Sodacider
03-31-2004, 04:07 AM
Pearl's Widow Denied 9/11 Funds
NEW YORK — The widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (search) is seeking compensation from the Sept. 11 victims' fund, saying her husband, like the victims of the attacks, was a U.S. citizen targeted by Islamic extremists.
Mariane Pearl (search) has filed a formal appeal with the fund after initially being denied, The New York Times reported for a story in Tuesday editions.
"What's horribly, painfully obvious is that if Danny Pearl had come from any other country in the world, he'd be alive today," Mariane Pearl's lawyer, Robert Kelner, told the Times. "And because there is a 9/11 fund which is compensating people for the exact same kind of death, we feel that Danny should be included as a victim in the same class as other victims."
Kenneth Feinberg (search), special master of the fund, said he denied the application about three weeks ago because it did not meet the government's stipulation that victims had to have died in New York, Pennsylvania or Washington as a result of the Sept. 11 attack.
"I'm very sympathetic to the inquiry, but the statute is the statute, and I do not have any discretion," Feinberg told the Times.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115691,00.html
Sorry, but since when do you need an extra one and a half million dollars? Your husband's six figure salary and life insurance plan didn't cover you? I don't even entirely agree with 9/11 victims getting payouts, as there are plenty of people dying in car wrecks or from disease that are just as much victims of uncontrollable forces as them..
But Danny Pearl? All you could possibly be doing, lady, is trying to milk money out of the system. All you could possibly want is to pad your wallet. Your husband was the one who was, dare I say it, moronic enough to put himself in the Middle East, alone, as a known American reporter when terrorist activities rolled up. He was not an unknowing victim, he made the choice knowing full well the consequences.
And you, ma'am, are a greedy *****.
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edit: oh wait! here's more!
Pearl's attempt to be compensated for her husband's death has rankled some whose loved ones perished in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
"[Daniel Pearl] went into dangerous areas, and he had to know it was a risk. My son didn't choose to go over into a terrible nation that has terrorism," said Bill Doyle, whose son, Joseph, worked on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center.
Charles Wolf, whose wife was killed in the attacks, said, "One has to understand the reality of why the fund was set up. It was not an act of compassion. It was an act of legal necessity because they curtailed our right to sue the airlines."
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Kelner, however, said Daniel Pearl's case is the one that most closely mirrors the victims of September 11.
"I think that the single closest situation to 9/11 was the Danny Pearl case," Kelner told CNN. "He was an employee of the Wall Street Journal, he was an American, he was going about his ordinary daily business -- as were the people in the World Trade Center -- when solely because he was a symbol of America he was taken, he was captured, he was killed."
Mariane Pearl, also a journalist, was pregnant when her husband was killed and is now raising their nearly 2-year-old son, Adam. She has since written a book about her husband.
She told CNN that her effort to win compensation is also an attempt to protect her son's future.
"It is getting to the point where [Adam is] going to start going to school. So then, you know, the expenses are going to grow," Pearl said.
"It's very expensive to raise a kid, you know," she added.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/30/pearl.claim/index.html
Yeah, if insurance and your book deal aren't enough to raise a kid, here's something you could do- GET A JOB like the rest of the single mothers in America have to. The last thing you can pretend to do is be a welfare mom- your obviously very, very well off and to push like this as though it's for the kid and not for your own damn pocketbook is downright immoral.
NEW YORK — The widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (search) is seeking compensation from the Sept. 11 victims' fund, saying her husband, like the victims of the attacks, was a U.S. citizen targeted by Islamic extremists.
Mariane Pearl (search) has filed a formal appeal with the fund after initially being denied, The New York Times reported for a story in Tuesday editions.
"What's horribly, painfully obvious is that if Danny Pearl had come from any other country in the world, he'd be alive today," Mariane Pearl's lawyer, Robert Kelner, told the Times. "And because there is a 9/11 fund which is compensating people for the exact same kind of death, we feel that Danny should be included as a victim in the same class as other victims."
Kenneth Feinberg (search), special master of the fund, said he denied the application about three weeks ago because it did not meet the government's stipulation that victims had to have died in New York, Pennsylvania or Washington as a result of the Sept. 11 attack.
"I'm very sympathetic to the inquiry, but the statute is the statute, and I do not have any discretion," Feinberg told the Times.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115691,00.html
Sorry, but since when do you need an extra one and a half million dollars? Your husband's six figure salary and life insurance plan didn't cover you? I don't even entirely agree with 9/11 victims getting payouts, as there are plenty of people dying in car wrecks or from disease that are just as much victims of uncontrollable forces as them..
But Danny Pearl? All you could possibly be doing, lady, is trying to milk money out of the system. All you could possibly want is to pad your wallet. Your husband was the one who was, dare I say it, moronic enough to put himself in the Middle East, alone, as a known American reporter when terrorist activities rolled up. He was not an unknowing victim, he made the choice knowing full well the consequences.
And you, ma'am, are a greedy *****.
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edit: oh wait! here's more!
Pearl's attempt to be compensated for her husband's death has rankled some whose loved ones perished in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
"[Daniel Pearl] went into dangerous areas, and he had to know it was a risk. My son didn't choose to go over into a terrible nation that has terrorism," said Bill Doyle, whose son, Joseph, worked on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center.
Charles Wolf, whose wife was killed in the attacks, said, "One has to understand the reality of why the fund was set up. It was not an act of compassion. It was an act of legal necessity because they curtailed our right to sue the airlines."
...
Kelner, however, said Daniel Pearl's case is the one that most closely mirrors the victims of September 11.
"I think that the single closest situation to 9/11 was the Danny Pearl case," Kelner told CNN. "He was an employee of the Wall Street Journal, he was an American, he was going about his ordinary daily business -- as were the people in the World Trade Center -- when solely because he was a symbol of America he was taken, he was captured, he was killed."
Mariane Pearl, also a journalist, was pregnant when her husband was killed and is now raising their nearly 2-year-old son, Adam. She has since written a book about her husband.
She told CNN that her effort to win compensation is also an attempt to protect her son's future.
"It is getting to the point where [Adam is] going to start going to school. So then, you know, the expenses are going to grow," Pearl said.
"It's very expensive to raise a kid, you know," she added.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/30/pearl.claim/index.html
Yeah, if insurance and your book deal aren't enough to raise a kid, here's something you could do- GET A JOB like the rest of the single mothers in America have to. The last thing you can pretend to do is be a welfare mom- your obviously very, very well off and to push like this as though it's for the kid and not for your own damn pocketbook is downright immoral.