From: lpb@STRATUS.SWDC.STRATUS.COM (Len Bucuvalas)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: CLINTON'S DRUG of CHOICE: DIOXIN?
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:57:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: echidna.9204091657.AA18286



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Article: 545 of sgi.talk.ratical
From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
Subject: clinton: another "environmental" prez? --> mr. toxics profit-server
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1992 15:41:12 GMT

       thinking that you'll settle voting for clinton to simply unseat 
       bushie is NOT good enuff.  buying into this kind of lame lambs-
       led-to-the-slaughter rationalization only promotes the speed at 
       which we all collude in murdering our mother earth.

   being told to pick between the evil of two lessors is not democracy.  it 
   is a society actively pursuing a collective push towards "deathwish-2000"


    cathy hinds, author of the letter below, writes:

     After my baby boy died, so did I in a way and an activist was born.

    is this the only way one becomes moved enuff--by direct personal loss
    --to begin to demand positive, constructive, healthy change for all
    our relations?  we wud all do well to ponder this within the intimate
    privacy of our own thoughts and feelings.


from ACTIV-L:

Date:     Tue, 31 Mar 1992 00:50:30 EST
From:     Harel Barzilai <harelb@math.cornell.edu>
Subject:  CLINTON: Profits, Toxics,... and Babies
To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <ACTIV-L%UMCVMB.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU>

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Topic 56        BILL CLINTON - BAD RECORD
celliott        elections.usa    8:05 pm  Mar 30, 1992
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The following is a file downloaded from Environet, dealing with
the environmental record of Governor Bill Clinton, Democratic
candidate for President. It is an open letter to Bill Clinton from
Cathy Hinds, of the National Toxics Campaign Fund.
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     February 27, 1992
     
     Dear Governor Clinton,
     
     
         As you well know, you did not do good in Maine caucuses.  I am
     writing to assure you that you will not do well in November not
     only in Maine, but in most of the states in this country as well.
     How do I know this?  Because I am pledging to spend money out of
     my pocket to make flyers and distribute them to my contacts around
     the country.  Am I capable of doing any type of damage?  You bet.
     
         Fifteen years ago, I moved to a small rural town in Maine.
     Unbeknownst to me and my neighbors, there was a hazardous waste
     disposal company less than a quarter of a mile from our country
     home.  My family, friends, and neighbors were exposed to many
     dangerous chemicals via our drinking water supply.  After my baby
     boy died, so did I in a way and an activist was born.
     
         For more than a decade, I have worked with other mothers and
     fathers around the U.S. who are faced with similar public health
     threats and have called me for help.  I have had the sad,
     unfortunate experience of comforting mothers who have also lost
     children to exposure to toxics.  One of those experiences stands
     out clearly in my mind.  Last year, as part of a national health
     project I was staffing, I visited Jacksonville, Arkansas.  A
     memory I shall never forget - is standing in Babyland Cemetery,
     comforting one of YOUR constituents who had lost a child due to
     exposure to Agent Orange - dioxin.  She shook uncontrollably as
     she sobbed on my shoulder and the pain of my loss flooded through
     my whole being.  I came not to visit the grave of her child, but
     of Joseph Shelton, a name that I am sure you are quite familiar.
     To remind you, Joseph is the baby that died and phenols were
     discovered in his tissue samples.  You and your administration
     have maintained that that little life died of other causes than
     his exposure to the dioxin and phenols that came from the plant
     that manufactured Agent Orange for the Vietnam War.  You maintain
     that there has been no health threat, no health problems in
     Jacksonville.  Yet, Jacksonville has three Superfund sites,
     including the infamous Vertac dioxin storage site, which are
     blamed by EPA for contaminating the areas with more than 40
     dangerous chemicals including benzene, dieldrin, toluene,
     trichlorophenol, dichlorophenols, DDT and more. Strange how young
     Joseph Shelton's only food in his short life had been formula
     mixed with TAP WATER.  Strange how infants in this area have died
     mysteriously.  Strange how babies in this area have been born with
     serious birth defects.  Strange how Jacksonville is the site for a
     cemetery named "Babyland".
     
         It is all strange, but very sad.  What is really criminal is
     your lack of concern of these events.  Babies' tissue samples
     mysteriously disappear before testing...  The head of your Health
     Department is a veterinarian.  I am not surprised that nothing has
     been done to help these children!  What is even more criminal and
     insane is your support of EPA's method of cleaning up these deadly
     wastes - incineration.  So far, the incinerator has been riddled
     with problems.  You have stated publically that if the incinerator
     did not burn properly, you would shut it down.  Amazing that it
     took a Presidential Campaign to help you decide to TEMPORARILY
     shut down the incinerator.  Experts have warned you that this is
     not a SAFE method of disposal - that the incinerator would have
     problems.  But, you did not take ANY action on the incinerator
     until a few days ago.  The people of Jacksonville have been
     exposed to enough cancer-causing, killing chemicals.  They do not
     need you to support them being exposed to more through the
     incineration process.  Recent air sampling has shown dioxin in the
     air around the incinerator.  People are suggesting that you will
     shut this down until after Super Tuesday...or maybe until your
     ratings are back up there again.  You are worried Governor - and
     with good reason.
     
         People around the country are beginning to ask you in public,
     what about Jacksonville?  I have even heard stories of activists
     that have been asked what it will take to keep them quiet about
     this issue!  I wish someone would DARE ask me that!!
     
         Governor, this country does not need the likes of you for
     President.  I understand that CCHW just filed child abuse
     complaints with the US Attorney General's office on you.  And as a
     mother whose child was murdered by greed and the mentality of
     "profits before people", I only wish the US AG's office would
     prosecute you for your neglect and abuse to the children of
     Jacksonville.
     
         Finally, I do not want to forget this country's servicemen and
     women who have been exposed to Agent Orange in Little Rock.
     Miscarriages, cancers, and more illnesses.  In return for serving
     their government, their government has turned its back on them as
     well.
     
         Believe me Governor, I understand the politics of this whole
     dirty business.  God forbid the Governor of Arkansas take a stand
     for his people and admit that Agent Orange is killing Arkansas
     children!  The government might then have to compensate Arkansas
     toxics victims for their exposure and suffering, Vietnam veterans
     for their exposure, and also the people of Vietnam.  Too big a can
     of dioxin worms to open isn't it?
     
     Sincerely,
     
     Cathy Hinds RR 1, Box 2020 Litchfield, ME 04350
     
     PS  Don't bother to address this as a political ploy.  I have the
         right to let Americans know who is REALLY running for President.
         Does the fact that you are running for President have anything 
	 to do with my being vocal?  You bet!!  The thought of you for
         President has me terrified.
     
     cc:  activists around the country
     
          press around the country
     
     Conf?
     
     
--
                                             daveus rattus   

                                   yer friendly neighborhood ratman

                               KOYAANISQATSI

   ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language)  n.  1. crazy life.  2. life
       in turmoil.  3. life out of balance.  4. life disintegrating.  
         5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.


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