Letter | Ramola D | July 1, 2024
Posting, for the record, the letter sent by email and to be followed up in print copy shortly informing Mr. Michael Norton, Operational Manager, Department of Public Works, Quincy on the subject of spraying dangerous carcinogenic and neurotoxic herbicides to be stopped in Quincy succeeding recent sparse hidden-away notice in The Quincy Sun publishing DPW intention to thereby poison Quincy.
In the interests of keeping a larger body of concerned Americans informed, this letter was copied to a few Native Plant preservation groups in the Northeast: Native Plant Trust, Grow Native Massachusetts, North American Native Plant Society, to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, to Anna von Reitz, Fiduciary, The United States of America, and to Edward Fulke, Massachusetts State Assembly Co-ordinator by email.
Letter to Mr. Michael Norton, Operational Manager, DPW, on the Subject of Spraying Dangerous Carcinogenic and Toxic Herbicides To Be Stopped in Quincy
: June 30, 2024
Michael Norton
Operations Manager
Department of Public Works
55 Sea Street
Quincy, MA 02169
Ramola D/Dharmaraj
Publisher, Editor, Reporter
Investigative Science and Technology Journalist,
Author, Literary Journalist
The Everyday Concerned Citizen | Ramola D Reports | Delphi Quarterly
Dear Mr. Michael Norton:
On the morning of Friday June 28, 2024, I received a copy of The Quincy Sun in my mailbox with the Notice to the General Public (imaged below) about the City of Quincy seeking to initiate “herbicide application activities throughout select right-of-way areas.”
Looking up the matter on the Quincy.gov website I found a 2022 Yearly Operational Plan with some information in it about these herbicide application intentions in Quincy.
That same afternoon, quite some clamor in my garden alerted me that the songbirds, thrushes, wrens, tidmouses, blue jays, starlings, orioles, finches congregating in the flowering chokecherry trees were hugely agitated about something. I went out to look, and began to realize what had happened. There has been no blooming of the beautiful inflorescent chokecherries this year, either in the two beloved trees in my garden, loved and cared for through the past ten years of their lives with our family in Quincy, nor in the neighbors’ yards, one and two houses over. This is a calamity. Every year the songbirds come out in early June to sing their Song of the Juneberry Trees as we call them fondly, displaying great excitement at the first forming of the berries, pale green, just beginning to sweeten. By late June and early July, the birds come out in families, bringing their little baby finches and wrens along to engage in charming acrobatics on the crown and fruiting branches as they feast on their lifegiving “honey plant” berries on this no doubt a tree treasured state-wide, a Queen of the Northeast I would have thought. Looking online however I find the Northeast chokecherries have disappeared from search engines. A curious anomaly, the Northwest chokecherries and multiple makers of Northwest chokecherry jam seem insistently featured. Now this may of course be due to local cyberhacking from neighboring saboteurs, sadly my lot for quite a few years now in Quincy as I continue to struggle to speak and be heard in this unfortunately biased area where a Brown-Skin Voice and indeed an Indian Woman’s Voice Speaking English and an Indian Writer’s Voice Speaking English seems particularly hard to hear. I do try though. It is my prerogative to do so, I am aware, as an upright and perfectly productive member of the (amalgamated) human race. In any case, the point I wish to report here is there are hackers online—possibly fusion-center related, sadly ignorant on the subject of songbirds and Northeast cherries—who are burying the information about this year’s harvest and last. Did something happen state-wide to our chokecherry trees? Did herbicides happen? Did chem trails happen? As I stood in the yard examining the beaten-up leaves of our chokecherries (tiny veins and pores of non-leaf on each, raising questions of possible genetic attack—DNA or RNA) and causing the (numbers of rare song-) birds to fly away, crying out over and over at the loss of their expected Juneberry harvest, I could not help but notice the rather insane billowing streamers of aerosols in the sky—are these poisons spraying our trees and our lives?
I should inform you as well I, like a few other concerned science-focused observers and scientists nationwide, have been studying aerosols with quite some alarm over the years, and have indeed uncovered a great deal of information on these aerosols. It is quite possible these are poisons, and it is quite possible they are working in tandem with weaponized electromagnetic radiation being used on our native vegetation, to deleterious effect. I am in fact right in the middle of an area of Quincy where resident weapon-wielders, connected to the military and private sector enterprises of Directed Energy Bio Effects Research (as reported in Air Force documents at my website), are freely and both covertly and overtly plying their craft, experimenting on both unconsenting human and animal denizens with quite some impunity, and, from my recent observations locally, also pointing RF HPM (Radio Frequency High Power Microwave) and ADS (Active Denial System) millimeter-wave emitters and generators at plants as much as on humans and birds; is it possible some of these are operative here, using specific radiation frequencies to inhibit the flowering of our fruit trees and our honey plants for the birds? I think it is entirely possible, given how they operate.
