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(NewsTarget) On
September 9th, 2007 several planes hired by the State of
California Food and Agricultural Department (CDFA) flying at an
altitude of approximately 500ft sprayed the untested biochemical,
CheckMate®OLR-F, on over 30,000 citizens in Monterey and other
surrounding cities in California. This occurred without the
permission of the citizens. The spraying continued for three nights
from approximately 8pm to 5am. About 1,500 pounds of biochemical
were dumped on the cities. Many citizens did not even know what was
happening when the planes were buzzing overhead.
An 11 month
old child nearly died from breathing difficulties. A six year old
child developed asthma as a result of the aerial spraying. Over one
hundred people signed affidavits stating that they got sick from the
spraying. Hundreds of people had symptoms like; shortness of breath,
headaches, dizziness, burning lungs, nausea, and muscle
aches.
The excuse for aerial spraying is not a deadly disease
carrying mosquito, but a moth whose larva may eat some leaves of
some plants; called the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). The CDFA
considers the moth an invasive species since it is from Australia.
Yet, evidence suggests that the moth has been in California for many
years, living peacefully. In response to the moth, the CDFA set up
relatively harmless sticky traps, which have captured nearly every
Light Brown Apple Moth in the Northern California
region.
Governor Schwarzenegger is a strong supporter
of the declared emergency; the need to spray untested biochemicals
on humans to stop the LBAM from destroying
crops.
This aerial spraying violates several state,
federal and international laws. It violates the right to personal
safety given by the California State Constitution, the very document
that creates the California government. It violates the Americans
with Disabilities Act, which protects people with chemical
sensitivities and other disabilities from discrimination. It
violates the Federal constitutional right to personal liberty. It
violates the EPA's laws against spraying pesticides on people. It
violates human rights laws that say that human experimentation
without consent is unethical and immoral. It violates criminal laws
that claim it is a crime to poison children, or anyone else. It
violates pollution laws to spray a toxic substance over plants,
animals, and waterways. It violates laws against organized crime and
it violates the very tenants of our democracy; a system of
government designed to represent the people, not to poison the
people to represent private agri-business
interests.
Recently, in a series of rapid fire events, the
CDFA declared a state of emergency relating to the LBAM claiming
that the moths are about to destroy a huge portion of the state's
agricultural crops. The claim is that the LBAM will cause hundreds
of millions of dollars of crop damage. Due to this supposed
“emergency,” the CDFA claims it must immediately spray an untested
biochemical to eliminate this threat as soon as possible despite the
reported harms. Mind you, these moth's only travel within a 20-30
yard diameter of their birth place during their entire
life.
The state of emergency is a false declaration because
the CDFA cannot produce any meaningful evidence that the LBAM can or
would destroy crops and the sticky traps are effective at containing
the moths. In Hawaii, the LBAM has been a help to the ecosystem by
destroying invasive species and there's no evidence of crop harm for
the last 100 years.
The only emergency seems to be that the
State of California, under Governor Schwarzenegger's helm, has an
urgent need to spray as many humans; men, women, children, pregnant
women, people with allergies, the elderly, and the sick, with
chemicals. There is no sensible explanation as to why they want to
do this, nor is there any explanation as to why they think that
spraying pesticides on people is a good thing to do.
Spraying
chemicals, safe or not safe, on humans against their will is
illegal. It is a crime! The Nuremberg Code, established after the
horrors of World War II, prohibits human experimentation without the
consent of the person who is being experimented upon.
The
state does not care about the over 200 health complaints, nor the
laws they are violating, but rather cares about the commercial
agricultural business. Trade partners with the US may not accept
shipments of plants or produce that may have the LBAM. The CDFA has
given various figures of the estimated crop damage that the LBAM
will cause. Their estimates range from 100 million to 2.7 billion
dollars. Now, these estimates are not based on any scientific survey
but rather on their opinion and fears.
