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Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Chapter 4, or, Tell us how to do it PESH.

CHAPTER 4 - TELL US HOW TO DO IT, PESH 

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Do you really think that I have a good explanation for not figuring out how to inspect toxic buildings in the year 2001 or in 2002 or in 2003 or in 2004 or in 2005 or in 2006 or in 2007?
(perfidious Nick could ask himself this)

Through the Looking-Glass

 

HumptyDumpty_xx%20copy.jpg"I don't know what you mean by 'eggs,' "Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"

"But `eggs' doesn't mean `a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."

"What about those three fire fighters whom you sidelined? They broke no law," said Alice. 

"When I finalize the FDNY procedure, they will have broken it," Humpty Dumpty said.

"But it did not exist. How can you sideline them for breaking a law that did not exist?" asked Alice.

"I did not say they broke a law that existed - everybody knows they did not,"  Humpty Dumpty superciliously replied. " I said they will have broken it after I have finished finalizing it.'

"Where I come from," Alice said, "ex post facto laws are banned. You can't break a law that doesn't exist. That doesn't make any sense."

"It makes as much sense as the definition of an egg I just gave you," chortled Humpty Dumpty as yolk ran down his chin.

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything.

Humpty Dumpty continued smiling condescendingly, "Besides, people would have called me an egghead if I didn't sideline them."

Pointing out the obvious, Alice said:"But you are an egghead."

"Listen young lady," Humpty Dumpty screamed. "Don't be impertinent. Know your place. I am up here; you are down there. How dare you question me?  I am master of the sidelines and, as master, the truth be damned. I'll piss and shit on whomever I damn well please. I sidelined them because I can not because I'm right.  It was them or me.  I refuse to take responsibility for something I failed to do.  Do you really think that I have a good explanation for not figuring out how to inspect toxic buildings in the year  2002 or in 2003 or in 2004 or in 2005 or in 2006 or in 2007?  Hell no so better that they take the fall rather than me.  It has been prophesied that if I take the fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men will not be able to put me together again! That worries me. Like King Herod and the babies of Bethlehem, I don't want the prophesy to come true.  I'll do what I must - whatever it takes - no matter the cost to others - to forestall it.  I may be a bad egg but I'm not addled!"

Young Alice's heart broke and she started to cry as she thought of the the three innocent, dedicated and diligent fire officers on the sidelines unjustly condemned by a rotten, runny egg ...

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To understand what has happened to the three innocent, diligent and dedicated fire officers, it is important to have an understanding of the distinction between  goals and the means to accomplish the goals.  An employer can set a goal for his employees to accomplish. The same employer can either give his employees the means to accomplish the goal or withhold from his employees the means to accomplish the goal. 

An employer whose employees have failed to accomplish a goal cannot blame his employees if the employer failed to also give them the means to accomplish the goal. Such a goal is illusory.  Employers who set goals must also supply the means to accomplish the goals.

For instances:

  • If NASA gave its astronauts the goal of flying to the moon but failed to give the astronauts a rocket ship in which to travel there, can NASA sideline the astronauts because they did not flap their arms fast enough?
  • If the fire department gave its fire fighters the goal of putting out a fire but failed to give the fire fighters pumpers, hoses and water, can the fire department sideline its firefighters because they did not spit and piss on the fire enough?
  • If the fire department gave its fire fighters the goal of painting its fire engines red but failed to give the fire fighters red paint and paint brushes can the fire department sideline its firefighters because they failed to accomplish the paint job?
  • If the fire department gave its fire fighters the goal of rescuing a civilian from the fifth floor of a burning building but only gave the fire fighters a ladder that reached the second floor, can the fire department sideline its firefighters because they failed to save the civilian?
  • If a construction company gave its workers the goal of building a house, but failed to give the workers a blueprint to follow, the wood, nails and hammers, can the construction company sideline its workers because they did not somehow magically build a house out of nothing?
  •  If the fire department gave its fire fighters the goal of inspecting a toxic building but failed to give the fire fighters a procedure to follow, training, tyvek suits, other respiratory and dermal protection, decontamination, etc, can the fire department sideline its firefighters because they did not inspect and die (See the point made in the Charge of the Fire Brigade)
Later on after the tragic August 18, 2007 fire, perfidious Nick may have realized that one of the goals of FDNY was to inspect toxic buildings. (It is questionable that he understood this before the tragic August 18, 2007 fire. Recall that FDNY regs envision inspections of only ordinary buildings in ordinary work clothes (Click Here) And it is well known that captains of  local firehouses are without the power to change FDNY regulations). However, it is undisputable that before the tragic August 18, 2007 fire, perfidious Nick did nothing - nothing - to provide his firefighters with the means to inspect toxic buildings.  If FDNY envisioned the inspection of toxic buildings surely FDNY would have changed its regulation so that FDNY inspectors were permitted to wear suitable PPE other than ordinary work clothes (Click Here)! FDNY not only failed to give the Ten House the means to inspect the toxic Deutsche Bank Building, FDNY explicitly banned the TEN HOUSE by its own regulations from inspecting in other than ordinary work clothes (Click Here).
 
Just read the above post fire email from FDNY's big dalmation in Manhattan.  FDNY only began trying to figure out the means to accomplish the goal of inspecting toxic buildings after the tragic August 18, 2007 fire.  The buildings at ground zero became toxic on 9/11/2001. Why did perfidious Nick do nothing until after the tragic August 18, 2007 fire? We would all like to hear perfidious Nick's explanation. Let us not forget that FDNY had actual knowledge of the project at least in August of 2003. (See letter below)
 
 
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Recall what a testy Mayor Bloomberg was reported to have said in a report by Marcia Kramer concerning the "sidelining" of the three FDNY scapegoats (Click Here).  [When you read it, read it to yourself in a nasal, high-pitched, and bumptious tone](Also, click here):

"Can't conceive of how anybody thinks we should leave anybody in a position where there's a question as to whether or not they were taking the steps to keep the city safe," Bloomberg said. "That's what their job is."

 You tell -em Bloomberg. You tell perfidious Nick this! Oops, we forgot. This rule does not apply to one of your tea and crumpet cronies. It only applies to the little guys who you feel free to piss and shit on.

 

SHAME ON YOU!

It's unconscionable!

What is unconscionable is that neither Bloomberg nor Scopetta have the decency to stand up and admit that they made a mistake with these three innocent, diligent, and dedicated fire officers.  What kind of men are they? It takes a great leader to admit a mistake was made. How about it Bloomberg? How about it Scoppetta? Is there an ounce of nobility in you? If so, show it.

 

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We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old. . Churchill

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Go forward to CHAPTER FIVE -

 


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