[permaculture] GMO Public Comment Window

Lawrence F. London, Jr. lflj at intrex.net
Sun Oct 19 01:40:40 EDT 2008


Scott Pittman wrote:
> The more of us who maintain vigilant oversight of the USDA the better!!
> Please let your views on GMO be known.  Check out the link below for the
> latest GMO regulations from the USDA.
> 
> http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/content/2008/10/brs340.shtml

How "they" work to achieve their ends (the following excerpt seems consistent with current behavior):

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The Office of Strategic Services Sabotage (OSS) Manual has an interesting take on things. A VOL reader came across a 
declassified manual on sabotage. In this manual, there is a section called "General Interference with Organizations and 
Production". It looks as though it could have been written by a flunky at TEC HQ.

Among the items cited in the section:
(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and 
accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments.
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the 
committees as large as possible - never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of 
that decision.
(7) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reason­able" and avoid haste, which might 
result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

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