Even if the harmless
moth could cause such damage, it is a dangerous precedent to place
the health and safety of United States citizens, especially infants
and children, secondary to money. So the CDFA and Governor
Schwarzenegger has determined that 100 million dollars of possible
damage gives them justification to poison children with chemicals.
In this case, economic factors have been given priority over liberty
and human value.
And the question I have been asking myself
is - who is going to protect the children who will be
sprayed?
So what chemicals make up Checkmate OLR-F
and LBAM-F Products?
This has been the technical
question many people have been asking. The specific details of the
chemicals seem to be of less importance than the simple fact that
these are chemicals. Synthetic chemicals do not have a place on our
bodies without our permission. And they do not have a place in our
children's bodies who have a much lower tolerance to environmental
toxins!
My understanding is that approximately 15-20% of the
main biochemical is made up of a synthetically derived moth
pheromone. This pheromone supposedly confuses the moths and disrupts
their mating cycles. I am unaware of any scientific evidence to
prove that the pheromone is effective at controlling the LBAM
population. I supposed the CDFA's plan is to see how it works after
a year or more of spraying. This is essentially biochemical testing.
And the problem is that they are doing it on the public on a large
scale, against the people's will. Due to the declaration of an
emergency, the CDFA allow themselves to bypass the normal
environmental review process meant to examine such
questions.
The concern with the Checkmate chemicals is not so
much about the pheromone, but rather the pheromone distribution
system. The pheromone is encapsulated in a micro-capsule (like a
miniature pill) which the CDFA brags is biodegradable. What they do
not tell you is that the capsule needs to dry out to biodegrade. In
water environments (like your body), the pheromone stays
encapsulated. The micro-capsule takes approximately 30 days to
degrade. The full degradation occurring within 30 days is unlikely
because Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties experience frequent rain
and dampness from the Pacific Ocean. Thus, the people in the areas
that are sprayed will be inhaling and touching miniature pills. Once
in their bodies, the capsule will likely slowly degrade causing moth
pheromone to be released directly into people's
bloodstream.
The micro-capsule is made out of what are
falsely called “inert” ingredients. Again, the EPA brags that these
“inert” ingredients are mostly ionized water. However, they forget
to tell you that there are also two known dangerous toxic substances
in the inerts - tricaprylyl methyl ammonium chloride (TMAC) and
polymethylene polyphenyl isocyanate (PPI).
The breathing
problems and asthma-like conditions are known side effects of PPI.
So how is the state legally able to spray it on people?
The
way they illegally avoid the law and lie to people, so that people
will be lulled into a stupor, is by saying that PPI, along with
other ingredients, are actually not in the pesticide. Well, this is
about 5% true and 95% a lie. Say you are baking a cake; you use
flour, sugar, some eggs and other ingredients, and you bake it. One
could argue that, in the final cake product, there is no flour but
rather a new chemical compound called cake. In the same way, when
PPI and other ingredients are processed, they meld and bind together
and change their chemical form. They no longer resemble exactly
their original substances, just like cake does not look much like
the flour it was made of. When you examine the final biochemical,
you will see no PPI but rather some new toxic
substance.
Since there is no independently verifiable
evidence that these new chemical compounds are toxic or not, other
than 117 signed affidavits of people who got sick, and since there
is a so-called “emergency”, no thorough testing needs to be done. It
is a devious way to avoid the law. The end result is that we must
“trust” the EPA to say the chemicals are safe. It's hard to trust
the EPA because, for example, with water fluoridation the entire
employee's union at the EPA came out to say that water fluoridation
is dangerous and harmful while the official position of the EPA is
that water fluoridation is a good thing. It also becomes more
difficult to win a court case against the aerial spraying when you
cannot get any evidence that the chemicals are dangerous because you
are not allowed to independently verify anything that the EPA
alleges.
