Apparently after 9-11, the EPA wanted to tell New Yorkers lots of things about their environment. It seems that the 1600 Crew had different ideas...but lying about 9-11 was becoming a team sport with them ("We didn't know!" "Saddam did it, or at least was involved!" "We need the PATRIOT Act!"). The Crew banned the EPA from getting the word out about what residents of Manhattan needed to do to be safe, enviromentally speaking.
At the direction of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the EPA's inspector general has revealed, the agency that's supposed to protect the public health against environmental hazards added "reassuring statements" to its press releases in the days after the terrorist attack, and deleted "cautionary ones."
The EPA wanted to tell residents to obtain "professional cleaning" - that is, environmentally safe cleaning - to remove from their homes tons of dust containing asbestos, dioxin, lead, pulverized plastics and steel and glass. The White House removed this from a press release.
The EPA wanted to caution about the health risks to "sensitive populations" - the elderly, kids, and those already suffering from respiratory problems. The White House said no.
So you don't live in NYC and could care less? Well, the next major environmental or other disaster will most likely be treated the same way, suppose it happens where you live?
You'll never get the truth, until it's too late and thems the facts, Jack!
posted by Jo Fish on 08.31.03 at 02:18 AM
Comments:
They must have lied to our Great Warrior Leader(tm) too.
It's real clear in my mind that if he had known of the dangerous air there he wouldn't even have overflown the city.
I work 6 blocks from the WTC (and I was back to work a week later). The last fires were finally put out just before Christmas. Depending on which way the wind blew, I could smell it in my Brooklyn Heights apartment. Hell, my boss who lives in Suffolk County on far eastern Long Island could smell it!
You can imagine how happy I was to see the story. People who live in lower Manhattan are going wild.
Yeah, since I live around a mile downwind of Groud Zero, I was kinda pissed about that story. Anyone here could just smell the air, and you realized you were getting sick from it after a couple of minutes-- common sense just said to get the hell indoors with the AC on high-- fast.
But for lots of people who lived even closer, government officials themselves were constantly inspecting, and sanitizing things (politically, not chemically).
For people who lived, worked or had businesses downtown AFTER 9-11 (having lost my own job, we discovered that my former offices 1 block from WTC had 4X the maximum levels of asbestos, PCBs. and lotsa other bad shit), it was a tough call-- risk an even bigger economic hit (if not bankruptcy), or risk your health; the " helpful assurances" from "our government" helped tip that scale for a lot of people.
Yes, Rudy and the gang wanted the stock exchange open and "the business of business" to stay in business-- but downtown was really a ghost town anyway (and hasn't recovered by a longshot).
Was it worth the probably tens of thousands of shortened working lives, or shortened lives, for a few extra months of "business activity" (that probably should have been shifted anyway) so that, somehow, fewer questions might be asked about how this was allowed to happen in the first place? Well, in America, that SHOULD be a matter of individual choice-- not because the Central Planners at 1600 GosPlan want it.
I'm not just a little mad about this. I am outraged that my own congressmen and senators haven't demanded a complete investigation of the White HOuse's role in this, followed as necessary with subpeonas, indictments, or possibly impeachment.
Say what you will-- maybe there was an overriding excuse to lie about Iraqi WMDs. Lying about the lives and healths of millions of Americans so that the Big Cheese looks a little better-- to me, that's about as bad as if Bush ordered the damned 9-11 attacks himself.
I was in the WTC on business (actually, escaped from upper floor of Marriott, barefoot, with only the shirt on my back). All of us knew the clouds of air and debris that showered us was toxic. Add this to the "Bush Lied" list that should be the cornerstone of next year's presidential election (if it is allowed to take place).
posted by: WTC Survivor on 09.01.03 at 03:55 AM [permalink]
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