Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2007 23:32:58 GMT -5
JAIL SWINE THAT KILLED THESE MEN
By STEVE DUNLEAVY
August 23, 2007 -- THE family of that perfect human being Joe Graffagnino probably don't want to hear what I'm about to say.
And that is because gut-tearing grief so often takes over the basic human nature of revenge.
Having said that, Graffagnino, 34, and his all-time mate and mentor Robert Beddia, 53, died absolutely, I mean absolutely, without a whisper of an excuse.
And now the crunch . . . Someone, somehow, somewhere, has to go to jail.
Steve Cassidy, head honcho of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, met with Fire Commissioner Nick Scoppetta and his staff on Monday and asked a simple question. Did the Fire Department have a pre-fire plan for this horror house, the Deutsche Bank?
"Amazingly, the Fire Department said they didn't know," said an incredulous spokesman, Tom Butler.
When asked if they would send firefighters in again if there happened to be another fire in that building and on the same floor, the department astoundingly said they don't know.
"They said they weren't sure," said Butler.
Avi Schick, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., said after this homicide, "It was the perfect storm of misfortune that worked together to turn which is under any circumstances a hazardous situation into something more treacherous."
What a bunch of crap.
Those men were murdered up there by bureaucratic bumbling and greed. Negligent homicide? Absolutely.
But negligent homicide is still murder in my book.
No, the families of the beloved lost don't want to hear this, but let's shout it out now so that some rich buffoon, a lesser human being than those who'll be buried this week, won't get away with not paying the piper.
Hang 'em.
steve.dunleavy@nypost.com
By STEVE DUNLEAVY
August 23, 2007 -- THE family of that perfect human being Joe Graffagnino probably don't want to hear what I'm about to say.
And that is because gut-tearing grief so often takes over the basic human nature of revenge.
Having said that, Graffagnino, 34, and his all-time mate and mentor Robert Beddia, 53, died absolutely, I mean absolutely, without a whisper of an excuse.
And now the crunch . . . Someone, somehow, somewhere, has to go to jail.
Steve Cassidy, head honcho of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, met with Fire Commissioner Nick Scoppetta and his staff on Monday and asked a simple question. Did the Fire Department have a pre-fire plan for this horror house, the Deutsche Bank?
"Amazingly, the Fire Department said they didn't know," said an incredulous spokesman, Tom Butler.
When asked if they would send firefighters in again if there happened to be another fire in that building and on the same floor, the department astoundingly said they don't know.
"They said they weren't sure," said Butler.
Avi Schick, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., said after this homicide, "It was the perfect storm of misfortune that worked together to turn which is under any circumstances a hazardous situation into something more treacherous."
What a bunch of crap.
Those men were murdered up there by bureaucratic bumbling and greed. Negligent homicide? Absolutely.
But negligent homicide is still murder in my book.
No, the families of the beloved lost don't want to hear this, but let's shout it out now so that some rich buffoon, a lesser human being than those who'll be buried this week, won't get away with not paying the piper.
Hang 'em.
steve.dunleavy@nypost.com
