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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs They Are Doing 'Rural Cleansing' Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs They Are Doing 'Rural Cleansing' Linn Cohen-Cole 33; OpEdNews via SOTT January 10, 2009 As of last night, a US marshall, 2 state police and a county police are all over Mr. Hixon's area, serving notices to farmers that they are being sued by Monsanto. They arrive in pairs, with two cars parked a quarter mile and half mile down the road. They've served 3 so far and said "a bunch more are coming." No telling how many will be served since Hixon has between 200-400 farmers he cleans seeds for and these farmers have been repeatedly threatened by Monsanto thugs for the last two months, getting "visits," letters, and calls daily. Farmers report that a Monsanto investigator laughed that they were doing "rural cleansing." Steve Hixon is a seed cleaner in southern Illinois. He has equipment that takes the plant materials and "cleans" it so that the seeds are separated out and can be given back to farmers to save for the next season. It's a mechanized step up from farmers hand picking seeds off their own plants, which, with hundreds of acres - or even 10 - would not be easy to do. Mr. Hixon has the non-distinction of being attacked by Monsanto. He is far from alone. Monsanto has been picking off seed cleaners across the Midwest, having already done its thuggish thing in Pilot Grove, Missouri, and in Indiana, attacking Maurice Parr, destroying business for all of them. Mr. Parr reports that when he was sued, the first think out of the judge said was how "honored to have a fine company like Monsanto in my courtroom." "Shortly after someone broke into Mr. Hixon's office and he found his account book on his truck seat where he would never have left it, evey one of his remotely located and very scattered customers had three men (described as goons with "no necks") arrived at each farm, going out onto it without permission ... Mr. Hixon and state police who were called in, believe a GPS tracking device may have been put on Mr. Hixon's equipment." Click here. In 2002, when Mr. Hixon was at the state legislature for a meeting, he said he told a Monsanto representative there, "If you guys wnt to tak over the seed industry so bad, you ought to buy guys like me out." The Monsanto agent is supposed to have responded "We'd rather put you out of business, it's more fun that way." Mr. Hixon says that when he is cleaning seeds, he is pouring $13,000 a hour into the local economy, which right now is being hit. A fence company has gone out of business and other businesses are in trouble. And in using seeds that have been cleaned, those seeds have carbon footprint, by Mr. Hixon's figures, less than a fraction of 1% of that of GMO seeds delivered over 1000s of miles at 5 miles a gallon that semis require to run. But Monsanto's GM-soy and other seeds have a much heavier carbon footprint that the absurd transport of seed across the country by semis. Petroleum-based pesticides are the essence of genetic engineering, and Monsanto has a poorly known history of their relation to warfare. "Huge excesses of nitrogenous compounds that accumulated during World War I provided the basis for the beginnings of the mass production of synthetic nitrate fertilizers. DuPont -- now the sole owner of the world's largest seed company, Pioneer HiBred -- was the largest manufacturer of gunpowder in the United States during the early 19th century and the first World War. Monsanto increased its profits 100 fold during the World War, from $80,000 to well over $9 million per year, supplying the chemical precursors for high explosives such as TNT. "In the 1930s, chemists working for the German company Bayer discovered the highly poisonous properties of organophosphate compounds. .... As all of German industry became absorbed into the growing Nazi war machine, Bayer's organophosphate compounds were developed simultaneously as agricultural pesticides and as nerve gases for military use. These included such notorious chemical warfare agents as sarin, soman and tabun gases, all of which are still manufactured today. ... "In the 1930s, scientists at the Swiss J. R. Geigy Company were searching for new compounds to disinfect seeds and prevent moths from feeding on wool. ... These researchers' key discovery was that DDT ... could accomplish both of their desired ends and more. ... DDT was seen as the "atom bomb of insecticides," capable of permanently eliminating various pest species. "After World War II, DDT became the most widely applied chemical in human history .... The widespread use of DDT -- for both agricultural and household uses -- led to a dramatic shift in the chemical industry's approach to pest control ... was in many ways a direct outgrowth of its wartime origins. ... "During the 1960s, Monsanto was a leading manufacturer of the herbicide 'Agent Orange,' which was used by U.S. military forces to obliterate the dense jungles of Vietnam. Today Monsanto's Roundup-family herbicides play a central role in the U.S. "drug war" via its widespread use to eradicate coca and poppy plants in Colombia and other countries...." The shift to genetically engineered food seems a welcome change from such a history. But it appears there has been no change, only a more thorough and disguises means of ensuring its sales. "Of all of Monsanto, DuPont and Dow's agricultural products, genetically engineered food crops might appear to be the least tainted with immediate wartime origins. But this technology emerged from a period when the future of chemical agriculture appeared very much in doubt. With the rapid expansion of the agrochemical industry during the post-World War II era, these companies and their European counterparts had established a profound degree of control over agricultural practices. But as public pressure and the weight of scientific evidence curtailed the use of DDT and many other chlorinated pesticides in the 1970s, executives and corporate scientists saw the potential for limitless advances -- and ever-expanding marketing potential -- in the incorporation of technological advances into the genetics of seeds. During the 1990s, Monsanto alone spent nearly $8 billion acquiring leading commercial seed suppliers in the United States and internationally; DuPont and others quickly followed suit, leading to today's widespread proliferation of genetically engineered food crops." Click here. Today, in Illinois, our federal agents and police, working on behalf of Monsanto, are terrorizing ... whom? Drug dealers? Financiers who have stolen this country blind? The people who took us to war based on lies and have profited while thousands of American and 100s of thousands