-faced lie, disproved even by the videos that the crackpots themselves provide to back up their claims. It is a mark of the integrity of these wingnuts that they will contradict the evidence of their own eyes and say black is white, then accuse anyone who laughs at them of having closed minds.

      Watch any the videos, and you can see supporting beams and debris falling much faster than the towers themselves. The people posting on this thread need to be completely ignored for their own good, since the attention just gets them overexcited. Make no mistake, I mean no offence when I call them idiots - it is the correct term for people on that intellectual level.
    • Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"Watch any [of] the videos, and you can see supporting beams and debris falling much faster than the towers themselves."

      Start with this one... No beams and debris as you stated there would be, but does this really look like a building "pancaking"?

      http://ncane.com/m1 (shortened google video link)
    • jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I've looked at your video and others...in other words I hate Bush as much as the next guy and don't have a closed mind. As far compelling goes you did nothing to knock down my argument. I doesn't matter where the weight is in the elevation of the building only that it be greater than than that which can be supported directly below it. It is like dominoes...when it is set in motion it couldn't stop because total with inertia weight kept increasing. You are hack so keeping hacking. explosion or no explosion there should be dust. With just a sludge hammer I have destroyed many slabs of concrete. The way I do it is I get a pry bar under it and lift an inch or two and it breaks very easily. Oh and there is a little dust. There would be more in proportion to what amount you break and how far it falls...One guy SAID there was molten metal and you call that proof?
    • covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4"Start with this one... "

      Is it really possible you are THIS stupid? I know you people set yourself low standards, but come ON. You've just demonstrated exactly the point I was making. Despite your attempt to provide a very shaky video that shows very little, it is quite clear at the 12 second mark that debris is falling at a much faster speed than the top of the building is descending. It's right there in front of you, and yet you deny it. Were you dropped on your head as a child?
    • Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Again, your childlike insults prove that your argument is unable to stand up on its own. I appreciate the fact that you're probably trying your best though.

      Yes, the camera briefly flashes back to the towers at the 12 second point at which we can briefly see part of the building fall, but not for long enough to gauge whether it's falling significantly faster than the building itself.

      What it does show, though, is that the building is falling at extremely close to the speed of freefall. We're talking maybe one or two seconds difference, if that. In these discussions I usually say that the towers collapsed "at, or extremely near the speed of freefall", because the difference is so negligible as to be unworthy of mention.

      I should have anticipated that someone would clutch at straws, as you have, and I appreciate the lesson in desperation you've shown me.
    • covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3"We're talking maybe one or two seconds difference, if that. In these discussions I usually say that the towers collapsed "at, or extremely near the speed of freefall""

      Ah, the backtracking begins. Now it's not freefall, it's 'nearly' freefall. Still, there's hope for you yet - now all we need is for you to grasp the significance of those "one or two seconds difference" and you might be able to rejoin civilised society. Things in freefall do not drop at a constant speed, they accelerate at a speed of 9.8 metres per second per second (or 9.8 metres per second squared). If you do the math, you'll find that the top of the tower would be moving at over 100 metres per second by the time it hit the ground; the measly "two seconds" that you are clinging to would account for the tower falling well over 200 metres, or half their height again. The towers were around 400 metres tall; in the 13 seconds it took them to collapse, something in freefall could have dropped about a thousand metres.
    • WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@groovemaster...
      It never ceases to amaze me when I see the capacity of these folks to ignore facts...indisputable facts proving that explosives, previously in place, were used for all THREE towers that came down.

      So I guess the real lesson for us is to see the extent of blindness and resistance to looking at reality that is possible in people.
      I see you arguing with idiots, or people who will remain blind by choice, usually not even knowing they are making that choice....and I am glad I am not the one doing that. (this time).

      I have done it in the past, but in an open forum like digg, there is really very little objectivity some days. It's more like an unruly mob, shouting things and throwing stones.
      Other days, we can actually have nice discussions.

      But issues related to certain topics, like 9-11, are heavily protected by the shills of various corrupt organizations, who come to digg for a kind of public damage control, so they can keep selling their lies, paid for with the blood of soldiers and other people.

      Way above, you wrote:
      "I'm pretty sure that diggmirror guy is a shill whose job is to drive people to frustration whenever they see anything to with 9/11."

      I wanted to express the same thing. it is a strategic move by liars, similar to how they used to plant people in peace demonstrations, during the Vietnam war era, who would pretend to be anti-war demonstrators, and then incite violent acts....making it bad for the rest of the demonstrators, as the police cracked down....naturally never hurting the shills that had planted planted in the crowds.

      That spammer guy was like that...but one of his links did lead me to see '9-11 Mysteries' for the first time, so it served some good purpose....even though in general, he was making it bad for us all by being a nuisance, and not writing anything of substance...just links
    • YeahOK, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3How come then do I never hear explosions in the videos like I hear in other demolitions? Demolitions I've witnessed have multiple rhythmic BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!! It would be unmistakable and the EXPLOSIONS would be heard (and felt) for miles for sound echoing off all the buildings. Ever been to a big city fireworks??

