IAFF Claiming Mass PTSD Tsunami Disblty
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IAFF Claiming Mass PTSD Tsunami Disblty

The International Association of Fire Fighters, the union to which most of
America's professional fire fighters belong, is reporting their members are
now suffering from massive Post Traumatic Stress Disorder related
disabilities from the tsunami that swept Asia and Indonesia.

The IAFF, well know for using PTSD to get tax free disability pensions for
not only its retiring members, but its members convicted of crime and
heading to prison, is claiming that the televised footage from the tsunami
in Asia has placed undo stress on its fire fighters viewing the tragedy from
the Internet and on television from the easy chairs.

Thus, fire union members believe they are now entitled to disability claims
from the city's they serve, all tax free of course. Police union leaders are
expected to follow suit.

This is particularly true in PTSD laden and land locked Omaha, Nebraska,
where claims of disability sworn to under oath and filed by fire fighters
and police officers against the city of Omaha are common and usually granted
with little question.

But five Omaha Chiefs and Battalion Chiefs recently learned the hard way, if
you can call it that, that the Omaha tax payer is tired of the free rides
given to fire fighters and police officers under the PTSD claim.

These five were brazen enough to file at the same time, immediately before
their early retirement deal with the city of Omaha kicked in, they all had
work related injuries from fire fighting that previously they had not
reported.

These men's bold and fraudulent claims of disability were denied, but no
fraud charges were filed and all five received their early retirement
buyouts and are currently receiving their pensions in retirement as if
swearing under oath to a claim of disability and lying about it were all in
good fun.

One, the ring leader and highest ranking of the bunch, Paul Wagner,
immediately following his retirement from Omaha Fire and disability claim,
was offered the job of Chief of the Papillion Fire Department and accepted.
He is currently their Chief, disabled or not, perjuror or not.

But can you blame them for trying when it's so easy for a fire fighter hero
to scam the city they serve? One Omaha Fire Captain was indicted for cocaine
trafficking by the federal government. He ran a ring of fire fighters
trafficking cocaine in Omaha.

Omaha Fire Captain Jim Johnson pled guilty to one count of trafficking 50
pounds of cocaine in Omaha in a plea agreement then immediately filed a
disability claim with Omaha and it was granted. Then Johnson went to prison.

When he got out, he filed another claim with the city to have the benefits
increased from a partial disability to a full PTSD pension.

Now the entire fire fighting world of the heroes of IAFF have learned how
easy it is for a hero to use PTSD to retire early and not pay any taxes for
life.

I think the tsunami in Thailand hurt my back, too.





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