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Title: BEVERLY ECKERT, Continental Flight Victim, Was 9/11 Widow
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/ ... ckert-continenta_n_166679.html
Published: Feb 13, 2009
Author: Huffpo
Post Date: 2009-02-13 16:27:48 by christine
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday offered condolences to the families and friends of those killed in a commuter plane crash in upstate New York. He called one of the victims, a Sept. 11 widow whom he saw just last week, "an inspiration to me and to so many others." "Tragic events such as these remind us of the fragility of life and the value of every single day," Obama said at the start of an economic event at the White House. A Continental Connection commuter plane crashed into a house in suburban Buffalo, killing all 49 people aboard and a person in the home. Obama offered thanks to the emergency crews who arrived immediately and those still on the scene. One of the victims was Beverly Eckert, a Sept. 11 widow who was one of the most visible faces in the aftermath of the terror attacks. She was just at the White House last week with Obama as part of a meeting he had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole. Eckert was flying to Buffalo to celebrate what would have been her husband Sean Rooney's 58th birthday. He worked at Aon Corp., a risk management firm, at the 98th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower in New York City. Said Obama of Beverly Eckert: "She was an inspiration to me and to so many others, and I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead. " Earlier, the White House issued a statement from Obama, in which he said that he and his wife, Michelle, were deeply saddened by the tragedy.
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And this is the guy that supports abortion. What a complete and utter BullSh*t artist.
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Fyi...more info about Beverly Eckert's activism: www.commondreams.org/views03/1220-04.htm "My Silence Cannot Be Bought" Pub'd in USA Today 12/19/2003 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 acknowledgement 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. Beverly Eckert, whose husband died at the World Trade Center, is the founder of Voices of September 11th, a victims advocacy group.
That does make one worry. I'd like to know how effective she was at convincing Obama.
Shades of the United plane Martha Mitchell was on that crashed near Chicago during L'Affaire WaterGate.
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money. ~~ Top 9/11 Witness Assassinated In New York Plane Shootdown
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
UA 556, if I remember, add Ron Brown's plane, etc. If Air Force how many explodes over the ocean, we'll know that TWA-800 was a mental/emotional preconditioning for the world to doubt their doubts. (Just an opinion.)
Photogenic ? Yes you are ;-)
And this is the guy that supports abortion. What a complete and utter BullSh*t artist. I couldn't have pointed out the baboon's hypocrisy any better.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
Tragic events such as these remind us of the fragility of life and the value of every single day," Obama said
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Sir Josiah Stamp, in 1927 the 2nd richest man in England, and former head of The Bank of England
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Shades of the United plane Martha Mitchell was on that crashed near Chicago during L'Affaire WaterGate.
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Tragic events such as these remind us of the fragility of life and the value of every single day," Obama said
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
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