      Controlled demos collapse inward -- WTC collapsed like a BANANA being PEELED (of course the evil genius GWB planned it that way)

      DUST??? All those kook vids say the concrete dust HAD to be created by nothing other than EXPLOSIVES. OK Where are the explosions -- NO not the tiny (squibs) PUFFS of AIR y'all point to. NO Not some ancillary bystander saying "I heard an explosion" where is the AUDIO evidence of controlled demo thumping multiple BOOMS?

    • covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4@YeahOK

      Don't even bother, man. Tell a conspiracy nut that the tallest ever controlled demolition was less than a third the height of either of the main towers, and that it took 24 days of solid work to wire it up, and that nut will still tell you that all three WTC towers were done in 5 days whilst people were working there. Show a conspiracy nut their own videos which demonstrate the towers NOT in freefall, and that nut will tell you that there were sufficient explosives to atomise the supporting structures of the towers allowing them to freefall, and that the outward evidence of these unbelievably powerful explosions are a few puffs of dust. Show a conspiracy nut the expert testimony from a thousand demolition professionals that there's no way the collapse could have been a controlled demolition, and that nut will argue that one person saying "pull" on camera overrides them all, despite the fact that that terminology is not used in the business.

      Really, don't bother. Let them make tinfoil hats and pore over ungrounded interpretations of minor details whilst ignoring the colossal weight of fact and observation staring them in the face. They can't hurt anyone, and anyway it gives the rest of us something to laugh at.
  • Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Oops... Didn't click reply. ;)
  • arbguy1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3too bad he wasnt a billionnaire
    • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3If there was a hell, you'd be going to it.
    • arbguy1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1i would drag you down with me
  • Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1The dust was cement dust. I'm sure that isn't great to breath in, but the # of people that died or will die from WTC dust is probably the same % of construction workers that die from the dust as well.
    • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Better than metal dust.
    • WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Pic0
      Nice guess...but it is nowhere near the same percentage!

      I worked long enough in construction and architecture (I live in NYC), besides being a chemist, to know that you are saying nothing of value, but merely registering an uninformed and useless guess.

      And there was a lot of toxic vapor, as well as particulate, from the burning of all the plastic....rugs, computers, etc...nasty hydrocarbon poisons.
  • macp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6yea its pretty sad. these ppl essentially suffocate because their lungs stop bringin in o2 cuz there is too much foreign debris in their lungs.
    • D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3my God, I never thought in my whole life I would read an intelligent comment with the word "cuz" in it....bravo...Dugg up!
  • nhassan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10well, old teachers and students from my school, only a few blocks from WTC site, now are suffereing from various types of lung diseases.
  • scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7When Bush dies, I'm going to hold a party.
    • elik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0While he's not the most mentally healthy person, he's actually in quite good shape. You're gonna be waiting a while.
  • madfusion15, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1OH NO those terrorists put dangerous chemicals into the dust of the wtc, now all the new yorkers will die. stupid americans need to stop being so paranoid.
    digg this down please :)
    • gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Gladly.
    • Myonosken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha. Its gimps like you that give us Europeans a bad name. How about you read the fact that the smoke would naturally be full of ***** given they're coming out of two ***** huge towers.
    • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go play on a freeway.
  • FlindianaJones, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Was I the only one who read it as "Deadly What The Crap Dust?"
    • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It isn't dust, it's Tiny Shurikens of Doom!
  • wiremonkeymommy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6too good and too young to die... it's perfectly acceptable to ask for answers when this many innocent people lose their lives. if it was a member of your family, wouldn't you?
  • UltimateFlynn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As a guy who works with drywall, I could completely see this happening.

    In a residential home I would need to use a mask for touch up's, I can't imagine the kind of stuff they needed to inhale being there.
  • Reidtheweed01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You guys are acting as if their are just stockpiles of lungs everywhere. You cant just go to the hospital and ask for a new heart, someone else has to die in order for your to get that organ.
    • scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0How about those people on minimum wage? They could sell one.

      /sarcasm
  • shaycoholic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He is a hero like everybody else who tried to save lives that day.
  • aristoworks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6So his dad died? Was the dad the one working shifts after trade center? How is Hillary included 4 times in the story - what does she really have to do with the story? Thank god for heroes but this story is poorly written!
  • BransonLAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I understand he was a hero, but like Reidthewedd01 said, "You guys are acting as if their are just stockpiles of lungs everywhere. You cant just go to the hospital and ask for a new heart, someone else has to die in order for your to get that organ."

    He has to wait in line like everyone else. Just because someone else wasn't there, doesn't mean they're any less of a person, or that they might be in a helpful situation later on.
  • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hillary: "I will do everything to take care of the people who take care of us..."

