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Mosquito as Metaphor: Why Giuliani is Gassing NY
There’s nothing uncharacteristic about Mayor Giuliani’s decision to turn NYC
into a poison gas ghetto. Dousing eight million men, women and children with
poison gas in order to eradicate encephalitis mosquitoes that so far are unproven
to even exist shows the low regard our Mayor has for human life. Six years of
previous Giuliani initiatives have been characterized by his enthusiasm for
resorting to the most drastic measures available by law, and many that clearly
violate the law, in order to eliminate what he considers pests.
For Giuliani an emergency situation occurs when a wealthy contributor whispers
a complaint about something during a fundraiser or his staff comes up with the
possibility of a lightening quick response to an issue that will give him the
chance to appear decisive on TV. His thirteen million dollar gas proof bunker
in the World Trade Center was built to function as a stage from which to broadcast
weekly episodes of Action Rudy, Superhero Savior of New York!
Superheros need easily recognizable villains to fight, preferably ones who
are hated or feared by the community. Mosquitoes are an even better enemy for
Giuliani than the homeless or street artists. Mosquitoes have no friends in
high places.
Ultimately however, we are all mosquitoes to Rudy Giuliani. When the Mayor’s
Manhattan Institute inspired eradication campaigns were previously focused on
squeegee guys, street artists, homeless people and vendors, all of whom were
also described as plagues destroying New York’s quality of life, few people
saw any need for alarm.
As the Mayor gradually trained his sights on CUNY students, community gardeners
and welfare recipients more people became concerned but allowed themselves to
be lulled into complacency by the Republican logic of cutting spending and putting
people to work. By the time the Mayor was privatizing public hospitals, schools
and parks, giving the wealthiest corporations in the City massive tax write
offs and denying any groups he disliked the right to freedom of speech and assembly
we’d all become so used to the arbitrary elimination of rights that, for most
New Yorkers, resistance seemed futile.
Like the proverbial frogs placed in a pot of cold water that is gradually brought
to a boil we’ve found ourselves unable to jump out of the Mayor’s police state
before it was too late.
Just think of the perceptual alterations Giuliani has brought to once liberal
New York. The public and the supposedly liberal media have come to accept that
police shootings of unarmed and in many cases, completely innocent people, are
justified. Daily aerial gassings of the entire City are now routine. We no longer
seriously question the hundreds of thousands of illegal searches in minority
communities and additional hundreds of thousands of so-called quality of life
arrests for non criminal activity that are never brought to trial. The seizing
and selling at auction of personal property without the need for a trial or
conviction of any crime has become commonplace.
Despite a billion dollar surplus and the existence of numerous genuine public
health crises in New York no one is seriously questioning the dismantling of
what was once the nation’s best system of public hospitals. Cuts in funding
for the most essential public resources including libraries, ambulances, building
inspections, public health and even mosquito abatement go totally unchallenged.
Like a prison warden gradually cutting rations and privileges in order to psychologically
intimidate, the Mayor rules over us the convicts under his charge with an iron
hand.
In response to those who dare to take a public stand against this bully Rudy’s
retribution is swift and certain. For an elected official like City Council
Member Steven DiBrienza the Mayor can place homeless shelters in your district
if you get out of line. Federal judges that rule against him find their names
in the next day’s newspaper alongside words like crazy, stupid and insane. Reporters
that dare to ask him an embarrassing question or write a story that puts the
Mayor in a bad light often find their jobs are in jeopardy. For City-funded
agencies such as Housing Works or Legal Aid, massive funding cuts can be implemented
to teach them to mind their manners. And for outspoken critics like myself and
Christopher Brodeur who can’t be fired or have their benefits cut, false arrests
and malicious prosecutions follow like the days of the week.
