Last week, Stop the Spray’s founder, John Russo, wrote a piece that was published in the California Progress Report regarding a new strategy for halting aerial spraying without consent. From the article:

StopTheSpray.org is already evaluating ballot initiatives and other measures necessary to curtail the power of the CDFA to endanger the health and human rights of people in California. Today we enter the next phase of our legislative battle to recognize the right of consent: We have formed a team to work with the authors of the bills, their legislative teams and other legislators to ensure the people’s right to determine what happens to their own bodies is respected and is a key component to every decision involving pesticide spray.

Apparently, the idea of Californians demanding that their constitutional right to safety and consent be upheld was so threatening to CDFA Secretary A.G. Kawamura that he felt impelled to author a reply which was subsequently published in the California Progress Report.

It’s basically a recycled version of what he sent to the SF Chronicle last month, accusing opponents of the spray of spreading fear and misinformation opposing the wonderful healthiness of inhaling carcinogenic pesticides. Apparently, 24 cities and 2 county boards, respected independent doctors and UC scientists, mayors, senators, representatives, city supervisors and millions of Californians are just plain wrong: it really IS safe to breathe pesticide! Or, at least, Kawamura seems to think so.

Apart from his bizarre conclusion that it’s okay to spray toxic chemicals and PM10 pollution into the lungs of infants, mothers, sick folks and the general population, the rusty barge that is A.G. Kawamura has long since left the harbors of truth in his obsessive quest to get those pesticide planes flying over urban cities. He is simply lying about nearly everything he says, and I believe you will feel as vindicated as I do reading Registered Nurse and Albany Mayor, Robert Lieber, hand A.G. Kawamura his hat. From the article:

Mr. Secretary, it is time to look in the mirror. You and your department are the primary source of misinformation and fear tactics.

Lieber goes on to refute half a dozen of Kawamura’s downright lies regarding the safety, the testing, the history of the spray and the habits of the light brown apple moth. His statements are science-based, unlike Kawamura’s and he is summarizing what Californians have come to understand: the moth is no threat and the pesticide kills wildlife and will kill people. That’s the down home truth that Kawamura would like us to close our eyes to so that his planes can start buzzing our houses this summer. Lieber wisely points out the recent press that has been given to the rotten corruption at the heart of the EPA. Senator Barbara Boxer just convened a hearing regarding the EPA fiasco, and Californians realize we are dealing with the same mechanism here of unfounded ’scientific’ declarations, political scandal, dirty money and zero regard for human or environmental health. Take a look at the comments on these 3 CPR articles. No one is being fooled.

Mayor Robert Lieber has become one of Vegan Reader’s favorite people in this war between the State and the People of California, and his article is a must-read for everyone. We sincerely hope that Kawamura will finally get the message that we think he’s such a liar, we’d be glad to send the fire department to put out his flaming pants. A.G. Kawamura needs to lose his job, yesterday, but we hope Lieber will remain the Mayor of Albany for as long as the city can keep him.

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Heads Up: Be sure not to miss Joanie Greggains’ KGO show this Saturday, May 24th at 8 AM. Both Mayor Lieber and Frank Egger will be guests. Joanie continues to provide one of the most vital services in this public health crisis - caring, investigative major media. She’s a hero!

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