Strangely, the CDFA came out with precautions for
this “non-toxic” chemical. Recommendations such as; to close all
your windows during the spray, to stay inside, to hose everything
off in the morning before you touch it, and to not touch anything
that is covered with the chemical residue (anything outside) were
encouraged. These warnings are good ideas since the micro-capsule
can easily be inhaled, stays stuck on things, or remains in the air.
I recently checked the CDFA website looking to quote this document
and they had removed all warnings about the chemical, claiming now
that it is totally safe. Perhaps this was spurred by the CDFA
Secretary of Agriculture A.G. Kawamura's concern that citizens would
waste too much water following the CDFA's instructions to wash the
chemical off of things before touching them. It is eerie how A.G.
Kawamura is concerned about saving water and our environment, but is
totally oblivious to the fact that hundreds of people have been
poisoned due to his aerial spraying efforts.
Another concern
is the Checkmate OLR-F and LBAM-F warning label from the
manufacturer:
“Keep Out of Reach of
Children"
"Caution: Harmful if absorbed through the skin.
Causes moderate eye irritation. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or
clothing. Harmful if inhaled. Avoid breathing vapor or spray mist.”
The criminals at the CDFA claim we should not worry about this
warning label. According to the CDFA's toxicity theory, since the
biochemical is going to be inhaled and touched in smaller doses,
this warning is no longer necessary as it refers only to those who
handle the chemicals."
Due to this premise, the CDFA insists
that the 117 documented complaints of illnesses are psychosomatic
and are not caused by the Checkmate. They continue to spray without
thoroughly investigating these health claims. Infants cannot get
psychosomatic illnesses because they are too young to make things up
like that. The CDFA are hypocrites because when a doctor reports
that someone is sick to the CDFA, and if that person had recently
ingested certified raw milk, they automatically shut down the milk
business even without evidence that the milk caused the illness.
(The milk, in this case, is never the source of illness because the
cows are healthy.) On one hand, they overly penalize raw milk
producers for things that might cause illness and on the other hand
they ignore cases which definitely cause illness by their own
hands.
Spraying chemicals on people is a crime, safe
or not.
This is an outrage and this is
sickening.
It used to be easy to turn a blind eye to
government corruption because we could avoid it. You can avoid
vaccinations by claiming an exemption. You can avoid polluted soaps
and shampoos by buying natural ones, and you can avoid pesticide
ridden foods by choosing organic. (In case you are wondering,
strawberries and other produce sprayed with Checkmate will still be
certified organic by the State, so you won't know you are eating
pesticide ridden produce.) But the citizens of Monterey, Santa Cruz,
Seaside, Los Lomas and other communities consisting of over 100,000
people who are scheduled to be spray bombed, some beginning today
for up to six nights in a row, do not have the choice. Their
personal boundaries have been violently violated by the
CDFA.
Now, you cannot turn a blind eye anymore to what the
government does. We need to acknowledge that these things are wrong,
whether we can avoid them or not. When we do not stand up against
evil, we affirm it. When we say what is happening is smart, we
affirm that the evil doer is good because we do nothing to stop
them.
I encourage you, in every way possible, to not sit back
here. When you see someone doing wrong, whether it is a relative, a
neighbor, or the local government, speak up. We need to stop this
juggernaut. It is truly a terrifying experience because I have a
pregnant partner and a young child and I have to move away from here
to avoid being sprayed, to avoid being force vaccinated with
synthetic moth hormone. The last bastion of hope is that the Santa
Cruz City Council narrowly voted to sue the criminals doing this. It
is unclear whether their lawsuit will be
effective.
Checkmate.
The name for
the biochemical Checkmate has two meanings. First, to check (stop)
mating. Although there is no reliable evidence that it will check
mating, for all we know, it could cause the moths to mutate and mate
more. The second meaning of checkmate is a position in the game of
Chess. This is a position when you have your opponent trapped no
matter what move they do. They cannot win so they must resign and
lose the game. Ironically, it is not the moths who are in the
position of checkmate, but rather the citizens of Monterey, Marina,
Pacific Grove, Sand City and Seaside (cities near Carmel and the
famous Pebble Beach Golf course). These citizens must literally run,
and escape, for the sake of their children from their own homes
because a toxic cloud of government corruption is about to rain down
upon them. It is these citizens who are in the position of
checkmate. The difference here is that losing can mean a chronic
disease, illness, and perhaps worse.
