by Lionel Bascom — October 30th, 2007 — 1 comment
The center of gravity at Ground Zero has shifted and the mayor of New York is himself a target for again speaking his mind. Michael Bloomberg is a welcomed change in a climate where no one knows the shortest distance between fact and faction is a straight line.
Bloomberg angered folks today when he said a police detective who labored for hundreds of hours at Ground Zero died from unrelated complications, not from the toxic debris at the “work site” at the World Trade Center.
According to press reports, “The family of retired police detective James Zadroga and the city’s police unions called for an apology from the mayor, saying his comment was heartless. They said every member of the police force is a hero for putting their lives on the line, particularly those who worked in the months-long cleanup at ground zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Zadroga put in more than 400 hours at ground zero, and his death at 34 made him a symbol of ailing Sept. 11 workers around the country. A New Jersey medical examiner ruled last year that Zadroga died from inhaling the toxic ground zero dust.
Speaking Monday to students at Harvard University, where he was accepting a public health award, Bloomberg was asked about the idea of applying hard science to public policy. In his answer, he brought up Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch’s recent conclusion that Zadroga’s fatal lung disease was not from trade center dust but was from ground-up pills he had been injecting.
Zadroga’s family disputes Hirsch’s findings about drug use. The family has released more than 100 pages of medical records that showed Zadroga developed breathing problems just after the 2001 attacks.”
8:01 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News
This is just another example of the rampant maniacal thought processes that permeate the human consciousness with conclusions based upon false presumptions. People incorrectly presume ideas that advance an agenda.
That agenda may or may not originate from a worthy source. In such cases, the innocent are the ones who receive judgment and collapse under disillusionment while the inventors of the lies continue their lives, poised to jump to their next wrong conclusions, relentlessly casting shadows over developing rays of hope.
However, those who receive judgment have a way out of this cavernous disappointment. They have the power within themselves to move forward triumphanty by remaining stalwart in their convictions, never to allow themselves to feel emotional discard, knowing that in their hearts rest the core of their existance and the individual commitment to fulfillment of purpose.
Jeanne · October 30th, 2007 at 8:58 pm