The following press release was issued by Dr. Tom Termotto, National Coordinator of the Coalition Against Chemical Trespass.The Leon County Commission had recently done an outstanding job at bringing our county into a more progressive, sustainable and environmentally safe program of mosquito control. However, the county has more recently overturned this program due to political expediency. County decisions were made, based on purely personal and political motivations, to terminate a pilot program which barely got started. This is completely unacceptable.
The following comments, however, are directed at both Leon County and the State of Florida, since it is the State that has empowered the counties to conduct mosquito control programs that have a very profound flaw. It looks like this:
We all possess a fundamental right to not be chemically assaulted by anyone, or any entity under the sun. Likewise, we all have the right not to have our home and property chemically trespassed by anyone, or any entity under the sun.
Therefore, we all have a fundamental right not to be sprayed by the county mosquito control programs currently in operation throughout the State. Does anyone have the right to walk onto your property and indiscriminately spray toxic chemicals wherever they wish? We think not. Should they do so, repeatedly, they might end up in an institution for the criminally insane!
Is there any business, organization or governmental entity that possesses the inherent power to conduct itself in this same manner? We don’t think so, lest they be responsible for chemical assault or trespass. Furthermore, we would challenge anyone in Leon County, or the State of Florida, to cite a single instance where anyone, or any entity, possesses the legitimate (does not transgress inviolable rights), statutory power to engage in such intrusive and outright harmful behavior.
We say ‘harmful’ because there are, in fact, many among us in 2010 who do not, and who cannot, tolerate these chemical intrusions into their lives. Many are now hyper-reactive and chemically sensitive and acutely allergic to these toxic, noxious and poisonous insecticides. In some extreme cases, even a single exposure to these insecticides can cause life-threatening anaphylactic shock, and therefore death, if competent medical intervention does not arrive expeditiously.
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