what's up guys welcome to breaking the set i'm out of the mind over the weekend america's grossly over militarized police force once again showed its true colors first in charlotte north carolina where police killed twenty four year old football player jonathan feral who was seeking help after miraculously surviving a car crash a homeowner called nine one one and told the dispatcher is that a man was repeatedly knocking on door leave when they arrived at the scene feral charge at them but something tells me that by charge they meant stumbling injured so naturally want to cops fired a stun gun when that failed to stop them another police officer opened fire and killed him but not to be outdone in the police brutality department on the same day in new york city the n.y.p.d. opened fire in times square toward a man pretending to point a gun at officers instead of hitting the crazed man who was later found to be unarmed police struck two female bystanders protect and serve more like shoot first ask questions later and. some. of the

really it was a. very hard to take. the. one that he ever had sex with the terror threat there's no. deal. with all the concert reminders about nine eleven there's one crucial element consistently left out of the conversation. the sick and dying first responders who

risked their lives on that fateful day emergency responders right now a fifteen percent higher rate of contracting cancer than the general population and already more than a thousand people who rushed to ground zero to help have tragically died according to the c.d.c. sadly the nine eleven heroes you would expect the government to be helping the most have been left in the dust to talk more about the struggle for medical care i'm joined now by john feal first responder founder and president of feel good foundation john of the pleasure to have you on thank you for having me talk about the most pressing medical issues facing nine eleven first responders right now. cancer in the beginning in the first few years it was respiratory but now it's cancer and this is just the first wave of kids is the blood kids is the leukemia is the you all but in five years you can see dispenses cancer is they'll be another way bill cancer and like i tell everybody this is a generation long issue with a generation long illness. what's the status of the drug act right now and how many

victims has a compensated thus far. well i can tell you really important date is october third of this year which is about i believe seventeen days from now if you were affected by nine eleven if you would there even if you're sick or not sick you should register with the b.c.s. . to get compensated because you have to october third you'll be left out and this is a bill that we passed three years ago and health care is been up and running for two years now and doing a great job in the compensation part of the bill is slowly catching up to the health care part keep in mind uses only a five year bill which expires in october of two thousand and sixteen and we're going to have to go back to the congress and walk the halls of congress again and get this bill renewed so there's a lot of obstacles and a lot more hurdles in the way absolutely as you mentioned there's been multiple waves and there are sure to be more to come as well ways this cancer as i

understand has been quite a difficulty even getting congress to cover all of the cancer cases thus far what's been the delay on that. well you know let me let me take everybody back in time you know for years if we weren't sick and we were crying wolf. fact that the matter is the will feed us in the world being cancer and right now nyasha diminish the health care party to build this is a two part bill the james zadroga health and compensation act is over fifteen hundred people that have been certified now by niosh and there's still thousands of others went non eleven related cancer. you know for years they told us this was a new york issue just four hundred thirty five congressional districts in the united states four hundred thirty of them were represented at ground zero somebody from every state came to new york during the cleanup of the recovery in one home and a lot of people got sick and the national non-election program now treats over twelve thousand people from across the country that is sick from their heroic actions at

ground zero the days and weeks after and you mentioned how it expires what happens when it does expire and is the four billion dollars a lot of dust far enough to cover everyone's expenses and how is the money allocated i just threw a lot of questions at you well now it's a good question four point three billion dollars one point five billion of that is for the health care and there's plenty of money to treat everybody for five years when we go to renew the bill the health care part of this bill will be renewed i will bet my one kidney on that on that confident that even congress as paul the job they're doing now will not renew this bill the compensation part is two point seven billion in change. they're waiting till october third in see how many people they have on october fourth that have registered and file claims and then they'll be able to make a determination on how people are going to start to be compensated right now there's about twenty seven thousand people that have registered and i'm going to say a third of that have legitimate claims because the ill from nine eleven and its aftermath

