A hearing was convened last week in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the scientific integrity of the decisions of the Environmental Protection Agency. Senator Boxer delivers a keynote testimony regarding the way in which the EPA is guilty of putting special interests ahead of scientific data in order to serve its contributors from Big Ag, Big Pharma and other top threats to human and environmental health.

Watch the hearing

What Senator Boxer is doing is what this country so desperately needs - taking first step to launch a thorough investigation of the very industries that were created to protect us and our lands and which are now operating as the lap dogs of America’s top polluters.

The corruption that is at the rotten core of agencies like the EPA, OEHHA, USDA, etc. needs to be exposed and scrubbed clean out of these groups, or these entities need to be shut down. They are doing far more harm to us than good, and the spraying of California is a perfect example of the utterly criminal activity of these bureaucracies.

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Also, don’t forget to tune into KGO tomorrow to hear Roy Upton on Joanie Greggains’ show at 8 AM. Archives will be available, too.

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Update:

I was so heartened by Sen. Boxer’s comments at the above hearing, I have written her a letter tonight. I’ll copy it here:
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Dear Senator Boxer,
I have spent 3 hours this evening watching the hearing in which you participated on the subject of the corruption of the EPA. I was so impressed by your remarks and your insistence that financial concerns and special interest goals form no part of a discussion of human and environmental health. I am so grateful to you for letting these words ring out at this hearing.

As you know, California is currently in the grip of just such a corrupt situation. The USDA and CDFA are violating our constitutional guarantee of safety by subjecting us to forcible inhalation and ingestion of an aerially sprayed pesticide. Hundreds of families have already fallen ill because of this aggression against them. How do I know this is true?

I am authoring the Internet’s most active blog on the subject of the LBAM pesticide assault, and many of my readers are those who were sickened by the 2007 spraying. In my capacity as a blogger, I have spoken personally with scientists, doctors and major media, all of whom agree that our health and our lives are in jeopardy because of the special-interest-funded activities of our governor and the unconstitutional actions of the UDSA/CDFA.

We don’t need any new laws. It is illegal to discharge onto private property without consent. It is illegal to subject Californians to human experimentation without consent. We need no other laws to protect us from this illegal activity, but where we have discovered ourselves to be next to helpless is in getting our public servants and agencies to uphold these laws.

Like EPA, Gov. Schwarzenegger is guilty of receiving thousands of dollars in contributions from the pesticide manufacturer and from CDFA Secretary Kawamura. He appointed both Kawamura, who is conducting the spray, and Joan Denton to OEHHA, the agency responsible for throwing out all of the hundreds of reports of pesticide poisoning that were made following the spray.

Between them, they have their deal all sewn up and, unlike the patriotic citizens of California, have no compunction about breaking the law. Clearly, they think they will not be held accountable for causing the diseases and death that our independent doctors and scientists say will ensue as a result of the aerial spray.

My daily involvement in this life-threatening issue is has led me to conclude, like you, that our agencies are corrupt and are responsible for killing people out of negligence and greed. I feel I am living in a time of insanity that any agency declares itself authorized to drop poison on millions of human beings. How can this be?

Having just watched your evident commitment to blowing the whistle on the EPA, I am writing to implore you to come to our aid in California. It isn’t enough, when the lives of so many innocent men, women and children are at stake, to write letters, to speak firm words.

We desperately need at least one of our senators to call these actions what they are - an air attack on the people of California that will not be tolerated. We desperately need your outrage, Senator Boxer, and we need your help to protect our children, our parents, our immune-compromised spouses, our water, our air, our lives.

An inalienable right is something that can neither be given nor taken away. It is not granted by the government nor any other agency. Rather, it is an innate quality pertaining to the human person that all civilized peoples recognize. In what other time or place would a group of murderers be dignified with the title ‘agency’? How can our country have gone this way?

I believe in you, Senator Boxer, and that is the first time I have ever said such a thing to a member of government. When I hear you speak, I know you see the madness that is surrounding us, threatening to blot out humane thought and reason.

I do not believe you could engage yourself in a more crucial issue in 2008 than defending the innocent people of California and demanding that our basic constitutional rights be upheld.

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter.

Sincerely,
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