This is a catastrophe if so, and we must alert all of Quincy and the South Shore. When plants and trees fail to flower and fruit, our songbirds are the first to go silent, as Rachel Carson has so eloquently informed us. Do we wish to “Silent Spring” Quincy and surrounding towns? Yes, Boston, Braintree, Cambridge, Newton, Sharon, Randolph (and more) will also be affected. Nature teaches us to live lightly on the land, learning from the Earth, from those who watch, listen, live among the bird and animal peoples, from those who care for the trees and the native plants, the indigenous peoples—in our state the Massachusett, the Wampanoag, so many more–the birdwatchers, the horticulturists, the gardeners, the true arborists, the Nature artists, naturalists, writers.
Above all we cannot poison our vegetation, our streams, our waterways, our trees and our gardens, not even in the name of “managing invasive species” since poisons spread and their harmful actions spread. Children play in parks and streams and gardens. We all breathe air. Trees breathe out oxygen for us to be restored and healed by everyday. Birds, fish, snails suffer when toxic chemicals seep into water, groundwater, when trees and plants fail to fruit. Our marshes and shores host a rich diversity of plant and bird and animal life—reeds, redwing blackbirds, song sparrows, herons, egrets, orioles, wrens—we cannot afford to lose. The herbicides mentioned in the 2022 Yearly Operational Plan I have now read and in this “Notice to the General Public” published fugitively in The Quincy Sun on June 27, 2024, Razor Pro, Rodeo, Round-Up, Milestone, contain known toxins and carcinogens, extremely harmful to human health and animal health. Glyphosate, the named active ingredient in Round-Up, is one of the most deadly carcinogens and neurotoxins unfortunately still operating in the agricultural space, known to cause neuronal breakdown and olfactory degradation, exacerbate brain diseases such as autism, affect the prenatal and the pregnant, and pose lingering cancer and neurotoxic risk to all ages, as evidenced among farmers and animals sadly still raised as human food on farms; please see this review which examines over 900 articles on the subject and informs us that this particular chemical has been inadequately reported, wrongfully categorized, and poses the highest risk to humans: Toxic Effects of Glyphosate on the Nervous System, A Systematic Review—Ferreira, Duran Faro, International Journal of Molecular Science, May 2022.
Aminopyralid, the active ingredient in the Milestone herbicide mentioned, is also a dangerous poison which contaminates the soil and water and destroys food plants, as reported here Aminopyralid – the herbicide that hasn’t gone away – Organic Growers Alliance. In addition it destroys native species and plants grown for food for birds such as thistles, as noted in Corteva’s own brochure here: DF_Milestone_InvasivePlantManagement_Broch.pdf (corteva.us).
Chemical companies developing herbicides and pesticides are working with poisons, let us remind ourselves. There are long-standing objections to the use of herbicides to control vegetation from among questioning, thoughtful professionals in horticulture, ecology, botany, organic agriculture because of their harmful effects on all—humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Let us be forward thinking here and stop all plans to spray our parks and rights-of-way (our children and our birds need rights-of-way into the future too) and unwittingly to poison our babies’ brains and ourselves in the process.
Kindly look into this matter and publish more widely on your findings—it is impossible that you and I can find differing opinions on this matter. When poisons are poisons, the people should be protected. The best protection as we know is prevention which does not in itself harm and positive action to heal and sustain our earth, not negative action to harm the earth and us. Let us prevent future catastrophes in Quincy. Let us stop all these spraying plans and contracts and focus instead on living equitably and healthily with our native plants and trees—and tiny questing creatures and birds.
For my part, I forbid the City of Quincy from spraying anywhere in Quincy these noxious poisons termed herbicides, and especially forbid any and all spraying or application of such chemicals from the air, from mounted trucks, or from paid sprayers with backpacks anywhere and everywhere in my neighborhood, in the whole of Quincy, in the whole of the South Shore, in the whole of the Boston area, and in the whole of Massachusetts, especially in all parks and state parks, in all spaces public and highway and right-of-way, in interests of saving all our health and all our lives.
I will continue to follow this subject and investigate and report further. I will also consult with those in Massachusetts more proficient in this subject and make my print and video reports available online at The Everyday Concerned Citizen and Ramola D Reports. A few concerned groups who care about native plants, people, and life in Quincy are being copied on this letter. Please consult with groups like them to take Quincy forward in the direction of health and life, and not poison and death.
cc: Robert H. Bosworth, Publisher and Editor, The Quincy Sun
cc: Anna von Reitz, The United States of America
cc: Edward Fulke, Massachusetts State Assembly
cc: Native Tree and Plant Manager, Mass. Dept of Conservation & Recreation
cc: Jane Roy Brown, Writer/Editor, Native Plant Trust
cc: Adam Centurione, Director, North American Native Plant Society
cc: Kimberly Bell, Director, North American Native Plant Society
cc: Heather Pruiksma, Executive Director, Grow Native Massachusetts
cc: Meredith Gallogly, Manager of Programs, Grow Native Massachusetts
Thanks very much,
Ramola D, MBA, MFA Creative Writing, (MA) Journalism, B.Sc. Physics,
Living American Woman, Mother, Attorney-in-Fact
Publisher, Editor, Reporter:
The Everyday Concerned Citizen, Ramola D Reports, Delphi Quarterly
Author: For the Sake of the Boy, Temporary Lives, Invisible Season.
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