-Caveat Lector- ----Original Message Follows---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Opposition to Toxic Spraying Grows 9/27/99 NYC/Giuliani Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:10:10 -0500 (CDT) Public Opposition to Toxic Spraying Grows 9/27/99 Today the New York City Council Committee on Public Health canceled a much anticipated hearing on the spraying of Malathion, Resmethrin and Sumethrin, claiming that they want more information on the West Nile Virus before proceeding. This is the same compromised, intimidated and ineffective City Council that has said and done nothing about the spraying for weeks. Now that the City has revised it’s diagnosis, claiming that it wasn’t actually St. Louis Encephalitis [SLE] but a much milder disease, West Nile Virus, the justification for repeatedly spraying the entire population of New York City with toxic chemical gasses is even more in doubt. The mystery of why in 1999 SLE would only crop up in NYC out of the entire United States is now even more puzzling, as public health officials admit that what they now claim to be West Nile Virus has never before been reported in North America. During the past two weeks of this crisis five major news articles and editorials appeared in the NY Times, the Daily News and Newsday concerning the Plum Island Biological Warfare/Animal Disease lab off the Long Island coast. These articles all followed within a few days of two essays that I sent to the media suggesting a theory that Plum Island might be a possible source for the so far unexplained appearance of the virus. Among the possible connections I’d suggested is that birds routinely fly to and from Plum Island and that birds, which are the alleged source of both viruses, are a significant part of the research and testing done at the high security government lab. None of the articles attempted to make any connection between the lab and the virus outbreak, however. If the virus was in fact accidentally or deliberately released from the lab, it’s certain that the Federal agencies in charge would do whatever they could to suppress that fact in order to avoid public panic, lawsuits, political fallout for elected officials and obvious questions about why the government would choose to locate a biological warfare and infectious disease lab right next to the most populated City in the U.S. None of the recent articles on the lab raised any of these issues. Could the media’s reluctance to publish the scientifically established facts about the toxicity of the chemicals being used in the spraying, to question the locating of this dangerous facility off the NY coast or to report on the immediate and widespread health effects of the spraying be part of a government cover-up? Could the media, the City’s hospitals and elected officials have been told that this was a high priority national security issue and that they were not to reveal certain facts or even question what was going on? Can the public now be confident that the Mayor, his OEM {Office of Emergency Management) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are telling us the truth about any of this? On November 9, 1997 the City held a military style exercise for the OEM to practice responding to a massive chemical attack on NYC [See: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/oem/html/icebrief.html]. A so far unconfirmed report I received states that in April of 1999 Jerome Hauer, the head of Mayor Giuliani’s OEM, placed an order for more than 160,000 body bags. If that report is true, was the Mayor’s OEM saving money by getting a bulk price on body bags or were they anticipating the sudden death of tens of thousands of New Yorkers? At many of his recent press conferences Mayor Giuliani has criticized activists like myself who are publishing and distributing information on the toxicity of the chemicals being used and questioning the necessity of the spraying. He claims we are trying to spread hysteria and panic and are doing so primarily because we like to see ourselves on TV. “The mayor dismissed complaints from environmental advocates about the spraying, referring to them as hysterical "environmental terrorists" who "like to get you angry because it gets them on television." The spraying is harmless, he insisted”. -Daily News 9/18/99 As the Mayor continued to make these now routine allegations he launched a very public campaign of personal attacks, censorship and threats to fire the entire board of directors of the Brooklyn Museum. The entire NY media has described the Mayor’s statements as a political effort designed to knock the spraying and Parks permit controversies out of the headlines. Giuliani, who may be the nation’s top practitioner of disinformation and propaganda, has succeeded admirably in diverting attention from his very questionable spraying initiative and his efforts to eliminate freedom of assembly back to the now familiar waters of his attacks on artists’ rights and freedom of speech. On 9/25/99 the syndicated PBS show, Tony Brown’s Journal, had as its guest a former FBI agent who described the Federal government’s plans for Y2K. These contingency plans include rounding up political activists to prevent public panic, the imposition of martial law and the likelihood of numerous civilian deaths at the hands of the military and the police. Is the so called mosquito epidemic merely a warm up for what’s to come in three months? Legitimate questions remain to be answered about what exactly is going on in NYC. Are we being used for a gigantic biological experiment? Are we being subject to an attempt at population control? Is the spraying being done to kill mosquitoes or to infect the public with viruses or chronic illness? Why, other than its usefulness as a test site, would the government locate a biological warfare lab next to NYC? And why is the media still tiptoeing around these issues rather than doing its job of aggressively asking these questions and getting the public it represents some answers? Robert Lederman 9/27/99 Recent articles on the Plum Island Biological warfare/Animal disease lab NY Times 9/22/99 U.S. Would Use Long