Now that the Malathion Madman has intimidated the media, his political opposition
and the general public into passively accepting being covered with organophosphate
nerve gasses on a daily basis, new frontiers are opening for Giuliani’s quality
of life police state. Forced inoculations can be given along with the required
DNA sampling Rudy has recommended for every child born in NYC and for every
person arrested. Daily applications of drugs and chemicals by low flying helicopters,
small planes and trucks may eventually take the place of the police in terms
of social control. Perhaps the City’s increasingly prevalent road checks can
include fogging your car with a little Malathion gas, just to be sure there
are no mosquitoes lurking within.
Giuliani is without doubt the nation’s biggest corporate stooge and criminal.
To offset the realities behind his agenda the Mayor tries his best to seem human,
posing with minority children and ballplayers, doing second rate Godfather imitations
and dressing as Marilyn Monroe at every available opportunity. The mask however,
is slipping.
Rather than a superhero Giuliani is looking more like a supervillian everyday.
Only an insane comic book supervillian would spray poison on an entire city.
And what a setting for a madman’s experiments it is. New York is home to the
ideal population on which to conduct biological warfare experiments, abundantly
representing every race and nationality on earth. Among the scientifically understood
effects of pesticides on humans is that variations in age, sex, immune health,
ethic origin and race result in variations in toxicity. The government can fine
tune the use of chemical agents so that they know exactly which ones will target
Blacks, Asians or Latinos for example while leaving Caucasians more or less
unaffected.
AIDs is a huge problem for the government resulting in billions of dollars
in health care costs for NYC alone. Since Malathion is scientifically known
to negatively affect those with immune disorders, this mass spraying may well
result in a killing off of thousands of AIDs sufferers and a savings to the
City of billions.
Like it’s effects on AIDs patients, Malathion is known to be particularly harmful
to asthmatics. According to the Daily News, the City has more than 120,000 school
age children alone who suffer from asthma. Their treatments cost the City millions
in medical care each year. Imagine the charts Giuliani could show at a future
City Hall press conference documenting the savings to the City budget that ridding
us of all those kids would accomplish? Children, can you use the terms ethnic
cleansing and euthanasia in the same sentence?
The corporate bottom line that may explain this phony mosquito epidemic is
that acclimating the public to routine aerial spraying is going to mean huge
profits for manufacturers, distributors and applicators of pesticides who are
among the nation’s largest and most profitable corporations. The U.S. government
currently spends billions spraying Latin American countries with toxic chemicals
in a so far failed attempt to eradicate coca and marijuana production. The manufacturers
of these chemicals include Dow and Monsanto, among the largest advertisers on
television and also among the biggest contributors to elected officials. Could
that be why the media and our representatives in government keep insisting they’ve
checked out these chemicals and are convinced that they are safe?
Let’s not forget that many of the same German chemical companies like IG Farben
who patented these organophosphate nerve gasses in the first place were transformed
after WWII into the world’s largest drug manufacturers. Is this a perfectly
orchestrated synergistic business plan that is going to make it possible to
inoculate hundreds of millions of people with genetic diseases, cancer, immune
deficiencies and God only knows what other horrors for which the same companies
will miraculously invent patented treatments and earn incredible profits?
Before loading millions on freight trains and gassing them in concentration
camps, Hitler began his killing with a nationwide program of euthanasia for
the diseased, the aged and the mentally ill. His ideas on these matters were
originated in the U.S. and England. Are we looking at a resurrection of that
same hygienic ideology? The thousand year Reich Hitler dreamed of is still alive
and well and Adolf Giuliani is its Dr. Mengele for the New Millenium.
Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists’ Response To Illegal State Tactics)
ARTISTpres@aol.com (718) 369-2111
http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html
Subj: The most important message to get out about malathion
Date: 09/21/1999 10:33:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Mustang8@erols.com (Connie Eash)
To: ARTISTpres@aol.com
I have read your articles about the spraying, and I just would like to add
one very important point that you must get out to the residents and doctors
in NYC. I see some of the messages are to document the health effects of the
pesticide spraying. All the documentation of illness will be worthless, if the
doctors are not doing the cholinesterase tests and that means plasma and RBC
cholinesterase. This is the only way of diagnosing organophosphate poisoning
that is recognized by the EPA and industry. Doctors do not know to do it. YOU
have to tell them. I know hundreds of organophosphate poisoning victims and
most of their cases are worthless due to lack of daignosis with the cholinesterase
tests. My son was diagnosed properly and so there is no way the industry can
say he was not poisoned.
