INSURANCE
TERRORISTS
RIP
OFF
WARRIORS
OF
VIGILANCE
Article
Overview:
Insurance
Terrorism.
Our
troops
gearing
up
to
go
to
Iraq
are
being
ripped
off
by
insurance
salespeople
selling
them
high-priced
products
that
return
little
benefits.
Is
the
crime
of
Insurance
Terrorism
a
crime
of
betraying
the
trust
of
the
young?
Should
it
be
dealt
with
by
severe
penalties?
Are
those
who
sell
protection
to
the
young
Warriors
of
Vigilance
vultures
feeding
off
the
Fears,
Intimidations
and
Complanciens
of
the
young?
You
decide.
INSURANCE
TERRORISTS
RIP
OFF
WARRIORS
OF
VIGILANCE
GROUND
ZERO--July
20,
2004,
New
York,
NY--War
brings
with
it
vultures
who
feed
on
the
bodies
of
the
dead.
It
also
attracts
vultures
who
feed
on
the
living
who
think
they
are
going
to
die.
That's
what's
happening
to
many
of
the
young,
unaware
Warriors
of
Vigilance
heading
to
Iraq.
But
the
vultures
aren't
scrawny
necked
birds
with
demon-red
eyes.
They
are
human
beings,
feeding
off
the
wallets
of
the
young
troops
by
selling
them
insurance
policies
that
cost
a
fortune
and
pay
out
little.
In
a
lengthy
expose,
the
New
York
Times
today
revealed
a
number
of
life
insurance
and
financial
services
companies
across
the
country
are
going
to
military
bases
and
selling
different
life
insurance
and
financial
products
to
young
servicemen
and
women
in
the
guise
of
being
"approved"
by
the
military.
Government
regulations
forbid
the
selling
of
insurance
on
military
installations,
but
many
of
the
salespeople
are
former
military
personnel
who
conduct
"financial"
classes
to
the
troops
and
sign
up
the
unsuspecting
to
policies
that
eat
away
at
their
income
and
provide
little
relative
protection.
Insurance
policies
of
up
to
$250,000
are
available
through
the
government
to
troops
at
a
very
reasonable
cost,
but
the
"insurance
vultures"
ignore
that
fact
as
they
push
the
troops
to
buy
their
"products"
geared
to
lace
the
salespeople's
and
company's
pockets
while
strangling
the
owner's
wealth.
(See
New
York
Times
Article)
Terrorism
comes
in
many
shapes
and
sizes,
and
one
of
the
worst
of
all
is
Insurance
Terrorism.
The
service
people
buying
the
policies
are
purchasing
them
out
of
blind
faith,
assuming
that
an
insurance
company
by
its
very
nature
is
like
a
father
or
mother,
or
grandmother
and
grandfather--more
concerned
about
their
welfare
than
anyone
can
imagine.
The
troops--a
number
of
whom
are
about
to
die
in
battle--forget
that
the
insurance
company
is
a
money-making
machine,
often
more
interested
in
its
sales
and
earnings
than
in
the
protection
of
its
policy
holders.
This
subject
of
"Insurance
Corporate
Terrorism"
is
close
to
my
own
heart.
I've
recently
been
a
victim
of
"Insurance
Terrorism"
in
a
reverse
of
what
the
Iraqi-slated
battle
troops
have
been
victims
of.
In
my
case,
a
major
insurance
company
used
my
service
in
Vietnam
thirty-nine
years
ago
as
a
weapon
against
me
to
nullify
a
claim
I
made
regarding
Post
Traumatic
Stress
Disorder
I
suffered
as
a
result
of
being
at
Ground
Zero
on
September
11,
2001.
They
denied
my
claim
on
the
grounds
that
my
"symptoms"
were
an
"exacerbation"
of
my
"war-related
experiences."
They
were
using
my
former
combat
as
a
sledgehammer
to
crush
my
claim,
despite
the
fact
that
for
nearly
four
decades
I
never
exhibited
one
symptom
of
combat
PTSD,
but,
immediately
following
the
horror
of
Nine
Eleven,
my
life
began
to
spin
about
in
a
whirlpool
of
raging
emotions,
focusing
on
avenging
the
terrorist
attack
on
our
nation
and
the
threats
it
imposed
on
my
children
and
grandchildren.
I
have
little
respect
for
the
ethics
of
insurance
companies,
or
the
coarse
tactics
they
will
employ
to
avoid
paying
a
claim
that
borders
on,
if
not
totally
evolving
into,
"Corporate
Terrorism."
In
my
case,
they
literally
robbed
me
of
money
I
deserved
by
manufacturing
false
reasons
for
denying
me
my
economic
rights
I
had
paid
for
over
thirty
years.
In
the
current
case
of
Corporate
Insurance
Terrorism
cited
in
detail
by
the
New
York
Times,
the
industry
is
feeding
on
the
bodies
of
the
young,
the
vulnerable,
ravaging
their
income
at
the
front
end.
In
one
example
illustrated
by
the
Times,
$500
a
month
was
taken
out
of
a
soldier's
paycheck
for
a
policy
that
rendered
$28,000
in
benefits.
Many
of
the
examples
given
included
troops
signing
documents
and
not
knowing
they
were
enrolling
for
insurance
payments
and
found
that
out
only
after
their
paychecks
shrank,or,
their
mothers
or
fathers
noticed
debits
that
their
sons
or
daughters
had
no
knowledge
were
being
taken
from
their
pay.
Insurance
terrorism
is
a
bitter
crime
because
it
is
performed
on
a
platform
of
filial
trust.
