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Then please think about what we can do to prevent this continually ongoing man-made radiation contamination from further poisoning our people and our natural environment. Granted, we can not un-do the past. But we certainly can - and simply must - work to stop all further Uranium contamination.
Step Number One: It is critical we retain the right to know where the "hottest" spots in the nation exist. This can only be done by the citizen's right to bear not arms - but rather, hand-held radiation detectors.
Citizen radiation levels have been monitored in Hawaii recently and radiation levels near a military live fire training area were dangerously high! See comment by Uranium weapons expert, Bob Nichols, below this article for more details, as well as article on Hawaiian radioactive contamination: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_25912.shtml .
The reason this is critical is because radioactive materials in our air, water, and soil (food) last for many, many years - sometimes up to billions of years.
As explained by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) site:
Some radionuclides decay to a stable element in a single step. For others, like uranium, the movement toward stability may be a long, complex process. Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, about the age of the Earth. All told, it has 17 decay steps before reaching a final, stable form of lead. Half-lives can range from fractions of seconds (Polonium-214, .00016 seconds), to days (Iodine-131, 8.04 days) to billions of years (Uranium-238, above).
A radionuclide may also decay to another radioactive element that has a longer half-life and is more biologically active than the original radionuclide. For instance, xenon-135 (9-hour half-life) decays to cesium-135 with a half-life of 3 million years. Cesium mimics potassium and collects in muscle in the body. Xenon-135 is released regularly by nuclear reactors. http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/whatisradiation.htm
For the sake of all kids throughout the nation and their descendants for future generations forevermore, I urge you please to forward this widely, then get involved in fighting both for each and every citizen's right to carry radiation detectors - and for our undeniable right to be further radiation-poisoned no longer.
Step Number Two: It is imperative that we stop further human health and environment-destroying radioactive contamination in the US in the forms of: nuclear power, nuclear bombs, open air radioactive "tests," explosions, and burns, and so-called "conventional" weapons manufacture and "testing" involving Uranium munitions such as Depleted Uranium at our national nuclear weapons laboratories and our US military bases and proving grounds.
We must also retain our legal right to own and operate radiation detectors so we may know precisely where all these "hot" spots of dangerous levels of radiation exist.
Thank you for all you do - and for spreading the word. The mainstream media has buried this news and therefore, we must all now BE the media.
New Yorkers - and all Americans - have the absolute right to know just how radioactively contaminated our communities are. Our bottom line is simple. There is no more basic human right than being able to live in a non-toxic, non-radioactively contaminated, healthy environment.
- Note: Poison Fire USA animated graphic brought to us courtesy Russell "Ace" Hoffman http://www.animatedsoftware.com/
Again, if all you can do is forward this along, you will undoubtedly be able to reach someone with the ability to help make a difference. And we need people working on this in every single community throughout the nation.
The future of our nation's health truly is in our hands. And like I keep telling my friends, we must continue doing these things not so much for ourselves -but rather, for all future generations of America's kids to come.
To learn more about radiation's effects on our health, visit:
To read about the upcoming terror bill regarding blocking your right to know and detect radiation levels in your community:
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/02/02/nypd-shills-terror-bill/ .
Cathy Garger
