Reply #43: yes it was hush money of course

[pitohui]

that was what was so odd abt it

these ppl held life insurance policies which specifically excluded acts of war & acts of terror (as all life insurance policies do)

if i go to israel & get blown up on my vacation while eating pizza, then my family don't get my life insurance pay-off because i died as an act of terror

if there's a nuclear exchange, the families are not entitled to pay-out on their life insurance policies because it's an act of war

i'm not sayin it is fair, i'm sayin it is how the contracts are written

yet for some odd reason they paid off the 9-11 families anyway

the families actually had to sign a settlement statement agreeing not to sue the airlines or anyone else in connection w. 9-11 if they took the pay-out

it was thought at the time the offer was made to keep the families from suing the airlines into bankruptcy, since some or maybe all of the hijackers should have been stopped from boarding the planes if the security had done their job, maybe so, united airlines & several others have ended up in bankruptcy anyway

as far as i'm concerned, if they pay off one group of ppl, they had better expect to play fair & pay off others

they could not have reasonably expected in sept. 2001 that we would never be hit by another catastrophe, they established a precedent, now they should live it up to it, & if some black ppl get some money they'll just have to deal