    Wasn't that her freaking responsibility for almost 7 years?
  • schmidt349, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is WTC dust, don't breathe this.
  • Druidictus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The sad story is Mossad don't pay compo.
  • Helenbo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2George Bush Don't Care About People.... period:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8088610377436143445&q=george+bush+don%27t+like+black+people
  • MadN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Why do the Repugneocons swarm to any discussion of 9/11?
    How many digg logins does Bin Hiding have?

    Explain why trade center 7 managed to "implode" with no plane strike.
    9/11 had to have used some pre-placed explosives; the explosives may have been placed there by Al-Qaeda, who knows?
  • glacious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Funny, how someone who literally gave their life to save others did not get a necessary transplant, yet a few minutes before someone related to big oil or some tobacco company with big bucks got themselves a shiny new pair.
    • SonofMaug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ Glacious

      Where the hell do you get off making a statement like that you ignorant fool! As someone who works in health care I can say that there are a lot of thing that are unfair, but UNOS ( http://www.unos.org/ ) is the only true democracy we have, everyone that is on the list waits their turn, no matter WHO they are or how much money they have. This whole "yet a few minutes before someone related to big oil or some tobacco company with big bucks got themselves a shiny new pair." is a ***** grandstanding statement and you know it. There are just not enough organs to go around, and don't forget, not only does the organ(s) have to be available, they have to MATCH. There could have been ten sets of lungs ready to be transplanted at the time he was ready and if none matched, then he would not get them, it's not like changing a set of batteries, you twit.
  • amightywind, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Forgive me if I am skeptical. It is difficult to develop silicosis after a few cement dust exposures. And if the environment we was working in was so obviously hazardous why wasn't he wearing a mask or a respirator? Sounds like his family might be trolling for money.
    • Helenbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2amightywind...

      Maybe he should have wrapped himself in a flag before he rushed into the rubble, right?
      Or stopped to buy a ribbon to put on his car first, eh?
      That would have been the patriotic thing to do.... dont'cha think?
  • ZzFDKzZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I remember my Math Professor told me he had a student who was a EMT who work at Ground Zero for a while. He said he's 28 and has a couple of months to live, I forgot what type of cancer he has.
  • arbguy1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0too bad he wasnt a billionnaire1
  • bustaballs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www.visibility911.com/dust.htm

    NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/nyregion/06health.html?ex=1315195200&en=555a379d601bc494&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss%22
    The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future.


    MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/961134.asp?0cv=CA01&cp1=1
    Sept. 3 — Just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the agency responsible for the environmental health of Americans declared the air and water safe in New York. But now, in her first interview since the release of a troubling report, the Environmental Protection Agency’s top watchdog says the agency didn’t have the facts when it said it was safe to move back to the neighborhoods near Ground Zero. And she’s pointing the finger all the way to the White House.





    9/11 Truth Movement has been talking about all of this for years but the mainstream media didn't touch it at all until the 5th anniversary. So many lies and nothing is being done about it.
    http://www.911review.com/articles/orkin/post911lies.html
  • Goldenmean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 I've wondered since 9/11 when the media would realize the big clouds of dust from the WTC collapse were composed of silica (bad) and asbestos (worse). The death toll from 9/11 is far from final.
  • IAmLegion, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I'll bet he could have moved to the top of the waiting list if he had been a chain-smoking former baseball player.
  • pr0teus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Want Justice?!
    Watch documentary after documentary on www.UniversalSeed.org
    and you'll see more people struggling for truth, join the battle.
  • JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I smell a multi-billion lawsuit coming. That to go along with the billions in federal aid already going to these pigs for "health concerns". What a scam. These guys are going to milk the system dry just like the US troops.
  • kuzotz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1God Bless America's health care system.
  • ajck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2SHOCKING NEWS FOR YOU ALL: 9/11 *WAS* AN INSIDE JOB, AND YES, LOOSE CHANGE DOES HAVE SOME KOOKY ***** IN IT.

    Wouldn't suprise me if Loose Change was a deliberate disinformation effort to make all 9/11 truth seekers look like kooks.

    "Let the truth set you free"

    http://www.911truth.org
  • ChicksWithDiggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The tragedy after a tragedy.

    Sadly it's nothing new, that most helpers that worked at the WTC at - or right after the attacks got terminally ill due to the kerosin and other toxic substances from the tower dust.

    Rare types of cancers are very common among them and many have problems getting any money from their work insurance.
    • ISIfunded911, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Exactly. All the money goes to Cheney and Bush's rich friends: Halliburton and co.
      Many who worked at the WTC are now unemployed on top of being ill, and get no financial help.
      This country needs a revolution to clean the huge corruption at the top, and to hang those who did 9/11: Cheney, the military-intelligence-industrial complex, the oil billionaires,...
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