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He committed high crimes. He menaces humanity. A previous article called impeaching him a national imperative. Failure assures institutionalized tyranny. It guarantees proliferating hazardous GMOs on unwitting consumers.
Monsanto lawyers helped write the rider. Senator Roy Blunt (R. MO) worked with them. Many congressional members weren't aware it existed. They made no effort to find out.
HR 933's a spending measure. It's a continuing resolution. Congress passed it to avoid shutdown. March 27 was deadline day. Enactment kept Washington operating. It does so through September 30. It's when FY 2013 ends.
Rider language set a terrible precedent. It's renewable. It shows consumer protections don't matter. Nor do court rulings. What corporations want they get. Monsanto's free to proliferate poison.
On March 25, the New York Daily News headlined "Opponents of genetically modified organisms in food, or GMOs, rail against provision that would limit the courts' ability to stop food producer Monsanto from growing crops later deemed potentially hazardous.""Who's more powerful," it asked, "the world's largest producer of genetically modified crops or the US government?"
Food Democracy Now said:
"This dangerous provision, the Monsanto Protection Act, strips judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer and farmer rights and the environment, while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new untested genetically engineered crops, endangering farmers, citizens and the environment."
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