you know if you took every toxin that was in the air that day in the following days . you put it in a bottle you have a skull and crossbones saying hopeful is swallowed consult a physician then you have the toxic soup combined and that was something that no doctor no scientist has ever seen before and the absorption to the nose mouth and skin has made these men women and i say these men and women i'm one of them has made these people sick and you know for years they said we had to prove that nine eleven got to say we don't have to prove it anymore they have to prove that nine eleven didn't get us sick. good point and sadly so many people have already lost their lives john and so we can't wait any longer speaking of the toxics lou seven days after nine eleven christine todd whitman of course the former head of the p.a. issued the statement that she's glad to reassure the people of new york they're safe to breathe the water safe to drink the concentrations are such that they don't pose a health hazard we're going to make sure everyone's safe john do you think that her

and other government employees should be held criminally culpable for falsely assuring people that they were safe. well listen christie todd whitman. she's going to be god one day god will be judge she can live what her reaction and her words i remember that you know on september seventeenth which is tomorrow is my anniversary when i was horribly injured i remember christie todd whitman coming out on the sixteenth and saying the. breed of the water was safe to drink she took what she took her orders from the white house and listen they wanted wall street up and running and they had to do what they had to do do i understand that yes do i agree with it now thousands of good innocent people got sick and many have passed away we lost about close to fourteen hundred people since nine eleven from their own misses and this year alone we lost forty two that we know of that we're keeping track of forty two people taken from us too soon and close to fourteen hundred you know nine eleven twenty seven hundred fifty one innocent lives were lost to senseless

violence we're halfway to them now because of poor leadership and bad politics and basically corruption and you know i've said this a million times a circus monkey could have been walk compassionate and done a better job politicking at the nine eleven between congress albany and city hall a lot of people dropped the ball on helping people and you know when you're when you have a position of power and leadership you have a moral responsibility to help you can stay in joints and you know a lot of people they have to look themselves in the mirror and say you know what i think i failed absolutely john feel feel good foundation everyone check it out we got to put the pressure on congress fund the nine eleven first responders thank you so much for everything you do god bless you. think back to twelve years ago how you felt right after the attacks of september

eleventh two thousand and one was a national climate of fear sadness despair and anger from paris to duran us allies and enemies held candlelight vigils and solidarity world leaders presented a unique opportunity for understanding reconciliation and peace that amidst the chaotic aftermath of the attacks too many were already calling for blood and just seventy two hours later lawmakers were already voting on a resolution that would take this country to war but it wasn't just any war declaration it was an unprecedented measure that would come to redefine the role of america's intelligence and armed forces in the twenty first century the two thousand and one authorization for use of military force or the math is a broadly worded piece of legislation that gives any president authority under the law to preemptively attack any country organization or individual deemed either a threat to the u.s. or an associated force to terrorism it was

a codified step toward perpetual war which sadly still continues today yet in the deliberating moments toward such unprecedented power there was a lone voice that warned us of what these actions could lead to and september fourteenth two thousand and one barbara leave a congresswoman from berkeley california stood alone on the floor to cast the only no vote against the math while four hundred twenty eight other representatives voted to give the president a blank check. september eleventh changed the world our deepest fears now. yet i am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the united states this is a very complex and complicated matter. a complicated matter indeed not only would america be waging a war against an invisible enemy in the name of national security and lawmakers

recklessly abandon their responsibility to uphold the values of the constitution. however difficult this vote may be some of us must urge the use of restraint our country is in a state of mourning some of us must say let's step back for a moment let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control yes we should have taken that moment to consider the logic of fighting a tactic and every corner of the world see barbro really understood the consequences that go along with military action shandor said that hate begets hate and violence begets violence. as a member of the clergy so eloquently said. as we act let us not become the evil that we deplore. millions dead

as a result of the brutal u.s. occupation of iraq and afghanistan thousands lost in the series of shadow war worldwide the rise of drone bombings extrajudicial fascinations indefinite detention and the unchecked growth of and higher industry devoted to bloodshed unfortunately barbara lee's warning has become reality and the process of fighting a global war on terror the us has become the greatest purveyor of terror in the world. player. live live.

