Your government cares: 9/11 victims buried in garbage dump

Yes... blame bin Laden... and the people that funded and trained him. And the ones that trained his pilots and let them into the country. Oh wait. That would be the US government as well. No sense getting off on that rant. There are plenty of topics on here involving the governments conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism against the citizens of this country

The Greatest act of terrorism commited by the U.S Goverment is the passive genocide they have commited on it's people over the century; from decreasing standards of educations; an increasing rate of poverty; To spit on the very freedoms and liberties they fought so hard to receive by installing the patriot act; to lying and decieving it's own people for the political agenda's of it's own.

Deep

Oh man this is just to damn low! How can you expect one to pick them up with an ink blotter? Give the dead some peace and let this one go.

Think of it like the folks who have died in a sunken warship, or a firecracker factory explosion, let them be.

It is unfortunate that we couldnt get the bodies out, but I bet some where as best the folks could but this is not a deliberate move by the Government to be ill towards the victims nor the families.


This is a bad question, but legit nonetheless.

First of all, we arent talking about whole bodies here. We are talking about scraps and tiny pieces of bodies. That article made it sound as if we were just bulldozing heaps of bodies into a landfill.
While I feel bad for this woman, its not as if she would have gotten her son's "body" back. More than likely, the only thing she would have recieved would have been a couple of bone fragments, some hair, or a couple of forensic swabs with some blood on it.
Every reasonable attempt was made to recover the remains, but some were never found. Even with the most intensive search, it would be impossible to find every single trace of every single person that was killed. Many were incinerated by the fires, or pulverized by 600,000 tons of steel and concrete falling on them.
Instead of spending $400,000,000 on recovering trace remains, I would rather put that money toward the living victims of 9/11, the families of the killed.

$400,000,000 would put alot of victims' children through college. Or help fund a surviving spouce's retirement. Personally... if I had a family member die in NY I'd want a small plot of land there to be left as a green space with a monument to those that died.

I'm not trying to sound rude or insensitive at all. If one of my family members were in this landfill you can bet I would be very vocal about it, and like someone else mentioned I would probably volunteer to do something to help in this effort or even try to collect donations so that this could be privately funded.

I am wondering what exactly we are talking about when we are saying remains. If most of the people were reduced to ash exactly how would the Government go about identifying remains? Are they supposed to test DNA of every piece of ash or bone fragment that is the size of a pea? Didn't they get the large body parts and go through and identify those? Does anyone have any idea of what size remains they are talking about here?

And those of you that are talking about Bush capitalizing on the victims, let me remind you that Kerry is now boasting that he has the 9/11 widows backing him. And I heard that they asked that he not draw attention to them for campaign purposes but he put them right into the spotlight, exactly where they requested NOT to be. It's a dirty campaign on both sides, but that is not the focus of this thread.

Jemison