“My Silence Cannot Be Bought
Beverly Eckert, Friday, 19th December 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 US 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 September 11 fires still smouldered. 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 favour 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?”
Eckert was one of the few surviving relatives who refused to accept the ‘hush money’ offered by Kenneth Feinberg and took her own action, ultimately leading to the White House and beyond. She sought only justice for her husband and in so-doing publicly referred to the Zionist-orchestrated Project for the New American Century, as the “most sinister” of all documents she had ever seen. Eckert had gathered evidence that former President Bush knew all about the attacks in advance and had even contributed to the planning of them. Because of her relentless activism she was ‘allowed’ to meet with Barack Obama, informing him that she would not rest until justice was served, and also demanded that George Bush be investigated for conspiracy and complicity in mass-murder.
Less than a week later, Beverly Eckert was dead.
She had met with Obama in 2009 at the White House asking him to open a new 9/11 investigation. Obama shook her hand on TV, then sent her on a ‘complimentary’ flight to Buffalo to celebrate her late husband’s 58th birthday anniversary. The plane crashed just 6 days after the meeting with Obama.
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My neighbor died in 9/11
My aunt died in flight 3407
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