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his term clarke was instrumental in passing to the most significant bills of our time civil rights act and voting rights act since leaving the administration ramsey has been one of the most prominent figures leading the charge against us militarism this troubled everywhere from vietnam to iraq where he studied the devastating effects of western sanctions on local populations he documented his findings in a two thousand and two book called impact of sanctions on iraq the children are dying joined me earlier to discuss his research on iraqi sanctions evolution of the rule of law since his time as attorney general and why he represented saddam hussein i first asked him what iraq was like before western intervention in one thousand nine hundred one. iraq was. the most prosperous. arab country in the world. instead of living it was highest infrastructure was. better than most part of the united states. had good education good health care.

that's before nine hundred ninety one before. we go for the invasion ninety period between after nine hundred ninety one january nine hundred ninety one who we invaded and started bombing and we'll head. two hundred thousand sorties over when every few minutes bomb the new each other who country in one thousand nine hundred one in the before that was very prosperous and. progressive and. since then it's suffered enormously nobody feels safe any day in iraq they haven't since. two thousand and three at least if not one hundred. he one. hundred killed every week thousands more often than not. in the country's. been crushed in a unique way for a unique a long period of time with. violence enduring and then.

talk about how many children died as a direct result of these sanctions and why specifically children. who should know i'm a big supporter of you and it's the hope of one of the major hope at least of peace on earth the. u.n. sanctions were imposed on iraq in august of ninety. impacted severely only it's important that they couldn't get infant formula for instance. and by the late fall of that year forty seven thousand five hundred children under the age of five died as a direct result of the sanctions within three or four years four hundred seventy five thousand could be counted who had died as a direct result of the sanctions i was going into iraq every year during that period and always go through maternity wards and you're lucky if you spent thirty minutes in there to get out. and spend on the bed with your mother that's your

custom there and the mother just start wailing when the baby die. we try to take him from former bandmates infant formula feed to infants of the countries of iraq from the larger and they couldn't get it for all their wealth because of the sanctions and because of the military threat the military action against them constantly one of the great crimes against humanity. since world war two. have sanctions ever work without having devastating effects on the pop on the people of certain countries instead of the regime. if you think about her she mission sanctions impact that we. just the poorest and. those with less power to actually asked the necessities of life and the pleasures of life. and influence or somebody to help them they can't make it by themselves and. their

parents are poor and you can't import infant formula the mothers are mounir mothers milk is. well below normal production and if they were all in a particular mother. in france now i. just famous incident which our secretary of state. was asked. on one of our major interview programs four hundred seventy five hundred seventy five thousand children under the age of five dead as a direct result of the sanctions is the price worth it and china tory looked at the cameron said difficult question but yes the price she's worth it isn't. there's no morality. and anyone who can say that anything is worth his life at five hundred seventy five thousand children. ramsay you were talking about the bombing campaign that was going on at the same time as these harsh economic sanctions were being applied to iraq what were the targets of those bombs at that

time and they were hitting infrastructure primarily from one end to the other from . the border with turkey to the. city to basra and below. and they were hitting bridges. in baghdad they hit so many places i remember the justice ministry was a place i frequented. that badly hit. but it was intended to. you know hit agriculture even trying to burn fields and destroy crops and. like anything it would nourish the people. who have genocidal purpose. we strategically determine it's not just military targets i mean obviously this is a lot of civilian infrastructure targeted on purpose as you just mentioned given