The
young
think
of
an
insurance
company
as
a
"parent,"
guarding
and
watching
over
their
welfare,
ready
to
rush
in
with
a
cushion
of
money
in
the
case
of
death
or
disability.
It
is
this
symbol
of
"parental
protection"
that
causes
the
young
to
blindly
accept
the
idea
of
insurance,
for
they
feel
"safe"
in
the
idea
that
"insurance"
is
exempt
from
the
greed
and
avarice
of
most
companies
and
ethically
and
morally
stands
above
the
temptations
to
rape,
pillage
and
plunder
its
policyholders.
That
couldn't
be
farther
from
the
truth.
When
push
comes
to
shove,
the
insurance
company
will
try
and
wriggle
out
of
its
obligation
with
the
articulation
of
a
snake
slithering
into
the
weeds,
for
like
any
company,
the
more
money
it
makes
the
bigger
the
salaries
and
bonuses
of
its
top
executives
and
the
fatter
the
checks
of
its
salespeople.
This
doesn't
mean
that
insurance
is
bad,
but
rather
than
insurance
is
not
a
moral
and
ethical
giant
that
can
be
trusted
on
face
value.
Like
any
investment,
insurance
needs
to
be
studied
and
its
performance
evaluated
against
other
investments.
The
Times
noted
the
value
of
money
invested
in
a
mutual
fund
versus
the
same
amount
invested
in
insurance,
illustrating
the
power
of
the
return
in
the
mutual
fund
versus
the
low
yield
from
the
insurance
policy.
But
the
troops
being
sold
insurance
weren't
given
such
a
comparison.
They
were
seduced
into
thinking
that
when
the
policies
they
bought
matured
there
would
be
a
pot
of
gold
at
the
end.
What
they
weren't
told
was
that
the
pot
had
a
hole
in
the
bottom
and
most
of
the
money
dropped
out
into
the
company's
pocket
and
very
little
was
left
over
for
the
policyholder.
The
point
is
that
Terrorism
Management
begins
at
home.
We
are
blinded
sometimes
in
thinking
that
Terrorism
is
about
the
physical
assaults
on
our
country
or
persons--the
bomb
exploding
on
the
bus,
the
water
being
poisoned,
the
dirty
bomb
going
off
in
the
center
of
town
or
the
beheading
of
a
person
held
captive.
True
Terrorism
is
about
Fear,
Intimidation
and
Complacency.
The
worst
of
these
three
Triads
of
Terrorism
is
Complacency,
for
it
involves
turning
our
heads
in
denial
of
the
violations
of
mutual
trust
necessary
for
us
to
protect
ourselves
from
ourselves.
Tort
and
criminal
law
are
designed
to
avert
crimes
against
society
and
individuals
by
providing
penalties
for
"violating"
the
trust
of
the
public
or
person.
The
more
egregious
the
crime
of
violating
that
trust,
the
more
severe
the
penalty
should
be.
Violating
the
innocence
of
the
youth
ranks
high
at
the
top
of
the
list,
and
when
it
is
performed
by
a
"father"
or
"mother"
figure
such
as
an
insurance
company,
the
crime
elevates
in
its
need
to
be
punished.
It
bubbles
to
the
top
of
the
pile.
Here
are
young
troops
going
to
war,
facing
death.
In
front
of
them
are
insurance
vultures,
preying
on
the
young.
They
deceive
the
youth
into
thinking
they
are
buying
something
"good"
when
in
relation
to
other
things,
they
are
buying
something
"bad."
They
unconscionably
take
the
limited
assets
of
the
young
and
stuff
them
into
their
pockets,
stripping
the
young
warriors
of
their
precious
economic
wealth
in
return
for
a
goose
that
lays
leaden
eggs.
What
should
the
punishment
be
for
these
people?
Under
current
law
the
crimes
committed
are
relative
to
a
hand
slap.
But
shouldn't
those
who
orchestrated
the
crimes
be
considered
Financial
Terrorists?
Aren't
they
beheading
the
economic
wealth
of
the
young
through
deception
and
misleading
information
that
results
in
the
lining
of
theirpockets
and
the
emptying
of
their
policy
holders'?
Think
about
the
conspiracy
that
goes
on
when
adults
sit
around
a
table
and
plot
and
plan
to
deceive
others
of
their
rights
under
the
veil
of
insurance.
It's
not
unlike
a
table
full
of
child
molesters
discussing
how
they
are
going
to
enter
a
school
and
teach
children
how
to
protect
themselves
against
child
molesters.
The
insurance
companies
involved
in
this
debacle
of
societal
trust
should
be
labeled
"Corporate
Financial
Terrorists,"
or
"Insurance
Terrorists,"
for
their
crimes
are
so
horrid
in
nature
and
violate
such
a
fundamental
trust
that
anything
less
would
be
a
folly,
a
sham.
If
we
are
to
become
a
Nation
of
Vigilance,
we
must
hold
accountable
those
who
attempt
to
Terrorize
our
youth
with
penalties
that
equal
the
degree
of
the
crime
they
commit.
Ravaging
the
financial
wealth
of
young
troops
going
to
war
for
personal
and
corporate
gain
is
a
crime
worthy
of
being
elevated
to
Terrorism.
As
Parents,
Grandparents
and
Citizens
of
Vigilance,
we
all
need
to
cry
out
for
more
severe
punishment
against
the
insurance
companies
who
betray
the
trust
of
the
people.
When
such
institutions
are
held
liable
for
their
crimes,
then
we
will
have
moved
one
step
closer
toward
resolving
other
forms
of
Terrorism
within
our
own
borders.
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