Medfly Spraying
It’s 2:40 a.m., Feb. 22. I’ve just finished reading an article about the totalitarian commonalities between fascism and communism. The Malathion Marauders are making their fourth noisy pass a few blocks to the south. (I disagree with my city director, Rick Cole: I think they should be shot down.) With totalitarianism in mind, the malathion spraying issue has gone too far beyond whether it is dangerous. It is far more serious than that. The citizenry do not want to be sprayed, but their elected and appointed government refuses to stop. It seems to me that Californians should be taking to the streets to obtain the democracy that the Eastern Europeans have. Totalitarianism resides in Sacramento. Republican, isn’t that its American form? Malathion spraying could be, should be, a major political issue in the coming gubernatorial campaign.
Why do Republican bureaucrats and politicians so strongly and frequently resist the will of the people? What’s in it for them?
CHARLES LARSON
Pasadena
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