what you've seen and how sanctions that firstly affect the population of these countries the most how do you feel about this administration using humanitarianism as the justification for a strike on syria. it would it's pretty in humanitarian to put it mildly it's also. the chair of the violation of human rights and international law. one country can take it upon itself to be punishment for the whole world i think it can bomb people where they are. that anywhere for any. state around stated purpose their purpose unstated in the state something that they claim is your purpose in your real purpose. the real purpose in changing of syria is driving and endangering the entire christian population there which is a very large population for the largest middle east countries we need integration

religious and otherwise if we're going to be peace with each other. which it is time i've been very close to both of people i love those people over there good news for their strength and their courage but we have to live at peace with them. and i couldn't agree more with alan ramsay you've taken a lot of heat for choosing to be part of saddam hussein's legal representation why did you choose to represent a brutal dictator. who i didn't. see here i was shocked and. i felt. an absolute duty to do it if i was requested. she belonged there. we don't have equal rights we don't have rights we have privileges in the underprivileged. and i believe in rights of my adult life striving for people's rights as a lawyer and otherwise. and he got no fair trial

a fair trial would. possible perhaps under the circumstance you could turn and turn him over to people who've been trying to assassinate him for twenty years. and trying to did that for the trial it was a farce. but to stand there with him in try to honor she'd interest and truth in jest. i would have had a hard time meeting with myself if i had agreed to do it. do it again in a minute. i could not do it. well put considering how this week marked the twelfth anniversary of the horrific nine eleven terrorist attacks what's your take on how the government decided to kill and throw bin laden's body in the ocean instead of giving a trial that in so many answers of the american people. are very muddy we don't. practice what we preach. we totally ignore. fundamental human rights international. standards.

when it comes to international affairs. our government i mean you know i just came back here from the sixtieth anniversary of the war in. korea and the fortieth anniversary of the war in. vietnam. millions killed. you know a good thing is the people who are thriving it's beautiful to see it shows that there is a future after hill the war on terror is now carried out by the executive being judge jury and executioner especially in these drone wars just telling people that they claim are terrorists that any fair trial at all how dangerous that up. are we setting for the rest of the world with this policy. where we're showing that. the powerful leaders they will in the week suffer is a must. and that's the crucial most immoral thing that you can say to. shoddy.

powerful should try to uplift the poor should know. they feel a lot better about themselves if they did not talk about their aid that is so darn political. strength in the shrinking themselves. in the violence that. we are as dr martin luther king said it really hurt him to say it's. the greatest provider purveyor of violence on earth it's my own country one thousand nine hundred seventy three which i here in new york the greatest purveyor of violence in the united states of america someone like you who has served in the administration decades ago seen it out on the outside now when you were serving in government was it more transparent and accountable to itself and the people than it is today or is the level of deceit and corruption kind of all relative. as attorney general to a free hand to. i wouldn't state i hadn't. rendered justice is i so if

it is possible to make a difference but it's it's a struggle and it's. not sure that any different you may will long endure. and what we try what would you tell people who just feel like it's hopeless and you know look looking at the world and say how can we get out of these of this policy of bellicose militarism the harder it gets the more important it is that we stand up and struggle. i watched in the sixty's that the pain and misery and danger to our african-american population a lot of time in the early sixty's and working primarily in the area and i was young i was. from the. compassion. that african-americans were facing danger and humiliation deprivation all the time and. they sang and they marched and they said we shall overcome. when you got there you had we. not better off than we were and

were sure of margin and children even that we should overcome if you don't believe that you much will crawl in a hole in the various shelf struggles to cope with life. it is indeed a ramsey and we definitely have seen change happen albeit slowly it does happen and it takes the struggle in the streets thank you so much for being a voice of the people representing justice and truth ramsey clark former u.s. attorney general. you see so far how do our you tube channel at youtube dot com slash breaking the set and be sure to subscribe so you're missing a lot of. all of our interviews posted separately under the videos tab. fantastic interview with former presidential candidate rocky anderson so go check out all that at youtube dot com slash breaking to the set and you guys that's it for me tonight all of us here breaking this set will see you right back here tomorrow.

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