<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Connie, I am on this list because I want to know the truth (or at least what others perceive it to be.) I'm not sure that I ever will. In fact, I don't think it is entirely possible. I'd be happy if I thought I came reasonably close. </DIV>
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<DIV>Before 911, I actually thought it was possible to be fairly well informed. However, 911 has made me almost a complete an unbeliever. I feel confident that schoolbooks of 2020 will be full of lies. So why not the schoolbooks of 1990? 1890? etc.?</DIV>
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<DIV>I belong to Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth. Their goal is to enlighten Congress. When talking to one of their organizers, I asked, "What makes you think Congress is on our side?" She had no answer.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have come to the conclusion that people do not want to know the "truth," or if they already do, they don't want to admit it. I truly hope I am wrong, and that you can prove me so.</DIV>
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<DIV>It is my guess that we are the work of aliens - but damned if I know or even believe that. And that goes for just about everything.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>I think our world revolves about greed - but that is just another guess. </DIV>
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<DIV>Tell me I'm wrong about any of this. that's fine with me - maybe I'll learn something. Which is why I am here.<BR></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to Wendell Potter. For twenty years he was an executive at CIGNA and Humana. Most importantly, in the years at CIGNA, he was their chief corporate spokesperson, but has left to blow the whistle on insurance companies. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>WENDELL POTTER: Well, clearly, <B>this senator [Chuck Grassley] has the insurance industry’s best interests at heart, not the American public and not his constituents.</B> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>He has said that he didn’t think a public plan would be fair, compete fairly with insurance companies who—the private insurance industry. <B>I’d like to ask him what is fair about the way that the insurance industries operate today, the companies that dump sick people when they need insurance most. What is fair about the way the insurance industry operates, Senator Grassley?</B> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>AMY GOODMAN<B>: Forty-five million new customers, that’s what the private insurance companies can now look forward to</B>, if a bill like what came out of the Senate Finance Committee moves forward with the mandate. Explain how they will make out and how important, how significant, how profitable this is for the for-profit companies. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>WENDELL POTTER: <B>Yeah, this is the first time that the insurance industry has really seen great opportunity in healthcare reform,</B> with an individual mandate, which would require all of us to buy insurance if we are not eligible for a public, government-run program, which, fortunately, many people are. We would have to buy it in the private market from insurance companies, many of whom—many of which are for-profit companies. We would not have the option of buying or getting insurance through a government-run program like the public option would create. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So, not only would our premium dollars go into this—into the private insurance industry, but a lot of tax dollars would.</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Most people who don’t have insurance can’t afford it, and they wouldn’t be able to afford it after healthcare reform is passed without the government subsidizing their premiums<B>. So billions and billions of taxpayers’ dollars will flow right into the treasuries of these big for-profit insurance companies</B>. So we will be essentially paying a tax that will help support these insurance companies<B>. It will be an enormous bailout of the health insurance industry.</B></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></B></DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 10/2/09, Connie Smith <I><dimension04@sbcglobal.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Connie Smith <dimension04@sbcglobal.net><BR>Subject: [CitizensTruth] Why be on this list if...<BR>To: "September 11 List 2" <citizenstruth@six.pairlist.net><BR>Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 5:05 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Regarding a few comments that are going around, pertaining to the NY ballot efforts, Daniel Sunjata, etc:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Why on earth would anyone be on a 9/11 Truth list if they doubt the truth WILL break through? One comment was an overt demoralization attempt -- which is like attempted sabotage. The other was all about confusion -- which at very least, isn't helpful.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Of course there's mythology in our history, but the good stories aren't the problem. America <EM>does</EM> have a foundation of ideals, and there are healthy kernels of truth and goodness even if some events are exaggerated. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The problem comes in with lack of truth about the "bad" stories -- lack of awareness of how brutal and arrogant <EM>many</EM> US policies actually have been and continue to be. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>America: all good, no bad -- this has been the LIE unconscionably taught to us, to generations of schoolchildren. This is what has most Americans living in <EM>the matrix</EM> of ignorance -- and why the perpetrators of 9/11 were pretty sure they could get away with it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>But I'm convinced <EM>the unprecedented level of global awareness and activism</EM> <EM>are reaching critical mass</EM> -- and ALL the lies -- especially about history and religion -- are soon going to come rushing out in a tsunami of truth. Our main task then is to help people adjust -- as we have had to do -- to the shock. And then to help build an entirely new and shining future based on good-hearted realism instead of the evil agendas humanity has long been suffering.</FONT></DIV>
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