Another quote from the TVNZ Sunday programme documentary ( July 3rd)from our Minister of Biosecurity, Hon Jim Sutton,( he is referring to Dr Hales): “ I wouldn't accuse Dr Hale of scaremongering but this whole area is an area where there is a lot of scaremongering. A lot of people proclaim that there are - ar ..ar hazards to people's health without producing any evidence that there is.”
Sutton keeps on talking about “scaremongering”. A “monger” is someone who sells or promotes something. Eg., a fishmonger sells fish, a warmonger sells a war ( with lies, but don't get me started) and a scaremonger promotes a state of fear.
But who had the budget to monger? Not those opposed to the Foray48B aerial spray! By contrast, the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry have spent millions of taxpayers' dollars on mongering the "safety of Foray48B" by means of an extended saturation advertising campaign using radio, TV ads, full page colour ads in national and local papers, coloured letterbox leaflets,- that adds up to a lot of mongering. Yet the jolly-old hypochondriac, psychosomatic, psychogenically ill, scaremongered citizens annoyingly kept reporting symptoms of a variety of illnesses after spraydays.
And can you believe it, but a current MAF theory to explain reported cases of sickness after spraying, blames the "scaremongering' of those opposed to the spray, that would make people anxious, and when they are worried, they can "amplify vague sensations" and imagine their symptoms!!!
MAF seem to be in denial about the health effects and the potential long-term effects of spraying nearly 200,000 people repeatedly over two years, and are proposing bizarre explanations to try and invalidate people's experiences of the health impacts of the aerial spraying campaign.
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there seems only one thing these poeple understand is money. It just might pay the citizens of west auckland to take out a class action suit and sue the government...they understand money, if they have to spend money to defend this action they may start, in the face of all the hopefully documented evidence...start to take notice ....sad but true.
when the government takes no notice of ordianry citizens and takes out million dollar campaigns to spray toxic shit on whole communities in order to save itself money by erradicating a presumed 'threat' to its agricultural business...then, they have chosen money over health and over rights so it stands to reason if citizens start suing them and for huge amounts, then that just might start to register on their cash register brains....you never know
Yep, it will be interesting to see the evidence presented to the peoples inquiry later in the year, Hopefully people will feel that someone is listening to them. and that something could be done about this violation of human rights. A class action suit is an interesting possibility, although the government has already "indemnified" - proyected from liability - the Ministry of Ag. and Forests! Mmm, wonder why they did that - its an admission that the spray would harm people.
Lovely word "monger"
Here's its origins:
[Middle English mongere, from Old English mangere, from Latin mang, dealer in slaves, probably of Greek origin.]
Here's its dictionary meanings:
mon·ger Audio pronunciation of "monger" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mnggr, mng-)
n.
1. A dealer in a specific commodity. Often used in combination: an ironmonger.
2. A person promoting something undesirable or discreditable. Often used in combination: a scandalmonger; a warmonger.
tr.v. mon·gered, mon·ger·ing, mon·gers
To peddle.
The main thing that MAF was "mongering" in its million dollar mongering campaigns for not only the PAM, but also the one lone white spotted tussock moth aerial sprayed for in Hamilton (NZ), was the "terrible threat" these moths supposedly posed to people and the economy. The fact that these moths have not cost the economy one cent, unlike the $90 million spent on the PAM campaign alone, by the govt, is ignored.
Yeah, really,how real was the threat of the moths to the foreign owned pine forests or to our native forests? That one dead asian gypsy moth found in Hamilton could have been planted. That innovative lil'ol' lady who offered $1000 to anyone who could find another moth never parted with her money. No more were found and yet west Hamilton was doused with Foray48B, people made sick.
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