What you can do is call
your state and federal representatives and encourage them to push
through laws that prohibit aerial spraying. Encourage California
State Senators and Federal Representatives to engage in a criminal
investigation because poisoning people, children, and the elderly is
a crime. Just because the people engaged in this work for the
government, it doesn't make them immune to our laws. Support 1hope.org, and the City of Santa Cruz, to
fight back.
Tell everyone!
Spread this news. Let's
tell the whole world the truth about civil rights in the good ole'
US of A.
If enough people know, this cause will be greatly
advanced. Also, process your feelings about this, the anger, the
rage, the terror, and the hatred it brings up. Feel how you want to
protect those in the aerial spray path, that inner voice speaking
within you saying, “NO! this is wrong, it must stop".
May the
criminals face the real consequences of their crimes and be brought
to justice. And may the people of Northern California be protected
from untested synthetic chemicals forced upon
them.
See below for more information, action items,
and pesticide ingredients.
More
information:
See 1hope.org, http://www.lbamspray.info/,
and http://www.stopthespray.org/
(You can sign the petition)
Also California State Senator
Laird has written an excellent letter, opposing the spraying, citing
dozens of unawsererd questions about the CDFA's shameful behavior.
This can help you understand the issue better. (democrats.assembly.ca.gov/MEMBERS/A27/moth.htm)
Published
Pesticide Ingredients Scheduled For Human Experimentation
beginning Wednesday 10/24/07 (There may be other unpublished
ones)
polymethylene polyphenyl isocyanate
(Pesticide manufacturer Suterra acknowledges this
ingredient is used to make Checkmate, but EPA claims ingredient is
not in final product)
(E)-11-Tetradecen-1-yl Acetate
(E,E)
-9,11 Tetradecadien-1-yl Acetate
Crosslinked polyurea
polymer
Butylated Hydroxytoluene
Polyvinyl
Alcohol
Tricaprylyl Methyl Ammonium
Chloride
Sodium Phosphate
Ammonium
Phosphate
1,2-benzisothiozoli-3-one
2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone
Action
List:
The best thing you can do is contact Governor
Schwarzenegger, even if you are not a California citizen. Governor
Schwarzenegger has the power to stop this. Right now, he clearly
supports the program claiming such aerial spraying is necessary.
Tell him you are opposed to his need to spray toxic chemicals on
children to stop a harmless moth.
GOVERNOR ARNOLD
SCHWARZENEGGER
General information: (916) 445-2841 2841 (press
#1, #5, #0)
Fax: (916) 445-4633
Email
governor@govmail.ca.gov
Chief of Staff is Susan Kennedy
CA
DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Public Affairs Officer: (916)
654-0462 or
(800) 491-1899 (press #1,
#6)
cdfapublicaffairs@cdfa.ca.gov
Secretary A.G. Kawamura (he
makes the final decision on
spraying):
akawamura@cdfa.ca.gov
John Connell, the state’s
expert in insect eradication: jconnell@cdfa.ca.gov
Steve Lyle
(public affairs) in charge of public communication:
slyle@cdfa.ca.gov
Nancy Lungren (spokesperson for Kawamura):
nlungren@cdfa.ca.gov
CA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
HEALTH
General Information: (916) 558-1784
Director, Mark B.