Thanks for your messages, hope you will include this in your communications
in the future.
Connie Eash
Mustang8@erols.com
203-272-6095
Articles about the Plum Island Bio-Warfare/Animal Disease Lab
NY Times 9/22/99
U.S. Would Use Long Island Lab to Study Food Terrorism
Daily News 9/21/99
L.I.'s Nearby Plum Island Eyed for Deadly Testing
The following are all NY Newsday articles:
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
Plum Island Safety Check
Feds order audit, citing neglect at animal disease lab By John McDonald. STAFF
WRITER Neglect of systems designed to keep highly contagious foreign livestock
viruses from escaping and other safety problems discovered... Author: John McDonald;
Size: 5K; 04-07-1994; Page Number: A07; Section: Newspapers & Newswires
Spores Over Easy
Plum Island team attacks killer viruses with frying pans By John McDonald.
STAFF WRITER In preparation for opening the windows in a wing of a Plum Island
laboratory for the first time in four decades, Agriculture Department officials
ye... Author: John McDonald; Size: 4K; 05-22-1993; Page Number: 07; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires
Security on Plum Island Must Be Taken Seriously
The French no longer transport social menaces to Devil's Island in the Atlantic
off the coast of South America, but the strategy of island isolation is far
from obsolete. Plum Island in the Atlantic just off the tine of Long Island's
North Fork is h... Author: Amos Perlmutter; Size: 2K; 01-04-1993;
Vacco Suit: Plum Isle Polluting
The top-secret animal disease center on Plum Island is illegally discharging
too much waste into Long Island Sound and potentially harming aquatic life,
state Attorney General Dennis Vacco charges in a lawsuit against the federal
government. Filed... Author: Jerry MarkonSamson Mulugeta contributed to this
story; Size: 4K; 05-03-1998; Page Number: A36; Section: News
Plum Island Cited By EPA
Research center to study cleanup
By John McDonald. STAFF WRITER The Plum Island Animal Disease Center has been
cited for violating federal environmental laws, and lab officials have agreed
to spend up to $150,000 for a two-y... Author: John McDonald; Size: 4K; 03-12-1993;
Page Number: 22; Section: Newspapers & Newswires
Plum Island Lab Cleanup Missed Pipes
Elaborate decontamination efforts undertaken to prepare a laboratory wing at
the Plum Island Animal Disease Center for construction work failed to stop potentially
contaminated debris from being trucked to a staging site for shipment off the
island,... Author: John McDonald; Size: 3K; 08-04-1993; Page Number: 22; Section:
Newspapers & Newswire
Plum Island Bird Kill Probed
The discovery of the remains of at least 10 dead birds in a courtyard of Plum
Island's research laboratory for exotic animal diseases is being investigated
by Agriculture Department scientists. Workers renovating a wing of the laboratory
that last ... Author: John McDonald; Size: 3K; 07-02-1993; Page Number: 22;
Section: Newspapers & Newswires
Lab to Try New Recipe
Decontamination fails; another attempt readied By John McDonald. STAFF WRITER
The frying pan method for decontaminating a laboratory on Plum Island failed
to kill test spores, so another attempt will be made this weekend after ...
Author: John McDonald; Size: 4K; 05-27-1993; Page Number: 06; Section: Newspapers
& Newswires
Plum Is The Word In Russian
For more than an hour, Russian germ-warfare experts poked, probed and prodded
officials of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center yesterday to try to determine
if it complies with the international ban on biological weapons development,
but the chief... Author: John McDonald; Size: 3K; 03-03-1994; Page Number: 24;
Section: Newspapers & Newswires
From: NEWSDAY
http://www.lihistory.com/specdisc/displum.htm
Danger Is Their Business At Plum Island, government scientists research
three of the deadliest biological threats to livestock
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
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