Remarkable - High Court victory parallels

Remarkable – Georgina Downs victory

The first remarkable aspect of this November 14th high court environmental victory by this determined lady and against the odds, is how closely the arguments of campaigners against the dangers to the public from widespread indiscriminate chemical pollution mirror those of low level pervasive electromagnetic radiation, EMR, exposure.

As is now usual the industry has its paid allies placed among those 'great and good' in positions of decisive infuence in the relevant government ministries and departments. DEFRA in this case, so the playing field on which rules and safety standards are set is tilted. The judge saw this for once, if we had the money for barristers maybe EMR would be exposed as dangerous in the same accumulative environmental way.

For those who missed this remarkable legal event it was reported in ‘The Guardian’ 15.11.08 and online as follows, with full report below by David Adam, Environment correspondent: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/15/activists-pollution-pesticides-toxins-defra

“Campaigner wins seven-year battle to force rethink on use of pesticides
• Defra must reassess health risks and policy, says judge• Victim suffered 24 years of illness from crop spraying.

An environmental campaigner yesterday won a landmark victory against the government in a long-running legal battle over the use of pesticides. The high court ruled that Georgina Downs, who runs the UK Pesticides Campaign, had produced "solid evidence" that people exposed to chemicals used to spray crops had suffered harm.
The court said the government had failed to comply with a European directive designed to protect rural communities from exposure to the toxins. It said the environment department, Defra, must reassess its policy and investigate the risks to people who are exposed. Defra had argued that its approach to the regulation and control of pesticides was "reasonable, logical and lawful".

Downs, who lives on the edge of farmland near Chichester, West Sussex, launched her campaign in 2001. The judge described how she was first exposed to pesticide spraying at the age of 11 "and began to suffer from ill health, in particular flu-like symptoms, a sore throat, blistering and other problems".”

Also remarkable is these are almost identical to the symptoms complained about by those claiming an extra-sensitivity to the constant barrage from the accumulation of microwave and low-level EM radiation now broadcast as an ambient mixture in the environment. 80% of them are also chemically sensitive. The body complains about, and resists, all toxic environments in the same way, using the same bodily processes. This electro-pollution causing EHS, electrical hypersensitivity, is from domestic wiring, office equipment, mobile phones, micrwaves and wherever electricity is running and so creating electromagnetic fields. Also it frequently acts in concert with chemical pollution as 80% of sufferers report.
Some doctors, and the World Health Organisation, WHO, have discussed it as ‘Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance’, IEI, which simply means some individuals have this reaction, but 'why' is not yet understood. Well, at its simplest, because some people are more sensitive than others.

We say on the basis of my discussions with over 500 of those reporting EHS is that they have been over-exposed over time – not by simple individual exposures – but the accumulation of toxic damage to cells caused by constant ambient levels now widespread. The EMR compromises particularly the immune system by reducing essential melatonin hormone production. This is from the mutiplicity of devices and technologies now used added on top of a higher level of individual sensitivity in the first place, a simple biological difference we understand, like hay fever, or low tolerance to specific food items.

There is a great deal of new and breaking science, laboratory and clinical evidence examining this. This health damage is not uncovered by the crude simplicities of brief narrow exposures as undertaken by the research at Essex and Kings College under the aegis of the MTHR Health Protection Agency, part paid for by the mobile phone companies exploiting these risky technologies with representatives choosing researchers like Dr Simon Wessely a renowned professional sceptic on such issues, like ME, CFS and Gulf war syndrome.

Remarkable parallels:
Downs said “The Judge has agreed with my long-standing charge that this ‘bystander’ model does not and cannot address residents who are repeatedly exposed.” The model does not account for rural residents exposed to mixtures of pesticides and other chemicals "throughout every year and, in many cases like my own, for decades". Simply substitute Electromagnetic radiation mixtures, EMRM in high level local ‘electrospheres’ for ‘pesticides and chemicals’ in proximity.

The same applies to Georgina also saying: : "The fact that there has never been any assessment of the risk to health for the long-term exposure for those who live, work or go to school near pesticide-sprayed fields is an absolute scandal, considering that crop-spraying has been a predominant feature of agriculture for over 50 years."
For around a 100 years since the adoption and widespread use of electricity, and radiofrequency transmissions, various new ‘plagues’ like cancer and leukaemia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimers, have grown along with the increased background EMR levels. But no-one is responsible for, or studies, the totality of emissions 24/7, 365. Dr Samuel Milham *(see below) has looked at electrification causing childhood leukaemia in the USA.

The adherence to ‘standards’ on this issue means ONLY to thermal levels, heating of flesh, totally extreme and irrelevant to the signal itself in its coded format causing harm by biological interference. 'Internationally approved tests’ means only those approved by the almost totally industry dominated body called ICNIRP, the 'International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection', nobody else has an interest. This is poachers acting as gamekeepers.

* See Dr Samuel Milham & Dr EM Ossiander "Historical evidence that residential electrification caused the emergence of the childhood leukaemia peak" pub in Medical Hypotheses(2001) 56(3), 290-295 Harcourt publishers ltd. dol:10.1054/mehy.2000. 1138,