Joan, Mary-Ann and Mark:
Please forward this link to an interview with Air Force Major Tim Wilcox to everyone involved with your “Illness Report”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YxXFZkVd0To

If you are caring human beings, you will watch this 15-minute video and reconsider your actions before 7 million people (many more if you include tourists) are impacted rather than 300,000.

I’ve gotten to know Tim Wilcox and his family. He and his wife are honorable people serving our country. Their child is precious. If the rest of this brief message is a bit harsh, it is because I care about them, and others who have gotten sick, too.

How can we make you realize that the spraying is the cause of people’s illnesses, not something else, as you have presumed? And that the likely culprits are the toxic inert ingredients and plastic microcapsules that people breathed into their respiratory systems and lungs, and that possibly entered their bloodstream? (Search “particulate matter” on the American Lung Association site.)

You cannot know that the spraying is safe based on a statistical analysis of just 10 percent of the illness complaints, and without interviewing a single victim or doctor. On some level, you must know this.

You cannot say the spraying is safe when there have been no inhalation studies whatsoever, since that is how we were exposed to it.

You cannot out of one side of your mouth say, “No link,” and then say, “We can’t be certain.” The former is a lie in the context of the latter.

I really believed when I sent you the hundreds of complaints (the smoke) that you would want to find the cause (the fire) and put it out. I thought that was your job – not to throw most of the complaints out and then to make pie charts and graphs of the others by illness type, location, timing and complaint source. A high school student could do what you did!

Do you have any sense of the harm you have already caused in the first three rounds of spraying by not stopping this aerial assault on people’s health, and the much greater harm you will likely cause t in months and years to come, if the state continues to crop dust highly populated cities with pesticides that we have already proven to be dangerous to many?

Who in state government is putting an emphasis on public health and safety, and on protecting the most vulnerable in our society?

Why should we have confidence that you will monitor the health impacts of further spraying when you have totally failed in your responsibility to investigate the hundreds of illnesses we have pleaded with you to investigate in recent months?

Why are you not going the extra mile for the citizens of this state who rely on you to protect them?

Why are you biased toward exonerating the spray rather than honoring people and upholding their right to safety, as defined in the California Constitution?

How can you tolerate a health experiment on millions of people without their informed consent, when civilized countries around the world condemn that type of experimentation?

Please step up!

Mike Lynberg

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