Island Lab to Study Food Terrorism NY Times 9/23/99 Residents Near Lab Taking Germ Plan Matter-of-Factly Daily News 9/21/99 L.I.'s Nearby Plum Island Eyed for Deadly Testing Newsday 9/23/99 Plum Island Upgrade Debated / Worries about lab for animal diseases Newsday 9/24/99 Editorial/ Bioterrorismism /A real threat. Using Plum I. labs to develop vaccines against it would make sense. Earlier articles on Plum Island: Newsday Lab Focus Was On 4 Animal Diseases 11-21-1993 From: NEWSDAY Danger Is Their Business At Plum Island http://www.lihistory.com/specdisc/displum.htm NEWSDAY Plum Island Safety Check 04-07-1994 NEWSDAY Security on Plum Island Must Be Taken Seriously 1/4/93 NEWSDAY Plum Island Cited By EPA 3/12/93 NEWSDAY Plum Island Bird Kill Probed 7/2/93 NEWSDAY Plum Is The Word In Russian 3/3/94 NEWSDAY Vacco Suit: Plum Isle Polluting 5/3/98 Lab Focus Was On 4 Animal Diseases When the military officially closed Ft. Terry in 1954, Army officers turned over to Plum Island scientists 134 strains of 13 viruses collected from four continents, most obtained for development as biological warfare weapons, Army Chemical Corps rec... Author: John McDonald; Size: 8K; 11-21-1993; Page Number: 60; Section: Newspapers & Newswires "Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." Mayor Giuliani, New York Times, March 17, 1994 "I ask you not to create any undue or unnecessary alarm or panic," Giuliani said at a City Hall news conference on Thursday morning. "There's no point in not spraying, because there's no harm in spraying. So even if we're overdoing it, there's no risk to anyone in overdoing it...The more dead mosquitoes," he added, "the better. I don't think the media should try to push this out of proportion”. NY Times 9/10/99 “City health officials estimate, based on experience elsewhere, that even in areas where the disease has been found, only 1 in every 1,000 mosquitoes carries the virus, and even if a person is bitten by an infected mosquito, the odds of becoming ill are only 1 in 300”. 9/11/99 NY Times Editorial, “When Mosquitoes Bear Disease” “Malathion is a nerve gas...in the same family as nerve gasses developed during WWII” -NY Times 9/14/99 Dr. Erika Schwartz of SUNY Downstate Brooklyn [referring to West Nile Virus] says "It's much milder than St. Louis Encephalitis, and the St. Louis is already mild. So you get flu-like symptoms, you get headaches, muscle aches, you don't feel well. It's self-limited so it goes away by itself, so in 24 to 48 hours it goes away and you don't even get diagnosed." 9/25/99 NY1 NEWS [The following resolution [here in an abridged form] was passed by the Full Board of Community Board #2, Manhattan, on September 23, 1999.] REGARDING THE SPRAYING THE CITY WITH MALATHION TO KILL S.L.E. MOSQUITOES WHEREAS, in response to an outbreak of St. Luis Encephalitis (S.L.E.), a mosquito-borne, sometimes life-threatening disease, the City has undertaken a program of repeatedly spraying by air and truck the five boroughs of the City of New York with Malathion and other pesticides; but WHEREAS, while government, scientific, medical and academic experts caution that Malathion is a poison which must be used under strict safety guidelines to prevent human and animal contact, the Mayor has nonetheless described this neurotoxin as “harmless” in public announcements; and WHEREAS, in addition, the City’s program has not undertaken to educate people on precautions to prevent contact with Malathion, including wash-downs of playground equipment after spraying, as is done in Los Angeles County and other jurisdictions where spraying is taken more seriously; and the Mayor’s community notification program has not been comprehensive, timely or accurate, with the consequence that parents with children in playgrounds, and others, have been sprayed directly with Malathion, because they were misinformed by the published spraying schedule; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Community Board #2, Manhattan urges the Mayor to immediately undertake a high priority, aggressive and accurate program of public notification and education, including neighborhood posting outdoors and in stores and community centers, both to prevent exposure of people and animals to Malathion and other insecticides and to enlist the public in eliminating sources of standing water where mosquitoes breed; and in pest prevention and public education; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that Community Board #2, Manhattan urges our Mayor to stop referring to Malathion as “harmless”. (Submitted byAnn Arlen, Chair, Environment & Public Health Committee) September 23, 1999 -------------------------------- Malathion information sites: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Biology/4S03/malathio.htm http://www.chem-tox.com/malathion/plane/default.htm http://www.chem-tox.com/malathion/ http://www.chem-tox.com/malathion/research/index.htm http://www.ncchem.com/malathion.htm http://unix.adept.net/~mcsinfo/genetic.htm http://members.tripod.com/C_E_A_S_E/framesindex.htm ------------------------------------------------ The following letter is reprinted from Brooklyn Bridge Magazine Sept/Oct issue pg 12 Letters to the editor: “Frances Genovese’s “Giuliani’s Brooklyn Boyhood” (Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, Summer 1999), despite being a puff piece, shows the origins of the Mayor’s repressive upbringing, his violent, hot-tempered father and excessively admiring mother. In other words it shows the origins of the Mayor’s repressive policies towards minorities (they moved out of Brooklyn when blacks moved into the ‘hood), his overwhelming egoism, his school uniform obsession, his violent temper and his belief that, like him, we must all blindly obey authority. Unfortunately, these values are not those of most New Yorkers. We believe in equality, free speech and smashing phony politicians like Giuliani. Too bad he can’t be Mayor of a small town in Serbia; he’d probably like it a lot better and be far more appreciated by his constituents.” Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. 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