Horton, MD, MSPH: (916) 558-1700, mark.horton@cdph.ca.gov
Kevin
Reilly, Deputy Director: Kevin.Reilly@cdph.ca.gov
Online
feedback/email:
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programservices/contact/Pages/default.aspx
ASSEMBLYMAN
JOHN LAIRD (strongly opposes current spray plans)
(831) 649-2832
or (916)
319-2127
Assemblymember.Laird@assembly.ca.gov
SENATOR ABEL
MALDONADO
(831) 657-6315 or (916) 651-4015 or go to his web page
to send him an email
REPRESENTATIVE SAM FARR
c/o
Alec.Arago@mail.house.gov
DIANE FEINSTEIN
c/o
daniel_chen@feinstein.senate.gov
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Comments from readers:CheckMate.
Whan an ironic
name!
- h
...and I wonder what the beekeepers have to say about this! Would
anyone be surprised that now the bees have another reason to fly
away from California, increasing the bee colony collapse?
-
Belphegor
Live in an asylum, and what did you expect, lavender water sprays
and a kiss on both cheeks.
- homasT Vienna
I am amazed that after the atrocities of Agent Orange sprayings in
Vietnam (look it up on the net, youll see in what state of horror
the people who have been sprayed still live) and the Gagetown, New
Brunswick disasters dating back to the 60s (the US wanted to test
their herbicides they knew were so dangerous they went to Canada to
test it so their own population doesnt complain, now, the victims of
these sprayings carry their bowels in a bag and their children have
atrocious deformities - they just settled in court since the judge
admitted they are victims of something totally illegal and insane),
there are still government officials in the US who are willing to
act in such a questionable manner. Somebody said a long time ago:
those who dont remember history are bound to repeat it.
I cant
write to the house of representatives since I am not a US citizen -
but I will stop buying California oranges. Only goes to show that if
you want to protect the agricultural industry so bad you are willing
to risk human lives to achieve it, well, the agriculture business
will suffer all the same, but the only difference is that human
beings will suffer as well. Was it worth it? I truly sympathize with
those who have been victims of this - and hope and pray they will
not be the new generation who will carry their bowels in a bag in
the decades to come.
I invite those who can to contact their
government officials, and if they feel they are not listened to, to
march for their rights and ask for compensation. This is very
defendable in court, and you people should go ahead and bring these
cold-hearted bastards to court. Stop complaining and act upon
it!
- Viktoria Montreal Canada
This is what the people could expect from Arnold. He still is the
TERMINATOR, and thats what he does, terminating people without any
regret.
- Glory Road
We had malathion sprayed on us in 1990, without warning, by a convoy
of big helicopters suddenly appearing noisily above us, as we were
walking together in the Valley. then the LA riots. They have been
intimidating us for a long time. time to monkeywrench these
m**h****c***s.
- f
Where was the public outrage, when as a US sailor,off the coast of
San Diego,sailors were sprayed with chemical and biological warfare
agents,called quote: Operation 112 quote or quote: Project SHAD
quote?
The government denied that quote: Opertion 112 quote, and
quote: Project SHAD quote took place, for over 40 years, and that
the sailors died at a rate twice that of other sailors.
These
quote: guinea pigs quote were lied to and denied VA care and
benefits for over 40 years.
I know because I was a naval gunner,
on my way to Vietnam, when exposed to chemical and biological
warfare agents, in quote: Project Purple Sage quote and quote:
Project Scarlet Sage quote, between 1964 and 1965.
- SHADDEE
Lawton, Okla. USA
California has been doing this for decades. In the late 60s/early
70s they sprayed DDT in San Diego near Lomon Grove for white fly. It
was a very high concentration used in Northern California but never
in arid Southern California. It killed all of our tortoises and it
seems that almost all of my family living there (mother, brother,
and uncle) and all of the long time neighbor I know have since had
cancer and have perished. Our grove was organic until this forced
spraying. We had one of the few orchards that was not destroyed
because of the high concentration of the spray only because we had
just finished a deep watering of our trees.
- John
checkmate is the game they are trying to play. See quote: endgame
quote on googlevideo for more info
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
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cr bham USA
Mike, are you being censored? I no longer see your readers comments
on all your articles. Whats going on?
- Belphegor
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