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FIREFIGHTERS VOTE TO BOYCOTT
TRIBUTE
By Steve Friess
(c) Reuters * Posted for Fair Use Only
[Posted 16 August 2002]
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In
Greek tragedy, actors (who wore masks) were known
as `hypocrites' and so came to mean people who
were not what they pretended to be. In Gal. 2: 13
the Greek `hypocrisy' is translated
`dissimulation' (AV), `lack of principle' (REB),
`insincerity' ... (From
Oxford Reference Online)
*"The president has merely been using
firefighters and their families for one big photo
opportunity," Mohler said. "We will
work actively to not grant him another photo op
with us."* (From news article below.)
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[NOTE: In the text below, the empahsis is
mine.
--Illarion Bykov]
LAS VEGAS (Aug. 14) - *The International Association
of Fire Fighters voted unanimously on Wednesday to
boycott a national tribute to firefighters who died on
Sept. 11, in an angry response to President Bush's
rejection of a bill that included $340 million to fund
fire departments.*
Bush is expected to speak at the Oct. 6 ceremony in
Washington D.C., where the National Fallen Fire Fighters
Foundation is hosting its annual tribute to those who
died in the line of duty during the prior year.
The ceremony will honor 343 firefighters who died
responding to the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and
Washington, as well as about 100 others who also died in
the year.
The IAFF, the umbrella organization for the nation's
professional firefighter unions, is enraged by the
president's rejection of a $5.1 billion appropriations
bill that included $150 million for equipment and
training grants requested by some of the nation's 18,000
fire departments.
It also include $100 million to improve the
communications systems for firefighters, police officers
and other emergency personnel as well as $90 million for
long-term health monitoring of emergency workers at the
Ground Zero site where New York's World Trade Center
towers once stood.
Firefighters and survivors will be urged to skip the
Oct. 6 event in protest, said R. Michael Mohler of the
Virginia Professional Fire Fighters Local 774.
Mohler made the boycott motion before about 2,000
union leaders convening in Las Vegas for the IAFF's first
national conference since Sept. 11.
*"The president has merely been using
firefighters and their families for one big photo
opportunity," Mohler said. "We will work
actively to not grant him another photo op with us."*
BUSH ACCUSED OF "NEGLECTING HEROES"
Bush said Tuesday the bill was bloated by less
important projects and a White House spokeswoman said
Bush remained committed to firefighters and other
emergency groups.
"The president is committed to our nation's first
responders," White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan,
traveling with Bush in Des Moines, Iowa, said.
The firefighters' boycott vote followed anti-Bush
speeches by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, and IAFF
general president Harold Schaitberger in which accused
the president of neglecting the heroes of Sept. 11.
[Note from Emperor's Clothes: Daschle was one of the
recipients of the anthrax letters.]
Schaitberger ridiculed as insincere Bush's videotaped
remarks shown Monday at the conference, in which Bush
expressed sympathy and admiration for the firefighters
who responded to the Sept. 11 attacks.
*Don't lionize our fallen brothers in one breath, and
then stab us in the back by eliminating funding for our
members to fight terrorism and stay safe,"
Schaitberger said. "President Bush, you are either
with us or against us. You can't have it both ways."*
Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, told the
firefighters: "I strongly urge the President to
reconsider. If he refuses to do so, however, I am
prepared to do everything I can as majority leader to see
that you get the resources you need to do your jobs
safely and effectively."
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