{"id":901,"date":"2004-06-16T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/setting-precedents\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T06:09:06","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T11:09:06","slug":"setting-precedents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/setting-precedents\/","title":{"rendered":"setting precedents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/victimcompensation\/\" class=\"broken_link\">september 11 victim compensation fund of 2001<\/a> wrapped up its business.  they&#8217;ve processed over 7300 claims and 98% of the eligible families elected to participate in the fund.  and no wonder&#8230; the &#8220;average deceased victims award after offsets&#8221; was $2,075,345 &#8211; just a shade over $2 million for an average american killed by terrorists in new york.<\/p>\n<p>from an administration that is so concerned about setting precedents (consider the rice testimony before the 9\/11 commission &#8211; she couldn&#8217;t testify under oath, but she could talk the media about everything), this just doesn&#8217;t sit entirely well with me.  i don&#8217;t recall a big compensation package for previous [berlin 1986, beirut 1983, new york 1993, oklahoma city 1995, dhahran 1996, nairobi 1998, dar es salaam 1998 &#8211; and that&#8217;s just the big ones] terrorist-attack victims, but i guess we&#8217;re on the hook for $2 million a pop (plus inflation) for all future attacks now&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday, the september 11 victim compensation fund of 2001 wrapped up its business. they&#8217;ve processed over 7300 claims and 98% of the eligible families elected to participate in the fund. and no wonder&#8230; the &#8220;average deceased victims award after offsets&#8221; was $2,075,345 &#8211; just a shade over $2 million for an average american killed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}