of Iraqi have died? No. Our tax dollars are being used to turn our marshals and police into Monsanto agents to terrorize our disappearing farmers. Terror is palpable in rural America. It defines American farming communities now. Monsanto, with its history of warfare and creating chemicals to "cleanse" both enemies and agricultural pests of any area desired, appears to bring this power and method of thinking to all it touches. "Rural cleansing" is its stated goal, and our farmers the pests to be eliminated. Where is the Illinois ACLU? Where is Amnesty? Mid-West Office ACLU of Illinois Vilsack's nomination nears, a Monsanto appointment Organic Consumers Association Where are all of us? poster comment: related: NATO’s Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic Using "Climate Change" as a Pretext to Appropriate World Seeds' Treasure by F. William Engdahl Global Research, September 22, 2008 The controversial ‘Doomsday Seed Vault’, a nuclear-bomb-proof vault deep into the side of a mountain in NATO-member Norway’s Svalbard, near the Arctic Circle, has begun to collect seed samples from the entire world to freeze in the newly opened facility. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and the Government of Norway, among others, have constructed what is called by BBC the ‘doomsday seed bank.’ Officially the project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It sits on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard island group. Now scientists connected with the project are roaming the world to collect samples of every seed variety known, using the fraudulent argument of protecting against Global Warming to obtain samples of the crop diversity of the planet. The implications are potentially more dangerous than the threat of nuclear war....... www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10300 "Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t by F. William Engdahl December 4, 2007....... Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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These people are so evil, I can't even think of a word that really sums up what they represent. It boggles the mind. Maybe Willie can do something to help them (and us.) Everybody call/write/email!!!
More background info here. www.grain.org/bio-ipr/?id=468 Olney Daily Mail | 1 February 2006 FARM BUREAU PUSHES TO LET FARMERS SAVE SEEDS By Matt Courter With input from its Illnois chapters, the American Farm Bureau adopted a policy regarding farmers being allowed to save genetically modified seeds during its annual meeting this month. The action is the latest in a long debate about farmers' rights to reuse what many see as seed that mostly has been developed through public efforts, and seed companies' attempts to recoup cost for enhancements they have engineered by restricting such reuse. The new policy incorporates language from a resolution passed by Illinois Farm Bureau in December that asked Congress to allow the Plant Variety Protection Act to govern genetically modified seed and not utility patent law. The IFB submitted its policy for consideration by the American Farm Bureau during its meeting on January 9 and 10. Illinois Farm Bureau member Richard Ochs said the policy gives Farm Bureau more leverage and a unified stand should the issue of seed saving go before Congress. "As it is now, if Congress re-opens this, we know what we want," Ochs said. Farmers are not currently allowed to save technologically enhanced seed from year to year, Ochs said. Steve Hixon, owner of Steve's Seed Conditioning in Claremont, said in a written statement that the PVPA offers a series of checks and balances as well as flexibility and opportunities. "These are items patent law deletes, but yet the public deserves," he said. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture information, the PVPA, enacted in December of 1970 and amended in 1994, provides legal intellectual property rights protection to developers of new varieties of plants that are sexually reproduced (by seed) or are tuber-propagated. Bacteria and fungi are excluded. The PVPA is administered by the United States Department of Agriculture. The Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that plants and seeds qualify for protection under the U.S. Patent Utility Act, upholding corporate prohibitions against saving seeds and potential ownership of plant genetics and the new technology by which it was developed. Illinois Farm Bureau Senior Director of Commodities Tamara White said that while language from the Illinois Farm Bureau was incorporated in the AFB policy, the main differences in the two policies was that the IFB placed more emphasis on the importance of the PVPA. The IFB language, for example, supported the PVPA as the exclusive statute governing the Intellectual Property Rights for the breeders of plant varieties. The final American Farm Bureau language stated that in order to strengthen the rights of plant breeders and maintain a farmer's ability to save seed for the land he or she farms and dispose of incidental amounts of seed, it would: -- Support strong intellectual property rights protection to allow seed developers the ability to recover the costs of research and development of seeds, while abiding by all antitrust laws; -- Support restricting the sales of protected varieties without the permission of the owner; -- Support the present provision which allows a farmer to save seed for use on all the land he or she farms; -- Support a provision to allow growers of seed varieties protected under the PVPA to sell the seed according to local commercial law if the seed company fails to abide by the grower contract; and -- Encourage the timely release of information regarding increases in tech fees and seed prices to allow for appropriate planning by producers. It also stated farmers should be allowed to save and replant biotech seed by paying a minimal technology fee on saved seed. Companies that sell biotech seed should help keep the price of seed competitive for U.S. farmers with farmers from other countries. White said Illinois Farm Bureau was also not in support of the farmers having to pay a tech fee on saved seed. Hixon said he believes the Farm Bureau finally recognizes this is a legislative issue rather than a judicial opinion. "If tax dollars are involved, then unobstructed public access should be practiced," he said. "The current trend has allowed private industry to piggyback patented technology onto a public infrastructure and claim this entirely as their own," Hixon said. "I say they have a right to protect their intellectual property, but they need to learn to separate it."
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
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