Reply #13: Families of first responders will be sickened also [View All]

[Hekate]

Every time boots and clothing were worn back to the family home, every time uniforms were washed and dried with the family laundry, asbestos and other deadly contaminants were spread to wives and children.

As the days wore on after 9-11 I was appalled beyond words at the lack of respiratory gear and haz-mat suits among the workers. I remember reading that a lot of them were day-laborers -- which means no one will ever know of their suffering.

Bush, Whitman, and the rest piously claim to believe in Hell, don't they? A choking, sulfurous, sort of place, where every breath is a torment. And they claim to believe in a God that would condemn them for their actions.... How, then, do they sleep at night?

Hekate